December 24, 2025 • 28 mins
On a holiday-themed episode of In Service Of members of the one and only Pentatonix join Steve Baltin and Sage Bava to discuss their new Xmas album, the legendary Frank Sinatra, holiday movies, touring and more.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Hey to Steve Balton and happy holidays this week. Saint
Bob and I are very thrilled to be joined by
members of Pentatonics to talk about, of course what else
their Christmas record, But it was like singing with Frank Sinatra,
working with members of his band and everything holiday related.
(00:27):
As always, it's a joy to talk to these guys.
They have great energy, great spirit and they will definitely.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Put you in the holiday mood. Thanks so much.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
It's a fun, fun album. I mean, you've done many
of these holiday albums. Now, what was the process like
putting together this one, like choosing the songs, and I
mean I want to dive deep into how you go
about amazing harmony clusters because that's just like goosebumps and
(01:04):
I'm sure it's super fun to discover what those moments are.
But yeah, starting with snow and talk about putting this
collection together and choosing these songs, and I know some
of them are not chosen, but are things that you've created.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
That's a great question, and thank you so much for
those kind kind words. You know, I guess to give
an overview of Christmas in the city. Funny enough, our
bandmate Scott was in New York and he kind of
I think, was walking around the city last year, had
this kind of concept that he wrote down called Christmas
in the City. So I remember actually last Christmas in Chicago,
(01:46):
we were actually getting together just to conceptualize the idea
behind it, literally in Alsine Arena, doing a rehearsal before
we went on stage, just to talk about what the
album could be.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
And we really wanted to go for this kind of
forties them.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
Class sound that we had never attempted before because we
always wanted to say.
Speaker 6 (02:04):
True to the a cappella.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
But you know, after doing things like Masked Singer where
we got to experiment with our instrumentation, we felt like
this was the right time to be able to try
something new using our harmonies with this instrumentation to create
a new sound for us.
Speaker 7 (02:20):
So after we got off tour, we got back together
in February and started making just what we call pre arrangements,
which is basically us pre producing what the tracks could
sound like with just our.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
Voices, so we have an ARC.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
And then we worked with a man named Dave Pearce
who worked on Michael bou Blaze Big Christmas album, and
it was amazing talking to him because he said, you know,
I know you guys have an iconic Christmas business, but
I want to create an iconic Christmas album. I feel
like you guys have yet to tackle that with the
likes of the Bing Crosbies and the Nat King Coles
and the Michael bou Blaze. And he has such great
(02:56):
expertise in that, and we were so honed in on
that vision. And once he said that, so he took
our pre arrangements and built the world around it through instrumentation,
big band, orchestra, whatnot, what have you. And then in
June we got together with those arrangements and sang the
whole album, you know, front to back in two weeks.
(03:17):
And then after that, the hard part, I think was
the challenge of figuring out the balance of our new
instrumentation with our voices and making sure that we were
still front and center, but really allowing the instrumentation to
elevate what we did. And that took a bit of
rearranging and also a bit of figuring out mixing on
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the back end. But I think we got to a
place that we were really really proud of in the end,
and these songs really are representation of kind of a
moment in time that we're really proud of.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
You know, it's interesting when do you have a producer
like to say, Dave pushed you. I mean, you know,
it's funny because you know, like Christmas is one of
those things where it's like, you know, it's it's so
loved by so many people, but it's also there is
a feeling of like how do we make it new?
Because it is so steeped in tradition, because like you say,
(04:11):
there is the bing Crosby, there is you know, the
naking call. So for you guys, how exciting was it
to be able to take it and it's something that
you've done for years, but then at the same time
make it new and put a modern spin on it
and you know, do it in some in a way
that is like exciting for you and also keeps it
new and fresh because you know, no one wants to
(04:33):
keep doing the same songs over and over as an artist.
As an artist, you just need to push yourself.
Speaker 8 (04:39):
Yeah, I mean, and that's you nailed it. It's it's
this process was so challenging in a beautiful way because
we all five of us come from different influences of music.
And different, you know, people that we're inspired by, and
so that's been a superpower of ours. It's because we
(05:01):
get to bring in different palettes of paint and you know,
paint this beautiful picture. And so to have Dave come
and bring all the instrument palette, it was all orchestration, instrumentation,
every instrument imaginable, I think we used. I think we
use almost every instrument in this On this album. It
was from flutes to having Frank Sinatra's original trio come
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and play the bass and the drums and the and
the piano, and.
Speaker 6 (05:30):
Us get to Kevin's going back and forth with the drummer.
Speaker 8 (05:33):
I'm singing with the bass player who's played on the
you know, iconic basslines like these boots.
Speaker 6 (05:38):
Are made for walking.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
You know.
Speaker 8 (05:40):
It's like it's it's really, it's just all of this
history and this beautiful thing. And also I'm having orchestra
orchestrations where we're kind of feeling like we're getting our
Disney moment where we're singing with like an orchestra and
feeling like we're, you know, singing in a Broadway musical.
And so there's so such a big musical journey in
art and we started and we started January of last year,
(06:03):
so or December of last year. So it took a
long time to really hone in what the sound was
going to be, what what uh the songs were going
to feel like? How do we make these and flip
these on their head? Because Holly Jolly's been done a
million times? So how do we make Holly Jolly feel different?
And And I feel like a good through line and
(06:23):
theme is that we just it was it's really fun,
Like all the music is really joyful.
Speaker 6 (06:28):
It's really uh like congregational, you know, Oh, it's really people.
Speaker 8 (06:35):
It's it invites people to sing with you and invites
people to sing different lines and different chants, and and
it has stuff for kids like Elf on the Shelf
and and Christmas movie We're you know, talking about the
originals talking about nostalgic Christmas movies, and it just has
a bunch of things for that that I feel like
we kept exploring. We kept going that's cool, that's cool.
(06:55):
How do we how do we embellish on that? How
do we go forward on that? And it just became
this beautiful thing that when we looked back and we
were finished, we were like.
Speaker 6 (07:04):
Wow, that was a ride.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
Yeah, And also I think to piggyback off of that.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
I think it's really interesting your question about how do
you make it new for us? Because we're a modern
a cappella group, Right, You're not thinking about beatboxing that
was done in the fifties or the sixties. Right, That's
a very modern concept, and the kind of beats I
normally do are very hip hop inspired, trap inspired. I mean,
we do lots of stomps and claps, like very much
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of this day and age.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
So what made it new for us was going back.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
To something that was old and antique and something that
was of that age, which I think that for us
was really interesting because how do you create an innovative
sound with these modern beats for example that I do
mix with this.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
Lush, beautiful sound.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
And so there were times we had to think through that,
like how do we still bring a freshness to it,
an air of you know, kind of twenty first century.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
So you know, there are.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Times where you know, I would add a hip hop
beat to one of the songs that we did Blitzen
and it was very jazz inspired, and then I'd go
into a small hip hop beat at a place and
you're like, oh wait, I would ever expect that.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
Within the context of the forties.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
But we're still bringing that sound mixed with a little
bit of what's going on today. So I think finding
that balance was really really interesting. As you know, Matt's
had a fun challenge.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
That's awesome. All Right, I'm gonna ask one more question.
Then let's say it's shake back over. But now I'm
dying in Now. Do you guys know the engineer Als Schmidt?
Speaker 6 (08:35):
No, I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
So as Schmidt was this guy who was like he
was the in house engineer at Capital for like fifty
sixty years, and he was the biggest fucking legend that
ever existed in that world because he was like the
one guy who could talk about working with Sinatra and
Brian Wilson and Dylan, with Paul McCartney. And so the
reason I asked is like, when you talk to him,
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you would feel that spear. So for you guys, when
you're playing with Sinatra's musicians, like were you busting out
the Jack Daniels where you like, what.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
Was that like?
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Because those guys were so much a part of history.
And I'm so fascinated with Sinatra because I truly think
of him as the first rock star.
Speaker 6 (09:17):
Yeah, well it was ten am, so it was pretty
so it's pretty early for that.
Speaker 8 (09:24):
But you know, it's just humbling, Like true, truthfully, you
can't you can't like go hey, let.
Speaker 6 (09:32):
Me show you something.
Speaker 8 (09:33):
It's like it's like no, you sit down and you
become a sponge and you just take in all the
and and he was just so sweet, and I just
talking and just all his stories and we were just
asking questions and how and truthfully, I was just taking
his hearing what he was doing and some of the
just the way he was playing. I was like, there's
(09:55):
nobody that sounds specifically like this, like it's just in
the world. And so I'm trying trying to emulate some
of those sounds. Like I feel like I get to
add to my repertoire. So I'm like trying to emulate
some of these sounds, some of the techniques, some of
the slides and just really nerdy stuff. But it was
really it was really fun and they and they they're
(10:16):
so good and they've done this so long that they
could play it one time and it'd be done.
Speaker 6 (10:21):
So we did it a few more times. They're like
we could do it again if you want, but they do.
Speaker 8 (10:25):
There's like as perfect as it comes when it comes
to like session musicians or people sitting in and so
you can just tell the years of just time.
Speaker 6 (10:34):
And and they were just so they were so humble too.
Speaker 8 (10:36):
They were just so kind to us to be like
and they were like, we love the music and you know,
and things like that.
Speaker 6 (10:41):
So it's just it's surreal. It was a surreal process.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Yes, I have to ask more about the Frank Sinatra endeavor,
what it was like to arrange around that voice and
if anything unexpected happened in that process. And I mean
there's kind of a kinshit that happened when you're singing
with someone and you're hearing that back to you. Was
there any like questions that came up that you wish
(11:08):
you could have asked him or I don't know anything
and that I'm sure there are millions, but I mean,
what was it like?
Speaker 8 (11:14):
The whole thing was really unexpected because we we wanted
to do the song I've Got My Love to keep
Me Warm because it has snow in it.
Speaker 6 (11:24):
You know, it's like Christmas adjacent.
Speaker 8 (11:26):
You know, we try to find songs that do that
since we're running out of Christmas songs to cover, and
so that was already on our list and so when
Dave came into the process, he saw that that was
on our list and he was like, oh, I oversee
the Frank Sinatra estate. Would you guys be interested in
Frank Frank doing this unreleased version because nobody's.
Speaker 6 (11:47):
Ever heard it or nobody's ever released it.
Speaker 8 (11:49):
And we were like are It was like, yeah, let
me just talk to them. And it was like a
month or so process of talking to the Sinatra state,
you know, getting it approved and all, and we got
I remember hearing that first vocal.
Speaker 6 (12:04):
It's like an isolated vocal of Frank Sinatra, you.
Speaker 8 (12:07):
Know, it's like what is and he's but he recorded
in the same room with the other instrumentalists, so you
can hear the bleek mild from the other instrumentalists, and
you can hear paper papers wrestling, and like just the
authenticity of the room and the sound and it's just
like that that was if that was.
Speaker 6 (12:24):
One of the coolest experiences of my life. Truly. It's
just because we get to be a part of this historic.
Speaker 8 (12:29):
Thing and not I mean and the song is blessed,
bless to say it's number one.
Speaker 6 (12:34):
For two weeks in a row. It's just crazy, and.
Speaker 8 (12:37):
So it's just I feel like we're lucky, it bless
to be on the ride to support this thing for
Frank and keep his legacy, you know, going forward in
the Christmas space too.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
Yeah, and also to your question about did we like
in terms of arranging in it, because we wanted to
be very respectful to his vocal. You know, honestly that
that was a challenge and I think we really allowed
Dave to step in and do his magic because he
knows the estate well and he knows that sound so well,
and he could arrange for our voices, and so he
(13:11):
really didn't arrange with that I think was extremely I
mean respectful, but still new for us. And then to
see the back and forth between Kirsty and Frank was
just so cool. And I mean she did that solo
many times because she's like, I don't want to mess
this up, you know, So it was so cool to
see her being so detailed in every single phrase articulation.
(13:35):
She was really really meticulous in making it a vocal
that was worthy of being next to Frank Sinatra and
we're just so proud of it, like you said, to
know that it's been number one for this long on
the holiday charts and now also on the AC chart,
you know that way it's been ranked.
Speaker 6 (13:52):
It's just it's it's just cool.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
Man, Like what it's just cool.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
It's funny though you say, it's just cool, and it's
you know, I talk with the artists all the time
about like you're making it moments, and most people will
say it's like, well, your Maine it moment is when
you hear someone singing your songs back to you. And
there are things that you can anticipate having number one songs.
There are things you can eat, like playing successful sold
out shows. One thing you can't imagine when you're a
(14:20):
kid is that one day you will be trusted with
Sinatra by the estate. I mean, is that one of
those moments where it's just like you realize like it's
not even making it. It's just like a different level
where you're like kind of like how did we get here? Yeah?
Speaker 9 (14:41):
And it's it is so cool that they revered our
music at that at you know, in that tier which
I stole to this day.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
I mean, you never think about that because like Frank
is one of the most iconic voices of all time,
point blank period. And the fact that the estate, you know,
Frank's family would say, we want to be so collaborative
with this group because we believe in this specific group
to be able to respect, honor and elevate the vocal
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of the most iconic singer of you know, of all
time one of them is just what a blessing.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
I mean, you just I don't know.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
You don't never think about that, like you said, when
you're a three year old kid, like playing with your
toys and stuff like that.
Speaker 8 (15:30):
And even on another level, we've we've collabed with like
Wynney Houston and you know, and people you don't you
don't think that you get to collab with people who
are no longer with us.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (15:41):
The fact that like that we've gotten to do that
a couple.
Speaker 6 (15:44):
Of times is just like you can't quantify, you can't
think of.
Speaker 8 (15:49):
That, Like it's not something that's even put on your
radar to do, you know, And so it's it's special.
Speaker 10 (15:56):
Yeah, And also be the part of the conduit that
past is down the legacy to a new generation of singers,
a new generation of musicians, a new generation of kids who.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
Might not know who Frank Sinatra is, and so now
they're getting you know, it's kind of like the Taylor
Swifts effect. I mean, Taylor Suppos has been able to
reinvent herself.
Speaker 6 (16:15):
So many times.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
And now these parents who are now millennials are now
showing their kids Talor Swifts music and they're becoming a fan.
And so, you know, in not like Taylor, but in
our own way, we're getting to be able to be
a conduit to pass down some of the most iconic
music and one of the singers voices of all time
to this next generation. And that's just you know, a
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testament to what Frank has done and just that, you know,
I'm so grateful that we have, you know, that kind
of cache. To be able to serve in that way.
It's really really as special. It's cool.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Well also very simply, I mean, like we talked about it,
I mean, that's such a great way to be able
to collaborate with all these different people living or Dad
is again, that's one of those ways where you absolutely
keep things fresh, you know, and it's like, okay, well
this is something we've never done, so this is Neil.
Speaker 10 (17:09):
Yeah, I mean you said in point blank, I get
nothing to you that that's the truth.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
I'm sorry. I was just gonna ask que quickly, who's
the who's the you know next to sea startists that
you would be a dream to collaborate with.
Speaker 6 (17:36):
I mean, Michael Jackson would be.
Speaker 5 (17:40):
Crazy, like a cooling, like a cool.
Speaker 6 (17:44):
Voice and a cool song.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Yeah, Like I want to do an a cappella version
of like human Nature with his like vocals, Like what
would that even sound like?
Speaker 8 (17:54):
I don't know, because and Michael was so intricate in
his arranging. There's so many videos on YouTube where you
can listen to his isolated vocals of all his background
parts and they stand alone like he's one of the
first to do it where it's like you could play
the four minute song with just his backgrounds in his
lead and you get you still have a great song.
Speaker 6 (18:17):
And so I yeah, I feel.
Speaker 8 (18:19):
Like that would be really cool to come and mix
and play and have his voice.
Speaker 6 (18:22):
That would be really really cool.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
I wanted to ask about Humankind such a beautiful song,
what's the story behind that? And I feel like it
really wraps up everything we're talking about about human and
you know what it means to be here and this
kind of conduit to passing down the what are you
being human?
Speaker 5 (18:46):
Is?
Speaker 4 (18:47):
Yeah, no, great question, I think Scott and Dave, I
think also with Scott's husband Mark, they got together and
they wanted to write something all of Frank Sinatra's My Way,
and so they were inspired by that song and just
thinking about how diverse this group is, right, we all
come from completely different background sexual orientations, but like we
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all come together and we're kind to each other and
we live in harmony, not just musically but in life.
And we wanted that message to really kind of come
through because of kind of the world that we live
in right now.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
You know, we live in a world where it's like
in so many ways, it's politically.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
Divisive, racially divisive, just a lot of division in a
lot of places. So how can we use who we
are as a group to be able to kind of
elevate this message of we just want to be kind
to one another at the end of the day and
love one another as you know other people want to
be loved as well.
Speaker 6 (19:47):
And just felt like a great conduit.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
For that, such a fascinating thing that you have been
literally harmonizing together for so long. I'm sure that there
are so much to be learned from that process of harmony.
Was there anything that surprised you in the making of
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this last album that you just feel like you know
something that you've learned, that you feel like more people should,
should get down with more people should you know, what
an interesting and interesting life that you will all lead
to create in this way and to have done it
for I think over a decade.
Speaker 6 (20:30):
Yeah, A few things come to mind.
Speaker 8 (20:33):
One, we we really wanted to it to be vocal
forward the project, to be very vocal forward and not
to feel like, you know, the instrumentations overtaking you know,
the core of what we do, you know. And and
so the Andrews Sisters was a really big reference to
us because that three part tight harmony, really clean, really
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like you know, nostalgic, really so a lot of the
songs that you'll hear the trio, Miss Christi and Scott
sing such tight harmonies together and very and move really insuccinctly.
To move the harmony around and and to be really
really tight and to really have that to give that
nostalgia feeling was the first thing that came to mind.
Speaker 6 (21:19):
And I think people I think we pushed ourselves in
a lot of different ways. You hear a lot of different.
Speaker 8 (21:26):
Vocal ranges in different styles, and for myself, like singing
Unchained Melody or Our Love Love Medley.
Speaker 6 (21:35):
Is was such.
Speaker 8 (21:36):
A magical moment for me because being able to sing,
you know, not only in a motown ish song, you know,
a song that people love and and.
Speaker 6 (21:47):
To and it has magic to it. But to push.
Speaker 8 (21:49):
Myself in in a vocal in a higher register, to
sing higher.
Speaker 6 (21:54):
You know, not just in the base register.
Speaker 8 (21:56):
And I think that happened a lot with the different
a lot of different things, a lot of different moves
of solos, a lot of different moving aparts, a lot
of different.
Speaker 6 (22:04):
Like lines and things. We have a lot of lots
of layers of vocals that are really cool. Part like
Bahambug has a big.
Speaker 8 (22:10):
Gospel choir but also has like a choral like like
operatic moment.
Speaker 6 (22:16):
We just really pushed boundaries.
Speaker 8 (22:17):
We I think we used the improv language and we
said yes, and you know, we just kept going and
just go okay, what about that? What about that? And
and and I think that that opened up so much
for us, especially as we divulged into new music in
the future. To see that like, oh we there is
more levels that.
Speaker 6 (22:37):
We can hit.
Speaker 8 (22:38):
You know, there's there's no more there's more harmony to discover,
there's more waste to sing and not just even how
the group's been around fourteen years later, you know, and
so that that's really special.
Speaker 5 (22:52):
Cool.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Well, I know we got to wrap up in a second,
but you know, you're talking about humankind and you know
kind of I mean, well I tend to be very blunt.
We've spoken before, so you know, I'm just like the
world just fucked right now. I mean, so many respects.
So the name of the show was in service of
and we started with the idea of, you know, how
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people get back. But you know, it's interesting because we've
never done sort of a Christmas team the one, and
I think it's very interesting because I mean, obviously this
is a time where you hope people I mean, you
hope people are kinder of a year round, but I mean,
you know, talk about what it means to give back
at this point, and it's interesting that we're doing this today,
which is Giving Tuesday, you know, And so you know,
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also like in terms of creating music and creating these
moments that people feel so good and where you create
these shows where people just come and you know, get
to celebrate things.
Speaker 6 (23:49):
That's so good.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
I mean, I think for us, it always has to
come from the inside out.
Speaker 6 (23:55):
Like I can't give from.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
An empty place, and none of us can. And so
I think doing an album like this is our service.
It's us giving from such a full place. Because we
really enjoyed every moment of this process. You know, we
listened to each other more than we spoke. We really
paid attention to the things that Dave brought in his expertise, right,
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So we did a lot to really make sure that
we were in harmony in this and I think that
just shows not just in the album, but when we're
on stage, you know, and I think people can feel
that and in a heightened way because of you know,
the innovation from this album. So I fully agree like
if we're if we're if we're giving from a full well,
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like people are going to get our overflow and it's
awesome to see.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Well, all right, I know, we got to wrap up
on a fund out because we always talk about Christmas
music and I think I've even asked you guys this before,
but the answer may have change. Best Christmas best. Oh sorry,
I'm so brain deed to that and Sleep Becaus Have
a cheetha the best Christmas movie of all time?
Speaker 8 (25:03):
We mean Next Christmas on Netflix, last year.
Speaker 6 (25:12):
Of all time, all the time.
Speaker 8 (25:13):
I mean, you gotta go, you gotta go over Grinch
slash Polar Express slash The Santa Claus one through three.
Speaker 6 (25:22):
One and two.
Speaker 8 (25:23):
I don't know that there's there's so many Grinches, like
how the Christmas is like one of the best ones elf.
Speaker 6 (25:29):
There's so many it's hard to choose one.
Speaker 5 (25:31):
I mean, is Wicked now considered.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
I mean Diehards a Christmas film? Then why not Wicked?
Speaker 9 (25:38):
I don't know, Yeah, yeah, if Diehards so first of all,
Diehard's mine?
Speaker 6 (25:43):
That so good?
Speaker 5 (25:46):
Yeah, gosh, I love actually amazing one.
Speaker 8 (25:52):
I mean I'm always gonna love Home Alone, Home Alone,
Actually take it back Home Alone is the best. Home
Alone is the best for sure. One and two are
the best. Is the best Christas movie I have of
all time.
Speaker 6 (26:02):
They're amazing.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Cool. You guys gotta get us. There's anything you want
to add it? And I asked you about.
Speaker 6 (26:08):
No, I don't think so. Thank us for your time.
Speaker 5 (26:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Good.
Speaker 6 (26:11):
The album We're excited about it. We're on tour, we're
excited to be here, and.
Speaker 8 (26:16):
You know, you were talking about just thankfulness, and we're
just grateful being is there's a moment we're on a
b stage at our show and we look around and
we see so many people.
Speaker 6 (26:25):
Hear and so many families.
Speaker 8 (26:26):
And what's really cool is that you know, a grandmother,
a mother, a daughter, and a granddaughter will all be
able to come to our show and families that you know,
friends have told me my teenager won't speak to me,
but we can connect over Pentatonics, and so it's really
special to be able to you know, house that you
know and be host of that and it's just it's
it's like it.
Speaker 6 (26:46):
Warms our heart. And so we're grateful. We really mean it.
Speaker 8 (26:49):
We love what we do and we love each and
every one person that comes to our shows, and it's
really we feel beyond blessed.
Speaker 6 (26:55):
Yes, the Conduit of Connection.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Well I like that. That's a great name for an
album too.
Speaker 5 (27:02):
Yeah, all right here.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Exactly better yet when you write your memoir later in life,
that's it.
Speaker 6 (27:09):
Yeah there we go.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
All right, thank you guys so much. Always good talking
to you and uh yeah, sorry like I said, a
little brain dead but in pain. But otherwise it was
great talking to you as always.
Speaker 6 (27:20):
Sorry about that.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
The worst I'll survive, but you know, the brain kind
of goes a little numb where you're just like, wait,
what the fuck was I saying to Chicago and uh, yes,
be careful in that cold.
Speaker 7 (27:36):
Man.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
It's funny because what you were saying. I've been to
Iceland in March. I've been to you know, upstate New York.
I've been all these different places. Chicago in February was
the coldest place I've ever been walking between buildings and
you literally feel like you're just being punched in the face.
Speaker 10 (27:54):
Yeah, yeah, I feel that for sure.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
I was like, no, I would, I would live in
Chicago about for the weather. But I'm like, screw that, man.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
Yeah, Chicago in the summer is nice.
Speaker 6 (28:07):
I mean, I've been to Evanston.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
I did like a program at Northwestern summer before my
senior year, and it was like, this is amazing. I
want to just be here all the time. And then yeah,
you get to the cold, you said, nah, bump that,
I'm good. But you know, it's still a beautiful city.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
It is, and they have amazing food, so hopefully you
get to enjoy some of it.
Speaker 6 (28:26):
I just had a right after this. I just had
Pea Quad's Deep Dish right before this.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Yeah that sounds good. All right, cool you guys, Thanks
so much, thank you,
Hey to Steve Balton and happy holidays this week. Saint
Bob and I are very thrilled to be joined by
members of Pentatonics to talk about, of course what else
their Christmas record, But it was like singing with Frank Sinatra,
working with members of his band and everything holiday related.
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As always, it's a joy to talk to these guys.
They have great energy, great spirit and they will definitely.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Put you in the holiday mood. Thanks so much.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
It's a fun, fun album. I mean, you've done many
of these holiday albums. Now, what was the process like
putting together this one, like choosing the songs, and I
mean I want to dive deep into how you go
about amazing harmony clusters because that's just like goosebumps and
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I'm sure it's super fun to discover what those moments are.
But yeah, starting with snow and talk about putting this
collection together and choosing these songs, and I know some
of them are not chosen, but are things that you've created.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
That's a great question, and thank you so much for
those kind kind words. You know, I guess to give
an overview of Christmas in the city. Funny enough, our
bandmate Scott was in New York and he kind of
I think, was walking around the city last year, had
this kind of concept that he wrote down called Christmas
in the City. So I remember actually last Christmas in Chicago,
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we were actually getting together just to conceptualize the idea
behind it, literally in Alsine Arena, doing a rehearsal before
we went on stage, just to talk about what the
album could be.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
And we really wanted to go for this kind of
forties them.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
Class sound that we had never attempted before because we
always wanted to say.
Speaker 6 (02:04):
True to the a cappella.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
But you know, after doing things like Masked Singer where
we got to experiment with our instrumentation, we felt like
this was the right time to be able to try
something new using our harmonies with this instrumentation to create
a new sound for us.
Speaker 7 (02:20):
So after we got off tour, we got back together
in February and started making just what we call pre arrangements,
which is basically us pre producing what the tracks could
sound like with just our.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
Voices, so we have an ARC.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
And then we worked with a man named Dave Pearce
who worked on Michael bou Blaze Big Christmas album, and
it was amazing talking to him because he said, you know,
I know you guys have an iconic Christmas business, but
I want to create an iconic Christmas album. I feel
like you guys have yet to tackle that with the
likes of the Bing Crosbies and the Nat King Coles
and the Michael bou Blaze. And he has such great
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expertise in that, and we were so honed in on
that vision. And once he said that, so he took
our pre arrangements and built the world around it through instrumentation,
big band, orchestra, whatnot, what have you. And then in
June we got together with those arrangements and sang the
whole album, you know, front to back in two weeks.
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And then after that, the hard part, I think was
the challenge of figuring out the balance of our new
instrumentation with our voices and making sure that we were
still front and center, but really allowing the instrumentation to
elevate what we did. And that took a bit of
rearranging and also a bit of figuring out mixing on
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the back end. But I think we got to a
place that we were really really proud of in the end,
and these songs really are representation of kind of a
moment in time that we're really proud of.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
You know, it's interesting when do you have a producer
like to say, Dave pushed you. I mean, you know,
it's funny because you know, like Christmas is one of
those things where it's like, you know, it's it's so
loved by so many people, but it's also there is
a feeling of like how do we make it new?
Because it is so steeped in tradition, because like you say,
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there is the bing Crosby, there is you know, the
naking call. So for you guys, how exciting was it
to be able to take it and it's something that
you've done for years, but then at the same time
make it new and put a modern spin on it
and you know, do it in some in a way
that is like exciting for you and also keeps it
new and fresh because you know, no one wants to
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keep doing the same songs over and over as an artist.
As an artist, you just need to push yourself.
Speaker 8 (04:39):
Yeah, I mean, and that's you nailed it. It's it's
this process was so challenging in a beautiful way because
we all five of us come from different influences of music.
And different, you know, people that we're inspired by, and
so that's been a superpower of ours. It's because we
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get to bring in different palettes of paint and you know,
paint this beautiful picture. And so to have Dave come
and bring all the instrument palette, it was all orchestration, instrumentation,
every instrument imaginable, I think we used. I think we
use almost every instrument in this On this album. It
was from flutes to having Frank Sinatra's original trio come
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and play the bass and the drums and the and
the piano, and.
Speaker 6 (05:30):
Us get to Kevin's going back and forth with the drummer.
Speaker 8 (05:33):
I'm singing with the bass player who's played on the
you know, iconic basslines like these boots.
Speaker 6 (05:38):
Are made for walking.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
You know.
Speaker 8 (05:40):
It's like it's it's really, it's just all of this
history and this beautiful thing. And also I'm having orchestra
orchestrations where we're kind of feeling like we're getting our
Disney moment where we're singing with like an orchestra and
feeling like we're, you know, singing in a Broadway musical.
And so there's so such a big musical journey in
art and we started and we started January of last year,
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so or December of last year. So it took a
long time to really hone in what the sound was
going to be, what what uh the songs were going
to feel like? How do we make these and flip
these on their head? Because Holly Jolly's been done a
million times? So how do we make Holly Jolly feel different?
And And I feel like a good through line and
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theme is that we just it was it's really fun,
Like all the music is really joyful.
Speaker 6 (06:28):
It's really uh like congregational, you know, Oh, it's really people.
Speaker 8 (06:35):
It's it invites people to sing with you and invites
people to sing different lines and different chants, and and
it has stuff for kids like Elf on the Shelf
and and Christmas movie We're you know, talking about the
originals talking about nostalgic Christmas movies, and it just has
a bunch of things for that that I feel like
we kept exploring. We kept going that's cool, that's cool.
(06:55):
How do we how do we embellish on that? How
do we go forward on that? And it just became
this beautiful thing that when we looked back and we
were finished, we were like.
Speaker 6 (07:04):
Wow, that was a ride.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
Yeah, And also I think to piggyback off of that.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
I think it's really interesting your question about how do
you make it new for us? Because we're a modern
a cappella group, Right, You're not thinking about beatboxing that
was done in the fifties or the sixties. Right, That's
a very modern concept, and the kind of beats I
normally do are very hip hop inspired, trap inspired. I mean,
we do lots of stomps and claps, like very much
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of this day and age.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
So what made it new for us was going back.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
To something that was old and antique and something that
was of that age, which I think that for us
was really interesting because how do you create an innovative
sound with these modern beats for example that I do
mix with this.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
Lush, beautiful sound.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
And so there were times we had to think through that,
like how do we still bring a freshness to it,
an air of you know, kind of twenty first century.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
So you know, there are.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Times where you know, I would add a hip hop
beat to one of the songs that we did Blitzen
and it was very jazz inspired, and then I'd go
into a small hip hop beat at a place and
you're like, oh wait, I would ever expect that.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
Within the context of the forties.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
But we're still bringing that sound mixed with a little
bit of what's going on today. So I think finding
that balance was really really interesting. As you know, Matt's
had a fun challenge.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
That's awesome. All Right, I'm gonna ask one more question.
Then let's say it's shake back over. But now I'm
dying in Now. Do you guys know the engineer Als Schmidt?
Speaker 6 (08:35):
No, I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
So as Schmidt was this guy who was like he
was the in house engineer at Capital for like fifty
sixty years, and he was the biggest fucking legend that
ever existed in that world because he was like the
one guy who could talk about working with Sinatra and
Brian Wilson and Dylan, with Paul McCartney. And so the
reason I asked is like, when you talk to him,
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you would feel that spear. So for you guys, when
you're playing with Sinatra's musicians, like were you busting out
the Jack Daniels where you like, what.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
Was that like?
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Because those guys were so much a part of history.
And I'm so fascinated with Sinatra because I truly think
of him as the first rock star.
Speaker 6 (09:17):
Yeah, well it was ten am, so it was pretty
so it's pretty early for that.
Speaker 8 (09:24):
But you know, it's just humbling, Like true, truthfully, you
can't you can't like go hey, let.
Speaker 6 (09:32):
Me show you something.
Speaker 8 (09:33):
It's like it's like no, you sit down and you
become a sponge and you just take in all the
and and he was just so sweet, and I just
talking and just all his stories and we were just
asking questions and how and truthfully, I was just taking
his hearing what he was doing and some of the
just the way he was playing. I was like, there's
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nobody that sounds specifically like this, like it's just in
the world. And so I'm trying trying to emulate some
of those sounds. Like I feel like I get to
add to my repertoire. So I'm like trying to emulate
some of these sounds, some of the techniques, some of
the slides and just really nerdy stuff. But it was
really it was really fun and they and they they're
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so good and they've done this so long that they
could play it one time and it'd be done.
Speaker 6 (10:21):
So we did it a few more times. They're like
we could do it again if you want, but they do.
Speaker 8 (10:25):
There's like as perfect as it comes when it comes
to like session musicians or people sitting in and so
you can just tell the years of just time.
Speaker 6 (10:34):
And and they were just so they were so humble too.
Speaker 8 (10:36):
They were just so kind to us to be like
and they were like, we love the music and you know,
and things like that.
Speaker 6 (10:41):
So it's just it's surreal. It was a surreal process.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Yes, I have to ask more about the Frank Sinatra endeavor,
what it was like to arrange around that voice and
if anything unexpected happened in that process. And I mean
there's kind of a kinshit that happened when you're singing
with someone and you're hearing that back to you. Was
there any like questions that came up that you wish
(11:08):
you could have asked him or I don't know anything
and that I'm sure there are millions, but I mean,
what was it like?
Speaker 8 (11:14):
The whole thing was really unexpected because we we wanted
to do the song I've Got My Love to keep
Me Warm because it has snow in it.
Speaker 6 (11:24):
You know, it's like Christmas adjacent.
Speaker 8 (11:26):
You know, we try to find songs that do that
since we're running out of Christmas songs to cover, and
so that was already on our list and so when
Dave came into the process, he saw that that was
on our list and he was like, oh, I oversee
the Frank Sinatra estate. Would you guys be interested in
Frank Frank doing this unreleased version because nobody's.
Speaker 6 (11:47):
Ever heard it or nobody's ever released it.
Speaker 8 (11:49):
And we were like are It was like, yeah, let
me just talk to them. And it was like a
month or so process of talking to the Sinatra state,
you know, getting it approved and all, and we got
I remember hearing that first vocal.
Speaker 6 (12:04):
It's like an isolated vocal of Frank Sinatra, you.
Speaker 8 (12:07):
Know, it's like what is and he's but he recorded
in the same room with the other instrumentalists, so you
can hear the bleek mild from the other instrumentalists, and
you can hear paper papers wrestling, and like just the
authenticity of the room and the sound and it's just
like that that was if that was.
Speaker 6 (12:24):
One of the coolest experiences of my life. Truly. It's
just because we get to be a part of this historic.
Speaker 8 (12:29):
Thing and not I mean and the song is blessed,
bless to say it's number one.
Speaker 6 (12:34):
For two weeks in a row. It's just crazy, and.
Speaker 8 (12:37):
So it's just I feel like we're lucky, it bless
to be on the ride to support this thing for
Frank and keep his legacy, you know, going forward in
the Christmas space too.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
Yeah, and also to your question about did we like
in terms of arranging in it, because we wanted to
be very respectful to his vocal. You know, honestly that
that was a challenge and I think we really allowed
Dave to step in and do his magic because he
knows the estate well and he knows that sound so well,
and he could arrange for our voices, and so he
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really didn't arrange with that I think was extremely I
mean respectful, but still new for us. And then to
see the back and forth between Kirsty and Frank was
just so cool. And I mean she did that solo
many times because she's like, I don't want to mess
this up, you know, So it was so cool to
see her being so detailed in every single phrase articulation.
(13:35):
She was really really meticulous in making it a vocal
that was worthy of being next to Frank Sinatra and
we're just so proud of it, like you said, to
know that it's been number one for this long on
the holiday charts and now also on the AC chart,
you know that way it's been ranked.
Speaker 6 (13:52):
It's just it's it's just cool.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
Man, Like what it's just cool.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
It's funny though you say, it's just cool, and it's
you know, I talk with the artists all the time
about like you're making it moments, and most people will
say it's like, well, your Maine it moment is when
you hear someone singing your songs back to you. And
there are things that you can anticipate having number one songs.
There are things you can eat, like playing successful sold
out shows. One thing you can't imagine when you're a
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kid is that one day you will be trusted with
Sinatra by the estate. I mean, is that one of
those moments where it's just like you realize like it's
not even making it. It's just like a different level
where you're like kind of like how did we get here? Yeah?
Speaker 9 (14:41):
And it's it is so cool that they revered our
music at that at you know, in that tier which
I stole to this day.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
I mean, you never think about that because like Frank
is one of the most iconic voices of all time,
point blank period. And the fact that the estate, you know,
Frank's family would say, we want to be so collaborative
with this group because we believe in this specific group
to be able to respect, honor and elevate the vocal
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of the most iconic singer of you know, of all
time one of them is just what a blessing.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
I mean, you just I don't know.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
You don't never think about that, like you said, when
you're a three year old kid, like playing with your
toys and stuff like that.
Speaker 8 (15:30):
And even on another level, we've we've collabed with like
Wynney Houston and you know, and people you don't you
don't think that you get to collab with people who
are no longer with us.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (15:41):
The fact that like that we've gotten to do that
a couple.
Speaker 6 (15:44):
Of times is just like you can't quantify, you can't
think of.
Speaker 8 (15:49):
That, Like it's not something that's even put on your
radar to do, you know, And so it's it's special.
Speaker 10 (15:56):
Yeah, And also be the part of the conduit that
past is down the legacy to a new generation of singers,
a new generation of musicians, a new generation of kids who.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
Might not know who Frank Sinatra is, and so now
they're getting you know, it's kind of like the Taylor
Swifts effect. I mean, Taylor Suppos has been able to
reinvent herself.
Speaker 6 (16:15):
So many times.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
And now these parents who are now millennials are now
showing their kids Talor Swifts music and they're becoming a fan.
And so, you know, in not like Taylor, but in
our own way, we're getting to be able to be
a conduit to pass down some of the most iconic
music and one of the singers voices of all time
to this next generation. And that's just you know, a
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testament to what Frank has done and just that, you know,
I'm so grateful that we have, you know, that kind
of cache. To be able to serve in that way.
It's really really as special. It's cool.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Well also very simply, I mean, like we talked about it,
I mean, that's such a great way to be able
to collaborate with all these different people living or Dad
is again, that's one of those ways where you absolutely
keep things fresh, you know, and it's like, okay, well
this is something we've never done, so this is Neil.
Speaker 10 (17:09):
Yeah, I mean you said in point blank, I get
nothing to you that that's the truth.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
I'm sorry. I was just gonna ask que quickly, who's
the who's the you know next to sea startists that
you would be a dream to collaborate with.
Speaker 6 (17:36):
I mean, Michael Jackson would be.
Speaker 5 (17:40):
Crazy, like a cooling, like a cool.
Speaker 6 (17:44):
Voice and a cool song.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Yeah, Like I want to do an a cappella version
of like human Nature with his like vocals, Like what
would that even sound like?
Speaker 8 (17:54):
I don't know, because and Michael was so intricate in
his arranging. There's so many videos on YouTube where you
can listen to his isolated vocals of all his background
parts and they stand alone like he's one of the
first to do it where it's like you could play
the four minute song with just his backgrounds in his
lead and you get you still have a great song.
Speaker 6 (18:17):
And so I yeah, I feel.
Speaker 8 (18:19):
Like that would be really cool to come and mix
and play and have his voice.
Speaker 6 (18:22):
That would be really really cool.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
I wanted to ask about Humankind such a beautiful song,
what's the story behind that? And I feel like it
really wraps up everything we're talking about about human and
you know what it means to be here and this
kind of conduit to passing down the what are you
being human?
Speaker 5 (18:46):
Is?
Speaker 4 (18:47):
Yeah, no, great question, I think Scott and Dave, I
think also with Scott's husband Mark, they got together and
they wanted to write something all of Frank Sinatra's My Way,
and so they were inspired by that song and just
thinking about how diverse this group is, right, we all
come from completely different background sexual orientations, but like we
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all come together and we're kind to each other and
we live in harmony, not just musically but in life.
And we wanted that message to really kind of come
through because of kind of the world that we live
in right now.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
You know, we live in a world where it's like
in so many ways, it's politically.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
Divisive, racially divisive, just a lot of division in a
lot of places. So how can we use who we
are as a group to be able to kind of
elevate this message of we just want to be kind
to one another at the end of the day and
love one another as you know other people want to
be loved as well.
Speaker 6 (19:47):
And just felt like a great conduit.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
For that, such a fascinating thing that you have been
literally harmonizing together for so long. I'm sure that there
are so much to be learned from that process of harmony.
Was there anything that surprised you in the making of
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this last album that you just feel like you know
something that you've learned, that you feel like more people should,
should get down with more people should you know, what
an interesting and interesting life that you will all lead
to create in this way and to have done it
for I think over a decade.
Speaker 6 (20:30):
Yeah, A few things come to mind.
Speaker 8 (20:33):
One, we we really wanted to it to be vocal
forward the project, to be very vocal forward and not
to feel like, you know, the instrumentations overtaking you know,
the core of what we do, you know. And and
so the Andrews Sisters was a really big reference to
us because that three part tight harmony, really clean, really
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like you know, nostalgic, really so a lot of the
songs that you'll hear the trio, Miss Christi and Scott
sing such tight harmonies together and very and move really insuccinctly.
To move the harmony around and and to be really
really tight and to really have that to give that
nostalgia feeling was the first thing that came to mind.
Speaker 6 (21:19):
And I think people I think we pushed ourselves in
a lot of different ways. You hear a lot of different.
Speaker 8 (21:26):
Vocal ranges in different styles, and for myself, like singing
Unchained Melody or Our Love Love Medley.
Speaker 6 (21:35):
Is was such.
Speaker 8 (21:36):
A magical moment for me because being able to sing,
you know, not only in a motown ish song, you know,
a song that people love and and.
Speaker 6 (21:47):
To and it has magic to it. But to push.
Speaker 8 (21:49):
Myself in in a vocal in a higher register, to
sing higher.
Speaker 6 (21:54):
You know, not just in the base register.
Speaker 8 (21:56):
And I think that happened a lot with the different
a lot of different things, a lot of different moves
of solos, a lot of different moving aparts, a lot
of different.
Speaker 6 (22:04):
Like lines and things. We have a lot of lots
of layers of vocals that are really cool. Part like
Bahambug has a big.
Speaker 8 (22:10):
Gospel choir but also has like a choral like like
operatic moment.
Speaker 6 (22:16):
We just really pushed boundaries.
Speaker 8 (22:17):
We I think we used the improv language and we
said yes, and you know, we just kept going and
just go okay, what about that? What about that? And
and and I think that that opened up so much
for us, especially as we divulged into new music in
the future. To see that like, oh we there is
more levels that.
Speaker 6 (22:37):
We can hit.
Speaker 8 (22:38):
You know, there's there's no more there's more harmony to discover,
there's more waste to sing and not just even how
the group's been around fourteen years later, you know, and
so that that's really special.
Speaker 5 (22:52):
Cool.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Well, I know we got to wrap up in a second,
but you know, you're talking about humankind and you know
kind of I mean, well I tend to be very blunt.
We've spoken before, so you know, I'm just like the
world just fucked right now. I mean, so many respects.
So the name of the show was in service of
and we started with the idea of, you know, how
(23:14):
people get back. But you know, it's interesting because we've
never done sort of a Christmas team the one, and
I think it's very interesting because I mean, obviously this
is a time where you hope people I mean, you
hope people are kinder of a year round, but I mean,
you know, talk about what it means to give back
at this point, and it's interesting that we're doing this today,
which is Giving Tuesday, you know, And so you know,
(23:37):
also like in terms of creating music and creating these
moments that people feel so good and where you create
these shows where people just come and you know, get
to celebrate things.
Speaker 6 (23:49):
That's so good.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
I mean, I think for us, it always has to
come from the inside out.
Speaker 6 (23:55):
Like I can't give from.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
An empty place, and none of us can. And so
I think doing an album like this is our service.
It's us giving from such a full place. Because we
really enjoyed every moment of this process. You know, we
listened to each other more than we spoke. We really
paid attention to the things that Dave brought in his expertise, right,
(24:18):
So we did a lot to really make sure that
we were in harmony in this and I think that
just shows not just in the album, but when we're
on stage, you know, and I think people can feel
that and in a heightened way because of you know,
the innovation from this album. So I fully agree like
if we're if we're if we're giving from a full well,
(24:40):
like people are going to get our overflow and it's
awesome to see.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Well, all right, I know, we got to wrap up
on a fund out because we always talk about Christmas
music and I think I've even asked you guys this before,
but the answer may have change. Best Christmas best. Oh sorry,
I'm so brain deed to that and Sleep Becaus Have
a cheetha the best Christmas movie of all time?
Speaker 8 (25:03):
We mean Next Christmas on Netflix, last year.
Speaker 6 (25:12):
Of all time, all the time.
Speaker 8 (25:13):
I mean, you gotta go, you gotta go over Grinch
slash Polar Express slash The Santa Claus one through three.
Speaker 6 (25:22):
One and two.
Speaker 8 (25:23):
I don't know that there's there's so many Grinches, like
how the Christmas is like one of the best ones elf.
Speaker 6 (25:29):
There's so many it's hard to choose one.
Speaker 5 (25:31):
I mean, is Wicked now considered.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
I mean Diehards a Christmas film? Then why not Wicked?
Speaker 9 (25:38):
I don't know, Yeah, yeah, if Diehards so first of all,
Diehard's mine?
Speaker 6 (25:43):
That so good?
Speaker 5 (25:46):
Yeah, gosh, I love actually amazing one.
Speaker 8 (25:52):
I mean I'm always gonna love Home Alone, Home Alone,
Actually take it back Home Alone is the best. Home
Alone is the best for sure. One and two are
the best. Is the best Christas movie I have of
all time.
Speaker 6 (26:02):
They're amazing.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Cool. You guys gotta get us. There's anything you want
to add it? And I asked you about.
Speaker 6 (26:08):
No, I don't think so. Thank us for your time.
Speaker 5 (26:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Good.
Speaker 6 (26:11):
The album We're excited about it. We're on tour, we're
excited to be here, and.
Speaker 8 (26:16):
You know, you were talking about just thankfulness, and we're
just grateful being is there's a moment we're on a
b stage at our show and we look around and
we see so many people.
Speaker 6 (26:25):
Hear and so many families.
Speaker 8 (26:26):
And what's really cool is that you know, a grandmother,
a mother, a daughter, and a granddaughter will all be
able to come to our show and families that you know,
friends have told me my teenager won't speak to me,
but we can connect over Pentatonics, and so it's really
special to be able to you know, house that you
know and be host of that and it's just it's
it's like it.
Speaker 6 (26:46):
Warms our heart. And so we're grateful. We really mean it.
Speaker 8 (26:49):
We love what we do and we love each and
every one person that comes to our shows, and it's
really we feel beyond blessed.
Speaker 6 (26:55):
Yes, the Conduit of Connection.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Well I like that. That's a great name for an
album too.
Speaker 5 (27:02):
Yeah, all right here.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Exactly better yet when you write your memoir later in life,
that's it.
Speaker 6 (27:09):
Yeah there we go.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
All right, thank you guys so much. Always good talking
to you and uh yeah, sorry like I said, a
little brain dead but in pain. But otherwise it was
great talking to you as always.
Speaker 6 (27:20):
Sorry about that.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
The worst I'll survive, but you know, the brain kind
of goes a little numb where you're just like, wait,
what the fuck was I saying to Chicago and uh, yes,
be careful in that cold.
Speaker 7 (27:36):
Man.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
It's funny because what you were saying. I've been to
Iceland in March. I've been to you know, upstate New York.
I've been all these different places. Chicago in February was
the coldest place I've ever been walking between buildings and
you literally feel like you're just being punched in the face.
Speaker 10 (27:54):
Yeah, yeah, I feel that for sure.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
I was like, no, I would, I would live in
Chicago about for the weather. But I'm like, screw that, man.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
Yeah, Chicago in the summer is nice.
Speaker 6 (28:07):
I mean, I've been to Evanston.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
I did like a program at Northwestern summer before my
senior year, and it was like, this is amazing. I
want to just be here all the time. And then yeah,
you get to the cold, you said, nah, bump that,
I'm good. But you know, it's still a beautiful city.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
It is, and they have amazing food, so hopefully you
get to enjoy some of it.
Speaker 6 (28:26):
I just had a right after this. I just had
Pea Quad's Deep Dish right before this.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Yeah that sounds good. All right, cool you guys, Thanks
so much, thank you,
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