Ron Howard

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2021

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Ron Howard (Parenthood, The Da Vinci Code, Happy Days) is a director, actor, and producer. Ron joins the Armchair Expert to discuss his personal and professional relationship with his brother, how instrumental his parents were in him becoming a child star, and his experience directing some of the best actors of all time. Ron and Dax talk about what they learned from testing their projects with audiences, what he learned from raising twins, and what mistakes he has made in his career. Ron explains that he was an introvert in high school, how he used to watch wrestling with his dad, and why he decided to write a book about his childhood. 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	Welcome, welcome welcome to armchair expert. I'm joined by Monica Lillie Padman.
0:05.2	Hi there. Hello there. We got one of my previous bosses on today.
0:09.5	That's right. Did you feel like you needed to like, know be a good employee for him in the when I worked for him indeed yeah
0:16.8	Which was actually a fun experience to meet him as I guess a peer yeah I don't know want to call him a peer but you know what I'm saying. Yeah. Yeah. Usually I'm like you're in charge. I got to make a great impression on this guy so I don't get fired. But this time was just like, hey, you're going to see real me, and it was so much fun.
0:32.7	What a nice person.
0:34.3	It's almost impossible.
0:36.2	What a nice person he is.
0:37.3	It's really incredible.
0:38.4	And he has one of the most incredible Hollywood stories that there are.
0:40.9	Yeah.
0:42.1	Ron Howard is an Academy Award winning film director, producer, and actor.
0:46.0	He's directed a beautiful mind.
0:48.0	Apollo 13, Frost, Nixon, Cinderella Man, the Da Vinci Code, Parenthood,
0:51.0	Ding, Ding, Ding, and Arrested Development.
0:53.8	He has a new book out called The Boys, a memoir of Hollywood and Family by Ron and Clint Howard.
1:00.2	And this book is so fun because they unpacked their upbringing.
1:03.8	It seemed normal to them yet was anything but from a new found perspective of time and success.
1:09.1	He's got great stories and it was such a pleasure to talk to him and I just adore him and you will too so please enjoy
1:14.7	Ron Howard.
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