The grass isn’t always greener, right? Try telling that to your Transfer Portal all-stars, particularly guys like DJ Ukelele and Marvin Jones, Jr., for starters.

That aside, today’s Cleanser is brought to you by St. Paul and the Broken Bones. Have you ever wished you could get an old soul band sound, complete with a light horn section, who is fronted by a guy who looks like Dwight Shrute? Well, your prayers have been answered:

Lead by Paul Janeway, the band is a riser in the industry, and according to the NPR article, your eyes and initial impressions don’t deceive you.

“Paul, according to all the reviews and stuff that are written of the band, he looks like your high school history teacher, or he looks like Drew Carey,” Phillips explains. “Bottom line is that we’re a bunch of kind of nerdy-looking white guys, and when this sort of earth-shaking soul roar comes out of his mouth for the first time, you can always hear the air being sucked out of the room.”

Raised in a strict religious household, Janeway dabbled in preaching, singing, and yardwork before hitting it big.

Speaking of time and chance, like the portal, the strict raising may have paid off in the weirdest of ways.

As for his parents, Janeway says that in retrospect he’s glad they were so strict. He remembers a particularly formative moment when his mother found his copy of Nirvana‘s Nevermind.

“She found it and threw it away,” he says. “I told her that story, and she goes, ‘Listen, Paul, if you’d have listened to Nirvana, you wouldn’t have been a soul singer.’ So, I look at it now and go, ‘Well, maybe it’s turned out to be a really good thing.’ “

Choices and chance are uniquely intertwined in the ways of life, are they not?