Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

And of course the thing we worked on together, Before I Leave You, based on a book.

She gave me this book called Map for Life, which is basically a book that helps you figure out your purpose.

And over this Christmas holiday, I sat with this book, asked myself some tough questions and the one thing that just kept coming up for me was this thing about wanting to be an actor.

She has a book out which is very, very interesting called Eve, how the female body drove 200 million years of human evolution.

Well, this is a kickass book.

So I want Everyone to check out Eve, How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution.

the Stephen King book you loved as a kid. Rage.

I read Tom Arnold's book which has the best title ever. It's like how I lose seven pounds in 10 years or something like that. Roughly the name of the book.

Tom Arnold's book title is? How many months, seven pounds and eight years? I think it's How I Lost Five Pounds in Six Years.

And he's got an incredible new book out right now called Sex, God, and the Brain, How Sexual Pleasure Gave Birth to Religion and a Whole Lot More.

I love talking about sex. I love talking about God so your book is Sex, God and the Brain.

Oh, well, such an interesting book, Sex, God and the Brain. Andrew, your second visit.

and he wrote a book called The Spectrum of Ritual

I'm reading a beautiful book right now... it's called the world i see by doctor i think fifi li fei fei li she's a professor.

The book is like her personal story paired with what she learned about computer science, so beautifully written.

I'm reading a beautiful book right now. It's called The World I See by Dr. Fifi Lee.

a book by Arnold Kling and it's called The Three Languages of Politics

So their book, which they have out now, is called Unit X of the Pentagon and Silicon Valley are transforming the future of war.

That's in the book is that the F-35 which became operational in 2016 that all of the designs for it were frozen in 2001.

In the image of our book Unit X we have that f-35 fighter alongside an iPhone. The iPhone wasn't even invented in 2001 and the iPhone currently processes information at 100x the speed that the f-35 does.

The book is called Unit X how the Pentagon and Silicon Valley are transforming the future of war.

All the Single Ladies by Rebecca Chaster, the one and only.

Oh my God, is this book incredible.

I was talking to my friend who's married and I said, I just started this book. It's so good. You should read it.

The reason I wanted to read it is because I was just very hyper aware of the reason the world is able to run and tick and progress and move forward is single women.

Because the book is about a lot of like very high-powered historical single women, and it's incredible.

you were in Harry Potter and the philosopher's stone

I feel like I saw a version of that book when it was either called the manifesto or it was very long and very different.

I think I gave feedback, but I didn't see Outlived until I got a copy of it.

So our history is we interviewed Peter.

When I was learning of Sanjay's work visavis you, I was like, oh, this is very Outlived.

The brain, how there's a metabolic condition. This all feels very, very in keeping with what Atea's prevailing theory on all this is.

Monica, I have to say your episode in synced where you read what you wrote. The Seize the Day. You have to write a book.

I think you should next read a book I've talked to you about before, but my friend, Glynis McNicol wrote, I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself.

And it is being lumped with all fours. It's the same genre. It's like sort of the summer of the perimenopausal woman or like the summer of the maleaged woman, sort of midlife crisis, right? It's the opposite of Miranda July's character. She's single. She doesn't have children. She's like 40, I think five now and decides to just move to Paris for like a few months and just has sex with so many beautiful younger men and like eats baguettes and croissants and cheese.

I remember reading The Man Who Couldn't Stop. I don't know if you've read that. No. It's a book about OCD. He was afraid that he was going to get HIV AIDS and he had all of these different kinds of mental compulsions. I started reading that and then I worried that I was going to have that mental compulsion. And then I had like a meltdown in the Target parking lot after reading four pages of that book.

I think the most liberating part of reading the AA Big Book is going like this is an illness.

It reminds me of that book, something of an economic hitman

There was an amazing front line called BLACK MONEY and it was about how a certain aircraft manufacturer was dealing with Saudi Arabia.