David Letterman

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2023

⏱️ 102 minutes

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David Letterman (Late Show, My Next Guest Needs No Introduction) is an American television host, comedian, writer, and producer. David joins the Armchair Expert to discuss his relationship with work and retirement, what his different strategies for interviewing people are, and how having heart surgery has affected his life. David and Dax talk about their experiences with alcohol, how the important lessons we learn are the ones we forget the quickest, and the reverence they have for Howard Stern. David explains what he does when he sees bears on his property, how he got to know Bono & The Edge, and how Matt Damon is the nice guy every American should aspire to be. 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 and I'm joined by Lily Padman.
0:05.0	Hi. Hi, it's a very, very, very, very, very most very, very special day of my life today on this Monday because I get to talk to my
0:15.6	boyhood idle. Oh it was so special getting to be a part of that. You guys should
0:21.5	listen to the fact check because we're going to really
0:23.2	debrief on your feelings anyone who's ever listened to the show knows that
0:27.4	Letterman for me is the North Star and all I ever wanted to do is just be on a
0:30.8	show that was it that was why I wanted to be in show business.
0:33.0	Exactly. And I mean we've had so many incredible guests come through and that's their
0:38.2	North Star. Like he is ubiquitous for people who are in comedy.
0:44.7	Any comedian of my age will most likely say Bill Murray and David Letterman are in.
0:50.2	Those two designed a comedic paradigm that were still kind of living in.
0:54.4	There's this irreverent take on everything that's just, you know, it's trickled down
0:59.7	in everything.
1:00.7	There's no getting around it.
1:01.7	Yes, so that's precursory knowledge so he arrives at the
1:04.8	house and he gets out of the car and the very first things he does is he looks around
1:10.8	him he really takes in the scene,
1:13.2	and he looks to the garage that's being built in my yard.
1:17.7	And first thing he does is he walks into the garage.
1:20.5	There's six guys having lunch, and goes guys great work everyone's free for the
1:26.6	rest of the day you can all go home and oh my god they're in a garage eating lunch.
1:35.0	Yeah.
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