Marc Maron

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2018

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Marc Maron (WTF with Marc Maron, Maron, Glow) is an American comedian, actor, podcast host and the impetus for Armchair Expert. In this episode, Marc discusses his trajectory toward success, the license that comes with playing flawed characters and the particularly intimate connection between podcast hosts and their audience. Dax and Marc hash out an uncomfortable text exchange they had a few months back and the two of them question whether achieving success has the power to heal wounds. They discuss the importance of having a flexible identity, the emphasis stand ups place on paying your dues and Dax warns of the dangers of chess. 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	Hello, welcome to the armchair expert. I'm
0:03.6	joined by the ever talented and beautiful Monica Padman.
0:07.7	Hello, what an intro.
0:09.5	I've got more coming your way. Yeah, I've just started drafting them in my head. Oh boy. Yeah. I don't think I'll run out of adjectives too soon either. Okay. Yeah.
0:20.0	Before we get into this week's episode there was some blowback and I'm happy there was blowback
0:26.7	Me too about the lack of a fact check on
0:31.1	Mr Joel McHale on the beefy Joel Macales episode.
0:36.8	The reason for that was my beautiful,
0:40.4	lovely stepfather of 27, 8 years.
0:44.5	David Barton had been battling prostate cancer
0:48.8	and I had to go to Oregon for a week
0:50.6	and he has since passed and I was there with my family and it was both a hard week and a beautiful week because my family is so fantastic.
1:04.3	But because of that, I dropped the ball guys.
1:08.8	I was unable to get the fact check in the right spot at the right time.
1:13.8	I'm not going to let you do that.
1:15.6	I'm not going to let you take credit for this going poorly.
1:20.4	I think so.
1:21.4	No.
1:22.4	Because we would have gotten together much earlier to record those
1:24.2	spots and we would have discovered this and we would have figured it out and or
1:27.8	recorded a new one you're right it prevented us from being able to to fix the problem but you didn't cause the problem it had
1:36.2	nothing to do with well because we had recorded the fact we had recorded it
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