May I Elaborate? Sound Wisdom from JB Smoove

By Four Square Miles

Society & Culture Comedy

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Affirmations, elaborations, and hallucinations from one of comedy’s most enigmatic minds! Join JB Smoove each week as he squeezes the most wisdom possible out of an inspirational quote. And now he’s dishing out real life advice and talking to more amazing guests! New episodes every Monday.

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Amanda Seales Elaborates

08.01.2022

In this season finale of May I Elaborate, JB Smoove and Miles are joined by comedian Amanda Seales (HBO’s Insecure). Together they explain why you need to keep the cynics away from your creativity. Finally, the guys wrap up with ...

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08.01.2022 Amanda Seales Elaborates In this season finale of May I Elaborate, JB Smoove and Miles are joined by comedian Amanda Seales (HBO’s Insecure). Together they explain why you need to keep the cynics away from your creativity. Finally, the guys wrap up with ...
07.25.2022 Paul Feig Elaborates This week, JB Smoove and Miles are joined by the hilarious Paul Feig (director of Bridesmaids, creator of Freaks and Geeks)! Together, they explain how you can join the symphony of the universe. This Week’s Quote: “Being a part of ...
07.18.2022 Dumbass Videos This week, JB Smoove and Miles remind you that attention is a muscle, and you need to hit the mental gym. This Week’s Quote: “By giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention ...
07.11.2022 Kevin Hart Elaborates This week, JB Smoove and Miles are joined by the great Kevin Hart! They want to know: why are you so afraid to ask the dumb questions? Plus Kevin, JB, and Miles offer advice on male friendship. This Week’s Quote: ...
07.04.2022 Ass Buffet This week, JB Smoove and Miles encourage you to find fulfillment in life’s simple imperfections. Plus JB gives advice to a struggling artist. This Week's Quote: “The essence of life is not to find the one thing that satisfies us ...
06.27.2022 George Wallace Elaborates This week, JB Smoove and Miles are joined by the legendary George Wallace! Together, they explain why you need to start preparing for life’s curveballs. Plus George, JB, and Miles offer advice to a listener considering a move to Vegas. ...
06.20.2022 Jumbo Shrimp This week, JB Smoove and Miles challenge you to embrace life’s contradictions. Plus JB gives a listener advice about working from home. This Week’s Quote: “Across planes of consciousness, we have to live with the paradox that opposite things can ...
06.13.2022 Agent Hope This week, JB Smoove and Miles remind you that optimism is a super power. Plus JB gives a listener some in-law advice. This Week’s Quote: “Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.” - Henri Frederic Amiel (Keep Calm and Carry On, ...
06.06.2022 Saliva This week, JB Smoove and Miles explain why you should stop stressing about your flaws and start doubling down on your assets. Plus JB speaks with our friend (and May I Elaborate’s #1 fan) David Morgan (@davidleemorgan on Twitter). This ...
05.30.2022 Lil Rel Howery Elaborates This week, JB Smoove and Miles are joined by the great Lil Rel Howery (Get Out, Free Guy)! Together, they explain why you need to start looking at the negative from a new perspective. Plus JB helps out a listener ...
05.23.2022 Thumbs This week, JB Smoove and Miles explain why you should be grateful for your humanity. Plus JB attempts to help out a listener stuck in the “Friend of the Friend” zone. This Week's Quote: “Having been born human beings, we ...
05.16.2022 Tiffany Haddish Elaborates This week, JB Smoove and Miles are joined by the one and only Tiffany Haddish! Together, they explain how you can find the perfect balance of skepticism and idealism. Plus JB gives a listener some much-needed canine hygiene advice. This ...
05.09.2022 Different Day This week, JB Smoove and Miles remind you that every day is a fresh start. Plus JB offers advice to a listener struggling with their confidence! This Week's Quote: "Once every day the Earth would spin completely around and the ...
05.02.2022 Kevin Nealon Elaborates This week, JB Smoove and Miles are joined by the hilarious Kevin Nealon! Together, they explain how you can cultivate and nurture the garden of your life. Plus JB gives a listener advice on dealing with a toxic workplace. This ...
04.25.2022 Make It So This week, JB Smoove and Miles remind you that your life is a spaceship fueled by hope. Plus JB offers advice to a listener who is sick of seeing her ex-husband around town. Today's Quote: “Miracles begin with you. You ...
04.18.2022 Randall Park Elaborates JB Smoove and Miles are back, and they’re now packing even more wisdom into each episode! Every Monday, JB and Miles will be offering their classic elaborations, as well as answering questions from listeners like yourself. This week, the great ...
02.24.2022 A Quick Hello from JB and Miles JB and Miles want to hear about your problems! Send in your dilemma for your chance to get free life advice from JB when May I Elaborate returns. Either leave it in a review on Apple Podcasts or email them ...
12.31.2021 Relaborations: Piss Sheets It’s the end of the year, so JB and Miles are looking back on some of 2021’s best Elaborations! Today they’re revisiting one of their favorite movie-themed episodes about how adversity can unlock greatness. Be sure to to stay subscribed ...
12.30.2021 Relaborations: Splash It’s the end of the year, so JB and Miles are looking back on some of 2021’s best Elaborations! Today they’re looking at how making a big impact often starts with a tiny ripple. Today’s Quote: “Enlightenment for the wave ...
12.29.2021 Relaborations: Egg with Kenan Thompson It’s the end of the year, so JB and Miles are looking back on some of 2021’s best Elaborations! Today they’re revisiting their first guest episode with Kenan Thompson. Today’s Quote: “You wonder what's inside. You wonder if you can ...
12.28.2021 Relaborations: Stained Rug It’s the end of the year, so JB and Miles are looking back on some of 2021’s best Elaborations all week long! Today they’re revisiting one that’s about accepting life’s imperfections. Today’s Quote: “One of my favorite ways to nurture ...
12.27.2021 Relaborations: Resort Hat It's the end of the year, so JB and Miles are looking back on 2021’s best Elaborations all week long! Today they're revisiting one that’s all about paying attention to the situations that you’re in. "I sometimes wear a lot ...
12.03.2021 Fuse JB Smoove and Miles are dedicating today’s episode to all of you in Elaboration Nation, as May I Elaborate begins a break from daily episodes. Tune in later this month for a look back at some of our favorite elaborations ...
12.02.2021 Marry Yourself Today JB Smoove and Miles ask you to get down on one knee and make a commitment to loving yourself. Today’s Quote: “Self love is promising to love honor and cherish myself. It’s the most important vow I can ever ...
12.01.2021 Pasketti Today JB Smoove and Miles want you to make a lasting impression, like the aftertaste of a delicious meal. Today’s Quote: “It’s fun to have mentors – people who do similar work to mine in the world. Whether I know ...
11.30.2021 Zombie UFC Today JB Smoove and Miles remind you to use your environment to your advantage, wherever you may be. Today’s Quote: “Sometimes I have mixed emotions about where I land in life but I try to find ways to embrace my ...
11.29.2021 Band-Aid Today JB Smoove and Miles challenge you to start treating your emotional wounds with the same care you give physical wounds. Today’s Quote: “Simply feeling can be healing.” – Tanya Carroll Richardson (A Year of Self Love, Workman Publishing). Follow ...
11.26.2021 Prime Time Today JB Smoove and Miles talk about overcoming your fears to unlock your hidden potential. Today’s Quote: “Until we lose ourselves there can be no hope of finding ourselves. We are the world and to enter fully into the world ...
11.25.2021 Wonder Woman Today JB Smoove and Miles talk about how to maintain healthy boundaries in relationships. Today’s Quote: “Weakness is treating someone as though they belong to you. Strength is knowing that everyone belongs to themselves.” – Yaa Gyasi (A Year of ...
11.24.2021 This MFer Here Today JB Smoove and Miles talk about loving yourself before you can love others. Today’s Quote: “Once we have held ourselves with kindness we can touch others in a vital and healing way.” – Tara Brach (A Year of Gratitude, ...
11.23.2021 Pie Fight Today JB Smoove and Miles ask you to start telling the world exactly what you want. Today’s Quote: “‘Ask and you shall receive’ is the rule but you must learn how to ask and how to receive.” - Gary Zukav ...
11.22.2021 I've Been There Today JB Smoove and Miles challenge you to think with your heart and feel with your brain. Today’s Quote: “Compassion without wisdom is not understood to be true compassion and wisdom without compassion is not true wisdom.” - Masao Abe ...
11.19.2021 Harry Orange Seed Today JB Smoove and Miles ask you to enjoy your moment in the sun, but make room for the next flower to bloom. Today’s Quote: “No seed ever sees the flower.” - Zen Saying (Zen Page-a-Day Calendar, Workman Publishing). Follow ...
11.18.2021 Golden Boy Today JB Smoove and Miles remind you to slow down and enjoy life’s speed bumps. Today’s Quote: “It’s never too late to do nothing.” - Zen Saying (Zen Page-a-Day Calendar, Workman Publishing). Follow JB on Twitter. Follow Miles on Twitter. ...
11.17.2021 Snow Today JB Smoove and Miles explain that the trail you blaze today will be walked by others tomorrow. Today’s Quote: “The mere fact that another had walked where I was walking made the path easier for my feet.” - D.E. ...
11.16.2021 Ill-Fitting Clothes Today JB Smoove and Miles explain that greatness already exists within you. Today’s Quote: “A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To be alive is to be slowly born.” - Antoine De Saint-Exupery (Zen ...
11.15.2021 Lilliput Today JB Smoove and Miles ask you to ease your grip on life’s steering wheel. Today’s Quote: “Don’t try to steer the river.” - Deepak Chopra (Zen Page-a-Day Calendar, Workman Publishing). Follow JB on Twitter. Follow Miles on Twitter. Learn ...
11.12.2021 Chili Today JB Smoove and Miles explain that the most powerful thing a person can possess is a curious mind. Today’s Quote: “Being genius is not enough, it takes courage to change people’s hearts.” – Oleg (Dimiter D Marinov) in Green ...
11.11.2021 Armrest Today JB Smoove and Miles remind you to carve out space for your loved ones. Today’s Quote: “Impossible things [get done] every day that are only made possible through the little, reasonable compromises we all make.” - Jon Stewart (Keep ...
11.10.2021 Know Your Worth Today JB Smoove and Miles implore you to know and understand your true worth. Today’s Quote: “We gain power through our refusal to accept less than we deserve.” – Amber Hollibaugh (Keep Calm and Carry On Calendar, Workman Publishing) Follow ...
11.09.2021 Fuel Tank Today JB Smoove and Miles explain that your education is a life long journey. Today’s Quote: “Fill your mind with knowledge – it’s the only kind of power no one can take away from you.” – Min Jin Lee (Keep ...
11.08.2021 Mona Lisa Smile Today JB Smoove and Miles challenge you to create your own definition of “perfect.” Today’s Quote: “Some things are meant to be broken. Imperfect. Chaotic. It’s universe’s way of providing contrast, you know? There have to be a few holes ...
11.05.2021 Nae Nae Today JB Smoove and Miles encourage you to start thinking small. Today's Quote: “Be as simple as you can be; you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can be.” Paramahansa Yogananda (Zen Page-a-Day Calendar, Workman ...
11.04.2021 Elephant in the Room Today JB Smoove and Miles challenge you to take off your mask and reveal your true character. Today’s Quote: “There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such and unreal life. ...
11.03.2021 Skunks Today JB Smoove and Miles ask you to stop fighting the current and start enjoying the waters. Today’s Quote: “Just let go. Let go of how you thought your life should be and embrace the life that is trying to ...
11.02.2021 The Great Voila Today JB Smoove and Miles remind you to seek out wonder, even in the mundane. Today’s Quote: “Magic is very related to happiness…It is not there all the time, but there are beautiful moments of magic in everyone’s life.” Penelope ...
11.01.2021 The Donaldson Initiative Today JB Smoove and Miles ask you to stop wasting today worrying about tomorrow. Today’s Quote: “Tain’t worth while to wear a day out before it comes.” Sarah Orne Jewett (Keep Calm and Carry On Calendar, Workman Publishing). Follow JB ...
10.29.2021 Star Week: Andy Richter Today Andy Richter joins JB Smoove and Miles as we “Reach for the F***ing Stars!” The brilliant comedian and Team Coco family member joins the show to explain how you can start driving your life’s covered wagon into a promising ...
10.28.2021 Star Week: Roy Wood Jr. Roy Wood Jr. has been making us laugh and think on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah for years. Today he shares his unique perspective with JB Smoove and Miles as we continue to “Reach for the F***ing Stars!” Hear ...
10.27.2021 Star Week: Cheryl Hines Today actress Cheryl Hines joins JB Smoove and Miles as we “Reach for the F***ing Stars!” Fresh off the season 11 premiere of "Curb Your Enthusiasm," co-stars JB and Cheryl join forces once again to explain why a small dose ...

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