Josh: 0:08

Well welcome back to Premeditated Opinions. We are thrilled that you're joining us on this Christmas special. And you'll see that I have a few of my friends behind me because I do get by with a little help from my friends. And we are gonna play some Christmas tunes and all of that, and I'll introduce them a little bit as we go. The whole goal on all this is just to give you something fun and festive to engage with as we're kind of coming into Christmas. And why not force the holidays down your throat by the way of our podcast? So that's what we're gonna do.

Pamela: 0:39

That is actually the goal of this whole thing.

Josh: 0:41

It really is. Yeah, yeah. Obligatory holiday spirit. So we're gonna get started with a little bit of music. So the guys behind me are some great friends of mine. We'll kind of introduce them as as the episode goes on and chat about them a little bit, and then for starters, we're just going to have them showcase a little bit of what they do. So this is a piece that awful lot of people know, and yeah, enjoy some O'Tannenbaum.

Josh: 3:56

So I am spoiled rotten to have extraordinarily cool friends who play with bands I enjoy and have followed for a long time, everything from yacht rock to like crazy fusion stuff to Alex Lambert. It's just I'm spoiled rotten. It's an embarrassment of riches. And so I wanted to kind of in between each of these songs, I just want to introduce a few of my friends and then we'll we'll kind of play some more tunes and I'll pretend like I can keep up with them. Which I've spent most of my musical career doing. So so Daniel is in the middle. He and I met through church things years ago and have just kind of stayed friends. And I believe, and you'll have to speak loudly because I don't have a microphone right in front of you, but I believe that you did a gig with who last night in Phoenix, Arizona?

Daniel: 4:49

I played with Rob Schneider last night.

Josh: 4:51

Oh my god. Not that Rob Schneider's a musician. He just incorpor is he a musician?

Daniel: 4:57

He actually he actually sings, yeah. He sounds pretty good.

Josh: 4:59

Oh today I learned. So yeah, he played with Rob Schneider last night and then flew back to North Texas to jump into this recording session. So and then he's flying to like Hawaii and someplace else. Yeah. On Tuesday.

Pamela: 5:15

Tragic.

Josh: 5:15

Right, yeah. We're all very sad. So yeah.

Daniel: 5:20

What a bummer, I know.

Josh: 5:20

Yeah, what a loser. So we are we're we're thrilled to have him. And and Dan and I also play in a local cover band here in North Texas. He plays with way more people than I do, but I try and stay loose playing with that other cover band, and it's a lot of fun. And yeah, it's it's just the North Texas area will surprise you with the quality of musician that we have here. Everyone kind of has LA and Nashville and New York in mind. And those are great places to find great musicians. They're also way over-saturated places to find great musicians. And especially with the University of North Texas here, like there's quite the farm system right here in the Dallas Fort Worth area, which is really cool. And so you can find some really stellar guys here and have a lot of fun with it and play in places that aren't oversaturated with musicians that are just trying really hard to make it.

Pamela: 6:11

Like your dining room?

Josh: 6:11

Right, yes, most people point to my dining room as gensis. I mean, this is where it started, and you know, uh you're welcome. So we're but yeah.

Pamela: 6:25

This is this is where they'll get their their big break.

Josh: 6:27

Right. This is their big break. They're experiencing it now. Yeah, sometimes it's Rob Schneider, and then other times it's here. And and Daniel, I know you've shared the stage with some other people that I I really respect. Actually, really quickly, one of my favorite Daniel moments was when I got a random, very obscure video forwarded to me by a mutual friend of ours that was you on stage at the NAM festival sharing the stage with one John Mayer.

Pamela: 6:59

Who's that?

Daniel: 7:00

Which is a wild moment.

Josh: 7:02

Right. Yeah, yeah.

Krista: 7:04

Amazing.

Josh: 7:04

It sounds like a wild moment. And so yeah, that was that was pretty cool to just experience via proxy. It was it was a lot of fun.

Krista: 7:12

So very happy for you.

Josh: 7:14

Right, right. I was mostly

Pamela: 7:16

Living vicariously.

Josh: 7:17

Oh God, the most vic-. I live vicariously through your hair and through the people you get to share the stage with.

Daniel: 7:24

I'm living vicariously through your beard. If we could swap, I would in a heartbeat.

Josh: 7:32

You know, I I'm just grateful that I have one of the two. Like I don't if it was gonna migrate off of my head, at least it you know, stayed on my face. But all right, so we're gonna play Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas and one of my favorite Christmas tunes. And it's just I don't know, I I love just as cliche as it is, I love the way the song sounds. Like it it just the the melody selection and the chords behind it and all of that, I always kind of nerd out over. And so yeah, we're gonna play that. And if you don't like it, then that's on you because it's gonna be pretty awesome. So. Have yourself a merry little Christmas. May your heart be light. From now on our troubles will be out of sight. Have yourself a merry little Christmas, make the yuletide gay, super gay. From now on, our troubles will be miles away. Here we are as in golden days, happy golden days of yours. Faithful friends who are dear to us, gather near to us once more. Through the years, we all will be together if the fates align. Hang a shining star upon the highest bow. And have yourself a merry little Christmas now. Here we are as in golden days, happy golden days of yours. Faithful friends who are dear to us gather near to us once more. Through the years we all will be together if the fates allow hang a shining star upon the highest bow. And have yourself a merry little Christmas now. That's a song I like have to play every time we do cover band gigs. Because I'm like, so in our cover band scene that we're in, I'm sort of the somewhat country guy that gets booked. And so there's a main country guy who's great. His name is Scotty, he's fantastic, he sounds great on everything country. I am diet Scotty. Like when they can't book Scotty, they book me. And I haven't I'm that's fine. Like I don't want to work as much as he works anyway, because I have a full-time job. And so but he does music full-time and he gigs and gigs and gigs and gigs and gigs. So when they can't book him, they book me. And so we end up like there's some songs that that are basically obligatory cover band tunes I have to do, and one of them is Wagon Wheel, which I hate, but everybody knows it and loves it. And yeah. But there's plenty of tunes we do that I hate, actually. There's there's a lot, like not a lot, but there's plenty, and you just do them anyway because you give the people what they want. But anyway, so

Pamela: 14:08

I can absolutely identify with everything you just said.

Josh: 14:13

You also play wagon wheel on all twelve keys?

Pamela: 14:15

On the triangle, yes.

Josh: 14:16

Yes.

Krista: 14:16

On the triangle.

Josh: 14:16

My buddy Christian playing the drums. He and I actually we met through this cover band scene that I'm talking about, and we figured out, I think on our very first gig together, that we went to the same high school a few years apart. And so, yeah, you're allowed to talk. It's fine.

Christian: 14:39

Yeah.

Josh: 14:39

And so yeah, we kind of hit it off big through like this mutual connection and a bunch of educators that we knew and and stuff like that. And then we just kind of gotten booked on a bunch of stuff and enjoyed the hang. And then Krista, my spouse, found this artist named Alex Lambert through Spotify Radio. And man, he we just kind of connected with him and his music, having no idea he was from not just North Texas, but also the same high school as me.

Krista: 15:16

Yeah, that's crazy.

Josh: 15:16

And so um turns out I I start following Alex Lambert on Instagram and he posts this video at one point, and I was like, wait a minute, that's Christian playing drums for him. And so I texted you, and I was like, what are you doing?

Pamela: 15:32

He's like, I'm playing drums.

Christian: 15:36

I've been in a van for 12 hours, what's up?

Josh: 15:40

Yeah, and so I was I that was just a cool connection to make, and and then we we got to see Alex play locally recently, and you were out there, and that was fun to that was a lot of fun to watch. But yeah, I mean it's we've played all manner of weird cover band gigs together. Including one where we had to stop for a long time in one of our breaks because we were playing an outdoor gig and a thunderstorm rolled in and they were like, Well, can you keep going? We're like, no. But we can like take a break and and come back, and that's what we did. No, but you you've quickly become like I love it when I get booked on stuff and I see your name on there. I'm like, oh hell yeah. Yeah.

Christian: 16:25

If I I already know it's a weird gig going into it, But if you're on it, then I know it'll be fine.

Josh: 16:29

We'll figure it out, man. But yeah, it's it's been it's been fun to kind of engage in cover band scene in that way and stuff like that. But, next up for your listening pleasure, we're gonna we're gonna let Krista sing something. Um, yeah.

Christian: 16:43

I'll give you the mic now.

Pamela: 16:45

Trust me, I don't want to.

Krista: 16:47

What am I singing?

Daniel: 16:47

I brought a poem I was gonna read.

Josh: 16:50

Dude, bring it, man. So let's just

Pamela: 16:54

I will hold you to that. Be careful what you say.

Josh: 16:58

Let's look at Winter Wonderland.

Krista: 17:19

Sleigh bells ring, are ya listenin'. In the lane, snow is glistenin'. A beautiful sight we're happy tonight. Walking in a winter wonderland. Gone away is a blue bird. Here to stay is a new bird. He sings a love song as we go along. Walking in a winter wonderland. In the meadow, we can build a snowman, and pretend that he is Parson Brown. He'll say, Are you married, we'll say no man. But you can do the job when you're in town. Later on we'll conspire as we dream by the fire, to face unafraid, the plans that we made walking in a winter wonderland. In the meadow, we can build a snowman, and pretend that he is Parson Brown. We'll have lots of fun with Mr. Snowman until the other kids knock him down. When it snows, ain't it thrillin' though your nose gets a chillin.' We'll frolic and play the eskimo way, walking in a winter wonderland. Walking in a window wonderland. Walking in a winter wonderland.

Josh: 19:33

Hey, you sound pretty good.

Krista: 19:35

Oh, thanks.

Josh: 19:36

Yeah. That was awesome.

Krista: 19:38

Oh.

Josh: 19:38

Alright. Yeah.

Pamela: 19:40

It's like you've been trained in jazz.

Josh: 19:44

It's weird that you don't do that more often.

Krista: 19:46

Yeah. I know.

Josh: 19:46

Yeah. Well, that was my wife singing songs.

Krista: 19:53

My wife.

Josh: 19:53

And she's she's real good and it's fun to have her as a part of what we're doing and it's cool. So we met many moons ago, about twenty years ago, playing music and then played a bunch of music at church and stuff, and then have now played a bunch of music not at church and yeah, it's fun. We met on the dating app called MySpace. Yeah, yeah. True story. We met

Krista: 20:24

You didn't know this?

Josh: 20:25

Yeah, no, we uh

Krista: 20:28

I found him.

Josh: 20:30

That's true. She hit me up, ladies and gentlemen, if you can freaking believe that. But yeah.

Pamela: 20:36

And then he had to work his way up to the Top Eight.

Josh: 20:38

Boy, yeah. Yeah. Pretty much, yeah.

Krista: 20:44

Yeah.

Josh: 20:45

No, we we we met through some mutual friends online that introduced us via MySpace, and she sent me a message first, and I like any like intelligent boy with eyes, I saw the photos, I was like, oh my god, I'm messaging her back.

Krista: 21:02

I tried to bring you in for something and then you couldn't do it.

Josh: 21:07

Yeah, well no, I I the thing went away. You tried to bring me in for a special event that you were involved with, and the event never happened, but we got connected because of that because you needed a guitar player that could do background vocals. Yeah. That's me. So I I responded to your message and then kept responding. And then I showed up at a church event thinking that it was gonna be like a real low-key kind of deal, and I'd just kind of be able to sneak in the back and kind of watch you sing and whatever, and that really wasn't what it was.

Krista: 21:37

Nope.

Josh: 21:38

I walked into a room of like maybe 30 people all sitting in the round. So when I walked in, everyone looked at me and was like, Who's the new guy? And I had driven over an hour to be there, and they're like, You passed so many churches on your way to this one. What are you doing? And I was like, I am I'm here for a girl. And then we we we we left that, we stepped outside, we ended up talking outside for like two hours, and then I left and forgot to get your phone number. And so when I got home, I messaged you and I was like, What I'm about to do is so lame, but here's my number. And she called me.

Krista: 22:17

Pretty much history from there.

Josh: 22:20

Yeah, and you only have mild regrets, which is pretty which is about as good as I feel like I can get. That's fine. Okay, so we're going to we're gonna play a few more tunes, but not all of them are actually gonna be available on the main feed. So some of the music that we're playing today will go behind our paywall. And so if if you're interested in hearing more of what we're doing, all of that is gonna live on Substack and we'd love for you to join us there. We've already got some premium content coming up, or out, really, and then we've got some more, including this, that will live behind that Substack paywall. So, if you like what you hear and why wouldn't you? The Substack is the place to really see all of it. And so please join us there. It really helps support what we're doing and helps us pay musicians who are some of my good friends, but also deserve to be compensated because they are full-time musicians and this is what they do for their living. So anyway.

Krista: 23:15

Support your local musicians.

Josh: 23:16

Yeah, seriously, yeah, and shop small and all those things too. Okay, so we're gonna play a few more tunes, and I'm going to use my phone to know what songs we're playing, because that's what every rock star does. Chestnuts roasting on an open fire, Jack Frost nipping at your nose. Yuletide carols being sung by a choir. Folks dressed up like eskimos. Everybody knows a turkey and some mistletoe helps to make that season bright. Tiny tots with their eyes all aglow will find hard to sleep tonight. They know that Santa's on his way. He's loaded lots of toys and goodies on his sleigh, and every mother's child is gonna spy to see if reindeer really know how to fly. And so I'm offering this simple phrase to kids from one to ninety two, although it's been said many times, many ways, Merry Christmas to you. A nd so I'm offering this simple phrase to kids from one to ninety two, although it's been said many times, many ways Merry Christmas have a Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas to you. So I really like that song. I've always loved that song, and there's a a million arrangements, and I keep coming back to sort of that original like Mel Tourme, just very croony jazz stuff and all that, because it's just it's it's fun to sing, it feels Christmassy to me, I don't know, as freaking cliche as that is. But the last member of this band that we built today that I wanted to talk about is my boy TJ, who yeah, he he deserves a microphone. So we also met on a church gig and the same one that me and Daniel met on, but you were actually there when I got there. You you were already a member of that house band when I started because you were there with the leader before me.

TJ: 27:26

Yes.

Josh: 27:26

And and we like it was just one of those sort of you you were so miraculously agreeable and easy to work with that I was like, oh man, this dude has to stay. Like I I and the hang was always a lot of fun and stuff. And you're from Oklahoma, which we won't hold against you. But yeah, so you're involved with something pretty cool in Kansas City. Give us give us a a couple sentences about that fun band up in Kansas City you play with. Who's that?

TJ: 27:56

Oh yeah, our group's called Summer Breeze. We play tacky 70s and 80s smooth, soft rock jams.

Josh: 28:06

Nice, yeah.

TJ: 28:06

I used to live in Kansas, so it made sense. And then I moved down here and then it got big enough that I could, like it pays for the gas and it doesn't cut into the profits too much.

Josh: 28:18

That's pretty cool. And then what do you do?

TJ: 28:19

It's fun.

Josh: 28:19

What do you do for your day job?

TJ: 28:21

I teach orchestra.

Josh: 28:22

Nice. You're a professional.

TJ: 28:24

Professional.

Josh: 28:25

Yeah. You're actually molding young minds. Which isn't actually all that scary, like

Daniel: 28:30

I trust him.

Josh: 28:30

Right you've got enough gray in your beard where you're you know you're trustworthy now.

TJ: 28:38

I've recently had like some of my first kids like find me on Instagram and they're adults, you know, and they're like 'I owe you all an apology'. I've learned a lot, and I I don't know what you were getting from me, but it wasn't it was not professional expert knowledge of it was me hanging by my fingernails, yeah, for sure.

Josh: 28:58

No. Well, we're we're a we're a fake it till you make it kind of bunch. But anyway, I I it it was really cool when when I reached out to you about recording for this and and you were available and all that stuff. I was nervous in reaching out to you because I know this is a crazy busy time of year for you because not just of school stuff, but I know you're involved in lots of other musical things here, both in church and outside of that and stuff. And so I was I was pumped that you were available. But we've got many years of relationship, and then his wife Sarah is also an incredible musician, and shout out to you. Hi. Wish you were here hanging out with us, but I'm sure you had something better to do. But yeah, it's it's always fun when when y'all are around. And I y'all are the friends that like I would love to see more, and it's just freaking hard. Like because you you guys stay really busy professionally, we stay busy professionally, we don't live close by.

TJ: 29:47

Yeah, I live in Arlington, and also I've got like a gig later where I'm going to be cleaning Rob Schneider's pool. So pretty awesome.

Josh: 29:55

Look, we're all hitching our apparently we're hitching our wagon to Rob Schneider, and and there I I guess there's weirder things, but I'm I'm not sure what they are. So yeah, I so I'm curious, has Sarah put your tree up yet?

TJ: 30:09

Yes.

Josh: 30:15

Has she fully decorated everything, and

TJ: 30:15

I think we yeah, I think we're done.

Josh: 30:16

Okay.

TJ: 30:17

I did the lights earlier when it was warm, and then she put the tree up. When I got home, I saw the tree up. I was like, oh yeah, we gotta get to it.

Josh: 30:25

Daniel, do you own a Christmas tree?

Daniel: 30:26

No.

Josh: 30:27

This dude. Yeah.

Pamela: 30:27

He's like 'I'm Jewish.'

Josh: 30:35

It's a menorah man.

Daniel: 30:36

It's eight candles for me.

Josh: 30:40

Jeez. That's awesome. Is there any is there any Christmas decorations up in your house, Christian?

Christian: 30:46

No, we got cats. They'll destroy it all.

Josh: 30:48

Oh, nice. Yeah. How many cats do you have?

Christian: 30:51

Uh two.

Josh: 30:52

okay.

Christian: 30:54

She's had the cats longer than she's had me.

Josh: 30:57

Right. Yeah. That's fine. Well, cool. Okay, we're gonna play a couple more tunes. I want to do This Christmas, which Krista will sing and I will not.

Krista: 31:07

Hang all the mistletoe. I'm gonna get to know you better, this Christmas. And as we trim the tree how much fun it's gonna be together, this Christmas. Fireside is blazing bright, we're caroling through the night. And this Christmas will be a very special Christmas for me. Presents and cards are here, my world is filled with cheer and you, this Christmas. And as I look around your eyes outshine the town, they do, this Christmas. Fireside is blazing bright, we're caroling through the night. And this Christmas will be a very special Christmas for me. Fireside is blazing bright, we're caroling through the night. And this Christmas will be a very special Christmas for me.

Josh: 34:04

So what what songs that we picked were kind of important to you to do? Like what what stood out? Like, oh I gotta make sure we do this tune.

Krista: 34:11

I mean This Christmas.

Josh: 34:14

What is it about that song that you're just like, this is everything I want?

Krista: 34:18

It's fun. It's just fun. And it's I love groove and funk and all that. And so it's it's kind of one of those go-to happy Christmas songs that I think we're like, everybody likes, and you can just have fun with it. Yeah, you know.

Pamela: 34:33

Y'all certainly did.

Josh: 34:34

Yeah.

Pamela: 34:34

That was awesome.

Josh: 34:36

Yeah, they had fun with it as they were as we were all figuring it out in the other view. But yeah, it's all right. That's one of those songs that everyone plays it a little different. Yeah. And so it's hard to like really nail down exactly what you want to do until you're actually in the space with everybody together. Otherwise, it's just yeah, it's it's a bit messy. Yeah, for those of you who aren't sitting in my house, which is all of you, there's actually a a living room full of adolescent boys mere feet away from where we are recording.

Pamela: 35:06

They're being so good.

Josh: 35:07

They're they're being great. They're being so great. But if we don't finish this soon, they're gonna mutiny and rise up and slay us.

Krista: 35:13

And eat all of our food.

Josh: 35:14

Right. Yeah, that is for dang certain. But anyway, so we're gonna play we're gonna play one more tune, but before we do that, like I I you this Christmas was really important to you. I really wanted to do The Christmas Song. That that's just I don't know, it's kind of a special place for me. I talked about that already. But this next tune, 'Oh, Come Let Us Adore Him'. You and I spent a lot of time in church environments, yes.

Pamela: 35:36

And he didn't give a shit what anybody else wanted to play.

Josh: 35:41

That's true. I didn't ask these guys anything. I sent them a set list and said, These are the songs you like.

Pamela: 35:48

Figure it out.

Josh: 35:49

Yeah. Yeah.

Pamela: 35:50

Just come prepared.

Josh: 35:52

Right. Yeah. That's pretty much the way of being a band leader. It's like, this is what you will do. Thank you. Honestly, even in the environments that we play in professionally, that that's pretty much what's going on. Like, even it I was joking earlier that we have songs that we play in these cover band gigs that none of us actually like, but everyone listening likes them. And that's completely true. Even with Christmas songs, when you're in bands long enough, you just play the same Christmas tunes over and over and over and over. And so, you know, there's there's ones that you sort of put up with, like 'Mary, did you know?' And like, boy, I never need to play that song again as long as I live.

Daniel: 36:27

Oh really?

Pamela: 36:28

Oh my god, please do that.

Josh: 36:35

Yeah

Pamela: 36:36

Please do that. Like start and just play and then just play something else.

Josh: 36:40

No, trust me, he and I have been in bands long enough to where.

Pamela: 36:46

You're good enough. You could sneak something in and

Josh: 36:51

Oh, he does. Would you like to show the ladies and gentlemen?

Pamela: 36:52

You just got called out.

Josh: 36:54

Oh no, no, it's a point of pride for him. No, yeah, no, I'm not stepping on toes. I know that for a fact. He he so there's one specific song that I'm not even

Pamela: 37:05

Put an Easter egg in there.

Josh: 37:05

There. Yeah. There's one specific song that in in all of our days of playing church gigs, there it is. And he would try and work that in to songs that we were playing on that Sunday morning. And I can't tell you how many times I'd be in the middle of like a church song and I would hear some part of that riff and into the microphone, and I would just be like. But then, you know, I was in environments where sometimes I would have to like say a prayer or speak or something like that. And he would be the music bed underneath whatever I was doing. And so, like, the amount of times I would have to just like kind of pause because I just heard like Wind Beneath My Wings or something like that. And I would just kind of have to be like, 'okay, push through, push through, don't reac't. The other one that stands out in my memory, I think you only did this to me once was this was early on. I don't think we had known each other super long, but I was in the middle of like some sort of speaking moment in this church service that I was part of the leadership of. And I I was like, that's You Raise Me Up by Josh Groben. And but I'm having to push through and like not react. And of course, no one else is really paying that much attention, but I have musical ADD, and so as soon as there's something happening musical around me, I just sort of lock into that. Oh my gosh, man. That was those were perilous times to be on a microphone in front of a thousand people.

Pamela: 38:43

And he's just back there laughing.

Josh: 38:44

Oh yeah.

Pamela: 38:45

He's just like,

Josh: 38:46

Yeah, yeah.

Daniel: 38:47

Oh, that's that musical Tourette's going on.

Josh: 38:49

Right, yeah, yeah, exactly. Musical Tourette's it is. But, so we're gonna play a song from our our church days. And I do I do like this song. I've always liked this song. This particular group, this specific group of musicians, we have never played this song before ever. Together. We have all played it separately, so we're just going to sort of go with our gut a little bit and and see what happens.

Pamela: 39:12

You mean that that's not what you've been doing this whole time?

Josh: 39:15

It's definitely what we've been doing this whole time, but we're gonna do it again and include a guitar this time. I like how in some of the songs I've been holding a guitar but not playing it.

Pamela: 39:24

It makes you feel cool.

Josh: 39:26

Yeah, exactly. It's just a status symbol, really.

Pamela: 39:28

He's like I don't actually know how to play this.

Josh: 39:31

But I I'm just gonna launch into this song and I'm gonna believe that these guys are gonna follow us.

Pamela: 39:37

Are professionals?

Josh: 39:39

Yeah. And so we'll give this thing a whirl. Oh come all ye faithful, joyful and triumphant. Oh come ye, oh come ye to Bethlehem. Come and behold him, born the king of angels. Oh come let us adore him. Oh come let us adore him. Oh come let us adore him, Christ the Lord. Sing choirs of angels, sing in exultation. Sing all ye citizens of heaven above. Glory to God, glory in the highest. Oh come let us adore him. Oh come let us adore him. Oh come let us adore him, Christ the Lord. Here Lord, we greet thee. Born this happy morning, oh Jesus to thee be all glory. Lord of the Father, now in flesh appearing. Oh come let adore him, oh come let us adore him, oh come let us adore him, Christ the Lord. We'll praise your name forever, We'll praise your name forever, We'll praise your name forever, Christ the Lord. Nice. Look at us go. We know how to do this. We remember. Alright. Well, we talked about how to get out of this and I already forgot it because I was so focused on the musical part of this. What do we talk about doing to get out of this thing?

Krista: 45:06

Wait, how you're gonna end it?

Pamela: 45:06

We were just gonna close out

Josh: 45:10

With a word of prayer. No just kidding. He's ready to music bed me, man. Well dudes, thank you. I appreciate that.

Krista: 45:24

 This was fun.

Josh: 45:24

That was that was a lot of fun.

Pamela: 45:26

Absolutely.

Daniel: 45:26

Prayer hands.

Pamela: 45:26

He's in the spirit.

Josh: 45:26

He lives 

Daniel: 45:26

I have a great habit of doing this. It's like, I'm not Japanese. I don't know why I do that.

TJ: 45:26

You hang out with Rob Schneider for one day and now you're prayer hands-ing it.

Daniel: 45:26

 I've never been... oh thank you. I'm not appropriating your culture.

Pamela: 45:49

He's 'I don't know what to do with my hands'.

Josh: 45:50

Right, yeah, it's more Ricky Bobby than cultural appropriation. Well, yeah, no, I'm super grateful for y'all coming by and helping me do this really random and silly thing. And and we wanted it to be low-key, like if you're a musician and you're listening to this and you you hear a mistake, yep. Yeah, that's fine. Um that's jazz. Yeah, we're playing jazz, and if you don't understand it, that's on you. So we're

Pamela: 46:18

Don't @ us.

Josh: 46:20

Or do and we'll ignore you. But but yeah, we we wanted to do something fun and different kind of coming into the holiday season, and we hope you enjoyed it. We hope this is something you share. You know, it really helps this podcast will continue to grow and evolve if it gets in the hands of new people. And there's no one better to do that than you. So if you would please just share this with somebody that you know or you don't know, that's fine. Like just walk up to people in the grocery store and be like, hey, you should hear this.

Pamela: 46:46

Just be airdropping it to people.

Josh: 46:48

Right, right. Exactly.

Daniel: 46:48

 I have done that with my mixes on airplanes. I will airdrop my music to other people on the plane.

Pamela: 46:48

This guy.

Krista: 46:48

Love it. Love it. 

Josh: 46:48

Yeah. Well, if you also want to airdrop this to random people on airplanes, we're fine with that. Please do. But yeah, please consider giving us a review with the Apple Podcast app specifically. That really helps us. There's a star rating app system on Spotify, if you don't mind rating us there. That would be very, very helpful. And then finally, if you are subscribed, if you want to see more of what we do on YouTube, please subscribe to us there and follow along with our shenanigans because you know that if we shenan once, we're gonna shenanigan.

Pamela: 47:34

Please don't.

Christian: 47:34

 [Christian gives us a little Ba-Dum-Tiss]

Josh: 47:34

So I wanted to give an excuse for that situation.

Pamela: 47:47

 You know what? I'm done, I'm out. I'm going home.

Josh: 47:50

We all are, but we'll have at least one more episode for you before Christmas itself, and then we'll take a little a tiny little break at some point at the end of this year. We actually haven't even really talked about that much.

Pamela: 48:01

No, we haven't, thanks for just throwing us under the bus.

Josh: 48:03

I'm leaving it even very open-ended, I feel like.

Pamela: 48:06

Yeah, well, and that will give you time to get caught up on all of our fun Substack Premium content.

Josh: 48:12

Exactly. Yeah, yeah. So please join us there. Anyway, thank you so much for letting us in your ear holes, and we sure hope to be in your ear holes again soon. So if we don't have a chance to be in those ear holes again between now and Christmas, have a merry one.