Beantown Podcast - Island Living Special (06272021 Beantown Podcast)

Episode Date: June 27, 2021

Quinn comes to you LIVE with a prerecorded show to discuss the differences between the Dominican Republic and Dominica, how to pronounce 'Caribbean,' and what on earth is going on down in Anguilla

Hey, what's going on? It's Quinn David Furnace. Welcome to my show. Quinn David Furnace presents the bean town podcast for Sunday, June 27th. Oh, boy, it's, it's a, it's a birthday. It's a birthday. Mother of the podcast, I just realize this now, and I'll tell you why, because I am unashamedly, unabashedly, and unforgivingly recording this show on the morning, early morning, under the cover of darkness nearly on Monday, June 21st. I'm recording this and not to get into the weeds with

pre recording and why I'm doing this this and that but going to the Dominican Republic on June 22nd and returning later in the day on Sunday the 27th and there was no way in how I was going to bring all my recording equipment to the Dominican Republic nor try to squeeze in a late show on Sunday after all that travel and I would never ever come out with a late show for you coming out after the weekend unless unless there's a severe nuclear fissure or reactor meltdown or if I had appendicitis and it got infected you know these are it's a short list of things that would cause a delay and an international trip does not fall into those categories.

But I just realized this happy birthday to my mom, Dr. Jane Dennis and Fern is affectionately known around the house as Dr. J. Mom is turning 59 again this year which is a big big milestone But mom happy birthday. We love you and Hopefully the the Wi-Fi and the resort is good so I was able to Say happy birthday to you this morning. I'm talking about ourselves in the future Which is but I'm talking about our past selves by the time you listen to it. We're doing a little space time continuum flexing here today.

It is our island living podcast. It's kind of like, you know how wheel of fortune, they always got a fun little theme like island living or live from Broadway or, you know, we're here at the Epcot Studios in Orlando, Florida or live from Pat St. Jack's Republican CPAC press conference. Pat say jacks Republican CPAC press conference you know they always have some some goofy high jinx lined up for us the folks at at the wheel by the time you're listening to this my vacation will be just about over or already over, but I got to tell you, I'm pretty excited. We are going to

Poon Tukana for five days. We splurged, we're doing all expenses paid drinks, child labor. There's a disco tech open six nights a week and we purposefully took Monday off. The one day we're not there on our trip is a Monday, which is technically when I'm recording this, so that we could hit the Disco Tech six days in a row. And I figure by the time we get today six, they'll know us so well that we can put in any special request we want. That's when I bring in the Elton John 90s face. We're gonna be doing a little Caribbean rundown or preview.

You know, one thing I like to do, which I haven't been able to do at all in the last year and a half, is talk in depth, give previews, etc. about the places I've been, the places I'm going, and I guess we were able to do that ever so slightly back in November when I did my road trip series when we are out in New England and upstate New York. That was great. But before then, I think the last time I really got to do anything was our Alabama rant,

which is already, you know, some 70, 75 episodes ago, you may or may not remember it. I think it was one of our better episodes from that season. It was right early on in the beginning. It was like January, February, 2020. But we're going to be talking about the Caribbean, the Caribbean, Caribbean, who knows? That's right where we'll pick it up today. I'll mention listener discretion is advised when you're listening to being Tom podcast number one

Podcasts objectively terrible number two located in use some language and I already used hell and I got to tell you in my like post Christian upbringing the fact that hell in any capacity is considered by some to be a curse or swear word of some kind is just whatever happened to separation of church and state. was for the last 25 years of American history. I felt comfortable. I felt good about our separation of church and state in this country, but now that I'm thinking about it, it's not as good or not as strong. So maybe Joe Biden should make that his number one priority. Caribbean or Caribbean? Why do we have two widely accepted pronunciations? Why can't we just settle on one?

Here's the thing. Pirates of the Caribbean, very popular Disney World ride slash Kier Knight Lee movie franchise also starring Stalin's Garg guard in the sequels But everyone says Pirates of the Caribbean I never heard anyone say Pirates of the Caribbean it just doesn't work If you say that three times Jeffrey Rush will appear out of thin air and shoot you with a musket, I guess Pirates don't really carry muskets.

I just wanted to say it. Musketeer, that's the Xavier team, right? What a great team name. Musketeer, that's the Xavier team, right? What a great team name, Musketeers. But I gotta tell you, I'm on Wikipedia here, which is gonna be really beneficial for us on today's episode. I'm also gonna need to pull up a map here. The Oxford Online Dictionaries claim that the stress on the second syllable, which is

Caribbean, I think. I think that's how that works, is the most common pronunciation in the Caribbean itself. But according to the dictionary of Caribbean slash Caribbean English usage, the most common pronunciation in Caribbean English, stress the first syllable instead. I don't really know what that means. What is Caribbean English? Let's click the hyperlink. The word Caribbean consistently ranks as one of the most misspelled words in the English

language. Well, I can't speak to that because I'm kind of an expert Speller, Caribbean, C-A-I-R. Wait, it's too early. It's literally 7 a.m. and we're trying to spell. C-A-R-I-B-B-E-A-N, Caribbean. Caribbean English dialects of the English language are spoken in the Caribbean and Liberia. Okay. When we're talking Caribbean countries, don't forget. Most countries of the Caribbean coast of Central America and Guiana and Cernam. Cernam, Cernam, that he is just kind of there. Cernam, S-U-R-I-N-A-M-E, on the coast of South America. Okay, yada, yada, yada.

There's other things I wanted to get back to. The etymology. There's a big word for you. ET Phone Home. Etymology. The region takes its name from that of the caribs, not caribou. Okay, all my flora and fauna folks just hold on. An ethnic group present in the lesser Antilles, one of my favorite Antilles groups, that of the lesser variety.

And parts of adjacent South America at the time of the Spanish conquest of the Americas. Oh boy. I once did a 20 page research paper. I put the term research in quotations because it was taken a history class at Rock Valley College from beleaguered and beloved professor. It was taken a history class at Rock Valley College. From beleaguered and beloved professor, I don't think beleaguered is a word,

but it's similar to a word that exists that I don't really understand, so it's there. Professor Martin W. Quirk, I think his middle name starts with a W, but I don't know. I just kind of added it in there. And these classes were literally you show up every day hour and a half. He would lecture for an hour and a half straight and a good lecturer. And you would just take handwritten notes for 90 minutes. And it was the same thing every day on a new topic.

Basically, the whole class from start to finish was like one audiobook, one continuous audiobook. I think the class I took were American History Pre 1865, and then American History post 1865. So I, this research paper I did on the Spanish conquest of the Americas was in that first class. And essentially he just start from, you know, 1492 or whatever and had a one continuous lecture that went from 1492 to 1865,

which there's not too much to cover there, but you would just get a 90 minute chunk and then stop and then you show up to class two days later and that the next 90 minute chunk would pick up right where you left off. And that's how the class worked. And the final paper, I don't even really remember there being guidelines of any kind. Because what I really ended up doing,

and I don't feel badly about it, because I didn't feel directed, nor did I feel compelled. I literally just got, because what I recall from the assignment was write a 20 page research paper and have on a topic of which we, you know, had to pick names out of a hat or something. I don't know. And have like 10 20 sources, primary sources or secondary sources. I don't know whatever. Books from the library. Yadda yadda yadda. And I literally wrote 20 pages.

Here's exactly what I did. And for all the historians, all the academics out there, you're gonna cringe, but 16 year old Quinn honestly doesn't feel bad about it. Or 26, well for sure, 16 year old Quinn didn't feel bad about it. In hindsight, 10 years ago, still don't really feel bad about it, because this was just a run out the clock. Grab your A and go type situation.

I literally sat down with a Wikipedia article for the Cortez conquest of the, I was going to say, the Andes. That's a mountain range and a delicious thin mint chocolate. Of the Aztecs, another A word. Not only delicious taco shells, but also an ancient civilization. Well, not necessarily ancient, but

last modern than today. I pulled up the Wikipedia page for that. I'm more or less paraphrased or just, I guess this is a form of plagiarism, I don't really know. Rote took the story that the Wikipedia article told and then told it in my own words. And since I didn't really give a flying SHIT about what I was writing about, I would just, at any point in the paper, when it felt like a good time to have a source, you know, maybe I'd gone a couple sentences without any sort of quote or idea of some kind.

I would just grab a book randomly and I think at the end of the day there was a little bit more precision to it than just randomly. But that, you know, in hindsight, that's, or 10 years later, that's kind of what it felt like. Opened up a source, found something that was relevant to the point in the story where I was, and through it in there did my little MLA citation on citation.com or whatever we used. There was a specific site we always used. Birthday mom, Dr. Jade would probably remember. I say Dr. Jade, Jane. It's tough because sometimes I say Dr. Jane, sometimes I say Dr. J as a reference to Julia serving and then other times other sounds slip in. And next thing I know I got a 20 page paper and here's why I

really don't feel bad about it because in the last day class you bring up your paper. You take a, I don't remember if we had like a final exam or what, but you show up, you bring your paper, print it out, so it's a thick stack. And in front of the class, not out loud or anything, but just while everyone else is still taking their tests, if you're, let's say, the first person to go up, you hand your paper. He literally pages through it as if he was a speed reader spending approximately one and a half seconds per page. He does that for each page. He turns back to the front, if you're a little cover page, and gives you a hands-eerie paper back, and you walk out.

And so, I spent probably way less time on that paper than what should have been spent on it, slash what some other people spent on it. I'm sure I spent a lot more time than other people in the class. But you do all that. And I'm not saying it's Dr. Quirk's prerogative to spend a lot of time or not a lot of time.

He can do what he wants to do. But my feelings on that are that if he's going to take 30 seconds, literally, not an exaggeration, maybe even less than that, to grade a 20-page paper, then I don't feel like I really need to do that much. Because I was never, and here's basically my thesis statement of this whole five-minute story, when I went to school and the academics listening to this are gonna drop a tear from this but I was never in school outside of some music classes to learn. I was there to get in A. And it's

just a specific learning type. It's a, it's called strategic learning. And I was pretty damn good at it because I graduated college with a 3.95. And then now I'm done. And I got a master's degree and I feel good. So all that is to say something about the Spanish conquest of the Caribbean. And I think after having told that story, I'm probably more of a Caribbean guy myself,

because of pirates of the Caribbean. Okay. Caribbean just sounds like you gotta get in there quick with the stress. And oftentimes when I start saying it, I, my tongue and to a lesser extent, my cheeks and mouth muscles in general need some more time to kind of warm up and get into it. Caribbean is just like whoa slow down.

Bye guy drink first Caribbean. It's a little bit more laid back smooth and sexy. We're going to the Dominican Republic and And in the second half of the program, which I wouldn't say this episode is going to be short, but I'm not going to babble on too much longer because I got stuff to do. I got to work today, believe it or not. I also have to pack for an international trip and expedition of sorts. So we're really just trying to spend a little bit of time on this, have it happen, and then move on to the next thing. But I've thought about this actually not frequently, but in the past.

What is going on with this? You've got the Dominican Republic and you've got Dominica. Can someone explain? What is happening there? I understand, you know, you're probably named after Saint Dominicus, who was presumably some sort of Spanish priest who gave a lot of natives syphilis in the 16th century. So I understand it. Why you'd want to name yourself? Why you would want to hit your

Wagon to that guy? But do you call if you're from Dominica? Which if you don't really know, it's a smaller island and I believe the Lesser Antilles, it's an island nation. Do you call yourself Dominican, if you're from Dominican? And if so, I can imagine there would be all sorts of confusion that would occur in those islands. Probably some hoodwinking of the light and playful variety, but hoodwinking nonetheless. So, I decided no one was going to answer this question for me, just like the rest of my life, I would have to do it myself.

Whether it was a construction project or baking a pie, such as key lime or lemon meringue, meringue is a fun word. Or I don't know, something else to make it a rule of three where I did it myself. What's the difference between Dominican Republic and Dominican? Well, I know the difference, but I wanted to get some more in-depth analysis. So I turned to Google and the first hit I got, and I don't, let's see, what did I Google? It was Dominican Republic, first Dominican. So you had to wait through some soccer scores, but then the next hit I got was from Loop Caribbean News, a three-minute read, a title, Dominica

is not the Dominican Republic, 10 things about the island. So here's the thing, here's the list. And the reason I'm sharing this is because I perused the first couple and I found it comical. And I haven't read the full list, so hopefully it's interesting. There's ten of them, I think they said. Number one, Dominica had 13 homicides reported up until July 7, 2017.

I'm not shading you. This is a list titled Dominican Republic, 10 things about the island, and that's the first thing on their list. They have 13 homicides reported in the year 2017 up until July 7, 2017. So already I'm feeling a lot more knowledgeable. You know if I get to the Diminkian Republic and we're driving, being driven from the airport to the resort and all of a sudden this driver starts making some small talk, I you know I could whip out that fact. Now granted I'm only halfway there because I only know the fact in English. So let's pull up Google Translate and put it in. Number two, Dominica had a population of 73,897,

as of July 2017, according to the Central Intelligence Agency Factbook. That means that hundreds of thousands of Dominicans spelled D-O-M-I-N-I-C-A-N apostrophe S won't flock to Trinidad as had been expressed in the public domain. Now I wasn't aware of that new story, but it's interesting that a country of 73,000 people could have hundreds of thousands of islanders flocking to Trinidad. Number three, Dominica is not the same as the Dominican Republic. Okay, well, we finally got there. Glad to have that out in the open. For Dominican-speaking English and some French petois, whatever that means, P-A-T-O-I-S. Okay, the rest of that's not interesting.

Oh, number five, here we go. It's good to get back to the hard-hitting stats. In terms of statistics for HIV-AIDS, Dominica is reporting a total of 444 confirmed cases since the outbreak of the disease in 1987. Okay, I'm glad we had that at number five, because I was worried it wasn't going to make it in the top half of the disease in 1987. Okay, I'm glad we had that at number five, because I was worried it wasn't gonna make it in the top half of the list.

Number six is about religions, number seven. Dominica has no military force, except for the Commonwealth of Dominica police force, which includes the Coast Guard. I love a good police force. I love a good police state. I love a good police state number eight Dominica has been listed as a minor trans shipment point for narcotics bound for the US and Europe Excellent number nine Dominica's national dish is the mountain chicken

Which are the legs of a wait, okay? The mountain chicken which are the legs of a frog called the giant ditch frog Which is native to Dominica and Matsurad So the mountain chicken is not a chicken at all It is in fact the name of frog legs of a giant ditch frog That's absolutely wild, man. I'm looking at this frog. It's big, but I wouldn't call it a giant, okay?

It's kind of like a large frog, but in no way would I characterize the thing as giant. All right, I'm sure the mountain chicken legs are tasty. Number 10 is more about its lush greenery. And then at the end of the article, it just says, in 2015, Dominica-Vase Tropical Storm, Erica, which saw 30 people dead, and was said to be the deadliest storm to hit the island since 1979.

And that's just kind of how they close this article. I'm not sure if they got, you know, the best journalists in the Caribbean to write this article, but it was written nevertheless. I want to give a shout out to Home Pride organ. He's my dad. Last week was Father's Day, Happy Father's Day to Steve. Folks, if you live in Central Oregon and you need a home inspection provider, you're going to want to trust the experts.

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which is a you know if we were gonna have like a if you were going to make like a poster of little bean-tom podcast you know phrases references objects you know, phrases, references, objects, you know, anything related to the show, rock, Chris would have to, you'd probably just have a rock with the word Chris on it. And if you don't know, it was just, he was just a toboggan. What do they call you when you're from Togo?

Probably Tabagan. He wanted to get going on a mine investment, I think, of some kind, gold or blood diamond something, and it was an all-time classic story, because we had a significant email exchange, where I flipped to the tables on them. But anyways, oh, I mentioned this with my phone number lately and I've heard other people

have had similar issues. There's been a lot of like spam group texts started and I might have even mentioned this before. They come from emails such as this one from 815-2987-430 at vtex.com and it's just one message that says meetsexysingle.holiday. I think we talked about this before. There's not even a call to action. It's not even a website. It's just like the most low effort spam.

Like what is this? What am I supposed to do with this? But then we got one. Well, there are a lot that came in yesterday. But one came in at 1229 that didn't even have a message. But the group text got feisty. People started talking because there's 20 people on this group text who were all real numbers presumably, brought together by spam. And it was basically just like F you and then someone else said, yeah, F you quit texting

my shit. And then we started talking about Father's Day and the love and comfort of a father figure. And it was one of the most wholesome things I've ever seen. And just a great Father's Day when we could be brought together by spam texts. Part two of today's episode is a much shorter part. I thought it would be fun to just pull up a map and look at some of these islands. So starting in the west, you got Cuba. It's kind of long and skinny.

And I don't really know what's going on down there, you know? They're still kind of communist, but the relations seem to have gotten better. But it's like if you go down there and say you're American, are they going to shoot you? I don't know. I'm not taking that chance. There's also this little island part of Cuba I assume that's just south of the kind of western tip called Isla de la Yuvantude Which translates to

Island of the youth I think in Cuban And the only other thing I can really say about Cuba. I love a good Cuban sandwich Absolutely delicious. North of Cuba and just east of Florida, southeast of Florida, you have the Bahamas, which are an interesting kind of chain of islands here. You have Grand Bahama, you have Great Abako, you have Governors Harbor, which I don't know what island that is, it's the skinniest little look in island you've ever seen. It's like the width of one road practically. The whole thing is like a road and a beach. That's incredible that that hasn't just sunk into the ocean yet. Then you got this big looking guy, I don't know what the name of this island is, but he's huge. And

out to the left there's kind of some cool looking like marsh of some sort. But then I and I didn't even know this. I always just assumed that Nassau, the capital of the Bahamas, would be on this big-looking island. But it's not. There's this tiny little guy to the east of that big island. And I don't really know what the name of this island is, because it doesn't tell me on the map. But maybe it's just called Nassau Island, I don't know. But it's where the Lyndon Pindling International Airport is. We're next to Lake Kalarni. Apparently, the Bahamas were colonized by the Irish.

I never knew that. And you got NASA, the capital, which I think has like 4,000 people in it. As I scrolled in, NASA, the first thing that popped up was NASA PEST control. It seems like a big job. I feel like there would just be a lot of pests there, traditionally, historically. So I'm sure they have lots of business. But where do you put the pests once you get them? Because it's a pretty small island, and there's not a lot of room. You go east of Cuba, you got Turks and Kekos, which is a pretty fun name to say. I see North Kekos, Middle Kekos, East Kekos, and South Cacos.

Very straightforward, I appreciate that. But where's Turks? I don't know. Nearby, I assume. But it was not clearly, this one is called Enagua, the West Indies. A lot of little islands here. Crooked Island, Long Island, Cat Island,

Georgetown, Black Point. Wow, it sounds like a filter on Instagram. Then you got Hispanola, a pretty big island. On one half of Yacht-Hady, which was colonized by the French and kind of left for dead. There's a lot of poverty there from what I can tell, and this big, long-looking peninsula type thing. That's where all the people, all the Christian kids in high school go

to build a school and bring chickenpox and then they get out a dodge before there can be any ramifications. And then on the east side of the island you got the Dominican Republic and all the way to the east end is a little place, a little slice of paradise, Puntacana, and that's where we're going. Tomorrow, and by the time you listen to this, I'll be back, probably. What a place, how did great time love it? I'm very tan now, and I speak fluent Spanish.

Then you go east to there, you got Puerto Rico. Remember with Trump would say, Puerto Rico, he would just be talking his normal diatribe and then all of a sudden like a light bulb, he would go from Yadia, Yadia, Yadita, Puerto Rico. It was insane. Puerto Rico has a very pleasant shape. It's almost like a perfect rectangle. But the east side gets messed up a little bit. It's probably from the hurricane that they had a couple of years ago. But it's a nice place.

And maybe someday it'll be a state. And I'll add it to my list of you know go to all the states. Then you got a whole bunch of little guys. I think these are the lester and tillies you got the British Virgin Islands. You got the US Virgin Islands could be a good they could have like a beach volleyball match for the fate of the islands could be good if they make another pirate to the Caribbean movie there's a plot okay brokheimer I won't even charge that much in royalties you got angia you never hear anything about

angia who does it belong to I don't know I know you're thinking oh he oh you mean Antigua no we, we're getting there. There's Anguia, ANGUILA, St. Kitson Nevis. I feel like I would be more of a St. Kits guy, but Nevis looks nice too. Then you got Antigua and Barbuda. I never really knew this because you just hear the name and it is what it is. Barbuda is this tiny looking guy with like half of a city.

I don't think there's a lot of action going on there. Antico seems to be the place to be. Then you got Montserrat, we talked about that already. You got Guadalupe, you got Dominica, featured heavily previously on the show, Martenique, St. Lucilla, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the grenadines don't forget those grenadines. St. Vincent as you might expect seems like the place to be on that island. You got Grenada. Classic, one of my favorite US invasions was in Grenada and then we get down, you got Trinidad and Tobago.

Boy Tobago is this very small looking guy. Trinidad is huge, it's a lot going on. It kind of looks like a peep. And then over, you got the Dutch Indies, is that what they're called? The Ruba Curacao and this other guy here, Bonair. Not to be confused with Lisa Bonay. And the only island I really forgot here, well, you got the Caymans we're going back towards Cuba. And then you got Jamaica.

My dad's been there. It's like a pretty wild time. Montego Bay, Runaway Bay, Ocho Rios, and the Blue Mountains National Park. It's the whole island right there. That was just a little rundown of the Caribbean. And if I had more time, I would have given you an in-depth analysis of each one.

But those were just some of my quick hitting, quick hitter thoughts. Pretty much the last 15 minutes. Someone has been opening my screen door. You know, I got one door in and out of this apartment. I got my main door, but then there's also a screen door, which is kind of fun, but it's also a pain in the ass because I can absolutely hear very clearly. Anytime anyone opens up my screen door and typically it's just the mailman because I have a mail slot in my actual door, but not in the screen door.

But this morning someone's just been open in the screen door. And it's making me very nervous and anxious and I'm not having a good time. So we're going to stop it there because I'm just a nervous wreck right now. And that's a great way to start your Monday morning. But everyone, I hope you're enjoying your summer. Next week I suppose will be our salute to patriotism slash nationalism. On the Bean Tom podcast, forget 4th of July weekend is next weekend already, which is crazy. But everyone, I hope that you are doing okay. I hope I hope at some point in your life, you get to have a little taste of island living.

And we'll talk all about the trip more so coming up. I also wanted to just briefly give a shout out to the Anderson family. I was up in Wisconsin last weekend with College of Mate, Sam Anderson and his parents. And they have an Airbnb the whole week up at the Channel Lakes near Wapaka, W-A-U-P-A-C-A, and they were very kind to host me.

And we had lots of food and drinks, and went out on the boat, and Greg did some skiing. We had a little badminton tournament, which Sam and I were crowned champions, a little mini-golf outing, and the last thing I'll say here beyond thanks to, again to the Anderson's

for their kindness and generosity. If you ever get the chance, you're ever up in the Channel Lakes Wisconsin. You gotta visit the Tom Thumb mini golf course. It's one of the most challenging, esteemed, well-respected mini golf courses in the Great Lakes region. You got to play Tom Thumb. And the last hole, they got the thing where you kind of shoot

it up into the cage and so you don't get your ball back, whatever. This one is a clown and there's holes in the eyes and the nose and if it's slanted, so if you don't hit it into any of those, just falls down into the mouth. But if you hit it into the nose on your first putt on the 18, you get a price.

And obviously it's this, the tiniest of tiny rinky dink all the way back in the woods mini golf course that you would have to stumble upon in order to access but I didn't get it on my first putt but the ball came back and I remember exactly what happened. I had a second shot, and I got it right into that clown's nose, and I was just gonna be like whatever. Like, obviously I don't want the prize, nor need the prize, nor did I earn the prize,

because it wasn't my first putt, but then it makes this big buzzing noise. Like if you're playing operation and you hit cavity, Sam, is that what his name is? Something buzzing noise. Like if you're playing operation and you hit cavity Sam, is that what his name is? Something like that. So the guys, guys like, oh, congratulations. Like no, it wasn't. It wasn't my first one, it was my second one.

And he was like, thank you for your honesty. And I was worried that he was about to have a, just a freak out because maybe winning the prize just about puts them out of business. So I was like, no, I'm not going to claim my $100,000 prize and that got a laugh out of them. Later, I learned the prize, a free game at Tom Thumb and a six inch sub from Subway, which I tell you what, when they instituted that prize was probably about two dollars nowadays It's like eight dollars subway is insane

but No, I did not did not make a fuss to not want my prize But shout out to Tom Thumb I actually went on their website when I got home last night and sent them a little message Not chewing them out. More of an uplifting. Thanks for having me today kind of message. But that was fun last weekend in Wisconsin. Nice to get away for a little bit.

A little pre-vacation vacation, which was nice. That's what I got for you today folks. Thanks for tuning in. Another great installment of the Bean Tom Podcast. I believe this is episode 181 something like that. So our quest for 200 is coming soon. I think it happens in like November. I suppose I could map it out by now. It would be too hard, but coming up soon our 200th episode only four to five months away. That's what we were doing today. Thanks for listening. I'm going to work. I hope everyone stays safe, stay

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