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It's depression funny. It can be. I don't think it's any one thing.

It's the hilarious world of depression. I'm John Moe. We talked to funny people about depression. It helps. I think music is the closest thing to sorcery that we have in this world. I really believe that. It can knock you right in the mind. Make you feel connected to something greater. Make you feel alive instead of just in existence. Music can feel like the opposite of what you're doing.

It's depression in some ways. Like comedians, musicians articulate with words, with instrumentation, the things we didn't know other people felt. They observe. They tell stories, speak to who we are and what we go through. And like comedians, they're pretty funny a lot of the time.

Our guest this time around is an actor who has appeared on comedy TV shows like Parks and Recreation and Portlandia and he plays in a band also.

I'm Jeff Tweety from the Rock Band Wilco and we are currently sitting in the loft studio and rehearsal space that we've had for, I don't know, 17 years or so.

Jeff Tweety is the leader, singer and co-founder of Wilco. And Wilco is one of the most critically acclaimed bands of the last 20 plus years.

Thanks to albums like Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, A Ghost Is Born, and the Mermaid Avenue series of collaborations with Billy Bragg.

Their fans are often diehard fans who listen to their songs over and over so much that they've memorized all the words without even trying to memorize the words.

I'm talking about me also, I'm one of those fans. This is from the song I am trying to break your heart.

I am an American Aquarium Tracker, a assassin down the avenue.

If an absolute hardcore music nerd led a virtuous life and then died and went to absolute hardcore music nerd heaven, it would look like the Wilco loft in Chicago.

Dozens, maybe hundreds of guitars, amps, drums, all sorts of instruments, some new, some vintage, all meticulously organized, just sitting there being beautiful.

We'll get into all your deepest, darkest secrets and vulnerabilities. But I did want to ask her, is one back there a guitar label JT The Monkeys. Have you played with The Monkeys?

No, it's actually a Monkeys branded Gretz guitar from the 60s. They sold Monkeys guitars with the Monkeys logo on the pickguard and on the Trustrad cover.

They're hard to find with the Monkeys logo still on them because people would, they're pretty cool red guitars.

I think people would buy them and be embarrassed to buy the Monkeys and take the pickgards off and stuff.

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