Fate works in bizarre ways. Long before either of them ended up in L.A., comedian Joe Kwaczala and musician Alex Ward—then of The Noise FM, along with his brother Austin—first crossed paths when they were both living and working in Chicago.

“When The Noise FM was in Chicago, Joe hosted this late-night talk show, and they’d bring on heavy-hitter guests. The episode we were on was with Rick Bayless, a celebrity chef,” Ward says. “I just remember thinking it was so cool that Joe, who would’ve been in his mid-20s at the time, was running this show complete with sketches and celebrity guests.”

The Ward brothers and their band made an impression on Kwaczala at the time, too.

“They stood out to me, they were really nice guys,” he says.

A few years later and half a country away, Ward re-encoun

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