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David Coppin Lanegan is a poet and singer living in the desert of Ellensburg, WA.

He performs across Washington as a member of the poetry collective Headlight Children, and in his punk group The Black Velvet Band. His debut collection 'Devotional' was published in 2024, and Black Velvet’s debut record 'Flood' materialized in early 2025. He currently serves as Inland Poet Laureate.

Find him on IG @_theblackvelvetband_ or @williambillybilliam

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Chad Riden currently lives on the Taos County, New Mexico high desert mesa where he is building a sustainable, off the grid compound with some awesome friends while producing comedy shows for the TaosComedy 501c3 non-profit.

Riden has appeared on “The Daily Show” on Comedy Central, the Late Show with David Letterman’s “Tony Mendez Show,” ABC/CMT’s “Nashville,” “CBS This Morning,” HBO/Max “Love Off The Grid,” “Chrisley Knows Best,” “Still The King,” “TRUMP OCH KOMIKERNA – HUMORKRIGET” (TV4 Sweden, C-MORE’s “Trump Vs Comedy”), CMT-Canada’s “Mississippi Snake Grabbers,” and once ate lunch at The Magic Castle in Los Angeles whose newsletter called him “the most famous un-famous person.”

Chad produced and hosted the annual Guinness world record breaking 184+ hour long #BrokenRecordShow (longest stand-up comedy show, multiple comedians) every year from 2015-2018 as part of the Nashville Comedy Festival. “Broken Records,” a documentary shot during the 2016 show, is available to stream on ShortFilmsMatter.com Riden ran for Mayor of Nashville in 2015, which was hilarious and everybody loved it even though he lost miserably. Undaunted, in 2018 he ran for Governor of Tennessee and garnered 1,096 votes statewide, finishing 14th out of 28 candidates on the ballot – a mere 1,335,011 votes short of winning the whole damn thing.

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As a professional comedy journalist of more than two decades, Julie Seabaugh has contributed to The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone, The Hollywood Reporter, Variety, GQ, The Village Voice, L.A. Weekly, and numerous other titles. Her coverage of modern roasting culminated in 2018 book Ringside at Roast Battle and her love of Mitch Hedberg led to producing/hosting 2020’s Hope on Top: A Mitch Hedberg Oral History for SiriusXM. With Emmy-nominated filmmaker Nick Scown she co-directed September 2021 feature documentary Too Soon: Comedy After 9/11 for Vice. 2022’s 50 Years of the Comedy Store six-LP vinyl box set features her liner notes; her Positive Connections: A Brody Stevens Oral History debuted on SiriusXM in February 2023. The book collection A Tight 20: Two Decades of Comedy Journalism is available now.

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Elliot Broder is a standup comedian, DIY agriculture enthusiast, and former unofficial spokesperson of U.S. Catfish. You can find him at @mikehawkburns on Instagram, Threads, etc. I met Elliot a couple of times over the years while doing comedy in Colorado. We even went running once but not super tight bros. When I landed a coveted elk tag this spring, I posted about it on social media, soliciting a more experienced hunter to accompany me on my elk hunt. Everyone who chimed in ended up washing out except for my last choice-- Elliot Broder. When you have one option, that's your best option, so I put the screws into him to get him to come. Spoiler alert: we weren't just successful on our hunt, we ended up having the best time, Elliot kicked much ass, and in the future, he's going to be the first person I call for my next hare-brained scheme. He's a deep dude, too, with much to say about building a meaningful life under the shadow of capitalism. Hope you dig it.

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Writer for the punk rock humor website The Hard Times Magazine, and host of the comedy Podcast "What's More Metal?" Nariko was winner of the Portland's Funniest Person Contest and named one of SplitSider Magazine's "Top Up and Coming Comedians." He's been on the Bridgetown Comedy Festival, 10,000 Laughs, and the TreeFort Music Fest among others. Back in his hometown of Portland he is the host of “The Cool Kids” comedy show at the legendary Doug Fir Lounge and has been featured on EPIX’s “Unprotected Sets," “Laughs” on FOX, Spotify, SiriusXM, and iHeartRadio.

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Born in the rust belt, reared in the bible belt, Kristen Becker believes in Good Deeds and Dirty Jokes. Her comedy dances gingerly back and forth between drunken redneck and woke women studies major as she playfully explores the good and bad of both sides of the aisle, leaving you left to wonder whether we really are that different, after all. A twenty year veteran of stand up comedy, she continues to skewer the status quo with her salty social commentary. Last year the Not -for Profit she founded, Summer of Sass, INC received a $3.7M donation, allowing her to secure a safe harbor for future LGBTQ+humans.

Becker has worked with everyone from underground comedy legend Doug Stanhope, punk preacher Jay Bakker (yes, Jim and Tammy Faye were his parents) and Righteous Babe Ani DiFranco. Becker was featured on the “Welcome to Provincetown” podcast, named a top ten podcast of 2022 by The NY Times .

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Simply put, Rich Roll is a change agent.

At age 40, Rich made the decision to overhaul the sedentary throes of overweight middle age. Walking away from a career in law, he reinvented himself as a globally recognized ultra-distance endurance athlete, bestselling author, and host of the wildly popular Rich Roll Podcast, one of the world’s most listened to podcasts with over 200 million downloads.

Named one the “25 Fittest Men In The World” by Men’s Fitness and the “Guru of Reinvention” by Outside, Rich shares his inspirational story of addiction, redemption, athletic prowess, and authentic living in his bestselling memoir, Finding Ultra, and in the cookbook and lifestyle guides The Plantpower Way and The Plantpower Way: Italia, which he co-authored with his wife Julie Piatt.

A graduate of Stanford University (and member of their dynastic, multiple NCAA Championship Men’s Swimming program) and Cornell Law School, Rich has been featured on CNN and on the cover of Outside magazine, and has been profiled in The New York Times, Forbes, ESPN and many other prominent media outlets.

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For the last six years, David Blum worked for Audible as the editor-in-chief of Audible Originals. Previously, Blum served as the founding editor of Kindle Singles, the store for original, high-quality longform fiction and nonfiction on Kindle. He began his career as a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, and has worked as a contributing editor at New York Magazine (where he coined the term "Brat Pack"), Esquire and The New York Times Magazine. He has also written for The New Republic, Vanity Fair and The New Yorker. In 2006 Blum became editor-in-chief of The Village Voice, and later served as editor-in-chief of the New York Press and 02138 Magazine.

Blum's first book, "Flash In The Pan: The Life and Death of an American Restaurant," was published by Simon & Schuster in 1992, and was named a notable nonfiction book of the year by The New York Times Book Review. His second book, "Tick...Tick...Tick...: The Long Life & Turbulent Times of 60 Minutes," was published by HarperCollins in 2004.