Wonderful! - Wonderful! 397: Required for Show Choir

Episode Date: November 26, 2025

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Hi, this is Rachel McElroy. Hello, this is Griffin McElroy. And this is wonderful. Welcome to Wonderful. It's a podcast. We talk about things we like that's good that we're into. And I do a podcast, every American thing. Thanksgiving already. This feels like a sort of year-round giving of thanks show.

Okay. I thought you were like, this one that we do feels sort of like a year-round podcast. No, I would never, ever, ever say the show we do where I get to sit in my office for like a half hour and talk to my lovely wife about like really good stuff and I get to learn about poetry and talk to you for a long time and it's like the best. I would never say that that is like a year of watching. Paul Blart Malkop 2. I wouldn't say that that is the same experience. When this comes out, it will be the day before. Yeah. So for those of you listening on the day that this episode comes out tomorrow, you can look forward to a very special Paul Blart, Paul, Paul, Paul. Are you able to do that easily? Paul Blart Malcop 2? Well, the name of the podcast is Tell Death Do Us Blart. Yeah, so you

don't have to. But every viewing of Paul Blart Malcop 2 is a special viewing of Paul Blart Malcop 2. this one especially so for i don't want to spoil it but it's a it's a really a year where we celebrate it was an investment of resources for griffin a tremendous and multiple ways and other people on the call a huge investment of time and resources um but a special uh oh if we got cut cut off mid sentence there it's because we had a power outage for a second and maybe it's maybe that was paul maybe that's the paul blark curse i don't know Anyway, my... That was Kevin James, like, saying, hey, I feel like I should be making money off of this, and I'm not.

So... Kevin's getting his fucking beak wet. I am not worried a little bit about how Kevin James is doing. Oh, because you're sending him checks? Sony Pictures Entertainment is sending him fucking checks, and we're boosting their bottom line by talking about this. Did you know that you can watch that film for free now on YouTube? Really? Yeah.

I love that. Is it part of their, like, educational, like, sort of program? Well, it's possible I have a Not to brag A YouTube premium account And there are free films available On that platform

And I thought, I don't know why you struggle so much with that That'd be cool If it was like a movie about sort of Like kind of Merlock fish people Just like He used to be called Paul Blart's Shopping Emporium. Yeah.

Because so many people like me had trouble with it. Right. And also in that version, he wasn't a mall cop. He owned the mall. And it was a very different film. He owned the shopping emporium. Very, yes, thank you. Very straight-laced.

I'm going to say my small wonder this week is Paul Blar Mallcop, too. And my annual time to get to sit with my brothers and friends from New Zealand and talk about that, great film. Yeah. Fun, fun watch this year. Spoilers. I can't remember. Sorry, I know we're talking about this a lot.

I can't remember how you guys started. How did that even happen? Do you remember? We met Tim and Guy in L.A. when we were there doing like, I think the first ever live Taz show at L.A. Podcon or L.A. podcast festival or something like that. They also came in and we were huge fans of Worst Idea of all time and they were fans of our stuff. And we had like dinner with them and hung out a bunch.

And Paul Blart Mallcock, too, had come out that year. So this is what I had forgotten is that that movie came out in April of 2015. And we started the show November of 2015. So there was a, there was a timeliness. There was a newspeg to it. Still, though. We wanted to do it. I thought it sound fun.

But that movie, like, I know that the whole thing with Tim and Guy is that they started watching. Grownups too. Yes, without having seen the first one. Right. And is that why you all were like, oh, well, you know, what sequel just came out, and we haven't seen the first one. I think it was just the timeliness.

It was a new entry in the kind of Happy Madison sort of uvra. Yeah. And so we just kind of makes sense. Okay. All right. Now I'm caught up. That Adam Sandler had anything to do with this one. If you've never listened and never watched the show, don't watch Paul Bart Maw Kopp 2 unless

you're going to watch it 11 times. Unless you're going to actually fuck around with the big dogs. watching it once is nothing watching it 11 times actually it starts to be something do you have a small wonder um oh man i so i have been dipping my toe into the holiday season um but i'm trying to be thoughtful about just going bit by bit yeah sure so um i got uh i got a I got a Christmas, like, or a... That was the most wonderful little Dr. Hubbard laugh. That was really good, baby.

I'm just laughing at myself because I got a pine tree candle, which I really enjoy in the holiday season. Here's the thing. I haven't taken it out of the box yet. It's in a box. I know. I saw it in the kitchen. And I got excited.

I was like, hell yeah. At some indeterminate point in the future, it's going to smell like pine trees up in this shit. I convinced myself that it was too early to burn the candle. You're right. But that it was not too early. to put the candle in the box on the kitchen gallery. Can I tell you what it is for me?

It's got to be the day we put the tree up. I need that simulation. Do you know, I need that stimulation, that simulation, that Christmas time feeling. I need it all to happen. If I, if the, if I smell tree and I don't see tree, I'm going to lose my fucking mind. It's like where there's smoke, there's a fire. This case, it would be like where there's smoke. There's definitely not a fire.

It's just smoke. And why is this mysterious smoke present? Yeah, I think you could actually just say where there's tree smell, there's tree. I think that you could, you could just say. So I was like, oh, I really want to smell this candle. You got to earn it, though. But we're not there yet. We traditionally, I think, based on my urgency, put it up the day after Thanksgiving.

Is that correct? Yeah. I mean, it's as close to a tradition as we have. Yeah. Coming up. We're this week. If you're listening to this right now. Friday.

Friday. You go first this week. Would you like to tell me what you've prepared? That tree has started to come back to live. I don't know if you noticed. we're back up to about a dozen viable leaves on that thing. I need to do some pruning. I'm not sure if you're supposed to do that with an indoor money tree plant like that,

but it's funneling a lot of resources towards some branches that are clearly like aesthetic and like non-functional. The reason Griffin brought that up is that when we record in the studio, I sit right next to the money tree. Yeah. And if I'm moving my chair, I brush up against it. And I try not to let it be a symbolic like Beauty and the Beast. thing like if all the leaves fall off the money tree that I left outside too long when it got too cold and it died pretty much instantly then I'll die or whatever but it's hard not to okay my topic this week yes sequins sequins sequins sequins sequins

Beads Bees? Like a Rested Development He says That I forget It's like George Michael is like talking about

Or someone is talking to Job About how they've invested a bunch of money in What was Portia de Rossi's character's name? Oh yeah And in Beads And he says bees And she says, beads. And he says,

Beads. Like, it makes him angrier for some reason. Anyway, you're saying sequins, like the thing that you would put on a pillow or a jacket, not a sequence or, like, the card game. Okay. Yes. Got you. I don't think I've played the card game.

I think I have. I see it at Target every time we go. And they're always pushing sequence in such a big way. Lindsay is the character. Lindsay, thank you. I had to Google it. Yeah. Somehow I forgot.

Beads. That joke hits so fucking. hard for me, man. Sequins. So this time a year. Yeah. I don't typically do like a holiday outfit because I don't typically do a holiday thing where I need to wear a holiday outfit. But because of candle nights this year.

Yes. I started looking at different holiday themed outfits and I started remembering my secret, shameful love for sequins. It's not shameful. There's no shame in this room. I think about the way that I dress 364 days a year. It does not seem like I am a sequin person. And I think with the fact that I feel like maybe I am, feels like shameful. I just want this to be a space free of, I want this to be a space free of shame.

Do you remember when the solar panel guys came and they were giving us a consultation and they had to come up here and later came downstairs? And they were like, we made it to do a little bit of extra workup in the game room. And I was like, what? And they're like, the room on the third floor. And I was like, do you mean my off it? Like, that's a shame. That is the only way that this is a shameful room. I don't want it to be like an arena of shame.

That's true. I love that you love Sequins. So I think my connection to sequins goes back to when I used to do dance class and dance recitals. Fuck yeah. It's not like a dance recital costume if there aren't sequins on it. Right. It's kind of like if, if you. You had perhaps been somebody who had done, like, I don't know, gymnastics or...

I didn't. Travis did enough show choir for the three of us. Show choir. The sequins. The vest, right? The vest, the gloves. It's just, uh, the gloves didn't have sequins on them, but they were there. Is that universal for show choir?

The men have to wear vests? Because that was true at our show choir. I wasn't in it. Uh, I was in marching band, so. Right. Too cool. Very, super cool. super duper cool

I don't know I can't I'm not going to make any judgments about show choir and you're not going to trap me or trick me into saying anything mean No judgments there just talking about whether or not the vest is a requirement of show choir Yes Yes it is

What if it wasn't but only Travis had to wear them Only Travis had to wear a sequence And he just never noticed he would go out on stage All the time and just not even pay attention to the fact That nobody else had sequins on their vest sparkling, sparkly lad. And that is what I'm saying. I like the sparkle.

Yeah, sure. To bring it all back. I like the feel of it. When you rub your hand against it. Have you worn a sequin? No. What possible, I'm trying to think of what job of the many hats I've worn. As a man of the theater.

Right. I thought it was possible. Maybe you'd worn a sequin. You know what? In Showcase 98, there was like a Bob Fosse. We did one. Singular sensation. Did you really?

Yes, I do, I do think I had a sequence sort of thing in the little, and the little hat. You would have been in middle school, right? I would have been 11 years old, yeah. In sequence? Yeah. Why is that combination of facts good for you? It's just funny to think about. This is a shame free zone, and we can say shit about my brother Travis in sequence.

I think I'm allowed to laugh. I'm not shaming. No. But I'm experiencing joy. It's out of character, I'll admit, yes. I definitely wore sequins because I think that was the same year that I performed Extraordinary from Pippen as part of that musical theater showcase. And I think I remember sequence being a sort of an element there as well. I got, so there was one year.

I mean, I definitely had sequins on every dance costume, but there was one year I got a little golden sequin tube top. They went with this little black, like, jacket and little black shorts. And I got mileage out of that tube top, my senior year. It's such, it's giving such Sparkle Motion energy. For sure. Absolutely it is. For sure. Anyway, holiday.

What a time to be alive. Holiday season. Yes. I understand the people, I think, wore a lot of sequins when attending the Erez tour, if I recall correctly. Okay, fine. But I think for the most part, you will see sequins primarily at dance recitals and during the holiday season. Well, and on those pillows where you rub your hand on it one way and it changes colors. Yeah, it goes one way or the other.

And you do it one way and it turns into like Steve Buscemi's face or something. But they hide the Steve Buscemi face with it. There is a deep history for sequins. Do you want to know about it? Absolutely. I do. What are we doing here if not this? When King Tuts Tomb was discovered.

Holy fucking shit. Shit, my man. I did not think it was going to go that far back. I mean, so here's the thing. They were gold. I'm going to start sneaking that into every segment of mine from now on. Like, oh, you want to know the history of Slim Jims, huh? When they exhumed King Tut's tomb.

So, okay, you know, you know tombs, like full of stuff, right? Yeah. Apparently, there were gold sequin-like discs found sewn onto the Egyptian royal's garments. That's cool. And this was back in 1922 that they discovered his two. Obviously, King Tut. I'm going to say. I know sometimes this happens where it'll be like, you're actually closer to like the invention of the cotton gin than the moon landing is to Taylor Swift's era.

I thought it was one of those things. It was like surprise. King Tut was alive in 1935. No. No, he didn't like record a radio program and then go into his tomb. You'll never find my secret treasures. Time to die. But anyway, if you think about it, that kind of lines up with the whole like flapper phenomenon of like sequins.

I love that. I think people went crazy for sequins right around that time because they were like, oh wait. Oh, wait. King Tuts into it. Yeah, for sure. The Arabic word Sika means coin. Okay. During the 13th century gold coins produced in Venice.

were known as Zecchio for centuries, variations of Sika and Zecchio were used in Europe and the Middle East. Cool. I don't know if I'm saying Zecchio and it should be Sikio and that's why they gave that Venetian

example. Okay. But anyway, long time. Yeah. Long time. Sowing gold and other metals onto clothing was multifunctional serving as a status symbol, as I mentioned, or theft deterrent.

So for people that were traveling. Well, that's insane. They would sew their metal goods into their clothes so that they could travel safely. Now I will say these days, when you are in, you know, some sort of area where pickpocketing is perhaps a common thing. I don't think they tell you to sew the money, like wear a shirt made of money. I'm pretty sure they sort of suggest the opposite, which is to say. Well, because now you can get those little, I forget even whether they're like little fanny packs that you like hide on. your clothes if you're really feeling...

I could get one of those off you. Now you see me, now you don't. Are you flirting with me? Yeah, I am. And threatening you of theft. What if now you see me... I could get a hidden fanny pack off you in five seconds. What if the new Now You See Me movie was just like, Jesse Eisenberg, Woody, the gang,

going around just snapping fanny packs off people. That's the whole movie. At the end of the movie, Mark Ruffel is like, how many did you get, guys? 14 fanny packs Good job guys The end Anyway Okay so originally

Discs of Metal In the 1930s When they became super popular again On the little like flapper outfits There was a process developed To electroplate gelatin Okay Which was like a lighter weight version

Of the shiny metal One obstacle Besides the coloring being lead based was that a gelatin sequin would melt if it got too wet or too warm. Yeah, that's an obstacle. So if you wore a, like, sparkly sequin outfit to a dance and then a gentleman had his hand on your lower back for too much of the dance, you might lose.

That's your... You might lose a section of your sequence. Is that a gentleman's hand, a sweaty paw will cause it to... Well, that was like that, I mean, that was kind of the tell. It happened all the time back then. Yeah, for sure. I mean, obviously, raining problem. What's cool, though, is that if you wear this basically lead scale mail and you go to the dentist, you don't have to put anything else on when you do the x-rays.

You can just walk in, they blast you, you walk right out in your lead armor you're wearing. I would love that if they put sequins on that little vest they put on you when they do the x-rays. Just anything. It's so fashion backward. There will never be a time where that vest looks good. Even as cyclical as fashion trends are, that thing is always going to look totally. totally fucking busted. It's comforting to have a big heavy blanket on you?

It is. It's like a weighted blanket. Yeah. Okay. Next, after the gelatin sequence, we get to acetate. And that came about because Herbert Lieberman worked with Eastman Kodak, who was using acetate in its film stock in 1930s to develop acetate sequence. And so the light would penetrate through the acetate. also still pretty brittle though acetate will crack like glass so you still had an issue of like you can't wash that you can't like put that you know in a pile with your other clothes well i have to also imagine it's it's somewhat prohibitive for uh for everyone to get their hands on like a good sequin vest it's made out of expensive photo equipment uh 1952 uh my our sequins hit the scene.

Wow. Sequins really are sort of a yardstick for industrial kind of like development of mankind. It's in business professionals everywhere are inventing an item and then sitting around and deciding whether or not this could improve the sequin. Yep. Sequins now, microchips. All right. We've moved away from the floppy disk. Yep. How will this impact sequence? My sequence invest is Bitcoin data mining right now.

Mylar, of course, you know, like it made me think of those like happy birthday balloons. Oh, sure. You know, now we're talking about vinyl plastic. More durable and cost effective. The vinyl plastic will still curl and lose its shape, but it will not melt off your back when it rains. That's great. I love that about it. That's one of my favorite.

That's what I keep reading in all the Amazon reviews of the sequin shirts I look at every day is that it won't. if a gentleman caller puts his hand on the nape of your back for long enough, it won't melt five stars. The nape of your back. Yeah. Can you say that? Yeah. Every part of you has a nape.

If you look hard enough. I feel like that's the name of the episode. To every part, it's nape. So that's Sequence. I love it. To answer your question that you didn't ask, I did not purchase anything with Sequence. but I looked real hard at it. That's good.

You can be delighted by the concept of something and not practically go for it. I want to make this, first of all, a shame-free zone, but a zone where we feel good sort of delighting in the fancy of conceptual wonders. Griffin knows that anything, anytime I consider doing something frivolous, there is a real consideration behind it, which negates the frivolity for sure. Yes. But I want you to know that I looked real hard at sequences here. I know you do.

You had an energy of sort of consternation all day today. Now I know why you were thinking about sequence. I thought, like, is this the year where I go out and purchase something that I maybe only wear once that has sequins on it? And the answer is no. Good. But maybe next year. It would be wild if it was yes. Can I steal you away?

Yes. I got a good one for you and for everyone out there. Blessings to my Algo. Rarely do I bless my Algo, but it gave me a good gift. That is how this came across your desk. It did, I think, because I got very into watching Wolfpack videos again. Wolfpack, I've talked about on this show before, just a band full of consummate professionals

at their various crafts and I love watching their live performances because they're fucking crazy like they're really, really, really good at playing their instruments. That's fun to watch and I think that's how I got served a video of a live performance of a band called Lake Street Dive

performing their cover of Shania Twain's You're Still the One, which is my wonder today. I obviously, Everyone knows you're still the one by Shania Twain. Yeah. It was an absolutely stratospheric fucking chart-topping mega hit from 1998 off her album. Come on Over.

It's just everywhere that year and every year since really just a genuinely sweet track about just rugged, time-tested love. You don't get a lot of love songs that's like, you know, we've been together for a long time. time, but it's still so fucking hot. It's still so, you've kept it so tight and it's so great and I love it even now. You've kept it so tight. The original name of the song was, you've kept it so tight and I love it even now. From 1998's, Come On Over by Shania Twain. This song has been covered by a bunch of different artists.

Casey Musgraves did it on tour with Harry Styles live a bunch. I bet that was cool. Yeah, I bet. Kelly Clarkson, Prince did a version in 1999. Prince was an early adopter. that he recorded and uploaded to his website, which was still a fairly new kind of like distribution platform for music at the time.

But this version, this cover by the band Lake Street Dive, puts so much fucking English on the ball that it really makes it something new and very, very, very exciting. I would encourage people to watch this video. They are all so delighted to be playing this song and just having fun with it. It's so in the pocket.

Like, everyone is fucking vibing on stage, off the stage. They were just touring with Lawrence and fuck. I bet that was a good show. Anyway, enough teasing. Here's a clip from the live performance of You're Still the One by Lake Street Dive, which is available on their YouTube channel. Looks like we made it. Look how far we've come, my baby.

Might have took the long way. We knew we get here someday They said I'll bet That's right They'll never make it But just the That's holding on

It just makes sense folks Jazzy Jassy soulful Yeah Very very very slow And like the fucking Like the beat is just like From like the second beat of it, you're already kind of like shoulder bopping, which is really an accomplishment.

The voice you are hearing singing that is Aki Burmiss, who is the keyboardist and singer of Lake Street Dive. It's a five-piece band from Boston. They formed at the New England Conservatory of Music in 2004. Originally, they called themselves a free country band, was the genre that they did. And this is from Wikipedia. They intended to play country music in an improvised avant-garde style. This concept was abandoned in favor of something that, quote, actually sounded good, according to Mike Olson, one of the founding members of the band. The band's name Lake Drive was inspired by the Bryant Lake Bowl, which was at a bar, a hangout of the band's early years in Lake Street in Minneapolis.

Oh, I assume Chicago for some reason. Well, it sounds like Lakeshore Drive. True. And also there is a Lake Street. Yes, there is. So they've put out like a bunch of different stuff. They've got eight studio albums, a couple live ones. They've had a couple roster changes.

Aki Burmiss actually didn't join the band until 2017. Most of the time, the lead vocals are done by Rachel Price is the traditional lead singer of the band. This cover is one of a high. half dozen covers or so on an album that came out in 2022, an EP called Fun Machine the sequel. It's all covers. There's some other bangers on there, including Linger, a really, really sick version of the Cranberry's Linger, but it's called Fun Machine the sequel because they also put out

another album like 12 or so years ago called Fun Machine that was a series of covers. And the name of this band and this concept of like covering a 90s, like, chart topic. country pop hit like it felt really familiar to me and then i realized in in researching the band for this subject that they actually went viral 12 years ago for a cover that was off the the original fun machine album of i want you back and it is this slower again super duper jazzy version of the song uh with vocals by rachel price who just really knocks the thing out of the fucking part yeah i'll play actually a little clip of it right here for the folk song Oh, oh, baby, give me one more chance.

Won't you please let me back in your heart now? Oh, darling, I was blind to let you go. So now that I've seen you when it's on you. Well, trying to live without your love is one long sleepless night. Oh, let me show you more that on a wrong ride. So, yeah, they got two EPs that are just all covers that are very, I mean, as the name suggests, very fun and very creative. you bringing the the YouTube show about bands covering songs really kind of reminding me of this they've got a ton of original music too obviously they've got eight studio albums out but

it was really fun being kind of like transported by this cover of this classic song this kind of incredible reinterpretation of this familiar track and then realizing like hey they actually did the same thing to me back in like 2013 with with this cover if I want you back Yeah, there's something, I mean, there's something so charming about covers when they're done in this kind of loving, like, not too cool for school kind of way, you know? Yes. Like when a hit is that big and it is done like in a, I don't know, an area of music that is often like maligned by like, you know, serious musicians. Sure, sure. It's like, it's such a treat to be like, no, you recognize that's a good song.

Yeah, especially a song like this where it is like lyrically a pretty unique concept for a like love song. And having it be sung so, so incredibly like soulfully, like gives it a whole different energy that tracks. Not that the Shania Twain version didn't, but I just think it's so great. And again, the vocals from Aki Burmiss are like really, really, really, really fucking spectacular. I also we don't usually play we don't double-dip a lot but I want to play another little clip from You're Still the One because there is a guitar solo by James Cornelison towards the end of that song that is one of the fucking yuckiest grooves I have heard in a really long time if we play a bit of that too.

So yeah, that's like, you know, and the usual distribution channels, their YouTube channel, has a bunch of actually just performances of this song. They did one that was uploaded by Paste a couple years ago. And I'm a little late coming to this track, but they are, I guess, still performing it live. And that's what this one was from. And holy shit, I would love to see these guys live. Yeah, no kidding.

It seems like the funnest show. Do you want to know what our friends at home are talking about? Yes. We got a lot of emails again. And I love when we get sort of just like a call-and-response style thing with this show about the International Space Station. David specifically said you can absolutely see the International Space Station with the naked eye. The best times are just after sunset or just before sunrise when the huge solar panel arrays

reflects sunlight from over the horizon. It becomes the second brightest object in the sky while it's overhead, absolutely worth looking out for it. I really want to do this now. Yeah. I'd love to be able to look up with my nude eye and see where the astronauts live. That's fucking crazy. You nude eyes.

That's crazy. We don't look up at the night sky very much. Or the daytime sky. I think we look up at the daytime sky a fair amount. Not at sunrise or sunset. No. Usually you're looking at the horizon. You're not looking up for the space station.

That's how it gets by. That's how it sneaks by you. You know, you're looking at the beauty of the waning, morn. Soul of a poet, Griffin McElroy. Thank you. Brain of One, too. Ellis says, my seasonal small wonder is flu shots. They're a wonderful life-saving invention that protects you and everyone around you. And also sometimes they make you feel a bit sick.

And then you can lie around feeling tragically noble about the sacrifice you're making for the greater good. It's sometimes fun to be slightly sick and the knowledge that you're safe from getting dangerously sick. Agreed. I do love kind of the soreness of a flu shot. It makes you feel like you've done something for me. Yeah. Yeah, I will say Griffin and I made a terrible mistake in 2024 where we did not get flu shots for our children, and we will never do that again. Yeah, no, it really, it was a tremendous failing of ours personally and medically.

We just kind of put it off and put it off and it was like for a while it was too early and then it was too late and then the whole year was over and our children got very sick and we all got very sick and it was like that was really dumb. It also was, like the timetable fell at a time where we were all just somewhat sick the whole time. And so like there wasn't like an awesome window for it. But yes, we made a fucking B-line for it this year because we got the flu. And it was truly like a month and a half, two-month long span of abject misery. So yeah, get your flu shots, folks. They got the flu mist now. Boys did the flu miss.

We went to Walmart. We said, what's up? They said, let us shoot this flu. it into your kid's nose and it'll take like a second and no sweat. So thank you so much for listening to our program. Thank you to Bowen and Augustus for the use of our theme song, Money Won't Pay. You can find a link to that in the episode description. Again, tomorrow, Tel Dethios Blart, episode 11 for the 10th year, which is confusing, but the math does make sense if you sit down to really think about it. Very fun watch,

very fun surprise that we had planned for one of the host. of the show this year. And we have some merch for Tell Death Dois Blart over at the Macquarie merch store, Macroymerch.com. There's also some Candle Nights merch, and while you're thinking about that, thinking about ornaments and what have you, why don't you consider coming to see Candleights

in Huntington, West Virginia. We're going to be putting it on at the Keith Alby, December 6th. Going to be a fun family variety show. No cussing, doing bits from a bim-bam and clubhouse and other stuff. We have done the drive from D.C. to Huntington many times now.

Yes. It is a very pretty drive. Lovely. I would encourage anybody in the like DMV area. I mean, it's six hours. It's a lot of driving. Yeah, for sure. But it is gorgeous.

It is gorgeous. And it really is like, I don't know. That is my kind of like holiday spirit sort of start line. Me too. It really, really, really activates something in me. And also all of the proceeds for that show go to benefit in Harmony House, which is a really wonderful organization from Huntington. But you can also get a virtual ticket.

You can get a virtual ticket to that show is going to be video on demand December 19th. And again, proceeds for that go to Harmony House, which works to end homelessness in the Huntington area with a bunch of different supportive service programs. You can see what festive holiday outfit I ended up choosing. Non-sequent, but still festive and celebratory. And I'm excited. Maybe sequins. You just said you didn't.

Well, but there's still time. For you to change your mind about, I guess so. I guess maybe. I could. Everyone could be wearing sequins. This is what's beautiful about life, Griffin, is that tomorrow I could be out in the world and I could see a sequin outfit and I could choose to change everything in that moment. Yeah. You would have to be sort of foundationally a pretty different person from the person you are now.

That feels like a challenge. Yes. I will leave this house right now and go by sequins if it's going to be like that. I know actually that you have obligations that you need to do after this podcast. Yeah, I was going to go to the gym. Don't threaten me with a good time. So, yeah, you can get tickets for candlelights at bit.ly slash canalights 2025. And I think that's it.

Fun app this week. I had a great time recording with you, babe. And I just, I love doing this show. It's such a balm. And I hope you had a good time listening. We'll be back with a new one next week. So don't touch that dial. It's got jam on it.

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