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Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Mom's Car: Karan Soni

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.668.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode of Mom’s Car, we welcome actor Karan Soni. Karan, Dax, and Best Friend Aaron Weakley talk through Karan’s first Kristen connection when he was still working out his identity, his dad working for John Deere tractors which are made in India, remembering all gay storylines on TV being shame based, at what age discovering he was funny, a write-in question about possible levels of happiness moving back to one’s hometown, finally accepting that he couldn’t change his family with nagging, and BFAW & Dax's relationship throughout their sobriety journeys.

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0:00.0

Hello, you caught me drinking and driving a little Diet Coke. Welcome to Mom's Car.

0:06.6

Today we have one of the sweetest boys in America, Car and Sony. You know him from a nice Indian boy,

0:12.4

Deadpool Ghostbusters. He's impossibly funny and has an incredible life story. And I hope you

0:19.2

enjoy the ride with Corns Sony. Some people just know

0:23.2

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0:27.7

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0:40.2

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1:04.0

Music I was going to be all right. I'm like, I might be a little different here in LA and is in Michigan because no one here is employed.

1:08.0

Every single person is trying to become an actor. I was going to say, it's actually really triggering me a little bit. I used to work at a restaurant. I never did this, but I'm starting to already be like, oh, God. In L.A. restaurant? You know the Equinox on Sunset? Yes. They used to be a Mexican restaurant there, and my hardest sell was our steak tacos. Okay, you guess the price.

1:27.9

The ingredients were just steak and three tacos in Los Angeles in 2011-12. Okay, I'm going to have to

1:34.6

adjust down then. I was going to say $12.99 for that, $13.99, but I guess I'm going to go $11.99.

1:40.4

We just started by saying it's Mexican fine dining, $32. $32.

1:42.0

We couldn't sell them. Of course not. And it was across the street from Pekito Moss, so it's already not helping. And the chef would be like, would you go to a steakhouse and pay $32 for a steak? And we're like, yeah, and they're like, it's the same steak. I just cut it up and put it in tortillas. It's all about packaging. I don't know what's going to sell. It makes a point about packaging.

1:43.3

Yeah. If we do get a food order. When we get a food order. We picked a great time to deliver food. It's an hour before rush hour, and it's raining in that language. It's always the worst time to drive a car. I think we will get a lot of orders because it's raining. I would think, yeah, people want to venture out. There you go. A lot of warm soup, like warming up their cockles. Yeah. Yeah, Michigan, no snowstorms. The drivers get crazy orders. So, Karen, the reason I wanted to do this was because Aaron's been driving Uber.

2:37.0

Yeah, he was saying. And I'm so jealous because once a week he has an insane story.

2:42.1

Uber's the new 7-Eleven.

2:44.9

Did he already tell you? That's what I... I did not say that. I'm just using the arm cherry brain to put the pieces together. Yes, I said to

2:52.6

Aaron, you have figured out how to work at 7-Eleven, but you don't never have to reach for a so does just sit and be at 7-Eleven. Yeah. And do you enjoy driving, Aaron? I guess that's a big part of it too, because if you enjoy driving, it just makes it easy. Oh yeah, the driving doesn't bother me. you're all set.

2:47.5

We drove professionally, Aaron and I for 14 years.

2:51.5

Hundreds and hundreds of miles at a time. In the same car, separate. We worked for GM, and we would go to, let's say, the New York Auto Show. We'd be in New York for eight days, and we would sit in front of the Jacob Javitt Center and wait for guests of General Motors to get in our car and

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