Beantown Podcast - Hotspots, Hot Pots, & the JC Penney Post-Game Show

Episode Date: October 2, 2026

Quinn comes to you LIVE to discuss bulgogis, wifi signals, & bear procreation

Hey, what's going on? It's Quinn David Furness. Welcome to my show. Quinn David Furness presents the Beantown podcast for Friday, October 2nd, 2026. 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. I am the creator, the host, and, you know, Mr. Furness is driver. You know how when you get down to like three quarters the way through the credits, you start to get to craft services and stuff and it's always, you know, the second assistant to Mr. Cruz and, you know, Woody Harrelson's driver. That's me. I was driving myself today. Driving Miss Daisy. Classic thriller. What happens in that one? I've never seen driving Miss Daisy, right? It's Morgan Freeman. Without actually knowing, I'm going to bet Morgan Freeman got an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor

and driving Miss Daisy. Total blind spot in my film buff knowledge. And he's driving someone, you know, an old white lady in the back seat, probably played by Chloris Leachman. And, you know, there's a lot of, like, flashbacks speaking to, you know, her childhood growing up, and they're kind of alternating flashbacks, and there's a lot of kind of racial commentary going on. You know, it's kind of transitioning out of the old ways and into the new modern era of race relationships and, you know, the old South fading away.

And Miss Daisy used to be super racist, but now she's got this cool, hip, black driver. And she learns that maybe there's more to humans beneath their skin. I don't know. Anyone here in the peanut gallery ever seen driving Miss Daisy? you know we're getting a no from rachel and it's an indeterminate from maple who's feeling sick she's on day two of diarrhea d a d i a r r h-e a right buddy diarrhea so i don't know when this song ends i'm going to go look up what the plot of driving miss daisy is and see if i pretty much nailed it and we can experience it together No, I've literally never seen it, but I assume it's just two hours of one car ride.

And there's just a lot of flashbacks and nostalgia and conversation. Basically, Green Book is, although Green Book's not like flashbacks and nostalgia, but it's kind of the race relations sort of thing. Did Green Book win Best Picture? Am I hallucinating that? I think it did, right? And it was like, really, this one's winning Best Picture? I don't know.

Let's go to Google here and learn about driving Miss Daisy. By the way, thank you to our good friends in Pakistan and Nigeria. I was about to say India, but that's not true. We're still trying to tap into that market. Pakistan, thank you for making us the 178th ranked comedy podcast in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Lahore, Karachi, Hyderabad, and, of course, are good friends in Nigeria. Benin City, Lagos, Abuja, thank you for making us the 178th ranked comedy podcast,

probably in all of West Africa, but for now, just Nigeria. And of course, to cross our teas and dot our eyes, listen to discretion advised. When you're listening to this show, number one, we'll occasionally use some language to this podcast, is objectively terrible. BT Dubs, drinking the third of my four tackle box IPAs

from North Pier Brewing, company in where did we decide it was benton harbor i had i haven't had one since uh you know in between last recording in this one and there's only a four pack so you want to savor it right i think when you buy a four pack of craft beer compared to a six pack even if the four pack is like not good which the tackle box is very good but if the four pack is just like pedestrian or not great or whatever you still want to savor it i think this just goes all the way back to like my, like, super frugal, conservative, you know, in money and other things, nature that I grew up with and still hold many of those tenants closely, as you could probably

imagine. A great example, just we're talking beer here. I think I talked about this a couple weeks ago, but I've got, you know, this great four-pack of goddamn pigeon porter from one of my favorite breweries, spiteful brewery here in Chicago and they get a great coupon on my birthday anyway so I picked up a four pack last March you know this is what seven months ago and I just tapped into the first one of that four pack for the Vikings opener three four weeks ago not because I was like saving it for this particular specific day but I'm just like I've got this amazing four pack I got to

savor right got to make sure you get the most out of it it can't just be a casual occasion it's got to be something special All that, you know, while all that is, is, you know, happening, it's like with the coupon, it was like $10 for a four pack of tallboys. And I can get it literally any time I want because it's like two miles away. So that's just my nature. But let's keep going here. Driving Miss Daisy, 1989 comedy drama, hour 39, pretty high and tight. I appreciate that.

There's only so much driving you can do. based on a play starring Jessica Tandy Morgan Freeman and Dan Aykroyd So there's a third person in the car apparently But I will say without having researched it anymore The fact that it's based on a play tells me that I feel pretty good about this whole

concept of this thing is just taking place in the car And nothing else is happening Maybe some flashbacks, right? If you got to play there's a stage play there's only so much you can do you know it can't be you know big boom action all the time that's boom action not big boob action it's like that sydney commercial do we even anyone know what company that's for some sort of sports betting company is it i thought it was for something also i don't think the sydney suney commercial is for kelshi

but we'll put that on the agenda that's next i'll google you know sydney swiney boobs and we'll see it comes up. Also has Patty Lupone in it, not the Sydney Sweeney commercial, but just the film. Let's see. Hans Zimmer did the music. Good for you, Hans. December 15th, 1989, a Christmas miracle. Get this, a 7.5 million budget and it made 146 million at the box office. That's crazy. You know, when something like that happens, you know, I don't think it's like, I don't know anything about entertainment contracts,

but I can't imagine that Patty Lepone is like, you know, give me 1% of the box office profits. I think she probably gets paid a flat fee for her acting. So when you have a movie that grossly outperforms its, you know, its budget, is that just flowing into like the bank account of the company who produced the film? Are there any, like, percentages going on here? You know what I'm talking about?

if we got any like entertainment contract attorneys or people on the inside of showbiz because you know here at the being done podcast we just you know it's not we're not going exponential with our profits it's kind of the other way and so I don't have a lot of knowledge or insight or experience into this they made you know a hundred and thirty six hundred thirty eight whatever on this film. Like is it just going right into the checking account or they just using it to fund their other, you know, box office flops? I would like some more insight into this. Email us, Beantown Podcast at yahoo.com.

Again, it's Beantown podcast at Yahoo.com. The story defines Daisy and her point of view through a network of relationships and emotions by focusing on her home life synagogue, friends, families, fears, and concerns over a 25-year period. but is it like one afternoon she's being driven and she's reflecting or are we actually seeing in real time this 25 year period i don't know if we're going to get the exact answer but we will see that it was nominated for five uh nine rather oscar nominations let's see best picture one i didn't know that any really is it won best actor morgan freeman nominated i think we said best supporting so we missed that jessica a tandy one best actress and so on so forth.

There's a lot of other stuff here. Dan Aykroyd nominated for Best Supporting Actor. We could keep going. But anything else we can glean from the plot, glean from the pot. Yeah, I mean, we could read through the whole plot, but we're not going to. It does seem like, you know, I don't know. Maybe it's not, you know, my pre-year-old. preconceived notions of, you know, the whole movie is she's driving in the back of the,

riding in the back of the car and she's reminiscing. Because it seems like we're starting in 1948 and, you know, we're kind of going through some different things here. The synagogue gets bombed. I hate that. She's a victim of prejudice. Goes to a dinner with Martin Luther King Jr. She shows signs of dementia.

Shoot. ends with a Thanksgiving pie. Well, this is interesting. You got a December movie ending with a Thanksgiving pie. I wonder how audiences reacted to that, probably why it didn't make, you know, avatar money. Okay, let's not linger on the whole Sydney-Sweeney thing, but I am curious what's the ad for?

Novig, N-O-V-I-G, and we think they do sports betting? I don't understand how, and this is like a broader question I have that's probably related to economics and capitalism and I don't have any formal training in any of that. But when you have something like, you know, obviously sports betting is huge right now, but it's not completely new. Like you've got these very well entrenched companies, your draft kings, your fan duels, you know, even, you know, places like Caesars, you know, they've got like the Caesar's sports book. And that's, this is not like, this is no longer like, oh man, yeah, this is the new wave. Like, Draft Kings and Fan Duel were going crazy on the marketing push when I was in college. This is a decade to, you know, 10 to 15 years ago at this point.

And so, and maybe they're, maybe they're more in, this Novig is more in the vein of the Kelshi, which is like, I don't really know where Kelshi really came from either. but it's basically just like it's less of like a strictly sports betting thing and more just like you can put you can make anything into a prop bet politics you know anything that's quantifiable whatever it is so maybe novig is more in that vein but even then it's like why how did a place like because calci i think has become kind of ubiquitous in the last year give or take i feel like and i still see a crap ton of ads for calci way more than i see for like Fanduil and Draft Kings now, although I still see those from time to time.

But where did this whole like prop bet, bet on everything come from? Like what changed in the laws or market conditions to where now this is the hot thing? I don't know. And is Novig more in that line or what? I'm not even going to Google any of it because I don't want to feed into the, I don't want it to be in my algorithm or anything like that. to this day, I don't think I've ever placed like an online sports bet.

I've done the occasional Super Bowl Square, you know, family stuff, Catholic Church, whatever. But I've never like physically downloaded the Draft Kings app and put in my social security number and won or lost money or anything like that. I don't intend to anytime soon. That being said, I would encourage you all to download the new Beantown Sportsbook app. to send your bets up, up and away into orbit. Use code, Sweeney's double Ds for, what is a D in Roman numerals? Is that a 500?

We got C is a 100, L is a 50, V's a 5, X is 10, I is 1. So I think a D's got to be, I think that's right, I think D's 500, 2 D's, double Ds, that would be an L, not an L, an M, a thousand, right? For millennium. That's how they determine that stuff.

So there you go. That's your Latin lesson. It's the Beantown podcast, Latin lesson, sponsored by Beantown Sportsbook. Okay, we're not talking about bedding or city-sweeney the rest of the way because I've got other stuff I want to get to. It is our animal of the week brought to you by our good friends at Cuts by Q. I don't know if this animal ever needs a haircut.

but I know they're kind of shaggy, shaggier than little Ms. Driving Miss Muff over here. As you might have seen this, I think, I don't know when it actually ended, but essentially this last week was the infamous Fat Bear Week, which is where they set up webcams on the whatever it is, Cat My Peninsula, but it's not cats, it's bears up in Alaska. And people can watch the live streams. I didn't actually tune into the live stream. I just heard other people talking about it, and then I saw the article.

of the animal that won fat bear week. But this is all a roundabout way of saying our animal of the week is the grizzly bear. There's a lot of different bears to choose from. I think we did a panda bear a couple weeks ago. But, yeah, of course, your black bears. I would say your classic bears, right, your black bears, your grizzly bears, your polar bears, your koala bears, your panda bears, your care bears, where you've got to change your infant at the gas station.

But Grizzly, I don't know. I wouldn't say like grizzly's the king of the bears because I think, you know, you're going to have a fight with a polar bear to really determine ursynic dominance. But they live in, you know, different places. Are there any habitats? This is for the ursynologists out there. Are there parts of the world where grizzly bears and polar bears are coexisting in harmony? Do they get together for mahjong?

What are they doing? I mean, I think it would have to be a transitory landscape, right? Sort of a Taiga, T-A-I-G-A, which was a Jeopardy Correct response, but I think he spells it differently. But I've never met another rapper named after a subarctic forest, which I thought was kind of cool. Not that I've met TIGA, but it would, you know, I'm thinking like those nether regions, hinterlands, if you will,

of middle to northern Canada. I don't know if anyone's ever used the phrase middle Canada before, but I just did, where it kind of goes from, you know, your Canadian Shield and pine forest and classic grizzly territory and all of a sudden you're getting more into ice shields. I don't really know what an ice shield is. Just, you know, permafrost, I guess, and that's more polar bear territory. So I'm thinking like Canada and Russia. I could see some intermingling.

Now the question is, I know this is a fact. family show, but if I could go quickly here, would they ever procreate? I mean, it's kind of like, you know, my wife and I, interracial couple, I'm the polar bear, I'm very white, and my hot Latino wife over here, much more of a mocha dark skin, and it's like, what's the baby going to look like from a skin color? Well, maybe there's precedent for that with grizzlies and polar bears. And I, you know, sometimes you hear about these animals getting together in the wild and there's a huge size difference and you're like that's got to be freaky but i think your average polar bear and grizzly bear probably not super different right i think what like

polar bears are like scary big not that grisies aren't scary i mean i saw the revenant but i think they're probably pretty close in size it's not like a you know rotweiler and a chihuahua getting it on or something i I think it's, you know, they make do. Let's go to our internet search here and see, do Grizzlies and polar bears? Hey, the first result for auto completion here is do they mate? Let's just go to that because if they mate, then surely they can, you know, live in the same. Here we go. This is, okay, well, there was an AI overview and then I thought, let's go to a more reliable.

source so I clicked on Wikipedia. A grizzly polar bear hybrid, also known as a groler bear, a Pizzly bear, a zebra bear, a grizzler, or a nanelak. That's right. N-A-N-U-L-A-K is a rare ursid hybrid that has occurred both in captivity and in the wild. In 2006, the occurrence of this hybrid in nature was confirmed by testing the DNA of a unique-looking bearer who had been shot near Sacks, harbor northwest territories.

Hello, that's Middle Canada, on Banks Island in the Canadian Arctic. The number of confirmed hybrids has since risen to eight. Oh, all of them descending from the same female polar bear. Oh, man, this lady is got the red light district up there in a yellow knife. That's right. I know the capital of Northwest Territories, and I'm flexing it. The way I actually remember it because you got, you know, Northwest Territories.

and Yukon is, Yellow Knife don't match the Y to Yukon. It's a cross, almost like you're thinking about those punnet squares and Gregor Mendel, his peas in the pod. You want a cross to get your X, Y chromosomes and stuff. So you got Yellow Knife goes to Northwest Territories and White Horse goes to Yukon. So there you go.

It's not common, but it is possible. Looks like there's been other. Other reported sightings, but DNA was unable to verify. Introgressive hybridization. I think that's why I had to detassel corn as a kid. Always talking about hybrid corn. The other thing, obviously, they can mate. We've confirmed that.

But let's just go to the AI overview here and just get a quick little summary. So I asked, do grizzlies and polar bears live together? And AI says they mostly live in different places, but their homes occasionally overlap in the Arctic as climate change has caused ranges to shift. It says polar bears spend most of their lives on sea, on sea, oh, sea ice, there we go. On sea ice hunting seals.

Grizzly bears live a mostly land-based terrestrial life and forests in the tundra. But there is occasionally some, overlap, such as in Canada's Wapusk National Park, WAPUSK. When they meet, interactions are usually aggressive rather than friendly. All right, there you go. So we learned that it's possible. It's not like a super common occurrence, but it's not out of the question.

There you go. That's your animal of the week. Brought to you by our good friends at the Samson Q2U series, whether you're talking about bears or leviathans or i don't know that one story when david's ogling oogling what's the verb the queen in the bathtub well she must have been a real looker and then what does he do he he he like sends sends her husband away into battle to die so he can bang her that david real good guy people are going to take my sarcastic tone and call me an anti-Semite, but hey, I just, I don't, I don't care about, you know, what your identity is.

I just call out bad behavior when I see it, sending away a beautiful lady's warmongering husband to die in battle so you can deflower her. Not my kind of guy, frankly. There's a lot of weird stuff going on in the Old Testament that we like to sweep under the rug. And finally, of course, are good friends at home pride Oregon when you're looking to buy a home in central Oregon it's going to be you know at this rate two million dollars eight percent down you're going to be end up paying an extra 750,000 dollars in interest thank you federal reserve so don't blow it by going with an amateur home inspector go with my dad steve 5414010316 or email HomePriotorgan at gmail.com.

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but, you know, Dan Bernstein, classic 670, the score host now doing his own thing on 312 Sports Chicago. And I try to listen, you know, probably two or three times a week. It's a five-day-a-week show. But I never listen when I'm on a run because he'll do like 15 minutes and then it will be like the inserted Apple podcast ads for like three minutes, like way longer than almost any other podcast to listen to. And then you come back and then he does his own.

own ad reads for like another three minutes and it's just you're just boom boom boom boom boom tap in that 30 seconds skip ahead as fast as you can and I don't do it on runs because I don't want to be fumbling around with my phone and you know it's it's just not fun anyways when you listen to the bean town podcast you don't know when those ads are going to come you don't know if they're going to be long or short so we keep it mixed and it's audio only there's you know you don't have to worry about, you know, if you're more of a family-oriented person, you don't have to worry about seeing double-ds, you know, or hearing about it on my ads. So, you're welcome. Other things I wanted to touch on here, I saw last night as I was falling asleep and I was catching

the end of the Thursday night football game, Browns and Steelers. I won't spoil it for it. I won't tell you who won. Okay, you can go back and watch the three-hour replay. on your Amazon Prime account. But I saw this caught my attention. I saw, look who's sponsoring the postgame show, J.C. Penny, which caught my attention for a few different reasons. One, I don't think I've ever seen J.C. Penny, like, corporate sponsor anything before. You never hear about the, you know,

J.C. Penny Thanksgiving Day parade or, you know, this ad brought to you by J.C. Penny. other relevant examples. So for them to go hard and get the, it's interesting too because they stream these Thursday night football games on Amazon Prime. And I would assume Amazon Prime has taken out a healthy chunk of JCPenny. It almost even makes you question, not question, but just ponder like, I'm almost surprised with, you know, well-being extremely uninformed, but like surprise that Amazon would even say to JCPenney,

oh yeah, we'll let you sponsor our post-game show, considering there in some regards, I assume, still competitors. But it was also just surprising because I don't know about you guys. And I have shopped at J.C. Penny many times in my life. And they were at the mall growing up. And I was just in one like a couple weeks ago. My sister-in-law's birthday were at the mall. And I perused J.C. Penny.

Excuse me. But I thought there was a period. And I know this isn't at a death sentence per se, but it was a period like five years ago where they were, you know, in bankruptcy mode. And I think that's true. I'm pretty confident in that. So for them to rebound from bankruptcy to being able to sponsor the Thursday Night Football Postgame show. I don't know.

Maybe this is only like 50 bucks or something. And the Beantown podcast should be getting into this. I don't know. If anyone has a general sense of how much it would take for us to sponsor, it doesn't need to be, you know, Thursday night football. We could do like WNBA playoffs or something, something that no one's watching. So get in touch with us, Beantam Podcasts at Yahoo.com. If JCPenney can afford a postgame show in the NFL, I think we could at least do, you know, Illinois High School Association, you know, for a men's rowing championships or something.

Tomorrow, it's going to be a Saturday, the first Saturday of October, which means it is a prime time for apple orchards and pumpkin patches and I think we'll partake or imbibe a little bit but it just got me thinking as I was taking my notes to prepare for the show earlier today that a patch it's just a fun word like you don't you don't use it that much when you're talking about parcels of land you could say oh yeah there's a patch of land over there but I don't find myself saying it that frequently what miriam webster had to say buried in its definitions the one that refers to like what a pumpkin patch is they say it's a part or area distinct from that about it and that just i like i like the wording of that by saying you know that about it it's like i would never think to phrase

my sentence that way that's pretty cool but it's like what you know in what instances outside of pumpkin patches you know would you have packs I, you know, generally speaking, you can have like a patch of land somewhere. But I think of that as more of like, you know, I bought a little, you know, a four-acre patch of land, and I don't know what I'm going to do with it yet. It's undeveloped. But even in that sense, what makes that patch, according to Miriam Webster, distinct from that about it?

I don't know. Are there other patches? I mean, I'm not talking about software. or, you know, things you sew on to a teddy bear when his stuffing starts to come out. Or your blown tire on the interstate. What other land patches are there? Pumpkin patch? It's interesting how you got a pumpkin patch and an apple orchard.

Orchards, too, are like, is there any orchard that's not for apples? Like, if you got a bunch of oranges, it's not an orange orchard. It's just like an orange grove, right? I don't know. Email us. If I'm missing something, I haven't thought about orchards for quite as long, but patches, if there are other, you know, even other goarts, do you have a squash patch? Or do squashes get a different name for a collection of them in a designated space?

So that's what I'm thinking about And I will continue to ponder As we drive To the pumpkin patch tomorrow And it's dog friendly So we're going to dress her up like a pumpkin And hopefully we don't lose her Or else we won't be able to do interview with a dog

In the future Hi Maple Are you going to have diarrhea at the pumpkin patch That'll be really nice That'll be really fun You can go right on the pumpkins Two other things I was at a job fair today

working and these are just two quick ruminations I had then we'll close with their trivia question we'll let you go early right wasn't that the best thing when you were a student i think it's probably less of a thing in high school right because you're on like a bell schedule and so you're just there but if you're in college and your class gets out early oh that was such a great feeling especially when i was in grad school right because all my classes were like six to nine p.m. It was like 6 to 9, Monday through Thursday, and I worked, you know, about 35 hours a week. So any time you got the chance to be let out of class at 840 instead of 9 p.m. That was always a treat. So I'll let you go early from the Beantown podcast today so you can experience that same

sense of joy and wonderment. My first thought that I have among two, I'll be quick. I don't have a ton else to say here. So this fair I'm at no Wi-Fi. It was like the hotel, you know, you're in like the conference center and, you know, it's like, okay, enter your conference center code and I go up to the check-in table after I'd set up my table and I'm like, hey, what's the Wi-Fi? And they're like, oh, sorry, we don't have a code. And I was like, but the whole thing with like job fairs in 2026 and for many years is like, if I, I want people to sign up. They got to like put their stuff on my laptop or like scan the QR code that I have on my

laptop and it's just like how are we having a job fair in 2026 where you don't have Wi-Fi? Like is it I didn't realize it was such a challenging thing to set up Wi-Fi for, you know, because you got like 200 tables of people here who want to, you know, collect information digitally. So my actual thought was not that. you know, I was just, you know, having casual conversation with people around me, they got their laptops up and running. And we're just talking about it. And like, oh, yeah, just use my hotspot.

And in my head, I'm thinking, I've never had or set up or owned a hotspot before. I'm thinking, like, is this because, like, I'm, like, tech illiterate or does it cost a bunch of money? And I've just always been like, yeah, I'm not going to pay that extra. But, like, how do I actually get a hotspot? So go to my phone settings and I'm like maybe I can have a hot spot too. Like maybe it's not that hard. And I can't find my hot spot.

I'm like, okay, let's go Google it. I Google, how do I set up a hot spot on my iPhone? And it's like, go to this spot and I've been in the wrong spots. I'm like, okay. So I find the hotspot section on my iPhone settings and it's just completely grayed out, completely untappable. And I'm just thinking to myself like, I was willing to learn something new, apply myself in new ways, try to set up a hotspot,

and I got all the data in the world, unlimited data on my cell phone. So how are all these other people getting hotspots? And my phone, it's grayed out. It won't let me click on it. So if anyone has any, not that this was the first time in a long time where I've ever been like, man, I really wish I could get Wi-Fi on my computer. you still may do as far as like performing the functions the job duties of you know what you're there for to talk to people and recruit them like it's not that hard and that's not internet on my

phone that's what would have been really brutal is like if the service was bad and i couldn't get you know internet on my phone because then you're like you're there for three hours and you know you're not like you're not bringing a book to something like this right you need to like be alert be presentable be approachable all that good stuff so i you know you're not you're not you They did have the phone, thankfully. And I mean, I was having plenty of conversations, too. So it's not like I was super bored. But, yeah, if anyone out there knows anything about, like, one, how to set up a hotspot,

like, what are the prerequisites for having a hotspot? And two, like, why I can't have a hotspot? Again, I'm not, it's not like, oh, man, I need this by tomorrow. I really want to be able to create a hotspot. This was a one in a million kind of situation. But I never thought about it before. You hear about hotspots. I never really given it a second thought, but after today, I'm like, why can't I have a hot spot?

You guys ever have hot pots? Or I think it's more like a singular noun, hot pot. It's a Korean dish, I think. It's kimchi and sake put together, I think. I don't really know, like, is it, is hot pot just, you know, hey, we got soup and it's from Korea. And so we're going to call it hot pot. or is there something else cool about it? Let's see.

Hot pot, let's go to Wikipedia. Also known as Steamboat, of course, obviously, is a dish of soup or stock kept simmering in a pot by a heat source on the table accompanied by an array of raw meats. Oh, raw meats, that's really nice. Vegetables and soy-based foods, which diners quickly cook by dipping in the broth. So at the end, you got, you know, you got this, you know, bowl of soup essentially that's, you know, being heated in the center of the table with a, you know, Bunsen burner or something.

And then you got, you know, a raw salmon or boogogi or something over here. I don't know. And then you dip it into the broth and it cooks it and then you take it out and you eat it. I get that. Are we slurping up this broth at the end of the, you know, hot pot Bukaki? Or are, is that like, I guess if it's like a high enough temperature, then all the, the Zika virus gets cooked out of, you know, both the meat and the stew? I don't know how this really works.

If there's any Korean listeners, let us know. I guess it's not just Korean. It's Cantonese. Maybe it's not just Korean at all. Let's see. Regional variance. China is first. that's a lot of meat

Chowshen beef hot pot and Shenzhen looks delicious except they only show the pictures of it raw so Japan Korea

Korea the section is really small so I think I was just off base from the get-go I think hot pot is more of a Chinese thing Southeast Asia Cambodia Philippines Thailand, Vietnam Europe, Switzerland

gets its own section here It's a popular Christmas meal. You know, Switzerland was almost the destination that we picked for honeymoon. For a while, just like the flights, because we were, for a while, we were thinking, like, let's just do, like, a more kind of beachy, warmer kind of thing. And because we went in November. And then we were like, let's do, like, more of a cozy winter kind of vibe sort of thing. And, like, Zurich, I think, was high up there just in terms of.

like where we could get affordable flights with you know multi cities multiple cities in mind um and it almost happened and then we kind of caught wind of the canary islands and medeara and we're like this seems badass and we got some great flights so switzerland didn't end up happening but it's on my list i think for me it's like two of my top european or three i guess if you want to throw Iceland in there, but it's like the top place I want to go are like Norway and Switzerland and then you throw Iceland in there as well. And I think they have a lot of similar vibes. And they're both extremely expensive as far as Europe goes. And so I'd like to get to one of those before too long, but checking off multiple of those is going to take some time and probably going to have to

dip into retirement era before all said and done. That's what I was, those are my insights about hotspots. And then our last thing here before our trivia question of the week. So to my left today, the booth to the left of me was none other than actually a company I haven't thought about much because I feel like I haven't seen their advertising as much since Gilbert Gottfried passed away. But Aflack. And I thought first I had to think myself, what the heck is Aflack actually?

It's not just like a traditional insurance company. It's like supplemental insurance. A lot of like disability workers comp, supplemental stuff. So on top of maybe the benefit you already get from your employer, it's like maybe you want extra cushion. You know, if you lose your leg in the forklift accident or something and, you know, you're only getting $200 a month from, disability, well, maybe you want an extra 100 from Affleck. That's where Affleck comes in. So that got me thinking, you know, I work, I work a dangerous, you know, kind of high profile, moving around, a lot of heavy equipment, machinery, a lot of accidents on the job.

OSHA hates this apartment. You know, between my three, four jobs, whatever, maybe I should get Affleck for some supplemental coverage. You know, I stubbed my toe the other day. that could have been bad or how about this we uh you know the start of like maple not feeling while she she puked overnight and there were a couple patches on the the rug and so after we cleaned it up and you know scrubbed it and stuff you leave the stuff there for a little bit and you don't want her to get into it so we put a a glass kind of frying pan cover over it because it had enough circumference if i step on that glass and i got no aflac i'm screwed So, Affleck, if you're listening, I probably should have just asked in person today.

But if you could send me some quotes based off of my current working conditions, it's not quite the same level as like, you know, those Vietnamese kids working in the Nike factory, but it's probably one step below that. Should I, listener poll question of the week, should I get Aflack? That brings us to the last thing here. Our Beantown podcast trivia question of the week when I was crashing out. I wasn't actually crashing yet. I was just like kind of shocked that this fair did not have Wi-Fi.

So then I thought, you know what, this is a good opportunity to do a fun trivia question. So I googled it. What's the record for the longest or like furthest? I don't love the wording of this question, but I think you're going to know what I'm going to ask or what I am asking. It's the record for the furthest, like, recorded ever Wi-Fi signal. So, you know, right now if I'm in the home office and I'm all of 40 feet away from our router, the reception is spotty, choppy, but I can still get a medium bandwidth signal. So that's, for me, the record here is about 40 feet.

What do you think the world record is for the furthest record is for the furthest, signal in miles how far away was it and for a little bonus if you just want to guess where was where in the world do they record this world record this was in like 2006 and like pretty verified from the you know a couple different like links that clicked on all seemed to say the same thing so take a shot in the dark guess how far it was in miles and where it was here's a clue it and involve mountains, as you would probably expect. You know, the thinner air. There's, you know, that Wi-Fi really booms.

I feel like we said booms, like four times today. Four booms. Two Sidney-Sweeney boobs. That's how it goes. Pause if you want to ruminate or laminate or anything anymore. The actual answer, the correct answer, the longest ever recorded Wi-Fi signal or like the furthest away from the router, you know what I'm saying.

It was 237 miles, 237, and it was in the Venezuelan Andes, which call me uninformed. I didn't even realize the Andes got into Venezuela. I just kind of thought it was like, okay, Chile, everyone knows about that. It goes up through, you know, Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia, and it kind of just like, you know, disappears and then reappears in Mexico, kind of. But apparently there's Venezuelan Andes too, which is kind of cool. Venezuelan Andy, that's like, you know, something with Toy Story there, speaking Spanish. We've run out of steam.

That's what I have for you guys today. I really appreciate you listening to my show. We are, what, less than a year away from hitting 500 episodes, which is very exciting for us. So thanks for your support throughout the years. Welcome to October. Someone wake up, Billy Joe. My name is Quinn David Furness. I hope everyone enjoys the first week of October.

Stay safe, stay sane. Go find a patch. I'll check in on you next time. Bye.