diff --git a/Lib/concurrent/futures/thread.py b/Lib/concurrent/futures/thread.py
index 2af31a106d..889d1b328f 100644
--- a/Lib/concurrent/futures/thread.py
+++ b/Lib/concurrent/futures/thread.py
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ import queue
 import threading
 import weakref
 import os
+import time
 
 # Workers are created as daemon threads. This is done to allow the interpreter
 # to exit when there are still idle threads in a ThreadPoolExecutor's thread
@@ -32,8 +33,11 @@ _shutdown = False
 
 def _python_exit():
     global _shutdown
+    print('Setting _shutdown')
     _shutdown = True
     items = list(_threads_queues.items())
+    print('💀 Killing %d workers 💀' % len(items))
+    time.sleep(2)
     for t, q in items:
         q.put(None)
     for t, q in items:
@@ -167,6 +171,7 @@ class ThreadPoolExecutor(_base.Executor):
             if _shutdown:
                 raise RuntimeError('cannot schedule new futures after '
                                    'interpreter shutdown')
+            time.sleep(2)
 
             f = _base.Future()
             w = _WorkItem(f, fn, args, kwargs)
@@ -188,6 +193,7 @@ class ThreadPoolExecutor(_base.Executor):
         if num_threads < self._max_workers:
             thread_name = '%s_%d' % (self._thread_name_prefix or self,
                                      num_threads)
+            print('👶 Creating new thread: ', thread_name)
             t = threading.Thread(name=thread_name, target=_worker,
                                  args=(weakref.ref(self, weakref_cb),
                                        self._work_queue,