The Reckon Yard Podcast

Planes, Trains, and automobiles

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.

Niamey to Miami

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

Unseasoned

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

Outlaws and Gents

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

No time for dreaming

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

Karma gave me a Trailblazer

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 Sirgana

The worst that could happen

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 ab

No end in sight

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

Working Man

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

Tulsa Time

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

Showing up

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

A Needle astray

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

Beneath the surface

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

Fathers Day

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

Charles Clifford Brooks III

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 in

Unlikely Teachers

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

Monsters

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

Ohm Ohm

This week, I talk about two days in a row when the world said no, and I kept going anyway, a flat tire in the rain, a camera on the concrete floor. I’ve been asking mysel

Two Wolves

A hard call. The fella in me who ain’t a friend of reason wanted to hoist the black flag. The wiser part asked me to slow down and do right by the folks counting on me. T

Imaginary lines

Some lines get people killed. Some just keep us small. From the Driftless region of Minnesota to a joint that’s legal on one bank of the Mississippi and a criminal act on