Doctor Mike
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Umbrella
4.6 • 68.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2024
⏱️ 160 minutes
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Summary
Doctor Mike (The Checkup with Doctor Mike) is a family medicine doctor and YouTube’s #1 Doctor. Doctor Mike joins the Armchair Expert to discuss being the son of immigrants, how his social media presence started, and what it was like being auctioned off for charity. Doctor Mike and Dax talk about the dangers of hyper body optimization, the misinformation out there around healthcare, and how wealth affects a person’s access to their health needs. Doctor Mike explains how he feels about surgery as a solution, how necessary physical therapy is, and how important honesty is when speaking to your physician.
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| 0:13.6 | Welcome, welcome to armchair expert experts on expert. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm Dan Shepard and I'm joined by Monica Padman. |
| 0:19.5 | Hello there. |
| 0:20.2 | Hello, we have YouTube's number one doctor 25 million plus subscribers |
| 0:26.2 | Ohh |
| 0:27.1 | Sexiest Doctor alive 2015 people magazine huge |
| 0:30.9 | sexy Dr. Buzzfeed Dr Mike I love Dr Huge. with him. He makes the best videos. It's the only YouTube stuff I love when they watch. |
| 0:45.2 | He also has a podcast called The Check Up with Dr. Mike, so listen to that. And just, I challenge you, |
| 0:52.4 | go watch one Dr. Mike video on YouTube and you And just |
| 0:55.0 | stay and watch one Dr Mike video on YouTube and you will just stay and watch them all. |
| 0:57.5 | He's very charismatic and very interesting. |
| 1:00.0 | It has a lot of knowledge. |
| 1:01.0 | Incredibly smart. |
| 1:02.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:03.0 | He does these kind of mash-ups too where it's like the videos you already want to watch, like |
| 1:07.1 | trampoline injuries. |
| 1:08.8 | And I'll pause and go, oh, okay, I think that's going to be a femur. |
| 1:13.6 | Like he'll... |
| 1:14.6 | Oh, smart, that's funny. |
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