Lukas Gage
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Umbrella
4.6 • 70K Ratings
🗓️ 6 July 2026
⏱️ 131 minutes
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Summary
Lukas Gage (I Wrote This For Attention, Voicemails for Isabelle, and The White Lotus) is an actor and author. Lukas joins Armchair Expert to discuss growing up in a chaotic family in San Diego, surviving a brutal hate crime as a teenager, and being sent to a troubled teen wilderness program. Lukas and Dax talk about navigating Hollywood as a closeted actor, the surreal experience of getting married on The Kardashians, and Conor McGregor fracturing a disc in his back while filming Road House. Lukas explains how a BPD diagnosis changed the way he understood himself, how shame and secrecy can distort identity, and what it means to stop performing for other people's approval.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, welcome, welcome to armchair expert. I'm Dach Shepard. I'm joined by Monica Padman. |
| 0:04.4 | Hi. |
| 0:05.0 | We have an actor with an incredible story and we're blessed with his memoir, which is I wrote |
| 0:11.8 | this for attention. Today we have Lucas Gajon and, you know, wild story, right? |
| 0:18.7 | Really wild. And he was very open with us and it was really lovely. |
| 0:22.0 | Yes, incredibly vulnerable. |
| 0:24.1 | He was in The White Lotus, Euphoria. |
| 0:27.2 | You, Fargo, Smile 2. |
| 0:30.4 | And he has a new movie out now on Netflix, voicemail for Isabel. |
| 0:35.5 | Great movie. |
| 0:36.9 | Great movie. |
| 0:37.4 | I don't say that. Great movie. Great movie. I want to say that. |
| 0:37.9 | Great movie. |
| 0:38.5 | Great. |
| 0:39.1 | Please enjoy Lucas Gage. |
| 0:41.5 | This podcast is brought to you by Squarespace. |
| 0:45.0 | We've talked before about Rob building our website on Squarespace, and I bring it up again because it's a perfect example of what they do well. |
| 0:52.0 | Rob had all the pieces, the content, the vision, the ideas, |
| 0:54.6 | but he needed something to actually take all that and make it public facing. And Squarespace |
| 0:59.6 | was that bridge. Maybe you're in the same spot. You've been developing something, a business, |
| 1:04.5 | a skill set, a body of work, and it's been private. It's been yours. But at some point, you're |
| 1:09.0 | ready to put it out there, and that transition |
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