I'm a Sway Sanger. Sway Sanger. Sway Sanger. Sway Sanger. Yeah. Yeah. From Fountains of Wayne and many other things.

You are a professional musician. I am indeed. My girlfriend loves Fountains of Wayne. Cool. Yeah. Tell her thanks. Yeah. No. I mean, maybe you'll be able to meet her. I think she's going to be cranky and exhausted. I bet you're excited about that.

Wouldn't it be fun to meet a cranky and exhausted fan? That's what I was hoping. Yeah. I figured that's why you came over here. So what are you doing in LA? You don't live here now, do you?

I don't live here now. I come out here sometimes for work and related stuff. And I've been working on a television show that's got a lot of music in it.

And I'm out here at this week. So doing that. That's like this is the thing that like I talked to musicians, you know, not a lot of them, but I've been talking to musicians lately.

I've talked to the likes of Nick Lowe. Yeah. Jack White up and coming guys. Sure. Yeah. You know, new guys. Yeah. New guys on the block. Yeah.

But there's this there's this idea about musicians that, you know, like if people haven't heard from them in a while or that they're not as popular as they used to be.

I'm not saying that about you necessarily, but they're like, what are they doing? But you've been doing things all along. Yeah. I mean, you know, the band thing was always kind of at the center of it for me.

But I always had this kind of other life just doing music for I or whatever, whatever somebody called me to do. And Chris, who's the singer and founds a way and just calls me a music whore, which is sort of true to music whore.

Yeah. But you know, basically I just wanted to make a living making music. And I also like a lot of different kinds of music. And so, you know, Chris and I went to college together and we started playing and bands together, even in college.

Would you grow up? I grew up in Manhattan as a little kid and then Montclair, New Jersey for, you know, New Jersey. Most of my upbringing. Yeah. Montclair, New Jersey. My family's from Pongton likes New Jersey. Yeah. And Jersey City like Montclair is close to that, right? Yeah. Very, very close to that.

Willow, Brooke Mall, Willow, Brooke Mall. Yeah. Paramus Park. Well, Fountains of Wayne was named after a store in Wayne, New Jersey, which is right next to the Willow, Brooke Mall.

I didn't want to not there anymore. I lived in Wayne, New Jersey. You did. There's like, I don't remember much about it because I was like, literally six years old.

Right. But I lived in Wayne, New Jersey. And that's where the Fountains of Wayne's store is. It's not there anymore. It was there for my entire childhood. But they closed a few years ago.

But we took, we took the band name from that place. What is that? That's your phone. There's a lot going on on your phone right now. I thought it just turned it off.

Okay. Done. Yeah. So anyway, I grew up there and went to college in Massachusetts, Western Mass, met Chris Collingwood there.

And we were both aspiring songwriters and we started playing in bands together there. And then when we got out of college, we were doing the band thing.

But then I was also just trying to get work, making music for whatever. So I had some friends that kind of evolved in television that called me and hired me to do one of the earlier things I did was a friend of mine was working with John Lake, Osama, and he had a sketch comedy show that was on Fox for like five seconds. Right. It was called House of Buggan.

And he called me up to work on that. And then after that, I got hired to work on the Dana Carvey show, another sketch comedy show. And that was a really cool show because it was like, you know, all the people that came from that.

Louis and Robert hired you. Robert. Yeah. Was was like running it and Louis and it's like Robert's Michael. Robert's Michael. Yeah. So, so they had his how does that work? Oh, let's go. Let's go back to the the founds of Wayne thing because

it's a pop band. It is. Yes. Power pop. I guess you would call it. Yeah. I mean, we don't really call it that, but that we get put in that category. It's sort of a funny term that I don't really know what it means, but where it's a pop band. I mean, it's sort of like melodic and it's not so much. It's

like, you know, it's a lot of fun. Yeah. It's like, I'm not going to go over there. Yeah. So I've spoken John. What going on behind that not talking much? Yes. He's very smart, man. But OK. So this is the

...