Katie Couric

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2018

⏱️ 120 minutes

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Katie Couric is an American journalist, author and general badass. Katie sits down with the Armchair Expert to talk about her new documentary series, the current societal emphasis on political correctness, the influx of confirmation bias and her personal experience losing a spouse. Dax debates the efficacy of empathy and Katie implores our listeners to rename her podcast. Dax and Katie discuss her watershed interview with Sarah Palin, the balance between work and motherhood and Monica and Dax, yet again, broach a fiery hot-button topic during 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 to the armchair expert.
0:04.0	I'm your host, Dack Shepard.
0:05.6	Before I tell you about today's guest,
0:07.1	I just want to share something that happened this morning while I was driving my
0:10.4	daughter to a gymnastics class. I didn't even tell you about this yet, Monica.
0:14.5	On Los Felis Boulevard, I passed a couple of guys in a range rover and as I passed them
0:21.0	they hung the horn and threw the bird out the window and I could hear them scream,
0:25.6	me fuck you. To you? To me, yeah, yeah. We were the only two people going east on Los
0:30.6	Felix Boulevard and we got up to a light and they were next to us.
0:33.8	And the window's done.
0:34.5	So I rolled the window down.
0:36.7	And I said, guys, what's the problem?
0:39.8	And this guy was all F-bomb's, you're driving too fast.
0:45.0	What's the speed limit on Los Felis Boulevard?
0:47.8	Screaming, his buddy was occasionally popping in
0:50.6	with this or that he was upset about, but they kept talking about the speed limit and then it occurred to me while they were I kept going guys guys guys guys you're so hostile hold that just calm down calm down and I noticed as they were screaming at me about the speed limit, they were both sucking
1:05.9	on gigantic dobies. There was so much pot smoke in the car. And I couldn't help but think how funny it was that they had really prioritized the speed limit on Los Angeles Boulevard.
1:20.0	But, um, suck it, mind you, it was 830 in the morning.
1:23.4	And they are chugging a couple of doobies with the windows down.
1:28.1	And at a certain point it occurred to me, these guys might still be up from last night.
1:33.2	Because why are they on the road at 830 in the morning,
1:37.3	pounding duhage?
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