Beantown Podcast - Live from the Foot Bath (07122020 Beantown Podcast)

Episode Date: July 12, 2020

Quinn comes to you LIVE with his new foot bath to talk about literally nothing. Because of quarantine.

Hey, what's going on? It's Quinn David Furnace. Welcome to my show Quinn. It was Furnace presents the bean town podcast for Sunday July 12, 2020. What's going on? How are you? My name is Quinn. This is my show. This is my voice. I'm the showrunner producer set designer. Well, what it is, this is of course an audio only cast today. I just decided I didn't really have too much to say, and I wasn't too much to look at. I need to shower. But I put a shirt on, even though there's no video option.

So consider yourself lucky. Yeah, no camera this week, maybe next week, I don't know, it's kinda like, and we've had two video casts so far. So you can tell us, you know, email us beantimepodcastyahoo.com against beantimebeans.com and hotcastayahoo.com. You know, tell us, you know, if you like looking at it,

I just can't imagine, you know, it's one thing to listen to a podcast for 45 minutes, whatever our show links have been recently, but, you know, it might be nice to see me, I guess, but there's never anything interesting going on Right, I'm just sitting here in the couch whether you can see me or not. I promise that's that's what's going on and You know, I'm not I'm not crazy enough To do any wild editing of any you you know, any kind, I suppose I could, you know,

go through and, you know, put in fun images or sound effects. We've done some sound effects in the past, not necessarily through Grudge Band, but we had one episode with the Stacey King Soundboard, which didn't even really relate to anything we were talking about. It was just there. But you know, I just feel like it takes a lot of time, especially on my old Mac. Trying to do it from the retirement home practically. So yeah, audio only today, and I think that's okay.

Speaking of set design, though, we had a fun new addition to the apartment that got delivered yesterday. And I am trying it out for the first time right now. I don't think you can hear it. I did a little audio test before we actually started recording to make sure everything was gonna to be okay with it. I'm pretty sure you can't really notice it. Maybe if you're really using headphones and pump up the volume, but I got a foot bath,

a foot massaging bath of sorts, bought it online, never had one before. It's pretty simple. It's got you know some little rollers in the bottom of it and it's got trifecta bubble action and I put some Epsom salt in there that I've had for like four years. It's a treat, you know? My feet aren't even like sore or necessarily in need of a massage, it just seemed like a fun thing to have. That I've been talking about getting one of these,

not for a while, but just like, I was having a conversation with someone, I don't know if it was my brother or who it was, but about how I would love to have a a foot bath to just take out onto the porch in the summer and sit out there and sip a cool beverage and you know get the deluxe spa treatment. Well Well the only cool beverage we've got here is water. But the foot bath is kind of cool. You know I didn't I didn't I didn't splurge for the triple deluxe model the the P3000. I got the the intermediate version. But it's nice. It's got some kind of, you know, a couple, like,

rolly-poly things on the bottom for your feet. And it's got vibration action. It's got bubble action. It can be anywhere from 95 degrees up to, like, it's like 110, 115, something like that. So it's just kind of nice to have, you know, I figure it will do all sorts of perforating and exfoliating and mitosis and reverse osmosis into the, you know, cuts and pores and calluses and dead skin cells on my feet and all that good stuff. Been running a lot lately. So you know, you

got to, you got to treat your feet sometimes. Treat your feet. I'm going to be honest with you. Five and a half minutes into this week's podcast. And that was like the centerpiece of discussion. The new foot bath, the foot massager. I don't really have anything else. In fact, I almost feel like, I don't know what, what if Rachel spiked the coffee or something this morning, I honestly, I have no idea why, but I honestly almost feel like I just had an edible or something.

I just feel very like tranquil, at peace, relaxed. My heart rate is, heart rate, heart rate is coming in at a hot, let's see. I don't even, let's break out the stopwatch. I'll tell you what you take it for 15 seconds, multiply by four. I'll tell you live on air.

This week on the Bean Tom podcast, Quinn checks his heart rate. Wow. Must see television. All right, hang on. Let's do this right here. All right, so I'm going to... You start the stopwatch.

Goes to 15. You come in, you beat, then you multiply by four, and that's your heart rate. All right, let me make sure I got my pulse here. Mike, Richard Simmons, and sweat to the oldies. Check your pulse, check your pulse. Kind of sounded like Louis Anderson. I guess they have kind of similar voices.

All right. Here we go. It's gonna be some dead air for 15 seconds, okay? Bear with us. All right, we're sitting at a cool 40 beats per minute. Right now. With the foot bath going. But yeah, that's the thing. Even when I was riding the bus from Rachel's place,

back up to Rogers Park, and I got groceries and now I'm here doing this podcast. It's about midday, it's about 12.45 pm. Gonna watch the NASCAR race later. Maybe if it ends at a solid time, go out by the lake, Well, we'll see. But I'm just like, and I haven't been high very often in my life.

I'm thinking like twice, both off of edibles. But it honestly feels like someone like threw an edible into my coffee this morning. I don't know what it is. It's a great way to feel. Nice to have that Sunday relaxation going. I was even worried because he's getting working meals this morning, which is not a normal thing. I do not normally get working meals on a Sunday morning. But I was concerned that that might, you know, things might go a different way, but no, you feel good right now, you know.

I think what really helps is the fact that it is a beautiful day out, and not, you know, this week in Chicago has been really toasty. Like, the feels like it's been hovering around 100 during the day, most of the days. But today, we're talking like mid 70s and breezy and kind of sun poking in and out of the clouds. It might not be perfect beach weather,

but I tell you what, it is great weather for those of us that don't have air conditioning. Sitten on the couch, Cregs' couch, sip in some water, getting my feet pulsated and Air aided by this deluxe new foot bath We'll see you know, we'll see what kind of what kind of results I get you know my feet Been right in you know 30 to 40 miles a week for about what? almost Probably about three months straight now with having missed a day haven't missed a day. Haven't missed a day. My running routine, Monday through Thursday, shorter runs, which when I was just getting into this routine back in March was three miles, four miles,

if I was pushing it. And now, this past week for the first time, which was always my goal, I got to 10K a day, Monday through Thursday. And it was hot. It was very sweaty. We did, I did not run with a shirt once this week. And then a longer run on, uh, yesterday, I ran a half marathon. But over the course of this training routine is any serious runner nose. Your feet go through different phases regarding calluses and blisters and dead skin and all that stuff. So every week is something different. I haven't

had any like new blisters in the past maybe two months or so. I still got, you know, they're not really blisters anymore, but just remnants where they used to be. But, you know, they're not painful or anything, which is good. Whole lot of calluses and a lot of dead skin. My point being, we'll see how this foot bath does with handling all of that. We'll see how this foot bath does with handling all of that.

We'll see. T, B, D. So what's going on? It's kind of mid-summer. Went to a patio twice this week. War my face mask. But, you know, just trying to... I wouldn't even say I'm trying to, like, be social at this point,

because I'm not just trying to maintain friendships, relationships, etc. You know? It's hard. A lot of my friends have moved on into the return to normal sea phase and they're not all, you know, doing the face mask thing. Which shouldn't even be a thing at this point. It should just be the expectation. But you know, taking vacations, going out to bars, going on dates, and I don't know, I'm just not, I just not feeling that quite yet, especially the indoor space. I was nervous yesterday, so we go to this back beer patio. And it was like an outdoor space in quotation marks.

Like the whole thing is covered. And you're not getting any airflow. You're walled in but we were for the most part the only ones there it still wasn't ideal but you know do your best Anyways, just sitting here feeling kind of high. Looking at my statue of Mother Mary on the windowsill, feels like she's about to start saying something. I got quite an eclectic windowsill going here, and I would love to keep adding to it. I have our full-time members right now are a statue of mother Mary, a little one, you know, it's maybe six inches tall. I found that I was in, I was walking around

Baltimore one day, maybe two years ago or so. And there is this abandoned wheelchair from the Johns Hopkins Hospital. And we were not, it was not close to a Hopkins hospital. I was on the, you know, Northwest side of downtown, two miles away from the hospital. And in the wheelchair, this is a true story, and it's not a long story. In the wheelchair was a statue of Mother Mary and a copy of Zootopia.

DVD, no, Blu-ray, Blu-ray copy of Zootopia. I took both of them, I left the wheelchair. To this day, Zootopia is the only film I own. I have it, I'm looking at it on the shelf right now. It's right in between, oh you guys, this, this, this is a stream of consciousness podcasts today in case you didn't get the memo. 14 minutes and 45 seconds in, but we're digging up some good stuff here.

The Zootopia Blu-ray copy is the only film I own. And it's in between my book copies of Transpodding by Irwin Walsh. Great, great book. If you're not familiar with transporting, there's the you and the Danny Baker. That's not his name. Danny Boyle, excuse me, I went to high school with a Danny Baker. It's about seven feet tall. Danny Boyle filmed from 1996. Someone can check us on that. I'm feeling too high, too lazy. Again, I don't know why I feel like baked, but maybe it's the foot bath combo with the nice breezy weather. I don't know. And a 40 beats permanent heart rate.

Transpiting is great. You and McGregor is in the movie. The book is fantastic. They're both solid. One's not better than the other. The book, you know, tells more per usual. But, and then on the other side, I got my Freddie Prince Jr. back to the kitchen cookbook. Wow. My friend Amy, when I graduated from grad school and was scaring to move the Baltimore, I leave Chicago back in 2017. My friend Amy gave me a Freddie Prince Jr. cookbook and a ice tray that's like instead of normal ice cubes, they're emoji circular faces, which I still have to this day. I just filled it up with ice this

morning, like 45 minutes ago. I just learned my friend Amy's coming back to Chicago. She's starting law school here in the fall, which is like a month away, which is very exciting. So it all comes full circle on the Bean tub podcast. But that's where my copy of Zootopia is and then the other thing I got from Wheelchair is a statue of Mother Mary.

Statue-Wet is maybe a better way to put it. I don't know. What's the cutoff between a statue and a statue-Wet? Someone's gonna have to let us know. The other full-time members currently, there are three on my living room windowsill a I don't even know it's like a toy I guess the incredible Hulk It's hard to describe without you being able to see it exactly like what it is, but imagine just like a

plastic Flat back and then the Hulk like half of him is like busting out of it and they're like fake rocks attached to it as well. So it's like he's busting you know through the wall. So it's not like a Hulk toy, it's like Hulk busting through the wall. Like I don't even I don't even know if you call it a toy because you can't really play with it, it just sits there. My friend PJ gave that to me. I don't remember why. I't even know if you call it a toy because you can't really play with it. It just sits there. My friend PJ gave that to me. I don't remember why. I've had it for a while though.

And then our newest addition is the Duncan Keith Floss holder courtesy of Delta Dental. Rachel and I on our what third date maybe, second or third date went to a Chicago Black Hux game. One of the last games they played at the United Senate before COVID hit. They beat the Edmonton Oilers and it was the Duncan Keith floss holder giveaway. And so I have mine literally like two weeks later at a St. Patrick's Day Party at her house, hers was stolen, which is just a really awful thing to do. I should mention listener discretion is advised and you awful thing to do. I should mention

listener discretion is advised and you're listening to the bean-town podcast number one. Well occasionally tell some troubling stories of stealing Dunkin' Keith Flossholders. Number two, podcast is objectively terrible and I apologize for today. I really tried my darnedest to come up with something good to say. We've been on a good streak lately. But today I was just feeling like, just relax, you know, and I got no good stories. What I was going to say is the really shitty thing to do. But speaking about stealing Dunkin' Keith Flossholder, but what I was going to say is, it's always been tough to do, you know,

a weekly bean-town podcast because my life isn't all that exciting,, it's always been tough to do, you know, a weekly bean town podcast because my life isn't all that exciting, but it's even tougher under quarantine. The last four months, have just been a struggle, getting material. You know, because if you've been following our show for the full 130 plus episode run, you know that a lot of what I do is dependent on what I've been doing that week, as well as where in the

world I'm traveling. And lately, all I've been doing throughout the week has been working, running, eating one meal a day, which we'll do a full weight loss episode later in the year or at the start of next year whenever I sort of decide I'm done with my current program, which I guess won't officially happen until I have my first drink,

which could be still a little while to go here. I'll do a full episode on that. I am down between 65 and 70 pounds in the year, which is exciting. So we'll get a full episode, you know, detailing the program, the history, the results, the challenges, and the bright spots from doing it. But one meal a day, that's been my vibe.

But nothing really happens during the week, and then I haven't traveled. We went to Dorck County a couple of weekends ago. I was supposed to be in Phoenix right now, actually getting back. My flag was supposed to land in an hour from Phoenix. I was supposed to be there for a bachelor party. But I ended up not going. I did get my, I did get flight credits for both of them. Frontier, surprisingly, was relatively easy. I still had the super frontier. They're always like, just use the code on the website. You'll get your money back, whatever. It's never, I can never do it on the website.

Always have to call them. Granted, this time I only waited on a hold for like 15 minutes before I was helped out. And it works very smoothly. Delta on the other hand was a pain in the ass. And I was actually thinking like, I might just let this one go. Cause it's like 80 bucks or something.

Yeah, it'd be nice to have. But I don't even know when I'm gonna be traveling again. But I had submitted a, you know, I got an email from Delta on like a week ago, like it's last Sunday, basically saying, you know, hey, your flight's coming up. If your plans have changed and you need to cancel, that's fine. Just let us know.

You can, you know, cancel, modify, change your flight by clicking on this link. So I'm like, well, I'm not going to Phoenix anymore. Let me click on the link. So I do that. And it takes you, it's not like just straight up click cancel and here's your e-credit. No, it's not that simple. They make you like even though my flight had been changed and we're still under like crazy COVID stuff. They still make you like go through and fill out like a request form. And then it has to be, you know,

reviewed and authorized by an actual human. So I do that on Monday. My Delta flight is scheduled for today, Sunday. So six days. Thing that's gonna be, you know, that'll be fine. So I do that and it goes all the way up until yesterday morning I was sitting in the couch with Rachel after my run. And I'm like, I still, you know, I can log in

and like view the status of my request. It's still pending. I'm like, I mean, I'm gonna give this one more shot. Otherwise, I'm just gonna let it go. And I'm just, I'm gonna give this one more shot. Otherwise, I'm just gonna let it go. And I'm just, what's gonna happen is I'm just gonna miss my flight. And that'll be the end of it. No more Delta credit.

So I go tweet, I tweet at them. In fact, I send them a DM. And they actually, it's like an automated message basically saying we're not doing this right now through a DM Because that's actually usually when I when I really need a response fast. That's usually what I do at DM on Twitter But they did send me a link to their alive chat agent So I do that and I got got going with Nikisha and She was actually super hopeful we only had to chat for like five minutes and she was actually super helpful.

We only had to chat for like five minutes and she got me my e-credit, it was great. I was like, I don't know why, you know, if we can do this boom, boom, boom, why can't, you know, it just be an automatic process online, trying to go get an e-credit. Long story short, I got both my outgoing frontier flight and my inbound Delta flight. I got the credit for him. So we're good to go there. Now the thing is, Delta I think

I still have some time, but with frontier, I have to, it doesn't have to happen during this time period, but I have to physically book something in the next 90 days, you know, day to back, you know, about a week now. So I've got 80 some days to book a $98 flight on frontier to go somewhere. I don't know. I guess I'll look. If I can find like a $75 round trip flight to somewhere cool, I might just do it for a weekend, throw it on there like next summer or something.

Give myself something to look forward to. Because honestly, I don't think I'm flying anywhere until Christmas. Like, it's still kind of far out, but at the same time, it's only five months away. And it's like, I don't think I'm going anywhere. Because we're trending in the wrong direction here in the great United States of America. I still got three weeks of vacation to use. I still got three weeks of vacation to use. I reckon one of them will be a road trip of some sort in the fall.

Otherwise, I'm just going to try to take an extended Christmas break, take a week off beforehand. Not for any reason, but just because I can. And then I'll probably just use the other four or five days, you know, intermittently here and there for some three day weekends. We'll see first world props. Let's read some ads here and then we'll get finished up shortly. In case you're wondering, yes, I'm still in the foot bath. It feels pretty good. Pulsating and correlating and all that good stuff.

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But I think I was, I think I was stocked on my run on Wednesday morning, which I don't think has, the best of my knowledge has never happened before. But I was coming back on the last, you the last mile and a half leg of my run. It's just a straight shot down in neighborhood street. And I was running north on the street. And there is a cards pull over to the side by itself. Looked like a cop SUV kind of by itself, you know, looked like, you know, looked like a, like, a cop SUV kind of thing, except it was instead of white, it was gray. But oftentimes you see those, you

know, they're like, not necessarily undercover, but just like, not the straightforward looking police or police cars. But as I'm running past, I see, you know, a guy he's not looking at me, but, or looking at me, but he's just there in the driver's seat wearing a big guy wearing a tank top. So I don't think anything of it, because why should I? It's like 6.45 in the morning. So I keep running north. And I finish my run, and I do a once

around the block walk for my cool down. And I'm walking back down towards my apartment on the same street, but you know, we're about a mile further north. And I see the same car come driving down the street, you know, going the opposite way that I'm walking. I'm like, this is really weird. I mean, it's still the same street, but what's he doing up here now? Whatever.

And then, two minutes later, I make the right turn onto the street that I live on. And you notice kind of out of the corner of my eye behind me, a couple of seconds after I turn on the street, that same car turns on to the street too. And like pulls on to the street too and like pulls off to the side like it's you know about to park. And at this point I don't even want to look back. I'm like what's like what's going on here? This is strange. So instead of going

in my front door, I go walking to the alley and going into the back door. And the way he had stopped his car or parked his car, he could not see me going to my back door entrance or enter my unit's backyard through the alley. And then when I got up into my apartment and looked out the windows, rear window style, I felt like Jimmy Stewart, the car was not there. That's the whole story. So I don't know if I was being stalked.

I don't know why someone would want to. The other thing that makes me feel like it seems improbable is, I have kind of a normal running route and running time but it's at like 4.30 in the afternoon. It's not at 6.30 in the morning. So I'm kind of skeptical about whether it actually was but it was also just kind of strange. So keep your head peeled and your ears open. You never know what's gonna happen, okay? Stay safe out there.

We're always saying that on the show being telepodcast, but sometimes it hits closer to home than other weeks. Otherwise, that's all I got for you. I apologize for the rambling show. And apologize for not really coming with anything to say. But I thought about it. I tried to come up with something. But consider this just a hallmark quarantine episode.

I promise you the listeners. This is the bean-tum podcast guarantee. I promise that if something interesting did happen, I would share with you. I'm not holding out on you. OK? But yeah, maybe we'll try to get a guest next week. I promise that if something interesting did happen, I would share with you. I'm not holding out on you, okay? But yeah, maybe we'll try to get a guest next week, maybe we'll get the video cast up in a roll-in

for next week, and we'll see. We will see, that's the show, that's what I got for you. Short-ish this week, but that's okay. Cause I somehow made it 35 minutes without having anything to say, which is kind of impressive. An Ascaric Kentucky Jimmy's back that's exciting.

Everything's going well over here, running a lot, continuing to diet, not drinking, having had pizza, although I tell you what, man, I'm getting close on the pizza. There's just been a lot of discussion, not among me, but by people I've been around of deep dish pizza. It's kind of following me everywhere. And so I just kind of feel like one of these days,

Sundays are already my cheat days. Like I think I'm going to Chinese food tonight. Such sounds so effing good. And I had a gigantic, large-s meal last night too. Italian beef, and a year old. Whew, yikes. So, one of these cheat days, a Sunday coming up. We're gonna have some deep-ish and it's going to be glorious, okay. I'll make sure we get that on the show when that day comes. That's what I

got for you everyone. I hope you're having a fun July. Well, it's not too hot where you are listening from. And yeah, make sure you put on your SPF 115 if you're going out in that direct sunlight. That's what we got for you. Buy a foot bath, you know. Strong, glowing recommendation. Feels great. Okay, that's what I have. Let's queue up some Tishmingo blues. Everyone, I hope you're having a safe and happy middle of summer. and happy middle of summer and as always we will check in on you next week. All right, bye everyone. I'm just going to play a little bit more. ndご視聴ありがとうございました