Beantown Podcast - 3 Day Weekends Every Weekend (09132020 Beantown Podcast)

Episode Date: September 13, 2020

Quinn comes to you LIVE to ramble about 3-day weekends, the LaSalle County Historical Museum, and spelunking woes

Hey, what's going on? It's Quinn David Furnace. Welcome to my show. Quinn David Furnace presents the Bington podcast for Sunday September 13th, 2020. What's going on? How are you? It's been a minute since we checked in on you ten days or so. But we're coming to you live and we're happy to be joining you today. My name is Quinn. This is my show. And this is what I sound like. So turn back now if you turned it on and there was a mistake, if you were looking for the Michelle Obama podcast, and you clicked on this one by accident because they were next to each other in the charts. That's understandable. I am not Michelle Obama but probably equally culturally significant. Just one of us has a Wikipedia page which I've always felt was overrated and probably a good thing for me because I don't want to get cocky. I want to get a big head. Yeah what's what's going on? It's been a little while been a hot second

If you will since we checked in on you Thanks to sister My sister Abby furnace for coming on our show last weekend ish to talk fantasy football. And today's been a big day, opening a big opening day in the NFL, opening Sunday.

I didn't think we were gonna get here. I got to be honest, a month ago, I didn't think this was gonna happen because of the lion left and their fake China virus. But, you know, we're here. And we're queer. No, we're not. But this little Tony Wonder action reference.

So, Quinn, what are you talking about today? I don't know. I put this off recording until Sunday afternoon because It wasn't quite sure how we were gonna take it, but I figure I'll just you know It's been a little while so I'll give you the rundown on what's been going on lately Labor day weekend three-day weekend big fan of The three-day weekend and I And I've had multiple conversations about this recently

with a couple different people. But the three day weekend, man, if we had that going on every weekend, not only would I be much more happier for obvious reasons, I would be much more productive. I don't know about you all. But I mean, maybe I do know about you all. Because I feel like I, in this conversation, in this debate of which there's not much in the US,

but I wish there was. You never hear someone who's talking about this being like, I'm much more productive with a five-day work week, than a four-day work week. Even if you want to expand it to like 10 hours, 10 hours a day Monday through Thursday, although for me that's unnecessary, but if you were to expand it, so you're still working 40 hours, I would just, I mean, I already not that I don't get anything done on Fridays, because some Fridays are super

busy. Well, this last one for me two days ago was very busy, but it didn't have to be that way. I just, it was busy because I scheduled stuff because I'm expected to work on Saturday, but you never hear people talk about how they would be, how they are more productive with five days versus four. Big fan of the four day work week, just, I don't know, having the three days away from the emails and the clicks and you know the Microsoft teams big fan um Microsoft teams that reminds me of Slack when I used to work at uh Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. I wasn't part of this,

but apparently there was a large group of coworkers who weren't using, I don't remember what the expected messaging service was. I think it was Skype for Business, was what they told us that we had to use for instant messaging within the office. And then I think it got out that they were somehow tracking our messages.

And so people started to mutiny and migrate to grade M words to slack. And then eventually the dean found out and there was a very uncomfortable staff meeting where that got shut down, which was really fun. And again, I wasn't part of it, but I kind of wish I was. Because I could have talked some crap. Listen to discretion is advised when you're

seeing the Bean Tom podcast number one, or occasionally use some language number two. The podcast is objectively terrible. Yeah. I'm not a big shit talker at work in general. It just seems risky, you know? How did we get there? Oh, four day work weeks, yeah.

I'm a big fan. Okay. It's really nice. Well, when you're a big fan, so what did you do with you three day weekend last weekend? What didn't I do? I was all over the map.

We went to Star Rock on Saturday, did some hiking, and explored some canyons and some bluffs. Really a lot of geological features were explored. explored no spelunking saving that for next time. Huge span of spelunking, not actually. There's, you know this, oh man, what, what was the name of the cave or the place where it was? When it was in Kentucky or something where the guy went spelunking and thought he was in one part of the cave, like crawling on his hands and knees on his belly almost, probably actually, and you can find the YouTube video on this.

I think I found it on Reddit a couple months ago, but he thinks he's in one part of the cave. And so he's, you know, like crawling through it. And it turns out he was in a different part of the cave. And then he like there's a sharp, like, the cave turns downward. And so he got stuck. And he couldn't back out, but there was something where like his feet got twisted. And so they couldn't pull him out a certain way

without, you know, I don't know if it was breaking something or like puncturing his lung. Basically, he like goes over this rock lip and is positioned in such a way that they can't pull him out. And the guy, poor guy physically is there for like 24 hours. They know exactly where he is. They've got all the help in there you could ever get, but they can't get him out.

I'm trying to find it on Google, so you can go read about it. If you want, it's kind of like 127 hours if it had a sad ending, okay. Yep, it ending, okay? Yep, it was okay, it wasn't Kentucky. It's Utah. That's right John Jones Stuck inside a cave. I think this was like five 10 years ago Yeah, if you just Google Spulnker John Jones go to the reddit post Sweaty palms you can see the like diagram of the cave and he stuck. Yeah, so he basically falls headfirst into this, like not Kervos, but just like whole.

And the way his ankles are positioned, they physically can't get him out, which is a tough way to go. I think they said, eventually, great, great being Tom podcast this week. I think eventually he dies from the oxygen, lack of oxygen, I think is what it is, but I'm not sure. I don't remember. Boy, how did we get on that?

Oh, because we did not do any splunking. Well, I was afraid of this happening. So why don't go to Utah. Last time I was in Utah, which is just a fun one to say, by the way, Utah, E-U-T-A-W. I was in Salt Lake City for a conference and I had a really bad cold. And the elevation was really hitting me hard and it was during the Brett Kavanaugh hearings and I think I pretty much ended up like going to half the conference and then the other half I just sat in my hotel room which was really small it was just a tiny little boutique hotel and watch the Kavanaugh hearings. What was that, like October 2018, maybe?

I get some confirmation on that. Otherwise, left-start rock and backtrack to Utica, Illinois, in North Utica, Illinois, which I didn't realize was like a big hotspot for bikers and biker gangs. We saw a biker gang bachelor at party and allegedly I didn't witness this, but apparently they were handing out or trying to sell suckers like candy, lollipops. I don't know if they had if they were laced with something like Eddie Lacey. If Eddie Lacey had his own brand of lollipops

I would buy. What do you think that guy's doing? Someone like that who was in the NFL for what, like four or five years? On a rookie contract, do they make enough to the point where if they're good with their money and knowing how to invest, like, they don't ever have to work again? These are the questions I have. I suppose if you're starting NFL running back, you can, right? I suppose.

I don't know. Remind me, hey Siri. Nothing, she's gonna be the silent treatment. I was gonna ask Siri to remind me to research Eddie Lacey Packer's legend after this podcast is over, but we go to Utica and we ended up eating outside, which was good. But before we could be seated, we had to wait. They told us, well, like 20, 25 minutes of that, it'll be in closer to 10 or 15. So we walk around town, we're just exploring,

like, spelunking without a cave. And we've seen all there is to see after about 90 seconds. And it's kind of hot. So we were looking for some shade slash, just somewhere to sit down. There is this little museum. When I say little, I mean little, on the edge of town, it's pretty little. What is it? It's the LaSalle County Historical Museum, something like that. We'll get a confirmation. But we're like, okay, well, this might be interesting.

And so we walk in and immediately you get inside and you notice it's pretty little. And you see this young lady probably my age, sitting at the desk and there's not much in there besides the desk, maybe some old prairie dresses. And immediately I notice on top of her desk there's a sign and it's the admission sign which I wasn't expecting there to be a cost of admission to a LaSalle County historical museum or whatever it's called and I think it was $5 a person and you know whatever $5 okay that's fine know, whatever, $5.

Okay, that's fine. It's not the worst, but it's like, our table's gonna be ready in 10 minutes. There's like four and a half things to see in here, and one of them was the lady sitting at the desk. And it's just like, mm, so she's like, hey guys, welcome. Do you wanna explore the museum today?

And I was just like, no, no, that's not what I said. But I said, I was kind of awkward. I was like, I don't know. Kind of looking at Rachel, like, save me. And I think it was just like, I think we're going to, I think we're OK. I think it's what I said. I don't know, trying to be as diplomatic as possible.

So we walk out feeling like bad slash kind of awkward, not really, but just like, that was kind of weird. And so thankfully, when we leave the museum, we get a call that our table is ready. So we go and sit down, but interestingly enough, the way our outdoor seating was situated was such, I love putting those two words together, was such. It's like, wasatch, great mountain range. That we could see the entrance of the historical museum. So we probably saw a good five or six parties

and not every party looked like a party. Some of them were older couples. Walk in and then we would just time it out to see how long people were spending in the historical counting museum. And it was probably about 10 seconds, 15 seconds, if you were lucky. Not very many seconds.

I think one group made it to about 20 seconds. But yeah, it was pretty funny. No one who went in stayed in for longer than 20 to 30 seconds. It's like the opposite of a labyrinth or something. went in stayed in for longer than 20 to 30 seconds. It's like the opposite of a labyrinth or something. Or if it was a labyrinth, that was particularly easy to escape from. Imagine that.

Imagine it's a corn maze, but instead of twists and turns, you just have a straight line through the corn. That's what it would be like, timing wise, if we were to talk times. Imagine you were running a marathon, but instead of 26.2 miles, it was 26.2 meters. Now, there's a race that I can get behind. And I was gonna go for a Hitler joke, but those don't exist. But we had a good time in Utica and in North Utica. And although we didn't pay the price of admission for the LaSalle County Historical Museum.

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And what did I do the rest of my three day weekend? I don't know. I did a little bit of this, a little bit of that. No, it was good, it was fine. I don't remember, I ran a half marathon. I did that this weekend too. It's just become sort of a casual thing. Wake up at 5 a.m. on a Saturday and just, you know, get out and go. It feels good. You know, I got the road

to myself. No one else is out, the occasional biker, but I just spit on them as they pass me, or I pass them if they're lucky. But yeah, three day weekends, big fan of that. Hey, if you got any questions, comments, concerns, I am sure a lot of you have concerns. If you are looking to share them with our show email, bean town podcast at Yahoo dot com again, that's bean town B E A N T I N podcast at Yahoo dot com. You know what

I would love? As some of you may know, this is not the only podcast that I host. Surprisingly. Ever since what? Spring of 2019, something like that? Late Spring early summer. I have co-hosted a show, The Weight Noise Podcast, with my dear friend and a Hashtag friend of the podcast, Matt Feedler. And you're probably thinking, wow, I forgot about that.

And you'd be right. We last released an episode just over a year ago, I think, was our last release. And here's my call to action, because I would love for some of that new content to come out. But it's not up to me, because I don't do the editing for it. We have, I think, three and a half shows recorded that are ready to go. They just need to be edited and released. So if any of you are thinking, wow, we could really use some more Quinn in our lives, you're going to have to reach out to friend of the podcast Matt Feeler.

Don't hurt him. Don't threaten him, just gently nudge him in the right direction. If you would be so kind. Because if there's one thing I love listening to, it's my own voice. But no, we have a fun time on the White Noise Podcast, and I would just, I don't remember what we talked about.

So we probably got what, three hours or so, two and after three hours of matte and quen content that's never been heard or released. I don't know about you, I would like that. Sounds like a good time. But yeah, that would be good. And then my only other question. Debating whether or not to bring this up,

because I don't really care. But I am curious about it. So I guess I do care. My friend, Hashtag friend of the podcast, Tark Shahada has been on before. Host a podcast, the local glow podcast. And I support him with a monthly Patreon subscription, $3 a month, releasing my finances live on the air. And they haven't released a new show in like a year.

So my question is, what's happened with the, you know, $36, I spent on the show since last year's episode came out. I just wanna say this, not that I think I'm better than anyone else, but I am very proud of this show in particular for our transparency. You know, when we run our pledge drive fundraiser every year,

our telephone spectacular, every February, it's clearly outlined what our costs are for. And I think this year we're going to even be able to streamline those costs a little bit more, which is exciting. Keeping your costs low and other stuff. Whoa. I'm watching two football games at once right now, which is pretty intense. Pretty exciting, pretty intense. But, boy, yeah, we don't need to talk about football. Vikings looked like hot garbage today.

But that's what I got for ya. Um, so I just called out my two favorite podcasts live on the air. Now we're gonna end, which is very exciting. Um, we are probably gonna get back into some power rankings because those are very exciting. We are probably going to get back into some power rankings because those are very fun. And if you have ideas for what we should power rank, you got to let us know. You know how to email us.

You can also tweet at us at beantowncast or at white buns if you want to find me personally. Last thing I have for you is yours truly might be social media famous, more so than I already am. In due time, I got a Twitter message from Venmo, no joke, the money transferring service. Twitter message from Venmo, no joke, the money transferring service. Last this past week. And they were messaging me about a tweet,

I tweet out back in November, 10 months ago. And I don't have the tweet in front of me, but I just read it this morning. I think it says something like, do you ever get law, or do you ever scroll through your Venmo feed so much that you get lost like a JJA rooms TV show? I don't know.

Not like a very exciting tweet or anything particularly interesting. But they messaged me and were like, hey, QD, how's it going? Would you mind if we used our tweet for social media purposes? And I was like, I don't mind. And then recently, they've remessaged me and asked for my Instagram handle, which I've shared with them. So I don't know what's gonna happen, but I just, you know, if this blows up, if I blow up,

I just want everyone to be happy that, you know, they got in on the ground floor of the Bean Tom podcast. You've had three years to do it. So now is not the time to jump off the train either, okay? is not the time to jump off the train either, okay? Just stick with us, we're gonna be huge soon. And then all you beanheads, it'll be like a pyramid scheme. All you beanheads can sell up your own podcast to 20 other people, and we'll all get rich.

That's what I got for you. My computer is actually physically unplugged, and it can only handle about this much podcast before it needs to take a break. But thanks everyone for listening. Again, if you've got ideas for power rankings for next week's episode, go ahead and shoot just a text, shoot just an email, tweet at us.

You can follow Ben Moly's lead, send us a Twitter message, Instagram DM me. You can also send me, you can send me, let me say this, you can send me snail mail, but with the USPS getting gutted, I'm getting mail like once a month at this point. In fact, I get my checks mail to me for my consulting job. And my August check was mailed before labor day weekend and nothing yet, which is a bummer. Cause I need that money to get out of some jams.

And purchase some jams. You know, I don't have jam in the apartment, but I'd like to. Okay. Thanks to everyone for tuning in. Kind of a scatterbrain episode, but I think it had some fun moments. I had fun. I hope you had fun. That's what we have for you. Let's get some music going here. Thanks everyone for tuning in. Thanks for supporting this show. We really appreciate it and

Yeah, falls coming things are getting spooky and we get to tour in New England next month and the next month Which is really exciting so maybe we'll get some merch going that could be fun Everyone that's what we got for you. thanks for tuning in and you know stay safe, stay sane and I'll check in on you next time. Bye! I'm just going to sit here. ndご視聴ありがとうございました