Touring with Steve Simeone

Just got off of an awesome tour with my new friend Steve Simeone.  What can I say the guy is a beast on stage and a boat load of fun to hang out with off stage.  This has been a great year so far as I've gotten to tour with Pete Johannson, Dwayne Perkins and my good friend Jimmy Shubert.  Just a killer set of guys to open for and learn comedy from.  

More soon...

New podcast coming soon

Let's be clear, I'm only writing this down so I am forced to commit to doing it.  

My girlfriend bought me a bunch of podcast equipment for Christmas with the plan being that 2015 was the year of me entering the podcast world, you know, about 7 years too late. I figure that's the time to do things, I've always been this way.  I started a ska band in 1996, I got addicted to Surge soda in 1998 when you could only still find it at truck stop soda fountains outside of Winslow, Arizona, and now I am starting a podcast.  

I have decided on the angle, everything needs an angle, but I haven't registered it (do you register podcasts?  I still can't figure out how to turn on my TV) so I will wait on annoucing the title until I get it up and running.  In its most simplistic form, I want to tell the true, uncensored story of the gold rush mentality and figurative gold rush that is happening today in and around Shanghai, China.  

When I moved to China I remember seeing piles and piles of books at the airport telling you how to do business in China.  Most said things like "learn to use chopsticks", "when raising your glass to cheers a business associate, make sure your glass is lower than theirs" and for comedic effect "bring your own tissue, not every building has toilets with seats".  This is about .00000001% of what you need to know to do business here, and most of that isn't relavent at all.

I will talk to entrepreneurs, be it Chinese, French, American, Russian, whatever, and learn their story of how they went from their life at home to a life of adventure, success, failure and everything in between in modern China.  Sounds cool?  Let me know in the comments section.  Does this have a comments section?  I don't fully understand what a blog is.

So here is where my blog has been hiding.

Alright,
So we're back.  Five minutes after creating my blog and writing my first post, I closed my computer and completely forgot what my blog address was and how to find it.  Today, almost two months later, I figured it out.
  So the last two months, lets catch everyone (I think my Dad is the only one who reads this) up.  I toured eastern China with my friend Butch Bradley a month or so back, who is a whole giant ball of party.  He also happens to be an amazing comedian and you must check him out when he stops by your town.
  You can get to his website here, but really the best way to describe a Butch Bradley show is to imagine going to the best house party you have ever been to hosted by a guy ten times funnier than the funniest dude you knew in college.  At different points throughout the tour I saw him pick up a lady's cell phone in the front row and call her husband in Taiwan, riff a 15 minute bit about an Italian audience member named Marco Defabio, and invite everyone to a karaoke (think Lost in Translation) bar across the street from the club after the for my 31st birthday.
  So yes, I turned 31 and yet still look 14.  People keep telling me that I will be happy when I am old as I will look young, but most 75 year old people I see just look 75.  I've never seen a 75 year old and been blown away that he wasn't 27.  Anyway, at this point I'd settle for 17 or 18.
  Just this past weekend I did a show with Seattle comedian Brad Upton at the MGM in Macau.  It was a blast and I want to go back soon, but it's now 6:30pm and I need some dinner, so lets save that for the next entry.

Turner

Testing, testing, testing...

Hello?  Is this thing on?  I hope I can delete this eventually once I figure out how running a blog actually works, otherwise this would be a top 10 worst opening blog posts of all time.

I remember in 2004, about a month before graduating college with a journalism degree, in our "New Media" class the professor asked us "Has anyone ever heard of a blog?".  Some weird kid with a mustache, long hair and side ways hat raised his hand, everyone else was clueless.

Little did we know that within mere months of graduating college our journalism degrees would be useless as the world would shun traditional journalism for blog posts titled "Dude I saw Lebron James at Chilli's, he's hella tight".

And now, 9 years after getting my world rocked by the invention of blogs, the world has come full circle and I now have my own.

Who wants to make a bet on how many posts I make in a year?  Over/ under starts at 10.