Tara Stoinski

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

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Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2021

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Tara Stoinski is a primatologist and President, CEO and Chief Scientific Officer for the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund. Tara joins the Armchair Expert to discuss studying gorillas for more than two decades, her desire work with animals from a young age, and how ecotourism in Africa is helping the conservation efforts and the local economy. Tara explains gorilla mating rituals and communication tactics, the new technology they use to study and collect data on primates, and how gorillas have an effect on global climate change. Tara also talks about losing her husband to cancer and how she threw herself into her work to help cope with the trauma. 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 to arm chair expert. I'm joined by Maximus Mouse
0:05.2	six-time Emmy Award nominated producer and the Duchess of Duluth. Six time?
0:10.9	No one will check. One day, one day. You know who would check me. Oh you're right. So since it's just you, we're clear.
0:17.0	Um, wait, we have, I have to tell people where we are.
0:20.0	Oh, okay. Because this is a big deal for me. Oh, oh, yes. I thought you just
0:26.6	meant the thing, but not the thing. No, please, please. We are on the Warner
0:31.1	Brothers up because you and Kristen are shooting a game show
0:34.1	family game but I could care less about that that's right because we are in
0:38.7	Jen Ann's dressing room from friends.
0:44.0	Yes, we're sitting where God knows what has happened with Jen and perhaps even Brad Pitt.
0:49.0	I've done lots of fantasizing over what's happened under this very butt of mine.
0:54.6	When you were an even smaller mouse, did you ever think you would grow up in work in
0:58.6	Jen Anestin's?
0:59.8	I hoped.
1:01.3	Well, you did. Way to think about it. Way to execute. When I was having that dream I bet my dad who was hooked up is like,
1:11.2	oh that's going to be so hard to make happen for her.
1:14.4	Oh, or just so pricey.
1:16.8	Right.
1:17.8	Like he had a really pony.
1:19.1	He's had to pay so many add-ons for me.
1:20.8	So many add-ons, so many, um, what do they call it at a restaurant when you're serving
1:25.1	they want up cells up cells lot of up cells let's talk about our guests okay kind of
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