Jonathan Safran Foer

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

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Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2019

⏱️ 146 minutes

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Summary

Jonathan Safran Foeris an American novelist. He is known for his novels Everything Is Illuminated, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, Eating Animals and We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast. Jonathan sits down with the armchair expert to discuss his struggle to eat vegetarian, his first book gettingrejected by every publisher and he walks us through a traumatic childhood event he experienced. Dax wonders if Jonathan was nervous to write a second book following the success of his first and Jonathan talks about the efficacy of moderate changes. The two talk about climate change, hypnosis and there is a special visitor in the fact check. 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
0:04.4	I'm Jack Shepard. I'm joined by Emmy nominated
0:06.7	Monica Plaidman.
0:08.2	Hi. Do you think I'll say Plaidman so frequently some people start thinking
0:12.2	your name is Plaidman? I'm people start thinking your name is
0:12.7	I'm nervous about that. You are for endorsement deals and such. Yeah well sure I got
0:17.9	to look out for myself. You got a brand to protect. We have an awesome guest today
0:22.0	Jonathan Saffron 4. He is a novelist. He's written a bunch of big books. Everything is illuminated, extremely loud and incredibly close, eating animals, codes here I am in his new book we
0:36.2	are the weather saving the planet begins at breakfast you know I really
0:40.8	enjoy Jonathan me too it was really interesting what he has a very cool story is an incredibly cool story I wouldn't say cool
0:48.1	actually traumatic oh we got a copter. Military chopper.
0:54.0	Invasion.
0:55.0	What's crazy is everything just fell apart.
0:57.0	I heard a military chopper, looked out the window to see what it was,
1:00.0	see a huge bug crawling on the window.
1:01.0	Now I'm talking about a a bug infestation I saw that
1:03.8	earlier you did and you didn't say anything that's okay well Jonathan he has a
1:09.5	certain energy yeah it was so soothing for me and we joined his energy which I love when that
1:17.0	happens on the podcast that's true he's like no no I'm gonna be me and
1:21.6	you'll meet me there and we did and I loved it.
1:24.7	Me too.
1:25.6	He also really got into my craw about my ethics a little bit.
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