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Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Jim Farley (CEO of Ford)

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.668.3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2023

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Jim Farley is the CEO of Ford. Jim joins the Armchair Expert to discuss what growing up in Argentina was like, how much he loved watching car races as a kid, and the time his dad sold the car he gifted him. Jim and Dax talk about their shared car nightmare, the stereotypes of being a car guy, and how to achieve positive car karma. Jim explains the hurdles of reengineering cars for electric, how Ford joining the Red Bull Formula 1 team came to be, and the generational differences in car culture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome. Welcome. Welcome to armchair expert experts on expert. I'm Mike Douglas and I'm

0:05.1

joined by Catherine Hepburn. Hello. Do you do a Catherine Hepburn? Yes. Disrespectful.

0:11.0

No, I don't. But I was Audrey Hepburn for Halloween once. You were. Did you work on any

0:19.2

voice vocal training to, but you just look like her. You didn't attempt to sound like her.

0:24.2

It's one of those weird things when you're a minority. Yeah. You're kind of going in white

0:30.8

face, is that what you're saying? I didn't. It always feels so obviously not the person

0:36.1

because you're a different color. It's hard to get over it. Although the cast of Hamilton,

0:40.8

they did not let that stand in their way. They own those roles. Everyone's doing it, though.

0:45.9

And it's when you're when you stand out as a brown Audrey Hepburn. Would it help if I went? No.

0:54.2

Hold on. You haven't heard my pitch. I know what I'm scared. So if we could think of a famous movie

0:59.4

where there was a white woman starring opposite either Indian person. Okay.

1:07.9

I will go as the Indian and you will go as the white person. And then you'll have a comrade.

1:13.4

But I won't go in brown face, of course, because that would end both for three years. Okay. So

1:17.5

you're just going to I'll be a companion. I'll be playing the wrong race and you'll be playing

1:21.4

the wrong race. Okay. That would help. Okay. How many? There's so many. So many to choose from.

1:26.9

Like what? No, I know. Probably a black to be honest. It'd be a white woman and a black

1:32.1

lead male would be most easy for us to pull from. We're so off track. Listen. This one's really fun

1:39.8

for me. Yes. And I'm going to go out on a limb and say it's it's going to file into the category

1:44.4

of the Lane Norton's. And a couple of these people I've had in where you kind of thought,

1:47.8

well, this is going to be boring. 100%. 100. When I see on the list, well, by the way,

1:54.4

because this came to us a little bit back door, because you have a personal relationship with this

1:58.7

person. So it wasn't like he was pitched in the same way. You were just like, Hey, we're going

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