Dan Heath

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Comedy, Music, Tv & Film

4.6 • 69.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2020

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Dan Heath is an American bestselling author, speaker and fellow at Duke University's CASE center. Dan chats with the Armchair Expert about why certain ideas stick, the emotionality behind urban legends and the benefit of thinking upstream. Dax implores those to think about the financial benefits to upstream social reform and Dan explains that every system is designed for its outcome. The two talk about systemic preventions that have a lasting impact, getting caught in a bad plan loop and they commiserate about being older dads. 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. I'm Dan Shepard. I'm joined by miniature
0:05.3	Modman. Hi. Today we have Dan Heath. Dan Heath is a best-selling author,
0:10.4	speaker, and fellow at Duke University's case center and he's written several
0:14.7	amazing books his newest book upstream the quest to solve problems before they
0:19.0	happen is so in our wheelhouse we love this topic of trying to figure out how to fix things.
0:25.0	Before they happen, prevention's worth a pound of cure.
0:28.0	That's what they say.
0:30.0	An ounce of prevention.
0:31.0	So please listen to Dan Heath. He is very fascinating and
0:35.2	his message is one we should all embrace. I give you Dan Heath.
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0:54.2	He's an option expand.
1:00.2	He's an option's bed.
1:00.2	He's at home.
1:05.0	Dan.
1:08.0	Dan. Man I am so excited to be talking to you guys.
1:11.0	I feel like now I am like one degree of separation from
1:15.4	idiocracy like I know I have like a personal connection one of the great
1:20.5	comedies of all time I mean did you sort of know at the time that this was going to be a thing?
1:26.4	No, look the script was the funniest script I had ever read and I had turned down a really great movie to be in that movie. I wanted to work with Mike Judge and we got there and everything went seemingly well and then we wrapped and then months and months just kept going by and it was becoming apparent Fox was not going to release it
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