Beantown Podcast - Birthday Podcast Year Three (03152020 Beantown Podcast)

Episode Date: March 15, 2020

Quinn comes to you LIVE from Rogers Park for his 3rd annual birthday podcast and this one is really low energy

It's going on. It's Quinn David Furnace. Welcome to my show. Quinn David Furnace presents the bean town podcast for Sunday March 15th, 2020. What's going on? How are you? It's more or less the birthday podcast year three for being time. I tell you what, it's gonna be a little bit different, probably a little bit less exciting for being honest than my previous two installments of the birthday show. You know, usually you'll catch me nursing a bottle of wine, maybe going to town on a serally sheet cake, pound cake, layer cake, whichever kind of cake you want. But you know this whole coronavirus situation is really put a damper on

everything that combined with my sobriety and diet and mix that in with a little quarantine action and we're all just kind of hanging out. I tell you what, it's very different this year and it's cold outside. It's not like a nice spring day or something. It's 35 degrees and the sun has come out which is nice but it's still just kind of you know, it's just everything's different. I've been thinking about this a lot. It really feels I feel like we haven't had anything quite like this since 9-11. It was really the last time we had a huge just kind of shake up where everything is affected and you know grocery stores are in wild shape right now things are canceled.

Pritzker just today was on the new shows they're weighing weighing WEIGH, N G closing restaurants and bars Really the the biggest thing for me as long as those grocery stores Stay open. It's not you know my life will be okay. I don't really go into restaurants and bars too much these days particularly in my current dry state but particularly in my current dry state. But, boy, I tell you what, it's interesting, man.

Yesterday in Chicago was our St. Patty's Day celebration. And there was no river dying. There was no parade. You could see the hotspots were still hotspots. You know, you go on a clerk between Roscoe and Addison. You know, you still got the lines out the door. But just overall, the energy in the city was not as high. I think the fact that it snowed didn't help with that.

But I don't know. I'll tell you this much, though. The coronavirus is not really preventing people, I guess, from having a good time. And I think when you throw some alcohol into the mix, it doesn't prevent them from being too concerned about cleanliness and social distancing. So what I'm getting at here is is at a house party yesterday for about three hours in the late afternoon into the evening. And you go down there and you know

everyone's eaten from a big big bullet chips sticking the hands right in there and they're putting mouths right on the bottle Like a you know a handle of vodka or something It's a communal chug It's like a beer-bong kind of thing going on, a funnel sort of action, everyone sharing that. And there's some other stuff, I don't remember, but you know, just not a lot of caution or concern.

And then one guy peed in the laundry room on the floor, which was a separate unrelated thing to the coronavirus, but still it's wild, man. Yeah, it's getting a lot worse, I think, before it gets better, I think we're, we're, we're screwed, if you will. It's gonna be like, it's gonna be weird for a while and I think we'll get used to it being weird and then it'll feel even more weird when things sort of, quote, go back to normal. But I mean, we're talking about like,

schools are going to be closed for months. Online classes, teachers who are not equipped to teach online, teachers who don't know how to teach online. Gatherings are going to be closed. People are going to lose a lot of money. Businesses will lose a ton of money. I got concert tickets. I'm trying to flip.

I'm just at this point hoping that, I mean, this is a weird thing to say, because it's almost a guaranteed profit when you're flipping tickets. Because I get them at a low- low sale, pre-sale thing. So I always do it for my city card member access. But I, you know, I'm just hoping at this point that all those things get canceled. Because if they do go on, then no one's going to want to go. No one's going to buy your tickets and you're going to be out a whole lot of money.

So my hope is that everything just gets canceled and my little ticket flipping side hustle for the time being we just we just break even because I get refunded. That that's the hope. But yeah man, stocks, Rough stuff, I lost like about 25% in the last month or so in terms of 401k or excuse me, I have a 403b which is 401k but just for nonprofits. And my IRA and my brokerage account, man. It's rough stuff. I got some money that I'm going to throw into it, but it's just deciding when. And this goes back to what I was saying. I think it's going to get a lot worse if it gets better.

Yeah, I think we're going to continue to get slammed. And I just think the economy is gonna be really roughed up by I don't think we're even close to the Nader Nader Nader, whatever it is NADIR of the situation so Really starting off this birthday podcast on a positive note, but it is that is kind of the Overwhelming spell that has been cast over the last week or so But it is that is kind of the overwhelming spell that has been cast over the last week or so. And when it's really gone from like,

oh, this is a big headline to like, oh, this is like aspects of your life are completely changed. I had a birthday party on Friday night and only one person came. And it wasn't because of the coronavirus because people were going on yesterday and stuff, but we watched the fugitive, which I watch every year. And I think more people should watch it, especially this year, because it's the closest you could get to the St. Paddy's Day official river dying and parade celebrations yesterday. So there's a famous scene about two-thirds of the way through the film where Harrison Ford leaves the city jail and escapes into the St. Paddy's Day parade.

It's a good time. Tommy Lee Jones won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. How all of a film? Really good score. James Newton Howard. But listen to your discretion as advised and listen to the bean tunnel podcast number one. We'llally use some

Corona inspired language number two Podcasts objectively terrible Although it's the birthday podcast although we got coronavirus on the mind as well You might be thinking hey Quinn. What are what are some of your top quarantine tips? Maybe you're not thinking that. But I figure, hey, if our federal government's not really providing much in the way of leadership, there's a lot of uncertainty at these times.

I actually tweeted at Dan Bernstein, 670, the score radio host, asking him for some of his quarantine tips, because he's sure been talking about that a lot on Twitter. Didn't reply. I'm still trying to get that reply from Dan Bernstein. But, so I figure, you know what? If he's not going to provide him, if the federal government's not going to provide them, maybe I should step up and provide them. In case you're wondering, no,

I didn't prepare for this podcast at all. In fact, I wasn't even going to plan on doing it right now, and I hadn't thought about it, but I just had some time in my afternoon and my quarantine opened up my calendar for today and there's a solid you know 15 hours of free time or so minus family chat one hour the other 16 hours of being awake today, wide open. So when my wide open schedule,

I managed to fit in this recording. But okay, so top quarantine tips, and we're gonna keep this episode shorter, which is a common thing for me to say, but I can assure you I don't have much to say today. So between the tips and the ad reads, I would encourage you to spend your time doing other things like knitting,

or cyber bullying, or cocaine. There's a lot of you have a lot of options. We'll get into some of them right here at this these quarantine tips. But before I jump into that I wanted to to to provide an update on a couple things. One Monday night. So last last week's episode was a lot of fun. And while we were talking about the song, A Solomon, and I don't even remember how we got there, we broke into a little bit of a a capella money for nothing cover. And came home from work on Monday night, decided to, as a Monday, or it was Tuesday.

Tuesday night, decided to have some fun with that concept and We ran with it. We came out with an all Quinn voice and body Cover of money for nothing by a dire strait. It's a total shit show, but it's fun I think the the the the the single Photo that we took for it. It's probably the best part But you can find it on

YouTube on our page, Quinn David Furnace. And the other thing, Scott Farrill's audio book. I have not forgotten about it. I promise. And it's not like I did a lot at the start of year and I just I haven't had time to get around to it. It's just every single chapter I record, which happens here and there, like once every of the week or so at this rate, it really takes it out of me. I usually try to do it after work if I'm going to do it today about two hours ago. I actually did it. I recorded a chapter.

You know, it takes like an hour. And I like to, you know, do do a chapter. I don't want to break it up between recording sessions. I try to do, okay, one session is going to be one chapter. And usually it's an hour, which is like, you know, 30 pages or something like that. So it takes me about two minutes to read a page. And it's interesting as you read it, it's the first half hour, so my eyes are good. Speaking well, I feel hydrated. And then the second half hour, you just really start to fall off.

You slur a lot of words, you miss things, you're just becoming tired. Occasionally, this didn't happen to me, thankfully, but occasionally, you'll just get a cough going. And so you have to pause like every 30 seconds, just to cough, drink, and then go again, try to go for like three or four minutes before you pause again to have a coughing attack. That happens occasionally, but it's just a nightmare. But we're doing our best, you know?

Probably a third of the way through it at this point Which I know is not not quite the progress you were hoping for us on March 15th But you know, maybe with this quarantine Quarantine QUR AN TIN E Maybe we'll have some more time To work on it. It's just a matter of how well my voice holds up, and also my eyes just get tired. If you've never recorded an audiobook before,

it's a lot of work. It's not like you just casually do it, and even compared to the podcast, which I still spend a lot of time talking. I can just talk about whatever I want. It can go as fast or as slow as I want. I don't have to worry about reading some of Scott's words he chooses, so just don't make any sense or trying to get past typos in real time or we're like reading his opera libretto's man some of that stuff is rough. So we're doing our best. So wait until we get some better like porn stories, some leather stories because that's just coming up

in the book but right now it's just we're in 2008 or something. And it's all just like each chapter is another failed opera production, but he wants to give us the full rundown. So. Oh well. Oh well. Okay. Oh, I Oh well. Okay.

Oh, I saw Emma. That was pretty good. That's how we're really grasping for straws in this podcast. So okay, so that's now quite the, you know what I'd recommend is, you know, if you're sitting here like, what am I doing listening to this podcast? This one's awful. I won't, I won't disagree with that. I'll tell you to go listen to either

your one or your two's birthday podcast. The time when we were all happier, when we weren't quarantined, and I was drinking wine. In fact, I have some wine in the house. I bought some wine and some gin and some tonic water and some limes for my party attendees on Friday night. But when only one person came and they didn't drink, we got a lot of stuff left over.

So yep, I bought my first alcohol of the year on Thursday night to prepare for Friday and none of it was consumed. Let's go to the ads here then we'll talk about some quarantine tips and then we'll end. Remember in the old days when we'd have episodes that be like 25 minutes long, this is is gonna be one of those episodes. One thing you'll never do on the Bean Town podcast is waste your time just to waste your time. Okay. Let's get that straight.

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If we got, if we got Rod back in front of the cameras, not that JB's not doing a good job, but what if we had a two-headed threat on this? I could go for that. Who needs Trump when he got JB and Rod? That's what I'm talking about. Man, they even canceled NASCAR. Like, those guys are inside of cars the whole time.

They're literally, are there any live sports happening in the United States? I think there was like a UFC something. Today was supposed to be Selection Sunday. Today we were supposed to find out who Wichita was going to be playing in the first round. It's just, man, and it's not like, you know, 9-11 where they shut everything down for like a week.

This is going to be, I mean, things have already been shut down for what, about four days at this point. It's going to be a lot worse. Just scrolling through ESPN.com, seen if there's anything going on. Man, we can't even watch an ASCAR. Special Olympics, I think they canceled that too. What do they talk about in an ESPN? What do they, I don't know, I don't have ESPN. Top quarantine tips that I definitely wrote down because I was prepared for this show.

Number one, binge that TV series you've always wanted to watch. For me that's the wire. I started season four today, which is widely considered to be one of the best seasons of television anywhere at any time ever, which is seen a lot, I'm excited. In classic wire fashion, the first episode was, I don't want to call it underwhelming, because the wire is not an episode by episode thing. Each season is a cohesive unit, and it's really better treated as like a 13 hour film

than it is an episode by episode kind of television series. So I think I felt this way after every single episode one up to this point where it's just like, okay, that's fine. It doesn't really like grab you, but I know I'll be grabbed. I'm ready to be grabbed, okay. Let's get into the wire or, you know,

if you always been wanting to rewatch lost, go for it and just remember how weird that shit gets like the first two seasons are like, okay, they're lost, but then it becomes like time travel and the hatch and that Scottish guy, whatever his name is, Tommy McPherson or something, and his wife Penny, not her boat, it's boy with her alert. And then you get the people coming on the helicopter. And there's some good speaking of another show. There are some really good lost references in 30 Rock. And that's the thing about 30 Rock.

I love it so much, but you watch it even now. You know, and it was on what was 30 Rock? Like 2007, no, like 2005 or 2006 maybe, 2006 like 2012 something like that. A lot of you know, I don't want to say it doesn't age well but you know there are certain things that are just like oh yeah, and in other 10 years, absolutely no one is gonna remember what that was about. But there are some good lost references, which are ageless, like Kenneth and 30 Rock. Other tips, start your own podcast. Hey, if you've always been thinking yourself, man, Quentin Furnace really inspired me to

start a really shitty podcast, Now would be the perfect time. The greatest thing is you don't even need a topic. Sometimes you just start talking and next thing you know it's two years later and you got buttons and business cards and a pledge drive telephone fundraiser and it going to say hundreds and thousands of fans, but it's more like ones and tens of fans. But we're, I haven't looked recently at the data. Maybe the quarantine will help. Maybe people will be like, well, we got nothing else to do. Guess after 120

some episodes, we'll give the bean-town podcast a shot. It's doubtful, but I can dream. I think we're at like 30,000 downloads or something, and it shows history, which is pretty awful considering how long we've been on. But you know what it is. But now there's never been a time then being self-quarantine to start your own podcast. All I ask is don't call it the bean town podcast because we haven't copyrighted it yet. We looked into it, it's really expensive. And there's already some competition for that name.

We weren't the first bean town podcast when I arrived on the scene, hot. There was already a Facebook page dedicated to a bean Tom podcast. And I know I think they had like two episodes or something. I think their Facebook page still has more links than ours. People just are not on Facebook these days, you know, that's what I tell myself. Whether that's true or not, I don't know. Everyone's always talking about LinkedIn.

I don't really. Everyone's always talking about LinkedIn. I don't really like, man. You can't share cat memes on LinkedIn, you know? It's not as fun. Everyone's always talking about their hustle. Sometimes you just want to share funny pictures. I guess that's what people do on Tumblr. I don't know. I never really understood Tumblr.

Is that a thing? Is that an app? What is Tumblr for? It seems goes for Pinterest. Is that still popular? People still use Pinterest? I feel like all we ever talk about these days is TikTok and Instagram.

I don't know. All we ever talk about these days is TikTok and Instagram. I don't know. I just don't know. What surprises me is that Instagram and Snapchat have both been able to kind of peacefully prosper because in my mind, they do like exactly the same thing But Instagram just does more I don't know man. I just don't know. Hey, it's 316 in the afternoon right now my birthday is 316 So you might want to save that for later

So you might want to save that for later. Other quarantine tips. You know what? Now is a great time to read a book. Maybe you got a book for Christmas or something. And it doesn't look interesting. Or maybe it's the Bible. And you never actually got past Genesis 1. There's some wild stuff in there, man.

And the thing is a lot of people sort of know the hits, you know, the King David's, the Jericho's, the Samson's, the Saul on the road to Damascus. I don't know where we're going. That's on right. The Jonas, the Yester's, the doubting Thomas's, but you know there's just a lot more going on. It doesn't always get the headlines. So stuff to check out, especially like you take a book like, Oh, but Daya or something. I never read Oh, but Daya. What do you think he talks about the whole time? Or we've read Song of Solomon a couple of verses last week on air. And there were some wild stuff in there, man, like some legit soft-core pornography.

And I could have told you it was from 50 Shades of Grey and you wouldn't have blinked an eye. But that's the way it goes sometimes. So all I'm saying is there is a lot of good stuff in the Bible, and by good I mean, you know, interpret that whichever way you want. But it's just a lot more than the hits, you know. It's like, you know, if you only knew men at works, you know, biggest songs, land down under, overkill. Who can it be now?

And then you actually go listen to their full albums and you realize some weird stuff in there. Which I did this past week, which is why I bring it up. Occasionally, I'll be sitting at work in a little board and I'll just try to think of like famous songs By artists who you know, I've certainly heard it, but I've never sat down and been like, okay, now let's listen to this album You know, you always just hear the same hits over and over again and sometimes it's interesting sometimes it's like, you know, goldmine and you're like, oh man

I should have been listening to this 20 years ago. And then other times you're like, oh, not going to come back to this. That's how I feel. Alton John has some albums in the 80s and 90s that I don't really know anything from. And I don't know much about them. And so you're, you know, someone of my favorite artists, so you go and listen to them and you're like, yeah, I don't need to come back to this one. But in that same vein, he has, you know, full albums from the 70s when he was really killing it where you know the hits, but you probably have

the list of the full albums, but there are, I mean, often John has, you know, just got like, at least five or six albums from the 70s where everything on the album is fantastic. So if you've never done that with whichever artists, I encourage you to do that. Because maybe you spend an hour maybe you'll find something you like, maybe you don't, but at least you experience something new rather than just listen to the same stuff over and over again. There's another quarantine tip. Learn more about musical artists where you only know their hit or their hits.

Listen to some of their other albums stuff. See what you find. Some deep cuts. Deep cuts by Q. All right, I promise you a shorter installment, and I'm going to give you a shorter installment so you can go on with your life and find other things and discover happiness and ways

that the bean-tomp hot cast can't fulfill. So that's what we got for you. Shorter installment, lower energy installment, I apologize to always my birthday, not a huge birthday guy. It's not so much like a depressed I'm getting older kind of thing. It's just, I don't know, the whole like... Specialness of it doesn't really resonate with me. Mmm. And I think it's aided greatly in this trend, unfortunate trend continues.

I don't know if it's all me or a variety of factors or what, but... I've had a really, really bad luck just in my adult life with trying to organize things for my birthday with like trying to get friends to come out and stuff. So yeah, it's not like I'm feeling down like I'll just give up, I'll never stop trying like bad attitude kind of thing. It's just, you know, each year you show up, you try to have fun with it and if you get, you know, continued disappointment, it's just, you know, you don't wanna go,

you don't wanna put yourself through that each year. So, here is another installment in that. Oh well, we try our best. On that lovely note, let's get some music to play us out. Happy birthday. And stay safe, stay healthy, don't touch things. Don't be afraid to go. I'm not going to say don't be afraid to go out, but you know, get some exercise too. That'll help you, especially with the stir crazy stuff. I'm gonna get cabin fever and I've already been outside once today, so. Alright, that's what we got.

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