Billie Joe Armstrong

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2024

⏱️ 117 minutes

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Summary

Billie Joe Armstrong (Saviors, American Idiot, Dookie) is a musician and lead vocalist of the rock band Green Day. Billie joins the Armchair Expert to discuss what it’s like to have a brother 20 years older than him, the evolution of punk music, and his songwriting process. Billie and Dax talk about what it’s like to move into a big city from a small town, what it’s like to be in love at a young age, and where the name Green Day came from. Billie explains what his experiences with addiction have been, how his wife started a chimp sanctuary, and why the band wanted to produce their latest album in England. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome, welcome, welcome to armchair expert experts on expert. I'm Dan Rather, I'm joined by the minister of...
0:08.0	I don't know, but that's just up to Luke.
0:12.0	Aren't you the minister of something?
0:12.9	Yeah, it was the minister of magic.
0:14.7	No, that wasn't it.
0:16.4	That's Terence Posner in the sorcerer stone.
0:19.0	I was the minister of something.
0:20.9	I was.
0:22.2	Minister of Mice.
0:23.0	Mice. Yeah.
0:24.0	Maybe the Minister of Ice.
0:25.0	We have a fucking radical guest on today.
0:28.0	Billy Joe Armstrong.
0:31.0	Green Day.
0:32.0	Green Day, one of the longest running major arena, kick-ass rock bands of all time.
0:38.7	We're in a kind of a music zone. We're in a music phase because we have Billy Joe and then next week we have some music armchair anonymous.
0:48.6	And we have Bautiste. Yeah, yeah. And we have someone scheduled to also.
0:54.0	Someone else?
0:55.0	Okay.
0:56.0	Easter right.
0:57.0	Well, I loved meeting him. It was so fun.
1:00.0	And most importantly, Green Day has a new album out called Saviors, which is fucking kick-ass,
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