Laura Beil

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2019

⏱️ 119 minutes

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Summary

Laura Beil is a journalist and podcast host. Laura sits down with the Armchair Expert on this Thanksgiving day episode to talk about having to work on your feet as a journalist, her specific draw to the medical field and how she stumbled into podcasting. Dax theorizes on Laura's Dr. Death podcast and Laura claims a story is never done, it is only due. The two talk about her new podcast, Bad Batch, that focuses on the stem cell industry, they eat Taco Bell together and Monica and Dax thank Laura for serving the best podcast of 2018. 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	Happy Thanksgiving.
0:05.0	And welcome to armchair expert experts on expert.
0:10.0	So listen, we have a great, great guest today.
0:13.4	Laura Beal, we've talked about Dr. Death on here a bunch.
0:16.2	It's definitely our favorite podcast last year.
0:18.9	Incredibly good.
0:20.1	And when we won a podcast award,
0:22.4	we promptly said that they should have won.
0:24.3	Yeah, yeah, right?
0:25.9	So we have Laura Beale, the journalist behind Dr. Death.
0:30.4	She's a journalist with more than 20 years of experience in health and science writing and she has a new podcast called Bad Batch, which is also dang delicious.
0:40.0	Tasty. She's awesome. You know, we don't regularly get to talk with a real hound dog journalist.
0:46.2	Yeah, it's true. It was really cool. It was. Now as far as Thanksgiving.
0:50.8	Yeah, tell me. Well, I just want to give thanks. Oh, yeah, let's give thanks. Yeah, I want to give thanks for my family. Yeah. Without them, I just don't know what joy exists in my life. I'm grateful for this podcast most. I'm grateful that I'm healthy. I
1:07.4	complain about certain things, arthritis and everything, but that's bullshit. That's
1:10.6	nothing. Yeah, that's true. Big fucking whoop.
1:13.0	Yeah.
1:14.0	What are you grateful for?
1:15.0	I'm grateful for...
1:17.0	I'm grateful that we're going to get a new Charlie calendar soon.
1:20.0	Yeah, I look forward to that.
1:22.0	That'll be good. Uh-huh. Yeah, I'm forward to that. That'll be good.
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