The OFF-THE-CUFF Improv Comedy Podcast. · Chad Elliot: Improv Teacher, Coach and Performer

OTC 007 Dave Jackson from SchoolOfPodcasting.com inspires Chad, teaches us about DUIs, and goes on the Bachelor…

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Chad gets coached into podcasting while Dave warns that the “groupies are insane.”

1. The OFF-THE-CUFF Improv Comedy Podcast centers this episode on Dave Jackson and podcasting, improv, and comic scene work. 2. Dave Jackson from SchoolOfPodcasting.com is the guest, and Chad Elliott plays the host and scene partner who keeps pushing new setups. 3. The episode asks whether a podcast expert with no improv experience can still “accept and build” under pressure. 4. Dave says he has been podcasting since 2005 and calls himself the “King of Podcasting” on his business card. 5. He traces his path from an electronic engineering degree to copier technician work covered in “toner and soot.” 6. A training job led him away from copier repair and toward teaching, after he says the company fired trainers when sales missed quota. 7. A friend told him in 2005 about podcasting, and he says Google showed “literally like a page and a half of results.” 8. He says the School of Podcasting kept him in phone and car insurance while he went back to school for a teaching degree. 9. He connects podcasting to his musician background by comparing audio mixing to turning down the radio when the phone rings. 10. He describes early podcast playback with a thumb-sized device, a cable, and the software “juice” before iTunes existed. 11. Dave says there were only about “20 podcasts” available at that stage, which made the medium feel new and fragile. 12. He jokes that anyone can start a podcast now and adds, “The bad news is anybody can start.” 13. He recalls event attendees saying he “sounded shorter,” which turns into a joke about how voices are imagined. 14. He names John Lee Dumas and Entrepreneur on Fire while describing how interviewers often recycle the same questions. 15. He says one interviewer could have missed lines like “my arm fell off” and “I shot a man for snoring” because they were not listening. 16. He tells a mistake story about a scheduled birthday fundraising message for a Kindle that ran during a major tsunami. 17. The improv section uses fast, absurd prompts about podcasting, DUI history, and the “wailing wall.” 18. Chad and Dave lean into rapid-fire yes-and scenes, with Dave repeatedly bluffing confidently through nonsense. 19. Listeners who like improv, podcasting, and self-deprecating industry stories. 20. People who want a straight interview with no scene play.

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A podcast pro shows that improv starts with listening.

Dave Jackson stands out because he works with the ideas already on the table: he takes others' suggestions seriously, keeps his confidence, and pushes the moment forward even when things get absurd.

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A podcast expert tries improv for the first time and keeps building on every prompt without losing his footing.

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