The Reckon Yard Podcast

I'm trying my damndest to live in this moment, learn to appreciate every moment of it.

The finale of Duwali Bottoms season two is here!

enjoy "Time is undefeated."

JW spends a week in the Pacific Northwest, Haunts another friends town before turning introspection on his own carried grief. Witnessing two men carrying the grief of lost fathers gives him a good place to start.

JW spends a week in Northern California around a host of unusual characters. Something visits him on stage in San Francisco, and it can't be easily shaken off.

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 Texas

Two 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.

I recall an eventful week in Southern California with lots of milestones and folks that show up.

I drove through tent city on the Fourth of July and couldn’t get it out of my head. The SoCal run, the anxiety, and what happens when you start doing the math on your own life at a red light.

This week on Duwali Bottoms :

A mother knows when to talk and when to just hold on. A father shows up with ribeyes and an agenda. Things are about to get complicated in Duwali Bottoms.

I take you through the particular fury of modern travel, the quiet rage my father carried like a second engine, and what my wife accidentally revealed about the distance between the two men. Also: what Enya has to do with any of it.

This week on duwali Bottoms Texas

Three people. Three mornings. One small East Texas town that keeps drawing everybody back whether they mean to come or not. Season Two of Duwali Bottoms Texas is rolling, and the ground is shifting beneath all of it.

Join me in Denver while I recount an adventurous three days of travel with the family. I've also included bonus footage of one of the Fort Collins shows where I'm telling the Harry story on stage for my original Reckon Crew.

I got the opportunity to interview Pulitzer nominated poet, author and publisher Charles Clifford Brooks III. It’s a lively conversation about writing and a short dive into the majesty of Faulkner.

Back in Duwali Bottoms,

Carl Sr. has a plan. Alana already knows about it. Two young men from Houston who came to Duwali Bottoms because a hurricane left them no choice are about to find out that sometimes the storm knows where you need to be.

A hundred episodes in and I’m still figuring it out in public. Tonight I talk about the way music finds you through a crack you didn’t know was open. Keep your receptors open.

In Duwali Bottoms Texas, Sheriff Garza gets his first real look at what he inherited in Rusk County, Carl Sr. takes the boys fishing on Lake of the Pines, and Matt Swindon reminds everybody exactly who he is.

History’s been lied about from both directions and I’m tired of it. Edison, Ford, and Diamond Jim Brady none of them are who you think. This week on Duwali Bottoms, Tony and Dusty get out of jail, Alana shows up, Dave Tilton pays the sheriff a visit, and somebody comes flying around a curve on the two lane who has no business being there.