Beantown Podcast - Free Blagojevich is Over (02232020 Beantown Podcast)

Episode Date: February 24, 2020

Quinn comes to you LIVE hot off the 3rd Annual Pledge Drive Telethon Fundraiser to thank the donors, discuss the success of the #FreeBlagojevich campaign, and compare dating someone out of your league to trying to catch a beluga whale with a kid's fishing pole

Hey, what's going on? It's Quinty with Furnace. Welcome to my show, Quinty with Furnace presents the Bean Town podcast for Sunday, February 23rd, 2020. What's going on? How are you? What's happening? This is my voice. This is what I sound like, I'm the host of the show, I created the show over two years ago, and the best boy of the show, I'm the key grip caterer, all that stuff, we'll talk about catering in a second here, man, I did something today that I haven't done in a long time, it was kind of edgy for me as far as foods go. This is the Bean Town podcast and we're your number one source for misinformation far and wide across the internet and we're one of the better podcasts on the North Side of Chicago. I'd say top 500. We got we got that confirmation last week from one of our

Pledge Drive Donators, Aaron Davila. And we're going to be talking about that Pledge Drive Telephone in a brief moment or two here. I won't spend too much time going at it. Because you know, I'm, you know, you know, look, look forward to the future, not back to the past kind of guy, but we'll touch on that briefly. Listen to your discretion as advised when you're listening to the bean town podcast number one, we'll occasionally use some objection of the language and number two, we got a pretty awful podcast going here, but it's always better when we get fan interaction, going here, but it's always better when we get fan interaction, which has been the last two weeks, it's been great. You might notice a little, a little toned down today, a little

bit more mellow thing, just a little bit slower pace, you know, that's kind of what I'm going for with this podcast. I've been, I've been hustling hard. I'll tell you that much. In life in general, specifically with the podcast, and I know it's funny, and you can laugh, tears of the sad, clon, all that stuff, because we don't get that many listens, we don't get that many views on YouTube, we're not Instagram famous, all that stuff, but it's fun to create stuff anyways

that you're proud of and put it out there for others to enjoy and we've been doing a lot of that recently So I'm just you know I was actually I was even looking at the timestamp some last couple of shows I think going back like four or five weeks or something. We've had shows that are like Minimum 45 minutes and mini that are longer than that. Your three so far we've had some really long shows and not always stuff to talk about. So we'll keep it a little bit shorter today. That was the entertainer by Scott Joplin,

performed by yours truly, Quinn David Furnitz, at my parents' house in Oregon. And I'm actually, so ever since I moved to Chicago, which were firmly coming up on what, nine, ten months, something like that, it's wild to think about. I've been, you know, I've been saying, oh, yeah, I'm thinking about getting a piano, I might get one. Maybe, we'll see. Well, my former roommate who has been on the show before, friend of the podcast, Ryan Sanger, was a great pianist and he's, well, he's moving out of his apartment this summer and he's got bigger and better things to get to,

which we'll get him on the podcast before he moves and he can talk about some of that stuff. But he's got a piano, kind of like a baby grand, not kind of like a baby grand, an actual baby grand. In the apartment they've had it there for two years, something like that. And he's where he's going to, he's not going to be able to take it with him. And so he's offered to send it my way,

which, you know, if you know me and you know how much I'd love to just sit down and hang or something out on the piano for an hour, that, you know, that's like a dream. That would be amazing. And it's great to, you know, have that opportunity. And fortunately, if you haven't realized yet in life, wherever you're at in your life journey,

moving a piano is incredibly difficult. Moving a grand piano is just a major pain in the ass. So probably not gonna take up our friend Ryan on that offer, although that would be amazing. My plan and where, you know, this is what I've been saying for nine months at this point, I think I'm going to buy a keyboard, which is now, I think, closer. It's kind of like my Hawaii trip, whereas I've been like saying it's going to happen for a while, and it wasn't that I was doubting it was actually going to happen, or other people were doubting that it was actually going to happen. It's just like, when is it actually going to happen for a while. And it wasn't that I was doubting it was actually going to happen or other people were doubting

that it was actually going to happen. It's just like, when is it actually going to happen? And I think for me, it's just, there's nothing really holding me up. It's really just going to be like, when am I, when do I really miss it enough to be able to really push me to make a purchase? And lately, so some of you might know, some of you might not know this, but I'm a big Scott Joplin guy,

which makes sense considering that's the, you know, it took us two years to get an intro song, but that's where we're at now. I'm a big, I like playing ragtime music and specifically Scott Joplin because it's the type of thing where you really don't need to maintain that much technical proficiency to be able to keep it up. Like, I could, you could sit me down in piano and I've probably played, physically played

a piano and this is a very rough, rough estimate. I'm just guessing off the time I had live on here here. Maybe like 10 times in the last, I don't know, two, three years, something like that. That's not a lot of times, right? If you would have been, you know, if we were running this show five years ago when I was in college,

it would have been 10 times in the last like seven days. Not two to three years. But the thing that I like about rag time is it's very sort of methodical, also melodical, but methodical as well. The most of the rags are structured in a similar way, not to get too technical with the structure of pieces. But a lot of, a lot of Scott Joplin-Rags are classic AABB, A-C-C-D-D. If you don't know what I'm talking about, apologies. And the key, the harmonic progressions, tend to fall that stuff too.

So it's really only, you know, keeping that melody under your fingers and granted some some joplin rags are quite a bit trickier than others. Like you you play a weeping willow or something which is a slow drag. And it's I mean I could not touch a piano for two years and I think I could sit down and play that nearly perfectly. And then you go to something like, I don't know, euphonic sounds or cascades. Those are tough ones. And ones that even when I've been at my best as a pianist, which was probably when I was about 19 years old, still would be challenging for me to sit down and learn. So there's a wide variety, but what I'm trying to get at here and weigh too many words is that,

Joplin is nice because you can sit down, you can play something that's easily digestible, right? We're talking pieces that range from three and a half minutes to six minutes. They're fun to listen to, you know? Oftentimes you hear people talk about classical music to six minutes. They're fun to listen to. Oftentimes you hear people talk about classical music, and especially people my age, who don't really know

classical music, their major concern is boring, right? Especially if you don't understand it, I totally get where that comes from. And that's a spectrum too, right? If you take me to a lesser known opera or something which speaking of operas will will provide an update on Scott Farrell in a couple minutes here. I can get super bored with operas. You know a lot of them are about four hours long and they're singing in a language you don't understand. I mean that's

that's tough to sit through all that. So it's all it's all relative to you. So I get it when people feel that classical music is is boring. I totally understand that perspective. So Joplin is shorter, it's digestible, it's easier for me to play. Even now, you know, again having only touched a piano a handful of times the last couple of years, I probably have. In fact, I was doing this math the other day when I was on a run. I was trying to think how many joppling rigs could I actually just sit down? And these are all memorized in my head.

How many could I actually sit down and just play? I think the number was something like 14 or 15. So a tough part with joppling rigs, especially ones that are in the same keys. Sometimes if you're not paying attention, and I don't do this anymore, because anytime I get the chance to sit down on the piano, it's a very like focused experience, because I'm trying not to f up. But I can recall being an undergrad and just sitting down and throwing some joppin' rags out on the keys and occasionally you'll mix up like your C-sections which could be something completely different. If you go to the

maternity award, but no C-sections, it's a harmonic term, harmonic progression term, or a structure of a piece term, more, is a more accurate way of saying that. And you'll just kind of mix and match different parts of regs. And sometimes you figure it out, sometimes you don't, sometimes you just switch from one to other without even really realizing it until after you finish. And then you finish the piece and you're like, I'm pretty sure when I started I was playing pineapple reg, but I finished with the sunflower slow drag. So there's that.

Yeah, in case you're wondering, I am saying drag sometimes. So there are rags, there are drags, there are marches, there are waltzes. They all fall under, they'd all sound like rag time to you. The entertainer is a rag, but then you get something like Bethena, that's a concert waltz. Yeah, it's fun, two steps. There's a lot of different terms and they all sort of mean the same thing.

But they're fun. That was 10 minutes of me talking about Scott Joplin in case you were curious, something that could have been said in about 30 seconds. I mean, it's just stretch out into a really long period of time immediately after saying, boy, we sure had some long podcast lately. Quinn goes and talks about the piano for 10 minutes. And the thing is, I'm not even done with my story yet, which wasn't even a story in the first place. I'm about ready to pull the trigger on the piano

because I would love to just sit down. And it's not gonna be that often. I'm a pretty busy guy, I'm not home that much. And even as far as musical instruments go, I have a guitar too. And I played about an hour of guitar this morning. I splent some fratelli's covers because they dropped their first single, six days in June, from their new album, which comes out in May, maybe, March or May, something like that. It will be their sixth studio album, and I got my pre-sale tickets to see them at Metro. Across the street from Riegliefield,

which is where I saw the Fritellis for the first time ever when I was maybe a freshman in college, I think. They were touring for their, must have been their third album, I think, second or third album, I don't recall. And then I saw them the next time. It must have been their third album because I saw them, their next tour was for their fourth album.

And I saw them at... They played at the Vic. And then their fifth album, which is their most recent installment. I, oh god, I went to the 930 theater in DC because I was living in Baltimore. And guess who I took with me? Erika Boyd, who was recently featured about a month ago when we released our lost episode. That was Erica Boyd. It took her there. God, that was a... Not to get into a super weird story here, but we went... I bought two tickets. I asked her if she wanted to go. We were dating at the time. As she said, yes. So we took her card down there and we park and we've got like three hours, maybe not

that much, two or three hours to kill before the concert really gets going. So we go to this bar. It was like a capital bar or something like that. And yeah, we just, I think we split a couple of pictures or something. We had a perfectly pleasant time. There was nothing weird or anything about it. Although with with with Erica Boyd, man, you never really knew what was what was going on. She she could be great.

And then other times it was like, oh, wait, she's mad at me. I have no clue why. Healthy relationship. Just very healthy. So we go to the Fertelis concert. I don't remember who they had opening for them. It was a solo female artist, I think. And we're there at the concert and you know, she's a trooper because she doesn't really know the Fertelis. I just asked her if she wanted to go, just common courtesy because we were dating at the time. So I think she knew Chelsea Dagger and that was it.

So we're hanging there and if Fratelli said he's used you about 90 minutes, something like that, in about 60 minutes in, she's just like, I'm really tired, I'm going to the car. And I was like, okay, all of a sudden you're in this, right, really strange spot. Is this a situation where it's just like, all right, go, you know, you go back to the car,

I'll be catch up with you in 45 minutes when the show lets out. Or is it like, come on, let's go, I'm just trying to say it in a nice way But also I'm you know feeling like this is One of if not my favorite bands and there they've got you know 30 40 minutes left in their set like we came all this way And it's an 60 and 90 minute drive to get down there from from bean town

So it was just like not sure what to do and eventually it's just like all right let's let's go. I think the biggest thing that factor into my decision was that we had parked about I don't know half a mile away about a 10 minute walk to get free parking which is pretty good for DC especially up there. Gosh I'm not remembering my DC neighborhoods very well. It's kind of by Howard is where the 930 club is. So a pretty nice area of town, as if there

is a bad area of Washington, DC is pretty much all bougie at this point, not completely, but mostly. So we left. I did not see Chelsea Dagger the last time the Fertel is played. And I don't really have any reason. That man, it was just weird. And then I thought she was some combination of drunk and some pills, I think, that she was popping her drugs

under the table or something. I don't know. You never really knew what was going on there. Because we get back to the car and she just like passes out. And I think everything was fine. I assume it was, I don't know. So I drive, I drive, well, I driven, the plan was, I drive down there, she drives back, they didn't happen. I drive, I drove us both back and we got back to Baltimore like midnight or something. But yeah. What was I saying? Oh, piano. Yeah. So to finish this 15 plus minute story, I'm looking to buy a keyboard, stand, and pedal. And that will probably run me total like five or six hundred bucks. So it's a big investment.

It's something I have saved up the money for. So that's good, obviously, or else I wouldn't be buying it. So yeah, it'll be nice to have some more music in the house. And it's a big investment, but it's a good long-term investment, I feel. Plus, on the very off chance that I ever want to do some gigging down the road, this just makes it a little bit more feasible to have a keyboard. That was another thing that I was considering. I was never in the market to get an upright or a grand piano for reasons that I've

obviously already stated. But there was, you know, some appeal to getting an electric piano, which if you don't know, just looks like an upright, but it's electric and a little bit lighter. But I decided I would rather have the mobility. And frankly, for similar quality, actually, it's usually a little bit cheaper to get a keyboard. So as long as you have a good keyboard or a keyboard with a good stand and a sustained pedal that works for you. And that's really what you need.

So I'm gonna nix the piano story right there because boy, that was just, if you're not asleep yet, rock a buy baby on the tree top boy. Let me get a sip of water here. Jack Link. Travel mug. It's my best friend.

That and my iPod. I don't know if I really talked much about my iPod on this show. 120 some episodes in, wherever we're at. I have a iPod Nano. Third gen I think, from, like, 2007. And I bought it, you know, when I was in middle school. And that baby, I tell you what, better life is,

maybe even better than you would expect for an iPod that's 13 years old at this point. It's not awful. I'll usually charge it like twice a week and I use it every day. I listen to it about two hours each day on average, each weekday. I wear it or I listen to it two and from work. My community is about an hour. I don't use it when I'm working out during the weekdays. I will use it when I run on Saturday mornings, and then if I like go out to get groceries or something, or occasionally if I'm just going to meet someone

at night, I'll use it as well. So that baby works hard. She works hard for the money. And yeah, I haven't put new music on it in a while. It's not completely out of, it's not completely like super old stuff. Like I haven't touched it in five years. No, it's got some newer stuff, got some, I don't know, most recent stuff I put on is probably arcade fires, new record, Portugal demands, newest record, which is already what, four years old at this point, three years old, something like that.

Both those bands are the next ones that I'm really looking forward to. I feel like they've both been super quiet. I'm not really sure what either of those bands are doing right now. I'm not sure if they're recording. They're not really touring much. I don't think I haven't seen any news about either one of those bands touring. We'll see. I like both of them a lot.

Especially, both their next records are going to be really fascinating. Because Portugal, the man I've just went from like chill indie band that you know goes on KXP every once in a while and is big in the Pacific Northwest and like hipsters across the country know them but then they drop Woodstock and feel it's still on all of a sudden they're you know like all over the radio. So I'm really interested to see what they try to do with their next record. It's always fascinating when you have the band that's been around for a while, and they're not completely unknown, but they have their niche, and then they have one song that just like goes nuts. It's fascinating to see what happens after that. And then Arcade Fire,

you have kind of the opposite where they were huge, although Arcade Fires never been much of a radio band. And then this last record, everything now, which was like purely, I thought that other stuff hasn't been, but this one very much was just like an art piece, a political statement where they were just trying like a sociopolitical statement where they were just trying to say something. And all the songs kind of worked towards that regardless of whether or not the individual song was actually good. That record did have a couple songs

that I really like. But Creature Comfort is fantastic. And probably the my favorite message out of all the songs. And then I think it's the penultimate track on the record. We don't deserve love. It's just one of those deep cuts that sounds completely penultimate track on the record. We don't deserve love. It's just one of those deep cuts that sounds completely different than everything else on the album. But if you haven't listened to that one, I encourage you to go check out Arcade Fire, we don't deserve love. It's slow, love a more laid back, but good lyrics and

still has that signature Arcade Fire Revive. Boy, what were we talking about? Bands, tours, and still has that signature arcade fire vibe. Boy, what were we talking about? Bands, tours. I don't know. Let me mention, I was gonna talk about some cuisine here to spice things up a little bit, literally, but not actually, because my cuisine wasn't spicy.

Then we'll read some ads and we'll briefly recap the telephone and then I'll leave you. If you want to criticize us, you want to call us Posers. Hey, this is a filler episode. I listen for 40 minutes and all he talked about was Scott Joplin and strawberries. Well, I've been busting my ass lately, so forgive me. There's one other thing I got to talk about too. So we're going to fit that into our second half as well. I've been busting my ass lately, so forgive me.

There's one other thing I gotta talk about too. So we're gonna fit that into our second half as well. Don't let me forget free blue goi-vitch. I went to the grocery store this morning, as I always do on Sunday morning, see a four-family chat, and I didn't need a big shopping trip, so I'm gonna be gone Tuesday through Thursday this week in Minneapolis. And I will mention this week has felt like it's been like Three weeks long, but I was in St. Louis five days ago

For work and that I'm not even joking when I tell you that feels like it was like two or three weeks ago that I was there. It's crazy how That sometimes can happen to your sense of time. It's not helped by the fact that I was physically in St. Louis for about, I don't know, it was like 15 hours or something. It was a short trip or a quick trip if you will, quick KWIK trip. But that happened this week. Monday and Tuesday I was there. And that just feels like a decade ago.

So boy, the theme of this podcast is Quinn starts one story, transitions into a different story and then forgets where his first story was. But I actually call how I started this story. I don't need a lot of groceries because I'm not cooking on tomorrow night. Because I'll be gone half the week. So I was just picking up a couple things,

skin some milk, because I was making some crepes this morning. Really thin pancakes, crepes. The crepe plomage with detise in the Telodega nights is what I'm referencing in my awful, awful, awful, Sasha Baron Cohen, Sasha Baron Cohen, right? Yeah, accent. Tell you what, man, when I was a kid, Sasha Cohen was like the OG crush.

Oftentimes people ask me now, like, who's your celebrity crush? And I don't have a good answer because I physically don't. I mean, I used to be big into Jessica Alba, and then I went through Jennifer Garner face for a while, but these days, it's like, I don't actually have a go-to answer for that. But tell you what, US five-year-old Quinn who your celebrity crush is Sasha Cohen, man.

That lady could tear up the ice. Remember watching her at like, I don't know if it was Salt Lake City, was her first Olympics, or maybe it was Turin or something, but yeah, what a cutie, man. What a lady. She can't be that much older than me. She's probably like early 30s, something like that. We'll go investigate after this. So while I'm at the grocery store,

Sundays and I haven't talked at all about this, but a little bit and I won't talk about it today, but I've been dieting pretty heavily this year, including dry January, which is still going on on day 50, what, 54 I think of dry January. So I was really, and I physically had this conversation inside my head, I was really high in down that chip aisle, knowing I was going to be spending a lot of time outside takes really it was really nice but I was also going to be inside for a decent amount watching both the witch dog game which they blew again which does been a really frustrating team this year and the NASCAR race at Las Vegas which

I won't talk about but but Jimmy Johnson scored at top five finish, which was very, very impressive, very well done. Congrats to Joey Logano and his win. So I was like, man, I'm gonna, and I don't usually snack. That's the thing, especially when I'm at work, I don't snack. Although I did this past week, chips and guac were there. We got it for a college group that was visiting. So contradictions all over the place here. But I was like, you know, I'm gonna do some snack in today. Just, you know, a little bit of cheat day action here.

So, I was like, you can go for some chips, love some chips, I don't usually eat things like salty things. I love salty things, but I don't often have them, especially on this diet. Then I was like, man, you know what? I bet there's a way we can snack where we just do a little bit better. Even if the calories are about the same,

try to just have it be like more whole food and less process, and I think I got halfway there. So first, I go back to the produce section and see that they got strawberries on sale. Two for three, the cartons, two for three. So that's a good deal, 150. And I don't eat that much fruit either. So it's a lot of sugar, but we'll go for three. So that's a good deal, 150. And I don't eat that much fruit either. So I was like, yeah, it's a lot of sugar, but you know, we'll go for it. So I grab strawberries and I'm like, you

know, is there something I could pair with these strawberries that would be good? I never buy chocolate and I almost never have chocolate. So I go, I find a bar kind of off brand, but for like a buck something. And that was my snack today. When I was watching NASCAR, I had chocolate and strawberries. No, it was not chocolate covered strawberries. Had this conversation with a friend already today, actually. It was too lazy to heat up the chocolate and then do the dunking or the drizzling or whatever you want to do.

I was just, it's not that funny, but I was just sitting there, lying there in the couch more accurate description. My Craigslist couch. Take a bite at the chocolate bar, take a bite of the strawberry and repeat until they're both gone. That was delicious, man. And you know the whole thing is probably like seven

or eight hundred calories for the cartonized strawberries and the chocolate bars. I think the chocolate bar had like five hundred calories in it or something. And it's not completely a whole food because the chocolate bar is somewhat processed, but the strawberries are not. And probably better than the chips in the long run. So yeah, that's what I snacked on today. Don't do a lot of snacking, but I had that and you know, two foods that I almost never have, especially on this diet. But let's read the ads here and then we're going to talk about Blakoyevich briefly, because

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crepes with bad milk and garlic and herbs butter and no silverware to eat it. Fascinating time to be alive. Total dumbass move, did it anyways. But I was listening to that, and in the ad read of that episode, which was, you know, 10, 9, 10 months ago, I talk about how I think I'd just gotten, or no, it had been like two weeks since we'd gotten the most recent TV guide, which would turn out to be the last TV

guide, and how I was starting to get a little concerned, a little suspicious, that maybe they weren't going to send me another installment and low-end behold here we are nine months later and still haven't gone our fifth TV guide copy yet so shout out to TV guide good to know what's on television from March to April 2019 and nothing else apparently because they'll just stop sending you copies you know I still have them I got all four even though I supposed to get a year supply so that's that but how about that crisp clean audio quality from the Samson Q2U series killing it on Family Chat this morning, killing it tonight on the Bean Town podcast. Stream in life. Amazing, fantastic, professional quality right

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because I sang the song for her and I don't know how we got there. It's never a good sign when you're singing a jingle that you made up on a first date. In fact, that's traditionally a bad sign. Historically. But she liked, and she texted me back this morning. In fact, that's traditionally a bad time, historically. But she liked and she texted me back this morning. So maybe not scared away just yet.

Just wait, just wait. That's cuts by Q. So the big news this past week nationally was that, and this is an issue near and dear to my heart, Governor, former Illinois governor, Rodwood Goivich, pardoned and commuted by President Trump, this is a really interesting issue, just in general, but also when you throw me into the mix. So a lot of you know, because I post about it often, more than anything else I've post about on social media. Free blog, free blog, you'll see me post pictures, you'll see me just post a hashtag,

I tweet about it pretty frequently. And it's something that Trump has briefly mentioned in a couple different, in a couple different points throughout his presidency in the last three and a half years here, or I guess just three years. And it's interesting. And I was having a conversation with this

with an old friend who doesn't live in Chicago. She lives in New York, but she was here this weekend and we were having brunch in a group, but I was having kind of a side conversation with her about this. Because I think a lot of people, and this is the perfect sort of epitome of my kind of life in general. You never really know if I'm joking

about something serious about something, oftentimes it's a little bit of both. That might be the thing that you really hate about me, but it's really my calling card, and it's what I have sort of staked my Well-being too. It's not the best way to say that But I think you know what I'm getting at so this and this this issue I think more than anything else in my life perfectly encapsulate that it encapsulates this encapsulates this he tries to say because There is a comedic aspect to this. There is a humorous

aspect to this, right? Freeble go, just promoting it in such an aggressive way that nobody else has done other than Patty, his wife, on social media and stuff. You don't see other people doing this. You don't see other people as passionate. As far as I've been able to find on the internet about this issue, is I have been over the past? Well, he's been in prison for, he was in prison for almost eight years. I'd say my strong feelings emerge on this about five years ago is when I really started talking about it openly and frequently on social media and in person.

So that kind of aggressive campaign push, that's a humorous thing to me. But at the end of the day, the underlying drive behind it is serious. And I'm completely honest when I share that I think 14 years was a ridiculously long sentence for what he did. Now, you might think that makes me a total blago apologist I'm not. I think he's a total ass. But I thought he was a solid governor.

And I think what he did was wrong. I think he deserved to do a little time. But 14 years, I mean Pat Fitzgerald was just looking for somebody to screw over and he did that, not the Northwestern football coach, US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald. Use Blago as a poster child more or less, and I think it was wrong. So I'm glad. And I'll bring it full circle. I brought it back to the comedic piece.

If you haven't checked it out yet, yesterday afternoon when I got home from brunch, I spent a couple hours. This is what I do with my free time, in case you're wondering. And I made a little Blego tribute video. It's on YouTube, go to our YouTube channel, Confurnus, like us, subscribe, all that stuff. But it's the most recent video, it's pretty fun.

And there's even a little bit of my dance moves in there. It's a short video, it's under three minutes long. But Blego is free, I'm very happy to hear that. I learned, because it happened Tuesday, early afternoon, I had just left St. Louis starting a five hour drive back to Chicago, so it was not good timing. I really could only do a couple posts about it from the car, but you know, couldn't do a deep drive,

dive, couldn't release a full statement or anything until I got back at night. So I was kind of behind the news on Tuesday, which was too bad considering this is an issue that I usually am on the front lines of. But, Blagoa, it's just free and I'm happy to hear that. And, you know, we can put this matter to bed now. He's not allowed to run for office in Illinois. And I don't expect him to run for federal office because I don't think he'd do very well because I don't think he's very popular outside of Chicago.

But for anyone who's wondering who doesn't live here, I'm not kidding when I do say he's very popular in Chicago. I was having last thing on this. I was having drinks, if you're curious, tonic water and lime for me is my drink of choice. With my friend E. Burns, who maybe has been on the podcast, I don't think so.

I don't think so. Well, we were catching up, because she'd been in Europe for like 10 days. And we were catching about Thursday night. And it was just us in the bartender. And the bartender was kind of watching TV, kind of have listening to our conversation. But I start talking about this. And the bartender jumps in and is like, oh yeah, thank God he's out.

He was in way too long. And that's a pretty common sentiment in the city of Chicago. And he got a huge welcome home in his house and stuff on Wednesday or Thursday, whenever it was. I was not able to go, although I've been to his outside his house before, I've never been inside. But it's in Ravenswood, it's at like sunny side and Campbell, that's not the exact cross street.

Sunny side and Richmond, I think. It's just tough for me to get to, so I was not able to do it, plus I had to work. So that'll slay you down. But that's it. Freeblego, Grassroots Campaign did not think Trump would really listen to what we started. I didn't think I was going to catch his attention,

and I don't know really if our Twitter movement had much to do with it, but if it did, then it did. So that's all I got to say about that. OK, the last thing here I promise, because it's for longer than I wanted to talk, but talked about some things that are important to me today. The Bean Town podcast, Pledge Drive, Telephone Fundraiser 2020,

30th Annual was no other way to say it, gigantic success. And I'll be completely honest with you. I was nervous as hell going into last Saturday, eight days ago when we hosted the Telephone. It was a big production. There were a lot of moving pieces. I'm not even joking when I say this stuff.

There's a lot to try to keep track of, and I didn't know. How, what the reception is gonna be like, because I've been marketing and advertising the hell out of it. But oftentimes you do these things and you don't get a lot of engagement or feedback. It feels like you're talking into a black hole sometimes, which sometimes is true, sometimes it's not, so it's really hard to tell what you're going to get.

The listener turnout was fantastic. We had live streams going on Facebook and Instagram and you can watch the Facebook live feed on our YouTube page. We had about five or six people call in live on air, which was way more than we've ever had before. We had people calling in after a little bit saddened by the fact that the telephone was over. But of course, we were still accepting donations. And now I want to give a shout out to everyone who donated,

and then we'll talk about some higher level prizes real quick here. But that is, you know, if you met our threshold minimum donation, which I think is $10, $5 something like that, you receive a shout out. We're going through all 18 of our donations here and giving a quick shout out to everyone individually, though. And in case you're wondering, we are currently at $375

with a little bit more on the way from an aunt. And that smashed our goal of $299. So thank you to Matthew Feedler, who is a topaz elite member for the second Straight year and if we had it in the first year he would have been one there too Matthew's gonna be getting a live interview on the podcast look forward to that a new donor to the podcast Deji Ogunike a cousin of mine donated. Thank you so much Deji

Allie McPhillips all the way from Noble Square donated some cash. We really appreciate that. Kelly Vander Paul also a nice little donation there. Pretty nice little Saturday. Thank you for donating. Anonymous $10. Thank you very much. We appreciate that. David Fernis. Not Quindy Furnace, but Fernis, who happens to be my grandfather. He's in his mid-80s. He lives down in Texas, and he's a big fan of the show. So thank you to Grandpa Dave. Kyle Ru. This is a fun one. Kyle Ru is my first cousin once removes. How do you like that? If you don't understand how those things work, go look it up, but he donated from all the way up in Appleton, Wisconsin. Thank you so much.

Haley Benson has been on the podcast before. In fact, she was on the very first episode when we came up with the term, Hashtag Friend of the Podcast. So thank you to Haley Benson for that. Aaron Davila, a new contributor of the podcast. Long time, listen, her time caller, contributing $35. And guess what? He's a topaz elite member.

That means Aaron's going to be back on the podcast for his very own interview. Thank you very much. Matt Kinaine, a childhood friend now lives in Nashville. Recently became a father for the first time. Although you don't really become a father for the second or third time. So really the only time.

Thank you to Matt Kanai and down there in Nashville. We appreciate that and hope the preds can turn it around. Tariq Shahada, who we had brunch with literally an hour before the show started, came in clutch with a donation. Tariq is an amazing friend, a wonderful, delightful individual to spend time with. And if you don't know, he hosts his own show. It's called the Local Globe Podcast, and you're going to want to go listen to it. Oh, look at this. John Paul Pendowski has a very distinct connection to the Beantown Podcast, and it is this.

He was our guest on the highest ever ever rated Slesch most listened to being town podcast in show history guys We've been running this for 120-ish episodes. We've done a lot We've been in like 15 different states the most listened to episode was our 2019 NBA draft recap slash break down with John Paul Pendowski believe it or it or not, it's close to about 2000 hits online. I don't know why. It's a brilliant episode though. John Paul Pindowski, one of the funniest guests

we've ever had, if not the funniest, fantastic improv. Oh, here comes another Topaz Elite member, Hashtag Brother of the Podcast, Jack Fernis, all the way out in Manhattan, big money. He donated $35, that's about $2 out here in Chicago, but we appreciate it anyways. Jack is gonna be getting his own interview here in the podcast. Ant March, oh, that's clutch.

Common and hot with a donation to the podcast. Thank you very much, Ann Marge. Arguably our biggest Facebook supporter. It's very common these days that I post something that only gets one like like, like like. It gets one like or one reaction. And it's from Ann Marge. Big fan of the podcast.

Thank you very much. Steve Fernes, my father, donating, and in case you didn't put two and two together He's the owner of home pride organ. So little I Scratch your back you scratch me Abbie furnace sister of the podcast. Thank you very much for your donation. We really appreciate it And we'll keep it in the family Walter furnace also donating to the podcast down there in Texas, everything's bigger in Texas, even the donations. Thank you to both Abby and Walter Fernis for donating.

And then we finish it off with an anonymous $10 donation. I tell you what, the Bean Tom podcast is like the Bernie Sanders of podcasts because we're getting donations as little as $5 as much as $35. This is not a podcast funded by millionaires and billionaires, this is a podcast funded by the hashtag friends of the podcast. And from the bottom of my heart to everybody

who donated and is that the donations are still coming in or still expecting some more money from an aunt of the podcast. Thank you so much. I genuinely appreciate it. In case you didn't catch it, the first thousand times I said it, it's going towards our operating costs for 2020, which this year are operating costs who run our website, beantownpodcast.com. And if you've never read the Beantown blog,

well, this would be a great week to get started. Our most recent post was about comparing the 2020 Daytona 500 to the 2012 Daytona 500. And it's a painful memory for me to relive. So allow my pain to be your entertainment now on the Be bean town blog. It also runs towards our unlimited hosting through SoundCloud. They've been with us through Thicc and then we started up with them about five or six weeks into our podcast. So we've been with them for a little over I think two years at this point and

Yeah, this will be our third year hosting with them. So we appreciate that. And then new this year for the first time ever we're partnering with Wave and to just give you a brief summary. Basically what this is is it allows us to break down the podcast into bite-sized pieces of about 60 seconds. Throw some visuals over it. It makes it really easy to post on social media. And it's great for friends who still want to engage with the Beentown podcast and get a little taste of what we're doing weekend and week out without having to sit down and listen to an entire

55 minute episode. And again, we plan on making this one shorter. I don't even, you know, I, there were like three things I wanted to talk about today. We managed to stretch it out, which is just what happens when you become an experienced podcaster. So, though, that's, that's what our operating costs are. Pretty much everybody is going to be receiving a, a, a gift from us in the mail. It will include an autographed picture of Host of the Bean Tom Podcast, Quinn David Furnace, it will include an autographed picture of host of the bean

ton podcast, Quinn DeVie Furnace. It will include our ordained minister business card. And we might throw in a couple extra, you know, just to spread my seed far and wide across the country. And in some cases, internationally. So that's what's going on with the podcast. Thank you to everyone who donated. We really do appreciate it.

And all honesty it was fantastic. And I was nervous about this year, about how it was going to turn out. Because frankly, the podcast hasn't been as high of quality lately as I try to keep it up to be. So I was legitimately concerned. But you guys pulled through, you showed us some love and now let me show you some love

with some donor gifts here. So thanks to everyone who donated the 2020 telephone was a gigantic success. Lots of people called in, you can go listen to it on SoundCloud, Spotify, Apple Podcast, Google Play, it's on YouTube, all that stuff, the video feeds. So good times, good times. Okay, that's what I got for you. Apple podcast school play it's on YouTube all that stuff the video feeds so Good times good times. Okay, that's what I got for you. There's nothing else that I wanted to say here

ran through it all so thanks thanks for sticking with us in year three here and You know if you're listening to this at you know on Monday morning at the office you got this get that cup of coffee, get a little Quinn David furnace, and you know, it's a good time for everybody. So I was gonna say something else in the second half of that sentence, and I got distracted by a Facebook message from a friend who I've been talking to in a couple months. So we'll catch up on that. Okay, that's what I got for you.

No more filler, everyone, have a great week, be kind to one another and enjoy the Tishmingo Blues courtesy of your truly Quinn David Furness. Take it away. I'm just going to sit down. nd nd you