Dionne Warwick doesn’t care what ‘Bean Dad’ is but here’s what happened in case you do

It involves a can opener, Ken Jennings, and a whole lot of patience on your part.
January 4, 2021 9:28 a.m. EST
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It’s a strange world out there, kiddos. One minute you’re reading a Twitter thread about man’s eternal struggle to teach his daughter how to use a can opener, the next iconic singer Dionne Warwick is rushing in to give her two cents on beans. We wish this was an analogy we had just made up from the deepest fathoms of our imagination, but no, this actually happened. This is 2021, and nothing is safe!

It all began on Sunday when John Roderick, who co-hosts the Omnibus podcast with Jeopardy legend Ken Jennings, took to Twitter to post an exhaustingly long and drawn out thread about teaching his nine-year-old daughter how to open a can of beans. The kick was that his daughter was hungry, but instead of feeding her, he let her fight with the ins and outs of a can opener for six hours! Struggling writers, if you’ve ever wondered why your novels never get published, it’s because you spend three or four pages talking about the gears and mechanisms of can openers. Like, no one cares, just get to it already!

If you’re brave enough, here is the entire thread screen-capped by a Twitter user for all eternity.

Because Twitter loves her weird scattered minutiae (and her little tortures), the thread went viral, with users dubbing him “Bean Dad” and adding all of their fun and hilarious to the thread.

It was all fun and games until some users decided to dig into Roderick’s old tweets, which once again proved that nothing is what it seems. They found some questionable content, like instances of racist, queerphobic and anti-Semitic language.

And just like that, Roderick deleted his entire Twitter account.

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His co-host Ken Jennings, who just went through his own offensive tweets scandal, defended his co-host at first with a lament that Roderick will forever be remembered in history books, and then tried to assure everyone that his co-host was in fact a good dad and person. “This site is so dumb,” he remarked.

That definitely rubbed people the wrong way, especially considering that we are currently living in a moment where racial tensions are at an all-time high, and white privilege, police brutality, and the unfair targeting of minorities is under international scrutiny. 

Jennings even tried to make excuses for Roderick, but he seemed to be missing the point.

It was all brewing like a powder keg before someone decided they needed to know what Dionne Warwick, who is the new Queen of Twitter FYI, thought about Bean Dad. This is the new WWJD. What Would Dionne Do? Pass it on.

After the “That’s What Friends Are For” songstress read up on the baked beans and racism, Miss Dionne decided that it was all “nonsense.”

When Miss Dionne calls you nonsense, you know you messed up. But the repercussions don’t end there. The McElroy Brothers, who have used Roderick’s music as the intro to their podcast My Brother, My Brother, and Me, announced swiftly after the scandal that they were dropping his music from their show and would be seeking new music.

Things move fast in the Twitterverse. Now let us never speak of beans again.

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