Welcome to Wheels Off, a show about the messy reality of the creative life.

I'm Rhett Miller.

That's when it got wheels off.

We started up and we ain't going to starve.

Oh, I like you like it a night.

That's when they got wheels off.

David Wax of the David Wax Museum is an artist I've been lucky enough to watch evolve over the years, over the last 12 years.

And I admire him so much as a guy.

His wife, Suze, is a veritable force of nature, an incredible singer, violin player, fiddle player, even, among other stuff.

They have a couple of very sweet little kids.

I care about these guys a lot.

You know, I've, like I said, I've watched them from when they were really

very first starting out. But that said, things came up in this interview that I didn't know.

And I, boy, I just, I love doing these wheels off interviews because no matter how well I know someone or how long I've known someone, when I, you know, put them through the rigorous exercise of the Wheels Off experience, something always comes out that surprises me. I think that you will enjoy this.

David is someone who thinks a lot. I mean, he went to Harvard, for goodness sake. But he's

somebody who is living in examined life, and I feel like he's pretty realistic about, you know, when he's

dealing with his own sort of neuroses and complications, and then I do also think that he appreciates

that he's a talented guy. That sounds bad. We should be allowed to appreciate that we are talented

it, right?

That's a good thing.

I'm just saying that he went all in on a life in music with the help of his partner, Suz,

and I'm so glad they did.

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