Beantown Podcast - Quinn's Quarantine Routine (04052020 Beantown)

Episode Date: April 5, 2020

Quinn comes to you LIVE from quarantine Week 4 to talk about his routine, including One Meal a Day (OMAD), long runs in Evanston, and the meaning of Palm Sunday. Will Lutheran Legend Tim Muther join us next week?? Tune in to find out!

Hey, what's going on? It's Quinn David furnace. Welcome to my show Quinn David furnace presents the bean town podcast for Sunday April 5th Palm Sunday. Oh, man. Jesus writing into Jerusalem on a donkey and ass. Jesus sitting on his ass, on his ass going into town, getting waved down with palm trees. I don't really know why, you know, it seems like palm, palm branches, You know, why would you... Why would you cut a bunch of branches off a tree just for... You know, Jesus. All I'm saying is... You know, maybe Jesus isn't this, you know, big environmental activist that... He's been touting himself as touting.

T-O-U-T-I-N-G. Just a lot of things to think about on Palm Sunday. And we'll certainly be talking to Jesus and God and plagues, all that good stuff next week on our Easter special. It's become an annual favorite of the listeners here in the Beentown podcast. My name is Quinn David Furnace and this is my show, the creator, writer, co-host, only host actually. Co-hosted with me myself and I. Best boy, key grip, caterer, electrician, gaffer, I hardly know her. And you know all that other good stuff with

original music by Quinn David Furnace. Except for the music you're listening to right now, that's why Scott Chaplin. Performed by Quinn DeVitt Furnace. And yeah, this is my show. We're coming to you live from a quarantine, Quinn's quarantine. In fact, I have an Instagram series going right now called Quinn's Quarantine Comments. And they usually take place,

it's like a saved highlighted story on my Instagram page at q.quindy And they usually take place right after I've gone for a run, so I'm typically very Hot and bothered if you will. But yeah, this is pretty much, let's see, we're about to start with the fourth full week of quarantine, uh, because I actually, so, so my birthday was kind of the kickoff to quarantine March 16th. Um, and I actually worked, so that was, 23rd, 30th and tomorrow's a six. Yep. So we're getting started, get ready for week four here.

And, you know, how are you doing? What's, what's going on? You guys staying sane? You know, what are you doing to pass the time? If you picked up any new hobbies or skills under quarantine, yeah, if you do, you can let us know, you can email us. Beentown podcast at Yahoo.com again, that's Beentown, BEA and Heated and Podcast at Yahoo.com or you can tweet out, that's where at Beentown Cast, you can find me on Twitter at White Buns. I'm also on Instagram at Q.Qindi

and you can like our Facebook page being town podcast Or you can subscribe to me on YouTube Quinn furnace easy enough Yeah, just hanging out. It's kind of a lazy Sunday Gonna go get a walk in later here. It's important for me at least to go out and do something every day. So let me kind of dig in here and talk to you about my routine. Because routine is very important to me, a habit driven individual. And I can't even imagine what life would be like without my routine or my routines. That's just like 100% how I structure things and I tend to get stressed a little bit. Not even anxious or nervous, just straight up stressed if my routine

gets disrupted too much, I tend to get tired as well. Um, but so, so Mondays, um, well, you know, Monday through Friday and work and wake up, brew my own coffee, which is something that prior to quarantine I had only been doing on Sundays. Now I'm going through a lot of coffee over here. But we're one pot a day, about four cups I drink. Pretty normal amount I think. It's like the size of a, like a Grande Starbucks I think.

I don't know, I don't know how those sizes work because you got, you got Grande you got Venti and then you got the Trenta right Trenti Trenta trendy it's like the XL version it's the secret version it's not on the menu but you can ask for that make I make my own coffee, we do, I have a daily Zoom meeting for work, a daily staff session compared to the norm before, which was weekly. The daily is fine, I find myself pretty much just sitting there every day watching, because the thing with these meetings is it's usually just like two or three people on the out of the five of us just like talking about what they're doing that day. It's not so much like oh we need to discuss this or have a

conversation about this. It's just like sharing what they're doing each day. And I'm less inclined to do that, not for any reason in particular, but it just kind of seems like I'm wasting everyone's time, just talking about my boring mundane tasks, which is why I don't chime in as much on those daily staff meetings because it happens every single morning.

And occasionally, you have things that you need to discuss, but I also have individual meetings with my boss every week. So pretty much, and then be on that, communicating with her through Microsoft Teams and text and email like, you get your stuff answered. So start off with a daily Zoom staff meeting, which is fine. It is what it is.

And then every day Monday through Thursday, I go for a run over my lunch break, which I tend to take closer to three or four in the afternoon, because I just, I can have a much more effective run after I have like, after I can have a much more effective run after I have like after I'm a little bit more exhausted mentally and physically just been sitting on my butt, you know, after six hours, six or seven hours into the day. You know, it feels nice. I still in my life and I've tried it on various occasions and I've never been able to get

into a habit, which is very important to me because it's never felt right. Running in the mornings, I just can't do it. Boy, it is really tough for me. The thing of it is, one, I tend to just be a little bit colder in the morning from a body temperature perspective, and I'm much less inclined particularly in times like this where it's high 30s outside. To wake up in the morning, you have it be 7 a.m. I'm like, alright kids, let's go outside because I'm cold.

I want to warm up. My muscles tend to be a lot more tight in the morning. And then physically when I go out and it's been like this my whole life. And it's not just running, it used to be like swim practice too, which is why I ended up just like giving up on morning practice after a while in high school, I just feel awful. Like not even like tight or sore or nauseous, just like my body is not interested in doing anything like that. Used to run with a friend and Baltimore when I lived out there, being town, hashtag. And we would go for runs at about 6am.

And you know, that would mean, I'd wake up at like 515 every day to walk to our apartment and then we'd go for a run. I don't know, it was 530 or 6am, I don't remember. And we'd usually run like five Ks. In Baltimore, downtown. And I remember even in those runs, even running with a friend, which is usually way easier,

although I almost never do it. You know, I just never felt into it either. So that's why I run later in the afternoon. By the time I get back work is pretty much over a shower. Yada, yada, yada. On Monday nights, I cook big batch. That's not true to quarantine. That's a Quinn David furnishing in general.

Now let's see. Last week, we made like a, kind of a hodgepodge stew. He had a little bit of everything. There was no real theme. It almost turned into from like a spices and flavoring perspective It almost turned into like a gumbo kind of thing just because I threw in some andry sausage And that really that really like not overpowered, but really dominated the flavor profile of the stew

This week, let's see tomorrow night, what do we make in? Something kind of similar, except this one is more, this one last week was more like chicken base, this one this week is more beef base. So it'll be a lot of like stew meat, which is beef and beef broth. But you know, we'll have kind of the classics in there. So I got some lentils, I even got some barley,

a mega-octue store, had stopped selling barley for a while, but they're back. So barley's back on the menu, boys. And let's see, the protein decides that beef, we got some turkey bacon, I'm a big turkey bacon guy, I even got some ground turkey,

and I got some like, cute chicken as well, which doesn't really like fit with the stew, but I, you know, if I'm having this for like five or six straight days, then I need it to last. For veggies, I do pretty much what you'd expect, right? You got some garlic, some onion, celery, green pepper, carrots, and then on this one because

it's more of a beef-based thing, we're doing mushrooms and, oh, a big fan of this radish. So you go online and pretty much any respectable beef stew you're going to find is going to call for potatoes. Our shirt'll lot of them French fried potatoes. That's my sling blade. More like my Scott Farrell. Oh, we got a message. Oh, this is very exciting. We're going to be talking about this message I literally received.

I'm not sure if it came through on the audio, but very exciting times. We're going to have a guest next week on the podcast. That is awesome. Talk about that after you'd our ads here. That's Stu. So radish is instead of potatoes. If you never try this, I encourage you to do that because I feel pretty strongly about this.

I know some people aren't quite on board, but I feel that once you cook down radishes, once you get them in the stew and you steam them out a little bit, they pretty much have the exact same consistency as potatoes. If you're going to throw potatoes into a stew, except radishes, you don't go overboard on the carbs. And they're really good at kind of filling space,

taking on the flavor of their environment. Because radishes like potatoes don't have a lot of natural flavor, they're just kind of there. So I'm a big fan. In fact, I don't even think, man, I'm thinking back all the way back to June when I moved here. I don't think I've bought a potato in 10 months. I mean, even before that when I did live in Bean Town,

I almost never, maybe once or twice, literally in my years of living there, did I buy a bag of potatoes. This doesn't mean I'm always killing it with a low carb game, but I just, and I love Potato as much as the next guy. I just like made the executive choice to keep them away from my diet, unless I'm, you know, on a cheat day or something, and I have some French frad potatoes. If you didn't understand the reference to Scott Farrell, we'll jump into that in the second

half too. I'll give you a status update. We're going to keep this podcast pretty short. One, because I want to go outside and go for a long walk, two, there's something going on with my heart right now, just like some irregular rhythmic beating. It's kind of strange. I'm not exactly sure what's going on. Yeah, that's weird.

I don't know what to tell you. I'm not a cardiologist. So I might need to just lie down and not record for a second. But so we cook on Monday nights big old batch. In my 16th court, my favorite kitchen item, my 16th court stainless steel pot, which is great for big batches, a big batch kind of guy.

And I'll tell you what, what I've been doing this week, or not this week, under quarantine. Well, really in 2020, I've been, you know, dieting, hard, and exercising, a decent amount. But because out of concerns for the fact that I'm spending so much time sitting on my ass, Even though I'm running five times a week, which we'll talk about in a second, and going for walks most days in addition to a run, or like days like today, I'll just be one long walk, and maybe a little guy, otherwise.

But you're not like walking to the train, you're not walking around your office. Even when I'm in my office, I actually have to walk walking to the train, you're not walking around your office. Even when I'm in my office, I actually have to go walk up to the second floor just to use the bathroom, which obviously happens, you know, five or six times a day. Now when I want to go to the bathroom, it's like 10 steps to the toilet. So there's just a lot less movement going on. And so because of those concerns out of caution, We've gone pretty damn Spartan,

and I should mention that, let's turn to discussion, I said, advised, when you're listening to the Bean Time Podcast, number one, I'll occasionally use some language, and I apologize for that. Number two, the podcast is objectively terrible. So I'm down to one meal a day,

and I'd say an average, you know, I have two bowls of whatever I have, you know, whether it was the chicken and lentils thing I had last week or chili, or we had jambalaya. The week before that, this week's more of kind of a beef stew, beef and turkey stew and chicken. It's one of everything. Pick your poison. But struggle is my chain of thought here. I apologize. One meal a day, probably like

around I don't know, 13 or 1400 calories total on the average day Monday through Friday. The way it works, the wake up, I have my coffee, go for a walk around noon or so, about a mile usually, come back do some work, and then basically right in the mid afternoon, around three or so, and just when you're starting to feel that hunger, really creep in, and I should mention, it's very important to drink lots and lots of water.

That's when I go for my run. And I was noticing it a little bit this week, particularly on Thursday and then yesterday in my long run, where the low number of calories is catching up with me slightly. You know, your muscles don't recover quite as fast. Motivation is a little bit lower. Your overall body energy is certainly a little bit lower. So that's something you got to monitor when you're doing not only one meal a day, but also low calorie. Because those two things usually aren't coupled with each other.

If you're doing one meal a day, you usually still get like a normal amount of calories. You just eat a lot more than I am right now. But because what I'm cooking is so kind of nutrient rich, but not necessarily dense from a caloric perspective, because that's basically just vegetables and protein. You know, I get full without, you know, going crazy and calories, which I suppose is a good thing, but it can also be lower energy levels. So I eat dinner usually about 7 p.m. every day. And I usually don't really don't have to worry

about hunger much Occasionally on a weekday you'll get hungry a little bit earlier Then you're ready to go for your running you got to just kind of put up with it or ignore it for about an hour or two in the afternoon But usually it's not a it's not the end of the world Running I've been running Monday through Thursday I in terms of distance on those days. it just kind of depends on how I feel. Usually between those four days, it comes out to an average of about 15 miles total.

So we're not doing anything crazy. You know, that's like three and three quarters average per day. I run anywhere in the kind of eight minute pace range. Usually between eight and eight thirty, something like that. And yeah, it'll usually be like two, five Ks of four mileer and then a five mileer. That's pretty typical for those Monday through Thursday runs. They get tougher as they go, right?

Monday, you've just had a day off, which is Sunday, and your energy is pretty good. You feel pretty good on Tuesday as well. Wednesday, you're also, actually, at least for me, still feel fine, but you're also getting a little bored. And then by Thursday, it's like your energy levels are pretty low, and you're just kind of tired of running every single day. So I take Friday off, I go for a long walk on my Fridays, I have my new route, I go west to Warren Park and then down south and then I cut back east through Little India, which is an interesting place, not that exciting. There's not that much to like see or experience.

It's just kind of a strip. But then on Saturdays, run number five of five for the week, you go for a long run. These last couple weeks, I've been going up North into Evanston, which is nice because you can actually run and be by the lake up there. And the lake front kind of, you know, parks and paths up there, there's a decent amount of room to spread out and operate. Because you

get a lot of people up there which makes sense. And certainly people from like Edgewater and Rogers Park and Chicago will go up there as well because you can't go to the lake in Chicago, but you can in Evanston. So I've been going up there. I did like 11 miles last Saturday, yesterday I did like eight and a half. And those are tough as well on the low calorie. And by the time I got back yesterday I was really fried. Actually I had to work yesterday and so I didn't get out until about two or three in the afternoon. And by the time that was all over, between working and then going for a long run, and it was really cold,

I was pretty much just like settled in for the rest of the night. And I actually had a little bit more energy than I expected. I would after I showered up and finally got something to eat. I rebounded a little bit, talked to some friends and stuff. It was just kind of on the couch the whole time. So energy levels are pretty low, but you know what? And you might be listening to this thinking, Quinn, you're absolutely nuts, you're crazy,

you got to eat something. It's not like I'm fasting, right? You all know this story by now. It's on the Beentown blog. The time I fasted for a week in college was not a fun experience. Nope, we're just, we're keeping things pretty low maintenance. My big fear is like, knowing kind of my eating habits are very slippery slope

in general historically, and then I'm not moving this much. I'm just trying to keep it very minimalist, very straightforward, trying not to think about it that much Because then I'll just get like an anxiety attack what you try to avoid typically if you can So a couple of that with effect that's still sober this year It is April 5th which is day 60 days through February 31, 91,

what are we around like 96 maybe? Day 96 I think, which is exciting. And no pizza yet this year either. Although there have been, I feel not that I'm like, not that there are cracks starting to show in that resolve or that it's weakening, but've just had more like craving for it I don't feel any closer to like giving in and having a pizza this year than I did you know back in January or February when I was cruising I've just been thinking about it a lot more

In fact when I when I you know so when I go on my long runs up into, and you go by Jaredano's right by my old place on Farwell Ave, and boy, the smells really just hit me yesterday. I don't know if there was a particularly strong aroma coming out of those ovens, or if I was just kind of food deprived and craving pizza. But, you know, I'm in pretty good shape. I think the best news is that you know the only pizza place that's really close to me is Domino's and man that that pizza is just like I know people who consider it to be their favorite fast food pizza. I think it's my least favorite frankly

I'll take like a little Caesar's pizza over a Domino's I'll take like a little Caesar's pizza over a dominoes. Papa John's has his own set of issues, but I'll take that over dominoes. Pizza Hut is my favorite. Definitely take that over dominoes. I can't think of a single fast food chain pizza that I think of more low in a more low perspective viewpoint than dominoes. I really don't like it. I think it's bad.

I'm not that close to any other specialty places or deep dish places. I'm about a mile away from two pizza places by my old apartment, the Gerardanos and the JBL Burdos, classic spot. But it's just far enough of a walk, like 20 minutes total to where I'm like, ah, it's too far. And I really don't even think about it very often, which is good.

But that's a little glimpse into my routine. Weekends are, I think that's been the toughest thing for me, is like, in general, I feel good about, you know, my work life balance, because I work pretty hard on my day through Fridays, but usually, you you know you have the weekends to kind of reset, get out, do something different than your norm. That's been the toughest part of quarantine I think for me is feeling like my weekends aren't really this, you know, different than Monday through Friday. They're not really that change of pace. And I just kind of feel like I live my life in one spot in my apartment, even

on weekends. That's probably my least favorite part about all of this. But again, I try not to think about that too much either because then I just get mild anxiety attacks. Nothing, you know, I have a couple here and there maybe once or twice a week. Nothing that wild, nothing I can't manage. I'm just not used to getting them. I can be a very anxious and nervous person in general in my life, but I don't usually get these attacks where it's like, you know, a solid 20 to 30 minutes of just feeling kind of crippled and paralyzed. Those have been coming, you know, now with a ton more frequency than they ever had before

in my life. So that's been a challenge. And I think part of it is living alone and not really having any interaction with humans. But we're doing our best here. Let's read some ads and then I've got just two things that I'll briefly mention in the second half and we'll shut it down. It's a very low key episode, very low key installment, no grand thesis to this episode. No guests, just quen, just catching up with you.

I think I feel right now, like I've got my fingers, not my fingers, my hands and like a couple other outlets where I've been connecting with people through like Instagram a decent amount on my workout videos, which we'll probably drop another one this week. Facebook, I didn't do much on Facebook this past week, but I'm in general, it's still been on in a decent amount. And then a decent amount of like face times and stuff. So I feel like a little bit less like I need to pour

everything into the podcast because yeah I think you know I'm getting I'm interacting with you all through other mediums. But let's read the ads here and we'll we'll touch on a couple things in part two which will just be a couple minutes and and then we'll wrap it up. Keep it pretty short. Remember in the old days, year one, first couple of months to be in town podcast, he'd be like 20 minutes long, 25 minutes long. And be like, wow, that was a long episode.

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which we'll talk about in a minute here. And during this special, holy week edition, today's Palm Sunday next week will be Easter Sunday and we'll be talking about a lot of things, God, religion and Christianity next week on the podcast. With her, with her guests, I, I, I suppose I'm, I'm excited. I, I gotta think about this a little bit. Wait till you announce who it is because it's it's someone who who's very involved in the church

And we'll see what he has to say for Easter holiday The Samson Q2U series when God speaks he uses the Samson I want to give a special thank you to our tax expert in resonance met feeder for coming on the bean tunnel podcast last week for our third annual bean tunnel podcast taxes special extraordinaire where Quinn David Fernandez comes on his own show live to release his taxes which you can just imagine happened. Thanks to Matt for coming on and in case you didn't catch the full episode, we made a pact where we are not shaving or cutting our hair until quarantine is over.

And I think I gave my full list of caveats on the show, but I'll reiterate them here. I'm shaving my neck beard, and I'm shaving the back of my neck too. The neck beard is just absurd, it's ridiculous. No one likes it, doesn't look good, doesn't feel good. Not fun for anyone. The back of the neck thing, you can actually get away with it because I'm not, you know,

no one's that for actually seeing the back of my neck these days. But it's just kind of like, you know, turning into a werewolf, try to keep it clean. That's what Cuts by Q is therefore. kind of like, you know, turning into a werewolf, try to keep it clean. And that's what Cutsby Q is there for. But thanks to Matt for coming on the show and sharing his insight and his expertise. We actually got, I almost forgot about this. We actually got some angry fan mail for Matt.

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to. Not very often. But I did listen to the Bake the Last Gap episode, which is late July, 2018. I did with my two older brothers from the Ted L. Stevens International Airport and Anchorage, which was fun. And one thing that got, I had forgotten just how much time we spent talking about this in your one of the podcasts, was the potential for a Jack Link's sponsorship on the podcast. And I know it's not something I talk about as much these days. I think I'm just kind of battered and weary

after so many failed attempts to get into a partnership negotiation with them. But man, we spent, it's not like five minutes just talking about Jack Links, yearning for their endorsement. So consider this just a re-up, a refresher. And let's see, there's one other thing. Oh, I wanted to mention this when I was reading my ad reads, I reminded me of 670, The Score, which I listened to every morning immediately before

and after our morning staff meeting. And it's usually the Bernstein and McKnight show, Dan Bernstein, Conor McKnight, and unfortunately, Thursday after the show, they let go of Conor McKnight in a wave of cutbacks. Conor is no longer on the the air, no longer on the show, which is very sad. And it was really painful listening to band Dan Bernstein kind of tearfully talk about it Friday morning on the show. And can you imagine how hard that is, you know, being used to hosting a three hour radio show

with a co-host, you know, someone else who fills in half the time, half the content, all that stuff, and all of a sudden, you got three hours to do by yourself. That's a long time considering these podcasts are, you know, usually less than an hour. So for Dan, I know you don't listen to my show, but I tweet at you all the time. Thanks for everything you do and Connor,

I hope, and to see where you land on your feet next. Two last piece of business here, and we'll wrap it up. One is just a quick check-in on Scott Farrell's biography or Triumph Tears and Tales of the Stage by Scott Farrell. We talked about this in depth last week on the show, so I won't dig into it much. But just given everyone a status update, we are officially to the last chapter. The next time I hit the record button, it will be to start this final chapter in Scott's life, because the book goes through, I think, 2016 is the last chapter before he publishes the book

So we're already you know there's already another like four years of his life story who knows maybe he'll write another another volume Which God knows we'd have to do another audiobook project, but yeah, we're to the last one It's kind of bittersweet. I will I will, right when quarantine really hit hard and started, I was kind of on fire with this book. I mean, when quarantine started, I was only about a third of the way through the recording or like five hours in or something like that. And then I really worked hard on it, chugged and burned through a lot of it, up until about a week ago.

I really sort of started to lose my steam. Good news is now I only have another probably less than 90 minutes left of recording to do. So we're very close. That could be, that would be finished either this week or next, at which point I'll only have to write my critical review, figure out how I'm going to distribute and disseminate the audiobook, and that's it, then the project is over. So a couple more things to kind of finish up and clean up and figure out there, because

it's not going to be a super straightforward sort of process. But yeah, it's almost done, which is wild to think. I haven't done the math to see exactly where it's going to come out to. I know at the beginning, I remember doing this out my parents' house over Christmas, like trying to calculate how much time it was going to be

total. And I think we came to somewhere around like 16 or 17 hours It's got to be more than that Because of just the added commentary that I've put in there But I you know probably like 17 or 18 hours I think it's probably about what what it's gonna be So that's almost up the last thing I mentioned here and we literally you know we're recording this about one in the afternoon live on air got a message from a former employee. If you made it this far on the podcast and you're familiar with my childhood, which you aren't, but you'll be excited to hear this Tim Muthur. The former, it's kind of a breaking bad story. The former

chemistry teacher, Al Luthur in Rockford Lutheran High School in Rockford, Illinois. And by summer, area manager, regional manager, something like that, I remember how those titles worked. Of team, corn, detest, lane based out of Princeton, Illinois, lovers, lane, road. We had sent him a message, get this back. And I think July, asking if you want to be on the podcast because this guy is just wild and you don't know what he's going to say next.

Or ever for that matter. Tim is great. We sent him a message back in July. He responded like last week, right? So like what, nine months later. And I was afraid that, you know, with this kind of historical pace in terms of him responding messages that, you know, even if we did get him on the podcast, that it wasn't going to be to like 2023. But we just got another message. So we'd sent a couple back and forth from me to Tim.

And I'm just reading it now for the first time. He says, does this coming Saturday works a 4 p.m. Shirley would boost the podcast numbers, perhaps we could generate a list of questions ahead of times. Absolutely we could. So, and I don't want to make any promises, because it could very well be that I send him back a message later this afternoon with some questions And you know, we'll be talking quarantine. We'll be talking

Easter for sure. We'll be talking Corndy-tastling for all that'll be interesting for those of you who aren't familiar with it And just with Tim spin on it. It'll be great but It could be that he doesn't respond until next year. Hopefully he responds tomorrow, but it could be next year. So there's kind of my forewarning for you all.

But Tim is awesome. He's the father of three daughters, all of them, whom are out of the house now, although right now who knows. But Tim's great. You used to be like the assistant coach of the Rockford Lutheran soccer team as well, so we'd butt heads there.

But Tim is just basically my first ever boss because I started that job when I was 12 and worked it until I was 18. Tim's a good guy, Tim is a wild guy. And there are, we could do a whole detastling podcast and maybe next week sort of turns into that. But there are other people I could bring on here. We could share stories because, in fact,

it would be best to just give my brothers on, I think, of team corny tassling because man, there's some wild stuff that you do. And just though, it seems like such a foreign concept now, but just the idea of being like 12 or 13 years old, you're still very much a kid. Like, you're just scratching the surface of being a teenager. You're just like a little kid at that point. You're out there working seven or eight hours, waking up at, you know, 4 30 AM, packing lunch in a shitton

of water, because you're working in the middle of July and August and cornfields and central Illinois. Man, hard, hard as balls work. I've worked some weird jobs in my 25 years, but nothing comes close to that in terms of just the overall, you know, manpower, physical labor, hours. I can't remember exactly. I think when I started when I was 12, which would have been, you know, like, 2006, 2007, I think I was making like six, six an hour, probably something like that.

And I rose to the ranks, by the time I finished, I was a crew leader, which was fun to put on my resume. It means I was in charge of a whole bus full of 12-year-olds. And at that point, I was making closer to like 12-hour, which now sounds awful. Back then, when you're 17, 18, making 12-hour is not bad. It's actually pretty good. At least it was for me growing up.

I don't know about you all. But that's Tim. Tim Muthir. No longer lives in Rockford. It's in the St. Louis area these days. But yeah, hopefully, fingers crossed, knock on wood for us. We will get Tim on the podcast next week for our Easter special. Boy, that would be something because Tim also is an active member in the Lutheran community. So I would love to get some of his perspective on stuff. And there are stories about Tim at Mount Olive Lutheran Church in Rockford, Illinois falling asleep during service and snoring and stuff. And he's just this kind of awesome like middle-aged guy who does whatever he wants, but it's also just like a genuinely good person and a crazy

driver. So, oh man, I'm really hoping we get him on the air because, you know, there are every once in a while you get a guest on the show that's like, oh my god, we now this lives here forever, this is amazing. My grandma sells a perfect example of that. I think having the roast of Quinn David, David Furnace was awesome because we got pretty much everybody in my family, including my grandfather on that show. Having Joaquin calling on the podcast was pretty special because he can be a tough guy to get a hold of having Aaron calling on my, my telephone fundraiser was pretty cool. having Aaron call in on my telephone fundraiser was pretty cool. You know, there are just certain people who are just kind of very little

parts of your life that can be easy to forget about, especially after you've moved away and you're on a different stage of your life, but these are still people who had an important impact or an important part of your life story up to this point. So any chance I can get to reconnect with them and then also get them recorded on tape so that it lives forever and I can go back and listen to that and sort of cherish that relationship anytime I want. That's really special to me. So I'm hoping we get that next week with Tim. But I already went longer than I wanted to.

I apologize for that. That's what I had for you on this week's entry into the bean town podcast next week is Easter. Yeah, I hope everyone's quarantine is going well. For those workout videos, you want to go to my YouTube page and follow me at Quinferness or check us out on Instagram or at q.coindee. Of course, if you have any questions,

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