Beantown Podcast - Badger Superfamilies, Train Dreams, & P Traps (03222026 Beantown Podcast)

Episode Date: March 22, 2026

Quinn comes to you LIVE to discuss felling trees, burrowing omnivores, and gusty conditions

Hey, what's going on? It's Quinn Davis. Welcome to my show. Quinn Davis presents the Bean Town Podcast for Sunday, March 22nd, 2026, season 9 of the Beantown podcast. What's going on? What's happening? How are you? My name is Quinn, and this is my program. We're coming to you live on a Sunday afternoon, 1.30 in the afternoon in between basketball games here. It's March Madness. I got a little bit of a bone to pick. with March Madness scheduling. Because there was a game today at, what, 11? Purdue versus Miami and Purdue 1, spoiler. And then you got to wait. There's like a 20, 30 minute break until the next one starts. And this isn't like, you know, the final four where it's like every game is, oh man, there's only one game and you got to savor it.

It's like we're still doing eight games today. You know, in the round of six, the first round, round of six. You got six, what, 16 games each day? No. One of my, there's 32 games total. So yeah, 16 each day. And then you get to the round of 32 where we are today, day two of it. And you got eight games each day.

And so it's like you got a game at 11, a game at 145. The next game isn't until like, I think I saw it doesn't start until 4.15. So your third game of the day on a Sunday when we're all just relaxed. and chilling, drinking beer, hanging out in front of the TV. Your third game of the day doesn't start till, what, almost 6 o'clock Eastern? On a work night, and we got to cram five more of these bad boys in? Couldn't we have like 11 o'clock? It's okay if the start of the second one overlaps a little bit because you're doing the heck out of that

anyways at the end of the day. Couldn't we do like an 11, a 1, a 3, and then like, I don't know, a 4.30, a 6, a 730, a 830, and a 930? I lost track of how many that was, but I don't know. And then can't we do a little bit of a better job of scheduling so it's like the East Coast sites have the earlier games? Or at least at the very end, you get, you know, the West Coast sites, they probably actually do this, but I'm thinking more of the teams.

What I hate is when you have like a Central or an Eastern team playing a game that starts at like 9 or 10 o'clock local time for fans watching, it's absolutely brutal. I know there's only so much you can do about it, but what really bugged me, there was an instance in the NFL this past year where I think it was Texans at Seahawks, if I recall correctly, and it was one of those, the NFL dabbled way too much in stupid Monday night double headers this year they did like they did like three weeks of it where they did double headers on Monday night it's like who's asking for this it used to be they would do and I'm sure they'd done a million different combinations over the years but for a while in my lifetime it was like there was a

week one double header and it would be you know an east coast or central teams at the six o'clock start and then the west coast teams get the you know seven o'clock local time start nine o'clock Central 10 o'clock Eastern. It's like, okay, if you want to do that, and it'd be crappy teams, too, I was about to say something else. I'll say listener discretion advice when we're listening to this program. Remember one occasioning some language, number to these podcasts is objectively terrible. Thank you to our friends in Pakistan for making us the 116th 3rd and comedy podcasts in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. And I am the creator, the host, and the chief script supervisor of this program.

Queenie France presents the Beantown Podcast. It'd always be like two shitty teams back in the day, you know, like the, Broncos and Raiders or something like that. It's like, okay, we don't really need to be watching this. But there was this game, you know, week five, week six, something like that. NFL is doing their weird shit with double-headers on Monday nights. And it was Texan Seahawks in Seattle. So you're a fan of the Texans.

Great, your team starts at 9 o'clock on a work night. And not even like a Sunday night work night where it's like, oh, yeah, You wake up the next morning is Monday. You're groggy, but you tough it out. Going from work day to your team, you got to wait four hours after work ends just for your team to start playing. And then if you want to watch the whole thing, you're literally staying up until midnight. And then you got to go catch some Zs to keep your workday going. That really pissed me off.

I'm not even a Houston Texans fan. Although as far as AFC teams go, they're probably the one I would root for the most. But it's just like if you're going to pull this 9 p.m. crap or 7 p.m. local start time on the West Coast, just make it a Seattle versus San Francisco game or Seattle versus whatever you want to do. Someone from over yonder west of the Rockies. Don't pull the central time zone crap into this. I don't know. Get off my soapbox here. We're drinking a Lord Rear Admiral ESB. Empire Strikes Back. No, it's a. an extra special bitter, I think it is, ale. It's a type of ale. I had to look it up. I got a birthday present, a six-pack from Three Floyd's, not from Three Floyds, but the

beer is from Three Floyds, but from my in-laws. Thank you for the birthday present. So I'm having my second Lord Rear Admiral of the Six-Pack. I had the first one a couple days ago. Just chilling on a Sunday, getting ready for these basketball games. Again, we'll have one for the first three hours of the day. day and then another for the next three hours and then we'll pack the last six into a three hour time slot at the end of the day so looking forward to that i told you i was the chief script supervisor

which is ironic because we really came in unprepared which i know is going to come as a shock a big surprise for you all uh but really i wrote down animal of the week and trivia of the week and that's about all I came in prepared with. It's just going to be a low-key episode, and I will do my best to not just keep rambling and keep you hanging around just to keep you hanging around. It's just a Sunday afternoon. It's just, we're just chilling.

I got to tell you, I feel very bamboozled, however, by this Sunday afternoon. We had a nice little false spring going here, although I think we're close enough to where it's just should be straight up spring. And I think we all recognize that spring inherently comes with its ups and downs. Right. When I say spring, you could give me a 40 degree day with wind and a little bit of rain and cloudy overcast skies, which is what we get today. Or you could give me a beautiful day that kisses 70 and it's sunny, which is what we had yesterday. I feel like both of those fall into spring.

But it's just disappointing because literally, you know, Wednesday, you know, you know, It was really cold like Monday through Wednesday and then Thursday kind of rolls in and the temperature is starting pick back up. And all of a sudden you look at the radar and it's like, oh, my goodness, this weekend is going to be beautiful. Friday, Saturday, Sunday, three gorgeous days with high winds but beautiful temps. And literally the evidence is still there and we had nice days Friday and yesterday. You know, got into the mid-60s. I got a little bit of a sunburn yesterday, which was crazy sitting out in the sun for patio of the year. He had a couple three-one-twos watching college basketball hanging out with family.

It was good stuff, good time. And you go on my phone app, my weather app this morning. And even right now, I just checked it because I was curious how gusty it is. It's very gusty outside, G-U-S-T-Y. I played literally baseball with a guy named Gus growing up. He had a younger brother named Max, Gus and Max. Only one of them is named after a streaming service. The other one is, I don't know.

Gus, is Gus short, Augustus? Is that where Gus came from? Are there kids out? I mean, I feel like you don't meet a lot of Gus's. You know, there's like Gus Johnson, the commentator, Gus Johnson, the YouTuber. Gus's last name, unknown, famous Little Leagueer from Rockford, Illinois 20 years ago.

But is Gus always short for Augustus, or has Gus kind of like taken on its own short name? That's a good question. I don't really know the answer to that. Not a name you really think of that often, Gus. But to cap the thought, if you still, when you go, it's one, almost two o'clock in the afternoon here, you go to my phone app. It still says the high today is 70.

And I woke up that feels like it was 23. Just took the dog out for a walk. We were sitting in the low 40s with like 20 mile power winds. And it's completely cloudy. No sun today. I'm thinking we're not going to kiss 70. So feeling really bamboozled. It's a bummer.

I told Maple we were going to go to the park, maybe make a new friend, go to the dog park and frolic and run around, maybe stop off at a brewery after, go to the patio, hang out, watch some hoops. And instead it's the feels like is hovering in the 30s right now with gusts. And no Gusses either. We'll try to find Gus later, Maple. You would have liked him.

I think, I don't know, my 12-year-old self-liked him. Cool guy. Our Animal of the Week is inspired by really the only big, embarrassing loss of the first round of March Manus. And even then it was a 12-5, which is like, usually it's more commonplace. The Wisconsin Badgers bowed out to, who did they lose to?

High Point, I think. And so that told me our animal of the week to respect the fallen, remember the fallen, should be the badger. And I picked it too because I'm just like, I don't really know that much about badgers. You hear about honey badgers, right? That was the nickname of the LSU safety who played in the NFL for a while. I think he might still be going. He's got me in his 30s by now, but Tyrian Matthew. But the badger, I feel like you don't, I guess a bad, a difference between a badger and a honey badger.

is just one really likes the honey and another is I don't know maybe he eats honey maybe they eat honey too but they're less specific like do honey badgers only eat honey and that's their thing and that's why we call them a honey badger and non you know maybe upper Midwest badgers are are more just traditional hey I'll have honey but I'll have a berry I might eat an ant I know badgers are kind of cool right they got like the big white stripe Jack White and his well it was actually his sister but for a while we thought it was his wife was that how that went down with the white stripes i don't know he's going to be on s and l in what two weeks here maybe we can ask him

i feel like you don't know much about the badger how did how did badgers lend themselves to the verb badger to badger someone to kind of annoy to to to be a pest that movie the pest with the john leggyzamo you guys ever see that one He like gets paid a million dollars to be hunted by, I don't even remember, is it, who's the guy who hunts him in the pest? I've never seen it. So you guys are going to have to film me in Beantown Podcasts at Yahoo.com. And it's Beantown Podcast at Yahoo.com.

If you're looking for a real early 2000s trip, I don't think you need to watch the entire film The Pest, and I haven't, so I can't really recommend it. but the opening scene of the pest it's a it's a song and he's like getting ready you know to start his day the main character John Leggizamo let's just go to it's it's not even early 2000s it's late 90s 1997 here's a film I haven't thought about for a long time but the opening sequence it's like three minutes he's like dancing in the shower it's very cartoonish with sound effects like straight out of looney tunes and stuff he's singing in the shower and it's the same um bass line is like rapper's delight, I feel like, or something like that. It's called like Voodoo Mambo, I think. I've got to watch that on YouTube after the fact. That's the only part of the Pest I've ever seen.

It's before he starts getting hunted. The Pest is a 1997 black comedy film inspired by the classic 1924 Richard Connell's short story, the most dangerous game. I feel like, you know, this movie is what, 30 years old at this point, 29 years old? Is that still like what John Leguizamo is known for? I guess at this point is probably Sid the Sloth. And I feel like a lot of people out there probably wouldn't even know who he is, who not sit, but John Leggizamo.

But in my mind, despite having never seen the pest, to me, that's like the number one thing that I associate that actor with, despite having never seen it. Comedian John Leguizamo, L-E-G-U-I-Z-A-M-O, by the way. Excuse me, easy for me to say. I'm looking at it. plays a Puerto Rican con artist in Miami, Florida named Pestario Vargas, who agrees to be the human target for a German manhunter for, I think I said, million dollars.

Try $50,000. Human target, $50,000. How strapped for cash do you have to be to agree to that? We're not going to read the whole plot here. But, oh, this is who it was. Jeffrey Jones, who's probably someone you wouldn't know by name, but if you look at his Wikipedia picture, you'd be like, Oh yeah, I know that guy.

Deadwood, hunt for Red October, Ferris Bueller. What a see? He plays the principal in Ferris Bueller, I think. So he plays the hunter in this movie. Anyways, that's John Leguizamo's The Pest. It's a guy named Pat Skipper. What a name, William Patterson Skipper. He plays Seabiscuits Vet.

Back to the Badger. Let's see, Maple, what can we learn about the Badger here? just me and Maple here on a Sunday afternoon holding down the fort, literally from the wind. It's got to be a bad omen. I fell asleep with the window open last night in the living room, and our statue of Mother Mary had fallen to the floor, thankfully unbroken, unbreakable, just like Mary herself. You can't break Mary.

But she was on the floor for the better part of, you know, the overnight period. and that feels like a bad sign, especially during Lent. Speaking of which, our, what are we, just two weeks away from our Easter special here, we got Palm Sunday next Sunday, and then we got an Easter special. That's pretty exciting. You get to tap into our Ten Commandments sort of deal. Is ABC still doing the Ten Commandments? The Saturday before Easter, I feel like they may have moved off of that.

Let's, before we finish of the Badger here, let's look at. into that. Just want to know, is ABC still showing the Ten Commandments? Didn't they used to do it was like sounding music around Christmas or Thanksgiving and Ten Commandments are on Easter? That's what I remember growing up. The AI says yes, but I've been burned before. This is from Parade.com for March 12th. The Ten Commandments will air, it looks like we're in luck, will air on ABC and Saturday, April 4th. There we go. That's the day before Easter, I believe.

7 p.m. Eastern, which means it's going to end at about 2 a.m. Pacific for mixing time zones. It's all ties back to the stupid basketball scheduling Monday night football fiasco. We were all over at the start of the show. Badgers are medium-sized short-legged omnivores in the superfamily. Mustalodea. I didn't know there were super families. You learn, you know, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species. You learn that you don't learn about super families.

Now we got to at least check in on what the heck a superfamily is. Oh man, this is such a letdown. On Wikipedia, you click on the hyperlink superfamily. You think you're going to get a cool article about superfamilies. And it just takes you to the general generic article on taxonomic. taxonomic tough word to say taxonomic rank so we'll never know what a super family is badgers are a polyphaletic rather than natural taxonomic taxonomic taxonomic don't know grouping being united by their squat bodies and adaptations for fossorial activity you get some words we got to look up here first up

polyphiletic. It's an assemblage. Oh, this is getting too complicated. An assemblage that includes organisms with mixed evolutionary origin but does not include their most recent common ancestor. Don't know what that means. Fossorial, F-O-S-S-O-R-I-A-L is one that is adapted to digging in which lives primarily underground. How underground are badgers? When I think of a badger, I don't think, maybe in like a hollow. Hallows are like half underground, right? It's kind of, like burrowing into the side. I imagine like a big old tree trunk that got knocked over by tornadic activity and all the roots are kind of up hanging all over the place. We'll talk about trees, felling trees in a second here. We talk about our movie of the week that I watched this morning.

But yeah, I just imagine a little badger burrowing down there. That's kind of what I imagine here. Our Wi-Fi is out, by the way. I just saw the light on the camera goes from green to orange and or red when the Wi-Fi goes out. So hopefully we can still upload this today. I don't know if a tree fell on top of or a tree was felled. Fell is a fun verb, right? You can cut down a tree, you can fell a tree. I think maybe I'm just making that up.

But yeah, Wi-Fi is gone. Let's finish our, thankfully we can still record without the Wi-Fi. There's several families in this super family, only two of which, the Weasers. And skunks include badgers. Wait, so there's this smaller superfamily within the larger superfamily and the badgers are within either the skunks or the weasels, but they don't get their own. That's very confusing. I got to tell you, this opening paragraph of the badger Wikipedia page has been extremely confusing. There's been talk of super families, ancestral origins, skunks, and fossorial habits.

All right. There it is. cute little badger they got these big old claws cool markings on their head kind of striped and if you look at the map that's pretty funny you got you got honey badgers if you were curious honey badgers look like per this map they're from sub-saharan africa Saudi Arabia and india and maybe a little bit of like i don't know whatever that one is turkmenistan the american badger Canada u.s mexico European badger is where you'd expect. Asian badger is where you'd expect.

Japanese badger goes without saying. There's the Chinese ferret badger and the Burmese ferret badger and the Javan Ferret Badger and the Bornean Ferret Badger. It's pretty cool. So we got some kind of specific subsets. They look kind of small, kind of cute. But yeah, the Honey Badger is more of an Africa, India kind of thing. The 15 species of badgers are grouped in four sub-families.

So we got superfamilies and sub-families. We're not going to go through all of this. It's not that interesting. There's stink badgers. That's pretty cool. Who knew there were so many badgers? They got long cavities in their skulls, obviously. Short, wide bodies.

Distinctive markings. They weigh 20 to 24 pounds, although some Eurasian badgers weigh around 40 pounds. That's bigger than you, Maple. The word badger originally applied. to the European Badger coming from the earlier Badgy Yard, presumably referring to the white mark born like a badge on its forehead. Well, that's pretty cool.

You hear a word like Badger and you think, you know, there's probably going to be some Latin root from something crazy that someone mistook for an Asian badger and, in fact, it was actually this other animal along. Turns out it just looks like it has a badge on its head. That's pretty neat. Mipple, you want a badge on your head, dude? She's mad because she wanted racing stripes

of the Daytona 500 and pop didn't have any paint. I could have shaved it into your side. What number would you have wanted? Zero. That makes sense. Our movie of the week, Train Dreams,

which if you were plugged into the Oscars at all, you probably heard of for the first time, you know, a week ago on Oscar Sunday. I had seen rumblings of it, train rumblings of it, you know, probably a week, two weeks or actually, you know, probably originally when the nominations came out. But it was a Netflix movie. It is a Netflix movie. It came out of like November.

Joel Edgerton and Felicity Jones, the lady from Rogue One. And Carrie Condon, who plays Mike's daughter, or daughter-in-law. Daughter-in-law, right? In Breaking Bad, and Better Call Saul. I think she's in Breaking Bad, like, a couple episodes, and she gets a lot more screen time and Better Call Saul. She's only in train dreams for, like, two scenes. William H. Macy. Paul Schneider, the original lead,

or, like, I guess, what's his name? Guy from Illinois was always the lead in Parks and Rec. But season one, they had Paul Schneider, and then replaced him with Adam Scott. and what's his face? Rob Lowe. Nick Offerman, that's his name. What's that?

What's the character's name? Ron something. Ron something. That's his name. And let's see. Anyone else in train dreams? No, I don't think so. But pretty good.

Pretty solid. It's a very ethereal movie. Ethereal is one of those words that you can't really define, but you know what it is, right? I'm not even going to look it up because we spent half this episode just reading Wikipedia articles, which is more or less what the Beatingtow podcast has devolved into after 430 some episodes.

But, you know, it is what it is. But yeah, it's a big, like, it's a big, like, cinematography kind of movie. Similar to, like, the Revenant, you know, completely different styles of movie and plots. But, you know, it's so beautifully shot that the half of the fun. or half of the, I think, interest, it's not like a fun movie per se, but half the interest in that movie for me was just like the really beautiful filming and cinematography and kind of stillness of it at times. That's definitely something you get from train dreams. Excuse me. Very sad. But I think well worth a watch. I was afraid before I started it was going to be

like one of those painfully long drawn-out movies, Power of the Dog style. But it was only, it was like 100 minutes, not bad at all. And it got me thinking, you know, my grandfather, who's still kicking, he's in his 90s, but he was a logging man. Train Dream Salt, he's a logger. He's a logger. He's Joe Edgerton's character. And we had a whole plumbing fiasco

go down this past week. It's really been more of an ongoing two-year kind of thing. But that got resolved. But I've been thinking, and I don't, I didn't come in with a list. I'm just kind of speaking improv in here. Of, like, jobs that I don't think I'll ever actually do as a profession in my life, but things that I actually think I would be good at slash enjoy versus things I really don't think I would be good at.

Put logging in the category of things I don't think I'd like. As much as I'd like spending time outside, I hate, like, splinters, you know, and I think these guys wear gloves for the most part. But having, like, the tough, callous hands. I've got very soft, tender skin. And I feel like you didn't really see this covered in train dreams, but it's probably working in the woods all day. In the summer, you probably get some mosquito action.

Like you're doing it, you know, in November, the bugs are dead. You know, maybe it's more tolerable. But then a tree falls on your head and bongs you and you die, like William H. Macy. Spoiler alert. And suddenly the mistake. mosquitoes are the least of your problems. On the flip side, I enjoyed learning some stuff about plumbing. And in this apartment, we've had plumbing issues. I never really had an apartment with any

like notable plumbing issues until this one. And in the two years we lived here, we've had significant kitchen sink problems and significant shower problems. And both have been resolved and hopefully neither will pop back up in the time that we live here. But we, with, With those issues, I've spent some time just kind of learning more about plumbing and pee traps and how stuff's all connected and how it's supposed to function and how it's not supposed to function. And spent some time watching YouTube videos even this past week when the plumbers were here, I was out of the house.

I was working kind of out of my car for the majority of a day. but I spent 20 minutes on YouTube watching this plumbing video about plumbing below a mobile home. It's just like the first thing that popped up based off what I Googled. I wasn't looking for anything in particular. It was just kind of passing some time. And, you know, learning all about augurs and drained snakes and different ways to check where the clot is in your pipes, essentially. Clot's not the word you would use,

but the clog. Now I'm thinking about little Dutch children dancing in their wooden shoes. But I think I think I could go to an apprenticeship, and become a plumber. It's something that would be interesting. But like an electrician, on the other hand, I don't know the first thing about wires or breakers

or you just go down and you flip the whole thing and flip it back and you hope for the best. That's what we have to do with this Wi-Fi situation. But I don't think electrician's ever in the car. Plumbing seems much more like mechanical. Like I can figure this out. Maybe it's just because I'm scarred from just not having a good time in my high school physics class. But by the time we got around to talking about electromagnetism,

it was like two-thirds of the way through the year. And I was like still trying to grasp basic mechanics. So we start talking about ACDC and CLUC. closed in open circuits, I was just, I was, I was over it at that point. Didn't retain any of that electric type stuff or light, you know, light diffusion, refraction and stuff, didn't get any of that. So yeah, I think electrician is probably not in the cards for me. I don't know, other random jobs you think that you'll never do,

but you think you could actually be solid at, give us a, email, send us an email, Beantown Podcasts at Yahoo.com. Again, that's Beantown, B-E-A and Houn Podcasts at Yahoo.com. My wife thinks I could be a good copywriter because of my affinity for writing and creative, I was going to say creativity, which is why I said it weird like that, but creative mind. And I did a little chat, Chabot-T search, like, how can I go from having never had any sort of copywriting experience, like getting into a career like that? and it actually gave me some concrete steps.

But I got to tell you, if the job market is as bad for me in having 10 years of relevant experience, I can't imagine how bad the job market is going to be for zero years of copywriting experience. We'll see. I got to work on my portfolio. I also should be writing stuff down because sometimes I'll be listening into my wife's work calls

and I'll come up with great ideas and then I keep them to myself and forget or tell them to my wife and then we both forget and move on with our days. But if you ever see some, you know, assorted spices, a commercial in the future with assorted spices hanging out around the grill and they have Australian accents and they're, you know, they're really friendly. You know where that came from. They kind of look like those frosted, those mini frosted shredded weed,

that kind of animation. That's what I'm imagining in my head. Let's say thank you to our sponsors, play our trivia game and get out of here. Not even a game, just a quick question. Related to trains. More related to trains than dreams. It's not really related to dreams at all.

It's, I would say, 100% trains, 0% dreams. Thank you to our sponsors. Home Pride, Oregon. Just do a quick shout out so we can go watch some basketball here. If I can get the Wi-Fi back and you can go on your merry way. Thank you, Home Pride, Oregon. Thank you, Samson Q2U series.

Thank you, Cuts by Q. and thank you, Beantown Sportsbook for making this show a reality. I got to tell you, maybe the beer was a bad idea of only had a couple of sips here, but I made a breakfast casserole this morning, which I never make. Just woke up and I was feeling inspired and I wanted to do something nice for my wife before she was going to be gone all day and then it took me longer to cook than I anticipated and it wasn't finished until she had to leave. So that was a really depressing fail.

But I then ate it for myself, but it was just like a layer on the bottom of turkey sausage and then make a little egg milk cheese mixture. Pour it over top of tater tots, salt, pepper, paprika. Stick that baby in the oven for 45, 50 minutes, give or take. And boy, it's one of those things no matter how much you spray the crap out of your 9 by 13. It's sticking. It's going to need to, I'm confident. We give this baby when it's all said and done, we give this baby a two-hour soak.

It's going to come out just fine. Brand new. Like new. But right now it's looking a little gnarly. That's the worst, isn't it? When you go in with the best intentions as far as non-stick goes and you're like, I'm going to do everything in my GD power. It reminds me a J-D power.

G-D power to make this stuff not stick. Really went heavy on the avocado spray. and to no avail, let's just put it that way. This baby's sticking. It's just the eggs, man. They get in every nook and cranny. Okay. Last thing here.

Train dreams. Oh, but to finish my thought, it's just kind of sitting in my stomach. I think it's a tater tots. I've had too many tater tots this weekend. We went out to a patio yesterday, and I had my mother-in-law's leftovers for supper, and there was a shit ton of tater tots.

and I had just finished off an old-fashioned. I didn't even like over a drink. I was just like really hungry. And just one of those things where you just, it's just mechanical. You just go, go, go, go, go until finally it doesn't matter. Like if you're feeling full or not, it's just there's a certain amount of food in the plate or in the container on the plate. You're just going to eat all of it. And however you feel when you're done is however you feel, that's essentially what my

mindset was eating these leftovers last night. And then I think we had just, I shouldn't have gone back for the second serving of breakfast cassero, but I was like, this is both my breakfast and lunch so I can have two servings of it. And now it's just sitting. I think the tater tots have clogged up my upper duodenum or something, because nothing's moving. Our trivia question relates to Amtrak service. I want you to name to the best of the research I could find as of right now, 2026. tell me the four U.S. states that do not have current Amtrak service. And I think when we say current Amtrak service, I think suffice to say like there's no Amtrak station there. I don't think there's like, I don't think it's a situation where it's like, oh yeah, there's a railway that, or like a train going from point A to point B passes through this state.

I don't think that's the case with any of these states. I don't think a train's passing through any of these to get from point A to point B. but again I'm not 100% clear on what the definition of Amtrak service is which is funny because I made up the question I'm still congested by the way I know we did our show what was this last Friday it was 10 days ago nine days ago and I was like just at the it was like day two of my sickness day three and so you would think nine days later it'd be ship tip top shape but not the case I am dude this cold whatever it is has been nuts because for the last like three four-ish days now even longer than that five days i haven't really felt crappy at all there's just been congestion and usually when i have a cold

and i'm blowing my nose and there's snod and you know congestion all that stuff it's like whatever it's snotty you blow your nose sometimes more than others but it's like pretty clear and it's you know it's not that bad i don't know if this is indicative of a sinus infection? You would think if I had a sinus infection, I'd be in a lot more pain. I'm not. I'm really not in any pain.

I just have to blow my nose constantly. To get TMI for a second, it has just been green chunks, man. And consistently, like, it just keeps coming. I keep thinking every day I wake up, like, okay, this is the day, like, we're going to be done with, like, the really thick mucasy stuff.

And it just keeps on coming. And if you're thinking, like, oh, that means you're dehydrated. If there is one person in the world who is not dehydrated, I like to think it is me with the amount of water I pound. And friends and loved ones can attest to that. So, yeah, it is just, I mean, it's, on the one hand, it's like, these are satisfying nose blows. Because I hate when you're, like, congested, but it's mostly just dry it out. And so you're blowing, but nothing's really coming out.

That's when I start to risk the bloody noses, which I flirted with during this cold on one or two occasions, but never had a full on bloody nose, thankfully, because that's the worst when you got snot and blood coming out. We're going to be done with this in a second, I promise. But this one has just been like, oh yeah, you got to blow your nose. Yeah, you're going to get your money's worth with your discharge, if you will. So apologies, but that's been my life for the last, gosh, I mean,

we're at a full week and a half here. No, not fun. Usually the nose blowing portion comes after the sore throat portion, and it's like, I don't know, know, three to four days of having to blow your nose, and I'm on like day, I don't know, nine or something. It sucks. So name the four U.S. states.

You had plenty of time to think about it while I discussed my Green River, a great CCR song. I feel like when you, you know, talk about like the most. famous CCR songs and they have so many like notable memorable guitar riffs and shows and stuff green river kind of flies under the radar it's always like down on the corner heard of the grapevine or fortunate sun or something and there's even like two or three other ones that are super famous i can't even name right now but green river is a good underrated one okay i i would say in my mind uh there are two easy ones and there are two ones that make sense, but you know, you're probably going to have to just take a guess and see how you do.

In my mind, the two easy ones are Hawaii and Alaska. There's no Amtrak over there. And then the other two, you do have to go west. And the answer is South Dakota, excuse me, mercy, and Wyoming. And it was interesting. I was thinking like, oh, South Dakota, but not North Dakota. I think there's a line. And I don't have the map in front of me, but I think there's a line that goes from like, it might even be all the way from like Seattle to Boston, but I think it like runs up through the Twin Cities and then it cuts all the way over like North Dakota, Montana, through Idaho and then into Washington.

I think that's how that northerly line goes. And I think when we stayed in my family and I took a trip to Montana one time, and I think around where we stayed, we could actually like see a train line kind of up in the mountains, not very far from where we were staying. And I don't know if that's like the actual Amtrak line or if that was just a non-passenger commercial kind of thing. But I remember seeing that train line thinking,

man, that thing's way up there. So there you go. The four U.S. states currently, apparently Wyoming used to have it, but not anymore. Without Amtrak service, Hawaii, Alaska, South Dakota, and Wyoming. With that, I got to go. blow my nose, do a little green river action, play it on the radio, coming out of my nose into the tissues, nice and fun. That's a good sign to just wrap it up. Thanks for bearing with me today

on a cold, windy, gusty, gusty, gusty, gusty, dusty, sunday here. I hope everyone stay safe, stay sane. Let's get our outro music here. My name is Quinn David Fernis. This is my program. I already said the other stuff. I'll check in on you next. week. Bye-bye.