Dax Shepard, the Armchair Expert

The Dave Chang Show

The Ringer

Food, Society & Culture, Arts

4.8 • 8.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Dave briefly talks to his producer Isaac Lee about how podcasting has changed since the pandemic (2:44) before being joined by actor Dax Shepard to discuss the explosive popularity of his podcast ‘Armchair Expert’ (9:14), the organic success of ‘Top Gear America’ among gearheads and laypeople alike (17:10), and, of course, food (33:40). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Dave Chang Show, part of the Ringer podcast network presented by Major
0:15.0	Doma Media.
0:16.0	Thank you to you, Lattengo, as always, for the music.
0:18.5	We have DAX Shepherd on our podcast today, everybody.
0:22.0	If you haven't seen DAX in the many movies he's been in, the TV shows, parenthood, he is
0:31.1	the host of arguably one of the biggest podcasts in the world, not arguably, it's like top three.
0:36.8	Totally jealous of his podcast success.
0:39.6	DAX Shepherd of Armchair Expert.
0:42.8	I've been lucky enough to be a guest on his podcast, so I'm so honored that he's agreed
0:47.1	to be on mine.
0:49.4	But DAX, I don't know how he did this, but past years been tough with quarantine and he's
0:56.0	come out with a TV show.
0:57.7	He's the new host of Top Gear America.
1:01.2	If you haven't seen Top Gear, the original British series is one of literally one of the
1:04.7	biggest TV shows in the world.
1:07.0	And you can watch it on the Motor Trend app, which has the entire catalog of all the top
1:14.5	gear shows, but he's a real gear head expert, car enthusiast, and makes me wish I was more
1:22.3	into cars.
1:23.3	And the only reason I'm not is I'm a fucking shitty driver.
1:26.6	I mean, I just, I want to learn more, but man, maybe that's something I should have done
1:32.8	during quarantine is just get more into cars so I can appreciate them more.
1:38.8	But well, that's also what you get when you live 20 plus years in New York City.
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