Beantown Podcast - Quinn's Response to Riots (05312020 Beantown Podcast)

Episode Date: June 1, 2020

Quinn comes to you LIVE on a solemn occasion to discuss the ongoing riots in Chicago while also getting sidetracked by mimosa kits and American Girl Dolls

Hey, what's going on? It's Quinn de With Furnace. Welcome to my show, Quinn de With Furnace presents the Bean Town podcast for Sunday, May 31st, 2020. What's going on? How are you? What's happening? There's a lot happening boy. This is Stuff is just 2020 is like I can't even think of a good comparison because it's just getting crazy out here Man, I thought I thought we were at our maximum level of craziness and Boy this weekend has just been especially you, if you live in a large urban area, it seems like pretty much everywhere. There's a lot happening, but particularly here in Chicago, where we are coming to you live from.

As of right now, it's still safe for me to be here and we're very fortunate and thankful that our bean town networks radio affiliates are still up and running the satellites haven't been destroyed or anything so you're listening to this that being said we are not doing a video broadcast of this podcast, you know, I kind of thought, you know, hey, if the media gets a hold of some video footage, you know, rioters, or, you know, the police, I just didn't want anything that was going to go viral and, you risk put put my you know apartment at risk put me at risk you know I'm trying to I'm keeping the lights off or under curfew here trying to just stay under the radar but the good news is I got some pizza rolls and I'm going to be having those for supper right after

that it because of that as you might expect we're going to be moving pretty quick today, but it's also largely in part to the fact that I don't have too much to say it's interesting. I could say everything or I could say nothing and I'm going to try to tow the line here. I suppose that's true of every week on the Beentown podcast, but, things are just... Things are wild. Listen to your discretion as advised when you're listening to the show number one. We'll occasionally use some language here and there. And number two, the podcast is objectively terrible. We're coming to you live on the North Side of Chicago.

We are one of the better podcasts. Top 500, some might even say say on the north side of Chicago. Taken a sip of water from my Norfolk Academy. Like, I don't even know how you would describe this kind of a travel mug, but smaller in size. It's kind of nice. It's solid aluminum aluminum the bulldogs. I can't do a bulldog noise. Yeah, taking a little break from Jack links. It's not you, it's me. I just you know for all the

for all the generosity of spirit and all the free promotional plugging I've been given them, you know, it's just be nice for some reciprocation once in a while, but I don't hold it against those guys, you know. Hey, what do you think? What do you think? I got my multivitamins on the coffee table here. What do you think happens if you just dump like a whole bunch of multivitamins into water? How long would it take to dissolve? I wonder how long does it take one multivitamin to dissolve? You know, because you swallow these things whole.

And these things are pretty big, you know? They're like the size of cockroaches. I wonder how long they sit in your stomach for before it starts to eat away. I mean, we're talking like 15 minutes, 15 hours, 15 days. Who knows. There is really no way to know because we don't have the technology yet. It's something to look forward to in 2021, I suppose. Boy, there's so much going on. If you haven't been in the news, the last 48 hours here in Chicago particularly have been rough. You know, the riots started in Minneapolis. They

were going on, you know, I think maybe like Tuesday, Wednesday issues when they really picked up into Thursday. And then things have spilled over into other large metro areas. In many of them, peaceful, but in certain instances like Chicago, for example, things have gotten really bad. Case in point, my office, which if you didn't know, the bean-town podcast isn't my full-time job. I don't make enough money to support myself from the bean-town podcast,

even with the lucrative sponsorship deals from home pride organ and cuts by Q. I have to do other things for income to get by, you know, in this tough economy. So I have an office down on on on on state street. And, uh, or on Jackson Boulevard. And, uh, got word a couple hours ago. I'm recording this at about 8 p.m. on Sunday night Sunday, May 31st Got word that it my my office. It's a first floor office Windows been smashed I don't really have details beyond that

Boy beyond that. Boy, it's tough to talk about, not because I'm so emotionally shook, but I just don't even know how to feel, what to say. It's a very odd and strange time. I don't have any details about the severity of the damage. I haven't been in my office since my... Okay, apologies for that. It cut out. I tried to edit it as well as I could. I didn't get too much further down the line about 30 seconds of recording. My max being weird. This could be a rough episode.

You know, for all the strange things my max has been doing, I've been getting a new alert here just today. I don't even remember exactly what it says, but it really messes things up. Doing our best. What I was going to say, I haven't been in my office since March 16th. It's a bummer because I have a plant in there that obviously has not made it. And a couple of other things in there

that I would like to have right now. Namely, I bought a nice pair of workout shorts that I was using for my workouts during my lunch breaks at the office, and I would love to have those with me up here. I also my prize possession, my Rockford Icehog's coffee mug that I use for coffee when I'm in the office would love to have that with me.

And Diplomas, those would be good to get out of there, but what I'm getting at here is I, I don't know what my offices like, I have monitors in there, I don't have a my office is like. I have monitors in there. I don't have a computer in there, thankfully. It's with me right here on the couch. But, you know, a scanner, a couple monitors, my K-cups, and pair of shoes and my worry stones.

If you don't know what worry stones are, they're basically things that keep on my table for when I have meetings with students. I offer them to them. Some people like to have something to hold on to, something in your hands. A lot of people just use a pen or something or their phone, but I offer worry stones. They're kind of like marbles, but not really that shape, but

imagine that sort of like texture. Hopefully they didn't take my worry stones. What I'm really getting at here is, this is a strange time to be alive. And if you've been on social media for more than 30 seconds, you can, I'm sure everyone's what you see being posted is all very strange. I don't really have anything awfully poignant to say. And that's not because I am refusing or or trying to exclude myself from anything. I just don't really have any Thoughts right now, and I'm a big fan of if you don't really have anything Well thought out or intelligent to say

Then you know hang back a little bit that wouldn't work so well, you know, hang back a little bit. That wouldn't work so well, you know, if I was mayor of the city or president, although I feel like Trump hasn't said much this weekend. That being said, I haven't been on Twitter that much. But, yeah, and I apologize, it's a weird episode. And I was actually having this conversation with a friend earlier today, where this is a tough time,

because it doesn't a tough time and total, first world problem here, but it doesn't really feel right to try to go for a comedy episode on a day like today on a weekend like this. But at the same time, I would never pretend to be a super well thought out poignant person. The other thing is, the Bean Tom podcast is a pretty silly experience. It's typically traditionally very goofy, sometimes funny, sometimes not super funny, but for the most part, it's a solid escape from reality.

With that in mind, I don't know, man, this reality that we are currently in 2020 in general has been a lot, but this specific reality today, I don't really have anything to offer up to help anyone escape from this. so I do apologize for that. But I'm just a little just You know like that how we day song or no, that's collide who sings on well is that Rob Thomas? I'm not crazy. I'm just a little unwell

I'm not crazy. I'm just a little unwell. Hoping soon you'll see a different side of me. Is that how that song goes? I was trying to sing Matchbox 20, yeah, it's Rob Thomas. I dated, I went on like two dates. I don't even remember who this is. I just know that this is true. I think it was a random online date. I went on a not a Tinder date because I've been banned, but some other online date site or app with a girl and we were talking about music and an answer who her favorite band was and it was Matchbox 20. And that just like, I couldn't believe it when I heard it.

Not because I think Matchbox 20 is bad. I think as far as like, alt, rock, slash pop bands go, they're fine. I can't tell you that I really know anything beyond their hits. And I don't know that much about Rob Thomas in general, but I just never heard anybody be like, Matchbox 20, my favorite band. It just seems like like they're everyone's like third favorite band or not even top five. You know, it's just

something you put on here and there. I just had never met anybody, maybe this isn't as radical of an opinion as it hit me as, but I've never heard anybody say Matchbox 20 in response to a favorite band. I don't even remember how we got there. Oh, on well, there was something else I wanted to say, but I don't know. Hey, if you're wondering, you know, things are crazy in Chicago. They've been happening the violence and the riots. The last two nights were in the loop and where my office is and then River North and then it seems like today there's been a decent amount of violence down Southside regions.

Interestingly enough, so curfew is an effect last night. It's an effect again tonight. I think starting by now already, I'm not sure. But CTA got shut down at 6.30 p.m. 90 minutes ago and has a, and won't resume until Monday morning. Chicago Transit Authority. Really interesting because what if you're I don't know. Good time for Uber stock. And I assume the cabs are out in full force. Just weird, you know, like, I don't know, man, I didn't take any CTA today. I was walking, I woke up down in Lakeview at Rachel's and walked up, saw a friend of the podcast, Aaron Burns. Hand-seeing Aaron Burns for about three months, two and a half, I don't know.

Since her scary bout with the mono-nucleosis, resting piece, but then I Had made plans. I was gonna mosey my way back up here to the north side on foot. This was before you know CTA started shutting down Or had made plans announced plans to shut down because I think they They they announced those plans to shut down with like 10 minutes notice I got the alert on my phone and it was like 6.20 p.m. Yo, we're shutting down CTA at 6.30 and it's like oh cool casual

I had to stop at fat cat brewery Brew bar and restaurant. I think is what it's called. Bat Cat Bar and Restaurant, which is at Lawrence and Broadway. And I've been there once in my life, actually went on a first date there. And I had, excuse me, played Seinfeld trivia on Thursday night this past week. on Thursday night this past week. And one first prize, yours truly playing solo as a team name, those aren't buoys,

which is typically what I play as for Seinfeld trivia, and on Zoom, my name was Tim Wattley. And that will actually come into play in a moment here when I explained to you why I went to Vat Cat today. I had to pick up my prize, which was a Mimosa kit. Now I've never won a Mimosa kit as a prize before and I don't, this is, I was doing the math in the shower. This is like day 152 without alcohol, I think. I'm not drinking right now. That without alcohol, I think.

I'm not drinking right now. That being said, I was excited because you figure, hey, it's a kit, my most a kit, KIT. Like kit, kit, ridge, an American girl doll, anyone? Hmm. What was her deal? Kit, kit, ridge was she Swedish? You know what we're gonna do? We're gonna Google it. And I'm coming

back to Fat Cat, I promise. Kit Ridge, an American girl, 2008 film based on set Abigail Brezlin. Oh man, what a cutie. Straight out a little Miss Sunshine. Comedy drama. American girl, Kit Ridge, Abigail Brezlin, Liz and Cincinnati, ooh, during the Great Depression. Well, that's tough. That is real tough. Poor Abigail Brezl and Chris O'Donnell. I'll start cast over here. Joan Q. Zach.

Stanley Tucci. Janko Kowski. Wow, I know what I'm doing later. Will Smith, Wallace Sean, geez. The hits keep coming. Speaking of Joan Q. Zach, John Q. Wall is Sean, geez, the hits keep coming. Speaking of John Qsack, John Qsack is a famous Chicago person and I have a friend who's a journalist and John Qsack retweeted him this morning.

So I basically feel like I've made it. I don't know. We'll see if John wants to come on the podcast at some point. That could be exciting. Kit, Kit Ridge. One of those American girl dolls. Was there like an OG American girl doll lineup? Well, you got Samantha World War II doll, I know that from a 30-rock episode where they reference Alex Baldwin's character is trying to get information out of a little kid and he puts, she's never seen 30-rock. I implore you, it's on that prime, maybe Hulu as well. I implore you like, yes, there are lots and lots of

mid to late 2000s error references that you probably won't understand anymore. That's fine. But it's so good. It's like the fastest show on television. It's man, brilliant. I wish I knew more people that were totally down with 30 rock because it is so good. I think it's so intelligent. It's a beautiful blend of the quick hitting, like, well written humor of Seinfeld with just like the loveability of the characters of the office. Like it's a beautiful blend of those two things. And then just like a dash of insanity as well, especially in the later seasons.

With the American Girl Dolls, there was like an OG lineup, right? And I'm sure there's millions of them now, but you got, there's Samantha, she's got the glasses, Brunette. There's Kit Ridge, of course, blonde. We never did learn if she was Swedish. Maybe there's another different blonde, Swedish doll.

I'm not sure. Oh, there was a Native American girl. Maya, maybe? Not sure. Maya kind of sounds right. Wasn't there, because there's another, they came out with a bunch of movies. There was Kit Ridge, there was Sam,

there was the horse girl. Not a, I'm not on board with horse girls. That's a story for a separate time. Is that Felicity, maybe? Felicity Huffman, her own American girl, though, straight from prison. That's pretty exciting. Okay, I have gone to the list here because I wish there was, you know, I wish they had their pictures with them.

Kirsten, that sounds like it could be the Swedish immigrant. Yeah, in the Minnesota territory, there she is. I'm just trying to, I don't, there's so many of them. You know, when I was a kid, there were like six. Joss Kendrick, that. Get out of here here that 2020 crab. Um, Ivy. Is that one? I don't know. That doesn't sound familiar. In case you're just tuning in to minute 21 of the Bean Tum podcast, we are going through the list of American girl dolls because

that's really just what this nation needs right now. Addy, that's one. She was like a Harriet Tubman character. I think we've hit on a solid amount of them. What I was going to say with Fat Cat was the mimosic hit. So I'm excited, right? Even though I'm not drinking, I'm like, you know, there's probably going to be some swag in here. Wrong.

It was literally, and I'm not criticizing anybody, I'm just maybe my expectations were too high. I was literally handed a bottle of champagne and three plastic like kind of looks like the things that you'd like get at the baseball park to fill like put your catch up and relish and onions in, just like the little plastic things with lids. With, like, what I assume is just highly concentrated orange juice, I think one of them is mango juice, I don't know. But like, three little plastic cups in a thing of champagne,

not even like a bag or some glasses, But like three little plastic cups and a thing is champagne. Not even like a bag or some glasses. You know, I thought when they said kit, that meant like, you know, the works. Champagne, juice, maybe a shirt, maybe a kiss on the cheek, a fun ball cap perhaps, and maybe two tickets to guys and dolls. That was incorrect. My assumption was wrong.

This was literally just champagne and some juice. So then I walked at home from there, like another two and a half miles. Looking like a badass, just roaming those streets in between curfew over here with my bottle of champagne and my union brewery hat that my ex got me. H2. In case you're wondering, the first date, the only other time I've been at Fat Cat was with H3. If you're not following this, that's Haley, the second Haley I dated, and Haley the

third Haley I dated, known, respectively, as H2 and H3. Okay, let's read some ads here, and we're going to close this episode out pretty quickly. I don't even think I want to put this on YouTube. It's just too depressing. Not that my YouTube channel is known for its pristine content, but I don't even like, we'll just post the SoundCloud link. It's fine. And no, I'm not filming this. If, if, if, if I, if I were to be filming this,

here's what you'd be looking at. Here's your visual of the day, and it's not an appropriate or graphic. Um, I'm sitting on my couch, it's 8.20 p.m. Sunday night, Chicago time, wearing my hot pants, which I haven't really talked about in the podcast yet. There are some of my newest clothing accessories or items. They're pink pants. They're sweatpants and they are very hot.

I'm shirtless. I took a shower right before I recorded and I was really cold today, but, you know, getting out of the shower, I tend to, my body temperature tends to stay pretty warm. And drinking out of my Norfolk Academy, gold bulldogs, cup, and you're not really seeing anything, there's really nothing else to see here. I still have to eat supper. Kind of a weird day, going back to work tomorrow, I guess.

But not physically back, like Zoom meetings at 9.30 a.m. That type of work. So, okay, let's read some ads here and we'll come back and we'll wrap it up close to the half hour mark, because I wanna eat supper and have my Sunday night wind down.

I have already infringed upon my son and I wind down. It's because I watched the NASCAR race and it went kind of long. And then I got on a YouTube like Black Hole. And next day I know I was watching a three hour walk through of the Quest for Camelot Game Boy game that I had as a kid. And then I started watching a Pokemon,

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something snappy and new, just call the experts at cuts. By Q. All right, minute 29 here, I decided that I didn't really have anything else I wanted to say. And it's such a kind of grim, solemn day here in Chicago. I didn't really have anything else that I wanted to add. So I decided what I'm going to do is, or just see, this is, it goes back to one of my criticisms of my video format, because I'm not mobile.

And something I like to do, especially now that I have the piano, is be mobile. I have live on air, I have moved over to the piano, and I decided, and I still don't know what I'm going to play, but I decided I don't really have anything else to say but I figured I would leave everyone with a song and I don't I'm not going to see anything on it I'm just going to play some joblin but I'm going to play something it's going to play us out it will replace our Tishmingle Blues this week if you missed it we've got about a million other episodes that ends with it or you can just find it on YouTube it's not that big are Tishmingle Blues this week. If you missed it, we've got about a million other episodes that ends with it, or you can just find it on YouTube.

It's not that big of a heartbreaker, I promise. So let me just page for my table of contents here. I'm going to play something by memory, but I'm just trying to think what I want to play. Nothing, what do I even, you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna play a hymn. I think it will just be nice. Something off the top of my head.

It is Sunday after all. I haven't been to church in a little while. Didn't get my communion today, which is the worst part. But I'm just gonna play a little hymn for ya. And I hope the audio turns out okay. I'm not too worried about it. I'm not going to mess around with any organ settings or anything. We're just going to stick to piano. But this will be the end of our show. So thanks for tuning in. And here's a little hymn. I think it fits the vibe, the mood of today.

A little bit better than anything else I could play. And again, I don't really know what to say, don't really have anything to say. And sometimes it's just better to let your creativity and your art speak for you rather than your actual words. So that's, I'll do my best here. Hope the audio works out, okay, it's not gonna be amazing, but we'll do our best. So thanks for tuning in, a little him action for you,

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