Episode 276: Just Keep Swimming with Slade Ham It was New Year’s Eve. A generic poster advertises comedy and music at 8. It’s 7:40. It’s quiet. Stand-up comedian Slade Ham gets handed the mic from a mysterious showrunner. The curtain goes up at 8, and he sees 500 empty seats except for a dead old woman with an oxygen tank and a guy still vacuuming the room. If a comic performs a set in an empty room, did it really happen? According to Ham, it did, and he’s got a paycheck to prove it. Houston-based comic Slade Ham and Stand up Comic Dan Bublitz Jr share many pearls for comics: why it’s good to produce shows, staying with your plan, tips for different technologies that save time on promotional materials, focusing your effort on building a body of work before releasing video and audio, and how Slade fought through Covid. Plus more! Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sladeham/the-slade-ham-comedy-special-signal-noise?ref=creator-nav Sponsored by https://www.puxhub.com/: Hey bomb squad if you're a comedian or podcaster looking for an affordable website solution with a modern look then we recommend PuxHub! With a PuxHub website, you can set up your new website in minutes with easy-to-use prebuilt templates. PuxHub websites are customizable and easily integrated with IG, TikTok, and Twitter platforms. The best part, PuxHub plans are only $5 per month! We use PuxHub for our website, and we think you should too and that's why we've partnered with PuxHub to offer listeners a free 60-trial! Head over to PuxHub.com to subscribe and use promo code "AOBPOD" at check out for your 60-day free trial and then pay only $5 per month after that. Take your career to the next level with your own PuxHub website today! Slade Ham Hailing from Houston and averaging more than 200 shows a year, Slade has performed in 58 countries on six continents over the last two decades. He has also taken his show overseas to the United States military twice a year since 2009. His real passions lie on the road, however – traveling the world and collecting stories. He has free-climbed mountains and has been swimming with sharks. He’s wrestled a cheetah and swooped through Turkish valleys in Blackhawk helicopters. He’s wandered Australia’s outback, been lost in Cambodian jungles, and hiked a good part of the Andes. He is anything but boring. https://www.sladeham.com/ https://www.facebook.com/sladeham/ https://www.instagram.com/SladeHam/ https://twitter.com/SladeHam Art of Bombing: "Nobody Had a Podcast Called The Art of Bombing" Theme by John Hult Bumpers provided by Joe Nicola Music Website: https://www.artofbombingpod.com/ Merch: https://art-of-bombing-pod.creator-spring.com/ Buy us a coffee: a href="https://www.buymeacoffee.com/aobpod" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer...