Hello and welcome to the working songwriter, the show where today's best songwriters come to talk shop. I'm your host, Joe Pug.

Each episode here, we host a distinguished guest, and we ask them to go deep, on their

inspiration, on their process, on the ups and downs of making a life in music.

So, whether you're a grizzled veteran, shaking your fist at the

heavens over a 75 cent royalty check from Google, or else a scrappy upstart, thinking this really

could be the night that the head of Columbia Records walks into the open mic night at your

local barring grill. This is your show.

Because ultimately, it is what every writer seeks most. An ironclad excuse to put off actually writing.

Hey guys, before we get started today, I just want to thank everyone who came out to the Australian tour this month.

And I want to thank our promoter, BT, who pretty much single-handedly keeps great American songs alive down in Australia.

So thank you, BT.

Thank you to everyone that came to the concerts.

It was great spending a couple weeks with Robert Ellis and his band.

Between shows, we actually brainstormed heavily in the van about a possible side project that we have tentatively

entitled three chords in the truthers, wherein we combine like hard on the sleeve acoustic ballads

with Alex Jones level conspiracy theories. Just very earnest acoustic music about Operation Jade Helm,

the Bilderberg Conference, the downsides of vaccination.

So keep your eye out for that in your wherever you stream and purchase music,

because hopefully we'll be able to put that together in a very very sad and dark way

probably earn ourselves the largest audience we've ever had before given from what I can tell of the current climate in our country right now.

But until we put that project together, you should come catch a concert of mine,

which I promise will be 100% free of conspiracy theories.

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