Mark Rober (engineer & inventor)

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 69.9K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2022

⏱️ 137 minutes

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Mark Rober is an engineer and inventor. Mark joins the Armchair Expert to discuss how he became one of the biggest YouTubers in the world, how he got a job with NASA, and how he has learned to reframe failures into successes. Mark and Dax talk about the experience of being recognized in public, what they love most about primates, and why science was a more appealing subject matter in school. Mark explains his glitter bomb video, what he thinks about ASMR, and why he resisted doing a television show for so long. 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, Turkey.
0:05.0	Welcome, welcome, welcome to the special Thanksgiving
0:11.0	Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving episode of armchair expert experts on expert.
0:14.3	Wow I miss the turkey.
0:16.3	Well and and spoiler there's no turkey talk within the actual episode so we had to give it to
0:22.2	you hard up front in the intro.
0:24.1	That's right. Yeah. But we're thankful for you regardless of whether we address that or not.
0:30.0	It's more than that like we owe the listeners like to wash their car or something you know okay that can be your task.
0:37.0	Okay. Oh, you're providing a Christmas guide I guess that's a gift back.
0:41.0	Sure and also maybe I'll make them some cookies. Okay, okay. TBD how that's gonna...
0:47.0	Sure Brad chocolate. Today we have someone who's become a personal friend of mine he was a NASA engineer.
0:54.8	NASA yeah.
0:55.8	Yeah, NASA is the island in the Bahamas.
0:59.4	Yeah, he did not work for the bohemian government bohemian oh bohemian boy sorry mark
1:07.2	mark rober he was an engineer at nasa and most importantly he got even with people who steal Amazon packages.
1:17.0	That's how I came to know Mark Rober.
1:19.0	He's one of the biggest youtubers to ever exist.
1:22.0	His videos have hundreds of millions of views. biggest you
1:23.2	tubers to ever exist his videos have hundreds of millions of views and he put these
1:25.8	amazing glitter bombs and fart bombs and drones inside of these Amazon packages
1:32.3	like you don't want to piss off drones inside of these Amazon packages.
1:32.6	Like, you don't want to piss off a NASA engineer.
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