Beantown Podcast - Chameleons, Vitamin D, and Blepharitis (02152026 Beantown Podcast)

Episode Date: February 15, 2026

Quinn comes to you LIVE to discuss Stephen King stories, the Daytona 500, and wifi outages

Hey, what's going on? It's Quinn David Furness. Welcome to my show. Quinn David Furness presents the Beantown podcast for Sunday, February 15th, 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. Quinn David Furness presents the Beantown podcast. It's a beautiful day here on the north side of Chicago. It's 50 degrees. There's not a cloud in the sky. It's pure blue. Like I'm Walter White. over here and I got a little Jesse Pinkman off to the side here that's right the research department maple hey buddy what's going on how are you went to the park off leash you know it's like you take your Hummer off road four-wheel drive that was Maple today off the hook getting getting some good vitamin D action and do dogs here's a question you got these vitamins right you don't really asked me to define what a vitamin is because I don't know. Different molecular compounds. It seems like a pretty safe catch-all kind of term without saying anything. But your vitamin A, your B, your C, your D, your K, special K. I don't think that's vitamin K. I think that's potassium.

But do, are these vitamins, are these like ubiquitous things across life forms? Not human life but life forms like i'm a human i go outside to get vitamin d and it's from the sun right like the photo chlorophyll chemicals or something from the sun's corona gives you vitamin d well does my dog get vitamin d too not like d too but d as well if if maple doesn't have enough oranges in a year is she going to get scurvy or do dogs not have vitamin c i think i'm thinking about this backwards to a certain extent like humans don't have vitamin C or B12 like the oranges have it the sunflairs have it but do dogs and other life forms like does a jellyfish need vitamin D what about those uh those angler fish you know with a little light bulb hanging in front of their mouth with a big underbite

that big chomper fish you know what I'm talking about they probably don't need vitamin D because they live 2 million miles under the ocean. So how are we landing on this? Are there animals that need a wider array of vitamins than humans? Are humans kind of at the top of the food chain there as far as, hey, we need all these different vitamins? Like I don't, you know, I don't see a pangolin P-A-N-G-O-L-I-N walking around there, C-V-S buying a multivitamin. You know, he's just eating nuts and berries and shrubs. And so he must get, you know, whatever nutrients he needs from the shrubs, shrubs and grubs.

It reminds me of Lion King when they turn over the log. Before they sing Hakuna Matata and there's all those grubs there. Little weevils and worms and I think the cast of the Bugs Life is in there maybe. Bugs Life is after Lion King, though, so that wouldn't make sense. I don't know. You know, all this and more. Vitamin Talk here. My name is Quinn David Furness.

I am the creator of the host and the chief vitamin, chief nutritionist of this program. We'll cage you some language. Number one, this podcast is objectively terrible. Number two, the podcast is, or I got that backwards. We've caged you some language to the podcast is objectively terrible. And I got to tell you, I was rushing to get this podcast recorded. You know, I had a morning where I needed to get groceries,

make breakfast. to check in with a family, take Maple to the park, do the podcast, and then, you know, to throw an extra wrench into the plans, pun intended, wrench, pit crew, Daytona 500 today. It's the only race throughout the year that I'm actually pumped for, I actually try to catch most of it. I mean, things like the Indianapolis 500, Coke 600, Talladega, those are fun and I'll enjoy bits and pieces of it.

but Daytona is just kind of an institution, not to mention my man, Jimmy Johnson, is still out there racing. Well, a wrench has been thrown into the plans. One, they moved up the start time by an hour because of inclement weather in the forecast. I-N-C-L-E-M-E-N-T. You know, there's been like 37 popes whose name was Clement,

but I don't think there's been a inclement. You know, maybe that could be the next good pope. Some Austrian guy named Hans, it's elected and now he's Pope inclement the first usually with the Daytona 500 it's you know they have to cancel it due to rain and they push it to the next day or something so I'm I'm happy that the committee which I think is just Richard Petty Daler and Hart the third and a lawn riding lawnmower or something they moved it up the start time to 12 3rd eastern which is great but it also crunches my plans a little bit and then to throw one final round

wrench into it. It's nothing to do with Daytona, but everything to do with me. Right before we start recording our Wi-Fi goes out, so if this outage lasts a long time, not only could we be, you know, missing the start of the Great American Race, but, you know, you might, you might not hear this podcast for weeks depending on when our Wi-Fi comes back. And I was pushing my luck. I don't usually wait until Sundays to record, but excuse me, I just had stuff going on. Life admin, as they would say. And this was the time to fit it in.

So who knows, but if the Wi-Fi doesn't come back to me or have to try to stream the Daytona 500 on my phone, which will be tough. So thoughts and prayers. Keep us in your thoughts and prayers. What's happened in Pakistan, whether you are listening from Karachi, Lahore, or maybe you are from Pakistan,

but you're listening from Milan, Cortina, one more week of the Winter Olympics here because your country is trying to get a gold medal. I don't remember, we might have talked about this last week, but I don't really remember if Pakistan came in with a lot of representation, but I got to tell you, and this is, this one climate-wise makes a little bit more sense than Pakistan, although Pakistan's got some mountainous areas in the Khyber Pass, right? You can't really have a pass without mountains. By the way, thank you for the 16th-ranked comedy podcast in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Kazakhstan, I feel like it's been showing out at these Winter Olympics.

It feels like almost every other event I turn on. You know, not, I'm not talking curling and ice hockey, but you give me some speed skating, some skiing, maybe even the biathlon. It's like I'm seeing some of those, what is the Kazakhstan flag? It's like blue and it's like a sun or something in the middle. You know what I'm talking about. Seeing some Kazakhstan representation. What I thought was cool, I learned something.

I love how, you know, in the Olympics and this makes sense. actually I was about to say this and now that I'm saying it out loud, I don't know if the answer is um is one thing or the other. I was going to say I saw Kazakhstan spell their name with a cue on their, you know, their gear, their shirts, whatever. And I was going to say, oh, I didn't even know Kazakhstan spelled their own name with a cue. But then I thought, oh, is that because Kazakhstan spells that that that way or is that because that's the way it is in Italian? I guess I would, I think it's Kazakhstan. Because then I'm thinking like, well, have I seen anything on the U.S. jerseys that look like

not USA? But then I have to ask, what is USA in Italian? In Spanish, it's what, Estados, Los Estados Unitos. So you see like E, let's see abbreviations, like EU or something like that. I don't know. What is USA? in Italian. We're going to get to the bottom of this.

Just USA. That's what Google translates says. I put in, what is USA in Italian? And it spit out says, USA. Stati Uniti of America. Stati Uniti, there it is. I haven't seen Stati Uniti on any of our jerseys here. So maybe it's safe to assume that Kazakhstan spells their own name with a cue,

which is pretty cool. Getting some Q representation out there. Drinking a little wine here. It wasn't a great bottle. I keep breaking my commitment to myself to go up to the $10 bottle. I got this bottle from Trader Joe's on Thursday or Friday.

A porta 6. Vino Tinto. I got it because, excuse me, because it's got some fun artwork, some Lisbon-inspired artwork. It's got the little yellow tram number, or whatever it is, like six or something.

And then I see this, you know, it's actually a really cool artwork. The wine itself is very average. And I didn't know if it was going to be port or just a classic red wine, but it is just like a red blend or something. Anyways, up on the label, there's a cat crying playing the guitar with a little hat. He's a street performer. That's cool.

And then the design itself, it's the tram is coming down the cobblestone road coming down the hill. And there's a guy sitting outside his apartment drinking some wine and cooking a fish on top of a charcoal stove there's a cat watching it what did they call that bacalau in medira and then that's like the blackfish though this is a little blue one and then there's a little noona what i don't know what is grandma in portuguese probably not the same thing as italian but she's above the apartment above hanging out her laundry and it just reminds me the weather we're getting out here in chicago right now it reminds me of what we had in lisbon it's like 50 55 nice and sunny, cool breeze coming off the water.

In that case, the Tagis, T-A-G-U-S, excuse me, here at Lake Michigan. But anyways, it had a little bit of a bottle of Friday night. It was just fine. And I figured, you know what, I'm either going to have a little bit of this right now, live on air, or it's not going to happen. And that's okay, because the alcohol is just not hitting the same this year for me so far,

which is fine. It's a good problem to have. But I will say other beverages that are happening, today. I'm pumped for this. So I was, I stopped at the grocery store out in the suburbs, driving home from work on Friday and, you know, picked up a couple random things and Valentine's candy, et cetera. But one of the reasons I stopped was because I'm trying to, here's kind of my approach to 2026. I didn't have any New Year's resolutions per se. I did have a New Year's resolution in 2025 that I failed that miserably, which was journaling every day. And I made it like two,

two and a half months and then it just, it just petered out. So my kind of philosophy this year, not a strict resolution, but it was just like, you know what, I want to, I want to feel less constrained by my routine and by my habits. And not in like, you know what, hey, I've never smoked before. So like, let's just try it out and see what happens. But more so just being like, you know what, I always do this at this time on this day. So maybe we'll try doing something different or like I never spend money on X, Y, Z. So maybe we'll just do something a little bit different.

not so much that I've got like bad habits that I'm trying to improve. In fact, I think in most cases my habits are my habits because they work for me. They're healthy and they're just a good structure. But one, to give you an example of the scale I'm talking about, I don't drink a lot of soda and I'm not trying to be like, oh, this is going to be a big soda a year for me instead. But I said, you know what, the Daytona 500 is on Sunday. I like it partially because I actually enjoyed and then partially because people look at me funny when I tell them I like the Daytona 500. And I like leaning into that mindset as well. Anyways, I'm like, you know what?

I'm not just going to sit here and have a beer or, you know, drink a little bit of wine or something on a Sunday. Let's really lean into the culture and let's get a two-liter of diet Mountain Dew. First I was like, I'm going to get a two-liter of Mountain Dew. Then I was like, you know what? Maybe the, I don't, I've had Mountain Dew a million times in my life. I don't know if I've ever had Diet Mountain Dew. So I get a 2-liter Diet Mountain Dew from the grocery store.

It's been chilling, age-to-perfection for the last two days here, and we're going to tap into it, assuming we can get this Wi-Fi back in time for the green flag. But I'm pumped. I'm going to get a big old glass, drop some ice cubes in there, and sip on my Diet Mountain Dew. I earned it. Dale Earnhardt, Jr. Diet Mountain Dew used to be his car sponsor, right? I think that's what it was.

Car 88. I don't know, Maple, can you get the research team on that? Go get on your iPad or something. So yeah, I don't know what's going to be next for our, you know, kind of, it's not even like a habit thing because you could say, oh, my habit is to not really drink soda for the most part and certainly not that amount to do. So this is not really like habit breaking.

This is just like trying to celebrate. I'm trying to, I think another way of framing this, it's not like just trying to get out of habit. It's more so just like trying not to just go through the motions day by day and finding little things to celebrate and have fun with something. My wife did a good job and she doesn't have this kind of go through the motions thing that I do. I don't think as much. But like we were at dinner last night with Maple and there was a photo booth there.

Normally like if it was just me or even if it was just me and Maple and my wife and she didn't say anything, I never would have been like, oh yeah, let's spend the $7 or whatever and go into the the photo booth that'll be really fun it's like i just never would even cross my mind i would have seen the photo booth i never would have registered and so what i appreciate about my wife is she's like oh it's valentine's day let's you know it's fun let's commemorate it she's not as worried about the money or whatever and that's great because we deserve to enjoy little things in life that cost seven dollars so we went into the photo booth and we took some pictures and smooched our dog and smooch each other. We, what, what we, we had, we had a game plan, you know, because you get three

pictures. And it's like, how are we going to do it? So we were like, okay, let's do a smile and then smooch the dog and smooch each other. And I think that cadence makes sense in terms of like the look of it, but we should have flipped it around. We should have gone, smooch each other, then smooch the dog so that we didn't kiss the dog and then follow that up by kissing each other. But it is what it is. And no one's gotten rabies or fleas or anything yet fleas on the lips that would be tough speaking of health issues though and we'll tie this into our animal of the week which isn't even a great tie but as i was thinking like what should we do for animal of the week i was like you know i need something with big red wet eyes

because that's what i've got i have had this weird what's the what's the medical term it's like blaphiritis or something like that it's just the swelling and redness of an eyelid because of either some sort of infection or just glands getting backed up so i've had a red swollen eyelid for the last about three days or so thursdays when it started and we're here on sunday and it's still pretty rough and i don't know what exactly it is i don't think it's a straight up like you know outside infection or something like that because I think it would be more like pussy. You know, usually when you got ice stuff, it gets really crusty and pussy and you're digging stuff out of there. Mine's just kind of like straight up red, a little bit irritated, a little bit

of pressure, but really not so bad. It's only bad when I bend down. So we're just taking it day by day trying to figure out what exactly is going on with it. But that inspired the animal of the week, which is the chameleon. And I think we've talked about chameleons a little bit in the past. we were pondering in Google searching, like, how exactly do they know how to change colors and all that stuff? And it's like, do they know, oh, this thing's red? I'm going to turn red or is it just like an involuntary response? And I think we landed more towards the former or the latter rather than the former.

I feel like when you have two things like that, you always say, oh, yeah, lean more towards the former. You never like, oh, yeah, I'll lean more towards the ladder. Maybe that's just me. Speaking of the ladder, let's mention that in one second. I write a great short story, and I want to just give a plug, having to do with ladders. But the other thing I wanted to say about chameleons, and sorry to the actual chameleons who are kind of getting shafted here, because they're so cool and there's such a deep dive you could do with Animal of the Week,

but Daytona starts in 15 minutes. The only other thing I wanted to plug was Elton John song named Chameleon, which I had to listen to when I was taking the dog for a walk when I thought of our animal of the week. It's off of, I believe, the Blue Moves album. I'm trying to remember. It's kind of a classic 70s Elton John's slower ballad. I wouldn't put it among like top 10, top 15 great,

like Elton John ballads, but it's still, it's fine. You don't listen to it and you're like, gosh, where did the last five minutes my life go? It's a solid, you know, keep the album moving. kind of song chameleon that's our music recommendation of the week but i did uh i've almost finished it's called night shift stephen king collection of short stories i got it for christmas uh for my brother absolutely underrated gift love stephen king always have uh but if you're you know a lot of people when i tell them more i love stephen king like oh i can't do that i can't do like the gore and the

horror and it's like i get that i'm not telling you to go read you know, misery and it and stuff. But if you're just looking for a fantastic writer with some supernatural stuff and then a lot of stuff that isn't, you got to read Night Shift. Collection of short stories, there's like 15, 20 in there or something like that. I've only got two left, probably finish it today or tomorrow. But one of the last ones, which I read yesterday,

is called The Last Rung on the Ladder. And there's no horror, supernatural, anything like that. In fact, it's very sad, nostalgic. But I loved the last rung on the ladder. In fact, let me open this up here and give you Quinn's picks. I got the table of contents. Let's see if I remember all of them. This is from Night Shift.

Stephen King's collection of short stories. Some of my favorites. I liked Graveyard Shift. The short story collection is called Night Shift. This is Graveyard Shift. I like Night Surf. Let's see. Grey Matter I enjoyed.

Battleground I really enjoyed. That's one where the Armymen come to life. Trucks, I enjoyed that one. That's what the movie Maximum Overdrive was based off of Stephen King's only directorial feature. Sometimes they come back. That was good. We had a good string here. Strawberry Spring was fantastic.

The ledge, that was another great one, kind of like the latter one I just mentioned, where there's no like horror, sci-fi, supernatural, anything. It's just thrills and chills. Quitters, Inc. fantastic. That's where if you don't, you know, you're quitting smoking. If you don't, if you relapse, they, like, cut off your wife's finger. It's good stuff. Children of the Corn, which I watched most of the movie.

It's on Amazon Prime. But I couldn't quite finish it. I ran out of time and the Traders was on. So I haven't finished it yet. I got to tell you, Traders of the Corn. Children of the corn. For those of you who don't know, I grew up corn detassling. It's a big thing here in the Midwest for kids.

Back in the day, you get paid like $6 an hour. I won't go in all the details of corny tasseling. We've talked about it, I'm sure. But there was probably one or two times, maybe three or four, just generally across the board, windy tasseling where someone made a children of the corn reference, not necessarily the other kids, but just like people in general. And I never, it was, I learned about what children of the corn was just through context clues,

like some sort of like movie where there's kids in the corn and they're probably like devils or demons or something. But beyond that, I didn't really know what children of the corn was literally all the way up until this past week when I read it, the short story, and then watched most of the movie, which I'll finish one day. It's not a short movie. It's like 85 minutes or something. Anyways, but I didn't realize how, how, like, puritanistic children in the corner was. I thought there was going to be a lot of, like, demons and stuff like that. And there is, like, one kind of, you know, the, and lost, the bad guy is like a, I don't know, I guess,

Jacob eventually, lost gets tricky, because at first it's like an evil spirit. You know, the thing that kills the Nigerian guy, Mr. Echo. But then by the end of it, it's like there's like the two brothers, Jacob and I think Jacob's the good guy or supposed to good guy and then like the evil guy, the man in black or whatever, who I think is supposed to be the same thing as the spirit. I don't know. Lask gets really confusing. But there is like one of those evil entities that's not human in children of the corn. But for the most right, the bad guys, quote unquote, are just these kids who murder the townspeople and form their own society, kid nation style. and they're very, you know, King James Bible,

literal interpretation of the Old Testament type stuff. And I didn't realize, I thought it was going to be like, oh, these children are like possessed by the devil or something. But they're just good old-fashioned. They're really into, you know, minor prophets and blood sacrifices and stuff. Can't blame them.

The Bible's got some wild stuff in there. So I enjoy children in the corn. And I got to tell you, if you've only ever watched the movie with what's her name not linda carter but the terminator linda the one who's in stranger things this last season and did nothing what's her name linda something linda linda anyways the the book ending is is a lot more gruesome than the movie my understanding of the movie ending is that there's actually linda hamilton the movie uh although i haven't seen it my understanding is like

It's kind of like a happy ending. I think they get away. And it's basically the exact opposite thing happens in the short story. So that's Children of the Corn. And that's our Animal of the Week. Amealian. I do want to just say thank you quickly. I don't have time for a full ad read here,

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That's the tagline. Let's quickly run through a couple other things here. Our Olympics update, I got to tell you, speaking of Stephen King, we already talked Kazakhstan in the Olympics a little bit. But I think, you know, so Stephen King also wrote The Long Walk, which was turned into a movie last year, which we watched and we enjoyed. There's also the Running Man with Twisters guy. I want to see that because I've never seen the original Arnold Schwarzening

But my understanding is this 2025 running man. It's more like the book. But the reason I mention the Long Walk by Stephen King is I think we need more Olympics events that are kind of long walk hunger games inspired. Now what I mean by that is just make it like ultimate endurance tests. One person remaining, that's the champion. I'm not endorsing that we kill and murder the losers. I just think, I mean, you can start simple, like Summer Olympics,

some sort of running event. We have the marathon, and that's all great and fine, 26.2 miles. But there's people like Ben Gibbard of Death Cap for QD who are out there running these ultramarathons that are like 100 miles over the course of two days, and that's getting closer to what I'm thinking here. Let's just turn it up to 11, and we have a race, and you've got to stay above, I don't know, 6 miles per hour.

So 10-minute miles. I could even bump that up. if you wanted. And you just go until there's one person remaining. And I know people out there going to be bitching and moaning about, oh, there's serious health. You're putting people's lives at risk there. Well, they're the ones signing up. And if you don't want the gold medal, then you don't play. It's like our old swim coach in high school used to say when we were swimming laps. Everybody plays, everybody wins. If you don't play, you can't win. So I think, you know, we got all these biathlon.

I don't know how you do that because of the shooting and stuff, but certainly cross-country skiing. We could just make it go until you drop. Speed skating would be a great one. You've got to stay above 10 miles per hour or whatever it is in kilometers. No one knows how to do that math. But you got to stay above a certain velocity.

What's speed versus velocity? I think velocity is like 3D and speed is 2D, something like that. I don't remember a lot from physics class. Sorry. And now my physics teacher is dead, so can't ask him. Rip. Keith.

Speed skating, we could definitely do long walk style. What else could we do? I don't know. Those are probably the two best examples. Luge. I don't know how you do that. You would need a really big hill. And I guess Luz, you don't really have to do anything.

You just gravity takes you. I don't know. Some sort of race. There's the, we talked about this last week. when we power ranked our Winter Olympic sports, or is that two weeks ago, whenever we did it. Where they have the new one now, we have to hike up the mountain and then ski down. What if we just do a race to Mount Everest or something? That'd be badass.

Because, you know, usually it takes the average person weeks and weeks to get up there. But I think we need to speed race. It doesn't have to be Everest. We could do Mount Logan in Canada. Mount Kenya, K2, all the second highest mountains on these continents. That's all I had on the Olympics. This was just a 10-second thing, and I don't have anything else we're going to move past it. I was doing a college fair essentially on Friday,

and the organization whose table I was sitting next to is a local chiropractor office or network or whatever. And the person tabling was sitting pretty much. the whole time and they had some of the worst posture I've ever seen and that got me thinking is this person know they have bad posture and they're doing it so that people like me will advertise them on the podcast but I don't know their name so S.O.L. Or had they recently gotten chiropractic work done at this organization and was so bad that their posture sucked? Or did they just have bad posture and they were just working at the chiropractor's office because that's the only job they could find.

We'll never know which of the three it is, but I thought it was funny. Sitting next to this person in a folding chair just completely slumped over. It's like, do you need the chiropractor? Did you just get out of the chiropractor? And that's why you're slumped? I don't know.

I'd never seen a chiropractor. The most I know about chiroctomy, chiroprtoctomy, is that John, what's his name? John Cryer on 2 and a half men is a chiropractor. I never really seen much of that show. What's that kid's name, Angus T. Jones, retired from acting. What a show. What an actor.

And then I wonder the thing written down before we do our trivia question, because we're wrapping it up here. I've been getting a lot of, and I think we've talked about this once or twice on the show before, but you know getting a lot of offers lately from either banks i already have or new credit cards or whatever but it's all about the bonus offers you know trying to get you into the bonus offer and i have this one offer that keeps coming in the mail and email from my hysa bank which is golden sacks they call it marcus whatever and they're trying to get me to you know it's i don't even know what the number is it's like six hundred dollars or something excuse me maybe it's a grand i don't know

you have to deposit a certain amount of funds and keep it, excuse me, keep that balance there for like six months and then you get the bonus. And Frick and Marcus, Golden Sacks over here wants to be to deposit $150,000 to get the $600 bonus or whatever it is. And it's just, I think the lowest one on the tier level is it's like $10,000 and you get $100 or something like that. And that one is more attainable, but even then it's like $10,000. you know you've got like six months to get there and it's just like that's not going to happen

so this got me thinking with all these offers and bonuses and loyalty tiers and stuff like that even the and i just i did just get a new credit card like a month ago i got a city custom cash because you get 5% in your top spending category and i'm like i spend all my money at the grocery store i've been getting 2% back this whole time which isn't terrible but there's got to be something better. So I do it. I get the 5% now on groceries, which is great. But I'm thinking, you know, if I'm going to really continue expanding into, you know, a hotel card or an airline card, what about the spirit credit card? And I think this probably exists. But I need some, not only a spirit branded credit card, but I need it to be like spirit rewards and tears,

where it's like spend $200 on flights in your first three years and get a free flight on us. That's a type of intro bonus offer I need. I think these companies out there, spirit and others, they need to give us something more tintillating. In fact, I've done a couple of different, this is weird how it kind of turned out this way, but I've done a couple different focus groups already in 2026

on like gasoline rewards. It was weird how, like two completely separate companies, like two weeks apart ran these studies. And on both of them, I walk away and they always ask you, do you have any last second feedback for us? Or like, what would your ideal rewards experience be like? I'm like, you know what? When I'm traveling for gas,

I'm just looking for the lowest price available. It doesn't matter if you're a Circle K or your quick trip or your shell, doesn't matter. you give me a loyalty program out there where it's like hey if i use you as my go-to place for filling up when i'm driving you get me like 10 cents off a gallon or 15 cents 20 cents whatever it is you're going to get my business rather than just like rolling the dice and seeing who has the lowest price that day because i'll drive out of the way a little bit to get it so if any of those gas station executives out there martin e quick trip if you're listening

If you tell me that if I use your loyalty card, then I'm getting 20 cents per gallon knocked off my gas, I will 100% use you exclusively. I'm not an economist or a marketer. So I'm sure they thought of this 100 years ago, and it didn't make sense financially for them to do this. But I don't know. You got to, give me a carrot dangling in front of me. Maybe it'll heal my lame eye here. I don't know.

I can still see okay. It's just really red and swollen. Okay, last thing here, because we're already two minutes over. Still don't have Wi-Fi back. I was really, you know, when your Wi-Fi goes out and they tell you, oh, yeah, it's estimated to come back in like four hours or something.

You're always like, it's like when you're Microsoft's updating and it gives you the progress bar and you're like 2%. It's like estimated time, three hours, 41 minutes remain. You're like, okay, the whole time you're thinking, okay, that's bad, but it's actually going to be like, half an hour, right? That's the way I was with this Wi-Fi outage. Forty-five minutes ago when it went out, my exfifty app was like, service expected to resume by 4 p.m. And I was like, okay, well, that probably means like 1130, right? Well, it's still out. So as of right now, we're not going to,

A, be able to upload the podcast, and B, we're going to have to try to stream Daytona on my phone. I need to start charging my phone. What have I been doing this whole time? I've been charging my AirPods, but there's much greater issues we're facing. Get that baby plugged in. Our trivia question of the week here. Since this Olympics is in the Alps, next Olympics is in the Alps, I thought, why don't you name the eight Alps or Alpine countries,

European countries that have the Alps running through them, and this counts like the offshoots as well. Okay, but there's eight. and I double, I checked not only Google Gemini, I also went to the Wikipedia article, and I figure when those two lists were the same, I felt pretty good committing to this. So named the eight alpine countries.

I don't care what order. This was, a variation of this was a final trivia question at the old mother's bar and girl, rest in peace, where I used to play every Thursday night when I live in Baltimore. And the variation, I think, was like, they're named the two countries, name the two alpine countries whose name ends in a and one of them i think is pretty obvious the

other one is not as obvious but i nailed i nailed both of those and so there's two of those countries in here and then there's another six so if you want more time uh go ahead and to deliberate go ahead and pause but there are eight alpine countries and here are the eight this is roughly from west to east monaco France, Switzerland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Germany, Austria. And I think the one people probably know less about it, Slovenia rounds us out.

So there you go. There's your eight alpine countries. Monaco, France, Monica, France, Monica, Lewinsky. Monaco, France, Switzerland, Italy, Lichtenstein, Germany, Austria, and Slovenia. That's what I had for you today. I'm going to go try to find the Daytona, the Daytona 500 on my phone, which is a little bit daunting. It's like an NFL game or something or March Madness. It's like, yeah, I can find streams out there, no problem.

But a fox stream of a racing sports is a little bit more dicey. So wish us luck. And hopefully our data plan holds up here. For all of us here, the Beantown podcast, my name is Quinn David Furness. This is my program. Quinn David Furness presents the Beantown podcast. Thanks for listening. Oh, hang up, pause.

We didn't mention this since literally happening next week. I think that's the first time we've ever paused our outro music before. Nine seasons. I don't think it's ever happened. Next week, I meant to say this earlier. Sunday, February 22nd, 12 p.m. Central Time, our Pledge Drive, Telethon fundraiser, call in play games live on air, 815-298, 7200. And a reminder, if you donate $20 or more to a charity of your choice,

send us your proof, your receipt, and that'll get you into our Topaz Elite Club for season nine, we'll have a special gift for you. So again, 12 p.m., YouTube search Quinn, David Furness. We'll have the live stream there and call in play games. And we'll have more wine, trivia, games, Olympics updates, all that fun stuff. I got, we might have to, if the U.S. is in the gold medal hockey match, we're going to have to see, like, how that conflicts or doesn't with our timing. We might have to move it up to like 10 a.m. or something, because I'm watching that hockey.

match if the U.S. is in it. We'll see. Maybe I just jinxed them and they're going to be last place or something. Who knows? All right. That's what I got for you. Stay safe. Stay saying. I'll check in on you next time. Resume music.