Beantown Podcast - Christmas Eve Trivia w/ Dogs (12242024 Beantown Podcast)

Episode Date: December 24, 2024

Quinn, Maple, and Bailey come to you LIVE to play some Christmas trivia games

Hey, what's going on? It's Quinn David Furness. Welcome to my show. Quinn David Furness presents the Beantown podcast for Christmas Eve, Tuesday, December 24th, 2024. What's going on? What's happening? How are you? My name is Quinn and I am being flanked today. Great steak. Even better co-host flanked by Maple and Ms. Bailey aka Ms. Girl. They are helping me out running the production today. We got the laptop going, playing our intro music. I'm recording this directly into my iPhone. No headphones, no cap. Just holding it in front of my mouth, chatting it up. Thought the phone was charging. Oh, there it is. So hopefully we're good on audio quality. I know last week was a little

bit tough during our walk, so I appreciate you hanging in there with us, but I wanted to get in a little quickie Christmas celebration episode for everyone. We'll have some Christmas trivia for you and not much else. You know what? Everyone deserves a week off. Sometimes two, including the Samson Q2U series. My vow to you guys as we wrap season seven of the Beantown Podcast here in a week or two is to never take a week off but in a sense I'm taking a week off. I am the creator, host, and chief dog watcher of this program. We got Maple here to the right. She's lucky enough that Grandma Grandpa let her sit on the couch as long as there's a blanket underneath. So she's snuggled up. She's got a nice little bandana. Auntie Samantha got her a Grinch plushie that she whipped out this morning, so that's

been added to her collection. Earlier there was a hedgehog in play. I think from my grandparents or my brothers, one of them got maple a hedgehog. Thank you for that. And then down on the floor, we got Bailey, Miss Girl. She's snoozing. They're both snoozing. Maple's still anxious, getting up every 30 seconds ago to do a quick lap to see if mom has come back from Auntie's house.

But we're hanging out. We're doing podcasts. Earlier we were eating some bread, meat, and cheese thanks to whoever made a jewel run and picked that up. There was salami. There was provolone. There's cheddar. There's turkey. There's all sorts of stuff. So we've been, we've been having, we've been eating good in the neighborhood, as they would say at Arby's. And yeah, we're just hanging out until people get back. We might go to Grandma's later, TBD. Have some borscht, which is a nice soup of sorts. Let's read about borscht. Don't even ask me how to spell it. I would guess, well I was gonna guess and then I just googled it. It's b-o-r-s-c-h-t. It's a sour soup. There's one thing I love. It's sour soups. Made with per

wikipedia.org. Borscht is a sour soup made with meat stock, vegetables, and seasonings. I always thought it was made out of blood, but it seems like maybe it's a meat stock. Borscht has a signature red coloration to it, and maybe that comes from beets. Let's see. In English the word borscht is most often associated with the soup's variant of Ukrainian origin made with red beet roots as one of the main ingredients which give the dish its distinctive red color. So there it is. My thing with borscht, it's not that it's got a bad flavor to it, although I'm not really a sour soup guy myself. I just find oftentimes when I have sour

or when I have a borscht, it's oftentimes just very kind of thin. There's not a lot of other stuff going on in there. I'm a much bigger stew guy or a chowder. I like when, you know, if I'm eating soup, I like when there's a lot going on in there. Give me some potatoes some peas some carrots assorted beans

Even couscous, but give me say, you know, when you just kind of got your thin soup With you know, one or two things in it there's just not a lot of body and then you just feel like you're just drinking drinking your supper and that's not as Exciting or fulfilling to me, but I don't complain about free borscht. I'll tell you that much right now. My co-hosts have left. Bailey went upstairs first, and now Maple has followed her. So now we're all alone, crossing our fingers that no one is peeing in the front room. I want to mention that listener discretion is advised when you're listening to this program, although it's Christmas Eve. I'm gonna try to keep

it clean here for the kids. I imagine you're all kind of sitting around your fireplace on Christmas morning, you know, everyone's excited. The kids rush downstairs and why are they so excited? Well, it's because a new episode of Quinn David Furness Presents the Beantown podcast has just dropped and I understand that that can be, you know, very exciting, very thrilling for the kids in terms of top Christmas, you know, exciting moments. It's got to be a new Beantown, presents from Santa Claus, and when you get a box and there's a puppy in there, hopefully you poke some air holes in it.

And I don't know, Christmas dinner and playing with your new toys. Those would be like the top five exciting Christmas morning things you could have. So you're welcome, you know, coming in hot here. Okay, we got the co-hosts coming back, the listener discretion advised, and occasionally some language. And the podcast is objectively terrible. We got the co-hosts looking very uncertain of themselves. Here comes Maple back on the couch and Miss Girl coming over here looking for pets. There you go. Interview with the dog. Anyone? Hmm? You got anything, Bailey? Hi, Bailey. Nope, just a tail wag. Anything from you, Maple? You got anything, buddy?

Nope, just a sniff and maybe, maybe I still got some salami on my fingers. I don't know, you can tell me. I want to say Merry Christmas to, yeah, in you're wondering this is like a put this episode on Two times speed and blow through it kind of one. We are gonna do some trivia in a second here. It'll just be Christmas Eve trivia Trivia is not about Christmas Eve is about Christmas, but that's just what we're doing because I don't want to work anymore this weekend Shout out to our good friends in Pakistan, Hyderabad, Karachi, Khyber Pass. We're going to check the Santa tracker in a second here. Maybe he's in Pakistan right now. It's 4 p.m. exactly, central time. So eight hours ahead is where Santi Claus should

be. And thank you for making us see 112th ranked comedy podcast in the great Islamic Republic of Pakistan. The question is, does Santa, and we'll take our bets here, it's 4 p.m. before we Google it, we'll take our bets where I think Santa is. I nailed it. I'm one for one today, although not completely, but it was like nine in the morning or something, and I was like, hey, where do you think Santa is? And we all took guesses in the kitchen. And it was, I guess, Incheon, South Korea.

And it was Usan, South Korea. And knowing, you know, South Korea is like 27 square miles big. So I think I basically nailed it. Bullseye. I know my time. So let's see if I can put my money where my mouth is. Where is Santa Claus right now? My question is does Santa always strike at midnight or is he more of you know flexible from about 10 p.m. than 5 a.m. kind of guy? What do you think is the earliest and the latest it would be weird to see Santa? I mean I think

when you're a little kid you probably got a bedtime closer to eight or nine but I remember being a little kid I was so excited that I you know never fell asleep till probably closer to ten or eleven. So I think if you're Santa you probably don't want to come before eleven because it seems like if you go to sleep at nine you're excited for two hours when you finally weigh yourself out, and you finally sleep by 11, then it's probably safe to make your move. On the flip side, I also remember waking up relatively early, you know, everyone else is asleep.

You wake up at like 5.30 probably, run down the stairs to see what's in your stockings. There was always one group gift that Santa Santa brought us and it was exciting to see what that would be. I think from, you know, I don't remember all the different ones. Pogo stick one time. I know we had like a card table. I don't know if that was a Christmas gift or what. There was also like a combo foosball ping pong table we got one time.

I don't again don't know if that was a Christmas morning thing but that was always very exciting to see what that kind of big group gift was going to be. I think you know if you're santi claus you want to have it wrapped up by five. So that gives you an 11 to 5 window that's six hours to hit your target. That seems fairly generous, if I'm being completely honest. So now that it's 4.03 PM, okay, we got to actually take our take your bets here. Email us, Bean Tom Podcast at yahoo.com. It gets a lot tougher when you get to this time of day, because you're just looking at a huge landmass of Europe and Africa and the Middle East that has a there's a lot of latitudinal action going on from north to south L A T I T U D I N A L and he could be anywhere I mean st. Petersburg is probably on top of I I don't know, Cairo or something.

So it's just tough. That's not completely accurate, but it's probably pretty close. Before I even look at that, let's maybe this is cheating, but let's see how close East West wise. Let's zoom way out on the big map here are St. Petersburg and Cairo. I mean, you know what, when I first said it I was like, oh that can't be right. And then now I'm looking at a big zoomed out here. Let's do Cairo to St. Petersburg driving directions first and foremost. We'll see

what that's like. Could you actually make that drive? I think it's got to be possible I would imagine. Yeah, you go up through war-torn Syria, Georgia, Turkey, and then into Russia. It's a 62-hour drive, but I'm looking at it. I got these two cities highlighted here. I think, gosh, you could probably like look up the cities on Wikipedia and it would tell you their exact up the cities on Wikipedia and it would tell you their exact coordinates. I think St. Petersburg is west of Cairo. Oh, this is too close to call. I promise for coming back to the Santa Tracker. But this is a fascinating one. You know what? I'm saying I'm two for two on geography today. We haven't even done the Santa tracker yet because first off I nailed the country that Santa was in and second off I was like oh these two cities here let's come up with

some random ass example at the top my head of two cities that are probably similar longitude and uh I you know I don't mean to toot my own horn all that much here I'm sorry but I gotta take some pride me, of St. Petersburg by less than a degree. I'm taking a victory lap on that one. I don't even know how many is it. Still 60 minutes and 60 seconds in the coordination stuff. I don't know how that how that works I never got too into coordinates to be completely honest with you But I'm saying two for two on that now. This is gonna be the toughest one To go three for three on because of everything we just mentioned. It's four or five. Where do we think santi Claus is?

So it's approximately eight hours away from central time zone here i feel like i mean this is the example we just used but like in saint petersburg that's about eight hours right because i think london is like maybe maybe saint petersburg is more like nine maybe ten i think london is six but europe's pretty small maybe like in eastern europe but then you go all the way down through Eastern Europe and into Africa and it gets really tough. I mean it could be like Cape Town, it could be Rwanda, it could be you know Libya, or you could go up into like I don't know, Chechia or Helsinki. I just gotta take a guess.

This is, I mean, this is gonna be a shot in the dark. Eight hours. And that was just kind of a little strip of a band there, a longitudinal band. And maybe that's not even right. I don't even know if those places are eight hours ahead. I'm gonna go ahead and guess, you know what, because I've been there I feel more comfortable with it. I'm gonna guess Santa is over

Kigali, Rwanda right now. Let's see where Santa is. It's the official Google Santa tracker. Take your guesses. 4 o 7 p.m. Central Time. Where do you think Santa Claus is? Write this second. Email us, beanthompodcasts at yahoo.com. Let us know how close or how far you got. This thing is taking a long ass time to load. Oh, it's got noises. You know what? I don't feel that bad about this.

He's in mmmjaminachad. That's N apostrophe D-J-A-M-E-N-A. Baby, tonight the DJ's got us falling in love again Baby tonight the DJ's got us falling in love in love So dance, dance like it's the last last night of your life won't get you right so looks like he kind of does he swoops in on Eastern Africa Africa goes down south through South

Africa and then up the West Coast and he's kind of been all over the place looks like he's just trying to do this tracker just has him hitting one country or like one city per country and that's how it shows this. So, oh he's already out at Njimini, he's going to Niger, Niami and Mali and all that stuff, however you say these towns. So, you know what, we weren't so far off. I feel okay with that. He's going up to Northern Africa soon and then Western Europe and Scandinavia and then he'll make his big trek across the Atlantic

Okay, so that's your Santa tracker. I don't even know how we got on there I did want to play a little bit of a little bit more Christmas trivia for you here, which we have in a second. After I mentioned what we're drinking today, it's Christmas Eve and we wanted a nice wintry beverage. So we naturally have a Linen Kugels Juicy Peach, refreshing and tart with natural peach flavor. Hmm. Bought a variety pack at Binnie's. Because I wanted something for the holiday week that I felt

you know multiple people would enjoy and not just like a something crazy that I was only gonna drink and just be drunk all day. And we're also we're taking the edge off that with a little bit of Trader Joe's single malt. I don't know if that's right. It just sounds good though. Scotch whiskey. Mmm tasty. $15 or so at your local Trader Joe's. I also want to, since we got the computer in front of us here, I want to mention our sponsors here. It's Christmas

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hymns right away in a major silent night. Mary did you know? I like it came upon a midnight clear quite a bit. A little town of Bethlehem, that's good too. I don't know, dogs, what do you guys think? They are snoozing. It's long day, long day, ready for Santa Claus. Hopefully you get something cool in your stockings. Dude, when I have kids and I gotta fill up his stocking, that's a lot of pressure. You don't wanna mess it up. You gotta remember to not get too drunk on Christmas Eve and fall asleep and forget to

do the stockings. That would be a travesty of justice. Then you gotta make up a whole sob story about how Santa broke his ankle climbing down the chimney and couldn't finish delivering presents, but that he might swing back around lunch if you go stay in your room for 30 minutes, but gotta wait for a couple hours because Dad, you know, Santa's gotta hangover and he's got to sleep for a little bit All that stuff Maybe we'll just let mom do it. Not sure or maple maple could do it. Hi, buddy

Okay, that was those were our sponsors. I Did just want to mention speaking of faux hawks and crazy haircuts you know, I Am on both Twitter or X and Blue Sky. Blue Sky I'm at White Buns and I thought we had Beantown Podcasts too but I tried to log in under that name and said you don't have an account so we're looking into it. But you know who recently left Twitter for Blue Sky, you know, all alone? What I'm trying to say is they're only on Blue Sky, not on Twitter anymore. He's our good friend of the show, Scott Farrell, who if you have no idea who that is, maybe you're new to the program, we're not

gonna launch into a whole backstory. Basically, the very strange gay white individual from Rockford that I was semi conned into playing an opera for when I was in high school being the accompanist and he has since moved out to Seattle he wrote a autobiography called Tales, Tears, and Triumph from the Stage. I don't believe you can purchase it online anymore, but I have a copy. Excuse me. And good friend of the show, Matt Fiedler, has a copy. We exchanged it for as Christmas gifts probably five years ago or so. More than that, I guess, at this point, six or seven. But the reason I bring up Scott is he still posts quite a lot on his blues guy.

And he's currently rocking one of his signature red mohawks and there's a lot that we'll do for you over here at Cuts by Q but if you come in and you show a picture of Scott Farrell I don't know if I got enough Red Dye 40 to pull that look off so I can point you to the the leather archives up in Rogers Park a block away from my old apartment where Scott used to frequent per his autobiography but I can't help you too much with that haircut that's a little bit I would have to charge you double and it would look terrible I don't know what do you I would need some hair gel I've got hairspray. Good morning Baltimore.

It's not even how that goes, but it is what it is. But I don't have the thick mucousy gel, I think that would be required to pull off that red mohawk. Plus it could be culturally insensitive to Native Americans and on Christmas I just don't feel comfortable doing that. Okay we're gonna wrap it here with some Christmas trivia games per sporkle.com we've done this a few times on the show before. I don't have any crazy games this is just very basic Christmas stuff. Let's see how well we can do

and uh... i was going to try to hold my phone down here said i could have two hands to type i'm not sure how well it's going to go try to balance it on my big ass belly belly that's the name of the girl from uh... summer i turned pretty classic christmas story of love, triumph tears, trials, and triumph from the stage.

So first up, yeah, I don't want to play this. I don't want to play this timed. That's never good for the show. Practice mode. What? Why can't we play untimed? I don't want to do this in 60 seconds. I know there's only eight of them, but that's a lot of pressure. Okay, we have to restart. So play along with us at home. Let's see if we can get Santa's eight reindeer in eight seconds. So I think Rudolph is one of them now. I know he's a bonus. He's the ninth. Okay, so there's Dasher, Donner, Comet, Blitzen, Cupid, Vixen, Dasher, oh he said Dasher. Dasher and Donner and Comet and Cupid, Joseph, shoot. Okay, we got a regroup here. We got 35 seconds. You know Dasher and Dancer, Prancer?

There we go. Okay, I had to think of the song. We got it in 30 seconds. So if you're able to figure that out through the chaos, Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen, and Rudolph. Okay, that was one. 12 Days of Christmas. This one I don't think I can actually get because I really hate this song. So, you know, the whatever the the sequential type of song, whatever you would say, builds on each other. On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me that's a partridge in a pear tree. Now this one is having you, so you have to do it in order. I would much rather prefer to just, if I list 12 regardless of order, I get it. Two turtle doves,

is that right? Okay, three. See this, I'm already on three and I'm just like, yeah, don't really know. I know five is golden rings. Golden rings. Three. You know what? There's a maids of milking. I know that's the one. No, make maids of milking. Let's just put that in for each one until we get it. Okay, eight maids and milking. Three, there's dancers dancing. Let's do the same thing. We're just literally copy and pasting and clicking on each one until it works. Oh, it's not dancers dancing. That's embarrassing.

I could have sworn there were some dancers dancing in that song. I guess I was thinking about the reindeer. There are lordsaping, however, which sounds very choreographed. Lord's a leaping. How many is that? Ten Lord's a leaping. It feels pretty embarrassing to me that I can't get three and four. I thought when I started this I was like, oh, I'm not going to do very well at this, but I think I could at least get like up through five. But uh not the case so far. Geese? Geese of laying? Is that one of them? Six geese of laying. Okay okay. Drummers drumming? I think that might be 12.

Okay, okay, drummers drumming, I think that might be 12. The reason I think that's the case is because in one of the Office Christmas episodes towards the end, when Ed Helms is getting Ellie Kemper, the 12 days of Christmas, the last one, the big like finale is the drummers drumming. So that's why I know that one. Okay, we have Partridge, two turtle does, five rings, six geese, eight maids, ten lords, twelve drummers. Isn't there like a Barron's Barron's Barron Trump doing something? I don't know. We're

at seven out of twelve so far. I feel like I should be able to get more than this. Is there a hen? Is there a hen involved? Is there a hen in any of this? Can anyone tell me what Christmas is all about? No hens, it seems, unfortunately. We got the maids milking.

We have the lords leaping. We have the drummers drumming. I don't know, guys guys I'm giving up. I think rather than sit here for another two minutes agonizing it might be better for us to just find a new quiz. Three French heads, hens, four calling birds. I don't even feel bad about the calling birds. I don't remember the calling birds at all. I don't think about the calling birds in any capacity. Seven swans, nine ladies dancing, so there's ladies dancing and lords leaping, pipers piping. I don't feel that bad about it. I hate that song.

Okay here's one, Christmas Bunker. So this one I think if you miss, if you miss one you got to go back to the start So there's 15 questions. We'll see how far we can get play along with us at home. What animals pull Santa's sleigh? Well, that's reindeer. It's not rabbits not turtle does not hedgehogs. These are multiple choice Questions. Okay, we're one for one Need some more juicy peach if I'm gonna make it to the end of this bunker. Okay, number two. According to the song Santa Claus is coming to town, how many times does Santa check his list? Once, twice, thrice, or never. I think he's checking it twice. He's gonna find out

who's naughty or nice. So far, I think Maple and Bailey are on the nice list. They've had some tiffs in the last three days, but they're doing their best. Now they're just snoozing, listening to the podcast. This is what the holidays are all about. Sitting here, the dog to your left, the dog to your right, recording a podcast, the dog to your left, the dog to your right, recording a podcast, interviews with a dog. This is, this is, you can't beat this. Borscht on tap. What if you had a situation, what if you had like a Ukrainian bar and you got 10 taps and the first nine are beers, beers, I don't know why I said beer as beers, and then the 10th one one was just borscht you could get it right out of the spigot hmm then it would have to be really be a thin soup you couldn't have

any potatoes or anything probably not even beets in there he says got to make it out of the tap or else he's gonna clog one of my favorite kinds of dances okay you guys remember, was it progressive like before their current ad campaign? I don't know who it was. Let's look this up. We got the computer in front of us. Let's pause this quiz. We'll come back to the bunker. What I'm getting at, there is an insurance commercial I think it was where the monkeys were clogging I can't really explain what that was monkeys they're all like in a row I think they're

chimpanzees monkeys clogging in commercial I think it's for insurance they were in like a lab and people were observing them and they were dancing. Oh, it was Geico? No, that's something else. Maybe clogging isn't the right word. We needed to use monkeys dancing. Let's just try that. Clogging was, it's a river dance actually, river dance. And of course, because I'm so bad at typing with one hand, we currently have Mon Lees with an L dancing river commercial. Here it is. Irish dancing monkeys. Okay. That was a commercial for something. That clip I just watched was just like a rehash, a repeat, like five second clip of them dancing, and so is the second one. I don't know where this came from. That's all I really want, because I knew what the clip was like in my head, but I just wanted to know where it came from. I don't know. Email us, Bean Town Podcasts at yahoo.com

if you remember the origin of this video. And if you don't know, just go Arby's is what it was. That's what Google seems to think, that it was an Arby's commercial. I don't remember that at all. I don't know. Yeah, if you don't know, it's just YouTube Monkeys Riverdancing commercial. You'll find.

Not the actual commercial, but just the dancing portion. Okay, Bunker Question 3, which is not a name of the spirit that visits Ebenezer Scrooge in a Christmas carol? Christmas Past, Christmas Present, Christmas Your, or Christmas Yet to Come? Well, I've never actually read a Christmas carol. I know there's Past, I think never actually read a Christmas Carol. I know there's past. I think there's present. I don't know if your is, I think that sounds like before, so that would be the same as

past and yet to come sounds like future. So I'm going to guess your? Got it. Okay. Question four by Maple. Have fun up there. It's pretty quiet. There's nothing happening, dude.

Celebrated in the UK and some former English colonies, Boxing Day was when gifts were given to what group of people? Extended family, friends, servants, or elders? Oh man, this one I actually don't know. Boxing Day. I thought that was a Floyd Mayweather thing. Friends, servants. Well, you wouldn't give gifts to servants, would you? Elders? You know what I'm gonna do when I don't know an answer? I'm gonna admit defeat but rather than guessing because you have to start over if you do that, I don't wanna do that. We're just gonna Google it. Boxing day was once a day to go and I take those in need. Okay, is that servants? Are your servants the one who are

in need? In service positions. So I guess it is servants. Okay, there you go. I thought, well, why would you give money to your servants? But that's apparently what it was. Number four, which movie does not take place during Christmas? Die Hard, Home Alone, Love Actually, or The Breakfast Club? I think Breakfast Club, they're in school. And the other three are quintessential Christmas films, so it's gotta be Breakfast Club. Number five, or six. Six, what does Clarence's odd body gain at the end of It's a Wonderful Life?

A halo, a pair of wings, access to heaven, or permanence as a human being? I think every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings. That's B, pair of wings, final answer. Lock it in Howie. 7. Which of these items was not a gift presented by the three kings at the Nativity? Oh geez, where is the Samson Q2U series? When you need a good thing, I'm an expert. The answer choices are gold, myrrh, frankincense, or silver. And we're of course going with one of my favorite elements, AG, silver. Is silver AG? Sounds right, doesn't it? Who knows? We'll never know.

I was going to memorize the periodic table of elements when I was like 23 because I was bored at work and then I found a way to make money online instead and I never looked back. Number eight. What is the secret message Ralphie gets with his decoder pin in a Christmas story? Brush your teeth, eat your vitamins, drink your old routine, or go to bed. I actually don't know this one. I've seen A Christmas Story before, but not for a long time. It's not like a Mount Rushmore Christmas film for me, like it is for other people. I'm gonna guess Brush Your Teeth, but I don't know. And there's people out there who are going nuts.

It is Be Sure to Drink Your Ovaltine. Okay, that's the second one we didn't know and would have guessed wrong. Number nine, oh, this, let's see if we can even remember this because I think I already forgot. How many Gisellein will your true love send to you? Six, seven, eight, or nine? Six Gisellein, eight Gisellein.

I don't know, we're Googling it again. How many Gieselane? I think it was eight? Was it eight Gieselane? Six Gieselane? Well, that's embarrassing. We're cheating a lot on this quiz, but we just want to get to the end. Oh, we're going to run out of time.

Shoot. According to the Gospels, Jesus was born in which historic city? Jerusalem, Galilee, Nineveh, or Bethlehem at Bethlehem? Robert May created what classic character in 1939? Santa, Rudolph, Mrs. Claus, or Frosty? I'm gonna guess Frosty the Snowman. We're gonna run out of time before we even get the chance. Oh no, it's Rudolph before we even get the chance to finish. In the song, I saw mommy kissing Santa Claus. Where did mommy tickle Santa Claus? Under his beard, his nose,

armpits, or his belly. I have no idea. Now we're gonna have to guess because I don't have time to Google anymore. I hate, can we play untimed? For God's sakes, nope, you can't. Sporkle, you used to be able to do that. I'm gonna say under his beard.

Okay, that's right. French families traditionally serve a cake that resembles which holiday symbol? Pine tree, Yule log, Santa Claus, or's right. French families traditionally serve a cake that resembles which holiday symbol? Pine tree, Yule log, Santa Claus, or a present? 30 seconds left, MacGruber. A log, that's a Yule log. What was the first US state to declare Christmas an official holiday?

South Carolina, New York, Alabama, Vermont. Just Googling everything now. It's Alabama. I just want to see the last question. You lads visit children and leave presents or potatoes in which country? Iceland, Germany, Finland, or Ukraine? And the answer is Iceland.

And, uh, ashamedly, I didn't finish the Google search. I had no idea on that one until the time ran out so we successfully failed this quiz because Sporkles just got terrible Christmas cheer and they make you play this in 30 seconds bullshit excuse me bullshit for Christmas there it Okay, I'm off Sporkle. That was three quizzes. We did pretty terribly. We got the reindeer. We got like seven of the twelve days of Christmas and then we got like half the bunkers. That's what I have for you guys. Gotta go get cleaned up

here. I think I'm going to grandma's house with Maple to have some borscht fairly soon here. Right Maple? You like borscht? You like beets? You know what a beet is? Yeah, it should be tasty. Well yeah, I wanted to do this today so that I could get you something for Christmas morning when you wake up. I know you're all looking forward to this. A fresh bean town. And we will probably be hitting you up in the new year. New Year's Day is next Wednesday. I don't know if we'll record by Tuesday of next week.

Then we're starting to get all off on our weekly schedule. So guys, this might be a rap on 2024. If we Renee rap on 2024, if we don't see you, or if I don't, if you don't hear me until 2025. Thank you for supporting my show Quinn David Ferns presents the Beantown podcast. Thank you for making us one of the top 500 podcasts on the north side of Chicago. I hope wherever you are, you are having a great Christmas, a great Boxing Day, give some gifts to your servants and let them know how much they

mean to you. Enjoy some borscht, say hi to Santa Claus when he flies over your city, whether it's in Jemina or St. Petersburg and Cairo at the same time, because they're a less than a degree apart. That's what I got for you guys. Let's cue up our outro music here. I hope everyone is having a great holiday season. I hope you stay safe. I hope you stay sane. I'll check in on you guys next time. Merry Christmas. Hey buddies. Hello big buddy buddy hello little buddy what are you guys doing?

you're probably getting pretty hungry huh? pretty hungry look at that little paw what are you doing? you can't come over here go back to your blanket buddy buddy goodbye buddy you're gonna wagging your tail like a in your tail. Go back to your blanket. See Bailey's

lying down. I'm lying down. Why don't you lay down? What? What? You said you didn't come on the podcast? I gave you a chance to interview the dog. Depression. Christmas depression, that's what you got. You need to go see Lucy at the psychiatrist's for five cents. Too bad you don't work. Tough. Tough, Napey. Man, that's some good scotch, huh? Ready for Santa Claus? Uh huh. Ready for Christmas Claus? Uh-huh. Ready for Christmas.

That's pretty cool. Alright, from all of us here at the Beantown Podcast, Bailey, Maple, my name is QueenDavidFurnace. See ya! Bye.