Beantown Podcast - 09/11/2021

Episode Date: September 12, 2021

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Hey, what's going on? It's Quinn de Vifernis. Welcome to my show Quinn de Vifernis presents the bean town podcast for Saturday September 11th, 2021. What's going on? This is a different show today. We are coming to you live from from Boston, the city with no nickname today. And this was kind of unplanned, but we are going to obviously change things up a little bit today and just do a little tribute to the obvious. Yeah, I wasn't sure how I wanted to approach this week and even, you know up until this point

You know, I've committed to sort of doing this episode today And still not not sure quite the right words to say Right, I don't have I don't have the same ability to speak a fire as President Bush, who I actually saw on an airport television monitor a couple of hours ago, giving us speech. I haven't had the chance to sit down and watch it yet, but I believe there was some sort of obvious memorial of some kind service this morning, presumably at ground zero. I believe I saw a picture. I think it was Clinton, Hillary,

Barack, Michelle, George, and What's George's wife's name? Barbara? Where's that is mom? I can't remember. And I don't think I saw Agent Orange there nor did I see President Carter, but that makes sense because Jimmy Carter is literally like 98 or something like that. And his wife, Peggy Carter, Peggy Sue. Now I apologize for failing all you history buffs out there today. But they're still together right? Didn't they just celebrate like their 75th anniversary this past year or something like that?

It's crazy. That's pretty neat. But yeah, I saw a picture of them in what I assume was New York and presumably some of them I know Bush gave a speech but some of them also gave speeches. Oh Biden was there obviously with his with his wife Jill. But yeah it's obviously a very solemn day and it's been kind of tough for me because It's been kind of tough for me because, well, I'm very fortunate in a million ways, but it's just been strange. I'll let's say that. I shouldn't go so far as to say it's been tough for me. That's a little self-centered.

It's just been a little strange for me because I'm not a... I'm not someone whose emotions tend to vary too much from one day to day, day to the next day, hour to the next hour, minute to the next minute. I am and also I pride myself on being a very emotional, emotionally stable person. Let's put it that way. Not a lot of ups and downs. That has its many positives pros. There are some cons downsides to that as well,

but that's way off the point here. I've just found myself all day today from 3.45 in the morning when I woke up in Chicago until now, you know, early evening, late afternoon here in Boston. Just thinking about a lot, just kind of being quiet, keeping to myself. And it definitely made it tough to kind of work and interact today for sure I think I still did a good job hopefully earned that paycheck but yeah it's it's been a tough day especially the places I'm going you know it's just

you know I have a flight out of Boston in like an hour here, and Boston, if you don't know, is where United 175 in American 11, I think, were the two numbers originated on that morning. And it's, yeah, I haven't done it as much today because I think it would be a little bit more challenging. But in years past, I've spent a significant amount of time just like watching footage, reading variety of Wikipedia pages about aspects,

people, places, that sort of thing. And a lot of courageous people, a lot of brave people, maybe two years ago, I read a book by a man who was working for a telephone company, I think, just a few floors below where I think I can't recall if it was North Tower or South Tower, but just a few floors below impact. And it's this really cool story. He's, you know, trying to get people out. And eventually, as he's going down this stair wall, you know, he's all the way up on like the 70th floor or something like that.

He comes across a lady in a wheelchair and they don't know what to do. And so he crows a southern guy. And obviously the, it's complete chaos in this building and there's not a lot of direction or instruction and he and another gentleman carried her down something like 50 or 60 flights in her wheelchair. It's just pretty amazing. I don't know what I would do in that situation.

I've been very fortunate enough to be doing this for 26 years, not this show, but that's coming. Just wait. He thought 200 was a lot. Oh, you're in for a surprise. I can't imagine how I would react in that situation. When I, in any situation where you do feel scared or threatened or surprised by something, I know my initial reaction is usually to jump back, cower a little bit, so I don't know. I don't know if I would be strong. I

don't know if I would be brave, but it's not about me again. And I should have mentioned at the beginning that listener discretion is advised when you're listening to the bean-tone podcast. We're not going to use any language today, but it certainly is a challenging topic. But yeah, it was a crisp, really autumn, Tuesday morning, and I don't remember all the details. Lots of it has just been pieced together in the subsequent 20 years as I've gotten older. But, yeah, just a lot, a lot of sadness, but a lot of strength and bravery as well in these last 20 years. And I think the hardest thing for me to think about

is obviously day of and immediate aftermath, a lot of tragedy, and that's really painful. But then you think about the last 20 years and all the first responders and just anyone in that vicinity. I think about this not often, but it's a thought that's crossed my mind, right? My brother, one of my brothers lives right next to that site. But he used to live very close there.

Now he's probably what? A mile, two miles away, something like that. You know, all the people who lived in New York were right there. The obvious physical trauma, I mean, that air could not have been safe to breathe for a long time, I imagine, but also just the emotional aftermath and 20 years later. I'm sure most of the people who are around that have gotten the chance to move on, received therapy, all that stuff. But I guarantee there's a whole swath SWAT of people who haven't had that privilege. So keeping everyone in my thoughts today, as I get ready to coincidentally, fly to Washington, Dallas, which is where I believe United flight

93 was that the Dallas one or was it American? 77 I think the pet not know I Getting confused here. I think the Pentagon won left Dallas. I think that was 77 so I'm really checking off all the boxes here today, but Yeah, I just wanted to stop in in 11 minutes and share that and I promise we'll be back and better than ever next week. Shout out to our sponsors, Home Prior to Oregon, SamsonQ2U series and Cuts by Q. And apologies if you came expecting a laugh or two, but maybe this will get you a chance to catch up if you're behind.

So I just want to thank everyone for listening. Thanks for letting me share my in eloquent thoughts. I hope you stay safe. I hope you stay sane. And I'll check in on you next time. you