You made it weird with the beat at home.

What's happening, Weirdos? Since we're in the thick of the summer, I think it's a now officially

with this episode, the start of the Sleepy Summer series. Just meaning this is a delightful

and laid back chat with my new friends. Shovels, is it an earring? It's an earring. Shovels and rope is what I'm going to say.

This is the band Shovels and rope. Who are incredible? And I have the privilege of doing a show with the two of these guys

at Live From Here, which is the NPR show that Chris Thiele also who did the show hosts. And we got along great.

They told me they listened to the show. We stayed in touch and I said next time you're in L.A. Let's do the podcast. And here we are.

This is the episode. At the end of this intro, we'll play one of their songs in case you're not familiar with Shovels and rope.

I know, if you're like me, I'm frustrated all the time. I don't know how to find good new music. And this definitely fits the bill. They're incredible.

So I hope this is a great episode and introduces you to a wonderful new band.

I do want to plug a couple standup dates and some live you made it weirds that I have coming up. If you're listening to this, the day comes out tomorrow.

I'm doing standup at Largo from my Pete Holmes living at Largo shows on July 18th. Go to largo-l-a.com for tickets.

Those are always the highlight of my month. Largo is my favorite place to perform. And we always stack the bill with some of my favorite performers and musicians.

Tomorrow, I know for a fact that the milk carton kids are going to be the music guests on that. So also great music there. And incredible, incredible guest standups that some of them I can't announce. It's going to be a great show.

I'm also doing that again on August 29th. If you can't make July and you're going to be in LA August 29th is the other living at Largo show.

If you are a Canadian weirdo or if you have plans to be in Montreal, I'm going to be there for the Just For Laugh's Best July 24th through 28th.

Look up Just For Laugh's website. If you want to come to the live, you made it weird. I think the standup shows might be sold out, but maybe there's some tickets to the live.

You made it weird, which I think is going to be wonderful. I do want to give a shout out to the pizza picks. As you guys know, I don't do traditional ads anymore now that we're independent.

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