Beantown Podcast - 07072018_Quinn David Furness presents the Beantown Podcast ft. the Farwell Brothers

Episode Date: July 8, 2018

Coming to you LIVE from Chicago, Quinn and the Farwell Bros sit down to say "Farewell to Farwell"

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This is Quinn David Ferness. We are coming to you live from the great city, Chicago, greatest city on Earth. I'm here to celebrate a couple of different things, significant date for me, July 7th, that's when I arrived in Beentown last year. 2017 is now July 7th, 2018. We're gonna be telling that, moving story.

Got some of my buddies here, because we are celebrating a farewell to far well. The apartment I lived in last year and the apartment that a bunch of my buddies still live in, we are finally moving, not we, I moved out. They are finally moving out of in a couple of weeks here, which I know everyone is excited about. That 1700 a month for bedroom rent is nice,

but there comes a time in every man's life when you have to decide that they're greener pastors. So let's jump into it here. I want to tell my story and then I'm just going to open up to everyone here to tell any stories that they want about far well. Listener discretion is advised when you are listening to the Beentown podcast number one, we will use some objective language potentially here and there, particularly today because these guys are just swearing like sailors.

I was watching Jaws on the Fourth of July at a bar, a couple days ago, it was awesome. And Quinn, who's the crazy like C-captain, and I may be he uses a phrase called swimming with bowl-legged women. Which is just like basically bowl-legged women, I think are like promiscuous women. Boat-legged women, yeah, we're gonna need a bigger boat. That was just, so I've used that phrase

like every day since then and people don't know what it means and that's okay, because that's my kind of comedy. That's number one. Number two, the podcast is objectively terrible. So thank you for supporting us. This is episode number 26. This is the halfway point in the year. So excited to be doing this for the first half of the year and here's to another half a year and next thing you know know, we'll all be old and gray. So I lived in this apartment when I was in grad school for one year. It is a four bedroom apartment, George Bernard Shaw designed

to see the architect. No, what's the name of the architect? Who's the famous architect? It was George Bernard Shaw. That's him with all the famous houses and stuff. And Hemingway himself. Hemingway himself. And Falkner came here one summer.

And I know, wait, hold on, I think you've got that wrong. The architect is a pretty big Chicago architect. His name was like Frank. Loin. No, I'm pretty sure it was Frank Zappa. Oh, yeah, yeah. It was Frank Zappa. That's a yeah, it's the Frank Zappa. That's a good catch, Sean.

Yeah. A lot of people know Frank Lloyd Wright for his house, but Frank Zappa actually, very famous. That's where the true genius lie. Ha, ha, ha. I am joined by former roommate, Sean Young, and Ryan Sanger, and we have a guest appearance from Mr. Steven Boy today.

Uh, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, I don't think it picked up, and that's okay. We got some beer flowing. I got two giant-ass 20-inch pizzas from JBL Burto's on Morris. Go support your local business. We're one pizza and one pizza to go. Maybe JP Jambles-Pendowsky will make an appearance with his brother at some point. We don't know what his situation is.

JP was on my podcast about two or three weeks ago. That was fun. We talked about being a music student. But I lived in this apartment. If you're trying to get a picture in your head, if anyone out there saw call me by your name, it's like the summer home in Tuscany, the winds flowing, everyone's having a good time. That's pretty much what it's like here.

It's a summer home, it's a vacation for a lot of people. Ryan will occasionally come here when he's not at his girlfriend's house. So that got a laugh from the Phoenix family. I don't know. I don't gallery. I think that's racist. I don't think it is. If you couldn't tell already there's going to be a lot of laughing in this podcast and I am okay with that because laughing is my favorite thing. And yeah, I love it.

Let me tell this story otherwise we're gonna be here for an hour, because the story's pretty extensive and I know I told all you guys, right? I've heard it happen and I told my friends in the moment, but one year later, I realized that's the type of thing that you'll forget the finer details before too long if you don't actually write it down or record it somewhere. So that's really the purpose of what I'm doing here, but I think it's an entertaining story.

So flashback to July 6th, I work in the morning, my job in Edmondston is my last shift ever there. And I go pick up the budget truck and first sign of trouble, I had requested like the smallest truck that they can give you because I really didn't have very much. I had like a bookcase, a dresser, a twin bed mattress and like a couple boxes and that's really what I had. I didn't have much a desk that I had stolen from DePaul. What's the

statute of limitations on that stuff? I know, we're gonna find out. I don't think anyone important from DePaul's. I think if you've had it from one year. Famous last year. Okay, that's good, because I have it for two, I have three actually, almost now. So I bring the, well, first sign of trouble,

as I mentioned, they gave me like the medium, like one away from the larger size truck. Remember how big my truck was last year and like how little stuff I had? Yeah, we didn't even fill up like a half of it. Which might seem like a good problem to have, but it's not when you like, I don't have like all the straps and stuff to like keep that stuff in place. So now I'm trying to drive from Chicago to the East Coast like stuff sloshing around. And yeah, that was the first, first indication that things could go south so bring it down

to Rodgers Park dear friend Sean who is a absolute trooper saved my ass twice with moving I really do appreciate that Sean helped me load at the truck I think it got some JBL burdos or Giordano's actually. Good one, Sean. Let's recreate that, insert replay. Yeah, crickets. I should clarify that, like, Quinn finishes his last shift at Northwestern and then he gets home and I basically have like gotten,

I've been out of bed for like 15 minutes. And so going looks at me and I look at it over the weeks go we just start loading stuff up. It was a hot day. It was a tends to be in early July in Chicago. And I had to park the movie truck wasn't like ridiculously far away but it was down there on the other side of the street. And we had to like walk through that sprinkler every time. So it was more of a hassle than what it should be, but I was like, OK, this is fine. We'll do it. We do that. We have some pizza.

I think that took the rest of the pizza. And I had to drive to Muncie that night, so staying with a girl out there. And that trip was fine. It took me like four or five hours because it was just Chicago Northwest Indiana traffic That was the end of day one that was fine. So day two is where shit hits the fan of apologies for my language It's about a 12 hour drive from the Indianapolis area out to Baltimore and about a 12 hour drive from the Indianapolis area out to Baltimore. And the drive itself really is not a problem. I mean, that's a long ways to go by yourself in one day, but I knew what I had to do.

I was up to the task. And you have like this nervous energy the whole time, too, because you're going to a new place. A new city I've never been to, like, starting a new job. This is all very exciting, all very fresh. So I had a pretty, I was tired, I was hot, but I had a positive attitude. I show up to the now famous home of the podcast, 817 Paul Street on Friday night, July 7th at about 7 p.m. and second sign of trouble. The person, like not my landlord, but the management lady who was helping me with detail said, yeah, we'll have space out for your truck so that you're not blocking traffic.

Well, there's no space for my truck to be parked. So I'm blocking traffic and I'm like, it's crazy hot. If you ever been to Baltimore, in July, you know how hot it is. And I just like a little frustrated at this point, but I'm like, okay, we'll get my movers here. It's really fine. Third sign of trouble.

Right as I pull in, the first thing I do, I've got my truck parked out in front. This is a two lane street. So I'm only blocking half of traffic. But I get my keys real quick, and I go into my room, just or go into my apartment, just because it's my first ever apartment I've ever lived in by myself. Like, this is exciting. I want to see what it actually looks like with my own eyes.

As I'm walking up, I get a text. I hired some movers online to help me unload my truck. That's all I needed. It's going to be a basic job. They text me and say, hey, my guys are out in Frederick right now, which is an hour west of Baltimore. We're not going to be able to be there right now, but we can get there at like, I think they said nine. I was like, okay, this is not a deal, but I'm going to be patient. I I'm gonna let it happen. So I take my truck and I pull it off to a side seat. So I'm not blocking traffic anymore. And I wait and I wait.

And my phone was not doing super well on battery because I had just driven from Muncie that day. And it gets to be like 9.15 and nothing from this moving guy. And I call him and he's like, yeah, our guys are still in Frederick. We're not going to come out tonight. And I was like, oh, cool. Thanks for the heads up like an hour ago

and you obviously still knew that. So at that point, I'm having like a major freak out. I'm like, OK, well, when can you guys come out? He says we can get there at 6 a.m. the next morning. I'm like, that sucks, because I sell all myself in the truck and nothing in my apartment, but that's fine. At this point, this was my biggest mistake of the whole process.

I was on a street where it was paid to park, but if I had read the signs, the actual places where you go get your ticket, closely I would have seen that I could have left my truck there overnight, but I was like, had never been in this city before, never really lived downtown anywhere in my life, and I was a little just kind of freaking out. So, I improvised, I took my truck,

it's like three miles away to the actual truck return place, where I was going to leave it when I was done, and I took it there at like 11 p.m. and left it there with all my stuff in it, locked up, took an Uber back to my apartment with just things that I could carry. I think I had a pillow and a suitcase or a sleeping bag and probably like my phone charger and my backpack. And it was really sad. I went and got a pizza. I was like, it had been such a long day because I driven 12 hours and it's had this whole fiasco. But I was like, okay, I made it. I'm here. I wake up the next morning. I have to wake up at like 4.30 AM

because I have to go get the truck before this place opens or else they're going to be like, why is this truck here with all this stuff in it? Take it back to my apartment and meet the guys there who are going to help me unload. So I go grab my truck, five a.m. drive it back to my apartment, and I get there and I'm like, okay, I have all this stuff in the back of the truck. I can unload some of this by myself because I had plenty of boxes that were one-man jobs.

So I start to do that and I keep going and I keep going. It's probably like six at this point when this guy is supposed to arrive. And all I have left are it's my book case, my dresser, my desk, and maybe one other thing. I don't remember exactly what it was. But things that, you know, Sean from you and I have him to move those things twice. You know, those are pretty heavy duty objects. Yeah, definitely not one person jobs. Yeah, that's straight up, not one person jobs. And I get to the point where I'm like,

so I hadn't paid this moving guy yet because I had his cash for him. And I was just like, I'm about to float this guy whatever is like 200 bucks for him and his crew. However many people that is to move like these four pieces, it's gonna take them five minutes, and I'm gonna pay 200 bucks for this. And at that point, I was so tired and so pissed. I was like, I'm taking a moral,

antifysical stand and knock in what this happened. So I like do what no man should ever do, and I like exercise my muscles, my back, my legs, in ways that you shouldn't have to do. You have to go up two sets of steps to get to the elevator in my apartment. And I manage to do that with the dresser, the bookshelf, all that stuff.

And my back and my arms and my hamstrings were pretty. Not only sore, but they had tweaked themselves quite a bit. That it was not in good shape for about a week after that, but I did it. So I get in the truck, as I'm driving away, this guy calls me and he's like, you know, we're just pulling up, where are you? And I was just like, sorry, dude,

basically fuck you, that's not what I said, but that's what I wanted to say. I drive the truck. I return it back to the place. I take one final uber back to my apartment, and then from there, it was, I had two days, 48 hours, before I was starting work, unloaded a bunch of stuff. Was super sweaty. I hadn't showered in like three days.

And the rest is sort of history, but that was the long-winded version of my moving experience last year. I did not have to move this year, which I'm infinitely thankful for, because moving is a pain in the butt as these guys here at Farwell are about to experience again. But that was my moving story.

I've lived in Baltimore for exactly one year now. It's been full of ups and downs. But I'm happy to be back here in Chicago this weekend to celebrate. So with that, I'm going to open up the podcast to the guys to share some of their favorite stories from you know two years ago now and when we were all living together and then this last year and they were living by or with each other and this apartment. I'm trying to think I

would have been smart about this. I would have come with my own story to sort of get us going about my favorite things that were happening here. But I'll just say we had plenty of nights when I lived here in which we'd get the blue lights going here in the living room. And we turn on the Grand Theft Auto 5 and get a little like headhunter's going. And usually some liquor and balls. And I always really appreciated like being able to play your PlayStation, Sean, because I never really had that sort of stuff growing up. And I never really played GTA before my sophomore college when I first started going over to your guys' apartment.

And I actually love GTA V, which I had at home. It's a good thing I don't, because I would never do anything else. There's just so much you can do on there. But we had plenty of nights, and there were plenty of nights where I would come home from grad score, I'd work from eight to five, go to class from six to nine, and I just need a beer,

I need to eat my jumble, I need to play some GTA V just for like two runs before I go right to paper and like get four hours of sleep. So I really appreciated that and for you guys for literally providing everything. Couch, TV, PlayStation, Bang in records, so all that stuff. So it's not a specific memory, but something that I really like doing. So yeah, I'll turn it over to anyone else who wants to share some of their favorite thoughts, stories from far well. I'll go first, because this is actually a story from when I was helping you move in the first time, Quinn, and you want to talk about statute of limitations. So I helped you move all your stuff into the truck,

and that went off without a hitch. So we get into the truck and I remember I had just like gotten into Chicago, I had like just walked off a plane and it was on my way to the place. And, but and I got the text message from you and it was you were just asking, could I help you move? And I just figured, you know what? I'm going to be passing through the air anyway. I need to get to the apartment.

Fuck it. Let's do this. So we get everything in the truck. And then we begin the drive to VAR well. Except you drove through this one alleyway and you started swearing because the alleyway was particularly small and this one guy had parked his car in such a way that like the back bumper was like sticking into the alley a little and I remember we were stuck in the alleyway and then you know I looked over you and I looked

ahead and I suddenly saw the truck moving inwards and I just, I heard you say, fuck it. And I heard the sound of the truck scraping against this guy's back bumper and I watched, I watched the car sway back and forth from the amount of like weight the truck was putting on it. And we just drove away and I was laughing I was dying in the passenger seat I was laughing Oh man it was like yeah That's what happens moving weekend. Yeah, I mean that was you don't park your car right?

That was like that was like my first far-well memory. But do you guys remember getting into the apartment and we found out that half the apartment didn't have electricity? Yeah. How was that there for that? Yeah. I, you must have been. I don't remember having an electricity issue.

I remember my, um, my ceiling fan, like the whole time I lived here, and Brenda's probably experiences, like the cord was jammed. And so I could never have the light on without the ceiling fan being on. It was always a one-to-one relationship. Is it still the same way? I want to actually add to that. So now, I'm talking to the mic. OK, this is very temporarily. But they fixed the light and fixed in quotation marks. So now that it's warm and it's summer,

I can use the fan out. Yay. And the light works. Yay. But if I want to have the fan on, I must have the light on. Yeah, that's the thing. Yeah, that's what was fun. No, no, no. But if I want to have the fan on I must have the light on But like they also like they wait you said the light didn't work when you moved in because I told you the light does not work Did not work the fan did but the light didn't. Yeah, I'm forgetting exactly what it was like. I don't think it was like a light. You were like, never a light. Yeah.

I was having a light on. I always had my lamp. That's right. Exactly. It was like a dark light in my room. It was like a dungeon in there. Because it's a dark room. It's a dark room.

Yeah. That's kind of what I was going to say. They finally fixed that. Okay. But now you have to have the light on if you want. Oh, man. And it's okay. They're all sharing the electricity bill with me.

Thank you for sharing that Brenda lives in the room that I lived in last year. I'm a bad placeholder. What do you mean? Absolutely. I'm sure you are a better roommate than I was. I was never around last year. Like, there's busy with school and stuff, so. It's nice to have someone to take care of stuff, though. I want to go briefly back to when you're pulling away with the truck and the movers are coming up. And they're like, hey, we're just getting here. Where are you?

I think the only mistake you made was that you should have been like, oh man, I'm stuck in traffic. I'll be there in 20 minutes. And then kept on waiting as long as to keep you. Little lettery. reversal. Yeah. Yeah.

That's a tough one to pull off though at 6, 15 in the morning and a weekend. Yeah, we're fucking dying. Right. That would have been good. I was at the point where I was just like overall of it. And I had like finally gone away. But yeah, if I was a little point where I was just like overall of it. And I had like finally gone away, but yeah, if I was a little bit more conniving,

that would have been a good idea. Oh man, what do you got, Ryan Sanger? You got any fun memories from the apartment? A fair amount of them? Just go, yeah, yeah, yeah, now's your time. Let's see here. Oh, I'm trying to get some good stories with the girl, Q David. I want to clarify that even though this is my podcast, I only have only lived in this apartment for half of

its tenure, so please don't feel like anything you share has to relate to me. I'm sure you guys had plenty of fun shit happen this past year. I've got a great story. OK, so the neighborhood that far well is in is, it's definitely not the safest. It's not at all one of the worst neighborhoods, but it's definitely not the safest. So maybe two months ago, I think the craziest thing that's ever happened

to me in this apartment was I watched a guy get arrested by like four cops for attempting a drive-by on the street just north of ours. And the dude like apparently shot at somebody outside of a grocery store and plain view of two police officers and then tried to speed away, like 90, to get away from them, but he turned on to far well and lost control of his car, like right at our intersection, and he crashed into the row of like six cars that are like right out right in front of my place. And when I heard I was in my room when I heard the crash, and so I got up to go see what was going on, and I see like blue lights flashing everywhere

outside the windows, and I look outside, and I hear this guy screaming as the cops arrest him and like yank him to his feet, because he's like climbing out of this car that he just wrecked. And the dude was going so fast, he totaled two of the cars in the row of six and Like damaged all of them just to varying degrees and it was absolutely it was absolutely insane and the dude is just screaming the whole time like I've never heard another human being like make that level of noise and

But he's just screaming anytime the cops laid their hands on him and there are people like they're coming out of their apartments wondering what's going on. And it wasn't great seeing the people who owned those cars that got total seeing them freak out and react because this guy probably doesn't have insurance

to cover all that. Probably not. Just a guess. Just a a guess but you never know. There are also car parts and broken glass in our front yard and the street for about two weeks after. Let me give a quick summary description of what our backyard is notable for. When we moved in, it was Rat Kingdom, and it was like that for a while. You go in the backyard, there just holes.

You'd find an area where gophers live, except these were rats, and they live underground. And you can hear them at night if you're quiet and you're sitting in the kitchen. They're loud as hell, and they live underground and you can hear them at night if you're like quiet and you're sitting in the kitchen they're like loud as hell and they make a lot of noise. I can recall a couple of times saying how the garbage late at night you open up the garbage can and yeah or rat like scurries or jumps out. It was scary the first time and then like you learn like open it and like jump away. Yeah, exactly. But we also have an interesting situation with power lines.

In our backyard, like I think when we got here, it was already a little unusual how low to the ground they were compared to where power lines should be. But as last year went on and we were just out on the deck right before recording this, looking at how low they are now and they're being hung up by like a guitar cord and stuff and there are, I don't know, are there any down on the ground right now in the backyard? No, that's good because I recall... Because I did fix this once actually, back to normal, okay but they came back I mean it was like a month ago they just fell back down again to clarify a little bit um the one cable that Ryan is talking about was actually not connected to anything it was it was it would it had been hanging in our backyard at like

face level and then Ryan pulled on it one day and he just kept pulling and then he just wrapped it up and threw it away. And these cables, like, keep getting lower and lower every month. Like you go out there and suddenly there will be one that's at like shoulder level and this is just the reality of our backyard. It's like a running gag almost in a TV show or it's like every opening, whatever. It's like the cables are a little bit lower and you realize like am I going crazy or are they getting a little bit lower? I wish we would have taken some pictures when we moved in and compared to the where they look now

because I'm sure it's significantly lower. But there's that, the grass is like half dead, half overgrown. We've got a giant mulberry tree. Big mulberry tree. It's gotten big too. It's, yeah, when we're out there, yeah, for sure. It's gotten bigger.

We've got like a trellis. There's a corner where like clearly a garden used to try to happen. And I don't think we or you guys ever did anything here. There are bikes out there There are some chairs I tried to start some fires out there. I had this blue vodka that my friend Eric had given me when he was here for Thanksgiving And Eric just got married last night, which was really cool. Congratulations to him

But we had had in our freezer for way too long and I had that like plastic synthetic Christmas tree that I had taken from 1237 West in the garbage can. It was sitting here for the longest time. There's always Christmas at 1320. There's always Christmas at 1320. I had taken in the backyard, doused it with that blue vodka. I had like this big idea like, vodka is going to burn, it's going to be the Christmas tree, it's going gonna be awesome.

Nothing happens. Nothing happens. It was just a fake plastic Christmas tree in a puddle of blue vodka, no fire. I spent like two minutes on it, it was like this is going nowhere. So, which was a common theme. There's a video on my YouTube channel of me

from just about a year ago in my yellow shorts. My brother is recording it of me trying to burn this thick packet of paper that we had to pay 80 bucks for for a grad school class and we didn't use it at all in class, which was frustrating. So I tried to burn it in the backyard and nothing really came of that, but you guys can go watch that on my YouTube channel. Yeah, that's the backyard. We don't need to talk about the basement because that's a whole other separate thing.

Like, it's like the perfect, like horror movie basement. There's like a table saw in there, doors, you don't know where they go to, like, our washers and dryers are down there. Um, yeah, as sometimes the sewage backs up and overflows. It's tasty. I think that's recent. I don't know if that was happening. I never had that here.

Thank God. No. But yeah, Ryan, you got anything you want to share? I guess one of my favorite memories, well, collection of memories from when Quinn was around. This is actually a good story. Quinn went through all of the Joplin Rags and all of the Beethoven Sonatas in his time here. I want to quickly clarify, not all the Joplin Rags, like half of them, and definitely not all the Beethoven Sonatas. I'm so excited. I'm so excited. I'm so excited. I'm so excited. I'm so excited.

I'm so excited. I'm so excited. I'm so excited. I'm so excited. I'm so excited. I'm so excited. I'm so excited. I'm so excited.

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I'm so excited. I'm so excited. I'm so excited. I'm so excited. I'm so excited. I'm so excited. I'm so excited. I'm so excited. It's like the cool fugal action, but you can't, because it's so much going on. And I got halfway through that movement, I was just like, this doesn't sound the way Beethoven promise it was gonna sound. I can't do it, it's too hard. That's my interruption, I apologize, keep going.

Yeah, but it would be like any or all hours of the day. You just hear some thudding, some very heavy plastic thudding, and then the sounds of Beethoven emerging from the living room. And it's actually always very good, too. I enjoyed listening to it, honestly. But we had one roommate that did not. She was very passive-aggressive about not enjoying it too, so. But yeah, it was always kind of fun and be like, cooking something and then you're doing

a little ragtime dance. Yeah, well some good ragtime dances. Mm-hmm. That's good stuff. Yeah, go ahead. Go ahead, Sean. I feel like we can't go any further without discussing the first masquerade.

Yeah. You were there, but you had to sleep. I think that was a weird night. I don't know if I ever told you guys this, but that was a night where I ended up hooking up with this Loyola girl who I like gone on one date with She lived just like five blocks south of here. So I walked out there It was so like a booty call situation and I remember if I like slept there if I came back here or what the situation is I came back here

but yeah, they're just a bunch of people and I like wasn't in the party mood for whatever reason because I'm a party pooper, but yeah, you guys, you guys through some banger parties, you wanna talk about the party? So upstairs in our far-well apartment, we used to have these collection of Loyola students, most of which were also in their last year at the school. And we befriended them, and so we met Brenda and a lot of other really cool people. But I came up with this idea

about, I mean, a themed party. Everyone just wears a mask or brings your own. And the upstairs neighbors were into the idea. So they agreed to make it like a double-decker party. So you could wander freely between both floors of the apartment. And this escalated upstairs quite interestingly because we ended up having a divide in our place. We're like most of the DePaul people that were invited hung around only on the first floor and all the loyal people were like on the second floor. But they, the upstairs neighbors invited like a bunch of these freshmen that got really, really drunk and like threw up on their floor.

And they said there's a lot of spilled beer on their apartment. And our apartment was totally clean, full of all the cool jazz cats that knew how to hold their drink and were generally just chilling out. And you went upstairs and it was like a battleground. Yeah, that's the masquerade. We're generally just chilling out and you went upstairs and it was like a battleground. Yeah, that's the masquerade. Thank God we never had any like parties that totally wrecked our place. I think we often that was self-inflicted wounds, but yeah. I think we kind of fantasized about it a little bit.

Like we would, we had these ideas that we would have these huge ragers that spiral out of control and like cows like upturned couches and broken windows, but I don't think we're. That's my fantasy for every part of you. So I'm going forward again tonight. I feel on a joint. So last chance. Last chance. Man, yeah, broken windows might be a tougher cell, but where do that pumpkin come from?

That's pretty cool. My mother sent me a bunch of Halloween decorations from our place. There's a skeleton above my head. Oh, very good. Is that glow in the dark? No, but you can toggle a little switch behind his head and his eyes a lot of. It looks like it should be glow in the dark, doesn't it? I agree. Based on that color. Yeah. It looks like it should be glow in the dark, doesn't it? I agree.

Based on that color. Yeah. Yeah. It's like definitely that little faded green. It looks like your hat. It does. I've been wearing my Quinn David Furniture and Spongebob's Bean Town podcast, Swag all around the city of Chicago.

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He pierced mine, and I can attest that it is actually a quality job That's a metaphor in case anyone was wondering I got a bit of an infection for a couple of weeks, but after a really strong antibiotic trial the doctors say I should be okay It's not as easy as Lindsey Lohan makes a look in the parent trap while they're at summer camp. It's just like, get the ice cube. Do the deed and everyone's happy, but no, not quite as simple. I don't know, this side of the room and the other good stories, you wanna share? Well, I mean, Parent Trap is a pretty good story.

Oh, I mean, it's a, it is a good one. Yeah, it's a till is old this time. So old, they made it twice. I just want to know do you have any fun lake stories You said late time here. Yeah, like go down to the lake like Lake Michigan Not as we do 1320 is situated three minutes walking from Lake Michigan. This is true very pretty Most of my like good lake stories happened

while I was a sophomore slash junior, AKA senior in college. I really, I didn't spend a ton of time like at the Loyola Beach while I lived here. And that was largely just because I was working full time and I was in grad school full time. I didn't just like have a bunch of time just like be outside. But I remember Thanksgiving 2016, I think you were maybe around Sean,

but I think you were with your cousin. And I think maybe Ariel was around, but I don't remember seeing her all that day. So it was Thanksgiving 2016. And I like, I don't have any family in Chicago. I was still relatively new to my grad school friends. I actually got invited to one one friends like family get together, but I felt I didn't quite know her well enough to be like, oh yeah, this would be cool. Now, two years later, Quinn, like, would jump on that opportunity. I just went to a wedding yesterday in which I knew no one except the bride and groom and like, that's scary, but I love that nervous energy now. Two years ago, I didn't as much.

So I went, my Thanksgiving consisted of waking up and walking down to the lake and I took a picture and I put it on Facebook and the caption was happy Thanksgiving from my family to yours. It was a selfie and it was pretty depressing. Yeah, I cue the sound effects and then I don't think I ever told anyone this, the one time I had Papa Johns, well I lived in this apartment, there's a Papa Johns down on Devon.

It's like a mile from here. And I ordered my pizza online and I go down to get it. And I had like done a total dyslexic thing with the numbers. And so when I had gotten down there, I turned west instead of East. And I walked almost all the way to where, you remember when we went into the salvation army

that one time? Oh my God. I almost walked all the way down there as like where is this Papa John's? I was probably buzzed because it's Thanksgiving alone. I'm sure I was having beer. And then I looked it up and my phone realized I had walked completely the wrong direction.

So I got my pizza and that was that. But happy Thanksgiving from my family to yours. Any other good lake stories though? I don't know. I have a really good 4th of July story that I'm not going to tell right now because it's too long. But. Okay, I'm going to tell it real quick. I'm going to immortalize this

on the podcast. I hope you guys will indulge me for I'll keep it under three minutes or so. Fourth of July 2014, no, 15. I was just finishing up sophomore year. I lived in an apartment in Uptown. It was a three bedroom apartment that I lived in with four other guys. So I was splitting a bedroom with my roommate Trevor. But two other roommates, Sam and Ben had moved out of the apartment and they were, we still had like three months left in our lease

so they were subletting that apartment to two people, one whom we lived with on our floor and Corcoran Hall or freshman year and he's like an okay guy, kind of crazy kind of a part of your bike at his core like fine, it can handle him. The other person was really into acid and I think was dealing and I didn't know her at all and just like, I don't know, it wasn't a good fit. But they lived with us. So fourth of July happens, and I had to work to four that day. I get home.

I had a couple of Hawaiian punch and bot, because that's what you drink when you're a sophomore in college and not 21. 19. Exactly. Yeah. So I get like pretty drunk, and I just, I walked out to the mantra's beach and the peer out there because you can see

I've been sinned fireworks and you can see I think Navy peer fireworks as well. It's a perfect spot I do that I had to work at noon the next day So I was like okay, no need for me to drink anymore. I'm just by myself. I'm just gonna walk home, which is about a Half hour walk from where I was so I'll work the buzz off. I get home by myself. I'm just going to walk home, which is about a half-hour walk from where I was. So, I'll work the buzz off. I get home and there is a huge rager happening in our apartment being thrown by the two people that were subletting. And I just apparently lost control and said, yeah, let's go wild. Certainly some peer pressure involved. And the only thing I really remember is drinking a ton. I don't remember what we were drinking,

but it was definitely straight liquor. And I remember falling on my bedroom floor and puking all over my rug. And that's where I slept that night. And my roommate wakes me up the next morning because we had a group of people coming to see the apartment, because our lease was gonna be in like three weeks or something. And so my roommate Trevor's like,

dude, people are coming in 15 minutes. You have puke all over yourself all over the floor. Like, let's make something happen here. So I quickly clean up. I don't even remember if I had time to shower. But I got that cleaned up and that was, it was going to be fine. Like, I felt terrible, but like, the apartment looked fine. So that summer, my normal routine was to to be fine. I felt terrible, but the apartment looked fine.

So my normal routine was to walk to work. It was like a little under an hour each way, but I was so cheap at that point. I wasn't paying for the train. But I was like, I'm clearly hungover. This wasn't my first time being hungover at it. I'd been drinking for a year at this point. But it was definitely the most significant pain I've ever felt. I get on the red line, we're going south. I'm not

feeling great. There's some like motion sickness, but I'm like, this is a, it's three stops to get from Sheridan down to Fullerton where I work. I can do this. And I feel fine until we get to Or we get to Belmont I'm like one stop away. It's one mile. I can do this and right as the train starts to leave Belmont I'm the type of person I can feel my I know I'm gonna puke for about 60 seconds before it actually happens And I knew 60 seconds wasn't enough and low and behold it wasn't so the pretty packed Train of people I'm wearing like a wife beater and gym shorts to go to work of course because I'm classy and And I just I open if you're imagining wearing wife-beater

Imagine just like grabbing it at your chest opening up like you're throwing something in the garbage and just letting loose like Mount Vesuvius Just like goes all down my stomach like onto my shoes and of course I feel terrible one physically but also like because everyone on this train is looking at me because now I'm the crazy person like usually you're on the other side of that and now I'm the crazy person who's puking at middle of the day like what the hell is this kids. So we get to Fullerton and I had to work for eight hours. So I go to work and I make the necessary calls I need to make to start my shift

and then I head to the bathroom and basically I just stripped down, washed my body and then washed my clothes and I spent the rest of my eight hours of like in wet clothes, because what else was I supposed to do? And this story was longer than the three minutes I apologized for that, but it's pretty much over. I go home, I wake up the next morning, still hung over the first and last time,

not last, first and only time in my life, that I've had a double hangover. And I had to work that day too, but I didn't puke anymore. But that was my crazy fourth of July, after my sophomore year of college. So. No, or the winner of the worst hangover story I've ever heard. Yeah, it was pretty bad. And I'm sure I wouldn't have had the hang over the next morning if I had drank enough

But I'm sure I wasn't like up to feeling like I should like I should hydrate. Yeah, that was bad Thanks for Having me shut. No, that's a good one. I'm happy if you haven't noticed already a lot of this podcast isn't Specifically geared at humor comedy is just to sort of get some of these memorable stories out in the open that so that you can experience it and so that we can go back anytime we want and listen to them with the details. Yeah, go for it. Maybe we should, we should start positive instead of going for the one I really want to go for are there any are there any things that we I mean quins or anything

You miss about this place but for Ryan Steven and I is anything that we're you think we're gonna miss about this place Well, I know for sure that I'm going to miss the lake placement and I'm going to miss the backyard. Even though it's kind of a piece of shit right now, it's like the next place does not have a backyard at all. It's concrete and the garage that doesn't belong to us. And it's also on a triangle lot. It's on a triangle lot.

So, I mean, like, we're just on an island surrounded by streets. So, we have no lawn. But. We're getting an awesome sunroom, though. We do, yes. The sunroom is sick. The sunroom is definitely a case for it.

Yeah, let's be honest. We'd hang out in that more than the lawn, anyway. Yeah. I think, you know, the thing... I think it's not something I miss, I will miss, but it's something I already miss. I actually, like... I don't particularly miss... the guys upstairs. I miss, like, one or two of them.

But I think the other, like I miss having that level of camaraderie with our neighbors. I think I felt like it was chill to just be able to go up there for them to come down here and see who's doing what. But those days are over. I would say despite having been in this house when it apparently started on fire and hearing many gunshots and different ambulatory services arriving for different things, I've always felt secure in this building so I'm going to miss that. You're not going to feel secure in our new place I'm gonna miss that. You're not gonna feel secure in our new place? I don't know, I haven't been there.

I mean, you are moving in with me so. I hope to just spend all my time just hanging up there like a monkey in the tree. Wasn't there a time when you were climbing a tree outside of the Lincoln Park bar and forced you guys to be removed someone told that story I wasn't there for that I was on duty or something that was near in the end of our senior year of college there's those guys junior years And Steve and I just played, oh I mean we'd both played. But we'd start drinking after the concert and we were drunk. Yeah I was really far gone. Yeah Steve and I was really drunk.

And we were getting, well we were actually drinking at Quinn's old, old place. Yep. 1237 West. That was fun. That was old old place. Yep. 1237 West. That was fun. That was a fun place to drink. Yeah, it was a good casual hang. Had a TV with all the channels. Stephen, I watched the pelts spelling B one time.

Yeah. Oh, my God. I remember watching the Super Bowl at your place. We did. I got too drunk for that. We had like Bre Leech was there. Probably a man of 15 now. And name dropping.

Name dropping on the podcast. No, and Katrina came too. That's right. I think that was the first time I've ever met Katrina too. Now we're, that's it. That's for some of the guys, you know. Yeah. But sorry, we're way off topic.

Keep going with the story. Okay, so we're fucked up. And we're going out to, yeah yeah, halogens and it's already close to bar time and we were getting there and basically people are starting to come out of the bars but it's not bar time yet and Stephen pulls himself up into a tree outside of this bar halogens Steven pulls himself up into a tree outside of this bar half a game and The Bonsers like these three like Like over testosterone dudes

Testoster tone Kick ass acapella all male group name right there testosterone That is it one of the group names in pitch perfect. Okay, I've never seen it ever seen I'm gonna be proud of my self and thank you. That is a reference to the first season of what's a show choir high school. Glee.

Glee Ryan showing his true colors here. He knows about pitch perfect and he knows about Glee. Yep. I did watch the first season of Glee. Oh, Mr.

shoes unforgettable. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Remember when he had a wife, and then she just went, is like, tear you or something, and then she starts whoring herself out. And then like the baby is real. I think she's up with the cheerleader. The baby wasn't real.

The baby isn't real. And somehow she kept that a secret, like, yeah, right. And then Finn committed suicide. Are you guys talking about, like, whatever it is you're talking talking about are you talking about like American horror stories? Man, this is Fox number one show. Please over episode the cross over episode Where the glee club becomes battle royale Holy shit, okay, well anyways these three dudes are on up to the tree and you're like what the fuck are you from Wisconsin or something and I take a fence to that and

Steve's like up there and they like Basically pulled you out of the tree and then they're like yeah Get the hell out of here and then it was bar time anyways and everybody started coming out and we were just like walking in the streets And then it was bar time anyways and everybody started coming out and we were just like walking in the streets But we went to Sean in my old place and That night what right after we found a parking spot We stumbled upon these two guys at the 32 rack. Oh, no, just a 30 rack of PBR They're 30 rack not a 32 and they're with they were sitting and they were like, hey, you guys want a beer?

And we were like, yeah, and it was like two in the morning already, but we hung out for two and a half hours on that sidewalk just drinking PBRs and lighting bowls and listening to Zeppelin. It was super fun. We made plans to do it two weeks later, but I think they fell through. But we never saw those guys again, and they were moving out and we were moving out. And now they're on the podcast,

so that's pretty cool. They're mortalized. That's the type of story that I wouldn't have remembered because I wasn't part of it unless you guys share that, and that's actually really awesome to have on the podcast. I'll finish up here, because we're at 52 minutes, and it's long, but I know this is a type of podcast that I'm going to love listening back to.

You might not feel the same, but I will. Some of my favorite things about this apartment, number one, I very much like a cost effectiveness mindset type of person, I love that we paid $1,700 a month for this, through all its aches and pains to get a spot like this, this close to the red line in Chicago for 1,700 a month is an absolute steel, which was awesome, even with all the cockroaches and mice,

et cetera. Yeah, Quinn take it. Other things I really liked, what I really loved about this apartment was that it can be a little small at times, but that it's actually really nice because there weren't very many times when all of us, all four of us were around and I'm sure it was similar this year for you guys because you guys are in grad school and that's crazy busy. But there would be a few nights here and there and sometimes we get Steven in the mix sometimes we get jambles in the mix, Frey would often be in the mix, where it's like, we were all here,

and we weren't necessarily doing anything crazy, but it was just like, that didn't happen very often. And it was definitely something that I took for granted, like, the pianist being in group piano for two years. Like, we were just always together, and I took that for granted, and like, when I left music school and to do my grad degree like that it was just completely different so it was really fun when when I was just able to be together with

people and that's something that now living by myself there are a ton of things I love living love about living by myself and they outweigh the things that I loved about living with other people which is why I'm living by myself but there were a lot of things with living with other people, which is why I'm living by myself. But there were a lot of things with living with other people, especially when it's mostly people you like that really enhances your experience. I love the piece of shit wooden shelving unit that we pulled out of the alley. Sean and I, always partners in crime with moving stuff.

It was like, I don't know, like our second or third week of living here, I remember walking home from the train station, looking over into the alley and being like, this thing is out there, it's a fair game. I was gonna just pick it up myself, it's too heavy. And so I come back to the apartment, I'm like, Sean, this thing's two blocks away, let's go grab it, because we were in need of something like that

And it's being utilized very well right now a lot of stuff on it. We just go and grab it. There's like nails coming out of it I had to pull some staples out of it Yeah, I don't know who put this together I think it was like a Boy Scout project or something like Boy Scouts on LSD, but it was Boy Scout project or something with Boy Scout on LSD. But it was, we brought that into the apartment, which was really cool. Yeah, I don't know. I'm going to take a couple of picks while I'm here

just because I actually, I can remember all the living spaces I've ever lived in in my life, but I'm sure that will begin to fade, you know, when I'm not 23 and when I'm 53. So that would be nice to have, but... Right around the corner. Right around the corner. Yeah, it's all downhill here for me. Yeah, I don't know.

More fresh market. That grew on me quite a bit. I was always a little scared away because it was a little pricier than Aldi but You can go used to be able to go there and like Get like a foot long sandwich cutting to three for like five bucks, and that was really a good value and Yeah, I don't know just I think the location is a little underrated to be honest. Like you've got a couple bars on Morris, you've got a grocery store, like you're right by the lake, you're two bucks from the train.

Yeah, I don't know. People always, when I told them last year, I lived in Rogers Park, or I guess two years ago now, they are kind of turned off, but I'm like, it's cheaper, it's residential, it's quiet. You can still live close to the train. It took me 20 minutes to get from Fullerton to Morse today You take it another five minutes and you're like River North area like it's not hard to get to these places So Rodgers Park underrated

1320 West Farwell underrated Yeah, I don't know any closing thoughts from anybody. Anybody want to say anything? Steve, and you have any big projects coming up, you want to plug? I'm not working on anything. OK, that's all right. I personally probably will not miss living in this place.

There are a lot of good things. There are a lot of things I'm not gonna miss, like living in the room underneath this, underneath this, that is stairs. Sean got the short end of the stick with the room selection. Yeah, that's because you were too nice when you moved in. You're like, oh, yeah, I'll take it.

I'm aggressive enough. Sean straws. I left this the last person to pick a room and I got the bus room. Ryan's room is like, we could have just fit two people in there and used Sean's room as like the closet it was built to be. Yeah.

But it was, we had a good time. It always has its ups and downs, but I think we all had a good time. Hey, we could experiment with that in the new place. Ups and downs. Don't you mean like two people in one room? I always have the dream for like a play room. Yeah, a play room.

For fun, in activities. I always had the dream when we were undergrads of like getting a one bedroom apartment somewhere and just going barrack style and like having just having a like a apartment where that's all we do is like Eat and sleep there, but we would all be paying like a hundred fifty dollars a month and we could spend our money on So many other activities. That was you who had that idea. Who was me who had that idea? Oh, it's such a brilliant idea. I know. That sounds a lot better in theory than I think it will work out in practice. We'll never know. That's one thing we can say for sure. Hey man, you guys can all cram into my 420 square foot studio apartment and we'll really put the barracks idea to the test.

I don't know anything Ryan and your aunt. Why is words? I appreciate Stan came down here right after we moved in and he brought his saw and I had to do some. The bed is a story I'm not going gonna tell because it's really not that exciting, but I had a year-long odyssey with my bed frame while I was here with stupid slats. That's a word I just hate, like slats.

With like cutting them, then cutting them too short and like falling through the slats in the middle of the night and eventually like nailing them into the IKEA wood frame I had bought and it was like really janky. I still have that twin mattress. It's like standing up against one of my walls in my apartment because I'm like I use this occasion like my brother came to visit it in April and he slept on it and that mattress is shitty. It's older than I am, but I'm like as long as I have the space for it, it's not pretty, but I have that. And then the Tiger blanket, which was my comforter last year for my bed, is now hanging

up as a tapestry in my apartment above my bed, is come full circle because that's the way my dad did it when he had his first apartment Out of college, so little circle of life action for you there We're at an hour and we're gonna wrap it up because we have some partying to do We have a whole other pizza. We have got some liquor and we're gonna bring in some some hot babes To really spice this part up our honey's, Stephen would say, one of his go-to terms, which I used today and I took that from him.

That is going to wrap up our farewell to far-walled podcast. If anyone's listening to this and it's like 9 PM on Saturday night, come on out, because we're going wild. We're gonna break some windows, flip some couches. 9 p.m. on Saturday night come on out because we're going wild The jumbles oh Jumbles pounding ladies and gentlemen. I like you do you know him from the podcast two weeks ago Jumbles we at later like 30 seconds left in the podcast to go. Jumbles we at like 30 seconds left in the podcast. Jumbles share one fun memory of living or not living of being in

1320 West Farrell any memory of being here that you want to go live on this podcast. Any memory? Yeah. Oh man there's so many good ones though. Oh let's see. There was that first time we played Pondet House on the Hill where we first tried it out Hello, oh the party starting. I love how seamless this transition is This is the greatest podcast ever keep going jambles keep going you're closing the show Jambles you are being Tom podcast royalty because you are the first guest to appear on two podcast episodes.

What's up guys? This podcast is collapsing. Dying star fading into itself. That's the sort of mentality that we don't need on Bean Town podcast. Oh, racism. Oh JP, we got pizza if you want some. Oh, you know I can't eat pizza. Oh, yeah. Fuck, man. He's Fuck man, why don't you say anything?

Because I didn't know I didn't know if you were gonna be I don't know if like I was gonna get here And the podcast was gonna be over and the pizza is gonna be gone So I just let it go did you get the voice message we left you um which one you called me during mass Oh, go during mass Happy birthday Jesus. Yeah JP's that he's very religious well, yeah I miss it. Excuse me Brenda looks you look like Stephen Tyler. Wow. It's got some fun patterns and do looks like a lady Okay, we're going to end the podcast here because it is getting

off the rails. I have to let everyone go. It's chaos. This is what 1320 West Farwell is all about. Thank you to my guest Sean Young, Steven Boy Ryan Singer, John Paul Pendowski for helping me on this podcast. This give me a little messages. Sure. This has been Quinn David Fern, this is my podcast. Thank you for listening. Have a good week. I will check in on you next week live from New Jersey.