Beantown Podcast - 8th Annual Christmas Special (12242025 Beantown Podcast)

Episode Date: December 24, 2025

Quinn comes to you LIVE on Christmas Eve to talk about elderflower, Lady Gaga novelty songs, and Serpico...

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Hey, what's going on? It's Quinn Davis Furness. Welcome to my show. Quinn Davis Furness presents the Beantown podcast for Wednesday, Christmas Eve, December 24th, 2025. What's happening? What's going on? How are you? My name is Quinn and this is my program. Quinn David Furness presents the Beantown Podcast. No off weeks over here in Beantownland, Toyland, Island of Misfit Toys, whatever you want to call it. Babes in Toyland. That's. It's like a movie from the 60s, right? Something like that. It's one of those where it's like, you know the title and you know that it refers to like a Christmas thing, but I don't actually know what goes on in Babes in Toiland. The good news is we're sitting in front of the laptop here with some royalty-free Christmas music going on in the background.
Starting point is 00:00:50 Hopefully it's not too distracting. Babes in Toiland, so we can do some quick Google searches here. Babes in Toiland, 1961 film. I'm recording on my iPhone. By the way, Samson Q2U series, when God speaks, he uses a Samson. It is God slash Jesus slash the Holy Spirit's birthday tomorrow after all. So, you know, a lot of people out there take weeks off, not myself necessarily, but God and Jesus and Samson, they get a week off. Jimmy Kimmel takes the entire summer off.
Starting point is 00:01:19 So I, you know, I was going to say I deserve a week off. Well, I think I do, but I'm going to keep plotting along here. because as we begin to set the sun you know the sun sets but you never set the sun I guess the sun has to set itself as the sun sets here on season 8 of Quindia first presents the Beantown podcast and we begin to look ahead to season 9 which kicks off in like two weeks or so here uh there's no days off we have been doing this and I'm sure I say this a lot but I have literally been doing this since January 2018 one day a week without any breaks so that's the tradition that we are keeping alive
Starting point is 00:02:03 here keep that light burning like the Olympic torch the Olympic torch it reminds me of Atlanta specifically because that was you know the Olympic Games are there back in what 1990 something like that 94 perhaps is that right 96 92 Atlanta Olympics Atlanta Police Department, that's not right. Atlanta Olympics, 1996. I saw, you know what movie I saw the first 20 minutes of, and then I just, I think I got distracted, and I never actually went back to finish it.
Starting point is 00:02:36 From like three or four years ago, the Clint Eastwood movie, Richard Jewel, starring Paul Walter Houser, a very underrated actor. I got literally right to the point of the bombing scene, and then I watched the bombing happen, and then had to, I don't know what happened. I got distracted or maybe I got bored. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:02:58 I turned it off and I never got back to it. So I don't know whatever happened to Richard Jewell. Actually, I do. He got exonerated, but he's dead now. So rest in peace. We're going to get back to Bays and Toyland in a second year just to learn a little bit about it. But if you're curious, in the spirit of Christmas,
Starting point is 00:03:16 emphasis on the spirit, I am double fisting a classic beer, a Saga-Tug brewing peanut butter porter, of my favorites. And then a cocktail, it is gin with elder flower liqueur and club soda. So it's got a little bit of that sweetness from the elder flower. And it masks the alcohol content pretty well, so it's dangerous. By the way, I am the creator and the host and the chief present giver of this program, Quinn David Furnace, present the Beantown podcast. I want to give a shout out to all of you who have made this the season of bean town everyone who's listened to season eight of the show and well beyond looking forward to having you in season nine i should mention that the bean town podcast won a 2025 media
Starting point is 00:04:07 innovator award for comedy podcasts of the year uh i got an email like two or three months ago that looked kind of spammy but i you know it was like you could you know be nominated if you like submit this application and i did and then i got the email in two or three months ago that looked two days ago that we had actually won the award and now it's not like hey you're the only one who won so i think it was like i don't know how stiff this competition was more of like a participation trophy perhaps but we were listed uh if you go to the media innovator awards 2025 i need to put this on the website that's what i need to do beintownpodcast.com you can actually see our name listed which is really exciting so thank you to everyone who uh voted i don't know what
Starting point is 00:04:51 that process was like was it a toll-free number or what the situation was but yeah we did win an award i think it's legitimately like the first time we've ever won an award took eight seasons had to put in the grind but we we we did it if you're curious because you know i was making this drink with elder flour liqueur that my my wife or my sister-in-law picked up from the grocery store and i'm not super familiar with elder flower other than it it's just like an older dandelion ice assume so i googled before the show started i want to bring this back up i googled elder flower which i'm guessing they grow a lot of in uh in pakistan i would assume thank you pakistan for making us the one hundred and twelve thronged comedy podcasts in the islam republic of pakistan
Starting point is 00:05:39 christmas probably not a big thing over there but when uh what it's called like l ieed or something like that it shows up on my uh my iPhone calendar and i don't celebrate, but I don't have the heart to tell my phone, you know, don't show me these Muslim holidays anymore. So they keep showing them to me. And that's fine. So I want to be multicultural. I get the big three, you know, I get the Islamic ones, I get the Jewish ones, and I get the Christian ones. So I'm pretty multicultural in that sense. But Karachi, Hyderabad, Columbo Is that the
Starting point is 00:06:19 Is that both the title of a classic cop TV show Or is that a movie? I think it's a movie Peter Falk was he Colombo And also the capital of Sri Lanka Is that the capital of Sri Lanka? I think so
Starting point is 00:06:33 I don't know let's check Columbo There's a great episode of it's always sunny Early on in the run where um but that's not columbo columbo anyways what i was getting at there's an episode where my my google chrome tabs are out of control here i got a lot of stuff to circle back to
Starting point is 00:06:56 columbo show but that was uh that's not what i'm thinking of so columbo show that was a that was a tv show and it was peter falk so i got that right what i'm thinking of is um oh there's a movie with alpuccino and it's also just like like his character's last name is the title of the film and there's a great episode of it's always sunny i think it's pretty early like season one or season two where um starts with an essay i think is this character's name anyways charlie kelly like pretends to be that character and he's trying to like get inside the government corruption and uh it's just a great spoof but um what is a what is that movie called
Starting point is 00:07:43 That's what it was. If anyone out there has seen Serpico, you got an email us, Beantown Podcasts at Yahoo.com. See, my brain got like 75% of the way on all of this stuff, and I just couldn't quite close the deal, but I had to Google it. It's okay. Serpico is a 1973 American crime drama film, easy for me to say, starting Al Pacino in the title role. It deals with Serpico, struggles with corruption within the New York City Police Department during his 11 years of service and his work as a whistleblower, which led to the investigation by the Knapp Commission. Was this a, this was a real story? Yeah, Frank Serpico, the real guy. Still alive.
Starting point is 00:08:24 Born in 1936, he's 89 years old from Brooklyn. An American retired NYPD detective best known for whistleblowing and police corruption. And, uh, yeah. Huh, interesting. Serpico. He got shot in the face during an arrest attempt in 1971 in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Interesting stuff. They are suspicious, or they were 55 years ago, that cops had lured him to the apartment to murder him,
Starting point is 00:09:01 but they couldn't ever justify that suspicion. Interesting. He moved to Italy, it looks like. The more you know, that's Serpico. Colombo is the capital of Sri Lanka, by the way. Bonus trivia question. Guess the capital of, or not the capital. We just talked about that.
Starting point is 00:09:22 Guess the population of Colombo Sri Lanka. Let's see. Well, this is interesting because the area, there's two different ones. You got like the metro area, and then you have the municipal limits. And the area is a solid, I don't know. 6, 7 times 6.7. That was non-intentional. 6 to 8 times larger than the municipal limits population. Anyways, the capital within the municipal limits is 753,000 people, but the area population is 5.6 million.
Starting point is 00:10:04 So there you go. Sri Lanka, a place I don't know too much about. But considering my popularity in Pakistan, this could potentially be an untapped market. When I googled Elder Flower, you click on the Wikipedia article. It doesn't take you to an article on Elder Flower, although there is a sublink to Sambukis-N-I-G-R-A, which is a species complex of flowering plants. and it gets really Latin here but that's basically what elder flower or elder berry is
Starting point is 00:10:42 but the original article is an elder flower cordial. It's a soft drink made largely from a refined sugar and water solution and uses the flowers of the European elder. So apparently there's this soft drink going on that we're really
Starting point is 00:10:58 missing out on. In some countries the drink can be found as an aromatic syrup. So this concentrated squash that is mixed with the stiller sparkling water. Now, here's an interesting one. We got an article here in Squash. This is not a gourd of sorts.
Starting point is 00:11:14 This is not a racket game. This is a separate thing. Squash, also known as water juice in the northern Isles of Scotland. Water juice, what a name, is a non-alcoholic beverage with syrup used in beverage making. It's usually fruit flavored made from fruit juice, water, and sugar or sugar substitute. So it's just like sugar water. How did we give it the same squash? Why have I never heard about this?
Starting point is 00:11:39 Seems like it's mainly just a British thing. Very interesting. One other thing that came up, I was talking to my mother-in-law a couple minutes ago before we started recording, and we were talking about ways to have a good time. And I mentioned Ambien, and I just kind of mentioned it in passing. Something good to have with a glass of wine to really have a good night. and I realize I have no idea what Ambien is so don't tell her she's a pharmacist
Starting point is 00:12:11 that'd be embarrassing that her son-in-law doesn't know what Ambien is a prescription sedative hypnotic oh I like that that's a hyphenated word sedative hypnotic medication primarily used for the short-term treatment of insomnia it's a schedule four controlled substance due to potential for dependence and misuse I don't know.
Starting point is 00:12:32 It sounds pretty fun. So it kind of just like zonks you is my understanding. It's like melatonin, but even more high-powered. I got to tell you, I don't know how you guys react to melatonin. I got, what is it? Is it 10 milligram tablets, I think. And when I, dude, when I take a melatonin, I haven't, you know, melatonin is a relatively new introduction in my life.
Starting point is 00:12:58 I never really took it or knew. anything about it until I started dating Rachel. And so it's probably like the last three-ish to four years that I actually like know what melatonin is, have ever taken it. And really in the last year or so, it's become a little bit more consistent part of my routine. I don't think melatonin is a schedule for a drug so it's not addictive. However, what I wanted to say is this thing knocks me the F out. I don't think we said listening to discretion is advised when you listening to the Beantown podcast, even on Christmas Eve, although we'll try to keep it PG as much as possible. One will occasionally use some language number to this podcast is objectively terrible.
Starting point is 00:13:39 But yeah, man, when I, in fact, I've had times where I'm like going to go lie down in bed. And I get the melaton and I'm like, hey, hold up. If I pop this baby now, I got maybe 15 minutes before it's game over. And if there's like a NFL game on that I'm trying to watch or an episode of Wife Swap, then, you know, I got to set it like on my pillow and come back, circle back on it later because quite literally the second I take that melatonin, it's legitimately as soon as 15 minutes as long as I don't know, 20, 25 minutes, but I am going to get extremely sleepy and it's going to be game over. Now the melatonin is more of a short. acting short-term kind of deal for me because frequently i'll wake up you know three or four hours
Starting point is 00:14:35 after falling asleep and i don't feel sleepy at all but in that short uh short stint i feel glorious gloriously sleepy to cap this all off if you're curious babes in toyland is a 1961 american christmas musical film produced by walt disney pictures it stars ray bulger as barnaby don't know anything about him who's a vaudevillian guy. Tommy Sands, Annette Funicello, and Ed Wynn is the Toymaker. So it's based on, this is what I thought it was, based on a 1903 operative Babes and Toy Line, which I am, I wouldn't say I'm familiar with, but that's something I was aware of. There's also a 1934 film also titled Babes and Toiland starring Laurel and Hardy,
Starting point is 00:15:23 some of my favorites. I don't think that, you know, that Steve, Coogan and John C. Riley, Laurel and Hardy film, I think it was called Stan Alley. I don't, you know, the number really, like, took off, got as much traction as I think the studio thought it was going to when they made that film and released it. Like, it wasn't an Oscar contender or anything, but I thought that movie was really beautiful. It was like about the end days of Laurel and Hardy, particularly around like the health issues that Oliver Hardy experiences. And it was really beautiful. John C. Raleigh did a great job with it.
Starting point is 00:16:03 The prosthetics were amazing. It may have gotten nominated for, like, best makeup. Let's see if that's true or not. Last thing we're going to Google here, and then we're going to keep going here. I got some Christmas quizzes that I can invent. By the way, it was a 2018 film. I think I said three to four years ago.
Starting point is 00:16:20 But maybe that was about something else. Oh, John, you know, what good for John? John C. Rale, I'm not a big Golden Globes person generally, but the 76 Golden Globes Awards, John C. Raleigh was nominated for Best Actor, so that's pretty good. But it doesn't look like it got the Oscar nomination for Best Makeup, which kind of feels like a missed opportunity because his prosthetics and that were so good. If you haven't seen, you've got to go look at it. He looks just like him. It's crazy. We shouted out the Samsung Q2U series. I also want to give a shout out to our good friends at Home Pride of Oregon,
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Starting point is 00:18:51 So I'll just mention I'm sitting in an upstairs bedroom, no Maple by my side. but we did do some snuggling earlier on the couch as I was playing Toon Blast. I don't know if I have a great Maples Minute this week. Just, you know, it's Christmas. It's time to connect with your loved ones
Starting point is 00:19:10 and what better way to connect with your dog than to give her a pat and a scratch on the head. And maybe even Maple would endorse this. Here's Maple's Minute. Maybe even a slice of the roast beast. I always wondered, you know, Max is sitting there at the end of the end of the moment. end of how the Grinch still Christmas, eating the slice of the kind of fishes in loaf style,
Starting point is 00:19:30 roast beast, the Grinch keeps slicing it, and that baby just never, you know, decreases in volume. It's the gift that keeps on giving. But I always wondered, you know, at this table, we got, you know, kind of three different types of creatures. We got Hoos. We got the Grinch, who's kind of like a Gallum, you know, just like, you know, Gallum is to the Hobbits. I always wondered if the Grinch was like a former hoo that got corrupted or something by a ring of power. That's neither here nor there, but then we have Max. And so the three of them are eating. They're feasting on hoo hash and roast beast. And my thought was always like, where does this roast beast fit into the like equation? I know where it fits into the food chain. It's at the lowest option, lowest run on the ladder
Starting point is 00:20:17 for these three. But if you line up a who, a grinch, a dog with an antler on its head and a roast beast, which I guess it's just a beast before it's caught and roasted. What does this beast actually look like? Those are the answers we never got from Theodore Geisel. I think that's how you say his name.
Starting point is 00:20:40 Let's proceed here. Do I have a hot take this week? I don't know. I don't think I have anything great. We talked about my least favorite Christmas song last week. I don't know. I'm trying to think if there's anything really great here.
Starting point is 00:20:57 The only thing I can think of is, well, two extremely undercooked hot takes related to a Jeopardy Calendar, daily calendar trivia question from the other day. The question was about Paul McCartney and Rachel and I were going back and forth about Paul McCartney. Anyway, so here are my two half-baked hot takes that I only partially believe in. And you can't take me too seriously, but I'm just getting content out there for the holidays. You know, one is that Palma Cart, or the Beatles, not that great. Because I just listened on my run this morning to like half a war on drugs album.
Starting point is 00:21:37 And I don't know, man, you pit yellow submarine up against a deeper understanding. I know which one I'm picking. And yes, it's an extremely ignorant take when you consider context and history and timelines. advances in sonic achievement. It's a great phrase, sonic achievement. If we weren't already loaded on horse names for 2026, I would add that one in. We might come back to it as an honorable mention. But that's my first half-baked hot take today.
Starting point is 00:22:11 It's Christmas, right? It doesn't have to be that hot. My other one is, this one's actually one I believe in much more. Paul McCartney, simply having a wonderful Christmas time or whatever it's called, Christmas time. Just trash. Hate it. Uh, yeah, it's, it's like, it's a song you write in your head during a three minute shower. And it just, there's very little redeeming about it. I don't think that's a, I'm not like going out on a limb when I say that. I think a lot of people feel that way. However, I really, uh, am not a fan. And you think that's a, I'm not a fan. And you think that
Starting point is 00:22:53 repeats that much just not necessary I should have just made it into a Christmas jingle for Kmart or something okay I before we started recording I pulled up a few I went to quizzes I went to Sporkel.com good partner of the show from time to time and I just you know keyword search Christmas to see what would come up and I pulled up three now I didn't play these beforehand so I don't know we might have to go back to the drawing board to find a Christmas game that's actually fun that you and I, the listener, can play together. But we'll just play this by year. Hopefully you find at least one good one and then we can wrap because, you know, it's the holidays and there's a lot of podcasts you can be listening to
Starting point is 00:23:37 and I don't need to take up more of your time than is necessary. It's already going to be close to a half hour podcast and that's okay. So this, this Sporkel Quiz is titled Finish the Christmas Song. so at least we can play it together there's 32 titles here and we can just go one by one so it'll give you the start of the title and then we have to type in the rest of the title now one disadvantage for me is I only have one hand going here but I'm just going to do my best actually you know I don't even need to type we can just read them off and if it gets stumped that's okay um have yourself a merry little Christmas. We'll see, I'm still typing, but I think it's going to get tiresome to do all that
Starting point is 00:24:27 typing. Away in a manger. Do you hear what I hear? Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer. Hark, the Herald Angels sing. You don't see Hark that often, but in this context. It's the most did we do this one i don't think so it's the most wonderful time of the year this is not my favorite game we'll do a couple more well actually let me just uh let me just scan through this see if there's anything i'm like oh i don't know this because so far it's like yeah this is chump change this one starts in parentheses there's no place like and then i think that's home for the holidays uh Here that's, that's, oh, here's one. This is actually the last one in the list.
Starting point is 00:25:25 Here comes Santa Claus and then parentheses. We've got five words. What do we have here? Here comes Santa Claus. Is it right down Santa Claus way? Is that what it is? The guy had to name a street after himself or did like the elves do that? Right down Santa Claus Way.
Starting point is 00:25:44 That's not what it is. So we actually got one we didn't know. here comes santa claus i want to google it because now i'm curious write down santa claus lane it's not away it's a lane that's an interesting thing how we have so many words at least here in america for like streets you guys ever think about this and there's somewhere it's like okay this is more like what you name it refers to what it actually is supposed to be like a boulevard right that's like a four lane road essentially maybe it doesn't have to be four but two but it's got like a like a green space median in the
Starting point is 00:26:21 middle that's what a boulevard is supposed to be but you talk about like roads streets lanes avenues ways parkways that's a really interesting concept when someone is like building out a city and naming streets how do they decide what they want to do It's interesting, too, even like around where I live in Chicago. I mean, we live near Irving Park Road. But if you go the half mile south, it's Addison Street. And then you go another half mile is Belmont Avenue. And then you go further south and you got Fullerton Parkway.
Starting point is 00:27:07 So even you're talking like the main half mile streets in Chicago, I just gave you four different ones. a north of us it's Montrose Avenue right so what do we have we have an avenue we have a road we have a street we have a and maybe another avenue that's Belmont right anyways it's that's kind of a fascinating urban planning question if anyone knows anything about that email us because I'm legitimately curious I find that to be interesting the other thing you know we have family members who live in northern Wisconsin and I'm sure this isn't just localized to the town they live in but like 20 years ago there's a big like
Starting point is 00:27:51 renaming project where they took all these roads that had you know in you know very like individual names named after like people's last names or whatever and they created their own like numbering system so that there are certain roads that are like 20 and three fourths 22 and a quarter I think I think one of my uncles lives on like 20 23 fourths or something like that but my question is there's got to be ordered to this right they got to be measuring something but it's just I guess to make it easier to like
Starting point is 00:28:21 navigate or plot something up but now with Google Maps I feel like we can go back to just the regular names I don't know it's kind of bizarre I think it's a little bit strange obviously they did it for a particular reason but it seems kind of weird
Starting point is 00:28:37 to live on 18th and 7thth's Boulevard there's no way that 18th and 7th is a boulevard okay if I finished a Christmas song was kind of a dud here's a Christmas trivia field quiz can you name the answers to the Christmas team questions and reveal the entire trivia field there's 35 this could be
Starting point is 00:28:58 too easy we'll see based off of this first question what colors Rudolph knows red excuse me where does Santa Claus live North Pole killing it so far how does Santa laugh Ho, ho, ho. Oh, here we go.
Starting point is 00:29:17 We mentioned this last week. What gift did my second, sorry, my true love gift to me on the second day of Christmas? Two turtle doves, right? What the heck you're supposed to do with those birds? I'm going to poop everywhere. It wasn't the turtle doves?
Starting point is 00:29:32 Oh, what was it? Shoot. On the first day of Christmas, my true gave me a partridge and a pear tree. Two French hens? is that the hens? I thought it was the turtle those were two.
Starting point is 00:29:49 Huh. Doves? I don't know. We can go a different route, though. A man and women are obliged to kiss of the meet under what plant mistletoe? We were watching the episode of The Office the other day where David Keckner,
Starting point is 00:30:03 his character, Todd Packer shows up and he hangs mistletoe from his belt buckle, so it's hanging over his, you know what. It's a good move. Who did the ghost of Christmas past haunt, Scrooge? The night before Christmas never mentions which reindeer. Rudolph, I assume. He's one of those new-age reindeer's.
Starting point is 00:30:26 What street did a Santa Claus miracle occur? 34th Street, right? The three kings bore gifts of myrrh, frankincense, and gold. Gold frankincense and myrrh. What did a magical top hat bring to life? Frosty? I think. What is it Grinch's Dog's name?
Starting point is 00:30:47 We already mentioned at Max. Which Christmas Carol has a parody claiming Batman smells? Jingle bells, I suppose. Hard to spell with one finger. What Christmas Carol contains the lyrics, Fla, la la la la la la la la. It surely must be. What is the best selling Christmas single of all time?
Starting point is 00:31:08 All I want for Christmas is you, maybe? Let's see. it's not that i even put down my phone to type it with two hands what does santa give to people on the naughty list cole or christmas carol has the lyrics perempa pumpum-pum there's a great uh let's end it there because this this one's getting a little bit sweaty um a great and by great i mean terrible lady gaga um christmas song in fact let's let's say let's let's let's finish up with that we had one more quiz to potentially play but you know these are getting kind of stale lady gaga christmas song lyrics let's just in the spirit of christmas let's finish up
Starting point is 00:31:57 this is uh the lady gaga christmas tree song from 2008 so this was right when she was like probably like just broke onto the scene for real because she had just done whatever that album was that had like poker face um and you know telephone i think something like that i remember listening to this just over and over and over again on the bus to detassling with like the fm radio in the front not this particular song but just lady gaga in 2008 uh i can't remember what her other lady in fact last thing i wanted to do before you read these christmas lyrics what album was that and what songs were on it because i feel like you know you get no It's been 17 years since then, and it's easy to forget what, like, what, like, kind of early pop era
Starting point is 00:32:48 Lady Gaga was like and what songs she had, because she's really just kind of, like, done so much, you know, over the years and evolved to a certain extent as an artist. But the album is her, okay, so it's her debut studio album called The Fame, released in 2008. here's the track listing let's at least see how many songs you know just dance classic love game i can't i can't remember how that one goes but i feel like i know it paparazzi poker face and then i think the rest of them are ones i personally don't know but there were four just big ones right off the bat so good for gaga but in the same year so this is when she was brand new She released a song called Christmas Tree, which I think over the years we've talked about at some point.
Starting point is 00:33:48 But here to close our Christmas special, and I know it was pretty low-key, almost like I took an ambient before we started recording. I apologize. I just have a lot of things in my hopper right now, and Bean Town podcast, Christmas special was not my number one priority, if I'm being completely transparent with all of you. but I hope you can, one, I appreciate that you took time to listen to my show, and two, I hope you can appreciate the time that I set aside to record 35 minutes of Beantown for you all this Christmas season, and we'll look ahead to New Year's Eve next week. So here, to read the lyrics, to close the Christmas special from Lady Gaga's 2008 single Christmas Tree, here is yours truly, Quinn David Furness.
Starting point is 00:34:39 And we're just going to do it. Ra pum-pum. Sorry, we'll start over. Rapa-pum-pum. Rapa-pum-pum. Rapa-pum-pum. Light me up, put me on top. Let's fa la-la-l-l-l-la-la.
Starting point is 00:34:58 Light me up, put me on top. Let's fa la-la-la-la-la-la-la. The only place you'll want to be is underneath my Christmas tree. The only place you'll want to be is underneath my Christmas tree Light me up, put me on top Let's falala la la la la la la la la la la la Light me up, put me on top
Starting point is 00:35:19 Let's fa la la la la la la la la la la Ho ho ho Ra pum pumpum Under the mistletoe Rapapa pum Yes everybody knows Rapa pum pum pum We'll take her clothes off
Starting point is 00:35:36 Rapa pum pum yes if you want us to we will you oh oh a christmas my christmas tree is delicious oh oh a christmas my christmas tree is delicious let you up put you on top let's fall la la la la la la let's go let you up put you on top let's follow la la la la la la let's go Ho-ho-ho-ho, rapa-pum-pum. Under the mistletoe, rapa-pum-pum. Yes, everybody knows, rapa-pam-pum. We'll take off our clothes, rapa, pum-pum. Yes, if you want us to, we will, you, I, I, I, I, I, I.
Starting point is 00:36:20 Oh, oh, a Christmas, my Christmas tree's delicious. Oh, oh, a Christmas, my Christmas tree is delicious. Hear, hear, hear, rapa-pum-pum. The best time of the year, rapa-pum-pum. Take off my stockings. We are rapa-pum-pum. Outspreading Christmas cheer. Rapa-pum-pum.
Starting point is 00:36:41 Yes, if you want us to, we will you. Oh, oh, a Christmas. My Christmas tree is delicious. Oh, oh, a Christmas, my Christmas tree is delicious. Space cowboy, Lady Gaga, Lady Gaga. And she goes, oh. Space cowboy, Lady Gaga, Lady Gaga. Yeah. Here we go. Cherry, cherry. Boom, boom.
Starting point is 00:37:06 From all of us at the Bean Town podcast, I hope you're having a wonderful Christmas. Stay safe. Stay sane. My name is Quinn Furness, and I'll check in on you next time. Bye-bye.

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