Jake Johnson Returns Again

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2025

⏱️ 119 minutes

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Summary

Jake Johnson (We’re Here to Help, The Dink, New Girl) is an actor, writer, and podcast host. Jake returns to the Armchair Expert to discuss why anything that can still evoke fading old school Hollywood is special, how everything feeling like a black box theater has him falling in love with acting again, and focusing on playing the game his way while he’s here. Jake and Dax talk about letting go of control to be present in his movie The Dink, why he strategizes his workflow to stay ahead of the darkness, and how he tries to re-engineer doing this business out of love. Jake explains building up better after the loss of a close friend, finding someone a kidney through his podcast We’re Here to Help, and the terrifying, thrilling process of performing scenes with Tom Cruise.

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0:00.0	Wondry Plus subscribers can listen to Armchair Expert early and add free right now.
0:06.5	Join Wondry Plus in the Wondry app or on Apple Podcasts.
0:10.0	Or you can listen for free wherever you get your podcasts.
0:13.8	Welcome, welcome, welcome to armchair expert.
0:16.0	I'm Dan Shepard and I'm joined by Lily Padman.
0:19.0	Hi.
0:19.7	Hi, we have our friend on.
0:21.9	Yes.
0:22.2	Our returning, always gold.
0:24.2	Always gold, never silver.
0:25.9	You need a guy to come in and score the winning game point, the buzzer beater.
0:31.1	Jake Johnson's your man.
0:32.2	Yes.
0:32.7	Jake Johnson, an actor and a podcaster, new girl, Spider-Man into the Spider-verse, Let's Be Cop,
0:39.0	Self-Reliance Tag, and his podcast, which is hysterical.
0:43.3	Everyone should listen.
0:44.4	We're here to help.
0:46.1	I'm jealous of their show because they get to give terrible advice, and that's really the dream.
0:51.1	It's not really the dream.
0:52.5	You say you don't like giving advice, but you do like it. And you like giving real advice. Well, but also I want to be able to go like, you just tell the person to fuck off. That's the kind of advice they sometimes get to, you know, they're liberated to do. Yes. Yeah. And I have a different brand. Yeah, and I just don't think it's...
1:11.6	I understand.
1:12.4	You want all the brands.
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