Beantown Podcast - [GRANDMA SAL ALERT] 04152018_Quinn David Furness presents the Beantown Podcast

Episode Date: April 15, 2018

Quinn sits down with Grandma Sal to discuss stamping, China, and the future of homemade cards

I'm free to be whatever I, whatever I choose to now sing the blues of I want I'm free to say whatever I like If it's wrong or right, it's all right I wish it seems to me The only thing I see when people want you to see How long's it gonna be? Forget on the bus and cars no bus get a grip on yourself But don't cost much free To be whatever you use

Whatever you say if it comes no way it's alright You're free to be wherever you Wherever you please so you can't shoot the breeze if you want Always seems to me You only see what people want you to see How long's it gonna be? If I'll get all the bus and cars Now if I'll get a grip on yourself

I don't cost much, please Be wherever I am Wherever I choose to now sing the things that I want You in my mind, you know you might find something that you thought you would snoo and now it's all wrong, and you know it's all gone I'm free to be whatever I Whatever I choose and I'll sing the piece if I want Whatever you do, whatever you say Yeah, I know it's alright Whatever you do, whatever you say, and know it's alright

All the young blues can't read the news Hey, hey, welcome. One, welcome, two, welcome three, and welcome all to the bean town podcast for Sunday the Lord's Day April 15th 2018 how are you what's going on this is Quinn David Furness and we are checking on in on you live from 817 St. Paul Street in Cloudy, Misty, Beentown, USA, or it was a scorching 83 degrees yesterday. It has since cooled down a little bit. They walked out of, so I was hanging out last night down in Canton, down by the waterfront,

and I totally had my, you know, calling by your name look going. I got the button down, like the top three buttons are done, you know, getting some of that Gaston chest hair pouring out. I got the shorts going on, felt great, having some drinks, live in, laugh in, loving. She's just a woman. I woke up this morning and yeah it was a little bit chilly. My shorts and my sexy shirt weren't quite cutting it. But as my beautiful mother, Jane Dinesden Furnace would always say

it is better to look good than to feel good and I truly take that to heart. How are you? What's going on? Thanks for checking out my podcast. Please like us on Facebook, like us, follow us on Twitter, be at beantowncasts, we're on Soundcloud, we're on iTunes, we're everywhere that you want to listen to your podcast. If you like us, show us to your friends, give us a listen. I've heard that we're getting better each episode. So yeah, we're doing that.

Got a couple things to jump into before we go in here today with the main theme, which I know you all, the main act which you've all been looking forward to, which is my grandmother we're going to get to that in one second here, but first and foremost, listener discretion is advised when listening to the bean town podcast. First, we drop the occasional profanity here and there, so you've got to watch out for that. And second, So you got to watch out for that. And second, the podcast is just objectively terrible. So that's, consider yourself warned. That was the first thing I wanted to put out there.

The second thing I know I've mentioned that we are going to Boston, Cinco de Mayo to do a podcast out there. Bean Town's hitting the road. But we are actually adding a second stop to the road trip. It's actually taking place the weekend before. So in two weeks, Bean Town officially hits the road. We're going to Memphis, Tennessee, to do a podcast down by the Mississippi,

just like Mark Twain used to write life on the Mississippi. It's going to be fun, we're excited, we're doing that. Not next weekend, but the weekend after we're hitting the road to go to Memphis, and then after that, as promised, we will be in Boston, Massachusetts to do a podcast up there. We're going to be doing some work with Ryan Liggan in Christian English. Their Karek Convo's podcast is pretty sick lit fire. Check that out. You can like them on Facebook, they're on Instagram. I'm not even on Instagram. I can't catch up with these guys. Maybe they're on Twitter. I'm not

sure. I might have them there. But check them out on YouTube, check them out on SoundCloud. That's that's good stuff. They put out some quality content. They've put out three episodes in the last seven or eight days alone. So I've got some catch up to do with my listening there. But work has been so crazy that, and I'm not technologically advanced enough to be having the podcast going in the car. Well, I'm going, although I suppose, you know, if you're on iTunes, I can download it onto my phone. There's some big news for you, too. I have purchased a new phone.

It has not arrived in the mail yet, but I've had my iPhone 5C in my first ever smartphone for many years now. Honestly, it's kind of glitchy here and there, but it's still serving its purpose. The big problem is charging. It can be really finicky with the charging. I think the port is damaged. I know all about the lint and the charging port thing. I've taken care of all that. Yeah, basically nothing's working at this point. So I shulled out, you know, 500 bucks for a refurbished seven.

It would be another, you know, hundred and 120 bucks for Apple care for two years. But I think it's worth it. We're going from eight gigs of storage to 32 gigs, which might not seem like it makes a big difference if you've been, you know, living the 32 or the 64 gig life, your whole smartphone career. But for me, when it's a pain to have 76 or 77 photos on your phone and I don't even have Instagram, Twitter

or Facebook on my phone, it's gonna be a big upgrade and it seems kind of silly, but I do think it's going to improve my quality of life. Not having to stress. Every time I need to charge my phone, the last couple of weeks or so, it's been a stress. You try to get in the right position. Sometimes it goes off without a hitch. Sometimes you're just sitting there bewildered as you watch your battery drain and you can't charge your phone. That's not a good feeling. So anyways, enough of the rambling. I know everyone who's here is here for one reason. And that is because my grandma's cell is about to join us on

the podcast. We're really excited to have her on. We're going to be talking about stamping for the next 10 or 15, maybe even 20-ish minutes or so here. And then we'll close out with the song and that will be the podcast. It's pretty mellow, but that's okay. We're not looking to do anything too crazy or too wild on this podcast. We'll have plenty other ones where we can indulge in that behavior. But let's do a little phone or friend action here. Pretend I'm Regis and we'll try to get my grandma on the phone.

This is all happening live. So we're going fingers crossed. That grandma's going to pick up. If she doesn't, then I'm going to have to vamp a little bit more. And who knows, I might end up playing Ois for the next two hours until she calls back so we're gonna go fingers crossed that this is that this is gonna go off well and yeah let's let's give her a ring and we will let's see how this goes all right we are ringing this is all happening live. This is very exciting for our podcast. Hi, grandma. It's Quinn. How are you? I'm doing very well.

Thank you. You're live on the bean town podcast. Yeah, well, we're jumping right in, so we were playing a song, and then we were giving some updates for the schedule because we're going on the road in a couple of weeks here to Memphis and Boston to do some podcasts. So it's very exciting, but yeah, how does it feel to be on live air? It's scary. I know, I'm scared too, but it's okay, because we're doing it and it's fun. Did you get the questions that I sent you the other day?

Did you? Thank you. Okay, yeah, I sent it on Friday the 13th, so hopefully there was no bad luck in the email but yeah How was your time with your friend? That's good. How do you like the city of Houston? I don't know

it very well. Not particularly well. It's very spread out. Yeah. Yeah. It's hard to navigate, I think. Yeah. That's what I've heard. Sure. Sure. Absolutely. Well, well, thank you for coming on the podcast and I know I promise I won't take up too much of your time because I know your schedule is very tight. And you probably have lots of other podcasts to do today. So I won't take up too much of your time. But let's go ahead and jump in. So we're talking about stamping today.

I know you like to make cards and you're very crafty and I didn't get any of those jeans handed down to me so I'm pretty jealous of your your skills and abilities but the first question is just how did you first become interested or how long have you you been stamping and making cards. Well, I first became interested in 1994 when Grandpa retired and we started going to San Diego. And I will say at this point San Diego California because your listeners might not know that there's a San Diego text that's also. I didn't even know that. We have very close to the 50 Texas population of 5,000. When you're talking San Diego along here, you have to be sure to say San Diego California.

Sure. So, we started going in 1994 and while in the winter, just a four months to get out of the Minnesota cold, and while we were there I discovered that their community at was totally free and they had an entire book of classes in Patate and one of them was reading card making. So I went to the first class which was held in a church. It was once a week on Wednesdays for two hours and I continued to go to that class for the whole 10 years that we went to San Diego, California. Wow. And that's where I learned everything that I knew about stamping. It was just starting, just starting to get me. So you became a regular at this class, you would probably walk in and they'd be like, hey, Sal, we got your order already, yeah, exactly.

I was 15 and I left that went every week and of course I missed them, they went year long and I only got to go four months off of the year. Sure. It was always so much fun to come back and see them all, yeah. Yeah, absolutely. Wow, that's really interesting. This is all stuff that I didn't even know, So I'm really happy that we're talking about this. So I know that that you like to go to

stamping shows and I've I've heard rumors of a stamping cruise. I don't know how true that is but tell us a little bit about some of the the shows that you go to and or conventions and what those are like. Back in the days when I was first getting started, there were many many stamping stores that you could go to and a stamping cruise that actually Grandpa and I and Auntie Stacy went on one time that went from And then, I think, I think, L.A. down into Mexico, for their crews, where we just stamped and made cards all day long. And those days have kind of changed a little bit. And with the essence of the internet, the internet doesn't everybody. And it also doesn't just stamp me.

And so people have come on the internet now as my guru called Jennifer McGuire, and she and many, many other people do classes on the internet and to see what's on a video, probably about three times a week for things that you can do? So, stamping shows have kind of gone by the wayside, although there is one that's still continuous and comes around about once a year to Minneapolis and I go and I work at it sometimes. So, I'm letting people in the door checking their wristbands, helping people better teaching and classes at the shows. And so there is still the one big one, but nothing like there used to be back in the old place before it's more time to the internet.

Yeah, I'm glad you brought that up because one of the questions I had was the internet. Yeah, I'm glad you brought that up, because one of the questions I had was the internet and the postal service, all that stuff has changed a lot in the past 10 or 20 years. So I feel like sending cards is something that you don't see as much these days, but you always still send me birthday cards and Christmas cards. and I have my Easter one and my Valentine's Day up on my fridge right now. So do you think people are still going

to be sending cards in the distant future? Do you think that that's slowly dying or do you think that they're still going to be a contingency of people who can continue to do it? I think the store bought carts are going by the wayside. Sure. Maybe to hand it to a friend, but not so much straight through the mail. I think handmade carts will continue. I don't think I never realized how big stamping

was in foreign countries. For example, England, France, until I got on the internet, on Facebook, particularly on a site called Unbranded Stamping Dies. stamping dies and here's some people all over the world that are into stamping and and dies. We haven't even you and I haven't even gotten into cutting dies. We're invented probably, yes, in the last 10 years. They're made of little metal. They go through a machine called a paddle bug, although there are many, many machines now, but that was the first one called a kettle bug. You wind it through on plastic plates and it cuts out whatever you want to put on your part. So you don't always just

have to stamp anymore. You can make these, these little paper guys and put them on your parts. And that's a real big thing. And that brings us to another huge advant in the stamping shows. And that is dyes from China. We all know that just all everything is made in China. And stamping dyes are no different. And now you can buy them directly from China.

From a huge company, kind of the Amazon of China called Alibaba. And they sell everything that Amazon sells, but they also sell stamping dies. Now if I can buy stamping dies from China for $2.94, that's going to cost me $20 if I go through the internet. The same thing. What do I do? I want to keep my Guru Jennifer in business. But I also want to save money. It's a dilemma. And a lot of people are facing that. And a lot of stamping companies

and cutting guys companies are wondering what they're going to do about it. Yeah, absolutely. I think that's emblematic of a larger economic issue that's been happening for a long time now with China. Yeah, I know our president likes to talk about how badly we're losing to China. And it's pretty funny when he says it, but I think he has some interesting points regarding that issue. Yeah. Do you have any favorite or memorable cards or projects that you've made ever since you started getting to stamping? I guess the one that comes to mind right now is the one I sent you for your birthday.

Ooh, that was a good one. Yeah, that was a great one. That guy was invented by a gentleman named Tim Holtz. And I first saw him probably ten years ago, had a big stamp and show it to all of America and Minneapolis. And he was just up in the third floor, and he had a table out where people could gather around. And no one had ever heard of Tim Holtz. And now he's huge.

And he travels all over the world. And he has a huge company called Ranger Industries. And I'm sure he's a multimillionaire in the stamping business. So that's one of my favorites, anything that Tim holds produces is my favorite. Absolutely. Yeah, they're so cool. I like when my friends come over to my apartment,

I can show them all the cards that you send me because they're always so amazed. And I like to say that that's my grandma. So, yeah. Absolutely. Yeah, you're more popular than I am among my friends, but at least when it comes to stamping, for sure. Yeah.

Well, this, so we're getting towards the end here. This next question isn't necessarily related to stamping unless you want it to be. But what advice do you have for young people, like myself, who are early mid 20s, who are out of college or grad school, that's just kind of getting going in life? Well, I guess my big thing would be, and I don't have to tell you, you grandchildren,

this is because you already know it, but travel, travel all you can, go every place that you can, go to foreign countries, go to the US, go everywhere, because that's how you learn so much. We started out the very first place we ever went was to Pan when Grandpa was a resident of Rotary and we went to Pan for the International Convention. And a lot of times we felt like putting afford to go where we were going, but we went anyway. And I guess that's it. There are lots of things that spend money on these days, but my advice would be travel.

Sure. You've been to all 50 states, right? Certainly. Do you know how old you were when you hit number 50? I know why sure, don't. OK. Probably like 16. Yeah. Do you know how many countries you've you've been to? Probably probably closer to I don't know 60 or 70 you've been all over the place and you you're at six continents right everything except for Antarctica. Well, I think maybe next year you should do one of those Antarctic cruises instead of Italy and the Mediterranean,

you should just go down and check it off your list. Pretty casual. So it'll be just like in the old days, when the explorers would go around the Cape Horn in South America and they go all the way around the tip you could do one of those cruises. It would be like a conquistador reenactment trip. I don't know. I would be I would be a fan of that. Well, do you have any last parting thoughts for the podcast? I don't. I think it's a fun thing that you're doing and I'm glad that you included me. Yeah. I've enjoyed doing it. I'm not nearly so scared now.

Well, I've been trying to tap into the 80 to 89-year-old demographic for at least two or three weeks now. So I think this is really going to do big things for the podcast. And Jack was on last week, and that was one of the most highly reviewed podcasts that we've had yet. So I think it's... It's good if you're looking to help yourself fall asleep because we were both really tired and we played a game of Cribbage for about 45 minutes over the podcast and that's about as exciting as it got but yeah

It was it was a good time. He was here for a couple days and we got to do some fun things so yeah Yeah, it was a good time. Well, how much longer are you in Texas for? Well, be here. We're leaving truly some to know. But I'm not sure it's safe to go home. They still miss someone, Minnesota. I have a friend. So you're with their life.

Well, so I have a friend who was doing some work events in Minneapolis this weekend. And I think that they might have had to cancel because I was looking at her videos that she sent. And the snow was crazy. And I know the twins have had to cancel, I think, three games in a row now against the White Sox because it's been so cold.

So yeah, we haven't gone as crazy here. I was in Pittsburgh last weekend and it snowed multiple days there, but it wasn't like crazy snowstorm blizzier. It was just kind of gross and yucky stuff. And then yesterday out here, it was about 80 to 85 degrees. It was it was about 80 to 85 degrees. It was it was really crazy. I know yeah it was it just kind of came out of nowhere and then this morning it's

about mid 40s and and kind of raining so not quite as nice but I think it's I think this next week is supposed to be about mid 60s and kind of raining here and there, but as long as it's not in the 30s and 40s, I can handle it. So yeah. The big thing that's going on here is we can this so mean celebration. Ah, sure. You know, Selina Hayed, I do. I do. The people are there, it's not a hotel, but the town. I know that she's big there and there's a statue.

Is Corpus Christi her hometown? Yes. That makes sense. Yeah, no, she was, I think she, she kind of had her, you know, her popularity before I ever really knew what was happening in pop music and then, you know, she died. I don't know. I don't know how long ago, but yeah, so I don't know her super well, but I am familiar with with her and I know she's big, you know, down by you guys. Yeah. Definitely all over the country, just people are here from many, many states.

Sure, sure. Yeah, yeah. Well, thank you so much for coming on. This was really cool and I'm glad we were able to do this. How is... You were inviting to do this. How is... You were inviting me. Yeah. It was honored.

How is Grandpa doing? He's doing just fine. That's good. I think he's just sitting here, reading his paper. Excellent. He's doing really well. We're getting ages. We're going on that cruise.

You know, on the 12th of June. So we're getting all ready for that. Yeah. You guys are going to have an exciting summer. You're going on a cruise and you're coming to Vancouver. So yeah, it'll be a good time. I guess I forgot to mention about the bluegrass cruise that we go on. That doesn't have anything to do with stamping, but it's one of the big things on idolized. It's the bluegrass music. You can think of a lot of bluegrass crews every January. So I'm going to all bluegrass bands. Does, uh, really enjoy.

Do, do, little Roy and, and Lizzie ever come on? Yes. Oh, man. They're, they're pretty funny. They're, they're comical and entertaining to watch. Yeah. Great. Well, comical and entertaining to watch. Yeah. Great. Well, thank you again for coming on.

I really appreciate it. And I will definitely send you the link to the podcast when we get it up. And you'll be able to listen to yourself for the rest of your life. So yeah. I will say you to live in 28, if you believe it is. Yeah, it's only three months away now. So I'm looking forward to it. Yeah. I will see you July the 28th, if you believe it is.

Yeah, it's only three months away now. So I'm looking forward to it. The sort of the busiest, this is my busiest month of work. And then once, you know, May hits, I'm still traveling a decent amount, but it's just kind of quiet down a little bit. So I'm looking forward to actually getting to take a vacation and not having to, you know, talk to high school kids and their counselors while I'm looking forward to actually getting to take a vacation and not having to talk to high school kids and their counselors while I'm traveling. So yeah.

And you're going to Alaska first. Yep, Walton, Jack and I are going to Anchorage and Denali for about four or five days. And then we're heading down to Vancouver and spending a week there. So yeah, looking forward to it. and then we're heading down to Vancouver and spending a week there. So, yeah. Looking forward to it. If you're all about it, share pictures.

Oh yeah, it's gonna be a really good time. I'm getting a new phone that has more storage, so I'll be able to take lots of pictures. So, yeah. Great. Well, I hope you have a good rest of your day and please give my love to Grandpa. We'll do, and thanks for calling. Absolutely. Okay, I'll talk to you soon, grandma. you have a good rest of your day and please give my love to grandpa.

Absolutely. Okay. I'll talk to you soon, grandma. All right. Bye. Wow. What a thrill. That went amazing. That I'm filled with so much love and joy right now to be able to get my grandma on the podcast. And I know she was anxious and nervous beforehand. And she wasn't sure if she was going to have anything to say, but look at what she did. She came out swinging for the fences like a major league baseball player. And she really knocked it out of the park. So thank you again so much to my grandma Sally for coming on the podcast. That was lovely.

That is absolutely the highlight of my Sunday. So thank you all for listening. We're actually even, you know, to be honest, running longer than I anticipated at this point. So I don't really have anything else that I, that I want to, to say at this point, we're going to play another song. This has been the, the week of a Wases. You heard us, my brother Jack lead us in our first Series of bean town or first in a series of bean town unplugged, you know sort of like that MTV unplugged thing, but you know 10 times better more talent more good looks more blondness We we played well he played and I just kind of hung out with them Wonderwall that was released a couple days ago.

You heard me play Whatever by Oasis to Open. And now to finish, we're going to sing probably my favorite Oasis song. It's called Live Forever. So thank you all for tuning in to this week's podcast. I really appreciate it and really appreciate the support. So happy that we could get my grandma on the podcast and to be able to do all this live is just really a really a great experience. So I will catch, catch everyone next week. Check in with you. We're going to have special guest Joaquin Nalasco come on. We're going to have special guest,

Joaquin Nalasco, come on, and he's going to talk about following your passions and pursuing your dreams and what to do when life sort of sidetracks you from doing those things. So looking forward to that, we'll have some more information about Joaquin's interview coming up this week. Again, in two weeks we'll be on the road in Memphis.

In three weeks we'll be on the road in Boston. If you have any questions, comments, concerns, or grapes, you can always email us at beantownpodcast. at yahoo.com, that's beantown, B-E-A-N-T-O-W-N podcast at yahoo.com. All right, that's what I got for ya. Go out, have a great week. Maybe I don't really want to know I got in gross cause I just want to fly lately.

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