Mom's Car: Nate Tuck

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode of Mom’s Car, we welcome West Coast Best Friend Nate Tuck. Dax, Nate, and East Coast Best Friend Aaron Weakley talk through the deep evolutionary significance of a tribe chief embarrassing himself, Nate’s wasted and naked black ice car crash, BFAW’s handsome, mustachioed dad, woes of a sludgy summer job, a particularly loud Jean-Claude Van Damme delivery encounter, the long road to road rage recovery, Dax’s legendary rumble after a David Allan Coe show, and a physics-related legal write-in question.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Mom's Car. Oh, what a pleasure it is today to introduce you to Nate Tuck.
0:06.4	Maybe if you listen to Armchair Expert, you would have heard him tell an incredible rattlesnake story on Armchair Anonymous.
0:11.8	But Nate and I have been friends from, I don't know, virtually since I moved to L.A. 30 years.
0:18.4	We met in the groundlings. He's just the sweetest guy. He produced
0:22.4	the three movies that I've directed, and I call him my creative soulmate. It's not often that I
0:29.5	get to hang out with my East Coast and West Coast best friend, but it was a blast. Please enjoy Nate
0:36.0	Tuck. You know what, smart? Checking Allstate first for a quote that could save you hundreds on car insurance. You know what's not smart? Not checking that your sunroof is closed before going through the car wash. Yeah, checking first is smart. So check Allstate first for a quote that could save you hundreds. You're in good hands with Allstate.
0:55.3	Potential savings vary subject to terms, conditions, and availability, Allstate North America
0:59.3	Insurance Co. and affiliates, Northbrook, Illinois.
1:26.6	Music Writing with three people in a car was standard biz from 16 to 22. And then as you become an adult, you're never just cruising around in a car. They're with your buns. Yeah. We did so many years like this. Yes. It's just very nostalgic and very fun. Is this the longest you've had off work in five years, this 90 minutes you've committed to this? I was so happy. I had a huge meeting this morning. He was on a meeting walking through the door here.
1:46.0	Always.
1:46.8	Yeah, I was on speaker phone.
1:48.7	Always.
1:49.7	Your tombstone will say he was in a meeting.
1:52.2	Oh, no, man.
1:53.9	He died doing when he loved taking a meeting.
1:59.2	I walked in with my phone up to my mouth.
2:01.2	The door's open and that's how weekly saw me.
2:03.8	Yeah.
2:05.2	No, we didn't run a 4K.
2:06.6	We ran a 10K.
2:07.5	13.5.
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