Bob Mervak

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2018

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Summary

Bob Mervak is an American pianist, vocalist, songwriter and studio writer. He sits down at his keyboard to share some music and conversation with the Armchair Expert. Bob discusses his childhood best friendship with Kristen Bell, the experience of composing a movie score and what it was like to play music for George Clooney. Bob talks about the importance of enjoying music regardless of its technical proficiency and Dax serenades us with a very blue rendition of Silver Bells. The two question whether young platonic relationships are possible, they unpack how to navigate jealousy among friends and Monica deems Bob the most talented person she's ever met. 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	Hello, welcome to the armchair expert. I'm Dax Shepard and today we're going to speak with Bob Mervac.
0:06.0	Bob Mervac is my wife Kristen Bell's best childhood friend or one of her best childhood friends.
0:13.0	And we came to know each other about 10 years ago through Kristen and I discovered quickly that Bob is a musical genius, a phenom,
0:21.0	and he and Kristen used to perform together in high school for hire at funerals,
0:28.0	weddings, all kinds of weird stuff. You could probably get them out to just about any event for about
0:32.1	a hundred bucks and I then worked with Bob on the movie
0:37.5	Hit and Run which I made in 2012 and he's just a genuinely wonderful person and I thought he might be of interest to all of you
0:49.2	because he is special and gifted and we get to hear him sing and play the piano and it's really fun.
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1:11.5	He's an up chutzpah. He's an out of chutzpah.
1:15.0	He's an out chutzpah.
1:18.0	So it's one of those steel that I'm thinking of.
1:25.0	Yeah, totally.
1:26.0	Like this old industrial, but that was, it was a war microphone.
1:30.0	So you're rolling?
1:32.0	Okay, welcome to the armchair expert. I have a very fun surprise for myself and for you.
1:38.4	My friend Bob Mervac is here from Detroit, Michigan. He was visiting and so I'm forcing him to do this.
1:44.6	He's going to play a song for us right out of the gates. He's too modest to admit this,
1:49.2	but he has a very bad cold. I might even call it a flu and he's going to push through that for
1:56.9	our auditory enjoyment. He's going to play a song that I requested and without further ado Bob whenever you're ready to sink your dinky
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