How do you get to Appleton? Slowly. Three days of performing standup in a giant monument to excess and commercialization exacts a toll on my synapses.

JW treks across Florida chasing shows and a real diner. He reunites with comedian Lisa Corrao in Miami and sits down to shoot the shit with her about chasing laughs and a trip to Africa to entertain the troops.

JW is back home for a day and decided to invite a couple close buddies over to swap lies and burn an afternoon.

JW visits Shayne Brown the founder of Outlaws and Gents to chop it up about cars and the business of taking care of people.

JW finishes out a lengthy run in the midwest while learning a little more about the why and what of things.

JW travels to Rockford, Illinois to pal around with his Editor who has become family and is also the Poet Laureate of Rockford and an accomplished writer. Adam Al Sirganay.

New episode of The Reckon Yard is up. A canceled show, a mind altering drive home, and a compliment from Miss Bonnie I’m not letting anybody talk me out of, this one’s about what fear actually sounds like and how to tell the difference between the kind that keeps you safe and the kind that’s lying to you. Give it a listen.

New episode of The Reckon Yard is up at 7:30 pm cst. This one’s about meeting fans who’ve rewatched the whole show more than once, what it means to make something with no finish line in sight, and a fourteen-year mountain carving that never got seen by the man who started it. Give it a listen. In Duwali Bottoms TexasTwo people. One truck. All the history in the world between them and neither one knowing the half of it yet. Plus a childhood nightmare that explains Matt Swindon without forgiving him a thing.

New episode of The Reckon Yard is up. This one’s about what actually counts as real work, why we’re so quick to look down on somebody else’s labor, and a two hundred year old definition of work I think it’s time to argue with. Give it a listen.Back in Duwali Bottoms Texas. Things get hot for the McAfees, and we follow a walnut tree through generations, all the way to a shelf sitting in Tony’s kitchen right now. Grab a chair.

New episode of The Reckon Yard is up. This one’s got a broke down Avalanche, a Tulsa cemetery, a Volkswagen collection I stumbled into, and a lesson about spinning plates I’m still chewing on a year later. Give it a listen.Also, new chapter of Duwali Bottoms Texas is up. Sheriff Garza’s got a car worth talking about, an old friend running out of chances, and Tony’s about to find out Amber doesn’t scare easy. Grab a chair.