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Hi, Dax Shepard here. I’m fascinated by smart people with a unique point of view. On this show, I leverage people’s vague awareness of me as an actor to talk with a bunch of bona fide experts. It’s a soothing mix of brain candy and defensive humor (my response to feeling intellectually outclassed). Join me on a layman’s journey through the Land of Specialists!
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Tara Stoinski

Tara Stoinski

2021-06-2401:36:383

Tara Stoinski is a primatologist and President, CEO and Chief Scientific Officer for the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund. Tara joins the Armchair Expert to discuss studying gorillas for more than two decades, her desire work with animals from a young age, and how ecotourism in Africa is helping the conservation efforts and the local economy. Tara explains gorilla mating rituals and communication tactics, the new technology they use to study and collect data on primates, and how gorillas have an effect on global climate change. Tara also talks about losing her husband to cancer and how she threw herself into her work to help cope with the trauma.
Barry Meier

Barry Meier

2021-06-1701:17:442

Barry Meier (Spooked, Pain Killer) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and a former New York Times journalist. Barry joins the Armchair Expert to discuss investigating the opioid crisis, how Big Pharma played a role in perpetuating the problem, and the depths in which people will go to make money on people’s addictions. Barry and Dax talk about the modern-day private spy industry, news media bias, and how the spread of misinformation has shaped the political landscape. Barry explains how spy companies use digital tactics to acquire information, how phone hacking has become harder and harder to police around the world, and that the use of dirty tactics in private espionage is being solicited more frequently.
Chris Bosh

Chris Bosh

2021-06-1001:38:30

Chris Bosh is an eleven-time All-Star, two-time NBA champion, and an Olympic gold medalist. Chris joins the Armchair Expert to talk about growing up in Dallas, what it was like being 6’ 11” in high school, and going to Robotics Club before basketball practice. Chris and Dax discuss young athletes learning how to manage their money, winning championships with your friends, and how much they both love Austin. Chris talks about being forced into early retirement because of health issues, finding a new identity outside of basketball, and writing his first book, “Letters to a Young Athlete.”
Bubba Wallace

Bubba Wallace

2021-06-0301:19:581

Bubba Wallace is a professional stock car racing driver in the NASCAR Cup Series. Bubba joins the Armchair Expert to talk about growing up in North Carolina, learning to race in his Dad’s go-kart, and how he was more interested in playing basketball as a kid. Dax and Bubba discuss the mental strength needed to be a race car driver, the Confederate flag being banned by NASCAR, and becoming an activist for cultural change in his sport. Bubba talks about having Michael Jordan as his new boss, wanting to be known more for winning races, and being tougher on himself than anyone else.
Susan Stryker

Susan Stryker

2021-05-2701:37:331

Susan Stryker is a professor, author, filmmaker, and theorist whose work focuses on gender and human sexuality. Susan joins the Armchair Expert to discuss the transgender experience in today’s modern world, consulting on the Lady and the Dale docuseries, and how transgender hate is rooted in racism, colonization, and oppression. Susan and Dax talk about the history of criminalization of non-reproductive sexuality, the cross-cultural view of transgender people, and what transmisogyny means. Susan and Dax debate how people should approach transgender Olympic athletes, beliefs about masculinity, and what actually gives an athlete an advantage.
Daniel Kahneman

Daniel Kahneman

2021-05-2001:42:064

Daniel Kahneman is a psychologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Daniel joins the Armchair Expert to discuss the complexity of human nature, studying judgment and decision-making, and his experiments involving loss aversion. Daniel explains that memories can play tricks on our minds when remembering experiences and how to avoid noise and bias in the corporate hiring process. Daniel recounts his childhood growing up in Nazi-occupied France and his encounter with an SS soldier, he breaks down decision hygiene, and how it relates to vaccines.
Prince Harry

Prince Harry

2021-05-1301:35:567

Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, is a member of the British royal family. Prince Harry joins the Armchair Expert to discuss how to approach mental health issues, growing up with privilege, and how healing it is to perform a service for someone. Harry discusses how much like the Truman Show his life is, unconscious bias, and how people can change their mindset once they acknowledge it. Harry talks about his time in the military service, how it opened his eyes to the trauma people face around the world, and how much more important mental health is than physical health.
Kwame Onwuachi

Kwame Onwuachi

2021-05-0650:47

Kwame Onwuachi is a James Beard award-winning chef and author. Kwame joins the Armchair Expert to discuss his experience as a contestant and judge on Top Chef, writing his first book, and cooking for Obama, Oprah, and Dave Chappelle. Kwame and Dax talk about their shared experience growing up in a single-mother household and how as a kid, Kwame was sent to Nigeria for two years to live with his Grandpa. Kwame explains that opening his own restaurants has taught him how to be a better leader and that he's not the best Spades partner if you want to win.
Alexi Pappas

Alexi Pappas

2021-04-2901:33:09

Alexi Pappas is a Greek-American Olympic runner, filmmaker, actor, and writer. Alexi joins the Armchair Expert to discuss her experience competing at the Rio Olympics, getting into running later in life, and the impact her father had in her life after her mom passed away. Alexi and Dax discuss post-Olympic situational depression, treating mental health the same as physical health, and striving to achieve as many goals in life as possible. Alexi talks about being into improv comedy at Dartmouth, why she wanted to produce books and film, and her future in the arts and performing space.
Andrew Yang

Andrew Yang

2021-04-2201:19:512

Andrew Yang is an entrepreneur, author, philanthropist, non-profit leader, and currently running for Mayor of New York City. Andrew joins the Armchair Expert to discuss growing up as a first-generation Asian American in the ’80s, being an older dad to young kids, and running for mayor of New York City. Andrew and Dax discuss universal basic income and how artificial intelligence technology is threatening American jobs. Andrew explains the concept of human-centered capitalism, his ideas about value-added tax for the economy, and reflects on the recent hate crimes against Asian Americans.
Michael Moss

Michael Moss

2021-04-1501:30:502

Michael Moss is a #1 New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative reporter. Michael joins the Armchair Expert to discuss food addiction, the invention of processed food, and what government oversight of the food industry would look like. Michael and Dax discuss free will when it comes to diet, how big food companies use marketing tactics to influence our choices, and that obesity is a crude measure of health. Michael explains the phenomena of dieting and how income inequality affects people’s access to healthy food.
Daniel Goleman

Daniel Goleman

2021-04-0801:36:493

Daniel Goleman, PhD is a two-time Pulitzer Prize nominated author and science journalist. Daniel joins the Armchair Expert to discuss the differences between cognitive empathy, emotional empathy, and empathic concern, and that emotional intelligence starts with being aware and able to name your feelings. Daniel explains the importance of cognitive control, that the same circuitry that helps you focus also calms you down, and the impact your emotional intelligence has on your health. Daniel discusses the flawed understanding of emotion vs logic, that the brain is designed to learn from life when it comes to emotional intelligence, and the science behind how your brain communicates emotions with another person.
Walter Isaacson

Walter Isaacson

2021-04-0101:14:512

Walter Isaacson is an American author, journalist, and professor. Walter joins the Armchair Expert to discuss his work as a biographer, that it’s important to remember that all people are human, and how much more inspiring they are when you realize that. Walter explains the three great innovation revolutions of modern times, how transformative Jennifer Doudna’s gene editing work is, and how she used her knowledge of CRISPR to help with the fight against covid. Dax and Walter discuss the dilemma of editing out certain negative traits and the effects it can have on shaping a person and the importance of trying to maximize the Utopia of gene editing while minimizing the many unforeseen issues that will arise.
Susan Liautaud

Susan Liautaud

2021-03-2502:00:065

Dr. Susan Liautaud (The Power of Ethics) is an author, teacher of ethics at Stanford University, and founder of Susan Liautaud & Associates Limited. Susan joins the Armchair Expert to discuss ethics: the six forces present in all ethical dilemmas, why we can’t look at things in a binary manner, and how we’re only as ethical as our last decision. Susan explains that there’s no place for blame, shame or guilt in ethics, what incentive people have to make ethical decisions, and the need to make ethics accessible to everyone. Dax & Susan discuss the need to think about the consequences that could happen, not just the consequences that will happen and in the fact check, we have a visit from the man whose simulation we are all living in.
Ethan Kross

Ethan Kross

2021-03-1801:38:094

Ethan Kross (Chatter) is an experimental psychologist, neuroscientist and writer, who specializes in emotion regulation. Ethan joins the Armchair Expert to discuss the usefulness of your inner voice and how to harness it. Ethan explains how important context is when triggering emotions, how negative emotions are just as vital as positive ones, and the ways language can shape our emotional experiences. Ethan discusses how having the ability to feel the way we want all the time could be problematic and tips on how to be in the past and the future without being sucked in the chatter. In the fact check, Dax & Monica discuss the Royals.
George Saunders

George Saunders

2021-03-1101:10:322

George Saunders (A Swim in a Pond in the Rain) is a #1 New York Times bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author. George joins the Armchair Expert to discuss the mental phenomena of life, farting in an elevator, and romanticizing everything as a writer. George explains how he learned that being a writer wasn’t about your adventure resume, how to trust your own mind and bless your reactions, and how he finds inspiration by revisiting great works. George discusses how underestimated the role of encouragement is, that self-remonstration is the enemy of art, and how writer’s block is having artificially elevated expectations of yourself.
Michael Eric Dyson

Michael Eric Dyson

2021-03-0401:32:28

Michael Eric Dyson is a professor, ordained minister, political commentator, and the author of seven New York Times bestsellers. Michael joins the Armchair Expert to discuss preaching at the National Cathedral on the King’s Sunday, the transition from going to an inner-city segregated school to a school with rich white kids, and how the church became a lifeline for him. Michael recounts the day when Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and his last great speech, the level of mastery of Jay-Z, and how race is shaped by the environment and context of the culture. The two discuss white privilege, the Capitol protestors, and their opinions on why the 2020 election was so close.
Jane Goodall

Jane Goodall

2021-02-2501:23:37

Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE, founder of the Jane Goodall Institute & UN Messenger of Peace is an ethologist and advocate for the environment, animals, and the natural world. Jane joins the Armchair Expert to discuss her journey to studying chimpanzees, how her approach of empathy allowed her to learn how human chimps are and that they have a culture of their own. Jane explains how similar the gender roles are between chimps and humans, her trajectory of going deep into the jungle and coming out a world icon, and how the Jane Goodall Institute has grown to 24 institutes in 24 separate countries. Dax admits that if he met Jane, he would try to groom her.
Erin Meyer

Erin Meyer

2021-02-1801:21:263

Erin Meyer (The Culture Map, No Rules Rules) is an author and professor at the INSEAD Business School, based in Paris. Erin joins the Armchair Expert to discuss how feedback is interpreted differently in various cultures, who the most direct and confrontational culture is, and how to move beyond stereotypes to understand the more complex issues we are unaware are affecting us. Erin teaches us how we need to build empathy and develop strategies when interacting with people from other cultures, the direct to indirect negative feedback scale, and why Americans are seen as superficial and hypocritical in most European cultures. Erin explains how we express disagreement differently in many parts of the world, how every culture is deferring to authority less than their parents did, and that you need to understand the differences in cultures in order to make the right adjustments.
Emily Morse

Emily Morse

2021-02-1101:21:35

Emily Morse is a sex therapist, author and host of the podcast Sex with Emily. Emily joins the Armchair Expert to discuss Dax’s favorite subject: sex. Emily explains her theory on why sex is still the most taboo topic in America, how little has changed in sex education, and the effect pornography is having on young people. Emily stresses how important communication is for a thriving sex life, how much there is to discover about yourself if you’re curious, and that you’re responsible for your own orgasm, not your partner. The two discuss shame around self-pleasure, the impact sexual wellness has on your overall wellness, and Emily’s vision of lube on every nightstand.
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Gloria Ponto

as i listen to this I read Paul Manafort admitted he swapped info with Russia. will we ever know exactly where the truth lies???

Aug 8th
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Tracy Nevels

gives an error message with all the episodes I'm trying to hear. 2 of my favorite voices to listen to....Keith Morrison and Dax Shepard...crushing my childlike anticipation after repeated attempts to play the episode on multiple devices. Dang

Nov 10th
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Anthony Allen

Hello all, does anyone know why I cant play or download any episodes from 82 back? I hope there is something I can do to fix it because there are some guests I'd really love to hear! I just found y'alls podcasts maybe 2 weeks ago...? something like that.. but I anyway I'm completely obsessed and have been burning through all your podcasts and as many episodes as I can! lol.

Oct 4th
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masoud bivareh

👍👍👍

Oct 27th
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Daniel Stout

okay the how come those emails from Hillary and her team are bragging about buying "leftover pizza" from last night for thousands of dollars? then you find out the fbi lists pizza as a term pedophiles use and then you see the twisted artwork at comet pizza, add all that including many other weird ass emails and you stop laughing and start wondering. why is this guy being disingenuous about the "truths" they found. 60 leading priests gathered in the 1920s to discuss the theory of evolution. they concluded that evolution perfectly complements creationism (i.e. God said "Let there be light"...thats the big bang. God took dirt and made Adam. Thats primordial sludge evolving into a man over eons. So science doesn't disprove faith, it enhances it. But aside from that, we have zero proof of evolution. Evolution is 1 species becoming a completely different species over time via a series of mistakes. We haven't found a single "missing link" bone of any animal on earth. If all animals used to be

Oct 7th
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Oh Be

ccyggcc vt6t5tgy

Sep 16th
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Carla

Free range parenting.. aka let. kids. do. things...

Sep 5th
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Archana Singh

Dude. She speaks SO FAST. I'm Indian and I could hardly keep up. Wooooaaah.

Aug 21st
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Bob Hamlin

too much "cute" chatting of the dull-brained hosts, and not enough good content. removed from my playlist.

Jul 22nd
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Melissa North

Give me a fu*king break. Even remotely implying that at 80k/yr tuition at Stanford is affordable because kids whose parents make under 60k/yr go free? PLEASE. If a kids parents make 160k/yr, they bring home MAYBE 120k net per year, no way in fu*k hell can that parent afford 80k/yr. That kid will be graduating with devastating amount of debt. As USUAL it's the middle class that get bent over and screwed hard.

Jun 9th
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Janice Baleson

One of my most favourite podcasts!!

Jun 8th
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Corey Goodall

Jim Jones had a lot of followers & people who believed in him. he.was.a.fucking.nut.

Apr 10th
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Patrick Walsh

OMG THE ABSOLUTE BEST EPISODE EVER!!!!!! BRING PEGGY BACK SOON!

Mar 3rd
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mark liebman

Found Ezra so annoying. Disrespectful to Sam Harris (who by the way owned him when they had a debate). Not even in the same class. Anyway love ya Dax

Feb 14th
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Mariah Fehlman

Dax, I just finished listening to this first podcast. I enjoyed it very much. I have to say that the best part was hearing that you have a "Papa Bob". My Father is also a "Papa Bob" Much love to all of the "Papa Bobs" out there!

Feb 3rd
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Ramon DeLuna

he was talking about Steve Austin the character for the Six million dollar man. not stone cold Steve Austin

Jan 23rd
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Shawna Michelle Heinz

you should have Zachary Levi on your show. Also Charlize Theron and Tea Leoni too!

Nov 22nd
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Shawna Michelle Heinz

I would love if you had Tea Leoni on your show.

Nov 22nd
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Shawna Michelle Heinz

I love you guys! Your banter is natural and funny. Speaking as an exhibitionist, I do like being spied on nude without knowing I'm being watched or I at least want the peeping tom to think I dont know he is watching me. I like to be lusted over and wanted and I dont mind nudity. Though it is true that I wouldn't want kids to see me or my family to see me, I love to flash. So I understand the person that is nude and has a trench coat on and flashes real quick by opening coat and closing coat. Even as a female, I dont like when men do that. I think that it should be women exhibitionist as the female body is much more aesthetically pleasing than the Male body. I especially believe that part of the reason while I think all women's breasts are beautiful because they produce "liquid gold" aka breast milk and are meant for feeding and nourishing. I believe that is why all people male and female whether straight or not, can agree that women's breasts are beautiful. My name is Shawna and I'

Nov 22nd
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Dawn Shields

what an amazing interview!

Nov 14th
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