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Hello everyone.

Oh, what a day it's been. What a day it's been and what a day it's been.

What a day it's been and what a day it will continue to be.

Let me paint the picture for what I'm seeing right now.

Holiday decor all around John's apartment.

Merry Christmas, red bows, twinkling Christmas lights.

It is feeling like the holiday season, the holiday season. The candles are lit as well. And my Winter Wonderland single is live. Walking in a Winter Wonderland. Since I know how much you love singing, I want to sing as much as I can, specifically

this episode. I want to hear, before we get into anything, how did the release of your

Winter Wonderland single go? Oh, thank you for asking Chris. It went great. Millions of downloads.

Top of the charts. What, I mean, did you expect anything less from your co-hosts? Never. November 1st, it's the number one day to listen to Christmas music in my house. I mean, basically nobody listened to it. You know what I mean? But I think a lot did. No, I saw so many people listening to it. No, no. It was actually so nice. So many people were listening, re-shared it. And I tried to share as many as I could. But a fun

little story is, is I was wearing a little hat on that cover. And it said, it said St. Hilary

Sabres, which was my mom's elementary school. And I don't know why I was wearing. I said,

what hat is this? My mom goes, oh, that was my school hat. Well, Alisa was at my grandmother's house this past week. And she was going through a bag of things my grandmother was getting rid of. The hat was in it. The hat, because if you haven't seen, the cover is a little picture of little John hugging a snowman. Yeah, and it went to Wondola. How old were you there? Like six? Yeah, I was like six or seven. I did not need to do that. And honestly, it's not even funny. We can't and we won't. Yeah, yeah. So move on. But I was probably six, maybe eight or seven, maybe that or five. Anyway, so Elisa gave it to me the morning of my release and my nephew Salem

said, Uncle John, you should make that your tree topper. So you can't see right now, but around the

corner, it's the tree topper for the tree this year is that little hat. What a sweet little

tidbit. I know. A little inside scoop to the cover of Winter Vondaland.

Vintavondaland. A lot of people wait till after Thanksgiving to start listening to Christmas

music. So I, I, you don't even know the the charts that this thing's about to hit once Thanksgiving's

over. Man, man, man. It's so fun, though. I love doing it. And now this is the second year in a row that I've released something on November 1st. It's like, it's so fun. Is it sustainable? No, but a full-length album coming one year soon. Coming a decade from now to your ears. Exactly. But Merry Christmas, Chris. I lit the candles, have everything ready for you so you feel a little bit like that holiday feeling. Thanksgiving is around the corner. We're fully in November. It's fall. Ugh. It's just the best time of year. I would say right now is peak fall leaves in Tennessee. It really is. It's beautiful. It's gorgeous. It's beautiful. I played pickleball this week. And just the surrounding trees of the court were yellow, vibrant red, orange. And I just sat there thinking, what a God, what a king that he would feast my eyes on these trees. You know?

That was giving very Willy Wonka in the chocolate factory.

You're right.

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