Jon Meacham

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

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Tv & Film, Comedy, Music

4.6 • 69.9K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2020

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Jon Meachamis a Pulitzer prize winning author, reviewer, and presidential biographer. Jon chats withthe Armchair Expert aboutthisearly fascination withpolitics, attending Ronald Reagan's inaugurationas a young boy and theimportance of delineatinghistorical figures from saints. Jon states his position on confederate statues and Daxaskswhat factors distinguishedhispulitzerprize winning book from the others. The two talk about how age has affected their career outlook and they debatethe impact of Christianity in the modern world. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome welcome to armchair expert experts on expert. I'm Monica Mouse.
0:05.4	What would you feel like if you went to my body?
0:08.6	Would you be excited to be small?
0:10.3	Well, yes, there's so many things I would do if we body switched yeah I've run to the closest mirror and get naked
0:17.8	Duh
0:21.4	Okay, now John doesn't want to be a part of that. John Meacham is our guest today. You've probably seen him on Bill Maher. That's where we've seen him a ton.
0:29.3	A ton. He's great. He's a writer or a reviewer, a presidential biographer, a former executive
0:34.2	editor and executive vice president at Random House. He is a contributing writer to
0:38.0	the New York Times Book Review, a contributing editor to Time magazine, and a
0:42.4	former editor-in-chief at Newsweek.
0:44.4	He also won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for American Lion Andrew Jackson in the White House.
0:49.3	He also has a new book called The Hope of Glory, Reflections on the Last Words of Jesus from the
0:54.8	Cross, and an exciting five-part documentary podcast series, Hope Through History.
1:01.3	So check out Hope Through History and please enjoy historian John
1:05.2	Meacham. Wundry Plus subscribers can listen to armchair expert early and add free
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1:16.1	Podcasts or you can listen for free wherever you get your podcasts.
1:21.5	He's an I'm Chancery. guests. John, hi, how you doing?
1:35.0	How you doing?
1:37.0	Good.
1:38.0	Where are we joining you?
1:39.0	Are you in a study in your home?
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