Shaquille O'Neal
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Umbrella
4.6 • 68.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2025
⏱️ 124 minutes
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Summary
Shaquille O'Neal (Shaq's Scholars Campus Scholarship and Mentorship Program) is a 4x NBA champion, sports analyst, and philanthropist. Shaquille joins the Armchair Expert to discuss discovering his love languages, how he learned to tame his inner bully with silliness, and why a nuclear physicist is who taught him how to accept criticism. Shaq and Dax talk about the incredible highs that followed the lows of his life, how he unwinds now by going to a hookah bar, and navigating the fine line between pain relief and addiction. Shaquille explains how beating Michael Jordan was a teaching moment, learning early on to appreciate the people that make you who you are, and the impetus for partnering with Campus.edu was advice he received to invest in things that change people’s lives.
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| 0:14.0 | Welcome, welcome, welcome to armchair expert. |
| 0:16.2 | I'm Dan Shepard and I'm joined by the miniature mouse from Duluth. |
| 0:20.0 | Hi. |
| 0:54.5 | We're in a foreign location. That's right. And I want to thank from the bottom of my heart, Dr. Mike. He's not only gorgeous, he's generous. He's kind. He's smart. And this is his studio. He's got it all. And we needed a place to record in New York. And he was so gracious in offering us this. So thank you. And it's a beautiful studio. It's a beautiful studio. Very, very nice. Well appointed. I had a nice espresso while we interviewed our guest. And our guest, speaking of which is our biggest guest of all time. That's right. At 7 foot 1. That's right. |
| 0:55.5 | Shaquille O'Neill. |
| 0:56.7 | Oh, my God. |
| 1:03.4 | Shaquille O'Neal, four-time NBA champion, first round draft pick, multiple MVP, one of the only three or four players that ever got MVP in the season, the playoffs, and the All-Star |
| 1:08.3 | game. |
| 1:08.7 | Just one of the best to do it. |
| 1:10.1 | He is the most dominant. |
| 1:12.1 | And he has, he's an investor in this really kind of incredible new venture called |
| 1:19.7 | Campus, which gets folks who traditionally would not have gone to college, makes it |
| 1:25.1 | incredibly easy for them, helps them get funding. |
| 1:32.6 | It's awesome. And that's what we're here to talk about. And if you would like to apply for one of the many Shack Scholarships that are being given out, go to shackscholars.compus. |
| 1:40.5 | That's shackschshowers.acks scholars.compancus. |
| 1:44.5 | companus. |
| 1:45.6 | Please enjoy the most |
| 1:47.3 | effervescent |
| 1:48.4 | NBA player |
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