Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

And the other thing I can't believe, Dax loves The Let Them Theory. He can't stop talking about it. I hope you're loving listening as much as I love having you here. And I also know, since you love listening to Arm Cher Expert, you know who you're going to love listening to? The Let Them Theory audiobook.

And even if you've read the book, guess what? The audiobook is different. I tell different stories. I riff. I cry.

The Let Them Theory audiobook. And guess who reads it? Me! And even if you've read the book, guess what? The audiobook is different. I tell different stories. I riff. I cry.

Check out the audiobook version of The Let Them Theory read by yours truly, available now on Audible. You can even try it out for free with an Audible trial.

I hope you're loving listening as much as I love having you here. And I also know, since you love listening to Arm Cher Expert, you know who you're going to love listening to? The Let Them Theory audiobook. And guess who reads it? Me.

I tell different stories. I riff. I cry. You're going to love it because it's going to feel like I'm right there next to you. Check out the audiobook version of The Let Them Theory, read by yours truly. Available now on Audible.

And I also know, since you love listening to Armchair Expert, you know who you're going to love listening to? The Let Them Theory audiobook. And guess who reads it? Me! And even if you've read the book, guess what? The audiobook is different. I tell different stories. I riff. I cry.

You're going to love it because it's going to feel like I'm right there next to you. We're in this together as we learn to stop controlling other people.

The Let Them Theory audiobook. And guess who reads it? Me. And even if you've read the book, guess what? The audiobook is different. I tell different stories. I riff. I cry.

Download the Audible app today. It's funny having kids makes you recalibrate.

Her books include The Let Them Theory, biggest book of the year. Huge book... Over six million copies sold.

She needs to read Let Them. It's the book I want to give her. It's what she needs to read.

Her mom needs this book. I have a copy. The book? I'm going to send you with it.

And the other thing I can't believe, Dax loves The Let Them Theory. He can't stop talking about it. I hope you're loving listening as much as I love having you here.

The Let Them Theory audiobook. And guess who reads it? Me!

The Let Them Theory audiobook. And guess who reads it? Me! And even if you've read the book, guess what? The audiobook is different. I tell different stories. I riff. I cry.

So thanks again for listening to this episode of Armchair Expert, and check out the audiobook version of The Let Them Theory read by yours truly, available now on Audible.

Check out the audiobook version of The Let Them Theory, read by yours truly.

The Let Them Theory audiobook. And guess who reads it? Me! And even if you've read the book, guess what? The audiobook is different. I tell different stories. I riff. I cry.

Check out the audiobook version of The Let Them Theory, read by yours truly, available now on Audible.

The Let Them Theory audiobook... guess who reads it? Me. And even if you've read the book, guess what? The audiobook is different. I tell different stories. I riff. I cry.

Download the Audible app today. It's funny having kids makes you recalibrate. I'm sure I wanted it for myself, too.

Her books include The Let Them Theory, biggest book of the year. Huge book. All genres. Wow. Over six million copies sold.

I'm so happy for you. ... Please read Let Them. It's the bestselling ... 6.2 million.

It was the bestselling help book of all time. It's fucking awesome. I'm so happy for you.

What is it called? Oh, Let Them. It's up there. Do you know about Let Them? Yeah, and I've come across it, yes. Oh, your mom needs this book. You need to give your mom this book.

And the other thing I can't believe, Dax loves The Let Them Theory. He can't stop talking about it.

I hope you're loving listening as much as I love having you here. And I also know since you love listening to Armchair Expert, you know who you're going to love listening to? The Let Them Theory audiobook. And guess who reads it? Me. And even if you've read the book, guess what? The audiobook is different.

And check out the audiobook version of The Let Them Theory, read by yours truly, available now on Audible.

I also know, since you love listening to Arm Cher Expert, you know who you're going to love listening to? The Let Them Theory audiobook. And guess who reads it? Me. And even if you've read the book, guess what? The audiobook is different. I tell different stories. I riff. I cry.

And I also know since you love listening to Armchair Expert, you know who you're going to love listening to? The Let Them Theory audiobook. And guess who reads it? Me.

I hope you're loving listening as much as I love having you here. And I also know since you love listening to armchair expert, you're going to love listening to The Let Them Theory audio book... you're going to love it because it's going to feel like I'm right there next to you.

Check out the audio book version of The Let Them Theory read by yours truly, available now on Audible. You can even try it out for free with an Audible trial.

You know who you're going to love listening to? The Let Them Theory audio book. Guess who reads it? Me. And even if you've read the book, guess what? The audio book is different. I tell different stories. I riff, I cry. You're going to love it because it's going to feel like I'm right there next to you.

You know who you're going to love listening to? The Let Them Theory audio book. And guess who reads it? Me. ... Check out the audio book version of The Let Them Theory read by yours truly available now on Audible.

Did you watch Harry Potter when you were growing up? Yes. I loved it.

if you know the situation with the defense against the dark arts teacher in Harry Potter, it was kind of like that but for principals

Monica, I love to read Harry Potter kind of off in my corner.

She feels like she's a wizard trying to pretend to be a muggle. I'm trying to remember what character there's a weird old lady in Harry Potter. Yes, Mrs. Squibb or something like that.

And it's really all Harry Potter is. It's a boarding school story.

Yeah, I was that's why I love Harry Potter so much I can really relate

they wouldn't allow Nick and Anthony to watch certain movies like Harry Potter.

He's trying to write a broomstick... It's Harry Potter.

They had super high Christian moral values to the point where they wouldn't allow Nick and Anthony to watch certain movies like Harry Potter.

They were like, "I don't want anyone to see it. This is Harry Potter. I knew it. Yeah. I knew this black magic would get through our house."

We love Harry Potter too. We've read all the books growing up. I mean, I think we watched the movies at least once a month.

We love Harry Potter too. It's one of the things that we bonded over. We read all the books growing up.

We love Harry Potter. We did the Pottermore tests. I'm a Gryffindor and she's a Ravenclaw.

It's impossible. There's books flying out of the fireplace. Fireplace, yeah. And there's candles hanging all over the room. Letters for Harry.

I love the writing, it's so beautiful and impressive, but there's too many monster names in gibberish talk.

I saw the movies before I ever heard the book.

I was rewatching the movies ... there are two Indian characters in the book, they're twins.

I've been watching the movies in the fourth book. They have a ball... There are two Indian characters in the book...

We've been talking about Harry... I've watched all the movies. The movies are fine. They're fun to see the world...

I was talking to her about reading Harry Potter.

I chose Harry Potter where she had like a sexy little top and the bottoms say like, you can park your wand here or why don't you Slytherin on in.

Who wrote The Body Keeps the Score? Bessel van der Kolk.

Who wrote The Body Keeps the Score? Or that's Bessel van der Kolk.

I think that we talk about Body Keeps the Score and him observing veterans deal with these pretty trivial challenges and have these very outsized reactions.

you read The Body Keeps the Score.

We've seen a lot of people having trauma and we're talking about the book The Body Keeps the Score. Oh, I love it. There's so much value in talking about that.

I love the book The Body Keeps the Score because it really explains how trauma is stored in the body.

She also happened to be the doctor who evaluated my sister's case. So lots of interesting crossover there. ... He also mentioned The Body Keeps the Score.

I'll also throw in their body keeps the score, which was the favorite book of mine.

Maybe the most impactful, if you read Body Keeps the Score, it's like that might be the best solution to trauma.

There's a lot on it in a book I read - The Body Keeps' Score.

The one thing they do say about that in all of these books body keeps the score

There's a great book The Body Keeps the Score maybe you've heard about that book but this doctor's work starts because he's working when he's young in the VA hospital and he's watching these vets come in and they're getting confronted with something that's just a little difficult like it's paperwork and he's watching people have this insane flight or fight reaction full 180 heartbeat per minute unraveling.

there's a great book The Body Keeps the Score maybe you've heard about that book but this doctor's work starts because he's working when he's young in the VA hospital and he's watching these vets come in and they're getting confronted with something that's just a little difficult like it's paperwork and he's watching people have this insane fightorflight reaction full 180 heartbeat per minute unraveling

Whoa-wee. Yeah, it's like Sapiens. Oh, I like Sapiens.

Yeah, it's like Sapiens. Oh, I like Sapiens.

I put a passage in your book from Sapiens, from Yuval's book.

Your book is often described as a mix between sapiens and behave, which is fair.

Although behave is such its own masterpiece.

It's like sapiens or intelligence.

Now he's reading Sapiens.

Now he's reading Sapiens. I bought him that too.

Did you read that book? I did. I loved it, but I'm an addict, so I like any addict that are. He was the first guy who didn't sugarcoat anything, and I love that.

And had you read Kitchen Confidential at any point before you started? Of course.

I was like the idiot young cook who's like, oh this is fucking sick doing blow and staying up all night and boozing it. It's this romanticization of the lifestyle.

I feel like every young cook either watches Top Chef or something had to get you to wanna do it and definitely Tony Bourdain's stuff.

Yeah, I read that book with zero interest in ever being a cook and I was like, oh I would have loved that world. Now I was already sober when I read it but I was like, that would have been great for me.

And had you read Kitchen Confidential at any point before you started? Of course. I was like the idiot young cook who's like, oh this is fucking sick doing blow and staying up all night and boozing it.

I read Kitchen Confidential when it first came out.

I find out he's a junkie.

I had read Kitchen Confidential when it first came out.

And had you read Kitchen Confidential at any point before you started? Of course.

I was like the idiot young cook who's like oh this is fucking sick doing blow and staying up all night and boozing it. It's this romanticization of the lifestyle.

I read that book with zero interest in ever being a cook and I was like oh I would have loved that world.

Barbara KingSolveron who wrote Demon Copperhead... Outrageously beautiful. It's about a young boy growing up in Appalachia, his mom's addict, he's in foster care, he becomes an opiate addict.

I love Demon Copperhead, but it's not this.

Barbara Kingsolver, she of course wrote our favorite book of the year, Demon Copperhead, which ... And I encourage everyone to go get Demon Copperhead ... because it is phenomenal.

I typed in Demon Copperhead. It came up. I began. I didn't even look who wrote it. Who cares? Doesn't matter.

Barbara Kingsolver. She, of course, wrote our favorite book of the year, Demon Copperhead, which I'm so prone to get wrong.

The Poisonwood Bible, Unsheltered, The Bean Trees, Flight Behavior. And I encourage everyone to go get Demon Copperhead.

I went on Audible. I typed in Demon Copperhead. It came up. I began. I didn't even look who wrote it.

She wrote the Pulitzer Prize winning book last year, Demon Copperhead. Oh yeah, the most beautiful book. I read it.

She said in that book, she was trying to explain how it feels to be in the South and especially in Appalachia.

She wrote the Pulitzer Prize winning book last year, Demon Copperhead. Oh yeah, okay, the most beautiful book. I read it. My whole family's from Kentucky.

All Fours is the last book I finished.

In the book, All Fours. Yes. Which you probably have not finished yet. Oh my God. I'm getting there. That's okay.

There's a part that there's a man and a woman and they're engaged in foreplay and she sits on his lap and he takes her tampon. Oh, I've got to that part.

In the book, again, without giving it away, there's a longing for this person. And so I do think that would be extremely hot given that you can't. They're not having sex, this couple.

I think I'm a perv. I think it's my most recent book that I can't stop talking about All Fours.

All Fours. By the way, so many comments are what's the name of the book? Ronica's reading. And I'm thinking like, I even remember it. I know, I say it a lot. You say it so much. It's such a memorable title. All Fours.

So All Four is by Miranda July. I brought it up like 18 times to different people.

The book is about a woman who is going to go on a trip to New York. And she ends up getting a hotel like an hour away. The book takes so many twists and turns. It is so profound. It's so sexy.

Well, the last time I think I spoke about it, I was like, it's so sexy. Oh my God. And then the next day I was like, the tampon thing? No, I liked that. I also thought that was sexy. It's so visceral, their thing.

I'm reading a very sexy book. It's called All Fours. Oh, five better be sexy with that title it is it's by Miranda July incredible author

I'm reading a very sexy book. It's called All Fours. It is by Miranda July... it's the book of the summer, everyone's reading it... it's about a woman who's 45 and she is going to meet her friends in New York, her husband suggested she drive there, she stops an hour away and stays in a hotel, and the story follows her midlife crisis.

It's a midlife crisis story, a woman in her forties who decides to take a roadtrip, stop an hour away, stay in a hotel and just kind of explore herself.

He mentioned Little Women, saying people picture themselves as characters in that novel.

We were just talking about that with Little Women. ... we were watching Little Women a couple days ago. ... the making of that book and how insane the process was to make a book. Handstitching the binding.

I just watched Little Women.

Little Women is the first novel I remember reading that just took me completely away from where I was.

Little Women is the first novel I remember reading that just took me completely away from where I was, which was the back of a station wagon going on some long, long family vacation.

We don't have enough compassion for that doctor... The Giving Tree... it's a heartbreaking book. I just read it to my kids last night.

It's the saddest book. I hate this book, but I love it at the same time.

I think it's a heartbreaking book. We just broke it down for way too long on the fact check.

Do you think it's like a wildly misogynistic book?

When I'm laying in bed with them, like last night, I read The Giving Tree. Terrible choice. Terrible choice. I love that book. And it's just the meanest book ever.

That boy is so mean to that tree. I didn't know that she was the mom in the book. I thought it was a wife. I was trying to figure out who the tree represented.

It's a good book about codependence. The book is about the cost of taking and the cost of giving when it's not reciprocated.

He cuts the tree down, but she was happy because he's sitting on her. It's a weird metaphor for the parentchild relationship and selfsacrifice.

The Giving Tree, but we had a perverted one too in our house.

We had The Giving Tree sitting on a shelf at our house.

and one of them was A Brief History of Intelligence, evolution, AI, and the five breakthroughs that made our brains.

I read the book and I absolutely loved it. And I've actually now read it two and a half times and been talking about it forever.

I love your book. It's so good. I've recommended to so many people.

It's a very very dense in a great way book you cover geological evolution animal evolution the AI history and it's all cohesive and multidisciplinary and as you talked about it's such an impressive book you made it quite easy.

Everybody read A Brief History of Intelligence until your next book.

I was listening to this book for the second time, A Brief History of Intelligence. Great book, recommend it.

but I was listening in this book for the second time, A Brief History of Intelligence. Great book recommend it.

It's talking about the period in evolution where fish crawled out of the water and started eating vegetation close to the waterline and developed lung. Ultimately becomes mammals, right? And my understanding of evolution, which is there's a mutation that net mutations beneficial and then they breed more and that's how the thing lasts. Lunges is so complicated. How the fuck could that be a mutation? Are we saying one fish, one of these days had a set of lungs and all of a sudden I was like, I don't think I buy this.

I was recently reading A Brief History of Intelligence which is a great book.

It's called A Brief History of Intelligence.

we watch The Lord of the Rings because I had never seen it.

The Lord of the Rings for me was the first red flag.

He has seen Lord of the Rings. He parkours off of this boulder to hopefully propel himself further up the mountain.

Do you like Lord of the Rings? You know what? I've never seen it. Is that not wild? I haven't seen it either.

He looks like a creature from Lord of the Rings, if I'm being honest.

We decided to hang out at his house, which was on the complete opposite side of campus from me and watch The Lord of the Rings because I had never seen it.

He has seen all the Lord of the Rings.

You know what's fun about your background is I feel like I'm talking to someone in Lord of the Rings. And I love that series so much.

In like seventh grade I read the Hobbit and that was one of the first books that I really loved.

And the Hobbit is the prequel.

Peter Jackson, who's obviously an incredibly talented man, he loved that universe so much he went and made another trilogy called The Hobbit.

Well, have you ever listened to Esther Perel's Maining in Captivity? Similar like, wow, I can't believe I get to hear this.

Had you been aware of Mating in Captivity?

Yes, of the book.

I mean, this is, so it's also like, it's a doc series, and it's kind of like Esther Perel mating and captivity, but it's filmed and it's not her.

And I did Rekindling Desire, which was now that you've read Mating in Captivity the book, what do you do?

He goes, Terrence Plaster's in the bathroom. I go, what are you talking about? He goes, the boy wizard. The guy from the movie. And I go, Harry Potter? And he goes, yes, yes.

I have his favorite book. Hogwarts. It's a miniature Harry Potter. It is not. It's a Harry Potter book.

I reread all of them all the time. Now I re-listen to them all the time. Best narrator in the history of books. 100% impossibly good. Better than any acting performance I've ever seen in a movie.

I was going to read that year. It was Harry Potter. Oh, yeah. The sixth one had just come up that year.

I think I'm into religion the way some people are into Harry Potter or Star Wars or Hunger Games or whatever.

His books, The Fifth Risk, Flash Boys, The Big Short, read it, loved it, Moneyball, The Blind Side.

I thought you might have learned your lesson. But you've now done it again with The Big Short.

while writing The Big Short, two of the characters in it, what he was not allowed to share was that his dad was the president of Lehman Brothers.

And then who's our man who Michael Lewis wrote The Big Short? Lewis. Michael Lewis.

The Big Short was based on an article in Vanity Fair and a profile of the guy who had been smart enough to bet against all of these mortgage-backed securities.

I was stunned by the way with splendid and the vile to find that Churchill had copyrighted all his public speeches.

I conceived this book in March of 2020, just after my book tour for my previous books, Blended and Vile about Churchill.

I was stunned by the way Churchill had copyrighted all his public speeches. They weren't actually public domain when I worked on Splendid and Vile.

Can I recommend a book called Blitz to be read Blitz?

Before we move on from Germany, can I recommend a book called Blitz?

Well, certainly I read Crime and Punishment, and it was easier to follow than Brothers Karamazov on Audible.

yeah, well, certainly I read Crime and Punishment and it was easier to follow than Brothers Carmao's off on audible.

I have done that with Catcher in the right, but my book is crime and punishment.

I have done that with Catcher in the Rye, but my book is Crime and Punishment.

The Grinch is back again to ruin your Christmas season with Tiz the Grinch Holiday Podcast.

The Grinch is back again to ruin your Christmas season with Tis the Grinch holiday podcast.

The Grinch is back again to ruin your Christmas season with Tis the Grinch Holiday Podcast.

The Grinch, a Christmas Carol, Die Hard, Home Alone, and National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.

The original Grinch Who Stole Christmas should be number one. That is a perfect.

Adams, 2001 by McCullough.

Adams, 2001 by McCullough.

I read the McCullough book.

I loved him.

I actually came out of it not liking Jefferson and saying he was an asshole.

I read the McCullough book.

Two titles I'm excited about. Sunrise on the Reaping. Anything Hunger Games related is an automatic ad for me.

Two titles I'm excited about. Sunrise on the Reaping.

Two titles I'm excited about. Sunrise on the Reaping. Anything Hunger Games related is an automatic ad for me. And Someday Now, which everyone says is incredibly warm and reflective.

Two titles I'm excited about. Sunrise on the Reaping. Anything Hunger Games related is an automatic ad for me.

Did you read Outlive?

I haven't read it yet

I don't read Peter Atiyah's book, Outlive? ... Great book. I'm into the cold plunging.

Everyone I know is reading Outlive, myself included. It's fantastic.

I would want people to know like, this is the stuff when you read his book, which is phenomenal.

Now we get into Outlive, your book, which is about ultimately longevity.