May I Elaborate? Sound Wisdom from JB Smoove

By Four Square Miles

What's May I Elaborate? Sound Wisdom from JB Smoove about?

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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May I Elaborate? Sound Wisdom from JB Smoove episodes:

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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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). ...
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. ...
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....
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...
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 of the...
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...
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...
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...
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). ...
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...
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...
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...
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)....
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...
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.” -...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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) ...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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.” ...
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). ...
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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May I Elaborate? Sound Wisdom from JB Smoove episodes:

Amanda Seales Elaborates

Paul Feig Elaborates

Dumbass Videos

Kevin Hart Elaborates

Ass Buffet

George Wallace Elaborates

Jumbo Shrimp

Agent Hope

Saliva

Lil Rel Howery Elaborates

Thumbs

Tiffany Haddish Elaborates

Different Day

Kevin Nealon Elaborates

Make It So

Randall Park Elaborates

A Quick Hello from JB and Miles

Relaborations: Piss Sheets

Relaborations: Splash

Relaborations: Egg with Kenan Thompson

Relaborations: Stained Rug

Relaborations: Resort Hat

Fuse

Marry Yourself

Pasketti

Zombie UFC

Band-Aid

Prime Time

Wonder Woman

This MFer Here

Pie Fight

I've Been There

Harry Orange Seed

Golden Boy

Snow

Ill-Fitting Clothes

Lilliput

Chili

Armrest

Know Your Worth

Fuel Tank

Mona Lisa Smile

Nae Nae

Elephant in the Room

Skunks

The Great Voila

The Donaldson Initiative

Star Week: Andy Richter

Star Week: Roy Wood Jr.

Star Week: Cheryl Hines