Quick Question with Soren and Daniel - Songs That Don't Know They're About Thanksgiving

Episode Date: November 26, 2024

The guys make a list of songs that feel like Thanksgiving, Daniel takes aim at two beloved American musical acts, and Soren tries to sing Mary J. Blige. Let us know your picks for secretly-about-thanksgiving songs! Support the pod and get a bonus episode twice a month for $5/month at patreon.com/quickquestion, or on Apple Podcasts! Thanks to Masterclass for sponsoring this episode. Need a gift idea? Head over to Masterclass.com/QQ for the current offer.

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The answer's not important, I'm just glad that we could talk tonight So what's your favourite? How did you get? What would I be? Do you remember? Words without a word at all? How do we know? Oh forget it

I saw a movie Daniel O'Brien Two best friends and comedy writers If there's an answer they're gonna find it I think you'll have a great time here I think you'll have a great time here So hello again and welcome to another episode of Quick Question with Soren and Daniel the podcast where two best friends and comedy writers ask each other questions and give each other answers. So hello again and welcome to another episode of Quick Question with Sorin and Daniel, the podcast where two best friends and comedy writers ask each other questions and give each other answers. I am one half of that podcast, senior writer for Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, author

of How to Fight Presidents and chill hiatus boy, Daniel O'Brien. Joining us always by my co-host, Mr. Sorin Bowie, Sorin Sarlo. Hey everybody, I'm Sorin Bowie, I'm a writer for American Dad and I'm feeling a little bit underdressed today. Daniel's wearing a beautiful cardigan. It has sort of like some main accents, I would say. Yeah, it's got like bone buttons on it and it's got that kind of like ropey sweaterness

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Does it change your assessment of my fashion to learn that the shirt that I'm wearing under the sweater is in fact what I've been sleeping and living in for quite some time? It does, you know, but honestly, it gives kind of like a vibe of a writer mid book. Oh, because they do. They always look a little classier. Like the writers in movies are that they may be a slob underneath and like you may find out that they're wearing pajama pants, but for some reason on top they've got like a tweed

blazer on or they've got a cardigan, a really nice cardigan over the top. Right, because where you're writing, you've got to write, you can't write in an apartment or a hotel, you got to go to a cabin in the woods and it's cold there. So you need layers. Got to write cold. Those fingers got to be chilly when you're pecking them around on the keyboard. The sweater was close at hand because I mentioned in the intro that I'm on hiatus. We go, we have eight weeks in between seasons at last week tonight.

We just did our season finale and now we're on our little break before season 12 starts and I had my they scheduled it this way every year. I had my end-of-year meeting with my bosses the day after our wrap party which is always a very boozy affair and it's also like the work for the year is done so it's I wake up the day after tiny bit hung over. And I was just like, I don't need to go anywhere or do anything. Everything is done. My feet are moving a little slower. Oh, shit, it's my end of year meeting. It's my one meeting a year with the bosses, and just like very quickly grabbed a

sweater to cover up as much of my sins as I could for the Zoom meeting. And then once that was done, I was like, great, sweater, you go right back to closet. And now I'm back in my like everyday shirts, but I wanted to afford you the same courtesy that I afforded my bosses, which was this sweater and no additional effort. But also because I decide whether or not

you stay on the podcast. That's true. This is my end of year meeting for the podcast. Yeah. Really appreciate it. If there was, I got to, I feel valued in this endeavor. I do, I don't like to toot my own horn. I've never seen you do the podcast without me,

or at least mentioning me. So I understand I bring some value. If I have any wants in 2025, title bump would be great. All right. Well, I'm looking through your peer reviews here. Yeah. I only have one. It seems like you only have one peer. I couldn't get a lot of people to vouch for me. Doesn't look good. I can't tell you who it was, but it doesn't.

They did not. They pretty scathing, actually. Okay. That's rough. Yeah. Okay. Then I'm happy. Then don't.

Are you wearing your pajamas under that sweater? Sure. Daniel, I need to tell you something. I made a big purchase recently and I want to talk to you about it a little bit. Yeah. We had to, I did a lease on my last car and this is the first time in my life

that I'd ever done a lease. And my dad is like, when I was a lease on my last car and this is the first time in my life that I'd ever done a lease. And my dad is like, when I was a kid and growing up, he was always like, don't ever lease to waste some money. You buy, you buy. That's the only way you have real value in your car. And I tried it. I tried a lease because my dad was dead. And I got to say, I hated the experience.

I didn't enjoy it. I didn't enjoy the turning into the lease. I didn't enjoy that after three years. I was like, I still, and this car feels new. Like I, I got to turn this in now. That all felt very silly. So I bought, I purchased a car now purchased a brand new car. It's an IONIQ six.

Ever heard of it? No. Okay, great. Think about, okay, you will have seen the IONIQ 5s out on the road. They are, picture like a square, and then you just sort of flatten out the front a little bit.

Like you made a Lego car. That's an IONIQ 5. The IONIQ 6 is more like a sedan, but it has sort of like a, they've really cribbed like Porsche's rear end. They're like, oh, this will look cool. And I got to say, the aesthetics are fine. It's a fine car.

I didn't get it for the aesthetics. This car, Daniel, has the most monstrous range you can imagine for an electric vehicle. Oh, yeah. It's really, really good. And this is a weird situation in which, you know, like every car, there's like different trims, like you can go up in like, oh, well, let's get leather seats. Let's get these Bose speakers in the doors and stuff. As you go up, the mileage gets way shittier.

As you go up, the mileage gets way shittier. So if you want like the best mileage, you have to take like the bottom model. And I was like, this is the perfect car for me. This is exactly what I want. I don't want all these other things in a car. I just want it to go far. And the best one is the cheapest one. I was like, great, this is the one. So I have an IONIQ 6 now. It's a beautiful car.

Goes like- That's Hyundai. Yeah, that's Hyundai. Yeah. It goes like 360 miles. Famously, my car for like 15 years was driving a different Hyundai. And I-

You had a Tucson? What did you have? I had a Hyundai Santa Fe. Santa Fe. A 2006 Hyundai Santa Fe. Santa Fe. 2006 Hyundai Santa Fe and then about 10 years later when that when I drove that into the ground I replaced it with a 2007 Hyundai Santa Fe. So the newer model you know and then I drove that into the ground as well. We looked at a Santa Fe. We looked at a plug-in hybrid Santa Fe. They've gotten very big. They're pretty gigantic. So in the experience though, I was like,

Colleen and I went three times to the dealership because we were weirdos about like big purchases. We don't just make them. We're like, okay, we're going to do it over and over again. We're going to make sure this is the one. Talk about all the options. That's why like we are reeling into the weeds with a plug-in hybrid that was way too big. Um, but in the process I was like narrowing, zeroing in, zeroing in, got to this IONIQ 6 and like the guy that I'd been working with from the dealership. Uh, I was like, I look online and I see that the car, the MSRP is like way cheaper than what he quoted me.

And I was like, that's weird. So I called him and I'm like, car, the MSRP is like way cheaper than what he quoted me. And I was like, that's weird. So I called him and I'm like, what is, what's the deal here? And he's like, um, Oh no, first I texted him and I was like, Hey, I want to get this car, but I can't tell what the MSRP is. Like, well, do you want to talk about it on the phone? I was like, yeah, why don't you call me tomorrow? Like around this time, never get a call from him.

So I like, I text him and I'm like, Hey, are we doing this? And he's like, yeah, it's just with a customer. Like, let me, let me help you out. And then like, he calls me and it's never been clear like that somebody has completely forgotten about you because he didn't even know like what I was buying or anything and he was like, it's a, uh, okay, uh, you, you want to know about the price and I was like, yeah, so that looks like this is like $6,000 difference and he was like, well, like what color did you get?

What color is the car? And I was like, does that matter? Like, can it be a $6,000 difference in the color? It's like, yay. And I'm like, it's this transmission blue. He's like, yeah, it's probably that. And I was like, so immediately I'm like very angry. And I'm like, there's no way.

And then he gets into, he's like, no, it's actually the range. It's like the range is a little different. You're getting like an extended range. And like already I'm like primed not to believe him. And so I start getting into my mode where I'm like, this isn't right. Like my helpless customer mode where I'm like,

she's KFP. And I was like, yeah, but you said color. What was that? Like this, this seems like a base color. And he's like, it's not that. And I was like, but you, why did you say that? And I was like, and now I you said color. What was that? Like this sounds, this seems like a base color. And he's like, it's not that. And I was like, but you, why did you say that? And I was like, and now I'm like, don't trust anything. He says, and I'm like, I think I'm going to go

to a different dealership. That was supposed to be the day that I was going to like call, find out how much it was, go get it. And so call Colleen. I'm like, no, I was like, I, my day too. It's like, I called Colleen and I was like, we can't go back there. And she was like, what? I was like, I don'teen and I was like, uh, we can't go back there. And she was like, what? I was like, I don't know. I blew it up. I blew up the deal.

I don't know what happened. I got angry at him and I threatened to leave and then I did leave and nobody stopped me. Anyway, and I ended up all working out. We had somebody else who helped us with it and it went well and it was good. And I have the car now and the car rules. It's so much fun to drive. You like it so far, yeah? Yeah, it's like, so like you, I've had bigger cars for a while,

mostly because of family. And this is like the first time that I've gotten a sedan and it's like small, of the ground but like it just kind of zips around it's so rad I love it I love a little car well it's good for you man I'm really happy for you thank you thanks yeah this podcast of course sponsored by Hyundai ionic ionek go get one go get one You know that old adage teach Amanda fish Feed him for a feed a lifetime actually, you know what? I should have looked it up turns out I don't know it I'm gonna walk that back

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So head over to masterclass.com slash qq for the current offer. That's up to 50% off at masterclass.com slash qq, masterclass.com slash QQ masterclass.com slash QQ. Well, I wanted to do something a little bit different on this podcast. Okay. Are we going to start it? Do we have anything else?

I don't really. No, I want to just go into it because this is going to be, I got a bunch that I want to give you gift to you so that you have them to listen to. We're going to do a music podcast everybody. Daniel Ed Sorin's musical podcast. Music podcast. We want to do one here. I was thinking about how this time of year, I get real excited to listen to Christmas music, but I can't yet. Because it just doesn't feel right. I have a fun quick interruption for you. That is about cars, so it's relevant.

I was getting my car washed the other day and one of my least favorite qualities about myself is, I'm just gonna lay it all bare. If I am handing my car over to another male, then I am gonna put on music that I think they think is cool in the car. So like whatever I'm listening to, whether it's Broadway or my dumb piano music or one of my dumb podcasts, if I'm giving my car to like a parking attendant at a parking structure or the guys at the gas station, I am going to change it usually to

70s on seven, the XM that's just 70s rock, because that's usually pretty reliable. But then every once in a while I'll be listening to show tunes and ah, quick, a man is coming. Let me put on the 70s station and the 70s station will be playing ABBA. ABBA. We fucking talked about this. Fucking knew it. But anyway, I dropped my car off the car wash and I changed it to 70s and it was like man music.

So I felt good. I didn't feel great. I never felt great about what I'm doing. Yeah, it's a pretty desperate move. Helps me to be a participant in society. And when I got the car back, they had changed the station to Christmas music. So now I'm going to everything's different for me now.

Now I'm going to feel better about handing them whatever I want and be not be self-conscious and see, I don't know, just like carry the spirit of that car wash attendant who gets in the car and was like, what is this? ELO, fuck that, where's Kelly Clarkson? Come on, oh yeah, now I can work. There we go, here's that Gwen Stefani song I love. Yeah, just got listed to Christmas music

a full week and a half before Thanksgiving. Go for it, sir, not what I do, but go for it. You're excited. Um, that's a, I kind of feel bad for you. I feel bad for you that you think about that. That you think about like, how do I, how do I project as man? It sucks real bad. And now it sucks real bad. I so I think about my new car is it has something called valet mode. I think most new cars have this where you don't ever have to worry about that kind of thing. It's I guess this is made for you. You can as soon as like you're going to give the car to anybody else.

There's just a button on your screen. You push valet mode and it's locked like nobody can change anything. The music cuts off and there's very limited things in terms of what they can do with the car. Like they can drive it but they can't fiddle with your music, they can't do anything and they can't get out of it until you put that code in. I wonder if my car has that. It might. Who could ever say? Sounds expensive. Yeah. Am I? Who could ever say? Yeah, sounds expensive.

Well, okay, that sucks, but I agree with you. I'm like that guy. I go to the store and there's already some Christmas music on it and I'm not mad about it. I'm kind of like, oh, I'm sneaking in a little. I'm not going to cheat myself, but I can't, my hands are tied if I'm at the store and they're playing some Bing Crosby.

Like, I'll listen to that. I'm so pumped to start listening to Christmas music. I can't yet. So I'm like, every day I make the joke with my children when I'm making dinner. I'm like, you guys want to listen to some Thanksgiving music? And they're like, dad.

That's a joke. And then I started thinking, you know what? I bet you could find some songs that don't know that they are Thanksgiving songs. Like they weren't written to be Thanksgiving songs, but they slot in perfectly to be Thanksgiving songs. And so I- I would venture to say,

no songs were written to be Thanksgiving songs. We've got a pretty wide, wide base to start with. There's a song by an artist named Josh Ritter that is called Homecoming, and I'm pretty sure that he wrote that as a Thanksgiving song. Like everything in it is like about how the air is getting crisp and the days are getting shorter and he's like back home for the first time and stuff. And I was like, how can I think this is a Thanksgiving song? But

I'm, I tasked Daniel with this thing, with the, with the knowledge that songs like that, that maybe 45,000 people have listened to in the whole world don't count because you want it to be songs that are well known enough that somebody could just listen to that and be like, oh, that name, I know that name of that song. I know that song. I'm gonna do the lyrics in my head. Ah, that is a Thanksgiving song. And it doesn't also have to be the lyrics either.

I'll say like a song like, we can have like the Jingle Bells effect, which is, Jingle Bells is not a Christmas song. There's no mention of Christmas. It's just like a generally a winter song, but it feels so Christmassy. And it's like, it's, it becomes a Christmas song by default because it's a, it's, it's just where it feels right there.

Are you checking to see if Christmas is mentioned in the song? Yeah. Go ahead. I stand by it. Oh, you know what? Also I, uh, I don't think it was originally written in English because as soon as I pulled it up, jingle bells, jingle bells, Schlittenfahrt im Schnee, Durkdenweben Wintervard, Urban and...

You're right. They don't say Christmas. I know what you're doing. You're doing the first page of Canterbury Tales right now. Yeah. Because that's a thing you can do. I guess sleigh is not necessarily Christmas. Yep. You're right. You checked. You did the work. Did you actually not? No, I didn't. But I think I'd heard that at some point. I think I had... The tracks are now by this point covered in snow, but I don't remember where I learned that fact,

but it just has stuck with me and I just assumed it was true. Now the ground is white, go it while you're young, take the girls tonight and sing this slaying song. Just get a bobtailed bay, 240 as his speed, hitch him to an open sleigh, and crack, you'll take the lead. I don't know anything. That's actually a, it's like a song, it's like a car song, but about a sleigh. Yeah.

Like you really get into the specs of the sleigh. Sorry with the fringe on top. Yeah. I didn't realize that. Those are, I guess there are verses I don't know to that song. Yeah. But it was a gamble. I think I was right. So anyway, I guess there are verses I don't know to that song. Yeah. But it was a gamble. I think I was right.

So anyway, those rules apply here as well. Like if there's a song that just feels like Thanksgiving, even if there's not by any, it's not mentioning it at all or anything related to Thanksgiving, I think that can easily count. So I'm going to give you a little bit of time, Daniel, here to think.

I'm going to give you my first one. I'm going to put, and this one actually definitely adheres to that, I'm putting Sweet Caroline at the top of my list. Everybody is familiar with that song if you've ever been to a bar, especially on the East Coast. Sweet Caroline is by Neil Diamond and that song has nothing to do with Thanksgiving, but it has that feel of your friends have all gone off to other places. You've all come back for the first time. And like, this is like how you recalibrate with your friends is you all sing Sweet Caroline at a bar together.

And I don't even know where that comes from because I didn't do it. Maybe it's from Beautiful Girls. Maybe. But that just, that feel of Sweet Caroline, like everybody can't help but do it. Maybe it's from beautiful girls. Maybe. But that just that feel of sweet Caroline, like everybody can't help but sing it. Everybody gets very excited that the hands touching hands, everybody's fucking touching each other. And then everybody wants to do the wah, wah, wah, like real excited for that part. I just feels like that recalibration of friends after going off and like living different lives for a little while.

And that's such an intrinsic feeling to Thanksgiving because that first time you leave home and then you get back and you're like, oh shit, we started growing in different directions. Yeah. Well, mine is very similar in that spirit, but a very different song. What's My Age Again by Blink 182.

Oh wow, yeah. It's a song that everyone's, it might be a controversial choice, but every verse is like a different version of the narrator doing something that came naturally to him and used to be fine and getting, not the reaction they expected, just getting rebuked. And he's being youthful in the song,

but there's almost an element of realizing that he might be a step behind his peers. And coming home for Thanksgiving can often feel very much like that. Because when you go away to school, Thanksgiving for a lot of people is their first time back in their hometown. Uh, if you, even if you, like I didn't go too far, you still stayed on

campus most of the time, then campus dies. So you come back for Thanksgiving. That's your first time seeing old high school buddies in a while. It's no surprise that the day before Thanksgiving is one of the busiest drinking nights all year long, because everyone is like, hey, we're all seeing each other. Let's all meet at a bar. We haven't seen each other.

Let's catch up on college. And it can be for some kind of a jarring experience if you are living your college life and you come home to your high school world and you feel out of place in it in some way. And that could be because like you get back and suddenly it feels like all of your friends have outgrown you or they've like developed

new personalities. Or you might feel this dissonance if, even if you yourself have grown up, you come home and you start to like fall back into old habits, which is what I would certainly do. I would just like, I was immediately who I was in high school when I'm surrounded by my high school friends. And it was a strange like social dissonance

to experience that. And what's my age again, to me, captures a bit of that feeling of just like, this is the narrator is trying to do a thing that he used to be able to do, whether that's watching TV while making out or making prank phone calls, and he's just not getting the reaction

and everyone's saying, act your age. And that's like a really, when you're not a kid, it's a confusing and strange thing to hear, act your age, because like, I thought I was. Am I acting my age wrong now? What am I supposed to be doing? Yeah. Yeah, I think that that tracks a lot. Yeah.

And how you've fallen to the ruts of your friendships, like even now, if I was to go back and see like a bunch of my high school friends, like I would just drop right back into that, of like who I was to go back and see like a bunch of my high school friends, like I would just drop right back into that of like who I was to them. Yeah. Which is maybe not healthy with that. I like certain things to different people and I just, as soon as I get with them, I'm like, I remember what the shade I'm supposed to be with you.

Here it is. Yeah. Here it is. I was close at my wedding. I was in a suite getting ready with my brothers and dad. at my wedding, I was in the suite getting ready with my brothers and dad, and then I needed to go to the suite next door to give my buddy Chris an assignment for wedding-related purposes.

And I opened the door to their suite, and they've all got beers out and pizza out, and they're playing Mario Party in 2024. And a part of me is like, I guess I could do that. I guess I could do that. I guess I could, I haven't played Mario Party in a fucking decade and a half, but like, yeah, there's Chris, the guy I used to play Mario Party with

and he's got pizza, this all sounds right. We got to thank his mom for this pizza. We played Mario Party, Mario, now you got me fucking doing it. We played Mario Party at your bachelor party. Oh, that's right, I was asleep for that. Yeah. Most of your bachelor party. That's right. It was the best. You guys really knew exactly what I wanted. Okay, I got another one for you. Family Affair by Mary J. Blige.

Oh, my. Yeah. I think that, well, first of all, title. I love the title. It feels very much like you're getting all like the, the important people in the family together. And then there's a line there about leaving your situations at the door. Will you sing a bit of it? Kind of a little bit of it.

Oh dad, it started, now since I don't dance from me. What, how does it, it goes like uh, since I don't dance from me. What does it, it goes like, uh, maybe I don't know this song. Oh, you do here. Let me play. Why would I sing a version of it when I can just fucking play it for you? I do while you're loading up the song, uh, breaking news in the chat as we're recording this, What's My Age Again was also our producer, engineer Gabe's choice when he first heard about this topic. That's fucking crazy to me.

That is wild. Here. Oh no. Oh yeah. Yeah. I know the song. Yeah. It's a, it's a song about getting drunk and a song about like having a good time. And it's called family affair. And it's about leaving your situations at the door, which is something I think a lot of people need to do when they go home to family for Thanksgiving, which is like, you started living this other life, but there are certain things like you just don't bring back. And this, I mean, there's a one glaring thing right now, which is clearly politics, but if you want it to be a good situation, you've got to leave your other situations where they are and like, and just try to fall into that rut with your family.

Like try to like be who you are, who you were to them. And don't get any deeper than that. It's, there's like social ways of talking that I had. This is like higher stakes now, but I developed like social ways of talking when I was living in Los Angeles in like a parody of liberal people and then coming home to my family a normal version of liberal people and just having to

remind myself like nothing as dramatic as as uh code switching I'm not going to steal any valor there but just the idea like if we had gotten into the habit in Los Angeles, you and I, of never calling someone a girl, we would always say women. And we were like swiftly corrected if we were like, yeah, I was talking to this girl. And someone was like, you're talking to a woman. I was like, that's fair. Okay, good, fair point.

And then going to Jersey and reminding myself, don't correct your parents if they call someone, if they call a 25 year old woman, a girl, don't bring any of your weird Uber liberal LA bullshit home with you. Yeah. Which is fortunate because none of them call them girls. They just call them chicks. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So I've made it much easier. My parents, oh, there's this chick. There's this chick in the store. There's this, there's this dumb broad at the bank. Dumb broad, all legs all the way up. Um yeah, uh I'm gonna give you one more here really quickly Daniel, which is Praise You by Fatboy Slim. That one feels pretty on the nose, but Praise You feels

like the perfect Thanksgiving song because that's what you're supposed to be doing. Yeah. Right? Like the whole day is built around that. You. Me. America. Sure.

Isn't that what that boy's supposed to mean? Like that's the subtext of the song is praise you means. I think I'm dwelling more on the subtext of Thanksgiving. Oh, that's, yeah. I mean like it dwelling more on the subtext of Thanksgiving. Oh, that's yeah. I mean, like it's in the name, right? This feels like the most on the nose one. I don't think I feel like I've yet explained that boy slim praise you. That is a Thanksgiving song. I have this one is definitely wrong. Okay. But it's just about feel, it's just about vibes. I think your favorite Christmas song is a Thanksgiving song. That Bells Will Be Ringing Eagles song feels so much more like coming home for the holidays for Thanksgiving and it's starting to get colder and you're walking around is that that still carries that same vibe of seeing people you haven't seen in a while and trying to remember

what you're like and how to face them. I had a backup one if that one didn't count because it's like explicitly a Christmas song. It is about Christmas and New Year's, but I'm just looking through the lyrics and like this there is like a melancholy to it That doesn't belong in most Christmas songs and feels much closer to Thanksgiving. Yeah, I Had my replacement for that one that has a similar vibe But doesn't mention Christmas and New Year's quite as much was out of my head by fastball Which is like lyrically it's like definitely about a breakup or the guy doing something stupid that he regrets.

But if you detach from lyrics, as I often do, it's very much driving around and it's cold and it's night and you're thinking about every thing you've ever said or ever done, which again, for me is all tied up in Thanksgiving and being around friends and family that you haven't seen for a while and just thinking like, you know, whatever your mental vibe is before you see people that you haven't seen in a while and you're just like gathering your thoughts out of my head is really good.

Like, all right, I'm driving down to the house where I spent so much of high school, but I haven't seen those guys in a while. And I gotta just like, remember who I am and remember who they are and get ready and hope they still like me and hope I still like them. Here we go. Yeah. I mean, it's so scary. It's so scary when you first are like,

I don't wanna say first. I mean, just the idea of going back to my house for Thanksgiving now, I haven't been back in a long time. It's like I went back and saw all my old friends from the valley, the Aspen Valley, ladies and gentlemen. I think I would be like, I'd be nervous. I'd be nervous to see that pack of wolves that I hung out with so much. Yeah.

The bear. They still smell the same, you know? Yeah. Some of them got eaten by other stuff, mountain life. We hate to see it. Yeah, I think that's a good one. I've got another one that's kind of melancholy as well. I guess we've really done that on this list is like a lot.

Mary J. Blige is different, but like, a lot of things are kind of down. It really seems like Thanksgiving makes me sad and it doesn't. My next song is America by Paul Simon. I guess it was by Simon and Garfunkel. Simon and Garfunkel, yeah. America feels the same way,

where it's like there's no mention of fall or anything like that or going home even. But it is like a guy on a quest to just like touch this country, like to like figure out what it is and like be in it and really kind of try to understand it. And that feels very American and very Thanksgiving-y because that is our home. Yes, the song definitely feels incredibly American and very Thanksgiving-y

because that is our problem. Yes, the song definitely feels incredibly American, Soren. I agree with you there. But that like waywardness, I don't have to explain it. I don't have to explain it. But trying to understand, like we're, trying to understand your roots.

That's what I think I'm trying to say. And that's kind of what Thanksgiving is forcing you to do. It's like, hey, you have to acknowledge it all and find the elements of it that you are thankful for. And so I like that song for Thanksgiving song. Yeah, I think it's a good, I feel like I have focused on like, psyching yourself up before seeing friends.

I think that's a good, psych yourself up before seeing friends. I think that's a good psych yourself up before seeing family, which is another important thing that a lot of us have to do on Thanksgiving. It's just like, you know, if you, to the extent that you are very comfortable around your friends and you are less comfortable around extended family, America is a good like, like a reset button, I think, before going into a family gathering.

Even if your family is not contentious, you can be like awkward around adults that you don't see often without it being like a big fight or a contentious thing. Yeah, yeah, I think that's right. I think it's a lot of gearing up. You have to do a lot of emotional gearing up. Which does that not happen at Christmas? What's the deal? I don't know. I feel like it's I

Think because it's been a crazy year with work and election a wedding and Other large conversations looming in the future that now that now that it's almost Thanksgiving and Christmas, I'm just like, what did we used to do? I was so focused on the wedding and the election as like the two main things this year. And I was like, okay, now that those things are over,

the next thing is Thanksgiving. I know I know the answer, but like, what, what does one bring? What, what, what, what, what do we talk about? Does anyone remember what my cousin is like? They were just at the wedding. Maybe you've had this experience now that you are famously on single Daniel, but the first time that I actually went to my now wife's house was on Thanksgiving. So it was a holiday where you go and like meet her whole

family and everything. I kind of knew her parents beforehand, but like the extended family and just see where she grew up and stuff and going to somebody else's house who you are love and who has a history that is not shared is like, I was so, I don't know how to describe this, jealous of her life for having her before me. Like I'm finding out like she had all these friends

back at home, this is like where she lived, like she switched rooms in her house. And I was like, I wasn't here for any of that. You shouldn't be existing before I met you because now you have all of that. You shouldn't be existing before I met you because now you have all of this. And like, um, it's very nerve wracking in terms of like meeting the extended family, but also the friends, like the friends that they have outside of you. There's so much on the line then that it's very scary. And, uh, that, that feeling is like something I

carry with me around Thanksgiving for all carry with me forever. Looking, oh, I was staying in her old room and I was like, I couldn't sleep one night. And I'm just, we were sharing separate, we were not sharing, we were in separate rooms because we were still in college when we were dating. And her parents were like, I just don't think it's a good idea

for you to be in the same room. I was like, yeah, that's fine. I'm in her old room and I'm finding like her yearbook. And I'm like, I'm that's fine. I'm in her old room and I'm finding like her yearbook. And I'm like, just kind of look through some pictures here and like seeing her like with other people and stuff, like seeing her old boyfriends and stuff. And you're like, I don't know where I've,

am I just another one of these? Like, am I just like this year's version of this yearbook? Like, how does this all fit together? It can be a bit jar, You're a hundred percent right. I'm thinking back to the first time I went to my now wife, then girlfriends hometown and, uh, especially the order in which we did things where we had like a big family party first,

I like met her family and then met a bunch of extended family and friends at this party where like the party was always going to happen. I wasn't the main draw but certainly the whisper network of information spread like Shay who doesn't come home all the time is bringing her serious boyfriend to this thing and I'm like the the tick I'm meeting all these people and and telling our story and telling my story and it's and it's very comfortable and wonderful. We then go out to like the town square where there's like concerts and stuff happening and the entire town is out to celebrate and see this thing and no one there has gotten the memo

that Shay has brought her boyfriend home, let's be on our best behavior. Everyone's just like, oh my God, it's fucking Shay, how, hell yeah. They're all like so excited to see their friend and she falls into like the excitement of seeing them. And I'm truly just a guy who's like bearing witness to 20 years of history

with all these people. And it's somebody that you care the most about. I know, yeah. The most deeply about. And you're just like, you don't get to have that with her. Yeah. People are like, oh, what's up you Dan? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And I'm like, yes, I am her serious boyfriend. Like I've known her since I was fucking nine years old. It was like, well, I didn't, but my thing is still more important. I don't know why, can't articulate it. But it is. I want you also to know, and I don't know why this is important either,

but I want you to know that I listened to 70s rock. Goodbye. Pleasure. Yeah, it was a dark feeling, but like one that I held onto for a long time is scared. Scared in a way that I hadn't been in a very long time. Yeah. It's also exciting.

It's a fun, different speed. I always think when she sees me around my childhood friends that it's probably annoying when we fall into our own language, and I bet it is, but I know on some level, there's also like some kind of joy and appreciating seeing me in this new element, the same way that I appreciate seeing her in a new element, whether it's with like childhood friends

or her old neighbors when she lived in New York or her when she's with her coworkers, it's a different speed than how she's with me when it's the two of us in the apartment and he's like this is I you know I know whenever anyone is doing something social it can be exhausting but it's still fun to see like her on a charm offensive or her just like trying to, you know, be professional, Shay, who she is at work is a fun speed. It's not as scary to me. It's a different color. I did get to see that a little bit. Just objectively from Shay's perspective, I got to see that at your bachelor party where everybody was like somebody you had known for a very long time. Yeah. And so when I got there, I didn't know any of them, but I got to see you fall in with them

and how comfortable they were and everything. It's, I would say it's not boring. It's great. Yeah. It's really great. Yeah. They're all really fun. They're, they're great. Um, okay. I've got a few more here that I'm just going to like burn through. Tight. I gotta stop saying tight. Why? What's wrong with tight? Any minute I'm going to say it to my boss or someone's mom and it's going to be wrong.

It's not going to be the thing. Yeah. Okay. No, that checks out. Yeah, that's fine. Okay. I've got a song in here. I don't know if you actually know this song, Daniel. Do you know who Noah Cahan is? Oh yeah. Season of the Stick. Everybody knows who Noah Cahan is. Noah Cahan. Is that his name? Okay. So yeah, Stick Season is on there. Stick Season feels

perfect for this. This is the most, the most Thanksgiving person has ever been. A permanent scarf around his neck. Yeah. That like raspy voice you only get when it's 32 degrees outside. Yeah. He is like explicitly talking about the things I've been discussing today. Yeah. So there's that song that was just sitting there. I almost didn't bring it because I didn't know if it was well known enough because it's so new. And I was like, maybe Dan doesn't know this one yet. No, I feel like he's got like seven or eight hits on the radio right now. And they're all great. And they're all specifically about coming home to the East Coast and things being different.

All right, I've got a couple more here, not very many. I've got Thank You by Alanis Morissette. And I'm going to tell you why this was specifically for me is that the first few times I heard this song on the radio back when it first came out, I thought she was saying, thank you Indians. That's a weird thing to put in your song. And then I found I was thinking, thank you, Indian. I was like India. And I was like, Oh, wait, I also still don't get that one. I don't know if it's weirder, but certainly a lateral weird. It's just a side move. Um, and thank you just in general feels like the praise you should be giving during Thanksgiving. But then also the fact that for so long, I thought for some reason she said thank you Indians. Yeah.

I wanted to have an Alana song on my list too, but I couldn't. I was thinking about the framework of being in a bar and hearing a song like Sweet Caroline, and I thought if I was with my high school friends on Thanksgiving at a bar and You Wanna Know came on, we would all have like a shared reaction to it, but that didn't come out when we were in high school. And then I thought, what is it other, like from 2000 to 2004 song,

ideally something a little bit stupid that we all definitely liked and then got embarrassed by and then now can return to. No, it was a Bloodhound Gang, Nothing But Mammals, that song. Oh my God. That's the kind of song that like, if that came on right now, we would all like fucking light up because for a summer we loved it.

And then for every other summer after that, we were humiliated by it. But now enough time has passed and it was like, yeah, I might still know that dance. Wait, there's a dance to it? I think so. Is it just you gyrating your hips and pretending that there's somebody in front of you? Yeah, I think there's some slapping in front of you. Yeah. Okay, that makes perfect sense. What a rich tradition.

For Thanksgiving. Yeah, but that, that, God, they were really hot for a minute. Yeah. And then, and then fell off. The roof is on fire. Was that them? I don't know. I like, I like to imagine they didn't have a single other song. I also have on here, Journey Through the Past by Neil Young. Do you know that song? No. The lead singer of this, Shins, actually did a really cool cover of it, but it's a song

about death. Shins covering a Neil Young song. Truly drown me. Are you not a fan of either of those? The Shins or Neil Young? No. You really hate both of them. I really do. Amazing. What do you hate about Neil Young? His voice. Are you kidding me? You don't like the whininess of it? No, I hate it. And the song is too long. On this harvest moon. I was gonna bring up as like, not only do I hate his, like the quality of his voice, is something about the musicality of the way he returns to On This Harvest Moon that I think he thinks it's cool

and it really drives me crazy. The way he like returns to Harvest Moon is like, he's like taking his little journey, he's like singing about all this other stuff and then there's this guy and there's this, and then all came together, Ah, this harvest moon. Like he's the fucking deacon in church putting his arms up for the part that we're all supposed to sing.

And I think you, sir, did not earn the arms up to get us to sing on this harvest moon. We don't like it as much as you do as a visual metaphor. We're not on board. It's amazing. This hatred for Neil Young, he is an institution and he is a visual metaphor. We're not on board. It's amazing. This hatred for Neil Young, he is an institution and he is a deacon. Okay, well, that's fine.

You don't like that. I'm gonna take you, I'm not talking about Harvest Moon, so fuck that song. But Journey Through the Past is a really great song. You should listen to the James Marsden. No, it can't be James Marsden. That would be awesome.

That would be, I don't remember the lead singer of The Shibs is, but Marsden, something Marsden. You should go listen to his version. It's really wonderful. It's just piano. It's real slow, but it's gorgeous. Anyway, the song is a lot about like, well, when the winter rains come, will you still think of me? And it feels very Thanksgiving-y. Yeah. I mean, Neil Young is a pretty Thanksgiving-y, like even Harvest Moon as we're saying it,

I'm just like, yeah, Harvest Moon, like November, I guess. I don't really know. I don't really know when Harvest Time is. That feels like a song, you know, like we've talked about before on the podcast, how you get to Halloween songs and you get through like three of them and all of a sudden you're into like some weird territory where you're like, nah, this doesn't count.

It's not a Halloween song. Harvest Moon feels like it could easily slip into there and everybody would be like, yeah, I see why it's on the list. Yeah, Moon, Wolfman, sure. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

And then I've got a very on the nose one, but it's a song that is a theme song to a show, a sitcom, but a sitcom theme song that I will listen to on its own, which is Thank You for Being a Friend. Down the road and back again. I love that song. I think it's a beautiful song. Like a really good sentiment in it.

And the fact that even Golden Girls existed. I mean, imagine pitching that song. I think it's a beautiful song. Like a really good sentiment in it. And I, the fact that even Golden Girls existed. I mean, imagine pitching that show. Imagine being like, it's going to be, it's going to be four women living together, four women. And they're in Miami. It's like Miami, they're living in like a really beautiful house together. They're all single. Oh, did I mention that they are all geriatrics? One of them's the mom. The part that I can't picture when I think about pitching this show is the part where I tell the studio it's 22 episodes long and there's a writer's room of like 25 people and they're all paid well. We have mentorship programs, so people have chances to advance in the industry.

Yeah, at certain points, the show owner will just pick different people out and create another show with them. Yeah. Yeah, that part seems silly, the idea of the show. But you look back on it and it's really engaging. As a kid, you liked it. Like as a kid where you had no con, these were not on your team. Those were women that were three generations removed from you.

Yeah. And you loved it. I loved it. That's a great, it's a great answer. I think you did a much better job following the rules of the, of the Thanksgiving song game. Really right off the bat, a couple of songs that say thank you in them was a smart maneuver that I hadn't considered. I could have just Googled thank you songs instead of like, what's like a sad, dark car accident song?

Yeah. Well, it's the feeling. You're just capturing the feeling. I tried to actually, there was even another one that I was gonna put on the list and I was like, wait a was even another one that I was going to put on the list and I was like, wait a second, The Weeknd has an album called Thursday. I bet that Thursday song would be great. And I went and listened to it and I was like, no, that song sucks. I don't want to put it on the list. And there was a band growing up that was called Thursday and I didn't

even bother to look into them. Look at their songs. Man, I really did not deliver this week. Well, let me just say I think you did because you didn't come with a bunch of Lunch Money Criminal songs and that was, I mean, that's huge for me because I didn't get embarrassed and I also didn't do the work of like going and listening to go listen to some lunch money criminal songs to make sure that I could nip that in the bud. So I almost went to an adjacent well, which was years ago. We did a cracked video. Me, not soren, you're that one. Me, Cody, and Michael. There might've been a fourth,

but it was like this new series we were trying out where we talked shit around a table, but in a way that was different than the other two shows where we talked shit around the table. It was all improv, and it was just like, you start with a premise, and this premise was, why are there no good Thanksgiving songs?

And it was just the three of us riffing on why you can't get good songs out of the content, the material, the raw materials. And then Cody Johnston takes out his guitar and we write a Thanksgiving song on the spot, the chorus of which is gobble, gobble, gobbles what the turkey sounds like, which is, I mentioned it was improv soaring, because that's not a functioning sentence.

But I almost thought, can I get an isolated clip of that and play that as my Thanksgiving song? But there is not like, there was not enough usable moments that are strung together coherently. There's like bits and pieces. It was just, it's too much of a rush job to spin that into gold, to trick you. And even that-

I also didn't watch that. I have no idea what you're talking about. It's fine. Surely I was that cracked. Surely I gave notes on that, but I have no idea what this is. There was something else I wanted to tell you. Fuck. Oh, I remember now. Okay. Great. There was a song, as soon as I started thinking of this

game, there's one song that came to me, which is like my white whale song, which is there's a band called Princeton. And if you don't know Princeton, they're not a band you leave in your car when another guy is gonna be taking your car for a while. Princeton is, I would say, I don't know how this genre exists, prissy shit. Sure, yeah. The stuff I love. I love Princeton.

Princeton sings a lot about Virginia Wool Wolf's husband. And they sing, they have songs called like Victorians and stuff. How can they sing a lot about Virginia Wolf's husband? They have a whole song about letter Wolf about like how it's insane. And they have a lot of songs like about Victorian times. I'm not selling this band. They're great. They're wonderful. Like they're a really great band. I encourage everyone to listen to Princeton. They are a band that used to come to LA and we would go see them. My friend, Dan Campana and I.

And one time we went and saw them right before Thanksgiving when he and I were staying in LA for the first time. And they were like, we're gonna play this Thanksgiving song that we wrote. This is the only time we're ever gonna play it. So please don't ask us again. We just thought it would be fun for this. They play this song. And I remember maybe I was just like in a strange emotional state. I remember this being like the best song I'd ever heard. They played this Thanksgiving song. And I was like,

this is, this is wonderful. Like, this is so good. I don't know why they won't ever play it again. And then they never did. And you can't find it anywhere. I can't get a hold of it. I don't know why they won't ever play it again. And then they never did. And you can't find it anywhere. I can't get a hold of it. I can't even remember like what the lyrics were. It just was feeling very right. And so if you are a member of Princeton or you know Princeton, find out where this Thanksgiving song is. I want it. Uh, great answer, Soren. Thank you. You did great too. You didn't bring me lunch money criminals and that's a huge, huge step up for you. Got it.

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