Robert Downey Jr. [Rerelease from 6/19/23]

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2023

⏱️ 160 minutes

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Robert Downey Jr. (Downey’s Dream Cars, Sr., Iron Man) is an actor and producer. Robert joins the Armchair Expert to discuss their journey to becoming soulmates, how important it is to have deep meaningful relationships, and what acting process works best for him. Robert and Dax talk about what it’s like to have an addictive personality, finding closure with their fathers, and whether life is a joke or tragedy. Robert explains what prison was like, why he wanted to modernize his car collection, and what the two most significant projects he’s been involved in were. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome, welcome, welcome to Armchair Expert. I'm Dan Shepard. I'm joined by Monica Padman. Hello, Monica.
0:08.0	Hi.
0:09.0	We have incredibly exciting news. Starting on Monday, August 14th, you'll be able to find all new episodes of Armchair Expert free on Spotify and everywhere you get your podcasts.
0:22.0	But in the meantime, we decided we wanted to revisit a few of our favorite episodes over the last couple of years.
0:29.0	Yes, it's very exciting for us because we get to come back to everyone, which is really, really fun. And these are some of our faves.
0:38.0	Yes. In case you missed them, these are the ones that we thought were worth rearing before we go wide on August 14th. Please enjoy some of our best of.
0:49.0	Welcome, welcome, welcome to Armchair Expert. I'm Dan Shepard. I'm joined by Monica Lilly Padman.
0:55.0	This is a three-namer. It is a three-namer. You know, it's with great delight that I announced today. We have Robert Downey, Jr.
1:03.0	You've been wanting to have him on since day one.
1:06.0	Day one. I'm fascinated with Robert. I love Robert. Yeah.
1:11.0	And as I think, I hope you'll find him using our past friendship. I find it to be one of the more amusing ones I've ever had.
1:19.0	It was a really fun, funny, a little manic in a great way. Yes. It was so fun. I was in the best mood afterwards.
1:28.0	And he was so lovely and engaging to you, which made me so happy. It was. I really liked him a lot. He's a sweet, sweet, sweet boy.
1:36.0	He's also an award-winning actor and producer, the Iron Man's, the Avengers, the Sherlock Holmes's,
1:43.0	Tropic Thunder, Chaplin, which he was a performance of a fucking century.
1:48.0	Now he has a new show about ding, ding, ding.
1:52.0	Cars, my favorite topic, called Downey's Dream Cars, where he takes some incredible old vintage cars and restores them
2:03.0	and brings them up to a more eco-friendly world. It's really cool.
2:07.0	It's a really cool, very cool, even monocle-like to it. She's not long for car shows.
2:11.0	I'm not, but I loved it.
2:12.0	I also recommend that people check out Senior, the documentary that Robert made about his father on Netflix,
2:18.0	which is very beautiful, and we talk about it at length.
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