Cher

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Comedy, Tv & Film, Music

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2026

⏱️ 119 minutes

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Summary

Cher (Cher: The Memoir, Moonstruck, Believe) is a multi-platinum recording artist, Academy Award winning actor, TV personality, author, and icon. Cher joins the Armchair Expert to discuss earlier versions of trying to write her memoir and why this one worked, accidentally falling into her first acting job with Robert Altman, and memories from the Burlesque set with Kristen Bell. Dax and Cher talk about identifying not as an icon but as a woman who has always worked, the best piece of advice her mom gave her, and growing up with strangers as a young child. Cher explains how her music career began with singing background in Phil Spector’s studio, rediscovering how powerful she was in a controlling relationship, and why she believes that a not insignificant part of her success has to do with luck.

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0:14.0	Welcome, welcome, welcome to armchair expert.
0:16.1	I'm Dan Shepard.
0:16.9	I'm joined by Monica Padman and Best Friend Air Weekly.
0:19.6	Hi.
0:20.6	Happy New Year armcherry. Happy New Year, Arm Cherries.
0:22.6	Happy New Year.
0:24.7	Another year together.
0:26.0	Another year together.
0:26.9	Let's go really hard in 2026.
0:28.8	It's just to remind everyone it's an even number.
0:30.7	That's a good start.
0:31.8	We like it.
0:32.7	And we're starting the year with an enormous bang.
0:35.9	Share.
0:36.8	Share.
0:57.3	One of the first an original single named... That's true. Share is a singer, an actor, an activist, a philanthropist, and an icon. She's an icon, whether she wants to believe it or not. She doesn't want to believe it, but she is. Her albums, Believe, Heart of Stone, Closer to the Truth, Moonstruck, burlesque, ding, ding, ding.
1:02.2	And she has, and I'm on record over this last year.
1:03.7	So, you know, I'm not fluffing any pillows.
1:08.6	I read this book last year, and I absolutely loved it and recommended it to everybody.
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