Elaborate w/ Jake Lloyd Bacon

Elaborate w/ Jake Lloyd Bacon

Filmmaker/Actor/Comedian Jake Lloyd Bacon sits down with guests from a wide variety of creative fields in an attempt to unpack the human condition in this free-form conversational/interview podcast where transparency is key. Its not therapy but it IS therapeutic. #ElaboratePod Elaborate is a part of the Dragon Wagon Radio podcast network. www.dragonwagonradio.com

Episodes

June 14, 2021 101 mins

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.

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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 las...

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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 bottl...

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March 29, 2021 105 mins

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...

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March 22, 2021 66 mins

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! 

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March 15, 2021 42 mins

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, mus...

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December 11, 2019 69 mins

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 provid...

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August 16, 2019 63 mins

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 di...

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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...

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June 10, 2019 56 mins

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!

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May 27, 2019 103 mins

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...

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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...

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April 30, 2018 71 mins

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 ...

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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 i...

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April 2, 2018 67 mins

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 ...

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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 baseb...

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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 m...

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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 w...

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February 26, 2018 65 mins

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 ro...

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December 25, 2017 5 mins

Happy Holidays! Jake is just saying a quick hello and happy holidays from Las Vegas!

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