Alexi Pappas

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

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Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2021

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Alexi Pappas is a Greek-American Olympic runner, filmmaker, actor, and writer. Her debut memoir-in-essays, Bravey was published in January 2021. 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. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome, welcome, welcome to armchair expert, experts on expert.
0:04.0	I'm Dax Shepard, and I'm joined in absentia and with great love, Monica Padman.
0:11.2	Today we have, as anyone that knows Monica and I will know the perfect guest in
0:16.8	an olympian Alexi Papas is a Greek American Olympic athlete, a writer, actress and filmmaker.
0:24.8	Alexi competed in the Rio Olympics,
0:26.8	setting a national record in the 10K with a time of 3136.
0:30.9	She has a new book out called Bravery Chasing Dreams, Befriending Payne, and other big ideas.
0:37.0	Very fascinating look at what the post-Olympic experience is like. So please enjoy Alexi Papas.
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1:07.0	an insurance man. he's an insurance man.
1:15.0	He's an insurance man. Hello.
1:18.0	Oh, man. We're tardy. So, so so sorry. Sorry, sorry, sorry.
1:21.0	Okay, we just talked about all your secrets. Oh I know them all. I want to know if you
1:28.9	know some of my secrets that I don't know probably now I know your preference in jellies and that you don't that I don't
1:37.9	bathe frequently did he tell you that all those things I'm to appeal to your sense of compassion. The delay was I had
1:45.5	forgot to shoot up all my antibiotics into my sexy port and so that takes a while and
1:51.0	I apologize. It slipped my mind. That would be like if I forgot to feed my dog. I would have to do it. There are things that you have to do.
2:00.4	And it takes time actually because my dog is a pug and we feed our freeze-dried raw food and you have to like soak it for a while and every time she cries while it's soaking as if she's not going to get fed.
2:13.2	Can I make a suggestion a hack, per se?
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