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Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Mark Duplass

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.668.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2018

⏱️ 116 minutes

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Summary

Mark Duplass (The Puffy Chair, Jeff Who Lives at Home, The League) isan American film director,film producer, actor, musician, screenwriter, author and old buddy of the Armchair Expert. Mark sits down in the attic to discuss his happiness living in the B+ range of his industry, he talks abouta recent conscious uncoupling with his work partner/brother and he contemplates the reasons behind his workaholic sensibility. Dax details his writing routine and Mark reveals the trick Ray Romano taught him of how to make a joke land. Dax and Mark reminisce on a joyous time in their life when they would get together, watch old movies and dissect the male form. 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 everybody. Welcome to armchair expert. I'm

0:03.0

Dax Shepard. I'm joined by Manneka Padman.

0:05.8

That's me. She's a Manic a Padman. She's a Madic bad man.

0:10.3

Oh. I hope you get so popular that you are the focus of a popular song where they call you a bad man

0:17.4

I'd like that too. Oh I really like that. Wouldn't that be great?

0:23.0

But he's of mine during Dawson's Creek, they wrote a, they wrote a song about Katie,

0:28.7

Katie, Katie Holmes. You know what I'm saying?

0:31.2

Katie Holmes. Yeah. They wrote a song about Katie Holmes. Is that the theme song? No, it's not but he just wrote a song about her

0:38.6

It's my friend Jason Delian I tell you about all the time the anthropologist who's a genius. He was in a punk band when we were in college and you wrote a song about her and she found out about it.

0:48.4

I'm dying for someone to write a song about me. Yeah, well some musicians get on that. Yeah. The song is not going to write itself. Hey, today, an old Palomine's here. Yeah. Mark Duplas. Yeah. You may know him as one of the two Duplace brothers.

1:06.0

Correct. We talk about that a lot sharing an identity, a working identity with a

1:10.0

brother. There's a lot of yummy stuff there. I discovered Mark through the

1:13.4

puffy chair, this great great little tiny five dollar movie he made that I

1:17.6

believe went to Sundance and I saw it and it's one of my favorite movies ever and

1:20.9

then I asked him to go have a lunch with me and he and

1:24.8

Jay did and we became pals and ended up working for him on a movie he made called

1:30.4

the freebie would you like? I love it.

1:33.0

Sounds like I'm plug in my own stuff.

1:36.0

Yeah. I'm just trying to make this personalized

1:38.0

so for everyone feel some connective.

1:40.0

He'll hear it on the episode.

1:41.0

Connective Tissu.

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