The Towel

This is not a regular episode of The Towel.

Spencer (Episode 4!) and I sit down and talk a lot of nonsense.

You're probably better off not listening.

But I've been told our conversations are good bac…

A brief message from Dan.

PLEASE DO NOT DELETE US FROM YOUR FEED! WE'LL BE BACK!

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My guest this week is Pastor Adam Smith from Reality LA in Los Angeles.

We talk about how he went from (in his words) the "biggest jerk I've ever met" in high school to finding his calling as a Pasto…

This week my guest is writer/comedian Joel Anderson, one of the hosts of The Sports Sports Sports Podcast!

We talk about... so many things. The Royal Wedding! Politics! Michigan! Sports Fandom! Comed…

This week's guest (and third Colin on the show) is Colin Whitman, a reality TV Story Producer.

We talk about the varied path he's taken over the course of his career so far, how those detours have …

This week's guest is Seth Boston, a television writer currently working on the Fox TV show Gotham, which wraps up its fourth season on Thursday, May 17th (with an episode co-written by Seth!).

We tal…

This week, a conversation with Josh Griffey (The Long Box Sessions) recorded shortly before he left Los Angeles!

We talk about the good and bad of LA, how his creativity has been rekindled, and how h…

This week's guest is Ellie Kushner, who works as an Art Department Coordinator for film and television, while also co-owning event design company Damn Good Shindig!

We talk about how and why she got …

This week I'm joined by Adam Bowers, the writer, director, and star of the indie film Paperback! We talk about how he ended up in Los Angeles, what it's like to go to Sundance with your first film, a…

This week's guest is one of the co-hosts of the podcast "This of That", Nate Ramsey! He talks about growing up in rural Massachusetts, the dangers of how a day job can sidetrack you, and we bond ov…

This week's guest is another standup comedian, Jon McCarthy! He drops by to talk about how he got started in standup, about his attempts at becoming a firefighter, and he tells some terrifying tales …

On this week's episode I'm joined by Humorman, Observationalist, Former Dog, and Conceptualizer Extraordinaire Mike "Sally" Faerber!

We talk about his journey from Austin to Los Angeles, his adventur…

On this week's episode we talk to my friend Adam Bradshaw, who talks about how a kid from a small town in Michigan ended up working in Television in Los Angeles, what it's like to produce independent…

On this week's episode we talk to Tony Nagatani, an old friend who wears many hats: he's the co-host of the Model Majority Podcast (available on your favorite podcast source), he's a former field org…

Writer/Producer Ken Hanes ("Rizzoli & Isles", "Make It or Break It", many other shows) comes on the pod to talk about his career as a writer, how he moved to Los Angeles as an actor before his career…

Musician Jason Arimoto (who also wrote our theme song!) is on the pod this week talking about how he first got into music, and explores all the different ways he's able to share his love of the ukule…

Lauri Roggenkamp (@lauriroggenkamp) comes on the show this week to talk about being a comedian, how to survive and balance comedy and your day job (or not), and talks about some of the weirdest place…

We're back after taking last week off! I'm sure you missed us very much.

In this episode, I speak to actor/writer/comedian Colin Contreary, who moved to Los Angeles thinking that he'd only be here fo…

This week we go off the rails a bit, thanks to tech entrepreneur Spencer Toyama, who I've known since we were five years old.

We talk about how he went from music to renewable energy to tech, and how…

In this episode, comedian Colin Hughes talks about how he originally moved to Los Angeles to be a musician, and how everything he's done as a performer has been building to his pursuit of a career as…