Bullseye's 2021 Holiday Spectacular: Ronnie Spector, Sy Smith and Jane Lynch

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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🗓️ 14 December 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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The Bullseye Holiday Spectacular is here! We are revisiting some of our favorite Holiday interviews with different guests from over the years. First, we kick things off with Ronnie Spector. She talks with us about her work with The Ronnets and her fond love for Christmas music. We are then joined by singer/songwriter Sy Smith, who shares which classic holiday tune changed her life. We close things out by revisiting our interview with the one and only Jane Lynch. In 2016, she talked with us about her holiday album A Swingin' Little Christmas and some of her holiday traditions growing up. Happy Holidays!

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0:00.0	I'm Jesse Thorne.
0:01.6	Ronnie Spector loved Christmas as a little girl,
0:04.9	but she wasn't going on sleigh rides through the snow.
0:07.7	She was a city kid,
0:09.0	and she had a question that pretty much
0:10.6	every Christmas celebrating city kid has.
0:14.2	So I asked my father, I said,
0:15.5	we don't have a chimney.
0:16.9	Where's Santa? How is he gonna get here?
0:18.4	I was so upset and frustrated.
0:20.2	And he said, Ronnie, Santa is coming down the fire escape.
0:23.8	I was so happy Jesse, I ran to my room.
0:26.6	I put the covers over my head,
0:28.7	and I fell fast asleep.
0:30.4	From MaximumFun.org and NPR, it's Bullseye.
0:33.6	["Bullseye"]
0:40.6	This week, Ronnie Spector, Jane Lynch,
0:42.8	and singer-songwriter, Si Smith,
0:45.0	it's a cavalcade of holiday musical talent.
0:48.5	That's all coming up on the Bullseye holiday spectacular.
0:51.5	["Bullseye"]
0:57.4	["Bullseye"]
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