Beantown Podcast - Tornadic Activity (08162020 Beantown Podcast)

Episode Date: August 16, 2020

Quinn comes to you LIVE to discuss celebrating Rachel's birthday, a Rogers Park tornado, and working on Sundays

Hey, what's going on? It's Quinn Davis furnace. Welcome to my show. Quinn Davis furnace presents the Bington podcast for Sunday, August 16th, 2020. What's going on? How are you? What's happening? My name is Quinn. This is my show I'm a creator writer best boy and Snacker of the show. I've been snacking a lot past couple days My whole eating

World has been turned upside down the past week or so we're gonna be talking about that in a couple minutes here why that's the case I'm tired man I'm actually taking a break from working here in a Sunday afternoon to come to you live. That's that's how much I care about all you guys, the fans, you know, got stuff that I need to be doing. You probably wonder, and hey Quinn, why are you working on a Sunday? Well, been gone up until a couple hours ago. We'll get to that later.

First and foremost, listen to discretion as advised when you're listening to being tell podcasts number one, we'll occasionally use some language. Number two, this podcast is objectively terrible, but I think all of you, the bean heads out there, hashtag friends of the podcast for tuning in.

And before we go any further, I want to give a special shout out. It's my girlfriend, Rachel Raymos. Happy birthday. Turn 25 yesterday. You know she's gonna be renting all sorts of cars now. That young driver's fee is gone. Very exciting day. Spent a couple days out on the lake

celebrating with her and some friends. It was a very fun time. We a bougie Airbnb, a lot of fun space. We had a king bed, big fan of the king bed. You can just roll over and over and over for days. And you still don't run out of real estate. It's a crazy thing, man. And my toes don't hang off the edge of the bed, which is exciting. No one likes hanging toes. But yeah, it was nice. I got to take some boats out on the lake for the birthday,

which was very cool. And yeah, had something else going on on a Friday, so it was very busy. Took a vacation day. My second one of the year, by August 16th. Kicking a wondering, I got something stuck in my teeth. Hang on, we're taking a pause. Okay, I had a chip particle stuck

in between my wire and my bottom teeth. I just could not go on in that condition. I've got this stupid semi-permanent wire. I don't even remember that the orthodontist put in when he got my braces off. And now it's like, I don't want this. Because food just gets stuck in there all the time. I mean, I'm completely used to it.

You know, I've had it for whatever, five years. But I don't want it. But it's really like gluing in there with some concrete mix or something. I don't know. You know, as an unregistered nurse, I do plenty of DIY medical procedures, but I don't know this one might be too much to handle. But yeah, happy birthday. Rachel, I hope it was a fun time. Because I took a freighter off, I am now doing the work. Isn't that always

how it goes? You take a vacation day and instead of just working a day less, it just means that you do more work when you get back. And work on a Sunday, in addition to a Monday. So, what's even the point of vacation, you know? The big news this week was the Tornatic activity, a tornado in Rogers Park. I never thought I would live to see the day. You know, you think about tornadoes? You think, hey, if I go live in a big city like Chicago, I'm never going to have to worry about tornadoes. Like Chicago, I'm never gonna have to worry about tornadoes. And the nice thing about Chicago is you don't have to worry about hurricanes either. It's mainly blizzards and wind and coyotes are really the big three and heart disease. Big four.

You never expect tornadoes to hit. So I get going on Monday, working from home. And you know, check in, I try to stay up to date with the forecast, the radar, what have you. And I see there's going to be a chance for rain later in the afternoon, like 4 p.m. Mike, all right, that's usually when I run. But I don't mind running into the rain. It's not too bad. So I'm going about my day and as I'm on Twitter, start to see articles about how Chicago is about to experience one of the like gustiest fronts, gustiest, G-U-S-T-I-E-S-T. It's ever experienced.

Well, that might not be fun for running. So I adjusted my running schedule. I went a little bit early in the afternoon. It's that I'll just come back and work from like three to five. It'll be fine. So I ended up finishing my run around like four, four, 15 and about five, 10 minutes after, 15 maybe. During my run it had already gotten very overcast. About 5, 10, 15 minutes after, let's go with 15. The wind, it really just goes from overcast to like nighttime outside. And I was actually inside my apartment on the phone with a prospective student.

And it's kind of wild how it all went down. I was talking to a prospective student for work who's really hard to understand. So I was really just like 100% focused on this colleague. She didn't speak English very well, so it was trying really hard to understand what she's saying, what she was asking, like on the phone, simultaneously on the computer, trying to look up information for saying, what she was asking, like, on the phone, simultaneously on the computer,

trying to look up information for her, et cetera. All of this storm is just starting to come crashing in, and for people who are around it, you know, it wasn't a long thing. It lasted maybe five, 10 minutes, in terms of like the actual wind in the rain. And just while I'm talking around the phone, all of a sudden, you see the trees just start

moving like crazy. And in Rogers Park, so the actual tornado, the path was about a mile north of me. But we got some big time damage down here. All of a sudden, I'm looking out the window, like 75% focused on this phone call, 25% focused on looking outside my window. And I just see this gigantic tree, not a little guy like a thick boy, just come crashing down on a bunch of cars

on the cross street where I'm located. And now you got car alarms going off all of a sudden. I look down at my computer, I realize the web page is not loaded. And then I look at my Wi-Fi and I see that that's out. And then I realize my lights had been on and they're no longer on. So the power is gone. And yeah, the storm passes after like five, ten minutes. I go around for a quick walk outside to assess the damage.

It's pretty brutal. A piranodris park where the tornado was this is on Monday night So I take a take a couple laps To see all what's going on just trees everywhere in the street up against apartment buildings in the alleys Wherever trees everywhere sidewalks are just completely Covered in dirt, branches, whatever look like you're at the forest preserve, and then a whole bunch of down power lines. So I get back to the apartment, no power.

And I kind of have to make a judgment call with my food, right? So I'm planning on making jumble-eye, Monday night, it's cooking night. And I'm like, well, because, you know, my first instinct is like, well, if the power's out, I shouldn't make a big batch of something, right? But the other half of it is like, well, the food's going one way or another, right? It's mostly refrigerated items that are the ingredients. So I decided to make it anyways. Got to create it with a gas stove because the gas still, you know, feeds in, but the ignition needs electricity to click on. So I get creative, I do have a lighter, which is clutch. I bought a lighter

from the corner store when I lived in Baltimore because I had a like a week-long fiasco where my stove was off the rails or something. So I still have this burner or this lighter because the only thing I've ever used it for is lighting the stove because I've never smoked anything in my life. I just have this random ass cheap pick lighter. So I pull out one of my old tricks from the playbook and I grab a thing of spaghetti, one spaghetti, I don't know what the singular spaghetti is, a noodle. And I light that with the lighter,

and then I hold that up to the gas to get the stove top going, to boil my water, cook my meat, saute the veggies, all that fun stuff. And so we cook the jambalaya, but then I'm realizing, hey, well a lot, a lot of different things come up. First, I got to try to not use my phone very much because I don't have a way to charge it in my current state. Two, I don't have any candles, no source of light, whatsoever, beyond my iPhone flashlight. And clearly I'm not interested in using that up very much.

So it's starting to get dark and eventually and hot. That's the other, that was another big consideration. It wasn't super toasty out but it was very humid and just in the apartment with no AC when I can't get the fans going and you're just kind of stuck there all of a sudden that starts to that starts to creep up on you how hot it was. So I'm sitting there, it's skinned dark outside, eat my jumble lia, which is delicious and nailed it. But then I'm realizing like, I don't have power, I don't have Wi-Fi. I can't actually do anything.

My, um, tune blast machine, whatever it's called, Kindle. It was low on battery, not charged. So I didn't have access to any of the games on that that I could play offline. So I'm just kind of sitting there eating, can't watch anything. I don't need to have a radio, I can listen to. It's just dark, silent silent staring into the abyss So I ended up going to bed at like 830

After I'd finished my jumble line and just hoping that the power comes back on sometime Otherwise the alternative is I'm gonna have to go into my office And I haven't been in my office since March 16th my birthday Was the last day I was in the office exactly five months ago Wake up Tuesday morning power is out still And I'm like well Gonna have to go to the office and Hope and pray.

I mean, at this point, the responsible thing, you know, 15, 16 hours after the powers out would have been to dump the fridge right there and not even just hope the power come back because it was too far gone at that point. Your fridge doesn't last very long. But I left my fridge and my freezer and just hope, in hopes that when I got back from the office, the power would have been back. So I go down,

I work, it's actually a long day. I was at my office from about nine until six something doing some presentations. But when I get back, power is still out at which point to get it dump everything. So everything in the fridge, everything in the freezer, and a lot of frozen fruit, some veggies, some meat, and the worst part was dumping all the jambalaya, because I couldn't even have it for dinner on Tuesday night because I was spoiled.

I thought I'd dump that and this brings you full circle to why my eating's been off this week. So my routine was thrown into shambles by the power outage and didn't make in what pancakes on Tuesday night? No, Wednesday night, Tuesday night I had, I don't know. All right, hell if I remember. Thursday had some breakfast sandwiches.

Stuff was good. I still have some bagels in the fridge and cheese. But I don't have any meat for that, nor do I have any cream cheese. So, TBDN, what to do with the bagels. If you have any ideas, email us, be on top podcast, yahu.com, and go to the speedin' town,

be on the podcast, yahu.com. They're blueberry, if that makes a difference. I know what you're saying. Quinn, you made breakfast sandwich with blueberry muffins. I did it was an accident. It still tasted delicious Okay Don't at me bro The power keyback early Wednesday morning, which I was grateful for I did not want to go into the office again on Wednesday

And I did not although I'm going to the office again on Wednesday, and I did not, although I'm going to the office Tuesday and Wednesday of this week, which I'm not jazzed for. But, oh, well. And yeah, my fridge, I went grocery shopping today when I got back from the B-Day hang, but yeah the fridge and the freezer are still lacking in numbers Because everything got got thrown out so

That's a bummer. We're trying to jump a light again. I couldn't decide if I wanted you know make jump a light again Or just keep going through rotation. I said, you know what, this jumble I deserve? Something better. So we're gonna cook it again tomorrow night. Extra hot sauce. Tough on the tummy, but man, it's delicious. So the power's back, we're all good. Everyone is fine.

Most of the trees, most of the debris have been cleaned up, etc. And we're getting back to normal here in Rogers Park, but it was definitely a very frightening incident to be that close to a tornado. You never expect it to happen to you until one day it does. So there's your weekend wrap up. Maybe that could be a new segment. I don't know, the whole show is already kind of a weekend wrap up though, so. I don't really know if we need something different. Let's get to some advertisements here and then I'll end it. It'll be a short episode and that's okay because honestly,

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you eat something, and then you crawl back into bed, and then everyone else starts waking up. It's like you're living your own little, in your own little world, your own little bubble by yourself before anyone else is even conscious yet. I don't know, you might think I'm weird. And I don't, and I'm not,

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and my mind has been focused on work for way too long this weekend, and just there's a lot happening. So I apologize for not bringing my normal focus, passion, and other stuff to the game today. Went to my hometown this morning. Cherry Valley, Illinois. Just to just on the way back from the lake, to Polka Round,

see some of the sites went through downtown Cherry Valley. Hasn't changed too much. Although they took out that that elementary school is just a big plot of grass now with a little playground in the middle kind of sad looking. One by my childhood home it's looking good looking fresh. It's a big fancy car parked in the garage like a Mustang of some kind. And drove past the Gutierrez's house, the neighbors from across the street who bought my dad's Honda Accord Stick Shift.

Manual transmission baby, that thing was not in the driveway. I don't think it's lasted. RAP. And cherry thell mall, a classic hotspot. Although the TGI Friday's at Perryville in Harrison is gone, which is disappointing. Right? America's number second, number second. America's second favorite restaurant behind Chili's, obviously. I like when TGIFRIDES comes out with the endless apps promotion. I think there was a good news article. I don't remember

not in his article blog entry of I think it went viral Someone went to the TGI Fridays for their endless apps thing and sat there for like not 24 hours But like the whole time they were open and just ate And blog their whole experience sounds like something I would do on the bean-ton blog If you want to catch up on our latest blog posts We haven't posted in a couple months, but you got would do on the bean-ton blog. And if you want to catch up on our latest blog posts, we haven't posted in a couple months, but you got bean-tonpodcast.com slash blog.

That'll do it for you. But yeah, Cherry Valley, keeping it fresh. Lot of new developments around town, which is very exciting. So I promised I was going to keep this episode short and I am a man of my word because we're going to get this uploaded and I'm going to go back to work and I've used the contraction and about 5 million times on this podcast. I apologize. It's tough trying to record a show

when it's literally about the seventh thing down on the docket that you're thinking about. But I said, the fans crave Quinn. We have not missed an episode of the Beat and Top Podcast since never. We started running this show in January of 2018, two and a half years ago, and I have brought you a weekly episode every week since then, including specials. So, you're welcome, America. You're welcome. Okay, that's actually all I've got for you.

You know, I would love to check in with all of you personally this week if possible, although it's my busiest week of the year for work. So TBD, give me a call, we'll catch up. Hope everyone's doing well, but that's all I got for ya. So we're gonna get this uploaded. Sorry for kind of a scattered show,

a shorter show too, but there's plenty of other fun content out there you can consume my promise. For all of us here being Tom Podcasts, thank you for tuning in. Thanks for listening. Appreciate your love and support. Everyone, stay safe, stay sane, and we are going to check in on you next time.

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