The Slade Ham Experiment

People are all worked up over Matt Rife (mainly bad comedians, tbh). Who is he and why am I completely on his side? Also, I dip into my Top 5 movie soundtracks. I bet yours doesn't make the list. What did I skip? What's your fave? Let's spend a half hour together.

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I cover the final details of my now-succesful Kickstarter campaign, including why I am making a special this way in the first place. I also get too worked up over what I'm supposed to be focused on vs what other people care about.

And then a fact about movie reviews sends me off on another spiral.

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I cover the final details of my now-succesful Kickstarter campaign, including why I am making a special this way in the first place. I also get too worked up over what I'm supposed to be focused on vs what other people care about.

And then a fact about movie reviews sends me off on another spiral.

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Please consider telling a friend if you dig the show.

It’s a jumbled grab bag of an episode as I go through a number of things that caught my attention this week. I tell you what I learned after discovering a new tea. I talk about the Japanese approach to customer service and hospitality. I talk about why I did not like the new movie, Sisu. Then, a few stories that make me wonder about human accountability, one on a cruise ship and one involving a McDonald’s nugget. Come rage with me. My Kickstarter campaign ends On June 2.

Also, my Kickstarter is live through the end of the month here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sladeham/the-slade-ham-comedy-special-signal-noise

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I spent my Saturday morning the perfect way: watching cartoons and eating cereal. I get into the specifics of what I watched, but also spin down a road of nostalgia, not just for the shows themselves, but for HOW we used to watch TV and why we're bored by it all now.

Also, my Kickstarter is live through the end of the month here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sladeham/the-slade-ham-comedy-special-signal-noise

Here's my 1984 Saturday Morning playlist :

Snorks: https://tinyurl.com/55jcacdc
Superfriends: https://tinyurl.com/2p82cjdh
The Smurfs: https://tinyurl.com/msvxya53
Dungeons&Dragons: https://tinyurl.com/2sf6m4yu
Scooby Doo: https://tinyurl.com/4fekf9v9
The Littles: https://tinyurl.com/3azr6h76
The Amazing Spider-Man: https://tinyurl.com/mr3rsywt
Honorable Mention to Kidd Video: https://tinyurl.com/2p8j4k5d

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If you're launching a Kickstarter, I cover quite a few of the basics in this episode. There are also tips on how to front load your campaign, what to expect, and how to get started if you've never launched one before.

I'm 70% funded on my current campaign right now. It's my third one. Hopefully what I've picked up helps you get yours off the ground.

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I had an absurd conversation with a man who was visibly upset about something a beer company did. I tried to explain my current philosophy to him to no avail.

I also explain some of the pitfalls to launching a Kickstarter campaign for a comedy special. I also fight against a marauding brigade of aerialist fruit flies.

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I just returned from another tour for the military, this time in Qatar, Djibouti, Kenya, Egypt, and Niger. Many of these were return trips, and they brought plenty of adventure with them. I'll have a full Slade Runner episode up featuring footage from the trip, but for now, here's a verbal description of what three weeks out in the thick of it consists of.

Special thanks to all the support staff and MWR folks who make these tours possible on the ground. It's a giant machine and I'm grateful they let me on the inside.

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My guest is Tod Waters, musician, visual artist, and rock n roll clothing designer whose work you can find under Junker Designs. His style is distressed and repurposed, reminding you of the steel and metal, and the grit of the streets here in Houston.

Performers such as Motley Crüe, Poison, Johnny Depp, Robert Rodriguez, Britney Spears, Pink, Shakira, Christina Aguilera, Prince, Steven Tyler, and Alice Cooper have all added Junker Designs to their wardrobe, and you’ve seen it on screen in Alita Battle Angel, Sin City 2, Magic Mike, Fear the Walking Dead.

We discuss his road to making clothes for the stars, what it’s like switching from drawing to clothing to sculpture to film, and most importantly, we talk about how to get the work done and how to tap into that wonderful, mysterious nebula of ideas that we both believe is available anyone willing to show up and do the hard parts.

Junker Designs: http://junkerdesigns.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/junkerdesigns/

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I return from Japan to the most American welcome imaginable. It's my version of Alexander's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (a fantastic children's book if my kid brain remembers anything at all).

At best I might say something useful in the middle of it all, and at worst perhaps you'll recognize a bit of your own recent days.

In a nutshell, I'm petty sometimes, and nothing frustrates me more than the monarchs of tiny kingdoms. Airport cops, grocery store security, and a small town City Council. These people are best avoided at all costs.

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