Hello again, everybody, and welcome in to another edition of Political Beats.

My name is Scott Bertram. You can find me on X at Scott Bertram.

The show, of course, is at Political underscore Beets at National Review.com.

And over on our Patreon page as well, patreon.com

slash political beats. My tag team partner standing by as always, Jeff Blair. Jeff, how are you?

I am fine and for once I don't have any stupid jokes to make. I'm not even doing my long intro, as people know,

because we have a very special

guest with us today. We are honored to be joined by the legendary singer, songwriter. You might know him

from his solo career, has gone on for many a year now, but also a member of Brinsley Schwartz

and Rock Pile and Little Village, highly influential

over the years.

He's written some of the finest music of the past 50 years and performed some of the

finest music of the past 50 years or so.

He has a brand new album that is out first one in quite a while, and it's fantastic.

And we'll talk about that first as we begin our conversation with Nick Lowe.

Nick, thank you so much for joining us.

Not at all.

It's a great pleasure to be with you.

Well, as I said, indoor safari is the new record.

I've been a long-time fan of Lo Strait Jackets,

dating back to their second record.

And when I saw that you two had begun touring together, but fantastic, and now I had the singles

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