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Josh here, Chuck here, Jerry, here, Dave here in Spirit.

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Yeah, I'm going to start this one by telling a quick little story of last year.

I got in my Instagram feed for a little while these choirs, these choral singing groups that were, you know, it's kind of a thing now where it's not like, you know we go to the church and it's an official choir

but like hey my friend has a warehouse space and we can put a piano in it and just put out a call

to see like people want to show up and sing together like humanist choirs is that what it's called

oh that's what i'm calling it oh okay yeah oh just because yeah Oh, just because, yeah, humanist episode. I got you.

Yeah, exactly that. And, you know, they're doing like a cool radio head song or something like that, like, or whatever, you know, Christmas music around the holidays.

And I was like, you know what, man, I sang in a choir growing up in my church. And Emily and I both sing. She sang in show choir. And like, we both got a lot out of those experiences. And I haven't done it since I was a teenager. And I was like, man, we got a piano. And I bet you we could get a group together to come around and do this kind of thing. And I was, I still might do it this year, but I, I never got around to it,

but it was something that was really kind of on my, my list. So are you going to do it, though, you think? Well, I really want to do it. Okay. We'll do it. Yeah, I do want to because I think, you know, I would be the facilitator, but I would get someone who's like, somebody's got to lead the show because I can't do that, but I'll sing and I'll put, you know, I'll provide the space and the piano.

Okay, there you go. I think that's a good start.

I think it would be fun, like a neighborhood deal.

And a long way of sort of getting around to this idea that they've kind of learned that singing is good for you and specifically singing together like in a choir.

Right. Yeah, that's a big thing. And Chuck, if you did get a choral group together,

you guys would be the 250,000 and first chorus group in the United States because that's how many are in there.

Yeah.

Something like almost 29 million people regularly sing in a choral group in the United States,

and it's the most popular of all arts-related participatory activities.

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