Beantown Podcast - 08042019_Quinn David Furness presents the Beantown Podcast

Episode Date: August 4, 2019

Quinn comes to you LIVE from Chicago to discuss teaching Stevie Wonder to at-risk youth, giving speeches about Coke freestyle machines, trying to get water from Irish bartenders, and relationship advice. New segment--"What's the weather like over there?" Thanks to Matthew Fiedler for contributing this week! Want to contribute next week? Email us at [e-mail] The Killers own 'Runaways' - It is not my song

I'm not here blowing in the summer wind, a blue-eyed girl playing in the sand I've been on a trail for a little while But that was the night when she broke down and held my hand A teenage rush, she said Ain't we all just runaways? That ain't much That ain't real We can't wait until tomorrow. You gotta know that this is real baby, why you wanna fight it? It's the one thing you can't choose.

We got engaged on a Friday night I swore on the head of a run more in child That I could take care of the three of us But I got the tendency to slip when the nights get wild It's in my blood She said that she might just run away somewhere else. Some place good, we can't wait until tomorrow. You got to know that this is real baby, why you wanna fight it? It's the one thing you can choose. Let's take a chance baby baby, it can't lose And we all just run away

I knew when I met you, I'm not gonna let you run away I knew when I held you I wasn't let it go We used to look at the stars and confess our dreams Hold each other till the morning light We used to laugh now, we only fight Baby are you lonely now? And now that I come home after I go to sleep I like to stumble and go and style home these halls There's a picture of us on a wedding day

I recognize the girl but I can't settle in these walls We can't wait until tomorrow Oh we're caught up in the repeal baby, why you wanna hide it? It's the last thing on my mind. I turn the engine over and my body just comes alive, and we all just run away. I knew when I met you, I'm not gonna let you go I knew when I held you, I wasn't letting go that you run away. Hey, what's going on? It's Quin Dea with Furnace, and this is my show,

Quin Dea with Furnace Presents, The Bean Tom Podcast. August 4th, 2019, what's going on? How are you? What's happening happening this is my voice and the creator host owner producer best boy key grip and caterer let's let's say I'm the caterer for this little production we got going on here I got some chicken breasts that have just been oven baked in the other room and I got my chickpeas or garbanzo beans for any if like if Gordon Ramsay's out there listening can you tell us is there a difference between garbanzo beans and chickpeas are they different species how does it go kingdom phylum class order family I love my mom. Class, order, family, genius, species,

any biology majors want to check me on that? Are they different? You know, who's to say? God, I suppose. It is a Sunday morning. And I'm not at church. I haven't been in a while. If you actually do know,

you can send us a message. Tweet at us at bean beantowncast or email us, beantownpodcast at yahoo.com, you can send us a message, tweet at us at beantowncast, or email us, beantownpodcast at yahoo.com. That was a cover. I did not write that song, don't take this podcast down. I, of course, did not write that song that is runaways

by the killers off of their album Battle Born, which I think was 2012, 2014 something like that. It's kind of a song that I don't think a lot of people know unless you're a pretty big killers fan or unless you've seen them live because it's one of their best live songs, but I think a lot of people know mostly you know hot fuss and samsung's But some of their later stuff has some really good ones as well, and I'll go so far to say is I think that is my favorite killer song It's really good. There's a great number of excellent live performances for them, but I really

Like when they do this one at Bonneroo, and it was just last year, I think, Tennessee. And now when they play a lot, they always paired with Read My Mind. And it's great. It's like 10 and a half minutes of just orgasmic pleasure in your ears. I don't know if that really came out the way I wanted to.

That's what she said. What's happening? We've had a very busy week here on, or in the North Side of Chicago, and I should mention we are coming to you live from the North Side of Chicago. We're your number one source for misinformation on the internet probably. And finally, listener discretion is advised when you're listening to the bean-town podcast. Sometimes we will use some objectifiable language and number two, podcasts of just objectifiably terrible. So there you have it. And you're

starting to see it. Our numbers, we hit perhaps our peak. And I don't know if it was a false peak like when you're hiking Everest or something and now we're coming back down. I don't know if there's going to be a new peak if we're going up again at any point but the numbers are steadily dropping for the bean-tongued podcast.

I'm probably not gonna be shaking anything's up in the fall but look for us to be looking at or exploring different options as we get ready for year three. The one thing that's not going to happen, bean town is not going to shut down, although we might be looking at new hosting platforms, new formats a little bit. I don't know. I don't have answers right now. If you have any suggestions, you can send us an angry DM. Yeah, we're open to ideas, but it's been busy. I started volunteering lately giving back to my community. I'm a very community-oriented person. Love the show.

Allison Brieves, my number one crush. And it used to be Jennifer Garner, my number one crush. And it used to be Jennifer Garner, but after she turned 25, I was just kind of like, you're too old. So now we're on to Alice and Breeze. Of course, Mary DeFranco, who's a great actor, producer, writer, director, et cetera. The less crazy, perhaps, of the Franco brothers,

but getting back to what I was saying here, I've been volunteering with a nonprofit called Inspired Youth up here in the North Side of Chicago, it works with kids of all ages, you know, zero to 18, although I haven't seen any zero year olds yet. And it does a lot of different stuff with them throughout the year a lot of tutoring after school help that sort of thing But in the summer one of the programs they run free piano lessons

out of a Presbyterian church about a mile and a half for me. So Monday and Tuesday night I was there after work and for two hours each time boy it is a trying and challenging Experience you better have some patience Because you're teaching kids of all ages, but it's a it's an interesting setup So it's this like Sunday school room and the second floor of this Excuse me belching second floor of this church First thing you notice when you walk in there is,

oh my God, it's hot. It's one of those classic old school church rooms that is just like damn, I feel like the paint is peeling off the walls, it's so hot in here. But you notice there's an air conditioner in there. So you're like, okay, what's going on here? Does this thing not work? Is it just blowing hot air?

What's the deal? What's the deal with air conditioning? Right? Get me on comedians and cars doing coffee. Well, I walk over to the air conditioner and I notice it's set at 80 degrees. That's first indication that stuff's weird. If you're going to be in AC, why are you even, you know,

like to me, if 75, 76, I can do that, but if you even, you know, like to me, if you have 75, 76, I can do that, but if you're going all the way up to 80, you're not really conditioning the air at that point. But then the egregious mistake, and I've interacted with roommates in the past who have not known about this, the windows are open. So all you're doing is cooling air, and then it's just immediately escaping out into the atmosphere. It's not self-contained in any way. So it's hot, which adds to frustration both from a teacher and a pupil perspective, but I'm helping these kids play piano

and they're doing whole new world beauty in the beast. All different skill levels. One kid was doing some Suzuki stuff and she was actually okay. Then I was helping this one kid who's playing Stevie Wonder. You are the sunshine of my life. Maybe not Stevie's Most popular song but still pretty well known and this kid is just not getting it struggling with counting

Just yeah, it's rough So I asked the kid you know, this is a classic song Stevie Wonder Like what it helped to just you know listen to the song at home and then just kind of replicate where you're hearing, well, this kid has never heard of Stevie Wonder. This is probably a 14 year old something like that. He's in high school. And I mean, low, I know I'm old school. I know I didn't grow up with Stevie Wonder new new music coming on the radio,

but it's not like you know this isn't John Philip Sousa or something it's not quite that old. It was just how how do you not know Stevie? How do you not know you are the sunshine in my life? There's just so much life out there joy, music and art that you're missing out on by not being exposed to this. So I told this kid, Hey, go home and please turn on some Stevie Wonder because it's going to change your life. So general PSA for, you know, all you kids out there trying to learn Stevie Wonder, just listen to my YouTube. You are the sunshine of my life. You're never always be wrong.

Oh, here's the kicker. Most of these kids, so I have some logistical issues, logistical, L-O-G-I-S-T-I-C-A-L, almostistical, LOG, ST, I, C, A, L, almost a palindrome, issues with how this, not how the program works, but just the functionality of it. These kids are coming for panelists once a week, but they don't have pianos at home. And I just, I don't know, maybe we can get some pedagogy

experts on the show, pedagogy, P-E-D-A-G-O-G-Y. But that just seems like, I don't think you can learn piano that way, and I don't really understand the point. It's not like, I don't know, maybe I'm wrong on this, but I'm thinking about, you know, it's not like you go once a week to play a pick up game of basketball or kickball or something where you can be successful and have a good time without having to really practice throughout the week, but with piano, it's just like, I think at a baseline level, you can do that, but you can't get any better.

And the thing is there's a real big difference. In my opinion, between a beginning piano student and Oscar Peterson, not to say there isn't a big difference between a beginning basketball player and Michael Jordan, but I mean, there's just so much involved. So many different things. It's not, you know, it's not just here playing the notes, but I mean there's just so much involved so many different things It's not you know, it's not just here playing the notes, but it's counting. It's reading music What this note is on this line. Which pitch is it? There's a slur here. What is staccato? What is legato? What are all these Italian markings mean? Allegro and Dante

alogredo Dynamics forte pianoe, Piano, Meso Forte, Triple Forte, these are all things that you can't just once, if you're just doing this once a week for an hour, which already is tough because kids, these kids attend just when they're like 15 to 20 minutes, so you're wasting half of the entire hour just trying to get them back on track. But you're not going to, it would

take you, you know, 30, 40 years just to actually pick up all the things and then remember them. It reminds me of Bill Murray in Groundhog Day, because he learns to play piano. But what is, I think they've done the math and he's in there for like 33 years or something, living the same day, which comes out to, you know, whatever, 30-ish times 365 is. Is that like 90,000 days or something? Yeah, if you're doing that every day, you can pick it up, but what you can't do is once a week. It's tough.

So kudos to all the kids out there. We're doing our recitals this Tuesday and Thursday. If anyone's available, you come out to Edgewater Presbyterian Church 6 p.m. Tuesday and or Thursday and you'll see some, well, you might see Stevie Wonder and yours truly is going to be doing the accompanying parts in the baseline. So that ought to be fun. And if you never, if you never volunteered to teach little kids how to play Stevie Wonder on the piano, it's a great experience. It's hot, especially if you got an AC on with the with the

windows open, but nonetheless, it's a good experience. So that's what I was doing Monday and Tuesday, and I win tonight. I'm just giving you the full rundown here, because there was so much packed in here, and I've got disclaimer already is going to be a long podcast. And if you made it this far, you can already look at you know the total length I'm talking about the future now and you're like wow when this podcast was two and a half hours That's crazy that you went that far. No, it's not gonna be two and a half hours. I got stuff to do but I got a lot to talk about so Wednesday night went to the Sox game guaranteed rate field a

Mortgage company now owns the right naming rights to the White Sack Stadium. Dollar dog night, oh baby. You know it's gonna be good. It brings you back to like minor league or frontier league baseball days, independent league. You go out there, you can actually get normal concessions for normal price, you know. Not that, you know, hot dogs are always a

dollar at independently games, but you know, two bucks, something like that. You can get a beer for five or six bucks, not eleven bucks. Like you go to guaranteed rate, you're paying eleven bucks for a Miller light, and it's just like, or whatever, but light they have and man You know beer is gonna be expensive I get it But I I'm thinking okay 10 11 maybe for the craft beer, but Bud Light come on Anything more than eight or nine is highway robbery and it makes sense because the white socks park is right next to the highway The Dan Ryan Expressway, but had some fun there,

except the lines, it wasn't even the lines, the wait times for these dollar dogs was ridiculous. And I've done the dollar dogs before at the rate, never had any issues. This time, first time in line, walk up there, the lines moving just fine, get up right when it's my turn to order. We're gonna need some time, five to ten minutes. All right, whatever.

I waited probably eight minutes for my dogs. Finally got them. Okay, eight on whatever. Second time I go up, now we're on the upper levels, go out there and get to the front of line. It's gonna be 10, 15 minutes. Oh, man, brutal. levels, go out there and get to the front of line. It's going to be 10, 15 minutes. Oh, man, brutal. And then after waiting for probably like five or six minutes

there, the lady at the counter is like, you know what? It's going to be a long time turnaround and find a walking vendor. So I eventually did that. And that didn't take too long. But then the third and final time, it was better, but it still took a long time, probably three to four minutes. And here's the thing, you have to imagine on dollar dog night, guaranteed rate field, that, and I said this summer earlier, I have no statistical basis

for whether or not this is accurate or close to accurate. But I would think, you know, 75% of all their food items being sold that night are dollar hot dogs. So you would think that they would just be locked and loaded, ready to go always on the grill, always have buns ready. Because that's just like, I mean, that's what everyone wants. That three out of every four people who go up there ordering a hot dog, I would assume. And so just the amount of time I probably missed an inning and a half total, just standing in line waiting for dollar dogs. And I I get it and I wasn't complaining out whatever just I all wait in line on my phone live tweeting and stuff whatever but you would think that it would

I don't know and it's the beginning of August so they've been they've been going at it for season is four months old at that point or at this point so I don't know. You know, kudos to people who work in the food industry. It's not easy. It's not fun. I've never done it actually, and I don't want to, but I don't know. You would think as a kind of more macro level organization, they would have had that sorted out by this point. I don't really know. I'm not sure. Yeah, whatever. Let's see what else is going on.

Oh, La Paloza. Is this weekend in Chicago today's the last day, Ariana Grande is performing. What a lady. I dated a girl in Baltimore, and I don't think I ever really talked about her much on the podcast, but there was a break up episode, you remember that, where I was pretty down on myself, because she broke up with me with a phone call while I was at work, and it had been a couple months.

You can't do the phone call break up after a couple months. You can go back and listen to the tape. This would have been early November 2018, so right before we got into some of our holiday themed episodes, what I was more upset about was not losing the relationship. It was the way the breakup occurred and you can go back and listen to that. But this was a girl who made it her life mission to look like Ariana Grande. It was weird and not terrible because Ariana Grande is PQ, right? But it was just strange how much this girl and H2, if you're out there listening, and that's what we call her, H2, you know who you are. But it was weird. She always was listening to her that one song, you know, God is, but it was weird.

She always was listening to her that once sang, you know, God is a woman, loved that song, and did the high pony and the, like, looks and stuff. I don't know, it was odd, sometimes a turn on, sometimes not. But yeah, it was, that relationship was never going to last because I I don't want a marry area on a grand day. But what was I saying here? Oh, Lala, Paloza, let's see, it was the strokes on Thursday night. It was this, we already talked about Stevie Wonder earlier in the podcast, but it's amazing to me how I need to I need to surround myself with people with friends who have similar tastes and

interests to what I have. And here's another example or two examples. Number one, the strokes. So I have lots of friends who either went to or going to Lollaple, is it this weekend and you know the strokes to me out of the four headliners So I think it strokes Childish Gambino area on a grande and then last night was oh Man, I don't even know. I'm not sure who last night the who the headliner was last night, but I was you know, so people are going on Thursday and like oh you pump to see the strokes and I was, you know, so people are going on Thursday and I'm like, oh, you pumped to see the strokes. And I have friends who are just like, what are you talking about? What are the strokes?

And I'm just sitting there dumbfounded. They're the headliners. They're a pretty big band. They're kind of famous. They've been around for, you know, whatever. What are their strokes? Like 25, 30 years, something like that. So I don't know, it was fascinating to me. And then I have other friends, because I think the next state, death cab was playing, and of course, Ben Gibber just did some stuff with

childish game, no, not childish game, you know, a chance to wrapper, they work together. And so my friends going on the Saturday, and I was like, oh, you're going to see Death Cab, and I've seen Death Cab live a couple of times, but I've never obviously seen them with Chance the Rapper, which would have been really fun. And I was like, oh, yeah, I think Death Cab's going to do

Chance the Rapper might come out, because it's Chicago and what she did. And my friends were like, oh, why would we ever want to see Death Cab? And I was like, but you like Chance the Rapper, don't you? So the other example is last night I was at Edgefest. And if I'm talking loud on the podcast, I can never really tell. But if I am, it's because I have some temporary hearing impairment, not total loss, but a lot of ringing in my ears and why it's because I went to see an 80s hair band cover band last night. Don't know their names, but a lot of ringing in my ears and why is that? It's because I went to see an 80s

hair band cover band last night. I don't know their names, but they were fun as hell. A two-hour set, which is a long time, but man, they were rocking out. They had everything. Poison, twisted sister, Motley crew, quiet riot, journey, Van Halen, of course, a little bit at AC DC, and they were rocking. They had it going on. And at first I was just like there with my beer, like okay, this was, or this is a good time. These guys are fun, they're really into it.

Oh, a lot of guns and roses too. But then by the end, oh man, you should have seen me and the other guys at front. I mean, I held nothing back. There was no timidness, there was no shyness, there was head banging, there was air drumming, there was air guitaring. There was some crowd surfing.

I did not surf myself, but boy, it was a hell of a good time. I was right next to the speakers just absolutely banging out and feeling some of the effects this morning. Hopefully the hearing will come back in full in a short time here. But boy, that was fun. Long story short, my friends don't know who the strokes are and they don't really want to come out to see an 80s hairband. But to me, that's just like, damn, this is a good time.

And no, I didn't grow up in the 80s. No, this is not music from my childhood, but Did spend a lot of time with my dad in the car growing up listening to you know 96.7 the Eagle Rockford radio and then even myself after it turned 16 you started driving yourself everywhere it do you better believe 96.7 the eagle was my number one like pre-tuned radio station classic rock that really rocks and I was gonna say speaking of classic rock not really though has nothing to do with classic rock

Thursday I was at a focus group I'm to there's kind of more to this than sort of I have time for on this on the front side of the the ad reads here and we're about to introduce a new segment. So I'm going to come back to Thursday night. I told you I'm giving you the full rundown because there was something happening every day. Let me briefly mention Friday. It went to the left. Actory. It was a good time. Took a couple of friends there who maybe have never been before. And it's not two friends who are usually really into like stand up comedy. But they laughed, and it was great to be able to take them

with. To one of my normal joints, free tickets, of course, Friday night. And then also ran into some other fantasy football friends that were randomly there. And I think we're going to have one of them Hunter, our league commissioner. He's going to be on the podcast in a couple of weeks here before the NFL season gets started. He's going to do our fantasy football preview this year. So that's exciting. We had Uncle Andy on last year to do it. We're going to have a friend Hunter on this year to do

it. He's got a swanky house in Indiana. In fact, you all remember my Indiana podcast from last year driving home on I-35 or driving back to Chicago, not home at the time. Talking about Mike Pence and penis rings, a classic episode by anyone's standards. That was on the way back from Hunter's Palace. I like to call it. What is it? It's like 2000, something square feet.

Huge, got a backyard. It's crazy. Indiana, you can get that for a dime. But after Friday night, go to this bar on a diversity app. And I was there with a friend who weren't, you know, there was, there's not a ton of this story. There's one specific thing that we were just watching the White Sox Phillies game because they were in like the 15th inning or something long

game, inter league. But so there's the main bar where we had been getting our drinks within. We were hanging out in another room that had a back bar and it was pretty loud in there. You know, it was probably about 11 o'clock at night, pretty not necessarily rowdy, but just a lot of people in there drinking, talking, having a good time, a pretty chill atmosphere in general, but loud nonetheless. So I go to the back bar, I've had like three beers, plus the drinks at the club. And I, you know, I know I'm getting ready to go home.

So I'm like, okay, no need to have anything else to drink. I'm getting ready to go. So let me grab a water here before I head out. One of the worst moments, not of my life, but in like recent memory, and here's his echo that went down. I walk up to the bar, there's bartender there, I contact, he walks up to me,

and I'm just, I'm going verbatim now, I say, can I have some water? And it's not, you know, I'm not in any sort of mood or anything. I'm just anyone who knows me knows that I I like to think of myself as a pretty respectful respecting respectable person. There's three different words there So I say can have some water

and he looks at me and says something. And you know those situations we've all been there when it's really loud and someone says something to you. And you just have no idea what they said. Imagine if that happened back and forth literally for a solid 15 seconds. And that might not sound like a long time but it was just can I have some water? He says something. No, just some water as I'm like pointing to an

empty glass. Can I have some water? And eventually after 15 seconds he just I can tell he's pissed. It was such a strange interaction. But I'm, because I'm thinking now is like, is this gonna cost, is he charging me money? What's he trying to get across to me? I don't understand. I know it's loud, but I'm speaking up very clearly, water, water. Like, is he out of water?

All these thoughts are going through my head. I have no idea what's going on. And eventually he just laughs, shakes head, and walks away. And I'm just like, what? I was completely confounded, dumbfounded, and befuddled all at the same time. That's a lot of different ways to feel, but imagine me feeling those three different ways. And so I'm still standing there because it's not like he's going to serve someone else.

You just like walked over to the other side of the bar and I just, I have no idea what's going on. And so I make eye contact with him again and that now he looks real, real upset and he walks back over and I say, I'm sorry, I have no idea what's going on because that's truly how I felt. I mean, imagine, you know, remember those three words I just used. That's I had no idea what was going on. And all I wanted was a glass of water, please. Like the cold place song of a prospect March EP. And I finally hear him.

He has the thickest Irish accent, again, it's Irish, I-R-I-S-H that I've ever heard. And that's just, you don't expect that at a bar in Chicago, you expect a lot of Irish Catholic people that they descended from there, but you don't expect actual Irish people with actual thick Irish accents. I mean, I've been to many St. Paddy's days in Chicago And I've never interacted with a bartender who actually has an Irish accent Finally, he says and I'm not even to try to do my, you know, Colin Firth or Colin Farrell, excuse me, Irish shakzin, but he says, have you ever

heard of please? And I, now I got it. I was like, can I please have some water? And he just looks at me and like points at me and then gets me some water. And I was just like, now he was smiling, like laughing at me, but it was way past the point of like, oh, brief misunderstanding, laugh it off, whatever. I was so, I didn't know how to feel. I wasn't like, embarrassed, I wasn't really angry at him. It was such a weird place. And I hated every second of it. I got my water and I got the F out of there.

But boy, that was really strange. Yeah, I didn't, I didn't understand it. So if you're ever at the bar, has gal, gal way, Bay or something I think is called. Watch out for that back bar because if you don't say the word please, and I'm not, this isn't an anti-please thing, I normally would say, I guess I just forgot, but I wasn't like, it's not me walking up to the bar, slamming my fist down and say, give me water, it's, can I have some water?

I think that's a pretty polite way to ask, but hey, you all in the comment section can debate how you feel about that. Let's move on because I'm getting worked up just thinking about it. We're gonna debut a new segment. This is exciting. We haven't had a new segment on the podcast in a while.

And this segment is called, how's the weather over there? It's pretty simple, right? So the point of this segment is each week to keep you bean heads, friends of the podcast, Hashtag, involved. We're going to be reaching out to different friends, different listeners, different fans.

And we're just going gonna be getting different weather reports from wherever you're at on this earth. Or maybe we, maybe International Space Station one of these days, doesn't have to be on Earth. There's weather in space too. But this is the first week, and thank you for the following friend of the podcast who was able to make this work.

Hey, this is Matthew Feather. I am a number one fan of the podcast who was able to make this work. Hey, this is Matthew Feudler. I am a number one fan of the bean town podcast and giving you a live reporting of the weather in Boulder, Colorado near Walker's Loop, I believe it is. It is about 86 degrees. They tell me, but the real feel seems significantly hotter. I mean, told it's 91 degrees Fahrenheit, so pack your water if you're out here hiking around

in the hot sun, up in the elements. I don't know what altitude I'm at at this point, but it's higher than I normally am. Thank you to Matthew for that weather report, and you heard it here first. Matthew is higher than he's ever been. Go to Colorado and that'll happen in a couple different ways. Let me tell you, happy birthday, by the way. I don't know if he wants us to be public, but happy birthday to Hashtag friend of

the podcast Matthew Feather. Turning what 29 again this year, which is very exciting. And you can always remember we host another podcast amongst ourselves, the White Noise Podcasts. You can find us an Apple Podcasts Stitcher. We're hosted through anchor and we're making some serious coaching off of it. Yeah, White Noise Podcasts, new episodes, most weeks, depending on our travel schedules. So that was weather report for, I don't even know, somewhere in Colorado. I don't remember what you said. You can rewind and listen to it.

But we've got, let's see, where are we at? Oh, we gotta read some ads. I was just thinking like, okay, there are the ads. We're good to go, let's move on. We haven't read ads yet. Let's move ahead and read some ads and then we're going to talk about the focus group which I wanted my favorite moments since moving to Chicago, maybe my favorite because I did something that I thought was really impressive

and then we have a relationship question which is very exciting, haven't gotten those in a while but let's jump on in here. And before we do that, I'm gonna go grab the lingerie catalog, remember, we had been talking about that. I think it's dubious curves, but I don't remember, so I'm gonna go grab the magazine, and I'll be right back. So I got up, I'm gonna, I got up from the couch,

my craigs is free couch, to get the magazine, which is Torrid curves, by the way. And I banged the whatever, I don't know, is there a specific name for that big bone on right in the outside of your ankle right above your foot? I mean, you look at it right now, the thing is huge. It really sticks out there. There's no fat there. That is just skin and bone, flesh and bone. It's a killer song. But that took me out for a soft 30 seconds, writhing and pain. And then for whatever reason,

I remember that song, My Stupid Mouth by John Mayer. And then I tried to do a John Mayer impression. My stupid mouth is got me in trouble. I said too much again. The date over dinner yesterday. She took on. And however it goes, I'm never speaking up again.

It only hurts me. So I think long story short, my point is I can't do it, John Mayor, but he's kind of a tough one to do. But now we know. I think as I work through different impressions and whatever the other word is for mimicking someone else, not coming to me right now, there are certain ones that I feel pretty confident in,

like Eddie Veter, Pearl Jam, and then there are ones like John Mayer, that's just, it's a no for me dog. I love my Eddie Veter impression, I really like it. Well, I'll save it for another time. But okay, let's read some ads here, and we will start with our friends at Home Pride Organ. Are you tired of selling your house for less than a quarter of what it's worth all because you could not find a reliable home inspector at times? Sounds like you're a fault. While organ listeners,

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in year two. It's been a heck of a ride. It's been a very different experience in year two versus year one, but we're still having fun. And as a reminder, we got bean town buttons. So if you're ever around and you're like, hey, Quinn, where's my bean town button?

I probably got one waiting for you. Free of charge, they are pro bono buttons, your classic PBB situation. Okay, so this focus group on Thurston, a little bit of background. I do focus groups, not that frequently. I did probably eight to 10, something like that total when I was an undergrad,

and I didn't do any in bolts more, not because I wasn't looking or they weren't available because they were really hard to get to. So I'm getting back, trying to get back into them here in Chicago, because it's super easy money. If you don't really understand, if you've never done one before,

basically you show up to a place, there's a specific thing you're talking about because companies will hire market research firms Basically, you show up to a place, there's a specific thing you're talking about because companies will hire market research firms to run focus groups, and you just talk, you're usually in a group of about five to eight people, and you'll just talk about specific things for, you know, 90 minutes to two hours, and at the end of it, you collect your check, and you are out the door. This one was a gold mine cash-wise.

There was a pre-homework assignment, which I had never had to do before, but it involved some running around last Sunday a week ago. It did that and there was a decent amount of money for that. And then I did this thing in the West Loop for 90 minutes did this thing in the West Loop for 90 minutes. And all in all, the payout was $450.

And I shared some of that with my brother who helped me run the errands on Sunday, but I'm still walking out of there with a lot of cash for not a lot of work, but $100 an hour total. And I'll take it. Here's the thing though As I mentioned these focus groups will be on a variety of topics Some of them I am well qualified to talk about some of them I am not but that doesn't stop me from

Being part of these surveys anyway, so this specific, or these focus groups, this specific focus group was on soda fountains. I believe it was commissioned by Coca-Cola. They never come out and explicitly say it, but it's like pretty obvious. And I don't really drink soda. However, knowing this was a great opportunity and something that I could be qualified for based off of my age, demographics, et cetera. According to the survey, I do really like

soda. So here's what ended up happening. And I don't know if there's a statute of limitations, I hope Coke doesn't sue me. Good thing only like seven people listen to this podcast, but I, what am I trying to say here? Oh, so we get into this focus group and you know it's a bunch of probably like 22, 23 year olds who are clearly very into soda and not just like they drink soda a lot, they spend a lot of time thinking about it and all the different flavors and how it makes them feel and like the psychology behind win and why and where they want their soda. To me, I'm just like, I don't really drink soda and that's kind of the end of the sentence, but that's not really how these focus groups works. You got to talk about it at length at nausea.

And it's a very much a secratic method type of thing. So I'll say something and then the person running the focus group will ask me to expand on this, expand on that. How does that make you feel? What do you want to do when you say that, et cetera? It gets exhausting after 90 minutes of really not feeling like you know what you're talking about.

So I decided at the very end, I wasn't really irritated, but I was just kind of tired. And I had had enough with talking about Coke freestyle machines because I, in my opinion, there's only so much to talk about. It feels like we're saying the same things over and over again. And so kind of like a political debate, they had closing thoughts, closing ceremonies like at the Olympics. Everyone gets to go around and speak their piece. And I just said, you know what? Let me have some fun here. And so I was like the fourth or fifth person to go. And I said, I'm going to go on a little Coke monologue.

And I did my best to write down because this wasn't pre-planned and I hadn't written anything. This was all improvised. But after the fact on the way home, I did my best to write down what I thought I had said. And here it was, to set the scene again, this is me in a room of like 10 people total

doing a focus group. We've been talking about Coke freestyle machines for 90 minutes and I was just over it. Wanted to get my paycheck, wanted to get out of there. So here with following is my monologue. And again, everyone's going around there saying things like, yeah, I really like the variety that this machine offers. This thing didn't quite do it for me, but you know but when I'm at the movies, I'm just looking for a good time, and that's what Coke's doing for me.

I took a little different approach, and imagine like, John O'Hirley or something. That's kind of what I was going for during this monologue. So here, following is, or here in a great word, H-E-R-E-I-N, almost heroin, different though. Here in following is my monologue. A Coke freestyle machine. What do I want and what do I need? Variety, flavor, refreshment.

The ability to combine, concoct, and convalesce through a variety of tastes, sensations, and moments. While a seemingly simple choice, perhaps, to us, we, the true connoisseurs of palate cleansers, we who are free and we who sit here together, this is more than a simple choice. This is our livelihood and this is our nourishment. With this drink master-esque power

with which we happen bestowed, I urge us to raise our glasses because we were sipping on some stuff. Whether it be your cherry vanilla root beer or my pomegranate melon phanta, which is very refreshing by the way, to us, for truly we have won this day. And people didn't really know how to respond,

which is fair because I wouldn't have known how to respond either. There were some giggles. One guy who had been great the whole night, I think Ricardo was his name, but he clapped. And we kinda just went on to the next person and then we really talked about it. But I had fun.

And yeah, walked out of there with my paycheck. They didn't dock it or anything, or they didn't add it, I think is what probably should have happened because, man, I talked the hell out of those Coke freestyle machines, but Alas, okay, we got a relationship question here, and then we're going to finish up and watch some baseball. Okay, so this one comes to us from Alicia P here in Chicago, Illinois. It says, my boyfriend's dad is not down for interracial relationships. Oh boy, we're about to get into race here in the Bean Town Podcast. I hope you're ready. It took us 53

minutes, but we're getting into it. The title says it all, but here's some more background. It was adopted from China, China, as a kid and raised with white siblings and parents. We've always lived in a super white conservative state and even though our views are pretty liberal, it's your sort of influence by the people you're on.

My boyfriend is the average white Southern boy. They grew up in a small town on the same state. I'm guessing, okay, right now let's take some guesses. I'm guessing Tennessee. It seems like a very Tennessee thing. My boyfriend is the exact opposite from his family in every way, which I guess means he's pretty liberal and his family is not. I think that's what we're getting at.

We've been in a relationship with just over a year, relationships going really well. He's a great person, super sweet, but there's a lot of tension between his dad and me. Oh boy, his father is a public figure here, maybe the mayor of Nashville, although I'm pretty sure that's a lady. And openly expresses he doesn't like interracial relationships. You know, I have a friend who is in an intergalactic is what I was gonna say, interracial relationship

and has experienced some similar things. Maybe I'll hook you guys up. Not like that, you perves. It's not even culture. It's just, what is she saying here? It's not even culture, because I grew up as a white person. OK, that doesn't really make sense.

It's literally the color of my skin. His dad says, if we have kids, they all be poor and people won't accept us, whatever. Yada yada yada. It's destroying their relationship as a family and stressing me out. I get that. It does not change the way I feel towards him,

he, uh, the boyfriend. He has, struck, that's not right. Stuck is the word he wanted, Alicia. By my side, through it all, and I think he's happy. Hopefully his dad will just have to cope. But I don't want his dad to hate me. What if we do have kids one day? Will his dad love them as his grandkids? Well, that seems too early to say. I know you can't help change a person who isn't willing to change their mind. Has anyone have you or

anyone else ever experienced this any advice to help with the stress? Okay. I live in an interracial family, actually, got an interracial immediate family and an ex-media family. It's not the opposite of immediate family extended as the word I was looking for there. You know what?

And I've seen family members, friends who have relationships that involve a contentious, extraneous bringing out the big words here, relationships with relatives of the S.O. And it's tougher for me to speak on it directly because I've never actually gotten that far in a relationship really. Well, that's not true, but I never experienced this. I think it's because I'm a likable person, TBH. But my philosophy on this is always just, hey, you just got to go for it. Love is love. Keep your heart open

and love will find its way. And I got that from a jewelry commercial. But it's the words I live by. I don't get all this, maybe we can't do this relationship because my so and so family member feels X, Y and Z. You just got to get over it. And if that, here's the last thing I'll say about it. If the person you're with lets that relationship with the family member strain them so much or stress them out so much that they can't be a normal person, then you don't want to be with that person, not because of how you might have to deal with that family member, but because the person you're with clearly doesn't have the emotional maturity or whatever you want to call it to successfully navigate and deal with those problems. So no, I don't think there's anything you can do.

I think this really comes down to your white boyfriend. If he is cool with, and he loves you a lot, and he's not letting that familial relationship mess up the relationship, then if I'm you, I'm just wiping my hands clean and moving forward, and you don't need to have to worry or think about it, well, you'll have to think about it at certain points. But if neither one of you, the people in the actual relationship,

are not letting you affect anything, then I say go for it. If your boyfriend is, you know, being weird because his dad is affecting stuff, then you got to tell your boyfriend, hey, you got to figure this shit out. Apologies for language, but I don't know. I'm very much a straight shooter, black and white type

of person, even in gray situations. I like, I'm very get down to the problem. What are the two paths we can take here? I'm the same way I work. And sometimes, you know, there are lots of debates and conversations and varying perspectives to hear out, but sometimes it's just a pretty simple situation. And even though this might seem complex and families are always complex, to me, this

is kind of a no-brainer. You got two choices, and if you really like the person and that person's not letting you affect their life, then go for it. Sounds good to me. Okay, Alicia, I hope that helped. For, let's see, you know, checking my list off here, talked about the Irish bartender. This was a boy. A lot going on in this episode.

I can't even remember everything we did. Do you remember that we sang a killer song at the start of this episode? I almost completely forgot. We introduced a new segment. What's the weather like over there? Thank you to Matthew for chiming in for us for there. Live from Colorado.

And let's see Irish bartender, focus group, my Coke monologue, volunteering. We talked about Stevie Wonder. We talked about head banging metal bands and temporary hearing impairment. Man, there was so much. This was like an entire month's worth of bean town podcast rolled into one episode. But I hope you enjoyed it. I hope you beanheads, beaners, friends of the podcast, whatever you like to call yourself. I hope you enjoyed a little glimpse into the busy life of Quinn David Furnace. Well, I tell you what I'm going to do.

I'm going to give the Samson Q2U series a rest because he's been going for three hours. Yes. My mic is a mail in case you're curious. And we're going to watch some baseball. Cubs going for the sweep of the Milwaukee Brewers at home. And I'm not going in person, a little expensive, but I will be watching on my television. So for all of us here at the Beantown podcast, thank you so much for tuning in. This was a fun episode. I had a fun time.

I hope you did too. And that's about all I got. So everyone be nice to one each other. Share this podcast with friends if you would like. Remember you can always find a stichre Apple podcast. iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, YouTube, SoundCloud, the works wherever you listen to your podcast unless we're somewhere where SoundCloud, the works, wherever you listen to your podcast unless we're somewhere where we're not. That's all I got for you. All right, I think we covered all the bases, checked all the boxes. We hit the hour mark first time in a while. Thanks everyone for tuning in. Have a great weekend. Go Cubs, go, and we will check in on you next time. next time.