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At 31 years old I abandon everything to tour the country- but why?

I am 15 years old when I am taken out of my childhood bedroom by two bodyguards.

I am flown to the Montana wilderness where I spend fifty days. After this, I am transferred to the desert of Arizona where I spend the next thirteen months of my life. Treatment facilities for teenage boys who struggle with mental health issues and substance abuse.

When I come home I am a boy out of time and space. I finish high school. Then I finish college. I do the normal human things.

I spend those years imitating what a normal human should be.

Without the structure of these institutions I return home. This time, to my parents basement. Jobless and searching. Single and lonely. Nearly a decade spent avoiding who I was in order to fit in.

At 24, I left again. This time of my own volition.

I went to grad school and got involved with Cannabis, Cartels, and Conmen.

I wandered the country for three years exploring dive bars and landmarks. Cities and forgotten towns. Meeting bands, businessmen, drifters, draft-dodgers, writers, artists, addicts, lovers, criminals, politicians, millionaires and musicians.

I learned to appreciate the kindness of strangers.

At 30 I dropped everything to move to NYC and do standup for the first time in nine years. I went for a week with a one-way ticket, one suitcase, and the offer of a futon in my aunt’s studio apartment. I stayed for a year.

I created a comedy tour with two other comics living out of a car I purchased for five grand. It would break 6 weeks later.

I met the most interesting, intelligent, independent, and loving person of my life, and asked her to join this insanity with me. With less than a year of living in the United States under her belt, Liza looks to bring stories to life through the lens of her camera. You can read more about her journey here. Now we travel together documenting what makes your town, yours.

I’ve never been able to do something with one foot in. I need to know. Be immersed.

There is immense beauty in this country that is attacked by a deliberate onslaught of 24/7 fear-mongering news stations, doomscrolling online articles, corrosive social media posts, apps engineered to make you mentally addicted to their brainless slop.

Our goal is to highlight humans again. Not celebrities. Not influencers. Not personalities. People.

Oh and I do standup along the way.

Thanks for checking us out. We are still in our early stages. As I write this we are in week two. San Luis Obispo. We housesit for free, rent cars (hopefully we will buy our own car soon), meet strangers and ask around for our next lead.

If you want to be a part of the journey feel free to reach out:
info@inserttownhere.com

Keep an eye out for Your Town Here.