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Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Chuck Palahniuk (novelist)

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.668.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2022

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club, Choke, People Places Things) is an author and journalist. Chuck joins the Armchair Expert to discuss how he uses suspense and tension in his novels, how he loves to hear other people's stories, and what absurd existentialism means to him. Chuck and Dax discuss how writers are always looking for the tragedy in stories, how communities can feel pride in their culture, and why so many people suffer from misophonia. Chuck explains what the snowflake analogy in Fight Club really means, that he didn't learn to read until he was 14, and how he once lied to get a job as a diesel mechanic. 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 to armchair expert experts on expert. I'm

0:04.0

Jack Shepard. I'm joined by Monica Lillie Padman.

0:07.0

Wow.

0:11.0

Yeah, I got a reverb now. I like that.

0:13.0

It's such a bummer that the audience doesn't get to see your sweaters every time we do an intro.

0:19.0

Oh, it got cold again in Los Angeles, we were in a heat wave and now it's cutting it. Oh This is a sweater that got ruined that I rebought. Oh Great and you're going to probably be a little more careful that you're going to suss out your cleaners a little better.

0:33.0

At the same time, you do have to provide content for a very popular show,

0:36.6

so I do ask you to keep ruining shit so we can hear more signfellow stories.

0:40.1

I can agree to that.

0:40.8

Ironically, there's one in this fact check stay tuned it's a

0:43.7

textbook money patty Seinfeldy fucking story and it's coming your way but before

0:49.5

that we have an incredible writer Chuck Palanuk Chuck is a best-selling author and a journalist.

0:55.2

Of course everyone knows Fight Club, my lord. What a seminal work in the young adults

1:01.0

that grew up in my era. Yeah. Oh, you too. You weren't even a young

1:05.1

adult then. I mean, Fight Club sort of has transitioned all of time, I think.

1:10.1

He also wrote Choke, Lullaby, Haunted, Snuff, and he has a new book out exclusively unscribed.com,

1:19.0

which I gotta just tell you, there's no E in there, so it S-C-R-I-B-D dot com. The book is called People Places Things My Human Landmarks.

1:29.4

This is a wonderful conversation.

1:30.8

So good.

1:31.8

Chuck is so fascinating. It's really nice to have a

1:36.0

writer's brains on. Yes, it's refreshing. Please enjoy Chuck Palanuk.

1:43.0

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