Bob Woodward

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2020

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Bob Woodward is an American investigative journalist that started working for the Washington Post in 1971 and currently holds the title of associate editor. Dax discusses how bipartisan Bob's reporting has been over the years, his rigorous search of the truth and how Bob has covered 20% of the presidents this country has had. Bob talks about the difference between a good faith f*ck up and a bad faith f*ck up, getting spontaneous calls from the president when he was writing his book, and the relationship that developed out of that process. The two discuss the handling of the virus and the inability to put together a cohesive plan. And most importantly, Dax asks who more accurately captured Bob in film, Robert Redford or Will Ferrell. 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
0:04.1	Staray Monica Plaidman and her friend Dan Rathers.
0:09.8	Good these songs.
0:12.0	Thank you.
0:13.0	This is an edition of Experts on Expert.
0:15.6	Thursday.
0:16.6	Thursday.
0:17.6	By the way, I want to just drop a hint that we're putting together a couple more shows
0:21.8	and I'm getting so excited about it.
0:24.1	Hopefully people want to be with us more throughout the week because...
0:28.0	We got more coming.
0:29.6	Yeah.
0:30.6	Yes, so today we have, question the most legendary journalists to ever live in this country.
0:36.7	Bob Woodward, he is an American investigative journalist.
0:39.9	He started working for the Washington Post as a reporter in 1971 and is currently the associate editor.
0:46.0	In 1972, Woodward and Carl Bernstein famously did much of the original news reporting on the Watergate scandal. These scandals
0:54.2	led to numerous government investigations and the eventual resignation of
0:57.7	President Nixon. He has covered nine presidents over 50 years. Now I do want to say one thing. This one leans political, but the only thing I would plead to folks to give it a chance is simply that Bob has been critical of both sides. If there's ever been a journalist who attacked
1:15.1	fraudulence and lies on both sides of the aisle,
1:19.2	it is Bob.
1:19.9	So he has earned the right for anyone on the right to listen to him as he has earned the right for anyone on the right to listen to him, as he has earned the right
1:25.0	for anyone on the left to listen to him.
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