All right, welcome to another episode of Left to Be Talk.

I want to give a couple tour dates before we get into it right here.

This weekend, I will be at the Mahoya Comedy Store.

Headlining Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

And the following weekend, I'm headlining in St. Louis at the flyover comedy festival.

My guest today is returning to the show, a rare two-time guest.

I don't usually do that.

Once in a while, though, and this is a good friend of mine, Mr. Nick Simmons.

How are you, buddy?

Hey, man, how are you?

Thanks for helping me back.

I really appreciate it. I didn't know you never do return guests. Now I feel very special.

Well, if it's somebody like Josh Homme or something or usually when I have a guest on

and we're just covering kind of their life or body of work, I usually feel like, well,

we kind of covered it.

Yeah, I get it.

And I don't ever really have people on just as promo junk.

It's because, you know, years down the road, it seems kind of dated.

But you have an EP you wanted to talk about.

And then I listened to it. And I go this is good got to have them on I'm glad you like it it's not obviously the usual straighthead rock stuff

but I appreciate you doing that I mean you've been so um before I ever met I you know I've met

a lot of uh if you meet one kind of stand up,

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