Jason Aldean
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Umbrella
4.6 • 68.3K Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2025
⏱️ 104 minutes
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Summary
Jason Aldean (Full Throttle, My Kinda Party, Night Train) is a Grammy Award-winning country music artist. Jason joins the Armchair Expert to discuss the chameleonic effects of not spending more than two years at any school growing up, teaching himself guitar via cassette player, and how big the gap feels between his real-life and performance personas. Jason and Dax talk about the eye-opening experience of playing bars while in high school, how he puts his fingerprint on a song he hears promise in, and his adjustment from desert dwelling to sudden chart-topping success. Jason explains learning how to tour in a tenable way with his family, dealing with PTSD and survivor’s guilt on behalf of his fans, and the reality in the country songwriting trope of ‘three chords and the truth.'
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| 0:14.0 | Welcome, welcome, welcome to Armchair Expert. |
| 0:16.2 | I'm Dan Shepard. |
| 0:16.9 | I'm joined by Monica Lily Padman. |
| 0:18.6 | Hi. |
| 0:19.5 | And in the shadows Wobby Wob. |
| 0:21.8 | Today is our second guest we had in Nashville, but he was actually our first guest in Nashville. |
| 0:28.0 | So delighted, he said yes and came and was a guinea pig of sorts. |
| 0:31.4 | Yeah, he was. |
| 0:32.0 | Jason Aldeen. |
| 0:33.0 | Jason Aldeen is a Grammy nominated and multi-platinum entertainer. |
| 0:36.9 | Albums include Highway Desperado, My Kind of Party, Night Train, Wide Open, Relentless. |
| 0:43.3 | And he's on tour now, the full throttle tour. |
| 0:46.6 | And if anyone wants to go see him play, everyone agrees he's so radical in concert. |
| 0:50.5 | Go to www.jasonaldean.com and go check out the full throttle tour. Please enjoy Jason |
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