Beantown Podcast - Quinn's 2020 Weight Loss (04192020 Beantown Podcast)

Episode Date: April 19, 2020

Quinn comes to you LIVE not from Hawaii to feel sorry for himself, talk about losing 45 pounds so far this year, and share some funny detasseling stories

Hey, what's going on? It's Quinn Davis furnace. Welcome to my show. Quinn Davis furnace presents the bean town podcast for Sunday, April 19th, 2020. What's going on? How are you? What's happening? We are coming to you live on the North side of Chicago. Whether you're listening to us on your mobile device or Spotify or YouTube or Twitch or my just four fans or kick KIK or SoundCloud or player FM or Stitcher or wherever know wherever you might be fine and us come into from across the globe courtesy of Bean Town Networks what's going on my name is Quintay Witt furnace I'm the host creator director costumeist key grip and best boy of this show and I hardly know show and we are coming to you live. Well, it is an interesting Sunday here in the city of Chicago.

When I woke up, it was pretty nice out. I mean, mid 60s, sunny, wind, not too bad, kind of the perfect day for spring, right? Exactly what you want. Well, I just about an hour ago got back from a long walk, like the ad Harris movie, right, guys. Who else is in that film? Who plays the female in that movie? Let's go to Google. Let's the long walk, right? It's the World War II movie where they go from the Siberian prison camp down to India. I think it's based on a

true story. It's also based on a book. Which I think they have different titles. Maybe the movie is called something different. So the long walk might be the name of the book. It's a novel by Richard Bachman and Stephen King. Oh, that's interesting. Oh, they're the same person. Wow. Um, that might, what am I thinking of? This is different. What's the Ed Harris movie where they walk around Lake Bykall and, um, the way back. Is that what it's called? The long walk, the way back close enough, right? He's also in the firm. A lot of movies starting at Harris. Let's start with the the word the. Okay. The way back is what it's called.

2010, searcher Ronan, ad Harris, Colin Farrell, and Mark Strong is in it. Yeah. It's a very long film. Um, okay. here is Colin Farrell and Mark Strong is in it. Yeah, it's a very long film. Okay. How did we get there? Oh, I was walking. I went for a long walk. 8 1 1 2 miles went down to Lakeview, Sam and Frain HB 94,

Hilly Benson visited for about 20 minutes and then walked back up here. But the reason I mentioned a weird day because when I woke up and when I started my walk it was around 60 sunny, not bad wind. And now it's, I'm recording this about 5 p.m. on Sunday, April 19th. It's still sunny out and the wind has been that bad today, especially compared to yesterday, but it's now into the mid 40s.

It's very cold, very chilly, and that's not what it was like earlier today. So I don't know, stuff is funky. Thank you before I go on with anything else. Thank you so much. If you listened to last week's episode, you know how great it was if you haven't had the chance to listen to our April 12 Easter episode with Tim Muther. I would implore you to hit pause on this one and go check that one out.

It's a really interesting Podcast and I don't do very much talking which typically brings in higher ratings It was really informative. And I hadn't talked to Tim over the phone, or in person, well, it was not in person, but other than the occasional text or Facebook message, I hadn't talked to him since I was a senior in high school. It was awesome.

Tim is a really fascinating guy, and he can be at times really goofy at other times very poignant. But man, it was fun. I think we got a couple stories out of him from his days in the corn and I could go on and on. There is just, man, if you never, excuse me, if you never detastled before, it's just such an interesting culture. And man, the things that happen every day is just something different. I mean, one, just starting with the weather, you know, you can have days that are like high 60s and it's pouring rain and Detastling and lightning storms. That was always fascinating. I'm pretty sure we broke some significant child labor laws doing that Right the other thing I probably mentioned this and you know I did it when I was in high school but even before that and like middle school you can start doing this when you're 12 years old and

So you get these crews of you 30, 40 kids on a bus. And the oldest person is probably like 17 or 18. And you have a whole bunch of 12, 13, 14 year olds, which is just wild, just think about. Working way harder than I ever work now. But boy, you're detasting in the rain, that's hard, but then you get the days too. You know, you're doing this in July, is the primary month for this.

July and early August, it's as hot as it gets. I think it's very hot in Northern Illinois. You'll get days that are easily in the 90s. And you know, you'll oftentimes be going a couple hours two three hours without any sort of water Or water break of any kind just getting Beat down by the sun And you know you do your breath best with sunscreen and stuff, but it's, uh, boy, it's, it's tough. Uh, we mentioned, uh, Kevin Hartenberger.

Um, no, I've known Kevin for a while. Um, and from, uh, from swimming and, or, I think, youth are might have mentioned this. I'm not sure if we were on the area, but, um, yeah, there's one classic day at, uh, Hughes hybrids out in Woodstock, Illinois, where it, I don't, it wasn't raining when we were out there, but it had just been a huge rain. And if you can't put two and two together, when there's just been a gigantic rain, and then you go walk into a cornfield, it's gonna be muddy. And you can't underestimate just how much more difficult

to test in corn is when it's muddy because you're just sloshing around your slip slide in a way, like a Paul Simon song. And then even a couple of days after when things have dried up you get really weird ruts and stuff from the irrigation machines that have gone through. And so every single step you take, you're on uneven ground, which is really tough on your legs, your knees, your hips to be taken thousands and thousands of steps through corn fields

with uneven, you know, uneven ground is just really challenging. But there was one particular day at Hughes Highbrids where it was very muddy. And I think you just remember hearing Kevin Hartenberg or like yell for help. Other just really weird thing, it almost feels like a horror movie when you're detesting corn because in a particularly depending on sort of the thickness of the field

and how high the corn is and Hughes High hybrids the corn they were detaching tended to be you know five or six feet tall. So you can't really see anybody you know if if if there's somebody one to two rows next to you and and they're close to you you can tell you know largely based on hearing but also you can slightly see them through corn. But you, you know, you could have somebody just be, literally, 20 to 30 feet away from you in that corn field, and you would have no idea, because of just, it's like a jungle in there.

And I mentioned it's a horror movie, because it's like, you have all these people in this field. And if you know, one's, you, there was one day when Kevin must have just been standing in one place for too long. That's why they tell you when you're detaching corn, you're supposed to keep moving. And we had, I literally, I don't remember if I was one of the people who helped, but there were three or four

of us who had to follow his voice, find his row, and yank him out of the mud because he was down to probably close to his knee in mud. It's like, you watch movies growing up like Princess Bride and you're always concerned about quicksand and falling in the quicksand. You always think it's going to be a much bigger deal in your life as a kid. Then it turns out to be, turns out there's not a lot of quicksand, you always think it's gonna be a much bigger deal in your life as a kid. Then it turns out to be, turns out there's not a lot of quicksand that we're dealing with traditionally as adults. But in this case, it was like that.

And I think Kevin Hartenberg lost his shoes. We'd have to get him on to confirm that. See if he remembers a story, but that's a classic moment, man. And that was at Hughes' hybrids. And something that Muthar mentioned to me on the show last week, that was actually really awesome, was that Don Hughes, who I don't know if he was just like the straight-up owner or if it was like a family business and he took over for his dad or how it worked or what it was.

But Don, he was like the most intimidating person I've ever met. A fairly young guy, or at least he was 10, 15 years ago. Probably like 30, 35, something like that. And always wore the same cowboy hat and sunglasses, and I swear this guy's never smiled at Dane his life. And just really seem to enjoy chewing out crew members, 12, 13, 14 year olds,

which I mean, boy, I'm just not really a chew somebody out kind of person, so I can't really relate to that, but they'll just let it be for a story's sake. But you know, Muthar mentioned on the show that apparently I was, I was Don, he was favorite. And I don't, I wish someone would have told me that, you know, 10 years ago, when it would have, you know, made me, you know, helped me get through these summer days of eight hours walking through a corner where you can't see anybody and, you know, especially, boy, before I was, you know, before I really hit puberty, so like 14, 15, before then, when I was still, I was a pretty little guy. I can recall the days where you go into that field corn is what we call it.

And it's the tassels are above your head. And you gotta pick them. And if you can imagine doing that for seven, eight hours a day, that is brutal on your shoulders, on your traps. I'm not really a cryer. It's not really my MO traditionally, but there were days when I would spend a whole row just walking down just like silently crying

because you just felt like you were on a chain gang or something, man. Really rough. But yeah, especially, man, the field corn out at it, and at Don Hughes, Hughes hybrids and woodstock, that stuff was tough, man. There were other, you know, fields that were a lot shorter, weren't so bad. Like you got to morango where the, the mink barn is located. I swear to God, there there is and maybe it still exists

I have to do some googling but there were fields that we detastled next to Mirango Illinois mink barn which is literally like a clothing outlet for Clothes with mink for if you don't know clothes with mink fur. If you don't know what a mink is, it's like a ferret or a weasel.

I don't really know what specifically it is that makes it different from those animals, but it's in sort of that family or that vein. So they were fueled next to the mink barn and they always just felt kind of eerie, you know. And some people claimed they could hear the cries, the screams of adolescent minks being slaughtered from inside the mink barn. I can't confirm nor deny this, but I think it was at one of the Mink barn fields one time when our beloved bus driver, Gail, Reston Peace,

Gail passed away about five or six years ago, maybe seven or eight years ago at this point, but got stuck. Stuck in the mud with the bus, I don't remember if we like pushed it out or if the tow truck came or how how we ever got those buses out, but it wasn't the only time. The bus got stuck multiple times. But that was always wild. We used to eat lunch under the school bus. I bet you you never

consider that myself, my brother Jack, who I do detastled with on the same crew for a while, probably, you know, four or five years. And our friend Tom Reath, who is a really good pianist, one of the best in rockford growing up, and went to Imsa, Illinois, Math and Science Academy, went to Davidson, where he was best friends with Steph Curry, and now is in medical school up in Wisconsin. Tom Wreath and, oh, he used to play baseball with her against Tom Wreath.

I don't remember if we were around the scene to you. I think we were. Tom's a good guy. We would sit under the bus. You're asking, Quinn, why on earth did you guys sit under the bus to have your lunch? Well,

he got a giant ass state like Illinois that has, you know, just corn fields and soybean fields and that's about it. You don't get a lot of, you don't get a lot of shade, but turns out if you crawl under the bus, there is ample shade. So we would have summers, when we would crawl under the bus, you'd have your sandwich and your bag of chips, fun size, and some pudding.

And, boy, what else would we have? I don't know, maybe like a candy bar or something like a tiny little bite sized thing. Boy, in hindsight, for the amount of calories we burned, probably nowhere near the amount of calories we needed to consume. I mean, you're out there walking in, you know, fields for six or seven hours on an average day and just sweating your buns off. Probably should I have more calories in that? I don't know. I'm certainly would if I was doing it today.

But yeah, we had one summer where we took, I think Tom Rieff had a plum. And he took on the first day and there were like screws under the bus and he just like inserted the screw into the plum and it was just our science experiment for the next, you know, four or five weeks as July Waged on into August to see the effects of a plum. I think we had some carrots or something as well, stuck under there. We had our own little sort of biosphere going on there for the summer. That was fun. And then this is the last thing I'll say before we read some ads and get to the second half

of our podcast today. I keep it short-ish because I didn't come in with much to talk about. So I hope you're enjoying my detastling nostalgia. And I could talk to you for a couple of hours easily, but I won't. The last thing was my last summer detastling. I was 18, so this was literally a month, two months before I went away to college.

I had my own bus crew. So I was a crew leader. I was in charge of a bus crew. It was a new kind of fledgling startup crew that had sprung the year before down in Rochelle, which is about half an hour south of where I grew up. And so Tim Muthir, who was on our show last week, gave me my own crew for my last summer.

And it's a good opportunity. You make a lot more, and you know it's a it's a good opportunity you make a lot more and you're not traditionally you don't spend your days walking through a row and pulling stuff you're kind of organizing supervising doing logistics payroll you're still in the field when everybody else is and you're still catching tassels because my crew didn't know what the hell they were doing. I should have mentioned listening to discretion is advised. When you're listening to the Bean Tom podcast number one, we'll occasionally use some language number two. This podcast is objectively terrible. But I tell you what, I was given a crew of about 35 kids.

Everyone was between like 12 to 15, which is not what you want. Because even if you have people that don't have experience, it's just nicer to get 16-year-olds, 17-year-olds, tend to have a little bit higher work ethic. I literally think, and I thought about this a little bit, I think I had three kids on the first day that had he tassled the year before, and then everyone also was a rookie, which is not good.

That's real bad because what you wanna do is, the way you do tassels, you have the kind of rookies who are new to it, don't really know what they're doing. They get their own role, but then you have squad leaders, people who will be in charge of like four to six rows at a time, walking behind those people, checking their work, and pulling tassels that they miss. Which I, it never really, you know, this concept of like

having, having a low poll percentage, I never understood it, right? Every single plant has a tassel. You show up to each plant, you pull the tassel, you go on to the next one. But I tell you what, man, you get kids, especially my kids on this crew when I was 18, 2013 summer, that are just pulling like 60 to 70%. For a lot of people, they just give up, they don't care. But a lot of people, they're doing their best. And that's how well they can do.

I never understood it. It really seems like a simple concept. Every plant has a tassel, pull the tassel, go to the next plant. So that's why you have squal leaders that are to check work. But I had three people on my crew that had previous detastling experience.

They all quit after one day. So I spent the next three or four weeks with a crew of kids who had never detastled before. And they slowly, like a horror film, slowly started to get picked off one by one. They didn't have a very strong work ethic. And 18-year-old Quinn really didn't have a lot of management experience. I think I was a good manager.

I think I was a good boss, but I didn't really know how to inspire or rally these 12-year-olds. We even had incentives. I introduced incentives. We had a Golden Spike, which had been stolen from a railroad track that we do tassel next to. And every day you would hand out the golden spike to the top performing detasler. This didn't even motivate them. So I just. By the end of the summer, they were literally like six of us. It

was awful. But you know, the corn affects us all differently. And it certainly gives you corn fever. A semi-mythical ailment brought on by corn rash, which is a completely real ailment. Corn rash is brutal. Get it on your forearms and it just burns like hell. Man, it was awful. But those are just a couple, you know, stories off the top of my head. I found this, you know, last week when I was preparing for my talk with Tim, there's an interesting YouTube video. I think it's done by Vice. It's like four or five minutes long. Just follows this one girl in like a day of detastling and you know, she does some interview with questions. And it is just a good kind of insight if you're just not familiar with what corn to dazzling is or what it's like. Go check out that video. If you just, you know, search on YouTube corn to dazzling. I think

it's done by vice, I think as you did it, it'll pop up. The one thing that you see in a lot of places is a lot of people who do tassel go through fields that have already been gone through with an automatic machine that pulls anywhere from like 50 to 70% of the tassels in a row. We didn't really have that. Occasionally, you'd go into a field down in Rochelle, you'd see that where a machine had gone through before, but that was not very common. And then, you know, you sometimes you see actual like you tassling or not detasting machines, but like tractors with the detastling attachments. I don't know how to how to describe it, but they have like

different buckets that sit between each rose as the tractor moves through the field. And you have two detastles actually stand in these buckets as the machine moves. So you don't actually have to walk. You're still pulling all the tassels, So you don't actually have to walk. You're still pulling all the tassels, but you don't actually have to walk. We had that occasionally, right?

Like when you go out to Hughes hybrids, you see that, but that wasn't a super common occurrence either. Most of the time, everyone was walking, everyone was on their feet, and every plant had a tassel, which is as hard as it gets in my opinion. But that's a little bit about corn detasling. Let's read some ads here and then I just have a couple of things I want to mention for our second half and we'll end it there. Pretty low key episode. I hope that's okay with everyone. Home

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To celebrate a little bit, I am down 45 pounds on the year, which is exciting. I haven't talked about the diet a ton. I kind of just briefly mention it here and there, but you know, our guests will just lay it out straight here. Haven't had a drink yet this year. No alcohol. This is something like day, I don't know, 110 or something like that. I haven't had any pizza, not a single slice, which is a big thing for me, because I like pizza a lot, and I live in Chicago, where you can get access to the best pizza,

no, no, no, demand. I also, donuts are also a big thing for me. I really like donuts and you say well Quinn You just had a cinnamon roll this morning. So like what's the difference? You're right But just you know the fact that I I have had one donut our Dean at at the the college I work for brought them in to a staff meeting one time and I the college I work for brought them in to a staff meeting one time and I had one for lunch instead of my lunch that day. That's the only donut I've had this year. It was back in January, February, something like that. So those are sort of the three big things and

then I've just been working out like crazy, you know, especially under quarantine. I've just been running a lot because there's nothing else to do. I mean, I wasn't really running that much pre-quarantine, like three days a week maybe, two to three days a week. Now I'm at five. My routine in case you're wondering, one day through Thursday at noon, I walk one mile, through Thursday at noon. I walk one mile and then later around three or four I've run. I never really know how far I'm going to run until I start and I just sort of see how I'm feeling, but on those Monday through Thursday runs lately, it's been anywhere from three and a half miles up to about five miles, about as far as the go on one of those runs. So, you know, not short

short runs, but certainly not long runs, kind of average. I'm running at like an eight to eight and a half minute pace, but I don't track any of that stuff really. And then what I do on Fridays, I take a long, I also do my walk, my mile walk, it's the same loop every single day. At noon within instead of a run to just give my legs a little bit of a rest. I still go out. I'm still on my feet, but I just go for a long walk, a three to four mile walk on Fridays in the mid to late afternoon. And then Saturday mornings, I have been, or I guess afternoons now I'm going for long runs yesterday it was nine and a half miles the week before it was 12 the week

before was like eight week before that was like 10 I don't know I can't keep track I don't write stuff down maybe I should but who cares I go up to Evanston. I like running up there for my long runs right now because normally my long runs would be along the lake front path, but that is out of order. But you go up to Evanston, you can run along the lake. It's great. So all in all, you know, like this week, I logged, oh, and on Saturday nights,

I go for one mile walk to shake it out. And then today, I went on like a eight and a half mile walk, something like that, keeping it loose. So I'm running like anywhere from 25 to 30 miles a week and then walking another, I don't know, like 12 to 15, something like that. Me being even more than that this week. But yeah, I mean, and then just eating not very much, not like I'm starving myself,

but I'm on one meal a day right now. I had just had the big dinner. And I usually come in at like 12 or 12 to 1400 calories on average on laying all like a Monday through Friday and some more on the weekends like I'm splurging today. I'm closer to 2500 today, but yeah, and just stay diligent. Don't drink your calories and I don't snack. Drink a lot of water, coffee, tea occasionally, and I'm down 45 pounds. I've got another probably 12 to 15 pounds to go

to be where I would like to be, but the thing with, you know, the scale is, it's just like, I mean, it's a number that only you are ever gonna see unless you decide to share with somebody. So the really the important thing should not be, what is your number say? It should be, how do you look?

Do you like the way you look? What do you want to change, et cetera? So by that, by that way of thinking, yeah, I still have some work to do. I still got some love handles going on. And I still have some upper back fat, which is something I never really dealt with. It just kind of popped up, crept about and nowhere,

that I would love to shrink down. That seems to be the biggest thing in my losing 45 pounds this year that just has not wanted to budge. Got some upper back fat that's just like hanging out. Everything else, I've reared other part of my body of seeing trimmed down, trying on some pants that hadn't worn since quarantine started

and it will be interesting when we go back. I'm going to need to really tighten the belt. But the upper back just doesn't seem to want to budge. I don't know. You can't really target. It just needs to, if it wants to go, it'll go. I don't know. But I treated myself today with a little cinnamon roll

for my local bakery. It's the first time I had ever gotten anything from their bakery, and I've been going there for almost a year now. So pretty solid, pretty good stuff. Nice to have home made goods. Not very highly processed. The last thing I want to say is probably the most depressing thing. Although we don't have to let

it be depressing, I just, rather than starting it off at the start, front end of the show, and kind of casting a somber tone, I wanted to save it for the end and just kind of throw it in here because it's kind of sad and I'm thinking about it a lot. And it's a very, it makes me sound kind of douchey because I'm very privileged. But I was supposed to be on a flight physically right now I'm supposed to be on a flight physically right now, as we speak, as I record from LAX to Honolulu International right now. The plan was to be in Hawaii from Sunday night through Saturday morning.

I hadn't had a ton of things planned out from an excursions perspective. All I really had was the flights were set, the rental car was set, the Airbnb was set, it was right on the ocean, in the Mormon town on Oahu, which was going to be wild. Lay something like that, forget what it was called. Obviously, I'm not there. We were going to do maybe the first ever podcast from the state of Hawaii. Who knows if there's ever been a podcast from Hawaii. We can't know. It was going to be my 50th state and I was really excited to do some hiking and I was

going to climb a volcano. Hopefully not fall in. I was going to go snorkeling with the manatees and I was going to go to Waikiki Beach. But clearly that's not happening. The fingers are crossed for the you know quarantine to end COVID-19 to die down a little bit. I'm still going, right? Because these stupid companies, you know, united Arabian B, they don't refund you.

They just give you future travel credit. So I'm still going. It's just a matter of when, not if, which is good. But I was, I said this on Family Chat this morning. It feels like the Truman Show trying to hit my last state here. Number 50, I've been talking about Hawaii for so long. And I'm not sure if everyone always took me seriously when I was talking about it. Because that's a big trip, big thing to do by yourself. But then I finally, over the winter committed, I said, this is happening. I have the money, have vacation time. We're

doing it. Even though, you know, no one's coming with, that's okay. I'm doing it by myself. So I finally committed to it by the flights. Book the travel, air being be rental car. It's going to get a Corvette. It's going to be awesome. I was going to go to the pineapple factory. The doll plantation, Bob Dole. He'll literally host you. I think he passed away. But Bob Dole will literally host you there. Animatronic Bob Dole is there to welcome you with open arms. You go, you pick your own pineapple. Oh, the air is so dewy sweet tender like the night man Man, that would have been nice. I tell you what um

And I was gonna have a slice of pizza. I was going to have Hawaiian pizza Damn You're like clay Davis from the wire. He was gonna have Hawaiian pizza. Damn. You're like Clay Davis from the wire. He's gonna have Hawaiian pizza. Shit. I love Clay Davis. Anytime I'm feeling down as in right now specifically all you got to do is go watch some Clay Davis clips on YouTube and for those you listening who made it this far, kudos. But if you haven't seen the wire, which I don't think most my listeners have, just and there are no spoilers involved in this, just go watch like a clay Davis compilation. You know, find some of this just like a minute, two minutes long,

especially the ones that him saying, shiiit, monodilandarin, in my town, with bodebo, shiiit. That is my favorite character. No, my second favorite character in the world. My favorite is Dan Veltjeck. God, I love that guy. He's so awful. But we were talking about pineapples. Pineapple pizza? Shit. This is helping bring my spirits back up, but Hawaii is still going to happen. It's just not happening right now, but we were going to do a podcast live from Hawaii, which would have been awesome. It's my last state, number 50. And I'm so close to doing it. And I feel like once I hit that,

then I will feel very like freed and unrestricted. And now the world is my oyster from a travel perspective. So that was sort of the semi-Somber note, but trying to keep a smile on my face and looking ahead to the future because I know it's coming, it's not a matter of if, it's just a matter of when.

So that's really what I wanted to share with you today. We had some detastling nostalgia. We talked about my diet, my weight loss a little bit. And we talked about the fact that I'm not in the Mormon town right now. Oh well, Mormon town, that could be a Broadway musical. I will start writing it. Maybe you could Mormon town, it'd be like a combination of the Book of Mormon and South Pacific, neither which I've ever seen, a real mash-up. There could have been a glia. Damn, what a mess. Yeah, okay, that's what I got.

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help it brother out, you know? We're not getting any cuts by Q revenue right now, so we could sure use some advertising revenue from our friends here at JackLinksFeederWildsci. JackLinks.com. He says, as he sips out of his JackLinks Travel Mug courtesy of Andrew Denison, a fine employee of your company. Last thing here, I started reading crime and punishment. I've never read it before. I've never really read Russian literature before. It's interesting, you know. I am, I just finished part one. Let me tell you,

this guy, Raskolk, I just call him Ratata in my head like the Pokemon when I'm reading. Ratata is crazy, man. Like, I feel like he jumps into some shit here and we don't really get a lot of like warning, not necessarily warning, but like, we don't really know what's going on inside this guy's head before he goes into this stuff. Like is he mentally, like, see all there? I don't know, because it seems like he was just you

know kind of down on his luck having some bad days dropped out of school. Like when I'm down on my luck having bad days I eat some chocolate although maybe they didn't have chocolate in you know St. Petersburg in the 19th century. But I eat some chocolate and play some game pigeon. And I think of Clay Davis. She had potter. This guy is doing some, I have no spoilers, but you're going to want to read it. That's all I'll say. Hey, tell you what, let's get the Tishmingle blues fired up because my name is Quinn David Fernos and this has been my show. And I think you all for listening. We will come at you next week with another episode until then stay safe, stay sane and

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