Jon Bernthal

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2025

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Summary

Jon Bernthal (The Accountant 2, The Bear, Real Ones) is an Emmy Award-winning actor and podcast host. Jon joins the Armchair Expert to discuss making peace with the beard, how looking like a real person has been an asset in his career, and teaching his kids to not react to negative emotions. Jon and Dax talk about the positive values he was exposed to growing up in a Quaker school, keeping an anger journal through boxing, and the impact of attending acting school in Russia. Jon explains playing baseball in Moscow to make some extra rubles, he and his brothers outgrowing their issues, and the meaning he gleans from talking to real ones on his podcast.

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0:00.0	Wondry Plus subscribers can listen to Armchair Expert early and ad 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.
0:16.1	I'm Dan Shepard.
0:16.9	I'm joined by Lily Padman.
0:18.3	Hi.
0:19.1	Today we have one of my favorite actors on.
0:21.0	I've been slowly becoming obsessed with him.
0:23.9	I got a handful that I follow that I'm really intrigued by, and this is one of them, John Bernthal.
0:29.3	I'll be honest, because that's what we do here.
0:31.4	When I first saw him, I was like, oh, I don't know who that is.
0:34.0	And then as soon as I saw his face, was like, oh, I do. He's in everything. He's in absolutely everything. I think so many, most people will probably know the walking dead
0:40.5	because it was such an enormous hit. And he was in King Richard. Yeah, King Richard. The Punisher,
0:45.2	he is the Punisher, the accountant with your boyfriend, daredevil, Fury, and he has a new movie
0:52.7	in theaters now, the accountant to...
0:55.9	Also with my boyfriend.
0:56.9	With your boyfriend.
0:57.8	But one thing we didn't get to in the interview, which I really wanted to.
1:00.6	We ran out of time.
1:01.1	We had him for so long is he has a really cool project in Ohio called Ironbound.
1:08.7	And it runs from May 9th to May 11th and May 16th to May 18th. And he will
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