Beantown Podcast - Dry January and Ben Gibbard_01262020 Beantown Podcast

Episode Date: January 26, 2020

Quinn comes to you LIVE from Chicago hot off the heels of a Ben Gibbard acoustic show to discuss Dry January, 18:6 Fasting, and some other neat stuff "Stay Young Go Dancing" by Death Cab for Cutie (I do not own)

Hey, what's going on? It's Quinn David Fernos. Welcome to my show. Quinn David Fernos presents the Bean Town Podcast for Sunday, January 26th, 2020. What's going on? How are you? What's happening? This is my voice. This is my show. And we're coming to you live from the north side of Chicago where we've been getting some funky weather you know. Last two weekends snowstorms here in Chicago, that's two Friday nights actually, making going out a pain in the behind and then they were saying yesterday, you know Friday night, in the yesterday it was going to be snowing quite a bit as well. But you know what they say on the meteorologists and stuff is 1 to 6 inches.

Which I was talking to a friend about this at dinner on Friday night. That's such a big variance. You know? It's like either barely a smattering of snow or half a freaking foot. So what I ended up happening if you're not in the Chicago area is a so warm and by so warm I mean like mid-30s but you know so it's just kind of a very heavy wet rain, wet rain, my favorite kind of rain in fact. But everything's just kind of you know puddles. There's some snow on the ground because it's not quite warm enough for a doll to just

melt away but there's no you know snow accumulation going on really and today it's a nice day definitely gonna get out and do some walking walking W-A-L-K-I-N apostrophe. And a little bit here because it's sunny out, which is not a super common occurrence in Chicago. It's kind of looking at the sky right now. One of those days where it's like, the sky is kind of white and gray, so there's some thin cloud cover going,

but it's not Not thick enough For it really to stop the sun. So it's pretty bright out and it's you know high 30s That sort of thing sounds like a good day to me to throw on the boots and maybe go for a little stroll by the lake so We'll get that going after After we finish this up take a shower cook some brunch or so I'm gonna make some french toast After we finished this up, take a shower, cook some brunch, so I'm gonna make some French toast, which is exciting.

And I usually try to avoid the mass carbs, but got a lot of bread in my freezer. Actually the last two times my brother Walt has come to stay with me once around Thanksgiving, and then once at the beginning of this year. Got some bread both times and you know whatever he doesn't use it just throwing the freezer because I don't eat bread or at least a loaf or loaves of bread in my day to day. Excuse me, but you know got it defrosting right now and we're gonna be you, got some eggs from the grocery store this morning, and I'm pumped. It's going to be good.

And actually, on this topic of food, we're going to be spending most of today talking about, sort of my diet, eating habits, dry January, all that stuff. That's going to be the topic of discussion for today after we talk about a concert I went to last night. We'll try to, this, try to keep this episode a little bit shorter. I don't have a ton going on. There's a lot more happening starting next week in February. So we got some things to look forward to as well as some updates on the Scott Ferrell book.

So we'll touch on that stuff in the end, but just as a heads up as a reminder, February is Pledge Drive month for us here at the Bean Town Podcast where our goal is going to be about $200. We smashed it last year. We're going to be looking to do something similar this year. So we'll get to that in one second here. We'll also be talking about some travels I got happened this week. Haven't been traveling much lately, but I'm going to the deep south and then I'm going to Texas. So it's going to be exciting. It's going to be exciting. First things first, the listener discretion is advised.

We're listening to Bean Tom Podcast number one. We'll occasionally use some harsh language number two. This podcast is just objectively terrible. Thank you to myself for that fun intro music, Scott Joplin's The Entertainer. And again, we're going to try to be getting these podcasts filmed, ASAP. Our friend, Hashtag, friend of the podcast,

Matthew Feeder is apparently still swamped in work. We haven't, we haven't heard from him in about a month at this point. We oughta give him a call at some point this week, maybe when I get to Alabama. But yeah, that's what's going on. So let's jump right in here. So Ben Giverd, who you probably know, one way or another,

and he's also, we played some of his music, excuse me, on this podcast before and not for a while, but we're going to play a little for you today, which is exciting. Ben Givert is the frontman for Deathcap Recuity and was behind the Postal Service back in the early 2000s and he is from Civic Northwest and really good solo acoustic, that sort of thing. So he is doing a little small tour right now,

but he was in Chicago Friday night, last night and tonight. So last night was the only real opportunity I had to go see him because Saturday, yesterday morning, following up on Friday night, I had to work and had to, you know, be out of the house by 6.45 AM or so. And that's not really what you want to be doing if you're not getting back until midnight or so. And then tonight, you know, it gets, so he's at Thalia Hall. Thalia Thalia, I always thought it was Thalia Hall. But the security guard outside, who is first going to say,

welcome to Thalia Hall. So I don't know. We'll put our researchers on that one. But you know, so you're not going to get home until after midnight or right around midnight because he plays till about 1045, which is great. But that's just not really what you want to do on a work night. So last night was really my only opportunity. I was exhausted because I was out late on Friday night and worked from like 7.30 until 2-ish to 30. Then went for a run, ran a 5K,

and then eight and came home, got home closer to five and slept for like 90 minutes, took a power nap and then went back out. And yeah, it takes about an hour, 20, hour, 30 to get down to Pilsen up from up here in the north side. So yeah, it's just a long slog, but totally worth it. If you're not really, if you're like, oh yeah, I know Deathcap for QD a little bit. I remember the Pulse of Service, but you don't really know Ben Gibbert

or just his skill set, his abilities. Go listen to some of his solo stuff, because he's just, he's amazing. In particular, he did a KEXB concert maybe two years ago or something like that with Cheryl Waters, I think her name is. And he just plays, he's there for over an hour. This is how impressive this guy is.

He sits there, he plays like two songs from the new album that he was there promoting. And then he literally just sits there for an hour after that and plays songs, audience requests. He just pulls requests out of a hat and whatever they say, he plays, either Gritar Piano. And you know, this, I mean, this guy's been writing music for the past 20 to 25 years

and, you know, between Death Cab, Postal Service and Ben Giverd's solo stuff, you know, he's rocking about 10 albums plus EPs at this point, plus just other singles. So, it's a lot of material that he's got up in his head and he was spectacular. So last night, Italia Hall, Italia Hall, Italia Hall, who knows? Yeah, pretty much the same thing.

Not audience requests, he had a set list that he was working off of, but just really, really fun to watch. The guy is just pure musical talent combined with fantastic songwriting ability and just a pretty chill concert as well. There were a couple of times when he starts playing the songs that everyone knows. So basically something from Translaticism or Plans. And you get the crowd singing and they're really awful. So that kind of hurt the vibe slightly,

but for the most part, he was, he's a chill artist and the audience was pretty chill across the board. So that was nice. But yeah, we had a lot of fun and I know I've played some Ben Gibber tunes on the podcast before, but we're going to play something he he didn't get to last night which I wish he would have

He did play a couple songs from codes and keys which is like 2011 or something and widely considered to be death caps like Just the worst thing that they've ever done And I think as a whole it is probably their worst album, but but there are still some things I like about some songs that are really good. For example, the title track is Coz and Keys, and the album version, the studio version is fine. I actually like it better than a lot of other people do, but it's still, you know, it's nothing that special. But he played it, you know, solo acoustic on the piano last night, and it was really cool. I'd never heard a version like that, because it's not, you know, it's not something you usually hear, him play or death cab play, they never play anything from this album, when you see them live,

and I've seen them live a couple of times, but he played a solo version on the piano last night that was really cool, and I liked it a lot. Which is true of the whole concert. Anyways, he's got another one from the album called What are we even playing here stay on go dancing, which I really like. So it's not gonna be not gonna be too good If you want to just fast forward for two minutes here go for it, but you know My guitar skills are certainly rusty. I think I've touched the guitar about two times this year already. So, we're just going to do our best. I played through this once this morning and I got the lyrics here

in front of me. But, you know, hopefully it goes well. We'll just see how it goes. You know, it's got some bar chords and stuff, and I'd probably do better on the piano. But here it goes, it's called Stay Young Go Dancing It's From Codes and Keys, which, again, I think it's about 2011, is when that album came out, it's something around there, I'll check after this. But here we go.

I want a two, I want a two, I want two, three, four. Life is sweet in the belly of the beast, in the belly of the beast and with her song in your hearts it can never bring you down it can never bring you down Lost in a maze of a thousand rainy days of a thousand rainy days, but when I heard her voice, oh it led me to the end, yes it led me to the end, Cause when she sings, I hear a symphony, And I'm swallowed in sound as it echoes through me underneath, Oh, how I feel alive, through winter's advance in oh stay young go dancing music plays, feel our bodies sway, when we move as one, stay young. Life is sweet in the belly of the beast, in the belly of the beast and with her song

in your heart. It can never bring you down, it can never bring you down because when she sings I hear a symphony And I'm swallowed and sound as it echoes through me underneath Oh, how I feel alive Through winters advancing Oh, stay young, go dancing, stay young, go dancing So that's how that one goes. And Ben Giverd was just awesome. He's a very, very just funny, real, down to earth guy. He told one funny joke kind of towards the beginning

as he was talking in between songs. And it was about how he's doing interview with a local paper in Chicago to kind of lead up to this series of sets that he was playing this weekend and the journalist asked him you know why he was doing a tour right now because death cab released a new music in the fall maybe like September October they released an EP but this this tour is just a solo tour about Ben Giverd. It's not really attached to anything. So in his story, he says, yeah, I didn't really have a good answer for her.

And all I really said was just because I like to play music and the crowd kind of cheers and stuff. He says, after I hung up the phone, I thought of a much better answer. And he says, I really want to prove to the world that Seth the record straight that I am about the third or fourth best player, or a guitar player, excuse me, a death cap for QD, and it was just really funny, especially considering they have one other guitarist

in the band. So a little self-deprecating humor, but very good. Love Ben Giver. So check it out. A little cover there. Can't even come close to doing his stuff justice, but it's really, really fun to play, really simple, but yeah, it's good stuff. So otherwise what I really wanted to get at today was sort of some, you know, what I've been eating, what I've been drinking in January, right? For a lot of people, it's a good time to sort of reset. You know, there's a lot of different things that people will do.

Let me get a sip of water here, we'll jump in. So I think the classic one that a lot of people subscribe to is Dry January, right? So that's where we'll start. I've been doing it for, let's see. This is either my third or fourth year. I don't recall exactly when I started it. I don't know if I did it in grad school or not, which would mean this would be my fourth year.

But yeah, so everyone's got different reasons for why they want to do dry January. And then some people have different variations on it. Some people just do it during the weekdays, but drink on Friday and Saturday nights. I think if you're really committing to do something like that and you're calling it dry January then you just gotta go the whole way.

I also know people, I've had friends and stuff who start off they're doing dry January all that stuff and then but they have kind of like an event that they know is happening coming up oftentimes just like a week or two into the month. And they say, well, I'm going to drink on this date just because it was already planned, and it's like, I have to drink.

And then that's just kind of the end of it, right? They never go back to dry January after that. Which is just kind of, you know, I'm not even sure how I feel about that. But I don't know. The thing that, for me, with that sort of thing is like, I have stuff happening this month too, stuff that's been planned. For example, a Ben Giver concert on a Saturday night,

where it's like, yeah, everyone's drinking beer, mixed drinks, whatever it's the thing to do. But I guess, I don't know, this is a little bit of a throwback for me, but I absolutely feel like I can have a good time and be social and experience the world around me in a fun, positive manner without having the alcohol thrown in. And I think if you, not to criticize, and I'm certainly not judging anyone, this is just my personal perspective in philosophy on it, and perhaps'm certainly not judging anyone. This is just my personal perspective in philosophy and perhaps inspired by the fact that Ben Gibbert

has been sober now for 15 years, something like that. If you find yourself, and if I ever found myself feeling like, and this is about as philosophical as we'll ever get here in the Beanintown podcast. But if you're a founder yourself feeling like an alcohol as an essential component of your happiness and your social life and your ability to kind of feel the emotion of joy and togetherness and comfort. It might be time to just hit reset and maybe do some re-evaluation, re-evaluation,

R-E-E-V-A-L-U-A-T-I-O-N. That's a good one. Not because I think people who feel the way I just described are alcoholics, you're not. But it's just, in for a variety of reasons, and I won't project these reasons on Tiniu and Alsal. I'll just use myself as a personal example. But if you feel like you got to have it,

then that's just you're going to be drinking a lot of alcohol. And again, not analyzing this through the lens of like all my friends are alcoholics, they're not. There's a, it's pretty easy to spot in alcoholic. But I don't think that there needs, I don't think that, you know, kind of calling this or viewing this as a black and white situation where you're either not an alcoholic or you are an alcoholic, right? That that kind of wipes away what 75% of the population I think is at and that's this aspect of social drinking. So for me, it's not a situation

where I feel like the alcohol has to be part of a social situation. So it's not really the hard reset there that I describe, but I also just find myself, or I find alcohol to be a kind of just a essential part of my day-to-day operation. That doesn't mean I'm sneak in my flasking at work. That just means you come home from work. It's a year-to-long day.

Okay, yeah, let's have a, you know, a bourbon on the rocks or something. Or you go out with friends, trivia night or something. Or you're going out on a Saturday night. You go to a Ben Gibbard concert at Tal Talia, Orthalia Hall, either one. And it's just kind of an expected part of the experience. It's really good to get away from that. And for me, the biggest thing is just again, re-evaluating this concept of being social and finding your sense of community and feeling like you belong in a place.

And trying to rediscover this idea without the kind of help or push of alcohol has been something that's been really nice And it's really kind of a throwback, right? You know everyone starts drinking at a different age. I had my first drink when I was 19 maybe Like 19 and a half maybe something like that. So everything before that right you did lots of social stuff in high school and freshman year at college and Go out and with your friends and stuff.

For me, and I know, I know I was somewhat late to the game when I first drank of alcohol, but you know, everyone experienced social things and gatherings and day-to-day life without it. We know how to do it. It's just a little bit of a kind of a throwback and a look back to what made us happy before that. And that's kind of been a theme of my January in general and in a couple of different ways. One of the other ways I've started doing some exercises on Wednesdays. So I have my workout routine that I've been on since June and I kind of shook it up a

little bit. So Wednesdays traditionally I've been lifting and then hopping on the elliptical for like 15, 20 minutes. I've changed it up now to where I'm still lifting the first half of my workout, but then I'm doing exercises in the studio, which is kind of across the hallway from the gym. It just looks like a, you know, a dance studio or something, but they got mats and stuff in there, so you can do exercises. In high school swimming, we would refer to them as dryland exercises, which you do on the side of the pool, as you would expect, dryland, not in the water.

Things like push-ups and crunches and flutter kicks and all that kind of stuff, right? It's a lot of core workouts mainly, core and kind of thigh stuff. So I've been doing that on Wednesdays and right, we're literally, I mean, it's just push-ups, planks, and a couple of other exercise. And it's pretty short in general. I'm doing on some of lunch break, which I only have a certain amount of time for. But as I digress here and ramble like crazy,

the kind of throwback to what worked in the past has been a theme of this and kind of all ties into dry January for me. So I can honestly say that it has not been a problem. And I don't know if it's just because I am so used to it at this point, the mental aspect of it because this isn't my first rodeo. I've been doing it for a while. Or if it's, and it's probably a combination of all these things, but also January, and different people have different thoughts

on this idea of how January sort of influences your personal life, your emotions, your happiness, that sort of thing, because there are a couple different sites to this one side, and this is how I typically feel is that. January is like the worst month out of the year, because you get the cold, you get the snow aspect, but you don't have sort of the holiday magical aspect, or the charm aspect, it's just everything's kind of gray,

and all the celebration and the fun stuff of December is past, and now you're just in this long slog through winter. kind of gray and all the celebration and the fun stuff of December is passed. And now you're just in this long slog through winter. So for me, that means I end up spending a lot more time just kind of on the couch by myself, not making an effort to go out as much. That's traditionally the way I view it. Now, to be honest, it's actually been the opposite this month. I've been really busy with

between social stuff, hanging out with friends, catching up with old friends that I haven't seen in a while. I've been able to do that. Work has been pretty busy this month, but then also some side hustle stuff between focus groups and just a couple other things that I got going on and just time spent on public transportation. It's actually been a really busy month for me. This past week, I had I think four nights counting last night where I didn't get back to my apartment

till after 11. And then you have to eat dinner on each of those nights, which I'm going to talk about, diet in one second here. But the other aspect of it is people, and I know a lot of people who feel this way as well, and this isn't traditionally how I feel, but it's like there's nothing else to do in January, it's so cold, there isn't really anything going on,

per se, so we're just gonna drink to make January pass. I understand that perspective, that viewpoint, but I personally never felt that way. So even though I've been really social, I've been going out, you know, trivia nights, play trivia two or three times this month, and hung out with a lot of friends. Excuse me, after work, and that sort of stuff. But I've never, you know, I've never, like, even when you're in a bar setting. I don't feel the pressure to be like, oh man, I'm so close to the alcohol. Like, I, maybe I just have one. Like, I think I have a somewhat temptation like personality slash addictive personality with some things, but I'm, you know, it's typically more like food.

I don't seem to have that problem with alcohol. with some things, but I'm, you know, it's typically more like food. I don't seem to have that problem with alcohol. And I even, you know, it's not like, you know, I know some people do dry January and they feel like they gotta just empty the fridge, clear out all the alcohol, the beer, like you can't have that in the house. I have a can of old style in my fridge.

I've had half a bottle of whiskey on my countertop the whole month. When Walt was here earlier this month, I got beer for him and he was drinking it while we were hanging out at home. It's just like, I don't know, I guess it's a blessing and I don't know if it's something that's hardwired into me or if it's or hand just so used to it at this point because I've done dry January a couple of times now, but yeah, it really hasn't been a tough thing for me. It's January 26th. It's gonna be easy to just fly through the rest of the month.

I mean, tomorrow I got a flight at night to Atlanta, and I don't drink when I fly typically. And then Tuesday Wednesday Thursday, I'll be on the road for work, which oftentimes I'll have beers when I'm out, travel and for work, but I got a lot of driving to do in this particular trip. So I'm gonna be driving all over Alabama

and that's not really conducive to having drinks. And then Friday night, I got another flight to Austin. So I just mentioned I don't really drink when I fly. That'll be the case on Friday night, I got another flight to Austin. So I just mentioned I don't really drink when I fly, that'll be the case on Friday night. So, and then next thing, you know, it's Saturday, February 1st. And I don't be surprised if I just kind of ride this dry January wave and let it keep going.

You know, I haven't thought about that too much, but I frankly don't miss the alcohol too much at all, which is great. So what I'm going to do right now is read a couple ads, and then we're going to talk about my 18-to-6 intermittent fasting right now. I've done a lot of fasting in the past, and in fact you wrote a bean-town blog about that, which I'm going to highlight in one second here, but first we'll read some ads. All right, home pride, Oregon.

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awfully impressive every Sunday morning. One of these days, in 2020, you're through the podcast. We're gonna do a full feature on a family chat. Because I think it's something that I talk about a decent amount with friends, not necessarily in the podcast, but just as kind of a cultural

concept, I discuss it a solid amount, but we've never done a full feature about it on the Beentown podcast. So we're gonna do that at some point this year. You got that to look forward to But now it's you know, it's on minute 30 of our award-winning podcast, Quinn de Vifference, presents the Bean Sound Podcast. So thank you to Samson, Q2U series from Genesis Dexida, from Genesis Dexida, Ludovicus Numbers, Deuteronomy, Zachariah Malachi and Obadiah. Number Jeff Bridges playing Obadiah Stain? What I name?

Obadiah Stain in the original Iron Man. This is funny. Briefly, I mentioned this, and then we'll finish up the tagline. I was on Hinge the other day, you know, swipe, swipe, swipe. And one of the girls mentioned that like her favorite thing is Marvel movies or something like that, I remember. And you know, how these young people are, they're only thinking, you know, MCU, Marvel Cinematic Universe,

which started with Iron Man back in 2008, I think. Oh, by the way, I checked, Codes and Keys is 2011. So, spot on with that one. And I pretty positive Iron Man is 2008. But, you know, they don't know about any of the movies before that, any of the Marvel movies before this. They're not part of the Robert Donny Jr. Chris Evans, whatever universe of Marvel,

the new Spider-Man, all that stuff. So, I said, yeah, that Howard the Duck movie from the 1980s is one of my favorites. And if you don't know the movie, it's really trippy, but there's a great scene where he's shred in the guitar soul. You gotta go check it out. She hasn't responded yet. So probably doesn't even know who Howard the Duck is.

What is shame? The young people these days, like lost sheep, but going back to where we were, remember when God speaks, he uses a shame. The young people these days like lost sheep. But going back to where we were, remember when God speaks, He uses a Samson. A quick shout out to Jack Lynx, beef jerky located up there in Wisconsin. This is a big throwback, but about seven, eight months ago, attended my cousin Jake's wedding and my uncle Andy who's been featured on the podcast before and we'll get him back on this year for something.

Handed out a bunch of Jake links, Jack links, temporary tattoos and I've just had them sitting on my desk in the apartment here for six or seven months. And I don't know, I was just two on around last weekend, I think on Sunday, so we could go today. And I decided to just throw one on, you know, just for fun, you know. Sometimes I like to have fun. And I put it right on the inside of my wrist here,

pretty much even with the veins and the arteries, that sort of thing. And it's hung on pretty well. Considering I take two showers a day, one in the morning before work, and then one after my workout in the middle of the day, that's a lot of sweat, a lot of scrubbing, and a lot of that sort of thing. It's still, I'd say, it's about 25 to 30% still on, which is very impressive. And usually these fake tattoos, these temporary tattoos will not last very long.

But that's that Jack Link's quality that I can speak to. So again, Jack Link's, we'd love to be a partner with you in the advertising process. Give us a call, or you can give us a email message at beantownpodcast.yahoo.com, and this beantown, B-A-N-T-N-Ppodcast, atyahoo.com. And just that made me think of this real quick before we finish up our ads. If you listened to last week's episode, there's a lot I could say about it, because I did listen to it. I think on Thursday night or something, or Monday night,

or remember, I did listen to the last episode for the first time ever. So I experienced all the cringe, all the pain that you all experienced were in this together, but I did recall that when I read out the email address, I was very clear, read every letter. That was probably your last chance you've ever had to actually understand what I'm trying to say

when I read out our email address. But thanks for those of you who actually did tough it out, listen to that whole thing because it's really bad. And now you'll know what you're missing. So if you ever, you heard us mention it and you were like, oh, he's probably just, he's being whatever the word is I'm looking for.

It's probably not that bad. He's probably just embarrassed, whatever. And now you realize just how awful it is. Now we're all on the same page, okay? And we're all at peace with the situation. So no more complaining about, let's hear the last episode because it's, again, when you consider the quality control I have with this podcast and just the lowest of

low standards for my product, you know it's got to be real bad, real rough for me to just scrap an entire episode because I don't even really want to do the podcast, Tbh, I just feel like I started now and I can't really stop. So to spend an entire extra 30 to 45 minutes, re-recording a new episode should tell you just how low I think of the quality of that particular installment. But it's out now. There are no more secrets, right? I don't have any other lost material.

There isn't any good like deleted scenes or behind the scenes type of footage. What you see weekend, week out is what you get from bean town. And so we're just clearing the air on that. But let's finish up our ads here, and then we're going to talk about intermittent fasting real quick. And then we'll finish up probably around 45 minutes or so. Cuts by Q. Bob and weave.

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or some sort of like jazz improvisation with Bongoongos on the cuts by Q-themed. You know what, you know, a bunch of those old classical composers, some of their big hits were like theme and variations where you just take one simple little tune and then you turn it into a whole masterpiece that's like 12 minutes long. I don't know. I think we got some things to think about here. I'm considering buying a piano. I've got the money for it.

Paid off my Hawaii trip, all that good stuff, and got some funds left over from the side hustles between focus groups and consulting and some software testing I've been doing, which is interesting, something new every day. But I also, and I think I mentioned this in passing before on the podcast, looking, not really looking, but something that's been on my radar for a while is ticket flipping, which is kind of just like glorified scalping.

But essentially, you buy tickets for any concert you want, and you have to do research to figure out what you want to do. But for at kind of the lowest possible price, and then you turn around, and you flip them for a higher price, that's it. It's that simple. I've never really done it. You read about people on the internet who are really

dedicated, organized, and they make a couple grand a month doing it. It's all about using your credit cards like pre-sale offers and getting in on kind of advanced ticket sales, that sort of thing, which this is very exciting and the last thing I'll mention here before we jump into the diet that I'm on right now. The Fertelies announced a small North American tour. Hopefully, means they got an album. Well, they have an album that's dropping.

We're just waiting for the first single, which is really exciting. This is their sixth album. Let's see, they got Castello music. Here we stand. We need medicine. Eyes wide tongue tied in your own sweet time. That's five. So this is gonna be six and the title is out It's really long. I don't remember what it is But they're coming to Chicago. They're playing at Metro or I've actually seen them at Metro before so this will be

Exciting this will be my fourth or fifth time seeing them in concert But when so they they tickets went on sale Friday at 10 a.m. and I was all over that, right? I bought tickets at like 10.02, but you could buy four in an order and I don't have three other people that I'm going with. I might, you know, take somebody else or ask somebody else if they want to go, but I don't have friends who are big for Telly's fans. So worst case scenario, I buy these tickets for 30 bucks a pop, turn around in April or something, May, as a concert gets closer, I can sum on stuff up for 50 or something and make, you know, easily make 50 or 60 bucks total off of this. So again, right, it's small money. But, you know, when you, when you're working in higher ed and you're doing a bunch of side hustles,

everything you do for the most part is going to be kind of small lump sums, but if you stick with it, if you're dedicated, it builds up, you invest that stuff, and next thing you know, you're in much better shape than a lot of people. So that's my kind of personal financial strategy. But last thing I want to get into on the podcast here today, we've already talked about Dry January quite a bit and even got a little more deep, serious philosophical for you. This hasn't been a very comedic episode in any way,

which hopefully you're okay. It's kind of a change up. And you know, that's not something new for this show. We've been known to alternate between comedy and serious stuff here and there, all from the mind of yours truly, Quinty with Furnace. But I, dieting is, that term can mean a million different things, right? I don't do New Year's resolutions, but I knew that, so ever since I moved to Chicago

in June, my diet actually hasn't been that bad, but my biggest thing has been, I kind of do a good job across the board. I'm solid, like Monday through Thursday and sometimes Friday. But I turn into a total weekend warrior where I kind of just eat, and drink whatever I want, basically Friday night through Friday night through all of Sunday, which I think I'd just been lying to myself for a while, time myself what I was doing was good,

because I was doing such a good job, quote unquote, on the weekdays that I could kind of just do whatever I wanted on the weekends. But in your classic diet, you got one cheat day. I was basically taking two and a half cheat days. So even though I was, you know, my, since I moved back to Chicago, my workout plan has been pretty good. I've been, we're gonna work out five or six days a week traditionally. You know, I just wasn't losing any weight really, which makes sense considering, you know, just eight without any regard for health

or anything on the weekends and just drink a decent amount, you know. Not actually that much, but just consistently a little bit here and there. It adds up. So my new plan for January has just sort of been an increased dedication to the healthy eating on the weekdays and with a kind of a new strategy I'll tell you about one second But I also just know I got to be better in the weekends This there's there's a balance here, right? Because I'm never gonna be a person or I don't want to ever be the person. It's just like

70s a week hard core strict diet never have carbs in the weekends. Like, it's just, I think I could get into the habit of that. In fact, I feel kind of close to being there right now. But I just, I get so much enjoyment from food that I just wouldn't want to deprive myself of that, those kind of simple pleasures. It's just scaling back the quantity a little bit and just trying to avoid the Friday, Saturday, Sunday night, just awful meals, like eating entire pizza or something.

Just trying to avoid those big hits, utilizing the grocery store more for rotisserie chickens, but then also like a weekend dinner meal where I don't have anything cooked. I need something so instead of going to Domino's and grabbing a pizza, going to the grocery store, understanding, okay, I'm gonna have to do a little bit of cooking probably unless you get a rotisserie chicken, which I'll do sometimes.

But doing something as simple as ground turkey, some peas, and some parogi, right? So it's still not that healthy because the parogi is just straight carbs. But all it takes is boil some water for the peas, throw the ground beef on the stove, boil some more water for the parogi, and that's it. So it's really not a ton of cooking, and frankly, it's not what I would call a healthy meal,

but it's so much better for you. So trying to aim for things like that on weekends, and what I've been doing weekdays and trying to do it a little bit on the weekends, it's never quite as strict, because it's just tough to do on the weekends and I guess I'm weak or whatever you want to call it but 18 to 6 intermittent fasting so

I've experimented with a lot of different types of fast fasting in the past in fact this week on our bean-town blog We uploaded a new post which is a story that some people have probably known about, but I don't think anyone's ever been told the kind of greedy details of the time that I lost a bet in college and I fasted for seven days, just water that was it. If you haven't read it, go to beanentownPodcast.com and click on the blog link and you'll read it right there. It's a top post. It takes about five to seven minutes to read depending on your speed. But if you ever wanted to hear about Quinn David Furnace not having food for seven straight days, it's there and every ounce of it is true.

I went a couple months when I lived in Baltimore. This was definitely a fad that never really stuck and I never really liked it, to be honest. And I don't remember why I started doing it. It just happened where I would fast on Mondays. Fast Mondays is what they were known as. And I would just have water and coffee. And I never really liked that. It just didn't, something about it wasn't right for me.

Which makes it even more impressive, you know, there's something called a five to two fasting plan, which is where some people, the hardcore people eat five days, pretty much whatever they want. And then they just straight up don't eat two days out of the week, not back to back, but they're staggered throughout the week and kind of the more traditional setup is you only have five or six hundred calories on those days which I think I could manage but that's just yeah to me that's just that's really extreme. So what I've been on this month is 18 to six

fasting which is what it sounds like you take 18 hours away from food and six hours window where you can't have food. So my weekday setup this month has been nothing in the mornings, which isn't that different from my traditional breakfast of an apple as I'm walking to the train. So you just cut that out, drink a little bit more water. I don't miss it really. Have some coffee when'm walking to the train. So you just cut that out, drink a little bit more water. I don't miss it really.

Have some coffee when I get into the office. And then from there, it's pretty much the same from what I was normally doing, because I always work out sometime in the kind of one or two PM hour, come back, eat my lunch at my desk. I've changed it up my lunch. This month has been carrots and hummus, and then I just saute chicken over the stove top,

cut up cubed chicken, and then I throw it all into a top work container, and then I just kind of work on that throughout the week. So it's like a five, 600 calorie lunch, something like that. That's what I've been doing for lunch around two or three p.m. And then around six or seven p.m. Sometimes it's the latest eight p.m. And then this week was bad because I had so many nights I didn't get home till like 11 so I had to have dinner then.

So I didn't do a great job of keeping the 18 to six going this week. It was closer to 16 to eight. But I try not to beat myself up if the calorie amounts are the same, and I'm not splurging on really bad food. But you eat that dinner meal, hopefully, around 7 pm, something like that, and then you're good to go until 2 or 3 pm the next day. It hasn't been that bad for me if you've never tried it, but you're curious, I'd say what the reason it works for me is one, I drink a ton of water,

because you need it. If you don't drink as much water as you're supposed to, you're gonna feel really hungry right away in the morning, and then it's gonna be miserable to make it, the first eight hours of the day or something. It's gonna be really hard. So you gotta drink a lot of water. Coffee tends to help kind of calm my appetite.

So if it ever was like noon or something and I wasn't gonna work out for another hour or two hours and I was feeling that hunger come on, I might have a second cup of coffee because that will do the trick for me. And then I get people who ask, I was talking to my boss about this yesterday, he had a work event, and she asked me,

how do you run, or how do you work out an empty stomach? And the only way I could really think to answer that was, I can't imagine working out or running not on an empty stomach. I can't work out or run if I've had food, you know, three to four hours, minimum, before my workout, I feel like absolute trash. I just feel all the contents of what I ate swirl and it's sloshing around and it's not very fun. So I have to work out and empty stomach. Even when I, you know, have run a couple of marathons now, I think I had like a banana two hours

before race time and then water and that's it. That's all I can really manage. So, it's really not too bad because then you finish your workout, you get a shower and then you get to eat right there. It's perfect. I'm not even usually super hungry right after my workout because, and I think this happens with a lot of people. My workout doesn't make, you know, it's not like you finish your workout and you're like, ah, I'm ravenous.

It's like, okay, there's something about that. I don't know if it has to do with your muscles, constricting your stomach or something where it kind of calms your hunger for a little bit. Now, you know, two hours after if you don't eat, you're gonna start feeling it. But right after, immediately after, for the first 30 to 45 minutes, I'm not actually hungry. But I get that lunch in there anyways. So that's what my 18 to 6 looks like.

And again, it's not always perfect. On the weekends, it's a little bit more challenging. If you wanna have breakfast or brunch and be social with it, if that's happened at 10 or 11, then I'm not the type of person who can eat dinner at four or five regardless. I'm almost exclusively more of a seven or 8 pm eater. So oftentimes in the weekend, it stretches out more to 16 to 8.

But again, I think for me, as long as you're being careful with the calories and Hopefully not too many carbs Then it's not the end of the world, right? If you stretch it out in extra two hours or something as long as you're able to get back on the 18 to 6 grind On Monday morning, which is what we're gonna try to do Try to do this week. We're gonna be in Alabama Tuesday We'll fly out fly out to Atlanta Monday night then we're in Alabama Tuesday through Thursday and then we're going to be in Austin with Brother Walt

on Saturday. I'm there for like 36 hours Friday night to very early Sunday morning and then Super Bowl Sunday. So that's what's coming up. Busy, busy week for me, traveling. And if anyone has any survival tips for Alabama, let's hear them. You know, I've been there a couple of times in my life, but this will be my first time ever to both Tuskegee and Tuscaloosa going to the Tuskegee University and the University of Alabama. Roll tide. Roll tide. University and the University of Alabama, Roll Tide. Roll Tide. Oh, God, give me strength. Okay, that's what I got for you. I went a little bit longer than I wanted to, but, you know, apologies, they're pretty serious podcasts today, but hopefully some good insights into how my month of January has been going

from an eating, dieting, and dry January perspective. And it's what I've spent a lot of time thinking about. So if you have any questions, comments, concerns, you know where to reach us, tweet at us, we're at Bean Town Cast and we would love the year for Mia. Thanks to Ben Gibber again, not for coming on the show but for coming to Chicago and he's got another set tonight at Talia and Thalia Hall, both places at once which is pretty impressive. Thank you for blessing us with your music. And if you don't know Ben Gibberd, his music or just his story, go check him out, because

he's just a really fantastic genuine person. So, that's what we got for you. We're going to load up some music here, courtesy of yours truly. And then, you know, we'll come to you next week and we capture that Oscars. Gotta get Ryan Austin looking back on the podcast, Ryan Austin English Apologies. Okay that's what we got for everyone and have a safe week be nice to each other and you know take it easy. Bye nd 1.5% de rupo 1.5% de rupo 1.5% de rupo

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