Beantown Podcast - Moving Day for Quinn (05212021 Beantown Podcast)

Episode Date: May 21, 2021

Just like that one Billy Joel song said, I'm moving out. Join us as we reminisce, talk highs and lows, and give our much anticipated tribute to the man, the myth, the legend, and most importantly, the man without leashes, Richard.

Hey, what's going on? It's Quinn Davis furnace. Welcome to my show Quinn David furnace presents the bean town podcast or QDF PT BP Palindrome for Friday May 21st, 2021, 052121, sounds like a tie fighter call sign or something. My name is Quinn and this is my show and for the last time, until the next time, We are coming to you live from Rogers Park, Chicago, in the 1500 block of West Arthur Avenue, for all the loyal fans out there who followed along on our move from Beentown, where we started this show three and a half years ago, to the north side of Chicago. We are in the 1500 block of West Arthur. It's a quiet, quaint tree line street with the exception of one neighbor. I gotta tell you,

I'm scanning right now doing a little recon of the area because I got my windows open recon of the area because I got my windows open and I don't want to offend anybody but now would be the perfect time for our little tribute to Richard. I'm just going to go for it because I'm literally out of this apartment in 20 hours exactly. My apartment unit is, I don't know exactly what these things are called, but basically, it's a, let's just call it an apartment building, okay? There's a lot of it, that can mean a lot of different things, but basically there are six units going on here. Three high, next to three high, share a stairwell. So there's kind of like six apartments in a pot and I'm up up here on the second floor and Richard lives one above me and one over and

Boy, talk about profiles and courage this guy or the opposite of that well I don't want to be offensive here. Okay. I don't want to be a fence if you're okay. I don't want to alienate my veteran base, which I'm certain there are plenty of you out there. Richard is a Navy veteran who is now a practicing family law attorney, Richard Brodrick, B-R-O-D-E-R-I-C-K, like Matthew, maybe distant third cousins. Has anyone, if anyone listening out there has ever met a third cousin in real life which is where you share great, great grandparents, that would be fascinating to me. Email, spentonpodcast.jh.com and spentonbeen.com.jh.u.com.

So Richard lives one floor above me and on the other side and Ann Richard is a Navy vet who is now an attorney which is wild I didn't know Richard was in the attorney until just a couple of months ago although I've known him the whole time that I've lived here the whole two years and In case this wasn't clear beforehand. I'm moving tomorrow down to Lincoln Park out of this APT. And today we're basically going to be just talking about highs and lows, the memories, the painful experiences of living up here at 1506. 1606 was Arthur, but Richard is a very loud individual and just speaks what's on his mind and speaks a lot. He's one of those people who, unless you just forced your way out of the conversation, you

talk to him for a solid hour. And when I meet, when I say talk to, I mean, stand there and go, oh yeah, yep. And it's just, it's a little bit too much sometimes. When I first moved here and I would come back or leave the apartment, I'd try to be neighborly, I'd say, yeah, I engage him in conversation, whatever. And after like literally multiple instances of being stuck out there for 15 minutes, 20 minutes, whatever, just listening to this guy rattle off.

The reason I'm surprised, one of the reasons I'm surprised is a lawyer. I'm pretty sure I work for a law school. So I know a little bit, I'm pretty sure there's like attorney, client confidentiality and privilege stuff, right? You're not supposed to like be going around. Outside of the courtroom, like sharing pertinent secrets and details, right? Doesn't apply to this guy.

He'll get you talking about his client, or he'll get to talking about his clients and cases and all sorts of just wild stuff. Listen to discretion is advised when you're listening to the same him being time pocket somewhere on location. He's some language. Number two, podcast is objectively terrible is moving day. Tomorrow we're moving out.

Queue the Billy Joel music. But yeah, he'll just start chair and personal intimate details about his clients in cases. And that just, I don't know that doesn't seem right. Richard is probably about 60 to 65. He's a very large man, balding. And the first thing you notice about Richard, before you even get to him, he's got two dogs.

And we talked about him last week on the podcast. Maggie and George, we named a horse after him. I'm scanning outside again to make sure we're in the clear. Essentially, Richard doesn't own leashes. And if you live out like in the country on a farm or something, I think that's probably okay, but Richard lives in the third most populated city in the country. In a residential area with a lot of dogs, other dogs, children, coyotes, marginalized, ethnic populations, and other groups. And these dogs are friendly, okay?

They're not, you know, running up to you and inviting you, or, you know, if that was the case, I would have taken my 12 gauge that I don't have and slapped them myself. But Richard, poor Richard's almanac, he's got his collection of phrases that I hear, I would say on average three to five times a day. Doesn't matter if I have my windows open or not,

Richard's voice projects. If you pull up a Google map and you want to get like a radius going, you go as far east as like the Western banks of Michigan, as far north as Lambo Field, as far west as the Mississippi River, and as far south as the Superdom. Mercedes Ben Superdom, okay? I would say if you charted it based off of who can hear his voice, that's about the area that's covered.

And Richard has his collection of phrases. And because he doesn't own leashes, he just sits outside on our front steps, and the dog just run around the neighborhood. And if they're still within eyesight, Richard will yell, Maggie, dirt, go over here. In that same tone, sorry, I got something on my tongue, I accidentally licked my Samsung Q2U microphone fuzzy.

In that same tone, the same cadence, and then after he's made his initial yell, which typically doesn't really do anything, the dog's just kind of do whatever they want, including poop on the sidewalk and, you know, in the space between the sidewalk and the street, the little kind of dirt patch, whenever, and it's not picked up. So that's nice as well. And then, so that's his first kind of collection. And it's always in that cadence, that order, Maggie George get over here always.

And the same exact like voicing tone intonation, camber every single time. And then once he gets up, or once the dogs are, and I'm, you know, I can just, I do this by ear, right? You don't have to see this. You can tell exactly what's going on. The dogs approach the person walking past

or the dog walking past, or the apostle, or the marginalized ethic minority, whatever it is. And Richard yells, oh, they're just vicious Mongols, like tongue and cheek, like laughing, in order to kind of show the people that his dogs, unleashed dogs have approached that he's got a sense of humor about the whole situation. And occasionally, it doesn't work. Occasionally, you get some very upset people. Either their dog is not friendly, or you get people walking past who are spooked by dogs.

I saw one guy just take up, just be lying into the alley. And his dog's chasing down the alley. And Richard yelled at him. the guy for running away. So apparently it's like one of those nature dogs where you see a specific animal and you're instead of making a sudden move, you're supposed to move, you know, like quietly and basically let the dogs know you're there, move slowly, back away slowly, like,

so I guess you're not supposed to run from these dogs, which are golden doodles or something, by the way. And then my favorite Richard moment, the last thing I'll say before we talk about some other highs and lows and memories of this Rogers Park apartment. This was maybe in like December or January, all-time Richard moment. I'm sitting here, it's literally about 8.30 a.m. on a weekday, so I'm, you know, just gotta got my coffee, start and work for the day.

And they were redoing the interior stairs to our apartment. They had the ownership group hired a contractor, whatever. And he was doing, I don't even know what he was doing, something with nails and power saws and drills, whatever. Okay, I'm not a carpenter, not Jesus-like, although I am in some other ways, long-flowing hair, dark tan skin hated by Jews

It's about 830 and this guy his name is one. He's a contractor He's doing stuff for the stairs and all of us sudden Holy moly Mind you this is like 8 30 on Thursday morning the world is just waking up Richard comes barreling and I mean that that B-A-R-R-E-L-I-N-G barreling. And I'm just here in this from inside my own apartment upstairs one flight out of his apartment and just goes off on this guy. And I tried to it was a fairly brief altercation slash interaction, but essentially the conversation what, again, in Richard fashion, one side of this guy won, just about next to nothing.

No, one is my property manager's name. I don't know what this guy's name is. Anyways, very soft spoken. I could hardly hear what he was saying to Richard, but Richard basically says like, I'm gonna swear because we're sticking to the transcript here, okay? So prepare yourself f-bombs. Who the fuck are you? What the f are you doing? And then you know, the guys respond and like, oh, they, you know, they've hired me to

do the stairs, whatever. And Richard's like, you're gonna fuck him up. I don't know if this was racially motivated. Richard, his white, this contractor was Latino and just yada on and on and on. And eventually, Richard's like, you know who owns the building? And the contractor basically said, you know, the name of the group that owns this building.

And then Richard's like, you know who's in charge of the board? And Richard's like, I'm in charge of the board. And I don't think that's true. But, because I don't think these things had boards. But anyways, just, this guy is insufferable. And I mentioned, you know, 10 minutes ago, and I started talking about this, when I first moved here, like I would entertain Richard in conversation, it got really bad with COVID because Richard is very like anti mask, anti-backs,

like it's all a government conspiracy, that kind of thing. And so for the last four or five months, I'm sure he's caught on at this point, and that's perfectly okay with me because I just don't care to entertain it. If I know, if I see him sitting out there and leaving or I see him, you know, when I'm coming home, like I whip, I was talking to my friend John Paul Pendowski about this last weekend. We went and got a beer at Temperance in Evanston. I was telling him all about this. I will just whip out my iPhone and start the fake conversation and I'm not afraid to do it. I don't care.

I think I'm a fairly, although I keep to myself, I think I'm a fairly neighborly person. That's a good adverb. Or as a neighborly is an adjective. Wow, LY adjectives. There's a jeopardy category for you. But I'm not going to put up with it anymore. OK?

So under, if we're talking things I'll miss and things I won't miss, let's put Richard Broderick, Esquire, firmly in the category of won't miss. I'm sipping a cocktail here. I made myself, because I'm drinking down the last one I have in my apartment, whiskey. Buffalo trace, I have never had but are whiskey and ginger ale before,

although I suppose whiskey ginger is like a common cocktail, right? Never had it, never made it. So I bought some ginger ale before, although I suppose whiskey ginger is like a common cocktail, right? Never had it, never made it, so I bought some ginger ale at the grocery store this afternoon. And I'm having it. I got one cup left. Well, I had my water cup, my Jack Link's Fever Wild Side Red Cup, and then I had my Rockford Ice Hogs mug. And so that baby's been really pulling, pulling its own weight this week

because it's been doing double duty as coffee and cocktails, coffee in the morning, cocktails in the afternoon and evening and sometimes vice versa. But yeah, we got whiskey and ginger going here. It's pretty good. Got some ice, it works. Speaking of the Gertrude store, Let's talk about things I'll miss and what kind of oscillate a lot of a lot of big words on the podcast today

oscillate back and forth Devon market Is a grocery store At the corner of Devon and Greenview The northeast corner of Devon and Greview, Greenview here in Rodgers Park, just barely in Rodgers Park across the street from Edgewater. I didn't really know about Devon market when I chose this apartment, when I moved in.

And that's an interesting thing. Fun fact, not to get too far off topic, but this apartment I'm moving into tomorrow is the first apartment, this might blow your mind. I'm 26 years old, this will be my one, two, three, four, five, six, seventh different place. I've lived since I moved out of home. This is the first apartment that I'm moving into that I have

seen in person before moving in. How crazy is that? Yeah, I mean, I'm not going to go through every single place I've lived. But yeah, the first place I've ever seen, but back to Devon Market. When I was looking at where this place was located, when I, you know, two and a half years ago, whatever, two years plus when I was deciding to sign, you know, living in Baltimore at the time, I knew the area okay, because I lived in Rogers Park for a year and I was in grad school.

But when I was up there, I was up closer to Moore, some more like Central East Rogers Park, and this is like South East Rogers Park, slash just kind of South Central Rogers Park, I guess. And I just assumed like Aldi would be my go-to, which the Aldi around these parts in Edgewater And I just assume all the would be my go-to, which the all the around these parts in Edgewater is like Broadway and Grandville,

which is about three quarters of a mile walk from here about just about a mile. But then I discovered the Von Market, which is like a beautiful combination of the like large, slash regular size grocery store, like a jewel or something, much smaller than that. But that has like everything you're looking for. But also kind of that small neighborhood vibe, you know, most of the people working there are either like Loyola kids or family-owned and operated. That's sort of thing, but it's a big employer. They have a lot of employers

there. They must do very well, which makes sense because they've got the goods. But the one thing I got to say about the bond market, because I mean, I could go on and not about how much I like it. The best thing, that bakery section, home, home cooked, home baked, you got rolls, you got, you know, dinner rolls, cinnamon rolls, you got turnovers, you got all sorts of rolls, lot of rolls. They even have some donuts. I've never actually gotten a donut from there, but all sorts of rolls, lot of rolls. They even have some donuts. I've never actually gotten a donut from there, but all sorts of accoutrements and accessories, and that place is just that bakery, unbeatable. So for anyone living on the north side,

if you ever, if you're ever driving down Devon Ave, and you see Devon market out of the corner of your eye, and you normally would just bypass it Next time you're in there. This is not a paid promotion Parking their spacious parking lot Go in Grab some rolls and get nuts with it. Okay, those things are delicious best part Not that I'm like

Run out of money here, but they're gigantic dinner rolls, bolilos. Can Google that? It's B-O. I think it's B-O-L-I-L-L-L-L-Bolilo. They are $3 for $1.29, which comes out to 43 cents. If my old man, math still holds up 43 cents a roll. And these things are the size of your heads. They are

spectacular. I will miss Devon market quite a bit now on the kind of not on the flip side. It's not what I was gonna say, but my new place is literally three three doors down Great band. I actually don't know anything about the band. I just know that they're a band. From the Trader Joe's down in Lincoln Park, which I'm excited for, I've never really done any shopping at a Trader Joe's before. So we'll see what's out there. But you go on Buzzfeed and it's always like 10% of the articles are like, here's what's new at Trader Joe's or you have to try this at Trader Joe's or I can't believe you haven't tried this at Trader Joe's.

It's a lot of clickbait, but there's the Trader Joe's right there. Up north, just north of diversity on Broadway, you've got the Walmart market, which I don't anticipate going to frequently, but it's there. And then they're opening up, Mariano is starting a new like mini chain. I don't exactly know what the vibe is going to be. I think it's more like cafe oriented, but they've got that going on too. So I'm excited for that. I'm literally going to be in like the mecca of grocery stores. And not just like, oh yeah, they're kind of close.

The Trader Joe's three doors down Walmart is a block over and then across the street and then this new Mariano thing when it launches next month is a block and a half west of me all within four ish minutes so I'm really excited about that. The location is prime. Another pro. I am cutting my commute down in half or so. In fact, I did it Thursday morning. I went to the office Thursday morning,

and actually I woke up at Rachel's, and then I walked down in my new place, which is about a 12-minute walk. And then I timed the commute from the new APT to the office. On average, probably 27 minutes, 28 minutes or so. And I've got train options for days. I can take the brown line, I can take the purple line,

I can take the brown and purple line to the red line, I can do whatever I want. I could take the eight bus, I could take the 36 bus, I could take the brown and purple line to the red line, I can do whatever I want. I could take the eight bus, I could take the 36 bus, I could take the 22 bus, I could take another bus, one of the like shore buses. I got options, okay? It was all in on the location. A con.

I don't love the place itself. It's like a weird brick, like medieval castle kind of thing, which I know sounds badass and in a way it is. But it's just like, it was one of those things where I saw it and I was immediately like, I don't know about this. But then there are just a lot of factors that contributed to me doing it or signing it. It's quite a bit smaller than what I have right now, which is there's kind of two sides to this. Number one, it just is objectively smaller. Not as much space right now in this place in Rogers Park. It's about 750 square feet, which is a lot for one person. But, you know, I've got a spacious living room, spacious dining room, a nice kitchen, a

walk-in pantry, a back deck area, bedrooms about average by Chicago size, but a good size closet as well, normal looking bathroom. That means that's just that's clutch. This new place, you basically walk in and You're instantly in the living room as you walk in and then the kitchen is like part of that There's a small like I don't know the term for this like a bar slash connected island and then where you actually do the cooking is very very tight In there like just wide enough to open up the oven door But you know, what's got the amenities, it has an oven which is good. A microwave which is great, I sold my microwave.

I haven't gone microwave-less for the last two and a half weeks, which I thought was going to be a little bit more of a pain, but I've been able to work around it. It hasn't been too bad. And then off to the side of the living room under the stairs that go up to the unit above me is where the washer dryer is. And I was when I was in there. Oh, I should, I mean, add that to the pros list, okay, before I forget. That was number one. In addition to cutting my commute down was in unit washer and dryer. I am so excited for that. I'm going to be so clean, you have no idea.

But actually, you can kind of, so you open this closet, the washer and dryer is right there when you open the door. And off to the right, you have the space under the stairs, you know, Harry Potter style. And I was able to just barely kind of shimmy because they're very heavy, it's the, you know, washer dryer on top of each other. Just barely shimmy it enough off to the side where I can squeeze in to that space under the stair.

So two things going on here, one, it'll be a great space to have when my mom visits. Number two, it'll be good for storage, okay? So you have that space, which is kind of nice because this place doesn't have much in the way of closet space. It's literally this thing under the stairs and then the bedroom closet. That being said, the bedroom, very good size. I'm planning on, you know, having my dresser in there. I'm going to vote a TV on top of the dresser because now I have two televisions.

I probably put the piano in there because we'm going to go to TV on top of the dresser, because now I have two televisions. I'll probably put the piano in there, because we're going to have to stick the dining room table in the living room. Oh, I should mention, well, let me finish this off. The bedroom has a walk-in closet, which will be nice. I have a decent amount of clothes, but there's like even a lot more space than that. So we're going to be using it for, you know,

just kind of random storage. And I'll find a way to fill it up quick, you know, I got, I have two suitcases, which is completely unnecessary. I don't remember the last time I traveled with a suitcase. Really, the only time in my life where I ever needed a suitcase was when I was doing the like, you know, five-week road trips for Hopkins. Now when I travel, I just take my duffle bag

and my backpack and that's, I'm good. Like even when I, we're going to the Dominican Republic and four weeks or something like that, five weeks, four and a half weeks and I'm not bringing a suitcase like just bring my duffle bag. I'll be okay. So the bedroom is solid. There isn't a bat adding this to the cons.

There's no back space, back entrance, anything like that. I'm right on the ground floor, right? In the back of the apartment is the parking area, concrete slab. There is, add this to the pros. I hope someone's writing this down. There is, I could have free parking. When the apartment listing was advertised like parking. You know, when the apartment listing was advertised like parking extra, you know, one, five, three, whatever, then I met my landlord

when I got my keys about two weeks ago, this lovely little Greek lady who talks and talks and talks, like Richard, but nicer. She was like, yeah, I know you don't have a car, but like if you ever get one, you know, free parking in the back, whatever, and I'm like, oh, that's great. I don't anticipate buying a car just because I have a car, but like if you ever get one, you know, free parking in the back, whatever. And I'm like, oh, that's great. I don't anticipate buying a car just because I have free parking, because there's still insurance and stuff to worry about. But it is nice if anyone ever wants to drive in and visit me, you don't have to worry about neighborhood parking, paying for parking, like just slide right into the back.

So I'll add that as a pro. Not having a backspace kind of stinks. You know, right now I have that little kind of dax slash porch area, which is great for hanging stuff out to dry or just chilling out shooting the breeze. So I am a little bit bond about only having the kind of front door entrance and that's it.

What I was gonna say about two minutes ago, there's a working fireplace in the living room. And my landlord is very excited about me using it and having full access. So I don't know, I'm probably not gonna use it until the holidays or something, but it's there, we had a fireplace growing up. I haven't had one in 10 years or whatever,

but it's exciting. Maybe you could toast some marshmallows, make some smorse with that thing. Add this to the pros. There's air conditioning. Okay folks, we haven't talked about it much because it hasn't been hot. It's Chicago for the last, God, nine months. It's been, may it has been very, on the scale of, on the scale from hit to miss, it's been very, and the skill from Hit to Miss has been very missed up until about four days ago. We went from like oscillating between high forties and low fifties to like 80 degrees and very muggy. And I gotta tell you right now, outside,

let's open up the weather app. It's 84 outside. This is 545 on Friday night. 84 outside, which is pretty warm for Chicago. And then you add some humidity. And everything is just like very sweaty. I mean, it's 88 in Austin, Texas,

where brother of the podcast lives, Walt Furnace. And similar levels of humidity. New York, it's only 72. It's gonna be 90 the next two days. Wow, I'm not complaining. Yikes. 81 in Baltimore. We're even harder than Baltimore.

93 this weekend, both days in Baltimore, even harder than Baltimore, 93. This weekend, both days in Baltimore. And you wonder why I left? Here's the thing folks, I have not had air conditioning in this apartment since I moved in. There's no central air. I could have gone a window unit and stole it myself, all that fun stuff.

Hope it doesn't fall out the window. I just decided I didn't want to do that. I wanted to save money and tough it out the first summer, tough it out last summer. I've got a good tower fan. I'm not even like, I'm getting, I'm gonna have an air conditioning unit starting tomorrow, which is great. I'm not personally like, finally, like, I've been looking forward to this for so long, because yeah, I could have just any day of the week picked up an AC unit, installed it, whatever, would have been over with.

But there are times like last night, I've been sleeping on the couch for three straight weeks, knocked them in the dog house. But literally I just, I started doing it when my mom was here and then I just never stopped. I've been on the couch for three weeks. It was so GD hot in my apartment last night and it was only like 75 degrees outside.

But it was just, the air was just thick, like, liso thick. I had fans on, well, the ceiling fans, in a classic Quinn move, packed things up a little bit too early, Shanaan had packed at my tower fan, she'd let that baby sit until tomorrow at 12.45 pm when the movers come. I think we're gonna suffer a similar kind of fate tonight. I think I might do a double shower to stay cool.

I haven't even showered yet today. It's 5.45, but I think I'm just really, I'm feeling really gross right now, but I need to go out and pick up dinner. So I still have to leave the apartment one more time tonight. But I think I might just shower, walk, pick up dinner, get sweaty again, and then shower again. And you're like, Quinter, you crazy?

I'm like, kind of, but I just am like feeling real sweaty. Okay? And yeah, I got to sleep, try to sleep on the couch again tonight with just the ceiling fan going. Long story short, I'm very excited to have air conditioning. I still think, you know, because I have such a good tower fan, I still think my air conditioning usage

is going to be sparse. And because it just like, don't think there's gonna be that many times where I'm like, oh my gosh, I just can't do it anymore, I've got to turn it on. And I still, although I make more money now, than I did when I arrived here two years ago, I still like saving money. It's kind of my thing, okay? So we're going to, let's read some ads here, and actually it's a good natural break,

because I have to pee really badly. I pounded a large, dunk-in iced coffee right before this and now I'm feeling it. So what I'm gonna do, I'm gonna pause, I'm gonna come back, gonna read some ads and then we'll finish up with parting thoughts. I'm kinda, if you couldn't tell,

we're really just improvising here. But these are just the reflections of a moving man, okay? There's a great arcade fire song from Neon Bible, is it Modern Man? Go check it out, give it a listen. If you don't know arcade fire fire never too late to get into them They are like the ultimate indie band. Okay, I'm gonna go. I'll be right back All right, welcome back here we go with our ad reads

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It's not this special, it's a short song, you know, it's like two, two and a half minutes. Tongue and cheek. It's a fun one to play though. So I learned it this past week because it's just been stuck in my head for whatever reason and played it. Speaking of family shout-outs, I also want to give a shout-out to my girlfriend's youngest sister Samantha who is walking across the graduation stage tonight. Congratulations to Samantha on her graduation from high school. Big accomplishment, especially in these COVID times.

Samu, we are very proud of you and eager to see what the future has in store for you. Welcome back to the Bean Town podcast for Friday, May 21st, 2021. We're talking about this Rogers Park apartment here, a 1506 West Arthur Ave, 60626, great zip code. And I got to tell you, tell you, I kind of mentioned this a little bit in passing towards the start of the show,

but my new apartment is the first apartment I've ever moved into that I viewed before I signed a lease. Which means if you're working on your deductive reasoning here, your logicality, if you will, that means I did not view this apartment that I mean currently here in Rogers Park before moving. I literally saw the Craigslist pictures. When I lived in Baltimore, you know, I took the job on a windy day in Kansas City, believe it or not, living in Baltimore, but working

in Kansas City at the time. And I got off of this job. I said, well, there's a lot of hoop lob back and forth. And I didn't think I was actually going to take it, but then I took it. But then I needed, I mean, I took the job, and I needed to move a little over a month later. And so obviously, I had to get right to work looking for APTs. And I knew I wanted to live up here in Rogers Park, knowing that it would be a long commute,

but honestly, knowing that you'd be along commute but honestly knowing that you know I was going to live by myself and I didn't want a studio I wanted a one bed because I wanted space because I had lived in a studio in Baltimore which honestly not a bad apartment all things considered but I just wanted more space. And I knew that with my budget, the only thing that was really going to work with being on the north side, which is where most of my friends were living at the time. They've all since gone away, which is really sad.

But was Rogers Park? And so I said, you know what? Solid spot, not too far from the train, close to the lake. solid spot, not too far from the train, close to the lake, and the interior was like, this seems like a big apartment for a thousand even, so let's take it. And my point here is, all things considered, I got very lucky. It's been a good apartment. You know, some just like irritating neighbor stuff we just talked about Richard. My downstairs neighbors just just pump like the type of music. But it's like Mexican

music with just like a kickass beat. And I don't know what kind of you know TX 3000 subwoofers they got going on down there. And there's no rhyme or reason. It's not like, oh, late at night, here they go again. It's like two o'clock on a Thursday afternoon. In fact, I don't think I've ever, you know, maybe like two or three times in this apartment living here in two, three years. In two years, I don't think there's hardly ever been a time where it's been like, oh my

gosh, music's so loud, I can't think there's hardly ever been a time where it's been like, oh my gosh, and music's so loud, I can't sleep. No, it's like 415 on a Monday. Here we go, it's like, okay. I mean, I'm trying to get work done, so that sucks, you know, with work from home. But, you know, between that and Richard, like otherwise the neighbor issues not bad.

This apartment allowed me to get my first ever couch, a free couch from Craigslist. And I'm going to give a special shout out to brother of the podcast Jack Furnace for, uh, helping me lug this couch about a mile. And also shout out to a neighbor who lives on Greenview, North of Morse, who lent us, as she saw, struggling to haul this couch, just the two of us, a mile. She lent us her like moving dolly basically, which was very helpful, but it was a very hot and sweaty night in June and my brother Jack helped me carry this couch and I'm taking

it with me. We're bringing it to Donald Lincoln Park. One casualty is not making it. Lazy boy recliner. I'm looking at it right now. I picked it up by myself, actually just about two blocks away from me, hauled it pretty heavy, you know, up to stairs and everything. Well, down there, stairs up my stairs.

And I'm going to take it out to the alley tonight. And it's a solid chair. It's just one of those things. I mean, it's very old, very worn, but still very comfy. My mom took a nap in it. Just a casualty of moving into a smaller space. And that's okay. Great chair.

Hopefully someone picks it up and has use for it and doesn't go into a landfill. And I'm hopeful because just the other night I took my bed frame out there, disassembled, and the wood slats and those went separately. So people found those probably just scrap sellers, whatever, but someone's making a profit off of it. That's great.

I took like, I had like this little metal, almost like grocery, not grocery cart, but just like try three layer, three level like wire thing where you can just like put groceries. I had you know, I'd been in my pantry the whole time I lived here and I basically just like hung clothes on it because I have such a big pantry, I didn't need it for food. And I was actually gonna take it to the new place,

but then first I tried to disassemble it, and it was so stuck together, I think I bought that right when I moved to Baltimore that I couldn't get it unstuck. I was like, okay, painting the ass problem number one. Number two, because I've been hanging clothes, it was actually really like, crusted with salt and sweat and stuff,

which is, you're like, oh, that's disgusting. Yeah, it is, which is why I took it out to the alley, and someone grabbed it. And next morning when I went out there, someone had already taken it. Great, probably again, the metal scrap sellers. That's okay. Someone's got to make a profit in this town.

So yeah, I don't remember how we got there, but downsizing for sure. And yeah, we got movers. They're coming tomorrow afternoon, one o'clock, I'm gonna wake up in the morning, go for a little run. Nothing quite as extreme as last week's 20-mileer. Probably just like, I don't know, we'll see how I'm feeling. I gotta try to do it early, it's gonna be hot tomorrow. I think we've officially gotten to like summer 5am run modes. I've gotten lazy. Now when I wake up in the middle of the night and it's like 5am,

on a work night or whatever, I'm like, how could I ever wake up and go for a run like this? Well, it's gonna happen tomorrow. Cause it either happens that way or you go out too late in the morning and all it takes is, all it and maybe I need this to happen, but all it takes is one run where you went out too late and you are just like dehydrated as fuck

and you are still way too far from home and you're like what on earth am I doing out here? All it takes is one of those for you to have no problem waking up at 5 a.m. for the rest of the summer on Saturday long run so we'll burn that bridge when we get there We'll burn that bridge when we get there. But yeah, I'm looking forward to the new place. Definitely gonna miss this one, get on this, some nostalgia. Lots of things I like about Rogers Park. I'm gonna miss just how it's a little bit more quiet,

a little bit more laid back. Moving down to Lincoln Park, I'm still living in a, the street itself, while it's a main fair is not particularly crazy busy or anything like that but it's just a lot more congested densely crowded or densely populated down there than what I'm used to. So that'll that'll take some getting used to for sure. I mean, I haven't lived in like in parks since I was 20 years old.

So we're coming back. I'm coming home again. Dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun like that was a like a giant song that you never hear anymore. Maybe it's just because I've been living inside, quarantining for 14 months, but like, I feel like you never hear that song. It is weird, you know, lived in this apartment for just a couple days shy of 24 months and 14 of them were lived in COVID. If you're doing the math at home that's 712th or like 0.59 or something, I don't know. I can't do long division.

But yeah, it's weird. I was excited when I got this place, even though knowing that I was far from the majority of my friends who were living, Lincoln Park Lake, if you et cetera, I thought this would be like a great party pad. I have a lot of chairs here, a lot of space. I have a television

Which I'd never had until I moved here I got a little back area. I thought it was just gonna be like a sweet hang spot and then most of my friends left the city which is a bummer and then COVID happened and so kind of just been kind of just been slumming it up solo. I don't have any friends in a rather just part. So in a sense, you know, when I leave tomorrow, there's, it's definitely gonna be a little sad

because I like it up here. I feel like it fits my vibe, my personality. You know, I've got my it up here. I feel like it fits my vibe, my personality. I've got my businesses up here, I like to support, et cetera, et cetera. But at the same time, just like knowing that we're coming out of COVID, coming out of so much time spent alone inside, knowing that this will allow me to be closer to, you know, although I don't have a huge social network here in Chicago right now because people have kind of moved away. But just knowing that I'll be closer to those people who are in my social network, including

my lovely lady, girlfriend of the podcast, Rachel Raymo's, you know, all that stuff, it's good. Okay, it'll take a little bit of getting used to, new places smaller, and I just don't love it as much as I like this place, but you know what, it is what it is. And times, they are a change in. Okay.

I thought about closing today's show with Anthony Song, I believe Joel, but then I decided that I can't massacre another great tune today, okay? Again, better off dead. On my YouTube channel, go check it out. So, rather, I'm just gonna, you know, if you're like, oh yeah, that's a great song, moving out Anthony's song. If you haven't listened to it in a while, go check it out.

You don't need to hear me play it. You know what it sounds like, but you can go listen to it again, because that's great. It's a classic song, hear it on the radio all the time. But who listens to the radio these days? I used my alarm clock clock doubles as a radio. I used it the other night to let's do a Cubs broadcast when I was disassembling my bed frame. And that's something I always tell myself I should do more is listen to the radio because I

legitimately love the radio, especially AM radio. But I hadn't done it in so long. I do have like one of my bookmarks on my Google Chrome browser on my laptop is 670, the scores live stream. And more so during bear season, I will tune in to Dan Bernstein on weekday mornings. But otherwise I don't really do it. But anytime I'm traveling and driving, road tripping, whatever, dude. Like, everyone else that you got your ox cord or your Bluetooth or

serious XM, whatever, fancy, shmancy, give me some AM radio, okay? Or if I'm down in the South, let me find some sermons, okay? Old school, baby. I would get a card just for the radio. And that's like partially a joke, but also I will just like go drive for two hours if I have free time and just listen to the radio because that's what I like to do. And I don't feel weird about it. And I have free parking.

I don't even have to drive. I'll just go sit out in the car and do it. Okay, part of me thinks I don't actually have to buy a car for that. I could just borrow someone's car. So if you're listening You know being Tom Pockess Yahoo.com et cetera, we've already talked about that That's what I got for you folks. I want to thank everyone who has supported our show for the last three and a half

years. And I want to say fair well to this place, 1506 Wester Rouders Park, not Wester Rouders Park, Wester Arthur Avenue 60626 And to new beginnings, okay raise your glass. I got to refill my Whiskey ginger here. I got a thank figure out what I'm gonna do for supper. It's my last dinner in Rogers Park It would be fitting last thing. I'll say I promise then we'll get our music going It would be fitting to go to this era train place,

Denden, I'm Clark. The reason being, when I moved in here two years ago, friend of the podcast, been on before Steven Boy, helped me out of my stuff, and then, first we went out, we got a drink at Dino's Bar, which is the Northwest corner of Clark and Devon. It's like Russian owned or something like that. First and last time we've ever been in there, really weird.

Their happy hour is like 1-3 pm. And I just feel like that's not really the crowd I want to be vibing with. But then for supper we we walked along Clark for a while and that's when I first started to get a sense of how dilapidated is too strong word and I don't mean to be negative about it but just like a little bit rundown Clark is a pure Rogers Park and eventually we went to Denda and Restaurant which I think is what like Clark and Albion, something like that.

It's Eritrean, which is similar to Ethiopian food. And we went there and picked out. So it'd be fitting for me to go there, but excuse me, I'm never done the East African cuisine to go. I don't think I want to. You know, I want the like traditional in Jira, sitting down, unbuttoning your pants type experience. So I don't know, I might go get Chinese or something unclear. I got to figure it out. It's already 6, 15 pm. But folks, that's what I got for you. This has been QuintetVertice presents the Bean-Town podcast.

And when we come to you next week, provided our internet is functioning. I went a whole week when I've worked, when I moved here without internet. I've got a Comcast appointment set up for Sunday morning at 8 a.m., which is like aggressively early, but I also just wanna do it, okay?

Fingers crossed, knock on wood. That's what I got for you. Let's get our outro music, cute up here. Cute, you know what? When I do the whole thing, we're like this show ends and I launch a show on a different like platform or whatever, it's probably gonna be called queued up. Okay, and I don't feel bad about it,

or we could just make it a new segment. Because the bean town podcast will never end. You have to kill me first. Hopefully when I die, it's not because someone killed me and I'm just kinda die, but TBD. Let's get our outro music going here. We're gonna come in at under 60 minutes. So it doesn't look so bloated, okay? Thanks everyone for listening. Wish me luck on the move tomorrow.

My name is Quinnie Vifernos and this is my show. Thanks for listening. Stay safe. Stay sane. And I will check in on you next time from a brand new location. Bye! I'm sorry. I'm sorry. ndご視聴ありがとうございました