David Sedaris #5

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2025

⏱️ 126 minutes

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Summary

David Sedaris (Happy-Go-Lucky, A Carnival of Snackery, Calypso) is a comedian, humorist, and author. David returns to the Armchair Expert to discuss why his Picasso painting is what he would grab in a fire, what in 50 years we will see as unforgivable, and how you can have a towering hatred for someone who has no idea. David and Dax talk about the paradox of stinky, kissable money, how he schemed an off-the-rack priest outfit, and the nuance in offensiveness. David explains that there’s nothing better than a pants-shitting story, a defense of a children’s book with no lesson, and how his whole mission as a writer is to make everyone love his mother as much as he did.

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0:10.0	Or you can listen for free wherever you get your podcasts.
0:13.8	Welcome, welcome, welcome to armchair expert experts on expert.
0:17.6	I'm Dan Shepard and I'm joined by Sticky Brain.
0:22.6	Sticky Bray. My new nickname.
0:29.7	Your new moniker. Heavyweight champion returning number five. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.
0:36.9	David Sideris. My God, I couldn't love someone. Our most frequented guest.
0:37.6	Yeah. What an honor to have him is our most frequented guest. Yeah.
0:40.2	What an honor to have him is our most frequent guests.
0:41.7	If I had a pick of most frequent,
0:44.7	a tie between him and Malcolm Gladwell.
0:46.0	Yeah, we got some good ones. We got a couple of good repeat offenders.
0:49.1	Sedaris is a humorous, a comedian, an essayist, a best-selling author, a radio contributor. He's on the television
0:56.3	on one of those morning shows. He's got kind of an Andy Rooney vibe on site. I love it. His book's
1:02.7	Happy Go Lucky Me Talk Pretty One Day, Calypso, a carnival of snackery, the best titles ever.
1:08.6	Yes. Fresh your family in denim and corduroy and denim.
1:12.9	Corteroy and denim.
1:14.1	He is on a 40 city tour across the United States, starting March 30th till May 19th, including
1:23.3	Burlington, Vermont, Albany, Philadelphia, Boston, Akron, Detroit, Fort Wayne, Dallas, National,
1:28.1	many, many more.
1:29.1	Go to David Sedaris Books.com to see his tour.
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