Comedian, Writer, Producer and Zine enthusiast, Jason Van Glass is on the couch this week. Talking about obscure obsessions, specific collections, comedy nerdom, chance meetings with Seinfeld writers, cat magic, his bay area childhood, comic shop work, and his opinions on his own general weirdness. All that and much much more, as a normal podcast hour just isn't enough. Check out www.DragonWagonShop.com for awesome Elaborate shirts and mugs! Be a part of the conversation on our official Discord! https://discord.gg/V6MNnDJXvu  Follow Elaborate on Social media: http://www.twitter.com/elaboratepod http://www.instagram.com/elaboratepod  Elaborate is a part of the Dragon Wagon Radio independent podcast network. Visit www.dragonwagonradio.com for more

Comedian Kortney Shane Williams joins Jake for an epic catchup. The two became fast friends early in their respective stand-up careers but lost touch for over a decade. The two talk standup and do some reminiscing and Kortney chats about growing up under watch of a minister mother, living nomadically, being an introvert, a fighter, a sibling, a self sustained enthusiast of numbers, and SO much more in what is sure not to be his last appearance on the program. Check out www.DragonWagonShop.com for awesome Elaborate shirts and mugs! Be a part of the conversation on our official Discord! https://discord.gg/V6MNnDJXvu  Follow Elaborate on Social media: http://www.twitter.com/elaboratepod http://www.instagram.com/elaboratepod  Elaborate is a part of the Dragon Wagon Radio independent podcast network. Visit www.dragonwagonradio.com for more

Actor/Comedian/Artist and more Scott Krinsky joins Jake and talks about what it was like playing a geek culture icon on the hit NBC show Chuck without much real life geek cred! Plus the joys of swimming, living life at the beach, finding peace in solo activities, the culinary arts, balancing yourself and the box you've been placed in, the cardboarded glory of Dave Made a Maze, his incredible keytar skills, the lighting in the bottle that was JEFFSTER, and much much more. Check out www.DragonWagonShop.com for awesome Elaborate shirts and mugs! Be a part of the conversation on our official Discord! https://discord.gg/V6MNnDJXvu  Follow Elaborate on Social media: http://www.twitter.com/elaboratepod http://www.instagram.com/elaboratepod  Elaborate is a part of the Dragon Wagon Radio independent podcast network. Visit www.dragonwagonradio.com for more

Actor/Sketch Comedian/Improviser/writer and more, Dru Johnston is on the podcast this week. Jake gushes over how his work on The Chris Gethard Show helped get him through the pandemic and then the two dive into being a part of creative communities, adopted families, 50 weeks of Wayne's World, hanging out in grocery store parking lots outside of Seattle, love for the theater, Shakespeare, and a live crowd, playing Beast on stage and at home, artistic validation in quarantine, Almost Live, and all things improv and the often combative relationship between sketch and standup. All that and so much more in this extra long episode.  Check out www.DragonWagonShop.com for awesome Elaborate shirts and mugs! Be a part of the conversation on our official Discord! https://discord.gg/V6MNnDJXvu  Follow Elaborate on Social media: http://www.twitter.com/elaboratepod http://www.instagram.com/elaboratepod  Elaborate is a part of the Dragon Wagon Radio independent podcast network. Visit www.dragonwagonradio.com for more

Comedian and Writer Alex Hooper from AGT, Comedy Central's Roast Battle, and much more, joins Jake on the pod to talk about meeting on the set of Kevin Smith's Zack & Miri Make a Porno, creative meandering, forging your own path, meditation, slack rope walking, yoga, managing mental health, and much much more!  Get Alex's book "Roast Yourself to Happiness" on Amazon : https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08T8FQ81W/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_DGJQ6FGXWSHYM65W6E9M  Check out www.DragonWagonShop.com for awesome Elaborate shirts and mugs! Be a part of the conversation on our official Discord! https://discord.gg/V6MNnDJXvu  Follow Elaborate on Social media: http://www.twitter.com/elaboratepod http://www.instagram.com/elaboratepod  Elaborate is a part of the Dragon Wagon Radio independent podcast network. Visit www.dragonwagonradio.com for more

Elaborate is coming back! But first, Jake is sitting down solo on his birthday to catch up and share some thoughts on being dark for all this time, the pandemic and what its highlighted of his shortcomings and strengths, getting older and his current journey of rediscovery, what he's learning about letting go of complete control, perfectionism and its firm and unrelenting grasp around him, the release of his feature film Pinch, music, bikes, comedy, and much much more. Next week Alex Hooper from Comedy Central's Roast Battle and America's Got Talent will be "on the couch" and you don't want to miss it. Check out www.DragonWagonShop.com for awesome Elaborate shirts and mugs! Be a part of the conversation on our official Discord! https://discord.gg/V6MNnDJXvu  Follow Elaborate on Social media: http://www.twitter.com/elaboratepod http://www.instagram.com/elaboratepod  Elaborate is a part of the Dragon Wagon Radio independent podcast network. Visit www.dragonwagonradio.com for more

Actor and Vocalist Helen Highfield is on the couch and she’s sharing tales of growing up to super smart academic parents who also have no shortage of cool factor, being on the cover of her mother’s album, riding show ponies and which equestrian ribbons are and aren't good enough, being an ESL ringer, and giving teachers some much needed advice about discipline. Plus the Zima formula, bad college essays, New York City, school provided fake IDs, the daunting view of life after college, the law and order to booking Law and Order, and learning how to fail. Be sure to check out Helen on I Ship It on CW Seed and in former guest of the show @maggielevin’s new film, DIVA. Check out www.DragonWagonShop.com for awesome Elaborate shirts and mugs! Be a part of the conversation on our official Discord! https://discord.gg/V6MNnDJXvu  Follow Elaborate on Social media: http://www.twitter.com/elaboratepod http://www.instagram.com/elaboratepod  Elaborate is a part of the Dragon Wagon Radio independent podcast network. Visit www.dragonwagonradio.com for more

Actor/Producer/Director Shane Hartline is on the couch and sharing tales of a creative kid with a glorious VHS camcorder making home movies, taking improv classes at 13 and calling Universal Studios and Nickelodeon trying to get acting jobs! He also talks about training to be a wrestler at 15 with his supportive father who bought him a wrestling ring and may or may not have unintentionally started a wrestling school. He and Jake discuss their mutual experiences with the pro-wrestling industry and the toxic masculinity and other behaviors that pushed them away from it. They also talk about how the birth of YouTube and Wood and Steel productions and the weekly web series he coercing friends to be a part of, Shane's brilliant "Mark E. Xtreme" character, being in Rock of Ages, the Parable of the Horse that emotionally rocked Jake in the Bill Murray Stories and the way Shane feels he is tested by a higher power!  Shane also talks about his brand new short film, Cookie - about an aspiring actress living with spasmodic dysphonia, a rare disease affecting the larynx in which Shane himself lives with.   Be sure to Rate, Review, & Subscribe! Follow Elaborate on Social media: http://www.twitter.com/elaboratepod http://www.instagram.com/elaboratepod  Check out www.DragonWagonShop.com for awesome Elaborate shirts and mugs! Elaborate is a part of the Dragon Wagon Radio independent podcast network. Visit www.dragonwagonradio.com for more

Actor/Model/Host Michael Wayne Foster is on the couch! Michael and Jake are long time friends and collaborators and the two talk about how they met and instantly clicked. Michael also talks about growing up a big kid in Michigan, childhood insecurities and bullying, high school radio, breaking stereotypes, his tight-knit family and zombified father/son bonding experiences, being on season 3 of "The Bachelorette," Sylvester Stallone comparing him to Ivan Drago, his experience as a high school English teacher, the power of any level of celebrity, and even Energy Vampires! Yea you heard that right. All of that plus the two also talk a bit about being creative family members and share some behind the scenes stories from projects they've collaborated on.  Be sure to Rate, Review, & Subscribe! Check out www.DragonWagonShop.com for awesome Elaborate shirts and mugs! Elaborate is a part of the Dragon Wagon Radio independent podcast network. Visit www.dragonwagonradio.com for more

Elaborate First Mate, Paul Bianchi is on the couch this week and joining Jake for a super unique episode in which our host talks about doing one of those ever so popular Ancestry DNA kits. Jake tells a story about how the results lead him to find some truth and discover way more than he bargained for! Be sure to Rate, Review, & Subscribe! Check out www.DragonWagonShop.com for awesome Elaborate shirts and mugs! Elaborate is a part of the Dragon Wagon Radio independent podcast network. Visit www.dragonwagonradio.com for more

Comedian/Writer and Creator of Netfix's Historical Roasts w/ Jeff Ross, Eddie Furth is on the couch this week! He and Jake play get-to-know-ya as despite having all the same friends they've someone missed one another for the past decade. The extra long conversation spills out of them both as they discuss living a bow tie life, style vs fashion and Eddie's well put together badass grandmother. Eddie also shares stories of  his would be basketball coach life, having creative boundaries, lessons learned from the existence of Beverly Hills Chihuahua, being a party DJ and even how he combats living with Crohn's disease. He also provides some history to the Historical Roasts!  Watch Historical Roasts w/ Jeff Ross right now on Netflix Be sure to Rate, Review, & Subscribe! Check out www.DragonWagonShop.com for awesome Elaborate shirts and mugs! Elaborate is a part of the Dragon Wagon Radio independent podcast network. Visit www.dragonwagonradio.com for more

Comedian & Podcast Host Jackie Kashian is on the couch! Her & Jake share a similar kinetic conversational style that finds them chatting about all sorts of stuff from the bearded youths, nerd porn, Zack Galifianakis being "patient zero," the high school reunion myth and why she's reading speeches. She also talks about bringing personal interests into stand-up, the type of dork she truly is, getting into Dungeons & Dragons by way of her Video Game designing husband, "boy books" she may or may not have stolen as well as growing up a teenage civil war reenactor who really wanted a Union Hat! ---------- Be sure to Rate, Review, & Subscribe! Check out www.DragonWagonShop.com for awesome Elaborate shirts and mugs! Elaborate is a part of the Dragon Wagon Radio independent podcast network. Visit www.dragonwagonradio.com for more!

Actor/Improvisor/Writer/Host/Human Rogue and more, Amy Vorpahl is on the couch this week! Amy talks all about growing up in an ever-moving family, changing places and people every 3 years or so and how that effected her relationships with those around her. She also talks about being a surprise twin named after a "Little Women" character, the endless partnership that is also a competition between her and that twin sister, her daily talks with her highly educated mother, learning to communicate, being the loudest actress in her grade school, the impact teachers have, being an Aunt, her 200 day dating hiatus, finding herself a happy 30 something. All of that plus her love of all things fantasy, D&D and being an OG RPG unicorn! ---------- Check out www.DragonWagonShop.com for awesome Elaborate shirts and mugs! Elaborate is a part of the Dragon Wagon Radio independent podcast network. Visit www.dragonwagonradio.com for more! Follow Elaborate on Social media: http://www.twitter.com/elaboratepod http://www.instagram.com/elaboratepod

Actor/Magician/Writer and more Shane Brady joins Jake this week for an incredibly personal, specific, transparent and sometimes heart-wrenching conversation about family. Shane talks about his dreams of being a hockey player and how they were taken from him at a young age after breaking his neck, growing up in a fractured familial situation. There's talk of untrustworthy fathers, infidelity, forced space, drug abuse and addiction issues.  The two also share their very similar situations of consistently living as a pillar between two warring sides, growing up to fast by means of at times absentee parents, surviving the ebbs and flows of Hollywood and what its like to be handed heavy information later in live, about your early life.  All that plus Shane talks about following young love, finding his way by seeing the faults in others, learning magic and working with his college family on the brand new critically acclaimed feature film, The Endless. ---------- Follow Elaborate on Social media: http://www.twitter.com/elaboratepod http://www.instagram.com/elaboratepod  Check out www.DragonWagonShop.com for awesome Elaborate shirts and mugs! Elaborate is a part of the Dragon Wagon Radio independent podcast network. Visit www.dragonwagonradio.com for more!

The multi-talented and effortlessly funny John Lehr is on the couch this week. The co-creator & Star of incredible shows like Ten Items or Less & the Hulu Original QuickDraw is talking all about growing up in Kansas, the son of badass social activist mother and a technologically efficient yet socially inefficient father who's talents made their family rich for a whole year before some "bad business decisions" found the repo men at their home.  He also opens up about a drug and alcohol problem that landed him in a jail cell in his twenties, the incredibly lucky clerical error that kept him out of a more serious prison sentence, getting and staying sober, becoming a caveman, and buying his first house and the fear that came along with it. All of that plus creating an original style of Improv comedy, brain surgeries, parenting styles, the future of storytelling and comedy, what's next for Howler.tv and more! Be sure to visit www.howler.tv ---------- Follow Elaborate on Social media: http://www.twitter.com/elaboratepod http://www.instagram.com/elaboratepod  Check out www.DragonWagonShop.com for awesome Elaborate shirts and mugs! Elaborate is a part of the Dragon Wagon Radio independent podcast network. Visit www.dragonwagonradio.com for more!

Actor, writer, comedian & host, Mo Mandel is on the couch this week. He talks about growing up in a small country town in Northern California that may actually be the origin of the term "boonies" as the second son of two mindfully professional yet hippie NY parents. An outcast who found himself in creative writing after a disheartening realization that "professional athlete" probably wasn't in his future as a 93lb high school baseball player who couldn't hit. He also talks about having his own column in his high school paper, making fellow camp counselors be his first stand-up audience, his ability or lack-thereof to maintain positive relationships, his parents celebrating their 50th anniversary, going to comedy college in the San Francisco comedy scene and the two wax poetic about the odd mind of mutual friend, Theo Von. And he does all of this while being humped by Jake's dog. Be sure to checkout Mo's fantastic podcast "The Full Release" which he co-hosts with his girlfriend and doctor of sexual medicine, Dr. Ashley. ---------- Follow Elaborate on Social media: http://www.twitter.com/elaboratepod http://www.instagram.com/elaboratepod  Check out www.DragonWagonShop.com for awesome Elaborate shirts and mugs! Elaborate is a part of the Dragon Wagon Radio independent podcast network. Visit www.dragonwagonradio.com for more!

Its Elaborate's first anniversary! What better way to spend it than sit down with Elaborate First Mate Paul Bianchi and unpack the last 12 months. The duo disclose what they're proud of accomplishing since the launch of Dragon Wagon Radio, both in the podcast world and their personal and creative lives, as well as what they're not so proud of and want to do better in the year to come. They're talking personal goals, time and task management, attention and dedication, their favorite and not so favorite parts of the creative process, social media life, some "industry" talk, and the feeling and value of achievements both in and out of video games, Jake also talks about how doing the podcast and starting the network has effected his life and talks about the future of Elaborate. Please Rate & Review! ---------- Follow Elaborate on Social media: http://www.twitter.com/elaboratepod http://www.instagram.com/elaboratepod  Check out www.DragonWagonShop.com for awesome Elaborate shirts and mugs! Elaborate is a part of the Dragon Wagon Radio independent podcast network. Visit www.dragonwagonradio.com for more!

Comedian Nat Baimel is on the couch this week, talking all about growing up in south Florida as an indoor kid with a reputation for making people uncomfortable and being more "weird" than funny. His love of pro-wrestling handed down from his grandfathers as well as his father who he lost when he was just 3 old. The flashes of memories he has of him and what it's like to have an "idea of a dad" as well as how people telling him he would see his father in heaven led him towards being a religious kid despite not being a part of a very religious family. He also shares stories of how his mother upstaged him at a show early in his career, why he started as a "guitar comic," and how one single Jewish mother guilting changed his attitude forever. Check out his brand new comedy album "Be Nice" on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora and more. Find Nat on Social Media @NatBaimel and www.natbaimel.com ---------- Follow Elaborate on Social media: http://www.twitter.com/elaboratepod http://www.instagram.com/elaboratepod  Check out www.DragonWagonShop.com for awesome Elaborate shirts and mugs! Elaborate is a part of the Dragon Wagon Radio independent podcast network. Visit www.dragonwagonradio.com for more!

Comedian, Actor, Writer & Artist Chris Fairbanks didn't let being sucker punched at a bar this weekend stop him from sitting down with Jake and sharing a ton of stuff on this weeks Elaborate. He Talks about growing up a skater kid on the streets of Missoula, Montana, the son of artistically inclined & government employed parents, how a girl and an improv festival led him to Austin Texas, how his love of skating played a positive role in his adolescence (and life in general) and how a recent hip replacement threatened that love. The duo are also discussing their "aging" bodies as if they were geriatric as well as where they both find solace within the hustle. Chris also discloses how swimming for physical therapy taught him the importance of breathing in everything he does. It sounds so simple doesn't it? All of this plus almost being on MTV's Jackass, why John Wayne walks funny, how Tommy Hilfiger sold so many jackets, what you call a ska band with no instruments and more! ---------- Follow Elaborate on Social media: http://www.twitter.com/elaboratepod http://www.instagram.com/elaboratepod  Check out www.DragonWagonShop.com for awesome Elaborate shirts and mugs! Elaborate is a part of the Dragon Wagon Radio independent podcast network. Visit www.dragonwagonradio.com for more!

Happy Holidays! Jake is just saying a quick hello and happy holidays from Las Vegas! Elaborate is part of the Dragon Wagon Radio independent podcast network. Visit www.dragonwagonaradio.com/donate to gift something off the amazon wishlist! Follow Elaborate on Social media: http://www.twitter.com/elaboratepod http://www.instagram.com/elaboratepod