Seasons.
Love this track.
Oh, well, thank you.
And this definitely started as a commentary on how we were always surprised about the heat during summer and the cold during winter.
Like, we were always caught off guard.
People complained like we weren't prepared about it.
Like it never happened before.
Yeah.
And so that inspired some of it.
And then so it was building around winter and summer.
There were separate jokes about summer.
But the winter, it became very apparent that I really couldn't talk about winter without addressing, I think, kind of like the Midwestern American view.
Like the association with winter is very just archaic in a way.
You know, we're just kind of we become used to it.
And actually the severity.
Severe winters make you appreciate summer.
That line was actually a guy when I was doing a show in Winnipeg.
A stagehand said that to me.
I'm like, well, it's freezing.
It was I think it was like October and it was snowing or something like that.
And he's like, you know, these severe winters make you really.
And so I attributed that to my dad.
But because it sounds like something he would say.
Absolutely.
But then in a separate area.
This thing came out.
Yes.
And then it became very clear that we had these three seasons.
Yes.
And then I pushed to add spring.
Yeah.
You made a point of pushing to add spring because it was like, you know, you have three of the four.
You have to complete the, you know, the entire.
And there's not much on spring because there's not much of the spring.
And that's what became the joke about.
Right.
And I would also say that, you know, on the winter thing, when we were talking about Midwesterners.
We had a joke that you came up with, which was great, that we had to cut, which was about how we, you know, it morphed into a different version.
Oh, I'm still angry about this.
Which was about how, you know, people were tricked to move to the Midwest.
So we have the bit now about the con utters trying to get people to settle in the Midwest instead of going actually west.
Yes.
And calling it the Midwest and the Great Lakes.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But there was a joke initially where the.
The guy was trying to push them on settling there to go there, but it wasn't great.
So the people were like kind of like lazy.
So what I had proposed that we were going to say was, OK, that's why they're called settlers, because they're like, yeah, it's not great, but I'll settle for it.
You know, I have to trick and treat in my snow pants.
All right.
I'll settle.
I'll settle with it.
But you want to settle with me?
We could be settlers together.
Yeah.
We'll just settle for it.
But then.
And it was.
Wait.
All of a sudden, like three months after we've been performing this.
You go ahead, Jim.
So we we we got off this summer tour where we were on a bus and we were very excited about, you know, as you build a chunk, there's pieces that make you even more excited to come up with more material.
And we saw a series of commercials that use the settler joke.
Yes.
And so, no, I think it was like six months later where we couldn't determine if they saw us do it or if it was just parallel thinking.
It would be.
It would be like such a weird coincidence.
The timing was so weird.
But they went to like the next level where like people were like dressed like settlers and they were like, we're just going to settle.
And it was the exact same joke.
So we had to cut our joke because it looked like we were being derivative when actually it was our original idea before this commercial even came out.
So that would that's one of the the casualties of this special.
Yes.
And then what I would also say is that.
That the foliage, you know, and I'm about to get to it on the next track, which Mary had a little lamb, but like the foliage in the Northeast, particularly in Western Massachusetts, is so stunning or in Vermont.
It's so beautiful.
You kind of get it.
It's like when you go to Paris and you see how beautiful Paris is.
You're like, oh, maybe I understand some of their arrogance.
And so like the foliage thing in Western Massachusetts.
It's you realize what beauty it is.
You realize why someone would drive.
But, you know, so I understood I understood the appreciation for it after I had established some of these jokes about foliage, about the fact that we're just enjoying the death of a leaf.
Yeah.
And also the fact that it's as if we did anything to create it.
Yes.
Like the pride people take in it.
You know, it's like taking pride in something that you have nothing to do with.
And some of the summer jokes.
I would say I think it was inspired by your love of summer, like people that love summer.
Like that are like sad when summer is over, which you're one of the people.
It's, you know, there is.
I mean, I think that kind of inspired some of the, you know, the winter nostalgia for summer.
Yeah.
Like you take out pictures of summer.
Summer becomes personified.
Yeah.
Like a family pet that passed away.
But just can I just really go back?
To the leaf thing?
Like the leaf thing to me about the leaves dying is sort of this alternative way to look at things that, you know, when you look at something and take it as face value, we don't really think about the fact that this beauty that we're marveling at is actually death.
Yeah.
Which is kind of heavy.
But in which we kind of go on further with raking up the leaves.
And lighting them on fire.
Yeah.
Kids jumping in them.