Kevin Finn 🇺🇸

TV producer and editor. Boston native living in Los Angeles.

[Kevin Finn 🇺🇸 @KevinFFinn]

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[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

I opened it.

I want to say that first, before anything else, because everything that follows is a man explaining himself.

I had asked what time his restaurant opens. He told me what time he lights the fire. Those are different questions and they are also different days.

He opens at eleven in the morning. He lights the fire at nine the night before.

Fourteen hours alone with a metal box while a town sleeps and a piece of meat becomes something else.

I asked whether he sleeps.

He said, "I lay down."

He lies on a bench near the smoker with a timer. He does not consider that sleeping, and he was not asking for sympathy. He was correcting my vocabulary.

I asked whether I could learn.

He looked at me for a while. Then he said, "You gotta be alright being bored for fourteen hours."

I told him I had trained eleven years in a discipline whose entire first stage is sitting still.

He said, "Alright then."

That is the closest thing to an invitation I have received in this country, and I have replayed it more times than a grown man should admit.

So I sat with him.

He does almost nothing. That is the part I was not prepared for. I had expected technique. I had expected a hundred adjustments and a secret.

He opened the smoker four times in fourteen hours.

He said every time you open it you lose an hour.

So he watches a thermometer and a thin line of smoke, and adds one piece of wood roughly every forty minutes, and does nothing else.

I asked what he is doing in between.

He said, "Not messing with it."

THE ENTIRE ART IS THE REFUSAL TO INTERFERE. HE IS NOT COOKING. HE IS STANDING GUARD OVER SOMETHING THAT IS ALREADY WORKING.

At three in the morning he told me about smoke. Thin and blue is right. White and thick is wrong. He said it the way my grandfather talked about steel.

At four he went to the truck for something.

He was gone six minutes.

I have sat in silence for two days at a time. I have knelt until I could not feel my legs and I did not move, and I was fifteen, and I would do it again tomorrow.

I lasted four minutes.

Nothing had changed. The thermometer had not moved. There was no emergency. There was a man's life's work in a metal box, and a foreigner alone with it, and a certainty arriving out of nowhere that I should check.

I lifted the lid.

I will describe what I saw, because I paid for it.

It was fine. It was completely fine. It was, if anything, magnificent. And a great volume of blue smoke, which had been exactly where it belonged, went out into the parking lot and became the sky.

I closed it. I sat down. I arranged my face.

He came back, looked at the thermometer, looked at me, and said nothing for a long time.

Then he said, "You opened it."

I said yes.

He did not ask how I could do such a thing. He did not raise his voice.

He said, "Everybody does it once."

Everybody does it once.

Then he said the sentence I have written in my notebook and intend to keep until I die.

He said, "That's why I stay."

That is why he stays. Fourteen hours on a bench with a timer, for twenty-two years, not because the fire needs him.

Because someone will always want to look.

The wait was longer that morning. Not an hour. He said maybe twenty minutes.

I stood in the parking lot at eleven and watched men in work clothes stand in a line for a thing that had been made while they slept, twenty minutes later than it should have been, because of me.

Nobody knew. He never told them. He has never told anyone.

I go on Thursdays. I have been promoted from sitting to carrying wood.

I have not been permitted to touch the fire.

I have not asked to.

I have earned nothing, and he has given me a great deal, and the only payment he will accept is that I sit there and want to open it and do not.

[Willie Nelson @WillieNelson]

To whom it may concern and to everyone else as well,

[USMNT Only @usmntonly]

THE TELEMUNDO CALL OF THE MALIK TILLMAN FREE KICK IS THE BEST THING YOU'LL EVER HEAR 🇺🇸🦅❤️

[Dudes Posting Their W’s @DudespostingWs]

Norway’s players and fans did the Row together after beating Senegal 3-2 and advancing to the knockout stage of the World Cup for the first time since 1998

[The Facts Dude 🤙🏽 @Thefactsdude]

LISTEN: Jacob Rockwell was fined for running a red light in Pensacola, Florida.

Only thing is Jacob wasn’t in Florida, he was in Alabama.

He sounded off at a local city meeting recently and his concerns go beyond just one citation.

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

There is a whale known as the “52 Hz Whale” (sometimes called the loneliest whale in the world) that has been swimming the oceans for decades calling out at a frequency of 52 Hertz, a pitch no other known whale species uses or responds to.
Scientists first detected it in the 1980s, and it has been tracked sporadically ever since. While most whales communicate in the 10–40 Hz range, this individual sings alone in its own unique “voice.” It travels vast distances, often following migration routes but never seeming to find companions.

[Retro Recall (☥𝐃𝐁) @RetroMoviesDB]

Kids today will never understand how hard the Knight Rider intro went🚘

That theme still hits different.

[Kevin Finn 🇺🇸 @KevinFFinn]

Gary Player drilling the target here...

[Taylor Popielarz @TaylorPopielarz]

I hosted @cspanwj this morning and had a three-time Donald Trump voter who called in to share this:

"It's hard for me to say this, but I think, if i can open up about it in public that it might help others, I wanted to believe Trump was the real deal for a long time, even though I had doubts because I knew enough about his business history to think otherwise. But now I regret my support for him and I should've known better."

"He's the worst president we've ever had and he's the most corrupt president we've ever had. I know it's hard, it took me a while to be able to say that. Very difficult when you commit yourself to believing in somebody."

https://t.co/q9Rq5b0QrW

[Melodies & Masterpieces @SVG__Collection]

Remembering the great Bob Marley, who passed away 45 years ago today.

[Kevin Finn 🇺🇸 @KevinFFinn]

Friday nights!!!

[Retro Recall (☥𝐃𝐁) @RetroMoviesDB]

Kids today don't know how awesome this intro was...

(Courtesy of Universal Television)

[Rob Bradford @bradfo]

Want to get fired up? Listen to Pedro:

[Lethal Shooter @LethalShooter__]

No matter how good you are, the wrong room will never see your value.✅

[Kevin Finn 🇺🇸 @KevinFFinn]

All time date spot 👇

[Kathleen Winchell ❤️🤍💙🇺🇸🇺🇸 @KathleenWinche3]

I went there all the time!
Who remembers the Ground Round! ❣️

[BaseballHistoryNut @nut_history]

Words Tim Wakefield wrote in his phone before he passed away a few years ago.

Posted shortly by his wife. Powerful words we should all live by.

[Cashton Finn @CashtonFinn]

Finishing the season strong 💪🏼

[Cashton Finn @CashtonFinn]

Working hard 🙏🏼

[ConquerSports @ConquerSportsIO]

The Red Sox have an EASY, much-needed PR (and baseball) win sitting right in front of them.

Give Theo Epstein the keys. Full control. Let him do WHATEVER he wants.

Never show us or make us hear from Sam Kennedy or Craig Breslow again.

[Jum @JesterJum]

"YoU aReN't AlWaYs GoNnA hAvE a CaLcUlAtOr In YoUr PoCkEt"

-Lying ass 90s teachers

[Redman @therealredman]

CONGRATS MY BROTHERS !
ROCK N ROLL HALL OF FAMERS !
LFG !!!