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Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Yearbook - Chapter 4: Local Celebrity

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.668.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

As the Blake basketball team roars through its thrilling season, Chad and his teammates experience local stardom. With his newfound status, Chad gets access to all of the hottest house parties…and ends up in white student’s houses for the first time with their parents out of town. Behold, the high school rager. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The So we come in and out same kind of clicks. Just think about it as being in varsity blues like a movie like that. You know the house parties that they're in and it's just crazy because you walk into the house you got one long table

0:29.3

beer pump the next long table flip cup the liver rum The living room just straight conversation. So it's just different environments, different

0:39.6

parties in one party. Right and you're just making it? And you're just making it through.

0:44.3

You're just making it through until three, four o'clock in the morning.

0:48.3

Now, let's get it.

0:51.5

I was supposed to be in mourning right now. My friend just died and that morning and even the performance of that would

1:05.0

that would make my dad proud of me, the thing that would make my dad proud of me,

1:09.0

the thing that would give me an excuse to quit other stuff

1:12.0

that I didn't want to do anymore like piano lessons and

1:14.8

Cub Scouts, the thing that would make girls pay attention to me, the thing that would make

1:18.8

guys want to dap me, I knew I had to make this fucking basketball team. I don't know that there's ever

1:24.3

been anything in my entire life that felt more urgent than making that basketball

1:28.6

team. It was just like either you're going to have a jersey and you're going to be somebody and people are going to know you or you're going to be nobody.

1:38.0

I want to get your point of view on how big a presence was basketball in our house and in my life.

1:45.0

Oh, it was huge. If anybody walks in our house now, they'll see how huge it was.

1:50.0

Your dad played basketball in high school and in college. He played for Columbia. He was a star in Detroit on his basketball team in high school.

1:59.0

I remember when you actually made the team and you came home and you were very excited that you had made it and you

2:07.5

told me later you said mom the main reason that I wanted to get on that team was I could not

2:12.4

imagine coming home and telling dad that I got cut.

2:15.0

I mean you wanted it for yourself too but it just was not an option to come home and tell

2:20.0

and you didn't make it. Remember that?

2:22.0

I don't remember but it sounds. You don't

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