Ike Barinholtz #4

Summary

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Ike Barinholtz #4 | March 30, 2026

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Episode Overview

In this engaging return, award-winning actor, comedian, and producer Ike Barinholtz joins Dax Shepard and Monica Padman for his fourth visit. The conversation is classic Armchair: funny, self-deprecating, and insightful. They riff on medical misadventures, career highs and lows, shifts in Hollywood, parenting, male vulnerability, and Ike’s new podcast "Funny You Ask." The episode offers a blend of personal anecdotes and pop culture commentary, with a lively trivia segment and memorable banter.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. Medical Routines and Aging

• Dax and Ike compare notes on annual physicals, colonoscopies, and related prep, sharing both the indignities and ongoing anxiety that come with middle age.
  • Ike recounts his first prostate exam:
    "Even as like a crazy, perverted Jewish teenager, I was like, nah, I'm gonna skip that one." (06:00)
  • Discussion about colonoscopy prep and awkward timing with the upcoming SAG Awards, involving both humor and real-life logistical stress.
  • Both men admit to tracking their weight loss after colonoscopy prep for neurotic reasons (09:09).

Notable Quote:
"It tastes like poison that has gone bad." — Ike on colonoscopy prep (08:42)

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2. Hollywood Reflections & Comedy Heroes

• Reflection on Chevy Chase’s documentary and legacy:
  • Ike explains why he stopped watching — preferring to remember Chase for his iconic roles rather than his later career or reputation (13:04–15:15).
  • Dax offers a more compassionate interpretation:
    “You could be as talented as Martin Scorsese and the luck gods need to be on your side, too." (18:22)
• Scorsese’s career and the role of perseverance, luck, and sacrifice in the arts.
• Both discuss the emotional cost of artistic greatness versus personal life:
  • Ike: “I’m more of that guy where I’m just like, I’ll work less. Whatever.” (19:10)

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3. Career Highs and Awards Season

• Ike jokes about his recent 'winning streak’ with Critics' Choice and Emmy nominations.
  • The emotional whiplash of hype, expectation, loss, and eventual triumph.

Notable Exchange (on awards):
Ike: “Absolutely nothing has changed.”
Monica: “But does it make you feel like…now you’re in this elite?”
Ike: “Funny thing is, for years you’re like, I don’t give a [bleep] about award shows. Then you get nominated…you’re excited.” (20:35–21:06)

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4. On Set and TV Projects

• Behind-the-scenes of "The Studio," "Running Point," and actor schedules.
  • Ike: “It’s one of those shows where you just completely surrender to the schedule.” (25:22)
  • Celebrates work with an ensemble cast and how "The Studio" appeals to non-industry friends and relatives (23:27).

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5. Film, Parenting & Aging

• Ike discusses his role as Elon Musk in Luca Guadagnino’s film "Artificial."

  • Initial hesitation due to distaste for Musk; ultimately accepted for the director and challenge (48:21–49:15).
  • Preparation involved “injecting poison into my brain and watching everything I could find” (50:23).

• Tears, grief, being dads to daughters, and how male vulnerability emerges with age.

  • "People are dying, you have life catching up, you have friends with kids that get sick... That’s where you’re crying." (28:05)
  • Discussion of tricky adolescent parenting moments and how small slights can sting (35:02–35:20).

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6. Pop Culture and Trivia

• Spirited riffs on Hollywood knowledge, favorite movies, and a live “movie game” segment.
  • Both Dax and Ike display encyclopedic movie trivia, with playful competitiveness about who could “go deeper” (46:40).
• Extended live trivia segment using Trivial Pursuit questions.
  • Dax, Monica, and Ike compete, banter, and reveal surprising areas of expertise and gaps (65:31–79:55).

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7. Ike’s New Podcast: Funny You Ask

• Origin story — designed as a hybrid of trivia and comedy riffs with celebrity guests. The twist: guests answer questions in their areas of presumed “expertise” (56:24).
  • “My goal is to make it to the first round of questions — you should know them.” (58:21)
  • Categories tailored to guests (e.g., Mindy Kaling: fashion, Celtics, Indian food; Jimmy Kimmel: pizza, 80s music).
  • Ike assures no one is made to feel dumb — comedy and fun come first.

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8. Food and Cooking

• Ike’s culinary passions: chicken cutlets, potatoes, and seeking recipe inspiration online (52:57).
  • Playful invitations to Dax and family to sample his food, with both joking about ideal-sized dinner parties.

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9. Life, Travel, and Random Banter

• Monica and Dax play a travel “desirability” game about dream destinations (82:12).
• Reflections on living in tourist-heavy areas, how NYC and LA can feel less like home due to transient crowds (87:16).
• Humorous takes on domestic life: Monica’s anxiety over keeping an indoor tree alive, Dax’s plant ambivalence; musings on home irrigation technology and soil (95:05–96:27).

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10. Empathy, Vulnerability, and Legacy

• Revisiting the ups and downs of fame and advice about focusing on others during work trips.
  • Dax: “Focus on that [new] person. I never once considered one of the things I did or didn't get. And the parents of this person thought I was so nice, and I told them, I'm not. I was just being selfish…" (89:28)
• Discussion on biopics, false histories, and balancing artistic license with real lives (107:01–108:24).

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Memorable Quotes & Moments

• On the indignity of prostate exams:
  "I wanted us to kind of move past... And then like the next 10 minutes, I'm just kind of like sloppy slopping, sliding around." — Ike (06:45)
• On male tears:
  "My frequency rate just has gone like this, you know?" — Dax (34:22)
• On awards-season ego:
  “People who are well meaning…will say, like, you’re for sure gonna win, right?...And then you start to be like, ‘Yeah, I’m gonna win!’” — Ike (21:04)
• On prepping for a colonoscopy at the SAG Awards:
  “I’m gonna be in and out of there with full torrential sounds…next to Stellan Skarsgard.” — Dax (10:01–10:09)
• On the dark side of stand-up:
  “If you do stand-up, at least at first, you gotta do it a lot.” — Ike (40:16)

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Highlighted Timestamps

• [04:45]–[08:42]: Medical checkups, colonoscopy, and prostate exam comedy.
• [13:03]–[15:15]: Dissection of Chevy Chase documentary and fame’s double-edge.
• [18:00]–[19:37]: Scorsese’s career, sacrifice, and creative valleys.
• [21:06]–[22:23]: Award show emotional rollercoaster.
• [25:22]: TV set scheduling chaos and "surrender to the schedule."
• [27:28]–[29:35]: Emotional triggers—on being dads and crying more violently with age.
• [46:40]–[47:22]: Movie trivia battle and depth of film nerdery.
• [56:24]–[61:14]: Funny You Ask — Ike’s trivia podcast pitch.
• [65:31]–[79:55]: Live trivia segment!
• [82:12]–[87:56]: Travel dream destinations, living among tourists.
• [95:05]–[96:27]: Monica’s indoor tree anxiety.

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Closing Vibe & Takeaways

The episode is a lively, warm, self-effacing exchange that celebrates the messiness of aging, parenting, and pursuing creative work in Hollywood. Ike and Dax's chemistry is unbeatable—they oscillate between hyper-specific cultural trivia, personal vulnerability, and broad universal observations about life and showbiz. The playful trivia game punctuates a thoughtful, inviting conversation that feels both intimate and hilarious—classic Armchair at its best.

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Listen for:

• Hilariously awkward medical stories
• Real talk about award shows and ego
• Life lessons on family, fame, and the cost of genius
• Directors, movies, and meandering trivia tangents
• The debut of "Funny You Ask" and its unique trivia/comedy format
• Parenting perspectives, crying as a dad, and shifting masculinity
• Genuine warmth and laugh-out-loud moments

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Transcript

[Dax Shepard]

Welcome, welcome, welcome to Armchair Expert. I'm Dan Shepard. I'm joined by Monica Mouse.

[Monica Padman]

Hi there.

[Dax Shepard]

Today we have 12 time returning guest Ike Barinholtz. Now an award winning actor and comedian the studio the Mindy project Blockers, Neighbors, Running Point. And he has a new podcast out now that I have been on. I'm proud to say I hadn't been at the time of this interview and I have since. Yes, it's called funny. You ask and I'm telling you it is a blast. You do trivia and you shoot the shit.

[Monica Padman]

We do a little trivia in this episode and I want to just. I did not represent my people well, okay? Any of my people. Indian people, American people, women

[Dax Shepard]

under 40s.

[Monica Padman]

Humans really. I did a bad job and I'm sorry.

[Dax Shepard]

Mermaids. Bad look for mermaids. It really was came out of nowhere. In your defense, you were prepped.

[Monica Padman]

No, I'm just bad at trivia.

[Dax Shepard]

That's fine. What does it get you?

[Monica Padman]

If anyone wants to like give me lessons. Trivia lessons. Dm me.

[Dax Shepard]

Oh, I bet you're gonna get actually a lot of offers. Men love teaching women things.

[Monica Padman]

Oh, God, you're right.

[Dax Shepard]

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[Ike Barinholtz]

He's an object.

[Dax Shepard]

Chance.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Oh.

[Monica Padman]

Welcome back to our most returning guest.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Am I number one now?

[Monica Padman]

No, you're not.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Oh, I'm not. Who's gonna be. Who's it gonna be? Like Andrew Huberman's been on 17 times or some shit.

[Dax Shepard]

We've only had one Huberman appearance.

[Ike Barinholtz]

I was told I'm the first double video.

[Dax Shepard]

That sounds accurate.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Double penetration, double penny. That double. We're starting off right away right in that.

[Dax Shepard]

The blue.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Never work blue.

[Dax Shepard]

Funny, that's rule number one. Never wear, never work blue. It has been virtually a year on the dot, really, since your last appearance.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Makes sense.

[Dax Shepard]

It feels like a checkup, like a physical.

[Monica Padman]

Boy.

[Dax Shepard]

And then it got me wondering. How on top of that are you? Because I'm going to have my physical next week and I have a colonoscopy Monday, so I'm writing rows of lots of health scheduling.

[Ike Barinholtz]

I had my physical Monday.

[Dax Shepard]

You did? I did. Okay, great. A fasting physical or you got to just arrive.

[Ike Barinholtz]

I can't have anything but water in the morning, which is so hard.

[Dax Shepard]

And coffee, black coffee.

[Ike Barinholtz]

You can have black coffee. But I need like half and half. I'm such a basic little. I need my half and half. And that one morning I was like. I was like in a bad mood for like 45 minutes, but it was good. He's A great doctor. He checks my prostate for like an hour. Oh, it's like a full extended remix.

[Dax Shepard]

He has his worries or that's for everyone.

[Ike Barinholtz]

I tell you, I don't know if I told you this the first time I had him check my prostate. I didn't know what to expect. Personally, there's not been a whole lot in that direction in that place.

[Dax Shepard]

Right. Historically, you put your own finger in your butt.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Not really. Never really.

[Dax Shepard]

You were like. I was a teenager and I was like masturbating. And I thought, I wonder if this, like I was just trying every single thing.

[Ike Barinholtz]

There was just some things that I

[Monica Padman]

was just like, I don't need to do that.

[Dax Shepard]

Okay.

[Monica Padman]

Not interested.

[Dax Shepard]

Okay.

[Ike Barinholtz]

No, it's a personal thing. And even as like a crazy, perverted Jewish teenager, I was like, nah, I'm

[Dax Shepard]

gonna skip that one.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Yeah, I'll skip that one.

[Dax Shepard]

So suffice to say, you probably never ever had anything in your body, nothing

[Ike Barinholtz]

substantial for more than a few seconds.

[Dax Shepard]

Okay, okay.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Wasn't a feeling I was longing to return to.

[Monica Padman]

Sure, sure.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Maybe like one point, like a long time ago.

[Dax Shepard]

Okay. A little tipsy broad put a pinky up. Sure, sure. A little tipsy feeling.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Anyways, he gets in there with his friggin hand.

[Monica Padman]

Oh, boy.

[Dax Shepard]

Whoa.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Felt crazy. I was like, oh, it's done in two seconds. And I was so happy. Was done. He goes, oh, your prostate is perfect. Oh, he didn't do that.

[Monica Padman]

Oh my God.

[Ike Barinholtz]

That would have been disgusting had he done the chef's prosthetic fingers in his mouth immediately. But he handed me like a box of tissues. You can use that to wipe the lube out. And for reasons I'll never know, I went, I'm fine.

[Dax Shepard]

Oh, like, it was emasculating the white.

[Ike Barinholtz]

I wanted us to kind of move past.

[Monica Padman]

Yeah, you want it to be over.

[Ike Barinholtz]

And I didn't want to be like, thank you. So I was like, good. And he goes, okay. And. And then like the next 10 minutes, I'm just kind of like sloppy slopping, sliding around, getting all squishy on the table. So now I wipe it out.

[Dax Shepard]

You have to.

[Ike Barinholtz]

I'm going to drive home down Wil.

[Dax Shepard]

Just like, yeah, potentially bleeding through under the seat. It's no blood seeping. Right, right, right. Yeah, yeah. Leeching, leeching, leeching.

[Ike Barinholtz]

I don't need that stuff leeching into my Lincoln. Anyways, I went on Monday. It. Everything was really good.

[Dax Shepard]

And he got in there again every time.

[Ike Barinholtz]

The colonoscopy is only every couple years. The prostate's Every year.

[Dax Shepard]

The digital exam. They sent you the colonoscopy.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Have you ever had one before?

[Dax Shepard]

Oh, yeah. I've had so many.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Yeah, yeah. You have like one a week.

[Dax Shepard]

I used to, because in my family, I had on my mother's side an uncle that had a colostomy, and then my cousin that was my age had to have one in his 20s.

[Ike Barinholtz]

That is family history, babe.

[Dax Shepard]

So I was going from 18 every three years. I can't tell you how many. And then I finally saw one out here and he goes, it doesn't really generally move on the maternal side. Like, you don't need to get this many. So then I backed off for a while and now I'm back in a five year rotation.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Good. I will say I love the nap.

[Monica Padman]

Sure.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Michael Jackson nap.

[Dax Shepard]

I'm already rehearsing my charming pitch to them. Okay. Because first they give you Versed to relax you, but then they hit you with the propofol really quick.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Dax Shepard]

But that little window of Versed is all I get.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Dax Shepard]

And it's once every five years.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Tell me, you know, drop the first, then go make a phone call, get some coffee, come back, and then we'll do Propofol.

[Dax Shepard]

Exactly. And so I gotta roll that out in the least addicty, most charming way possible, where they don't think I'm a drug seeker, just getting this procedure to get that 30 seconds of Versed. So it's a fine line I'm walking.

[Ike Barinholtz]

The worst part, though, for me is the prep. The night before the sue prep, I drink it. It tastes like poison that has gone bad.

[Dax Shepard]

Like, it's a spoiler poison turned poison.

[Ike Barinholtz]

And it is, like, comical how quickly you go from, like, I'm on a zoom, everything's cool to, like, fudgeing Lloyd from Dumb and Dumber. Just. Yeah.

[Dax Shepard]

Torrential is the only adjective.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Monsoon season.

[Dax Shepard]

Yes.

[Ike Barinholtz]

In my bathroom.

[Monica Padman]

Are you going to weigh yourself before and after?

[Dax Shepard]

You know how neurotic I am about all this. And also, my procedure is kind of late on Monday. So that day I went and I'm like, I'm going to lose like five pounds probably. So the last couple of days, I've been eating ferociously, knowing we have this moment of scarcity coming, but I kind of knew it was coming, and this didn't occur to me until this morning. So Kristin hosts the SAG Awards on Sunday.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Yes, I'll be there.

[Dax Shepard]

Yeah.

[Monica Padman]

Of course, you will be doing a bit for us, which we are very, very grateful for.

[Dax Shepard]

So what we did last year was Like, I bring the kids up and we hang backstage, and it's really fun. We get to see mom. And so that's, of course, the plan again this year. And then just this morning, brushing my teeth, and I said, kristen, I said, you know, love, I'm going to be evacuating every 15, 20 minutes on Sunday. That's my prep day. Oh, I'm a little nervous about the logistics of me juggling two kids. You can in a public diaper.

[Ike Barinholtz]

You gotta diap up, baby, baby, you gotta dip.

[Monica Padman]

Smells so bad.

[Dax Shepard]

And it's a communal bathroom, you know, and it's all my heroes. And I'm gonna be in and out of there with full torrential sounds.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Dude, you're gonna be just blasting off next to Stellan Skarsgard. I love sentimental value. He wins this award, and he's like, I just want to say Dax Shepard gave the best of my paint job before the real suffering.

[Dax Shepard]

I knew Suff shared a bit.

[Monica Padman]

This really does need to be thought through.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Yeah, you got to make a plan.

[Dax Shepard]

I can already predict what's going to happen. I know me and I know my history. So I'm going to load up at noon and start the process. And I know by four, I'm going to say, it's all done. We're safe to go. Kids in the car. We know this is going to happen,

[Monica Padman]

but we can't make the show about your poo.

[Ike Barinholtz]

You're going to be hugging Ted Danson and you're just going, I can't not

[Dax Shepard]

go to this for Kristen and not bring the kids. So this is going to happen. But I already know that I'm gonna be way too confident. By 4pm when I leave for the show, I'll be like, yeah, I had four hours of it. There's nothing left.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Start earlier. Start at nine.

[Dax Shepard]

Yeah, but will that up the whole.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Yes. What do I think?

[Dax Shepard]

My second dose, right as I'm walking into the theater, I just decide, like, fuck it, let's go all in. This is gonna be miserable. Let's go for it.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Oh, no.

[Dax Shepard]

But these are the weirdest things you can't really anticipate or plan for. It's like we had a bulletproof schedule, and now I'm go gonna be flushing out my whole lower gi.

[Ike Barinholtz]

My mistake, I learned, was the day after because I was so hungry, and I was like, I'm gonna treat myself. And I ordered from Rest in Peace. Son of a gun. One of my favorite restaurants.

[Dax Shepard]

Was that a sandwich?

[Ike Barinholtz]

It was like a New England seafood place, but they had, like, lobster rolls. Crazy. It was a John and Vinnie's, people. That is like taking a riding mower onto the autobahn, you know what I mean? Where I was just, like, not ready for what that rock. So that's a bummer. So eat light.

[Dax Shepard]

You know what's funn? Every time I do it, I get the craving for the exact same thing. It's McDonald's french fries. Oh, yeah.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Those are good.

[Dax Shepard]

Second I get in there, I'll be like, oh, I'm about a couple hours away from McDonald's.

[Ike Barinholtz]

That's a nice treat.

[Dax Shepard]

That's a nice treat.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Yeah. Yeah, those are good.

[Dax Shepard]

Makes the whole thing almost worth it. Now back to your digital exam on your prostate. Yeah. You. Mine must go to the exact same place mine does. 100%. I think even maybe if you could count us down on three. What do you want to do the second he puts his finger in your butt and you count us down from three. Let's see if we get lucky.

[Monica Padman]

Three, two, one.

[Dax Shepard]

Kahn River.

[Monica Padman]

Oh, wow.

[Dax Shepard]

Damn. I thought for sure we'd get that.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Wow.

[Dax Shepard]

That. What did you say?

[Ike Barinholtz]

I'm sorry. Oh, no, no.

[Dax Shepard]

C O M E. Spray, buff, pump, pump, spray.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Moon river is a reference from Fletch.

[Monica Padman]

Oh.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Which I forgot.

[Monica Padman]

I was like, what the fuck?

[Dax Shepard]

But I knew he. And then. And then Doc, Using the whole fist up there.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Doc. Did you watch the Chevy documentary?

[Dax Shepard]

I did.

[Ike Barinholtz]

I started and I stopped.

[Dax Shepard]

You did?

[Ike Barinholtz]

Yeah.

[Dax Shepard]

Tell me why.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Because it was just bumming me out. Full disclosure. I had heard nothing but horrible stories about him for years. For guys like us, he was a big, big guy. National Lampoon's Vacation. I'm sorry. It's like, one of my favorite movies still to this day. It's so fucking great. Fletch is great. He was just really funny. And some people, like, I understand, they didn't connect with him. I get it. Because his air is just not for everyone.

[Dax Shepard]

Arrogant. That's kind of what he's playing up.

[Ike Barinholtz]

But I heard all these stories for years, and then I started watching, and I was like, I just want to have the memory.

[Monica Padman]

Yeah.

[Ike Barinholtz]

You know?

[Monica Padman]

Okay.

[Dax Shepard]

There are several different things that could have been the things that took you out of it. So. So that's why I'm curious. Is it that, like, here's a guy who is now doing small shows to support himself? Is it that it's a bummer? Is it how he's treating the interviewer?

[Ike Barinholtz]

Bummer.

[Dax Shepard]

I loved him. And then just got more and more depressed every time I heard stories of people who worked with him. Right. But I watched the doc and I ended up with, like, kind of a lot of compassion for him. I mean, he had a very fucked up childhood for sure.

[Ike Barinholtz]

And I will say, seems like he's a really good dad and husband now loves his family. Yeah, it's tough.

[Dax Shepard]

Yeah, it's tough. It's tough. Here's what gave me the compassion is I think there is a category of person who's an asshole and they don't give a fuck and they're not even questioning it. And then I think there are people that are assholes and they themselves are suffering greatly from it. There's no, yeah, fuck you, and I don't care. And there's no wreckage or bill to pay. But when I'm watching that, I'm like, yeah, he's deeply uncomfortable a lot of the time in his own skin. And he's got impulse shit. And he's probably ADHD and all these things. And he's an addict. I don't think the guy's winning. It's not like he's feeling great about being this asshole.

[Ike Barinholtz]

But I guess to me, he was winning for so long. I never get someone who had it and then just kind of through, I would say, misbehavior a little bit lost it. It's hard for me to really find the sympathy there. Like, I don't think he's a hateful man, but I just want to remember him talking to, like, Eugene Levy in Vacation. And that will be my memory of him. I don't need to see him old and feeble and, like, yelling like a woman who's, like, asking him questions.

[Dax Shepard]

Yeah, yeah, cranky. Did you make it to the part, though, where they go through his talk show that he did?

[Ike Barinholtz]

No, but I remember that talk show.

[Dax Shepard]

Okay.

[Ike Barinholtz]

The Goldfish piano. It was one of the biggest bombs around, like, 1994 was talk show mania.

[Dax Shepard]

Sally Jesse had.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Sally Jesse had one. Arsenio Hall, Joan Rivers tried one. It was a bit wiser. Only Johnny Carson, everyone started one. And then Chevy was like the big blue chip. New Talk show for 94.

[Dax Shepard]

I can't remember the exact year.

[Ike Barinholtz]

He was completely unsuited for it.

[Dax Shepard]

So that's the part I would have liked for you to have seen. Because this guy is defined by his confidence. He just starts right away on Saturday Live. Like, when you see that early footage of him, it's crazy how much swag he had. Yeah, so much fucking swagger. And then he's playing the piano confidently. He's doing everything he's ridden on this superpower of confidence. And he gets on that stage and they show the footage and he already kind of knows it's not going to be great. And to see him having lost that entirely, you can feel it as you and I and you. Anyone, anyone as a performance. But on stage, to watch that dude have to go out there every night with zero confidence and just suffer through it until they kill it. He certainly took some on the chin along the way. He gave a lot. He gave way too much out.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Dax Shepard]

But he also suffered like a.

[Ike Barinholtz]

He suffered, but I suffered when I watched Nothing but Trouble, which was very bad movie. Folks, folks. It's not good.

[Dax Shepard]

The other dog I wanted to ask you about that I presume you watched is. Did you watch the Scorsese one that I like, inhaled?

[Monica Padman]

He's your guy.

[Ike Barinholtz]

He's the boy.

[Dax Shepard]

He's the guy.

[Ike Barinholtz]

All of his movies, anytime they're on tv, I'll watch all of them. He's the greatest. And the doc was amazing. I could have watched another three or four parts of it.

[Dax Shepard]

Okay. But now any sadness now I guess you run the risk of like, he was on the show and maybe he'll be back. So maybe you have some personal relationship with him.

[Ike Barinholtz]

He's a coaster. He's a close friend. I had breakfast with him this morning.

[Dax Shepard]

Is he. Who dropped you off?

[Ike Barinholtz]

He dropped me off.

[Dax Shepard]

Okay.

[Ike Barinholtz]

He hangs out in LA and runs errands. He's great for airport pickup.

[Monica Padman]

Yeah.

[Ike Barinholtz]

I can be landing at LAX and right when they say turn your phone, I can text him. And wherever he's at in the city, he'll come and get me and the kids.

[Dax Shepard]

Robin.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Yeah. He's got sadness in his life.

[Dax Shepard]

The things that I thought were really helpful is you just look at his career and the totality and you really ignore that. He had tons and tons of valleys and he had tons of back to the drawing boards. So that stuff is really encouraging, even in the doc. And he's be the first to admit it. If Leo doesn't come around and say, I want to work with you, don't know what's going to happen. He is not getting movies made and he is not getting people signing up at that moment in his career. And Leo takes him on a ride that is incredible. And he's a real savior at that moment.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Oh, yeah. Well, because he does Casino, which is bomb, but then he's so cool that then he makes like the Age of Innocence, which is like a complete departure from him. And then he does the Nick Cage movie, which again, totally crazy. Different movie.

[Dax Shepard]

It doesn't work financially.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Financially and stuff. Yes.

[Dax Shepard]

He owns it in the doc.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Leo, he definitely. Which makes me just love Leo.

[Dax Shepard]

As if you couldn't love the dude more.

[Ike Barinholtz]

I love that guy.

[Dax Shepard]

I like being reminded, yeah, you could be as talented as Martin Scorsese and then also the luck gods need to be on your side too. And then ultimately though, I will say, and this is super selfish, but he paid an enormous price to be as good as he was. He was so hyper focused and he ignored everything in his life. And all the wives will tell you that. He'll say it, the kids will say it yet. And for me, I was just watching it and I was like, I'm very sad with this. That's not the outcome I'm looking for. I guess I don't give a about being a genius.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Me personally, if it came down to my family, both the one I have here and the one in Vegas.

[Monica Padman]

Uhuh, sure.

[Dax Shepard]

And an Academy Award opportunity that made you ignore them for two years. Right.

[Ike Barinholtz]

I'm more of that guy where I'm just like, I'll work less. Whatever. He's not.

[Dax Shepard]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm grateful for us.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Hey, I'm very grateful. Grateful for that because of the work he gave us. But also there is something now about like seeing him with Francesca now and his daughter. And it feels like he is at peace now. He is connected to his family. I think their relationship is beautiful. I think she looks at herself as like a steward of his art.

[Monica Padman]

Yeah.

[Ike Barinholtz]

And also putting him. I don't know if you guys follow her on TikTok, but like the videos of her and him together are so, so adorable and wholesome.

[Dax Shepard]

Oh, I've never seen, I haven't seen it.

[Ike Barinholtz]

And so I had seen all that before the doc. Knowing where he's at now, that didn't hit me as much. I was just grateful. I was grateful he made it out of the 70s. Most of the great guys out of the 70s never made it out.

[Dax Shepard]

He spent a couple years inside doing coke with fucking aluminum foil on the windows.

[Ike Barinholtz]

A crazy man with coke and asthma condition and like going crazy. And so I'm just grateful that he made it out. Can you imagine if he didn't? We'd never had good fellas. Like it would be such a shitty world. So my takeaway was just like, I'm so happy for him. I know it sounds crazy for a guy that I worked with for like five hours one day, but my takeaway was he's a close friend. Him and Dave Stassen are my two closest.

[Monica Padman]

Ike you. Since we saw you have become a very winning man.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Hashtag winning.

[Monica Padman]

You've been winning. And how has it changed your personality?

[Ike Barinholtz]

I'm a dick.

[Monica Padman]

Yeah.

[Ike Barinholtz]

You know, on an interpersonal level. Now, I never had that before, but I'm very short, rude with my friends. Can we hurry this thing up, by the way?

[Monica Padman]

Yeah. I'm surprised we even came back, if I'm being honest.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Absolutely nothing has changed.

[Monica Padman]

But does it make you feel like, oh, I kind of want to keep chase. Like, now you're in this elite.

[Ike Barinholtz]

The funny thing is, for years you're like, I don't give a about award shows. Then you get nominated for one. You're like, I'm excited for this award.

[Dax Shepard]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Ike Barinholtz]

The only one that I actually won, I think, was the critics choice. But. But I remember I got nominated for an Emmy, and people who are well meaning and intentioned will say to you, like, you're for sure gonna win, right?

[Dax Shepard]

Oh, yeah.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Trust me. For sure. And then you start to be like, yeah, I'm gonna win.

[Monica Padman]

Yeah, I'm gonna win.

[Ike Barinholtz]

And then you start to craft little narratives in your head. You have people on your team, your friends, who are like, it's either you or Harrison Ford. And that's just what it's gonna be. And so I remember being not shocked, but being like, holy shit, I didn't win. Harris Ford and what the fuck? And being like, mad. And then the next day being so mad that I was ma.

[Monica Padman]

Yeah.

[Ike Barinholtz]

So I remember going into the critics choice being like, I'm not paying attention to this going in. This is wonderful. I'm honored, But I'm just like, I'm not going to allow myself to be caught being upset about it.

[Dax Shepard]

Yeah.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Then I remember the second they call the category, I was like, oh, please, pick me. Pick me.

[Monica Padman]

Yes.

[Ike Barinholtz]

That's the honest truth, I think. And I think everyone feels that way, even if they say that.

[Monica Padman]

Yes, they do.

[Dax Shepard]

Had you written a speech that you were excited to deliver because you're a great writer and you're a live performer for the Emmys?

[Ike Barinholtz]

I did critics choice. I did not. Because I was just like, I'm not gonna win. I'm not gonna think about it. I'm not gonna put myself in that position again. So then I won. I was like, oh, fuck. So then I just was like, I love my wife. She loves me so much.

[Dax Shepard]

Please come up here.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Well, I did. When I got up there, the first thing I did Was just look in the crowd and locked eyes with Benicio. And I was like, nah, can't do that. Mustn't do that. It's too cool for me, man.

[Monica Padman]

Oh, cool.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Can't gaze upon him in general.

[Dax Shepard]

That show, the few I've been at with where it's at, it kind of sweeps. It's a insanely winning show.

[Ike Barinholtz]

I think it's won everything. It's been up for more or less crazy.

[Dax Shepard]

Yeah. So the vibe of all being together and going to the different things together.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Is this a party the most fun. Seth. He's the greatest guy. And Evan Goldberg is so fun. Katherine Hahn Chase. We wonders is the funniest. It's a great, great group and good people to be with at those things.

[Dax Shepard]

No. I want to ask this question. Is Dicey in that it may sound like I'm implying something. I'm not. I'm genuinely curious. You've been on a bunch of different things that have worked. I don't know what ratings are and stuff. Is America like, we are all the studio 100%. How does it compare to being on, like, Mindy or Running Point?

[Ike Barinholtz]

I don't know. I know that a lot of people come up who are not in the business. Like, I was just flying. We just flew to Canada, and the guy sitting in front of us was watching the studio, and I could kind of see it, and he stood up to go to the bathroom and looked at me and goes, I want you to know I was watching that before I saw you. I love when people not in the business love the show. Like, that is very cool. And I think they did a good job. Even though the show is no matter what about the business inside baseball, they do hit on themes that are pretty universal. Everyone's got, like, a boss who's annoying or they want credit for an idea. Like my friend Debbie, she's like, I want you to know my husband literally does not watch tv.

[Dax Shepard]

Tv.

[Ike Barinholtz]

He doesn't watch anything except Ohio State sports. He loves the studio. That's great. We're gonna like it because we know we've been in these situations. I think in this day and age, for a show to work, it either has to have huge ratings like Running Point or good ratings, slash great ratings. People love it. Critics love it. It wins awards. I imagine the studio kind of falls in that category where people watch it. It gets good numbers. But it's not like a Netflix like Running Point, which is like a big, big global.

[Dax Shepard]

Global. Kate Hudson global. It's global.

[Ike Barinholtz]

I'm a globalist but it's my favorite show to work. It's so fun. Everyone's so great. It's just wonderful people.

[Dax Shepard]

So you guys have already shot season two or you're in the process right now, my man. You're doing it right now?

[Ike Barinholtz]

We're doing it right now, literally.

[Dax Shepard]

And what is your work schedule like on that?

[Ike Barinholtz]

It's not light. We're able to break off a couple hours for this or that. For this. It is weird. It's not your typ show where it's like, okay, today is just Chase, and then tomorrow is all of us, and then it's just Seth. It's like, usually everyone's in every scene and the way they shoot it. I think there was a time where I got there and they were like, you actually don't think you're going to be in this? And I was like, okay. It's one of those shows where you just completely surrender to the schedule.

[Dax Shepard]

You're on call. You're like an ob.

[Ike Barinholtz]

I am. I've been doing some amateur ob.

[Dax Shepard]

You're kind of a hobbyist.

[Ike Barinholtz]

I'm more of a hobbyist enthusiast. Let's say OB1. Kenobi. Is that anything if your baby doctor's last name was Kenobi? My OBI is Kenobi. Oh, is that. Is that like. It's going to take a lot of riff on.

[Dax Shepard]

It's going to take a lot of setup. I'll just say that.

[Ike Barinholtz]

What if your last name was Kenobi? Yeah, you should probably go in Obsessed. Yeah, yeah. Like. Like, let's have some fucking fun, guys. Come on.

[Dax Shepard]

Okay, so you're doing that one right now. And then is Running Point in production?

[Ike Barinholtz]

Running Point is not a production, but we're starting to kind of get some ideas together for season three.

[Dax Shepard]

So you've already completed season two?

[Ike Barinholtz]

Season two is. It's what they call in the business in the can, baby.

[Dax Shepard]

Okay, nice.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Have you seen Song Song Glue, by the way?

[Monica Padman]

No. I've heard it.

[Dax Shepard]

I keep hearing it's great.

[Ike Barinholtz]

The movie's so good. Her performance, it's one of the best I've seen in so long. I was so happy for her because I remember her telling me about this movie. She's like, it's really fun. It's me and Hugh, and I knew the band that it's about.

[Dax Shepard]

You did?

[Ike Barinholtz]

Yeah, because they were in Chicago. People would be like, I was in Milwaukee last weekend. I saw this Neil diamond cover band, It's a Lady. And so I remember them. I remember Pearl Jam having Them open. That's in the movie. And then she told me about the movie and she's like. And I think she said, it's going to come out on Christmas Day. And I was like, Focus Features is putting a movie out on Christmas Day. They think it is really good. And I saw it, we went to the screening and like, months, months ago. It was so embarrassing how hard I was crying.

[Dax Shepard]

Oh, really?

[Ike Barinholtz]

It's emotional. And she is so great at it. I hope she wins the Oscar. She just kills it.

[Dax Shepard]

How much are you crying these days? You're approaching 50, right? You're around the corner.

[Ike Barinholtz]

No. What the fucking kind of question is that? I'm sorry, I'm way off.36. I gotta go, guys.

[Dax Shepard]

Yeah, I'm sure you're late to something.

[Ike Barinholtz]

I'm approaching.

[Dax Shepard]

You're 49, right?

[Ike Barinholtz]

49.

[Dax Shepard]

Okay.

[Ike Barinholtz]

I just turned 49. I cry. Not maybe as much, but more violently and worse.

[Dax Shepard]

Oh, okay. So frequency is the same, but don't

[Ike Barinholtz]

maybe actually a little less. Yeah. Because before I was crying like, ab. Having fun watching tv. That's a nice commercial. Now I'm just stoic, stoic, stoic. And then life happens, or the external world happens, and I'll go into, like,

[Dax Shepard]

my closet and what are the triggers? Daddy daughter stuff. How do we do with daddy daughter stuff?

[Ike Barinholtz]

Daddy daughter stuff's not too bad. Only because I think my kids are a little younger than yours and they're still in the. We love dad and want to hang out.

[Dax Shepard]

But Interstellar, once I had a baby, it's like, oh, this guy's going to miss his daughter's life. I'm destroyed.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Yo, yo. I was in Italy for two and a half weeks, away from my family, and I'm flying back home. And I was like, man, I haven't watched Interstellar in a minute, so horrible idea.

[Dax Shepard]

And you just missed two and a half weeks of your family's life.

[Ike Barinholtz]

The scene when he walks in, he's like, oh, my gosh, it's my daughter Murph. I lost it on Alitalia. Like, Robert De Niro would analyze this. It. To me, it's more like we are at the age now where people are dying, where you have life catching up. You have friends with kids that get sick. That's the real. That's the stuff where you're crying. You don't feel silly about it, where you're like, I need to do this. And then there's just the random things. Like, I watched a clip the other day of. I want to say it was Maybe the Liverpool Football Club soccer match. Not gonna cry talking about it, but it was them and it was like

[Dax Shepard]

a scene with like, you're halfway there. Yeah. So give me everything.

[Ike Barinholtz]

It's like a. This sweet handicap kid and they show up at his school and they're like, who's a Liverpool fan? And he's like, I am. And they take him. They take him to the stadium and they meet every player and then they put him on the sidelines. And I was like, I'm an Arsenal fan, but, like, I might have to switch to Liverpool now. That was like eight. Oh, seven on the toilet sob. So. But it's still overall less than it was probably a year ago. A couple years ago. I don't know why. Maybe because I'm.

[Dax Shepard]

You're too busy. Maybe.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Maybe.

[Dax Shepard]

Yeah.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Too busy to cry. It's the name of my.

[Dax Shepard]

Squeeze it in.

[Monica Padman]

Yeah. We have a theory that these older men, it's all burbled up their whole life and it's coming out all the time. Dax cries it every day.

[Dax Shepard]

Yeah.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Yeah. Especially the older guys. Growing up in the 80s, if you cried in front of one of your buddies, it was like your whole family had a better.

[Dax Shepard]

Just been blown up in a car. Wasn't a thing.

[Ike Barinholtz]

There was a stigma to it. And then it started in the 90s, you started seeing, like, modern dads and now it is a good thing. Anyone who says it's bad, that's nonsense. It's good to see I can get it out. Stay tuned for more Armchair Expert if you dare.

[Dax Shepard]

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[Ike Barinholtz]

Well, you're very emotional. Like, I'm an emotional guy. I think you are more emotional than me.

[Dax Shepard]

That might be true, but I think it was very hidden.

[Monica Padman]

Well, you're sensitive.

[Dax Shepard]

I'm very sensitive. I bet I'm more sensitive than you. Yeah, yours are now what, 6, 8 and 12?

[Ike Barinholtz]

8, 10 and 12.

[Dax Shepard]

The 12 year old old. I have a 12 year old?

[Ike Barinholtz]

Yes.

[Dax Shepard]

Have we started to have any moments where they break your heart?

[Ike Barinholtz]

Oh, my God, yeah.

[Dax Shepard]

And were you prepared for it? And even though you'd been told about it, do you find yourself going like, wow, I'm so deeply hurt in this moment. And I know I'm not supposed to be.

[Ike Barinholtz]

For me, it's like small things. I try not to let it affect me. For instance, a couple weeks ago, I

[Dax Shepard]

love to cook five nights a week.

[Ike Barinholtz]

They say pretty much if I'm not shooting easy five nights a week, one night's burgers, one night, maybe we'll go get ramen or. Or something. But I cooked dinner so excited, made my daughter's favorite things. And at 4 o', clock, she was like, hey, I'm going to sleep at Lula's. And I was like, yeah, you should.

[Dax Shepard]

You should. Yeah. I'm so happy you have a good friend. Yeah.

[Ike Barinholtz]

I would never be like, no, what the. I'm making cutlets and mashed potatoes. So there's moments like that once you get a little bit older, I feel like that's when it will really start to kind of hit more. I feel bad, like when they feel bad about something.

[Monica Padman]

Right.

[Ike Barinholtz]

That's like empathy kind of thing of like, oh, they're having a hard time with this. I get mad for my daughter when she has to do a ton of homework. Don't you remember as a kid being like the. Is this. Yeah. What a scam.

[Dax Shepard]

It's.

[Ike Barinholtz]

I go to school all day.

[Dax Shepard]

Yeah.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Busting my ass. Meanwhile, I was not even then I gotta Come home and deal with this.

[Dax Shepard]

No.

[Ike Barinholtz]

And so I've always hated homework. And seeing them have to like hours of homework, I'm like, like, just let it be kids.

[Dax Shepard]

Have you had a Valentine's heartbreak yet?

[Ike Barinholtz]

No, not a Valentine. She has been perfect amount of healthy detachment when it comes to boys.

[Dax Shepard]

Okay.

[Ike Barinholtz]

We're clearly like her and her girlfriends talk about. And some of her girls are boy crazy.

[Dax Shepard]

All of Timothy Shalam. Right? There's like some go tos, here's who they love.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Timothy is a big one. I get it.

[Monica Padman]

Yep, we all get it.

[Ike Barinholtz]

My oldest daughter loves Tyler the creator.

[Monica Padman]

Oh, great pick.

[Ike Barinholtz]

She just thinks he's so cool. She like wants to be his friend and then who else does she like? She had a huge crush on Anthony Davis. Played for the Lakers for years.

[Dax Shepard]

Oh, okay.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Who's like 7:14? She was like, he's so dreamy. Timmy and Tyler I'd say are the ones like. I saw Tyler at like cookbook.

[Monica Padman]

Oh, I know. He hangs out there.

[Ike Barinholtz]

He loves it. I blow up a spot. But you don't know which one. Don't say which one. When I told her that I saw him there, she was like, what?

[Monica Padman]

Yeah, he's cool. So she loves Marty Supreme.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Then we let her watch some of Marty supreme. But it's was stressing her out a little too much. She loves Dune. Loves the Dune.

[Dax Shepard]

I do too.

[Ike Barinholtz]

So do I. Really?

[Dax Shepard]

He's one of these classic guys where it's like I am predisposed to hate his guts because he's the opposite of me. He's super cute, speaks French, every girl loves him. I'm already mad at him.

[Ike Barinholtz]

He's too good.

[Dax Shepard]

Yeah.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Did you guys see Marty Supreme?

[Dax Shepard]

Yes. He's unreal.

[Ike Barinholtz]

He's so good. I'm gonna just throw shade. I don't care. I really enjoyed the movie.

[Dax Shepard]

Yeah.

[Ike Barinholtz]

He's so good. What the fuck is the guy from Shark Tank doing in there? He's the worst actor I've ever seen in my life. Wait, who the fucking guy.

[Monica Padman]

Who is he?

[Dax Shepard]

What bald guy?

[Ike Barinholtz]

He's, he's Gwennis husband.

[Monica Padman]

Oh yeah?

[Ike Barinholtz]

Yeah. Suck. And he's up there with Timmy who's acting his ass off. And that guy's like.

[Dax Shepard]

His eyes are also decided to recently go to with Phineas's sister, Billie Eilish. I think that guy has decided that

[Ike Barinholtz]

sounds like a good, sounds like a good idea for a 97 year old man to attack a 20 year old. But I was just like, I know it's cool. We put non actors in Movies. In Marty supreme, the guy who played his uncle is a journalist named Larry Slowman, who was amazing. Mr. Wonderful did not do it. His eyes move around too much. He doesn't have the smoke.

[Dax Shepard]

He doesn't have the smoke.

[Ike Barinholtz]

I said it. Let's go. I'm going to start off.

[Dax Shepard]

So dialed in. The last time you were here, you educated us on gooning, which was we knew nothing about.

[Monica Padman]

Oh, yeah, that was helpful.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Be getting deep into the goon community.

[Dax Shepard]

Okay.

[Ike Barinholtz]

We call it the gc.

[Dax Shepard]

The gc. Have you been asked to host any of these award shows?

[Ike Barinholtz]

I am hosting the AVNs this year, the adult video.

[Dax Shepard]

Oh, great. In Vegas.

[Ike Barinholtz]

I'm going to Vegas for a couple weeks.

[Dax Shepard]

They pay pretty well, right? You're getting 12 grand.

[Ike Barinholtz]

That's like, I have to fly myself out there.

[Dax Shepard]

I'm paying for local hire.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Local hire. I said I'd be a local hire.

[Dax Shepard]

Yeah, of course. It's so close.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Why not just drive there? It's fine. I actually, what I'll do, they'll give me $100, type in for a flight, and I'll drive and use the money.

[Dax Shepard]

Okay. For your hotel.

[Ike Barinholtz]

No, they haven't.

[Dax Shepard]

Would you.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Yeah, Yeah, I think so. I mean, you instantly think of the worst ones. But then you think of Nikki Glazer.

[Monica Padman]

She killed it.

[Ike Barinholtz]

So funny. Conan, he's so good. So it's like there's people who are good doing it recently that, you know, you could be good. Yeah. But you just think of some of the rough ones.

[Dax Shepard]

Oh, I had this thought about you today when I was re watching a lot of stuff. You're kind of fearless in that you'll take on a lot of stuff. You pivoted in the same way I did. Acting wasn't working. Started writing. Writing starts working really well. Now you're acting again, back and forth. And we're going to talk about your podcast. You're doing that. Do you ever feel a pull when you watch Chappelle and he tells a story that is woven together with so much great history that we're not aware of? For the most part, he's always exposing some rad part of history that we've made, missed. And then he lands this plane and you're like, God, that was so moving. Not that I think I'm Chappelle. I feel like I have the capacity to try to attempt to do a standup thing that has some kind of substantive, lasting message. Do you get that, Tug?

[Ike Barinholtz]

Oh, my God. I made a very conscious decision years ago because people ask me, like, Come and do stand up. And probably a lot richer if I had 10, 15, 20 years ago. The reason I didn't. It really does come down to laziness because if you do standup, at least at first, you got to do it a lot. Yeah, you got to do it a lot.

[Dax Shepard]

That's the most consistent thing all comics say is like 10 years in, you figure it out.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Yeah. And I was just like, that's such a big amount of time. I also didn't want to put myself in a position where I had that avenue and I could call an agent, be like, see if you can book me a Tempe for like six shows in three nights because I'm broke or I need money. And then I'm on the road. It was really the notion of being on the road. And this is even before I had kids. I'm a homebody.

[Monica Padman]

It's a hard life.

[Ike Barinholtz]

It's a hard life. I was just like, I would rather try to make it work here. But when you see a great piece of stand. Because there's a lot of stand up.

[Dax Shepard]

Sure, sure, sure.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Created so many standups. They glutted the market. Now there's guys that are just like, they don't even do jokes. I don't even know what the they do. But when you see someone who is giving something that's like you said, substantial and the last off, you're like, that is so cool to walk out on stage by yourself, big crowd, and you're doing not just like dumb jokes and crowd work, but profoundly funny and deep thoughts. And people are cheering. You're like, you know what I would want to do one day? I did like a little thing on Broadway in December, like a short little stint for the show all out. It was so much fun. I had never done Broadway before and I really loved it. And I've always wanted to do one of the greatest. I guess I'll call it a standup special, but it's more like a one man show is Eddie Izzard did a show called Dress to Kill. This is probably in like 2000, and you can watch it probably on YouTube. And Eddie gets up there and it's like 90 minutes. Most of it is just like history. It's just talking about why British people are the way they are and Americans and the Reformation and takes you just kind of on a tour of western civilization from 1500 on. And it's so deeply funny and so smart.

[Dax Shepard]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Ike Barinholtz]

And to do something like that one day would be like something down the road. I remember Chelsea Peretti, who's one of the funniest standups around, posting a photo years ago of her on her couch, feet wrapped in a blanket, watching some dumb show. Could not look more comfortable. And she's like, I have to be on stage at the impromptu off in 12 minutes.

[Monica Padman]

I know.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Like, I got cold.

[Monica Padman]

I know.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Yeah. So one day. Not today.

[Dax Shepard]

This is neither here nor there. What was Christmas this year? Because you had a great story of getting not recognized. Recognized at a bar, but you had 20 family members with you. And I just wanted to know if that repeats what was last Christmas.

[Ike Barinholtz]

It did not repeat itself. Christmas was more lowkey. But I was doing this show on Broadway right around Christmas, so I was in New York around them, which you make that face.

[Monica Padman]

Little hot chocolate.

[Ike Barinholtz]

But the reality of it is when you're working and almost like living in Times Square.

[Monica Padman]

Oh, it's disgusting.

[Dax Shepard]

Yeah.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Christmas, you can't move, bro. You can't move. And not even, like, Time Square. I'm talking like 58th and 8th, 61st and 3rd. You're like, why are there 7,000 people at this walk sign? And then when you're going through Time Square, it's crazy. Around Christmas, it's just like guys dressed as the Grinch, chain smoking and, like, yelling at someone on, like, an earpiece. And we had to do a show the night of Santa Con. You know what Santa is?

[Dax Shepard]

What? Santa Con? Santa Con or Santa Santa Con? Oh, okay.

[Ike Barinholtz]

It's one of the most depraved.

[Dax Shepard]

I can't believe there's not a documentary about it. Just hearing the name.

[Ike Barinholtz]

There might be, and they might have been like, we can't air this. These people are too sick. This is like a week before Christmas on a Friday night or a Saturday night. All these people dress as Santa and they just wreak havoc around New York. They go on a big bar crawl. They get blind drunk. My friend Abby Jacobson was doing the show with me, and she took the train in from Brooklyn and she said she got off at our stop and she's walking up the stairs, and there are four guys dressed as Santa. All four of them are pissing against the wall. And Abby takes her earbuds out. She goes, you're fucking disgusting. But it is a gross. You just see, like, girls dressed as Santa falling down, like, face down in the gutter. Like, guys walking into pizzerias with, like, vomit all over their fucking sant.

[Dax Shepard]

Everyone's living now. Billy Bob Thornton's Bad Santa.

[Ike Barinholtz]

How good is Bad Santa?

[Dax Shepard]

Oh, it's the Greatest.

[Ike Barinholtz]

I'm a lunch break. And that kid's like, do you want me to sandwich? What's with you and the fucking sandwiches?

[Dax Shepard]

What's with you and the sandwiches, kid? I'm not your fucking dada. Oh, it's incredible. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Ike Barinholtz]

You like that bad, Santa? Do you?

[Dax Shepard]

Another quick question. Back to studio. You and Seth combine seem to have about the deepest kind of Hollywood knowledge of people I know. When we were at it was probably the Emmys, and Dan Gilroy won for Andor. And I was really confused because I thought. And this is where my knowledge extends. Tony Gilroy was the creator of Andor. I didn't know that. And I, like, looked over, and Seth happened to be looking at me at the perfect moment. And I said, does he have a brother? And Seth goes, there's three of them. And I'm like, of course he knows that.

[Ike Barinholtz]

All I remember at that Emmy's was sitting there, Seth is in the front row, and Erica, my wife, and I are right behind you. And I couldn't have been hungrier. So hungry. And Dax and Cable are sitting right across the aisle from us. And I turn and I look, and he's eating a fucking hot dog.

[Dax Shepard]

I have the full spread.

[Ike Barinholtz]

And I was like, how does he have access to a hot dog?

[Dax Shepard]

Oh, I went out in Gen pop into the lobby and stood in a long line and got any snack they had left. I went late, and they were mostly all gone. I was really in the market for some popcorn that was gone. So I just wanted anything they had left in the hot dog.

[Ike Barinholtz]

That was crazy. Erica's like, where did he get that?

[Dax Shepard]

I'm like, I don't know.

[Ike Barinholtz]

And I just lost this.

[Monica Padman]

I hate it here.

[Dax Shepard]

Podcasters.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Yeah.

[Dax Shepard]

Yeah.

[Ike Barinholtz]

But Seth knows a lot of it. I know a lot.

[Dax Shepard]

Yeah. So when you guys are geeking out and getting esoteric on set, who goes deeper?

[Ike Barinholtz]

I would say, you're trying to be. I probably. If we were to play, like, the movie game.

[Dax Shepard]

Yes.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Do not play the movie game. Name any movie.

[Dax Shepard]

Breaking Away.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Breaking Away. And I would say Dennis Quaid. And then you would have to say a movie that Dennis Quaid was in.

[Monica Padman]

Parent Trap.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Parent Trap.

[Dax Shepard]

And I say, what?

[Monica Padman]

Lindsay?

[Dax Shepard]

And I can't say Dennis Quaid.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Let's say you. You couldn't get one. You would get a letter, and it's like, horse.

[Dax Shepard]

Oh, great.

[Ike Barinholtz]

If we were to play the movie game, I would probably beat him. Oh, okay. But it'd be a long game. He knows more. I think about, like, the technical of, like, oh, the lens has to be exactly that. You know what I mean? Like, no, that was shot on a Panasonic. He knows. I think the filmmaking stuff more. I probably know the trivia, more jeopardy.

[Monica Padman]

I mean, you're a champ.

[Ike Barinholtz]

What'd you say?

[Dax Shepard]

Champion.

[Monica Padman]

Excuse me.

[Dax Shepard]

Oh, my God, you brought your Jeopardy. Mug. That's great.

[Ike Barinholtz]

So weird that I grabbed that one.

[Dax Shepard]

Okay, last topic before your new podcast.

[Ike Barinholtz]

You said nude to podcast, right?

[Monica Padman]

Yeah.

[Dax Shepard]

You're in a movie called Artificial.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Yes.

[Dax Shepard]

And you're playing Elon Musk.

[Monica Padman]

Big deal, Ike.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Well, I hope so. I haven't seen it. I'm nervous. But he's such a great director, that guy.

[Monica Padman]

Yes.

[Dax Shepard]

The last name again?

[Ike Barinholtz]

Guadal.

[Monica Padman]

We're talking challengers.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Movies are. And I'm like, zendaya, oh, my God, you lucky girl. My dream.

[Monica Padman]

Who's the Josh O Conor?

[Ike Barinholtz]

That would be Andrew Garfield. And then the other one is. You're a bor off. It's not like challengers at all.

[Monica Padman]

Oh, my God, I'm so excited.

[Dax Shepard]

But it's a story of OpenAI and Sam Altman.

[Ike Barinholtz]

It's the Open AI story. They tell it in a way only Luca can.

[Dax Shepard]

Yeah. So walk me through how you end up in that movie. What your fear level is, all that stuff.

[Ike Barinholtz]

I got a call. Call where they're like, hey, they're making this movie and would like to talk to you about Elon. And at first I was like, I'm not interested. I don't want anything to do with that guy. But then they were like, it's Luca Guadagnino, and I'm a huge fan of. I've been a fan for a very long time. I don't know if you've ever seen it. What's the movie with Tilda Swinton and Ray Fines and Dakota Johnson. I love that movie. I loved. I am love his. I think it was one of his first movies. He's just like a beautiful storyteller, real master. So I was like, let me talk to Luca and we'll see. And I talked him and he's so charming.

[Dax Shepard]

But let's back up before he woos you. Is your reservation. There's people you don't want to play or you're afraid you don't have the talent for it.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Spend my whole life I wanted to die and never have Elon Musk know my name. That was one of my goals in life. So I would have to forsake that. But then I met with him.

[Dax Shepard]

So it's just your detest for.

[Ike Barinholtz]

I just Think they're dangerous guys. You will live a probably more blessed life if you're not on their way.

[Monica Padman]

Nothing to do.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Okay, that's just how I feel. But I met with him and I told him my reservation and he was like, well, it's not about you. It's about you finding what makes him think he is human. Which I think is a very smart way. It's not about whether or not you think he is, it's about whether or not he thinks.

[Monica Padman]

Exactly.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Very smart.

[Dax Shepard]

Well, it's a very age old. You can't be judgmental of a character you're playing.

[Ike Barinholtz]

You can't be.

[Dax Shepard]

Or you can be and it'll be a pretty cartoon.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Then it would just be like mad TV where I'm like, okay, everything's like so woke. Like, what are we doing? But this is like a random real movie and it takes place not necessarily in this moment where everyone is at their max levels. It's encasing many, many years and all kinds of things. And it was a great script and just great actors. Do you know Yur? Have you seen Anora? You guys saw that guy? Like the ball guy?

[Dax Shepard]

Yeah, he's incredible.

[Ike Barinholtz]

He's like the main guy in it. He is like a monster. Is such a great actor.

[Monica Padman]

Oh, my God.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Sweetest, most unassuming guy. But when you're acting, I think those big Russian eyes in your face, you're like, okay, all right, what are we doing?

[Dax Shepard]

How do you start trying to be him?

[Ike Barinholtz]

Watch.

[Dax Shepard]

Watching YouTube.

[Monica Padman]

Did you read the Walter Isaacson book?

[Ike Barinholtz]

I read some of it. The book doesn't help as much as watching. It's just like injecting poison into my brain and watching everything I could find and especially from that period. So it was just a lot of watching stuff.

[Dax Shepard]

Do you start though doing the accent for your wife first?

[Ike Barinholtz]

Well, it's such a sexy accent. It's so hot. Yeah, maybe a little bit here and there. The good news is we had a whole week of rehearsal. Oh, okay. Which you don't get a lot anymore. And we went to Italy and he had us at his incredible villa, like an hour and a half outside of Turin, where he cooks for you.

[Dax Shepard]

Oh, my God.

[Ike Barinholtz]

It's so crazy. We got to really work on it, but. And they were all nice. Andrew Garfield. Love the guy. And Monica and you know, it was great. His cool Cooper Hoffman.

[Dax Shepard]

You got two Coopers in that film. Two Coopers, Yeah. You got two Coopers in that film.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Who's the other Cooper?

[Dax Shepard]

I'd have to look it up. But this morning, when I was looking at the cast list, I was like,

[Ike Barinholtz]

oh, duh, yeah, duh, duh. I got Cooper. Got Cooper coming up from the Ryan Murphy show. He played one of the brothers who killed his parents and kissed his brother.

[Dax Shepard]

Hey, how you gonna forget Cooper?

[Ike Barinholtz]

It's a New York guy who loves Ryan Murphy. Have you seen the new show with Ashton Kusher?

[Dax Shepard]

You've seen Beauty?

[Monica Padman]

Beauty.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Beauty. Fuck me. Fuck. You know, his great actors have fucking Evan Peters. That guy, that guy. Great.

[Dax Shepard]

The fucking effects on that show, you know, Ryan Murphy.

[Ike Barinholtz]

I don't know how this guy sleeps. He's got fucking beauty. He's got the fucking JFK show. When does he sleep? And he's also. He's very attentive to his husband and his kids.

[Dax Shepard]

All in. So great actors. It was fun. Was it fun?

[Ike Barinholtz]

So fun. Shot in Italy.

[Dax Shepard]

What part of Italy were you in?

[Ike Barinholtz]

We were up north in Torino.

[Dax Shepard]

Is that where the Olympics were? Just at Milan?

[Ike Barinholtz]

Yeah, they were like around that in Milan. Cordona, Bologna.

[Dax Shepard]

Yeah.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Home of the Ducati factory, is my opinion. Best food in Italy. Bologna, because it's that whole Emilio Campania region. That's parmigiano, that's beef. That's barolo. That's the. Some nice boccaccio.

[Dax Shepard]

Pounding where you put it.

[Ike Barinholtz]

I had to work and play Elon that body, so I was like pounding pasta negroni.

[Dax Shepard]

It was great, man.

[Ike Barinholtz]

I loved it.

[Monica Padman]

What are your go to meals that you make since you're a cook? I. I just want to know personally.

[Ike Barinholtz]

The thing I make best are chicken cutlets.

[Monica Padman]

Chicken cutlets.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Like I make a chicken cutlet that rivals any schnitzel. Any South Jersey Italian deli.

[Dax Shepard]

It would kill you to invite me over for that.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Or.

[Dax Shepard]

I mean, you're just like, whenever you're having it, you just text me, you want to try this? And I cry. Cruise over.

[Ike Barinholtz]

It wouldn't just be you, it'd be Kristen.

[Dax Shepard]

I prefer it was just me. I would like a break.

[Ike Barinholtz]

My family would prefer.

[Dax Shepard]

Would be best for my family. If your whole family came, it'd be

[Ike Barinholtz]

strange if you came. But that's something that I really love. I'm obsessed with potatoes. I really, like, went crazy, I think starting during COVID I was like, I'm going to become a potato master.

[Monica Padman]

Really?

[Dax Shepard]

It's a great, great foundation for everything. Right? Every shape they come in is great.

[Ike Barinholtz]

You know what I love? You gotta get big rusted potatoes. Those are the best, you know? And you cut them into like fries, but then you roast them in A ton of olive oil and a little bit of like, beef fat. Oh, those things are like, yeah, I'm going to make that tomorrow night. Boom.

[Dax Shepard]

Okay. Okay. Again, you have my number. I'll swing by short. I bring my family. I don't see.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Let's just let. I'm setting it for nine, so. I also love going on Instagram and just seeing what home cooks are doing now. There's this guy named, like Giovani Syracusa I'm all about now, like, what can I do for exactly 45 minutes from like my first chop to my plate down? And he does a lot of very family friendly.

[Dax Shepard]

Fast.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Fast, but yummy. Healthy. I try to cook as healthy as I can at home.

[Monica Padman]

That beef tallow.

[Ike Barinholtz]

The beef tallow is, you know, I only put a little bit in, man. Every dumbass thing that people are like seed oils. Seed oil. You take a seed oil, you're dead instantly. Beef tallow. Beef tallow.

[Dax Shepard]

And it's like, listen, it's become political.

[Ike Barinholtz]

It's become political. And I like beef tallow. Like when I'm making steak and potatoes, I use a little beef tallow. I just saw an ad where they're like, now our chicken tenders fried and beef tallow. I'm like, no, I don't want my chicken to taste like beef. Yeah, just use peanut oil. I don't get it. It's like a political thing now. It's just dopey. I don't get it.

[Dax Shepard]

I don't get it. Yeah.

[Ike Barinholtz]

What if I took off my hat and I just completely.

[Dax Shepard]

Because you're not having any beef download still on PRP up there.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Oh, yeah, still doing that not too long ago.

[Dax Shepard]

Okay.

[Ike Barinholtz]

My boys.

[Dax Shepard]

You got on the gas.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Got on the gas. Little xing shing. Shing, shing.

[Monica Padman]

Right.

[Dax Shepard]

I should try that. I'm doing a topical in the morning and at night and my hair is so greasy and gross.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Gross. Do you have like the yellow patch on your bed? Cuz I put the drops in at night. And then one day my wife was like looking at our bed. She goes, oh, yeah. There's just like, like a discoloration. Exactly. Where I play wordle.

[Dax Shepard]

Where my head's.

[Ike Barinholtz]

And it's like so clearly leave my.

[Dax Shepard]

You're finasteride.

[Ike Barinholtz]

It's like coming to America when they all stand up and they have. I still get my work done a little bit on that.

[Dax Shepard]

Okay, now we're here to talk about. Funny you ask.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Funny you ask. Do you guys know what a podcast is? Do you have ever Heard of this.

[Dax Shepard]

We are familiar format.

[Ike Barinholtz]

I thought it was a good time to get it.

[Dax Shepard]

Yes, it is an ideal time.

[Monica Padman]

Many years after we asked you to get in, by the way, you came

[Ike Barinholtz]

to my house and we're like, give your do this. I just didn't have. Have the thing. I didn't know what it.

[Dax Shepard]

I have no resentment. I have no bitterness whatsoever. Nothing but rooting for you.

[Monica Padman]

If you win the Golden Globe, we will be upset.

[Dax Shepard]

He will.

[Ike Barinholtz]

That will be.

[Monica Padman]

Yeah, that's going to be tough.

[Dax Shepard]

How did the idea hit you this time? You're in the shower.

[Ike Barinholtz]

I'm in the shower. I'm. I'm cleaning my butt.

[Monica Padman]

Getting that finger up there.

[Ike Barinholtz]

I have a mirror, the ceiling of my bath and I lay on my back and kind of hoist my legs up so I can watch myself cleaning.

[Dax Shepard]

Yeah, yeah.

[Ike Barinholtz]

It's about a half hour.

[Dax Shepard]

Yeah.

[Ike Barinholtz]

And then the next day I thought of the. Yeah, no, I was talking to this guy. We had a mutual friend and we were just kind of chatting over lunch and I, as you know, I love trivia. I love my Jeopardy. My millionaire. I love all that stuff. And I was just like, I love when I find out someone knows something about something. Like when you find out someone is randomly like, oh, yeah, no, I'm a fan of that and I can kind of answer questions about it. I was like, oh, what if I could just talk to my funny friends, ask them questions. And then riff entered the riff zone.

[Monica Padman]

Yeah.

[Ike Barinholtz]

And so we kind of just did it.

[Dax Shepard]

I have so much intellectual vanity that it immediately gave me anxiety because you invited me on and not only did I say yes, I've even reached out to you. Like, when are we recording? That's not typical of a guest.

[Ike Barinholtz]

No, I'm pursuing your show, which I really appreciate. I want to tell everyone to assuage you, no one is going to walk out where they're like, I didn't get any. Anything right. I'm a. I have to commit sepu. I need a second to administer the death blow. That is not going to happen. I write my guest questions myself and I make sure that I'm not going to like, make anyone feel dumb.

[Dax Shepard]

But here's where I'm talking about the intellectual vanity and anxiety struck me is you're going to cement it logically in whatever my presumed expertise is. Right. Like minimally, probably what I majored in in in college. But if we make it about Anthro and I it up, this is something else. But if you ask me about biology or neuroscience and I shock you because that's not supposed to be. Do you know what I'm saying here? I shine better when I like. Oh, I wouldn't have thought he knew anything about that. But now we're talking about the thing I'm supposed to know something about. That's where it gets tricky for me.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Yeah. Again, my goal of it is to like make it to the front first round of questions. You should know them.

[Dax Shepard]

They're softballs.

[Ike Barinholtz]

I want to say softballs but if you know something about it, you'll probably

[Dax Shepard]

hardball about 40 mile hour pitch a anus pitch.

[Ike Barinholtz]

It's very high but can be difficult to hit. But then as it gets on, especially as we get to the later speed rounds and stuff, there'll be some ones in there that it's going to stretch your brain a little bit.

[Dax Shepard]

Oh my God.

[Monica Padman]

So they're going to be points. Is it like a score?

[Ike Barinholtz]

The scoring system, it's completely arbitrary and I make it up every time and I, I'll give you a bonus point if you answer the question in a funny way. So there's no scoring, there's no winning, there's no losing.

[Dax Shepard]

But you will rank the guests at the end of the year. Who is the smartest?

[Ike Barinholtz]

That's the call. She betting market. I have nothing.

[Dax Shepard]

Okay.

[Ike Barinholtz]

That is a joke by the way. I am not affiliated with Ki. I'm affiliated with Kashi.

[Dax Shepard]

Kashi.

[Ike Barinholtz]

The granola. The mus. Not the other one.

[Dax Shepard]

So you've done, you've had.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Who have I had? I've had Kimmel. I've had Kate Hudson. I've had Tiffany Hadish, Dave Franco and Mindy Kalin.

[Dax Shepard]

Okay, so what was Mindy's category? Was it television? Funny.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Mini's categories were fashion.

[Dax Shepard]

Fashion gray.

[Monica Padman]

Love it.

[Ike Barinholtz]

80s Boston Celtics. Oh, and Indian food.

[Dax Shepard]

Yeah. Cuz her father was a huge Celtics.

[Ike Barinholtz]

She like grew up going to Celtics games and Indian food. Which I'm a big Indian food guy. So I had a lot of fun writing those. The most fun for me is writing the questions. I'm living my fantasy of being a Jeopardy. Writer. The guests ask me questions but 0% do I see those? Those are written by my producer Annabelle.

[Dax Shepard]

Okay.

[Ike Barinholtz]

She's. She keeps them separate from everyone. So I am 100% fully compartmentalized. Yes. Honor system.

[Dax Shepard]

I bet you're experiencing the same joy I have, which is our Wednesday guests are always experts on some generally academic topic that I have to brush up on in anticipation of their arrival. And so I love that part.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Yeah. Especially if I have A guest who has an interest like Dave Franco. One of his was movies from the year 1999. Oh. Which 1999, a lot of people think was like the best year of movies.

[Dax Shepard]

Really? What do we have? We're making a point lately that the Academy Awards is less and less relevant because there's 50 movies. Only one of them would have made the top 10 in 99. If that. There we go.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Here we go. Can I read you a quick little list? Here we go.

[Dax Shepard]

Cute glasses, too.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Thank you. All right, you ready for this? Magnolia. Eyes Wide Shadow. The Matrix. The Sixth Sense.

[Dax Shepard]

Oh.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Office Space. Being John Malkovich.

[Monica Padman]

Oh, my God.

[Ike Barinholtz]

The Green Mile. Fight Club. Hold on, I'm trying to think of some other ones. American Beauty was on there. Oh, yeah.

[Dax Shepard]

What a year.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Think what else. It's crazy.

[Dax Shepard]

This is my point. There are more movies that are going to stand the test of time in that list than there have been in the last eight years.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Was also maybe more volume.

[Dax Shepard]

It's a volume. It's. I'm not critical of any single person, but it's a total volume game.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Yeah, totally. But anyways, for that one, I was so excited, cuz I got to just watch Franco.

[Dax Shepard]

Is that like, what age was he at? Why is that the year for.

[Ike Barinholtz]

He was just a young guy and he worked in a video store in like the Bay Area.

[Dax Shepard]

He knows them all.

[Ike Barinholtz]

All of his friends were like watching American Pie and he's like, you need to see Bing. John Malkovich.

[Dax Shepard]

Yeah.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Yeah.

[Monica Padman]

I feel like I have no exact expertise.

[Dax Shepard]

No. You could do cheerleading, you could do the Olympics. You could do fashion.

[Monica Padman]

96 Olympics. Gymnastics only.

[Ike Barinholtz]

That is Atlanta.

[Monica Padman]

That's Atlanta.

[Ike Barinholtz]

That's Atlanta.

[Dax Shepard]

That was in Atlanta at the time.

[Monica Padman]

Actually in Tennessee at the time.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Did you see Richard Jewell while you were there? Do you know who Richard Jewell is? Richard Jewell, you know, the bomber. Well, the man who was accused of being the bomber, who was not the bomber.

[Monica Padman]

Centennial Car.

[Ike Barinholtz]

They actually made a movie about it a few years ago that Clint directed. Okay, that is low key. Pretty great.

[Dax Shepard]

Okay.

[Ike Barinholtz]

You know Paul Walter Hauser? Yeah.

[Dax Shepard]

Oh, yeah.

[Ike Barinholtz]

He plays Richard Jewel. He's so good in it, dude.

[Dax Shepard]

He's great in everything.

[Ike Barinholtz]

His lawyer is Rockwell.

[Monica Padman]

Oh.

[Ike Barinholtz]

I mean, there's always going to be some weird shit in Eastern movie. Yeah, but his performance. The feds done him dirty, man. He was just a nerdy guy and they were like, sketchy guy. Looks like he'd be a bomber.

[Dax Shepard]

He might be a bomber.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Pam is the FBI agent. He's like this guy Might be a

[Dax Shepard]

bummer based on the fact that he's. It looks like a dude in high school I didn't trust.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Yeah, exactly. He looks like a guy I bullied in high school.

[Dax Shepard]

I used to push a lot.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Fun movie.

[Dax Shepard]

What was Kimmel's expertise?

[Ike Barinholtz]

Kimmel was pizza pie.

[Monica Padman]

Oh, yeah.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Classic 80s music.

[Dax Shepard]

Did you hit him with any Huey Lewis trivia?

[Ike Barinholtz]

I know he's such a Huey fan that I withheld.

[Dax Shepard]

He might be the number one Huey

[Ike Barinholtz]

le fan that there's not a Huey question you could ask him.

[Dax Shepard]

He would outdo huey in a.

[Ike Barinholtz]

A 100%.

[Dax Shepard]

Thousand percent. You see how I just accidentally came over, said you go 100%. A thousand percent. I'm just impulsively. It's like my.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Yeah, what you said times 10.

[Dax Shepard]

To the 10th. Whatever. He. To the 10th.

[Ike Barinholtz]

He loves Marvel Comics. He was like a big Marvel Comics Kate.

[Dax Shepard]

I must know.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Kate was female singer songwriters.

[Dax Shepard]

Well, that's very on brand.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Very on brand. Cocktails.

[Monica Padman]

Oh, nice.

[Ike Barinholtz]

She loves a good cocktail. And then her other one was. Oh, well, she was. It was 90s movies, but kind of more the whole decade. I threw in a couple Kurt Russell questions for her.

[Dax Shepard]

Did she get them?

[Ike Barinholtz]

Oh, yeah.

[Monica Padman]

Cute. And what are yours gonna be?

[Dax Shepard]

Can you remember what I told you? I'm presuming. Yeah, yeah.

[Ike Barinholtz]

One was motorcycles, and then the third one.

[Dax Shepard]

I think I would prefer cars over motorcycles.

[Ike Barinholtz]

I think it was cars slash motors.

[Dax Shepard]

Okay.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Anthropologies or evolution tractors. It's not gonna be tractors. I don't want to read about tractors for an hour.

[Dax Shepard]

Well, Lamborghini made tractors. I have a boner for some of these 60s Lamborghini tractors. They started as a tractor company.

[Ike Barinholtz]

They did, yes.

[Dax Shepard]

But the Lambo style is in a tractor. It's so cool. And there's train track ones.

[Ike Barinholtz]

The good thing about it is you love that car maker, but you have all those crops out there that have not been cut.

[Dax Shepard]

Exactly.

[Ike Barinholtz]

So two birds, one stone.

[Dax Shepard]

Yes, yes.

[Ike Barinholtz]

One expensive stone that you have to transfer here from another country.

[Dax Shepard]

I think this story. No, that might be Duke money.

[Monica Padman]

This is actually interesting. So you have to pick categories that also are going to be interesting to

[Ike Barinholtz]

an audience a little bit, and that will also inspire.

[Dax Shepard]

Are you saying we lost people on the Lamborghini tractor?

[Ike Barinholtz]

I mean, this is actually a pretty good Rift, so we should save it.

[Dax Shepard]

Maybe the government did come to. I think Lamborghini was like, we need

[Ike Barinholtz]

you to make the attractive, but the sexy.

[Dax Shepard]

Yeah. In a kind of. You can put a four wheels on. And that is an Automobile.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Yeah, but you still can smoke a cigar. You've turned off. You're just like in another place right now. You're thinking about someone doing a floor routine in 1996.

[Monica Padman]

That's right. Dominique Moanu.

[Ike Barinholtz]

That's right. I remember.

[Dax Shepard]

Sure, sure. And then it's obviously leading. It's a jump off point.

[Ike Barinholtz]

It's a jump off point. Just so we can have fun. It's just fun to ask you. I brought questions.

[Dax Shepard]

Is that a pack of cigarettes or

[Ike Barinholtz]

a pack of Trivial Pursuit questions I brought?

[Dax Shepard]

Yeah, okay, read.

[Ike Barinholtz]

These are. I have not read these.

[Monica Padman]

I'm going to be zero points.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Oh, oh.

[Dax Shepard]

We're going to do to each other.

[Ike Barinholtz]

I don't know. I don't know.

[Dax Shepard]

Okay, so how do we play this game?

[Ike Barinholtz]

Just go around and we'll ask questions.

[Dax Shepard]

You have to go in order, top to bottom. Sure.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Or whatever you like. Whatever sickles you like.

[Dax Shepard]

Let's go top to bottom. So I don't want any like cherry picking.

[Ike Barinholtz]

What nation's Panol wetland is home to 270 bird species?

[Dax Shepard]

Okay, I have a guess. Argentina?

[Ike Barinholtz]

Close. Brazil. That's where you come to br. Ask me one.

[Dax Shepard]

Okay. What? Worthy Texas City opened the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of fame in 2002.

[Ike Barinholtz]

I would say Dallas or Fort Worth. Come of Worthy.

[Dax Shepard]

I bet it's going to be that. Let's see. Fort Worthy.

[Ike Barinholtz]

All right, Monica.

[Dax Shepard]

We had a little clue in there.

[Monica Padman]

That was tough.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Monica, ask us one.

[Monica Padman]

I don't want to go top to bottom. I want to find.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Yeah, find a good one.

[Dax Shepard]

Top to bottom.

[Monica Padman]

We got to find a good one.

[Dax Shepard]

I don't trust you. Oh, AE is one.

[Monica Padman]

What do you mean you don't trust me?

[Ike Barinholtz]

I don't.

[Monica Padman]

Okay.

[Dax Shepard]

AE is one of them.

[Monica Padman]

Okay, fine. I'll do ae.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Yes, that's arts and entertainment.

[Monica Padman]

Okay, great. You guys are gonna get.

[Dax Shepard]

This is my weakest one.

[Monica Padman]

What director claimed blondes make the best victims because, quote, they're like virgin snow. That shows up.

[Dax Shepard]

The count of three.

[Monica Padman]

Footprint.

[Dax Shepard]

Three, two, one. Hitch.

[Monica Padman]

Good job.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Which future Charlie's angel provided the singing voice of melody for TV's Josie and the Pussycats? Oh, this is one where it's like, I'm out.

[Dax Shepard]

Yeah, I mean, I don't know the names of all the angels. Farah Fawcet's one. She was one, but she didn't sing.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Jacqueline Smith was one.

[Dax Shepard]

Okay.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Kate Jackson. And the answer to this one, I believe is Cheryl Lad. Go.

[Monica Padman]

Okay. Never.

[Dax Shepard]

I never like entertainment.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Go ahead, ask one.

[Dax Shepard]

Okay, next one. I'm Going to skip art? No, I'll do arts, and I'm going in order. Despite what beloved actor did columnist David anson eulogize in 2001 as the Paganini of panic? Pagani.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Paganini of panic.

[Dax Shepard]

Paganini of panic.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Which beloved actor died in 2001 of panic? Who was like, an actor who was constantly.

[Dax Shepard]

Panic.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Panicked.

[Monica Padman]

Who died in 2001?

[Dax Shepard]

Yeah.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Who died in 2001 who was, like, always scared?

[Monica Padman]

Was it Farah Fawcett?

[Ike Barinholtz]

For some reason, I feel like it's a male actor.

[Dax Shepard]

Yeah, it's a big male actor.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Oh, it is Marlon Brando.

[Dax Shepard]

Jack Lemon.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Jack Lemon, that's right. I should have known that. What? Jack lemon died in 2001.

[Dax Shepard]

He did not see 2002. I'm gonna go history or science or something, you know.

[Monica Padman]

Okay. What's sn?

[Ike Barinholtz]

Science and nature.

[Monica Padman]

What button is disabled in almost all elevators according to Global Elevator Technologies?

[Ike Barinholtz]

I know some things don't have a 13th floor, but I don't think that's it. Button is disabled in almost all elevators. I'm going to say this. Stop.

[Dax Shepard]

Okay. I'm going to say the door open button. I think it's door closed.

[Monica Padman]

Hey, good job.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Was it door closed?

[Monica Padman]

He got.

[Ike Barinholtz]

So when I see someone walking and I'm hitting the door close button, it does nothing.

[Dax Shepard]

I feel like it works for me.

[Ike Barinholtz]

I feel like it works for me.

[Dax Shepard]

But also, I would have thought doors open because if you're, like, mid transit, you're dropping floors and you're trying to hit the door open, it must be disabled. So you can't open the doors while it's in motion.

[Monica Padman]

Oh.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Or ever.

[Dax Shepard]

You shouldn't be able to prematurely have it open the doors. It should be in charge.

[Ike Barinholtz]

I agree with that.

[Dax Shepard]

Stay tuned for more Armchair Expert if you dare. We are supported by Human Helix, so a little while back, Helix sent Monica and me mattresses. Neither of us really knew what to expect. But I have to say, it's been a few months now, and I genuinely notice a difference. What I'm noticing is I run so much cooler on it.

[Monica Padman]

I agree. And just the sleep quality is nice. Like, when you wake up, you feel like you really are refreshed.

[Dax Shepard]

Yes, because otherwise I wake up so sweaty, I'm taking blankets off, and then I get cold, and then I'm putting them back on. It's a nightmare.

[Monica Padman]

And then you're getting no sleep.

[Dax Shepard]

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[Ike Barinholtz]

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[Dax Shepard]

Learn [e-mail] do that with Acrobat.

[Ike Barinholtz]

What Londoner ticked off her fellow designers in 2000 by narrating an anti fur video?

[Monica Padman]

Oh, I should maybe know this. An anti fur video.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Londoner.

[Monica Padman]

Her fellow designers.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Fellow designers.

[Monica Padman]

Diane von Furstenberg.

[Ike Barinholtz]

It's not.

[Monica Padman]

She's not a Londoner. And it wouldn't be.

[Ike Barinholtz]

I'll give you a. Her father is not from London.

[Dax Shepard]

Okay, Donna Vera Chichello. Whatever her name is. Donna is Italian.

[Monica Padman]

Versace is.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Father sometimes talk like this.

[Dax Shepard]

Well, but I thought you just said her dad was.

[Ike Barinholtz]

He's not from London.

[Monica Padman]

Okay, the dad is not from London, but she.

[Ike Barinholtz]

He's from a different British city, maybe Liverpool.

[Dax Shepard]

And he's a Beatle. Oh, Stella McCartney.

[Ike Barinholtz]

There you go.

[Monica Padman]

Good job.

[Dax Shepard]

That was. Good job.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Her dad wasn't from London. Dude.

[Dax Shepard]

Her father. Father once got up, got out of bed and ran a comb across his head. Okay, what American at Oxford was Britain's fifth most eligible woman in 2001 according to the Taylor magazine?

[Ike Barinholtz]

So what American at Oxford in 2001

[Dax Shepard]

was Britain's fifth most eligible woman in 2001? Oh, I have an idea.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Is it an actress?

[Dax Shepard]

I don't know, but the gal that was in the pirates movies.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Keira Knightley. Yeah, Kevin Knightley. But she's not American.

[Monica Padman]

Not American? Yeah.

[Dax Shepard]

Oh, American. No, she's certainly not American. What famous actress went to college at Oxford?

[Ike Barinholtz]

I'm gonna guess Natalie Portman.

[Monica Padman]

No, she didn't go to Oxford.

[Dax Shepard]

She went to Harvard.

[Ike Barinholtz]

My name's fucking Natalie Portman.

[Dax Shepard]

I'm gonna look at the fucking.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Snowed everywhere.

[Dax Shepard]

Okay.

[Monica Padman]

Can you give a hint?

[Dax Shepard]

Yes.

[Monica Padman]

I don't think it's an actor.

[Dax Shepard]

Her father is Stella McCartney.

[Monica Padman]

God.

[Dax Shepard]

The clue I would give would be just so telling. I'm going to reread the question. Okay.

[Monica Padman]

Okay.

[Dax Shepard]

What American at Oxford was Britain's fifth most.

[Ike Barinholtz]

That would be my daughter, Chelsea Clinton. That's my daughter. Hands off. Hands off. Chelsea. I'd love to come visit you and your co ed in Oxford. Is that possible? I don't want to miss situation. We're good.

[Dax Shepard]

We're straight.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Are you sure?

[Dax Shepard]

Okay.

[Monica Padman]

They're testifying. I think very soon.

[Dax Shepard]

Right now?

[Monica Padman]

Right now, right? Yeah.

[Dax Shepard]

Should we go live to it, Rob? Go live.

[Ike Barinholtz]

I did not have sexual relations on Epstein's Island.

[Monica Padman]

All right. You guys like history?

[Ike Barinholtz]

I love it.

[Dax Shepard]

It's his. Go to.

[Monica Padman]

What Admiral was the first person to fly over both the north and south poles.

[Dax Shepard]

Wow.

[Monica Padman]

I have a hint if you need it.

[Ike Barinholtz]

I want to say Amidson, but I don't know if he was flying. I think he might have been pre flight because they said fly over.

[Dax Shepard]

This would be probably in the 20s.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Yeah, probably in the 20s. Admiral Akbar from Star Wars.

[Dax Shepard]

I'm going to go with Akbar too.

[Ike Barinholtz]

It's not any of the discoverers. It's not Perry or Admon or Fitzgerald. Shackelford was another one. Was he maybe Everest? Shackelford?

[Dax Shepard]

Not the Edmond Fitzgerald.

[Ike Barinholtz]

It's not the record. The Edmund Fitzgerald.

[Monica Padman]

His last name is very accurate. Apropos flying over this south.

[Dax Shepard]

No, but Av.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Polar.

[Dax Shepard]

Snow. Jon Snow.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Jon Snow?

[Monica Padman]

Yes, it's Jon Snow. No, it's Richard Bird.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Richard Bird?

[Dax Shepard]

That doesn't even ring a bell. I never heard of that.

[Ike Barinholtz]

I actually think that's a fake name. What? Rodents meat. Do 3 out of 4 Peruvians munch believing it cures arthritis.

[Dax Shepard]

Easy. You right.

[Monica Padman]

Do three, two, one.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Oh, no.

[Dax Shepard]

I was just giving you time to. Because I feel like I know it, so I didn't want to be a dick.

[Monica Padman]

I don't know the capybara.

[Ike Barinholtz]

No.

[Dax Shepard]

What?

[Ike Barinholtz]

Guinea pig.

[Monica Padman]

Oh. Ew.

[Dax Shepard]

Okay.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Hey. I'm obsessed with capybaras. My friend went to a capybara sanctuary where they, like, walk up to you and kind of sit next to you and get in your face.

[Dax Shepard]

They're adorable.

[Ike Barinholtz]

I'm not a big rodent guy.

[Monica Padman]

Sure.

[Dax Shepard]

Copy bars. Where is the sanctuary?

[Ike Barinholtz]

I think it's a meico.

[Dax Shepard]

They're the world's largest rodent.

[Ike Barinholtz]

They don't look like.

[Dax Shepard]

They look like cute little Shetland.

[Ike Barinholtz]

It's like a Star wars toy.

[Dax Shepard]

Yeah, like an Ewok. Okay, okay, here we go. How many blow holes does a baleen whale boast?

[Monica Padman]

I'm going to say zero.

[Ike Barinholtz]

I'm going to say two.

[Dax Shepard]

It's two.

[Ike Barinholtz]

I'm guessing I'm not a blow hole guy. I had my blow hole removed last year. I don't even like. I don't even like to think about it.

[Dax Shepard]

Blow hard.

[Ike Barinholtz]

What do you got, Monica?

[Monica Padman]

Okay, I really want to do a hard.

[Ike Barinholtz]

I have two more questions after this. I might.

[Monica Padman]

What South African Corporation sells 2 3rd of of the world's diamonds?

[Dax Shepard]

Oh, we know this. A three, two, one, Bears.

[Monica Padman]

Good job. Yes, the bears. You got it.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Where'd you get your wife's ring? The bears. What about what NBA superstar maintains anonymity by registering at hotels as Vladimir Mondingo? Oh, this one. I don't know. I'm looking.

[Dax Shepard]

Oh.

[Monica Padman]

Oh.

[Dax Shepard]

I mean, I think here's a time to go with your number one prime minister in the NBA, which is Shaquille o'. Neal.

[Monica Padman]

Oh, that's a good guess.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Yes, it is. Dax Shepard. I would have said like, you know, Durant or something.

[Dax Shepard]

Takes you to Russians. What was it?

[Ike Barinholtz]

Mandingo?

[Dax Shepard]

Yeah, he's always got a dick joke going. He infamously put a Subway sandwich in his shorts one time.

[Monica Padman]

I'm impressed.

[Dax Shepard]

Yeah, okay, that was good. What product did Singapore agree to let residents Residents use as long as they had a prescription in order to secure a U. S. Free trade agreement?

[Ike Barinholtz]

I think I know what this is.

[Dax Shepard]

I think I do too.

[Ike Barinholtz]

I'm gonna say chewing gum.

[Dax Shepard]

I haven't looked, but.

[Monica Padman]

How do you guys know this stuff?

[Ike Barinholtz]

Because there was a guy in the 90s, a kid who was in Singapore. People will say it's the cleanest place in the world. It's like Disneyland.

[Dax Shepard]

Yeah.

[Ike Barinholtz]

The flip side of that is this American dude, I think just took a piece of gum and threw it on the ground or put it on a wall. They caned him and took a bamboo stick and ripped his ass like 10 times.

[Dax Shepard]

I feel like that was in the 90s.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Big news story.

[Dax Shepard]

And I went with my mother to Singapore in probably 98. And we specifically brought gum and chewed it. That's why. I knew it. We decided to just be outlaws by chewing gum.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Smart. Going to. Let's see if we're a foreign country where they have draconian laws, let's break a few.

[Dax Shepard]

That's our spirit. Chewing gum. Yep. You got it.

[Monica Padman]

Wow. Yeah.

[Dax Shepard]

Really good.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Give us one more.

[Monica Padman]

Okay, let's. Let's do this.

[Dax Shepard]

I'd love that you carry these. Bri and I used to. My ex girlfriend, we go to a restaurant and just have the stack of them in her purse. I love it.

[Monica Padman]

What veteran ABC announcer nixed NBC's invitation to work the Sydney Olympics, claiming Australia is too damn far away?

[Ike Barinholtz]

Abc. The only guys I remember from ABC were Peter Jennings or Sam Donaldson.

[Dax Shepard]

That feels like a Donaldson.

[Ike Barinholtz]

It feels like a Donaldson. Because he was a little more salty and kind of like, all right, I'm

[Dax Shepard]

going to say cantankerous.

[Ike Barinholtz]

He was contagious. Secrets. I'll say Donaldson.

[Monica Padman]

Okay, final answer. Jim McKay.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Oh, Jim McKay.

[Dax Shepard]

Jimmy Jammer.

[Ike Barinholtz]

My last one.

[Dax Shepard]

Jimmy Jammer.

[Ike Barinholtz]

What fruit was legally ruled to be a vegetable by the U.S. supreme Court in an 1893 tariff dispute? I know what this is.

[Monica Padman]

I hate.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Oh, no, I didn't.

[Monica Padman]

Yeah, because. Did you think tomato? Because it's the opposite.

[Dax Shepard]

I think tomato.

[Monica Padman]

No, that's the opposite. It's a fruit.

[Dax Shepard]

Tomato.

[Monica Padman]

It's not tomato.

[Dax Shepard]

That's my final answer.

[Monica Padman]

No, it's a fruit.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Right.

[Dax Shepard]

It was ruled as a vegetable for a tree trade agreement, but really, it's a fruit.

[Ike Barinholtz]

That's kind of my problem is I read too fast because I was like, it's bananas. Cuba, bananas, Hawaii. That's bananas.

[Monica Padman]

But then I feel like we would have heard that it got switched.

[Dax Shepard]

What they're saying is they're giving you the origin story of why there's confusion about whether it's a vegetable or a fruit. It's clearly a fruit. It has seeds. But it needed to get ruled as a vegetable to qualify for a trade agreement.

[Ike Barinholtz]

There was a sub ruling, though, that anyone who. When someone says, oh, my favorite vegetable is a tomato, and someone goes, it's actually a fruit root, you're legally allowed to slap that person.

[Monica Padman]

Yeah.

[Ike Barinholtz]

This is per US Code.

[Dax Shepard]

Yeah.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Not my ruling.

[Dax Shepard]

That's the only great outgrowth of that trade agreement is that it is now

[Ike Barinholtz]

legal to slap someone if they correct

[Dax Shepard]

you on something obvious that everyone knows. If they tell you that the Phil Collins song In the Air Tonight is about a guy who watched another guy

[Ike Barinholtz]

repeatedly right there.

[Dax Shepard]

What other things? There's a few things that fall under this, you know, ruling.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Say the girl from Poltergeist is dead. You know, she died. Like, that's one where it's like, yeah, I know.

[Dax Shepard]

Yeah. Stop it.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Get out of here.

[Dax Shepard]

Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

[Monica Padman]

Okay. Fun.

[Dax Shepard]

That was.

[Ike Barinholtz]

I like asking questions And I like answering questions. And I was like, what if we put this together with people I like? And it was funny.

[Dax Shepard]

I know it's really a gross part of my behavior, but I love answering questions. Like, shameful. Nothing gives me more joy.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Oh, God, I love it so much. Why?

[Dax Shepard]

What's wrong? Well, we know. We talked about it last time.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Yeah. But it's just like we spent our lives. People have spent their lives reading weird and wondering when is it ever going to pay off in my life that I could name the pope who started the Great Schism? When am I ever going to be in a position where I'm going to be asked that? And now you might.

[Monica Padman]

Yeah.

[Dax Shepard]

Yeah, you're right. It's roi which we talked about last time, too. It's final return on investment. You've put some time into this for no reason. And now we finally.

[Ike Barinholtz]

This is a financial podcast, by the way. This is your return of investment.

[Dax Shepard]

Our next guest is the guy. Jim. What's his name?

[Ike Barinholtz]

Jim Kramer.

[Dax Shepard]

Jim Kramer.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Yeah. He's.

[Dax Shepard]

He's following.

[Monica Padman]

You

[Ike Barinholtz]

saw him outside. Just running sprints back and forth. All right.

[Dax Shepard]

I. I love you.

[Ike Barinholtz]

You guys are the greatest.

[Dax Shepard]

Thanks for number four. I know. We'll see on number five. When are we recording, I guess is my question.

[Ike Barinholtz]

I think I have two days off from the studio and we're kind of locking it in there. You're going to be with great company. We got you. We got Russell Brand.

[Dax Shepard]

Oh, geez. I'm gonna take a rainy.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Who else is on there? BTK Killer.

[Dax Shepard]

Okay. And.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Oh, Henry Kiss. Anders. Ghost.

[Dax Shepard]

Okay.

[Ike Barinholtz]

So I think you're gonna be with, like, people that you're gonna be like. This is kind of fun and splashy and Casey Anthony. Great.

[Dax Shepard]

This sounds.

[Ike Barinholtz]

We have our first trunch.

[Monica Padman]

Sure.

[Ike Barinholtz]

And then we have.

[Dax Shepard]

And then we have me in the gang.

[Monica Padman]

Second group.

[Ike Barinholtz]

You and the gang.

[Dax Shepard]

Do the sponsors know about the lineup for.

[Ike Barinholtz]

We tell them afterwards.

[Dax Shepard]

Okay.

[Ike Barinholtz]

I look forward to seeing you on Saturday wearing a full diaper.

[Monica Padman]

Oh, yeah, that's right. Sunday.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Sunday. He wishes it was Saturday. And the actor goes to.

[Dax Shepard]

I mean, you're at backstage. I run out crying on stage. There's no toilet paper.

[Ike Barinholtz]

It's for my health.

[Dax Shepard]

Get our kids out of here. The kids need you. I interrupt the thing because I know I can't handle this.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Benicio's filming you.

[Dax Shepard]

I'm myself and the kids need something. You have to come on stage.

[Ike Barinholtz]

You've got to look at this video I got of Dax Shepard shitting himself on stage.

[Dax Shepard]

He. You he you for real?

[Ike Barinholtz]

He shit you for real.

[Dax Shepard]

All right. Love you.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Love you, baby.

[Dax Shepard]

He is an armchair expert, but he makes mistakes all the time. Thank God Monica's here. She's got to let him have the facts. Hi, 10 year old.

[Monica Padman]

Why? Because I'm wearing shorts and your hair

[Dax Shepard]

is back in a gray ponytail?

[Monica Padman]

Yeah, because I have to wash my hair.

[Dax Shepard]

It's a thousand degrees out, so it feels like Bali outside. Have you been to Bali?

[Monica Padman]

No.

[Dax Shepard]

Okay.

[Monica Padman]

I haven't actually. That reminds me. I was playing a fun game yesterday.

[Dax Shepard]

Bajan.

[Monica Padman]

No, that's tonight. I was playing a fun game where you say the name of a country. Like I was say Japan.

[Dax Shepard]

Okay.

[Monica Padman]

And then you, in your head, think of from a scale of 1 to 10, how badly you want to go there.

[Dax Shepard]

Okay, great.

[Monica Padman]

And then I guess your number.

[Dax Shepard]

Okay. Japan.

[Monica Padman]

Okay. For me. Okay. I have my number.

[Dax Shepard]

Oh, okay. Okay. For you, I guess. I guess nine.

[Monica Padman]

Yes. Nine. I really want to go.

[Dax Shepard]

Guess for me.

[Monica Padman]

Oh, oh, oh. 9, 10, 10.

[Dax Shepard]

But is that just dying to go?

[Monica Padman]

I'm dying to go, too.

[Dax Shepard]

And all my, like, idols, all my mentors in my life, they don't just go like, oh, I like it. They're like, you. You have to. For some reason, they think specific to you, that I'm going to really respond to what's happening.

[Monica Padman]

Let me tell you something.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Yeah.

[Monica Padman]

I know this isn't fair. I do this to people. I tell them that their answers are wrong.

[Dax Shepard]

Okay.

[Monica Padman]

Okay. I think your answer is wrong because. Because you don't. Or sushi.

[Dax Shepard]

I do like some sushi.

[Monica Padman]

You don't like real giri?

[Dax Shepard]

I like yellow tail and salmon on rice. That's. I used to get that from sugar fish. Sugar fish all the time. Okay, so I got a one bad order and I'll.

[Monica Padman]

And that's. Now you're not. So, like.

[Dax Shepard]

But also they do a ton of great steak. They do wagyu.

[Monica Padman]

Yeah. I just. I think food wise, it's not going to be your 100. You're 10.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Yes.

[Dax Shepard]

That's not.

[Monica Padman]

So I brought it down to nine.

[Dax Shepard]

Okay. Okay. Okay. The reason people want me to go there is that everything is executed perfectly.

[Monica Padman]

Oh, I'm so excited to be there.

[Dax Shepard]

Like, Tom Hansen's. Like, when the man is sweeping the cobblestone, it's like he's building a Swiss watch. Like, everything is done meticulously. I love that and I would love to witness that.

[Monica Padman]

I also think you're going to feel a little crowded on the trains and stuff. I think you're going to Feel a tiny bit claustrophobic and tall.

[Dax Shepard]

Slash grateful, because I'll be so much bigger than everyone.

[Monica Padman]

Okay.

[Dax Shepard]

I don't feel like Godzilla.

[Monica Padman]

I still think you're a nine.

[Dax Shepard]

Okay. I'm basing it on, like, what is my. Like, first of all, it's a hurdle to get there. It's. You're losing a day. Right. So if I got to pick my very next place I went to, it's my pick.

[Monica Padman]

Yeah, me too.

[Dax Shepard]

Like, I'm going to Budapest, which is high on the list, but it's more convenient to what's already happening. But really, the thing I most want to go to is Japan.

[Monica Padman]

Yeah.

[Dax Shepard]

That's why I got to set it at 10.

[Monica Padman]

I understand.

[Dax Shepard]

Yeah.

[Monica Padman]

That makes sense what you did.

[Dax Shepard]

What's your one that you like right now? You can teleport anywhere. What is it?

[Monica Padman]

Okay, now, see, this is hard.

[Dax Shepard]

Okay.

[Monica Padman]

Because do I want to go somewhere new?

[Dax Shepard]

Yeah.

[Monica Padman]

For my teleportation.

[Dax Shepard]

Yeah. It's got to be new.

[Monica Padman]

Oh. It.

[Dax Shepard]

For this game.

[Monica Padman]

Okay, then Japan. Yes.

[Dax Shepard]

That's your also top. Next.

[Monica Padman]

Yeah. The problem is some of my 10 are places I've been.

[Dax Shepard]

Sure, sure. Yeah. For me, too. Africa, to me, would be like, going back to Africa would be a 10.

[Monica Padman]

So where do you think Africa is? Well, Africa's a continent, but specifically, the

[Dax Shepard]

Grumetti reserve in Tanzania is where I would want to go. Or I really, really want to go to Mozambique. I want to go to the Akwanga Delta.

[Monica Padman]

Okay.

[Dax Shepard]

Okay. In Mozambique, which is the jewel of Africa, they say it's all water. You're, like, on boats, seeing elephants and stuff.

[Monica Padman]

And where do you think that's. That is on my list?

[Dax Shepard]

6.5. 7.

[Monica Padman]

6.

[Dax Shepard]

Okay. Okay. Yeah.

[Monica Padman]

Actually, 6.5. I just don't do 0.5s. But. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's right. I'm very. I'm very knowable.

[Dax Shepard]

I'm putting it a little higher than New York because I actually know how luxurious it could be. And you don't know that yet.

[Monica Padman]

Yeah, I'm sure I would absolutely love it. Yeah, I know I would. But as we discussed recently, it is a character defect. I'm working. I'm trying to work on it.

[Dax Shepard]

Okay.

[Monica Padman]

I don't have enough appreciation for Nate. Nature, and I recognize that.

[Dax Shepard]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Monica Padman]

And I wish I had more.

[Dax Shepard]

Boy, if any place would break through, it would be Africa.

[Monica Padman]

Yeah, I bet.

[Dax Shepard]

Yeah. I mean, as I said, you can tell it's the cauldron of life, right?

[Monica Padman]

Exactly. It's palpable yeah. But I think I'm gonna teleport to

[Dax Shepard]

New York or Paris. Yeah, yeah.

[Monica Padman]

Or London or Italy or London. I am this summer gonna try to go to London. London and Paris. Okay, so that's nowhere new.

[Dax Shepard]

Right.

[Monica Padman]

I'm not in the mood for new this year.

[Dax Shepard]

Will you be traveling alone there or will you be.

[Monica Padman]

No friends?

[Dax Shepard]

Okay, you what friends are.

[Monica Padman]

Anna.

[Dax Shepard]

She wants to go to Europe. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Monica Padman]

And we went to London together. When we all went to London.

[Dax Shepard]

Yes.

[Monica Padman]

And we had just the best time. And we talk about it all the time, how we need to go back.

[Dax Shepard]

Yeah.

[Monica Padman]

So I think we're gonna go.

[Dax Shepard]

It's great. Italy. So obviously, I think it's the best, personally. But it is unrelentingly hot in the summer.

[Monica Padman]

Yeah.

[Dax Shepard]

And then there's so many tourists. I feel so bad for the Italians. It's a mix of I feel so bad for them, and also that's such a huge chunk of their economy that of course I don't feel bad for them. But I just like, if you lived in Rome and 90% of the people you saw dayto day didn't live. Weren't your neighbors, didn't live there. That must get taxi.

[Monica Padman]

That's probably like. If you live in. On Sunset.

[Dax Shepard]

I don't know if it's that bad. I think when you're walking through Rome, you're seeing in the summer.

[Monica Padman]

If you live on Hollywood Boulevard.

[Dax Shepard]

Yeah, if you live on Hollywood Boulevard.

[Monica Padman]

Yeah, that's what I meant. That's what I meant. Or if you live in Times Square. That's tough.

[Dax Shepard]

If you live right in Times Square. Yeah. It could be. Be challenging to.

[Monica Padman]

You didn't. Didn't Alexander Skarsgard lived. Live in kind of somewhere horrendous right in the middle of Times Square.

[Dax Shepard]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like when I stayed. When they put me for baby mama. Initially at a hotel above a fire station in the police station across from Grand Central Station.

[Monica Padman]

Oh, ouch.

[Dax Shepard]

And I was like, they.

[Monica Padman]

They hate me.

[Dax Shepard]

We were just. This just came up in my Tuesday meeting. Just status. And I think especially when you're on sets and people are ranked and, like,

[Monica Padman]

literally ranked on the call sheet.

[Dax Shepard]

Yeah. It's like one year you're number 16 and. And you get allocated resources commensurate with that number, Right.

[Monica Padman]

Yes, you do.

[Dax Shepard]

Yeah. So I'm at the box above the, you know, fire department.

[Monica Padman]

Yeah. And where was, like, Amy, who's probably number. Amy and Tina were number one and two.

[Dax Shepard]

Tina and Amy live there.

[Monica Padman]

Oh, yeah.

[Dax Shepard]

So I'M trying to think who I would have had to go to next. Ultimately, they got me out of there and I went to the Maritime, which was great.

[Monica Padman]

Yeah. And there's ghosts there.

[Dax Shepard]

There was ghosts there. Yeah. And you're right in the meatpacking. There's great food in my area. It was lovely. Anyhow, that was just the topic on Tuesday, and a friend of mine who is about to go on a press tour was like, I just want to make sure I behave and don't get caught up in, like, am I in that picture? Am I not? Did they ask me to go to this interview or not?

[Monica Padman]

It's hard.

[Dax Shepard]

And he reached out to a fellow person, and I can't believe this. Brilliant advice. They were like, well, there's someone else in the cast that's younger and probably. Probably needs help that hasn't been here before.

[Monica Padman]

That can be your job.

[Dax Shepard]

Focus on that person.

[Monica Padman]

Yeah, that's love.

[Dax Shepard]

And he did. And he goes, I've never felt better ever. I never considered one of the things I did or didn't get. And the parents of this person thought I was so nice, and I told them, I'm not. I was just being selfish. I wanted to make sure I didn't act like a brat. And it was a joy to do it. And I'm actually grateful to you anyways.

[Monica Padman]

That's great.

[Dax Shepard]

Yeah. I was like, what great advice. What was this event you were at just now?

[Monica Padman]

I wasn't at an event.

[Dax Shepard]

I thought you were busy today.

[Monica Padman]

Oh, I was. I was. Record. I was. I had a meeting and a recording.

[Dax Shepard]

What was the recording?

[Monica Padman]

I ended up not doing it. I ended up having to reschedule it. But it was for.

[Ike Barinholtz]

We're.

[Monica Padman]

We're testing out a season two of Beth's Dead.

[Dax Shepard]

Oh, okay.

[Monica Padman]

We have a potential story, and so we want to record us at the very beginning talking about potential merits of it. Exactly. Exactly.

[Dax Shepard]

What's. Well, you can't tell. You'll tell me privately.

[Monica Padman]

I can't talk about it.

[Dax Shepard]

But someone contacted you, I presume, Actually.

[Monica Padman]

So it's funny because we, you know, we've been kind of keeping our ears open for interesting stories that are meaningful that will do the same thing that this first one did. So we're not just, you know, and we're not like, on a timeline or anything. It's just, if there's something good, good, we'll do it.

[Dax Shepard]

Yeah.

[Monica Padman]

So Elizabeth came across a couple stories, and she was telling me, and then she was like, it's kind of like this story that Happened to Andy. And then I was like, wait, what? And then she tells that. And I was like, wait, why don't I know about this?

[Dax Shepard]

What if you come to find out? Elizabeth and Andy are the actual.

[Monica Padman]

Yeah. Catfishers.

[Dax Shepard]

They have all these stories.

[Monica Padman]

I know. I did think I was like, what? Yeah. Well, we know what happened because I

[Dax Shepard]

have a suspicious amount of stories. You know, I often hear myself telling a story and I'm like, if I was this person, I'd be like, that didn't. You didn't get shot at. You know, like, there's no way this also happened and that thing had also happened.

[Monica Padman]

I know. Well, to be fair, this one isn't. It didn't actually happen to Andy. That's not really a fair way of me framing it. He was involved with people and this story happened to those people.

[Dax Shepard]

Okay. Okay.

[Monica Padman]

So I'm supposed to do that.

[Dax Shepard]

And then why is too hot.

[Monica Padman]

Well, I have to cut. Why? Because I feel bad. I just. I'm getting a tree delivery.

[Dax Shepard]

Okay. That's getting planted in your yard or

[Monica Padman]

it's in indoor tree.

[Dax Shepard]

Indoor tree.

[Monica Padman]

And it's very exciting. And there's three options and I really want to see them. And I really wanted it done by tonight because of mahjong and Charlie's party tomorrow. So today was the only day that's supposed to happen at 11, 7:30. Guess what? It's happening right now. Oh, so it really. It did. I got karma. It was karma. Yeah.

[Dax Shepard]

Okay.

[Monica Padman]

I guess I'll leave it in because I'm honest.

[Dax Shepard]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So as you were walking out there,

[Monica Padman]

walking in virtually, like. I mean, I didn't see them, but I assume they're there right now. She texted me and it's hot.

[Dax Shepard]

It's a hot topic. Oh, no, it's physically hot out.

[Monica Padman]

It's physically hot.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Yeah.

[Dax Shepard]

Yeah. It's outrageous. Not only. Like, we get these blasts every year. We get these blasts of like three days of 90s in winter. We don't get. Or we're. We have two weeks of 90s. Like, I look today at the coming schedule for the next eight days out. It still never gets below 85 for the next 10 days that are on the map.

[Monica Padman]

Does make me anxious that it's happening in March. Like, what is going to happen in August and September? Yeah.

[Dax Shepard]

But again, I don't know that there's any indic. I don't know that it works that way.

[Monica Padman]

I hope not.

[Dax Shepard]

Again, tell you about the dinosaur show. I found that weirdly comforting.

[Monica Padman]

Well, you just said you're watching one.

[Dax Shepard]

I didn't tell you about the geology of it. More interesting than learning about the dinosaurs is learning about the history of the planet. This place is an absolute mess. So right. It started as one continent, Pangea. When that broke apart it blacked out the sky. It was like 100 degree cooler. Then there were these periods of like insane methane and carbon dioxide and it was in the hundreds. Everything died. Then it cooled off because of this and then it came back like I believe in global warming.

[Monica Padman]

Yeah.

[Dax Shepard]

But we are talking about us moving up like 2 to 4 degrees Celsius. And it's just interesting. Watch it show that the Earth has gone through cycles of hundreds of degrees

[Monica Padman]

Celsius couldn't sustain human life.

[Ike Barinholtz]

No.

[Dax Shepard]

But for the Earth's record, this isn't a skin knee. Like that's an interesting way to.

[Monica Padman]

But we've also changed the way our own requirements from the Earth. We demand so much more.

[Dax Shepard]

Yeah. And so did the explosion of trees. Like there was not trees. This was an interesting absolutely hard to believe fact. You know sharks have been here longer than trees. Whoa.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Really?

[Dax Shepard]

Like what it. Trees are like the green. The. The green of fine of the planet and there being oxygen here is so new in its five billion year history.

[Monica Padman]

Ding, ding.

[Dax Shepard]

So there's no trees and then there's too many trees. And then everything died and then it came back and there were all these crazy volcanoes that were just spewing forever and then it was D out and it's like wow, this, this thing has seen it all.

[Monica Padman]

It's been through it. Ding, ding, ding. Trees.

[Dax Shepard]

Yeah.

[Monica Padman]

There's a tree in my. Coming to my house.

[Dax Shepard]

Oh yeah. That is ding ding, ding.

[Monica Padman]

So that's cool.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Stay tuned for more Armchair Expert if you dare.

[Monica Padman]

The stakes of the tree coming into my house are high because it's not a small. It's a large tree.

[Dax Shepard]

Where does it live?

[Monica Padman]

In the living room. I'm so excited. It's going to look so pretty and

[Dax Shepard]

it'll get enough light and who will water.

[Monica Padman]

That's the part I'm having anxiety.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Yeah.

[Dax Shepard]

Well, you have an automatic irrigation system.

[Monica Padman]

No, I'll water it. I'm good at watering.

[Dax Shepard]

That'll be no problem.

[Monica Padman]

I'm good at doing it. I just don't know if I'm. I do it right because things still die.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Yeah.

[Dax Shepard]

You can chat it. Chat GPT. It'll probably tell you how many ounces of water to put in schedule. That's true. Probably a smart device you can get to that measures the soil moisture I bet you can automate the whole thing and fill up a tank once in a while and put nitrogen pellets in there. It'll probably just keep it perfect.

[Monica Padman]

Okay. I want to do that because it's an important tree, and if it dies,

[Dax Shepard]

you don't even know what tree it is yet, but it is when you see it. I know it's important. You know, it's a very important, important.

[Monica Padman]

Yeah. And I. If it dies under my water, you

[Dax Shepard]

just have tons of soil in your. You obviously. You have tons of soil.

[Monica Padman]

It's gonna be in a pot.

[Dax Shepard]

Uhhuh. This is an interesting idea, right? They have, like, a ton of soil in your living room.

[Monica Padman]

Well, it's in a pot.

[Dax Shepard]

Yeah, I know.

[Monica Padman]

Like, that.

[Dax Shepard]

That doesn't have soil because that's a fake tree.

[Monica Padman]

But let's pretend it was real.

[Dax Shepard]

Yeah. If there's a big, big pot of dirt over there, I bet we would smell it.

[Monica Padman]

It'd be fine. No, it has moss on top. It's fine. I have plants. You're.

[Dax Shepard]

Yeah.

[Monica Padman]

You're not a big plant. Plant guy. Just like. I'm not a big. I'm not really interested in nature. Yeah, you're not really interested in plants.

[Dax Shepard]

It's kind of like dogs. Like, there's a lot of stuff that's outside. I don't need to bring it inside. It's fine with me. That's outside. And then I can go visit it outside. But I like, like, you know.

[Monica Padman]

Yeah.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Do you.

[Dax Shepard]

Have you ever played Rummy Cube?

[Monica Padman]

I'm shook by the sim.

[Dax Shepard]

Oh, wow.

[Monica Padman]

Because what. The next thing that was about to come out of my mouth. Mouth was sort of like Rummy Cube Mahjong. Yeah. But yeah.

[Dax Shepard]

Yeah, there's tiles and. Have you ever played Rummy Cube?

[Monica Padman]

Yes, I have.

[Dax Shepard]

It's so fun.

[Monica Padman]

I like it.

[Dax Shepard]

Lincoln and I had the most. I mean, she's becoming my Erin Weekly as she gets older.

[Monica Padman]

Don't say that. You already have an Aaron Weekly. Well, he's becoming your Lincoln.

[Dax Shepard]

He should be nervous.

[Monica Padman]

You guys have your own relationship.

[Dax Shepard]

But I mean, in that. The way Aaron and I could in seventh grade get onto something that would last for hours and no one else was enjoying it.

[Monica Padman]

Oh, wow. Okay.

[Dax Shepard]

So she and I played Rummy Cube and we started singing at some point, and we sang for, like, two hours together playing this game. And it was. It was as fun as someone can have. And that came on the heels of watching the second episode of DTF. Oh, my St. Louis.

[Monica Padman]

What a show. I want. I. Yeah, I'm two in.

[Dax Shepard]

Yeah. What a show. As you might expect, I've left all these guys messages.

[Monica Padman]

Of course you have. Saying, yes, you're mad.

[Dax Shepard]

No, saying, well, I see that you guys are having a lot of fun talking. Talking about Peronies. Everyone's having a good laugh at the idea of someone having Peronis.

[Monica Padman]

It does feel like a personal attack. I will say.

[Dax Shepard]

Yeah. I mean, they go after having a good time with Peronis as they should. It's such a stupid condition. I just think it's also crazy that I can leave a message that I have had Peronis and I'm on the other side of Peyton.

[Monica Padman]

I know. Thank God you're on the other side.

[Dax Shepard]

Said to them, I know you guys think. Think it's a real hoot, but you should know that I was told it'll either heal by itself in a year or you'll have to have a operation, a C section that is 50% successful. And the other half of the time, you will never use your penis again. So I hope you guys know that that's what I had to deal with. And I know everyone's having a real good laugh.

[Monica Padman]

See, now you know what it's like. Now you know what it's like when someone's suffering. Suffering from something.

[Dax Shepard]

I know, but I used to call them.

[Monica Padman]

And then when someone's making fun of it, they don't understand what it's like to live with.

[Dax Shepard]

I think it's a bad comp. Because it didn't. It doesn't bother me at all. And ideally we would want it to bother me so that I would understand how other people feel.

[Monica Padman]

Yeah.

[Dax Shepard]

But that kind of confirms already my worldview, which is like, just get over it.

[Monica Padman]

But if you didn't.

[Dax Shepard]

If I had lost my penis.

[Monica Padman]

Exactly. You might have more sensitivity around, like. Well, you would have more physical sense.

[Dax Shepard]

I'd have no sensitivity. Some sense exacerbated sensitivity.

[Monica Padman]

If so, okay. It has no sensitivity. So you could, like.

[Dax Shepard]

I don't think it'll get erect, but

[Monica Padman]

can you feel anything?

[Dax Shepard]

I don't know. It didn't sound. It didn't sound good. Like, when they can't use your. You use it as a hammer instead.

[Monica Padman]

Yeah.

[Dax Shepard]

You start using it.

[Monica Padman]

Yeah. Use it as a real. A tool. As it's meant as a wedge.

[Dax Shepard]

Yeah. I didn't. I didn't. Like, I didn't do enough follow up questions. Because to be honest, when I heard that, I was like, we're not getting that procedure. I don't care what. I don't care if the penis ties itself into a bow. We won't get a procedure that makes it not ever work.

[Monica Padman]

Right. I see. Yeah.

[Dax Shepard]

Like, however bad the Peronis could have gotten, I can't imagine rolling the die, flipping a coin like that.

[Monica Padman]

It's a lot.

[Dax Shepard]

It's a lot. You got to conce. You got to talk to your partner about that. Of course. Yeah.

[Monica Padman]

But they might feel like, I. I want you to take no risk because I can't even, like, get this in.

[Dax Shepard]

I thought you're going another direction, which is. I hope that is the outcome.

[Monica Padman]

Oh, sure. Well, I guess they. They have a built in out. Even if. If it's all twisted up, they could just like, I'm sorry, I can't.

[Dax Shepard]

Like, I can't put a bow tie in there.

[Monica Padman]

Yeah. It won't go. And then you just be like. But I don't want you to change. So you just be you and you never have to have sex.

[Dax Shepard]

That's right. Yeah. It's the dream. Every wife's dream.

[Monica Padman]

It's a lot of wives dreams. Not all wives.

[Dax Shepard]

It's not my wife's dream. I don't want to paint that picture.

[Monica Padman]

Yeah, we're not painting that picture. But it's some wives dreams. Oh, my God. Let's see what else.

[Dax Shepard]

I keep thinking of movies to add to my list to show Lincoln. I'm so excited. Flirting with disaster. Like, of course. How could I have not shown her flirting with disaster?

[Monica Padman]

You showed me that movie.

[Dax Shepard]

Yeah. And it. And I'm due for a rewatch.

[Monica Padman]

Yeah, I would rewatch that. Can I come over for that? I would love to rewatch that.

[Dax Shepard]

Yes. And. And then Can't Buy Me Love commenter suggested. I was like, duh, it's my favorite teen movie of all time.

[Monica Padman]

Flirting with disaster. Ding, ding, ding. Richard Jenkins is in DTF St. Louis. And he's so good in it.

[Dax Shepard]

He's so prominent.

[Monica Padman]

He's very prominent. I think everyone needs to watch DTF St. Louis.

[Dax Shepard]

And do you watch Wednesday?

[Monica Padman]

I've dropped off on Wednesday.

[Dax Shepard]

But you would have. You've seen the first season, right?

[Monica Padman]

Yeah, I loved the first season.

[Dax Shepard]

Yeah. So you know her kind of nemesis that's black. She's like a Slytherin. I don't know what they're called, but she's like a shape shifter or whatever.

[Monica Padman]

She's got.

[Dax Shepard]

Got like, green eyes. She's the detective that Jenkins is battling.

[Monica Padman]

Right. She's.

[Dax Shepard]

And you get to see her real pupils for the first time, which is exciting. She's great.

[Monica Padman]

I have a Question. What are your. What's your opinion on what's going on with Love Story, the show about JFK Jr. And Carolyn Bessette Kennedy? Do you know there's drama?

[Dax Shepard]

No, it's the drama. I haven't watched it. The only thing I know about it is from you.

[Monica Padman]

Yeah. Because I keep watching it.

[Dax Shepard]

Yeah.

[Monica Padman]

Even though I. I know that there are some problematic things.

[Dax Shepard]

Right.

[Monica Padman]

Well, Jack Schlossberg, who is. I'm going to tell you, he is Caroline Kennedy's son in real life. Yes. Caroline Kennedy, who is JFK Jr. Sister.

[Dax Shepard]

Okay.

[Monica Padman]

Son of JFK.

[Dax Shepard]

Yep.

[Monica Padman]

And daughter of JFK.

[Dax Shepard]

Daughter of JFK. Yeah.

[Monica Padman]

Caroline is JFK's jot. Jot.

[Dax Shepard]

Daughter.

[Monica Padman]

Daughter. His brother was JFK Jr. Yeah. Her son.

[Dax Shepard]

Okay. And you know, his grandson had he lived.

[Monica Padman]

Correct. JFK's grandson. What Caroline Kennedy has lived through is just so unbelievable. Like, you just are like, how can one person endure that much?

[Dax Shepard]

That's brother, uncle, dad, dad.

[Monica Padman]

Daughter just died, like, recently. Yeah. In December of cancer.

[Dax Shepard]

Oh, my Lord.

[Monica Padman]

Yeah. And she was like 33 or something. Tatiana, she's just endured the most, you know, And Jack is. That's his mom and she's in the show. She's portrayed in the show. Caroline is. And. And they all are. And like, Jack is very openly against this show. He's like, this is. Yes. This is not a correct depiction of anyone. And I totally understand that. And also, so. So at the beginning of the show, JFK Jr. Is dating Daryl Hannah, as he did. And the depiction of Daryl Hannah is really not flattering.

[Dax Shepard]

It's not.

[Monica Padman]

No.

[Dax Shepard]

What things did they.

[Monica Padman]

They just make her look, like, very dumb and ditzy and like, she's doing coke and like, she's just like a real. Like,

[Dax Shepard]

I've hung out with her once and I thought she was incredibly rad.

[Monica Padman]

Yeah.

[Dax Shepard]

I had noticed someone had like, a jacked up F250 pickup truck at this small gathering. I was like, whose truck is that? It was hers.

[Monica Padman]

Oh, that's cool.

[Dax Shepard]

And she goes, yeah, I need it because I put my snowmobile in it. I'm like, you snowmobile? I'm like, this is so rad. Like, you are a mermaid and you fucking have a jacked up 250 in snowmobile. I think she's like a tough, cool woman.

[Monica Padman]

Yes. So she wrote an article, an op ed that was basically like, very, very, very well done and. And said this isn't. This is all incorrect. Not just the, like, overall depiction of her, but some factual things. She was like, I've never done coke, whatever, all these things. So there's, like, some real criticism that I very much understand. And I'm like, why am I still watching? And I am. I'm in.

[Dax Shepard]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Monica Padman]

And so I guess I'm saying I'm sorry and Daryl Hannah. And what I'm actually really saying is I. I can sometimes get on a high horse about people engaging in things that I think are wrong.

[Dax Shepard]

Uhhuh. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Monica Padman]

And you and celebrity gossip and, like, dumb stuff.

[Dax Shepard]

Yeah. But we love the crown.

[Monica Padman]

Yeah.

[Ike Barinholtz]

That.

[Monica Padman]

That to me, doesn't have the same stink on it. Like, that's such a beautifully done show. This is Ryan Murphy. I mean, it is classically Ryan Murphy.

[Dax Shepard]

It's salacious.

[Monica Padman]

Yeah.

[Dax Shepard]

Scandalous.

[Monica Padman]

And yet here I am participating. But I guess what I will say the difference is I'm watching it, I'm enjoying it, and I am very much aware this is all made up.

[Dax Shepard]

Right, right, right.

[Monica Padman]

None of this is real or based on any real truths, so I can enjoy it and know it. I'm not at risk of getting, like, it's fan fiction. Yes. I'm not going to start thinking about Daryl Hannah a specific way or any of these people a specific way based on it. So I guess maybe that's where I find a wonderful.

[Dax Shepard]

Live long enough to be like a fringe character in remake of some drama, you know?

[Monica Padman]

Okay, who would it be?

[Dax Shepard]

I don't know. You'd have to go, like, one of my most famous friends. Like, if they did a movie about Ashton and Mila, somehow I was like, I made a couple scenes.

[Monica Padman]

Yeah. You'd be there, and then they painted

[Dax Shepard]

me, like, ERA in cra. Crazy.

[Monica Padman]

Well, then you'd be like, that's accurate.

[Dax Shepard]

They just mention I love snowmobiles and you can say whatever you want about me.

[Monica Padman]

Yeah, no, but yeah, like, if they. So if they, like, portrayed you as very dumb, it would be, like, to service the Ashton story. Right. Which. That was the point of this. She's a sidekick character. Because the point is to get it. Get him to Carolyn.

[Dax Shepard]

You want him to be with Carolyn.

[Monica Padman]

Exactly. So if they had you as, like, an idiot and it was to service some story for Ashton, like, it would suck. It would be like, that's not true at all. And now people think that about me and I'm alive. You're al. I'm saying you would say, like, and now people have this impression of me. I'm still a person and out in the world.

[Dax Shepard]

Well, that is what ultimately kept me from getting to do the show this. Best thing I've ever written. A false history of Daryl Hall.

[Monica Padman]

Oh, right.

[Dax Shepard]

And I had met with Daryl seven times. You know, seven. I met with him several times, and we got along great. And the conceit of the show is this is not his life. But I'm going to. I'm going to explain this catalog of 40 hit songs in story and give them these fantastical origins.

[Monica Padman]

No, I love this.

[Dax Shepard]

While plotting this bigger arc of his life, which wasn't his. His life at all. And then the tit of the show is going to be a false history of Daryl Hall.

[Monica Padman]

Yeah, yeah.

[Dax Shepard]

And, you know, somewhat understandably, he's like, you know, at the 11th hour, he's like, yeah, I just, like. I'm afraid people won't distinguish that.

[Monica Padman]

I understand.

[Dax Shepard]

And then, like, what if it's huge and then he's dead and who knows what thing people want?

[Monica Padman]

It's literally in the title.

[Dax Shepard]

I know it's in the title. Yeah. I mean, look, I thought it was very clear and that there was nothing to it and it would be very fun and such a fun and weird way to celebrate that amazing catalog.

[Monica Padman]

Yeah, yeah, that's. I think, in that case, I understand. It's your personal.

[Dax Shepard]

I'm gonna give the listener an example of one of the episodes.

[Monica Padman]

Okay.

[Dax Shepard]

All right. You know the song One on One, I wanna spin I wanna play that game tonight One on one I knew I know it. Yeah. So one on One. So it's a beautiful love song. We all know this is a beautiful love song. But really, in that episode, Daryl shows up to a show at the Roxy. They're gonna do this small thing for this, like, review thing. And as he shows up, he notices three guys unloading equipment from the bus. And they're not the roadies, and so he tries to stop them. It's three dudes stealing all the equipment, and they jump him at the beginning of the episode.

[Monica Padman]

Okay.

[Dax Shepard]

And they need a song. Like, there's always a thing. He needs a song. Blah, blah, blah. The whole rest of the episode, which is following the other grander arc of the thing. Then there's just some kind of resolution. He hears a third, and then he's walking down the street at the end of the episode, and he sees one of the guys that jumped on. And it's like, what? I want to play that game tonight. And as you're listening to those lyrics, you realize, oh, it could also very much be about finding the dude and being so excited to finally take on one of them.

[Monica Padman]

That's Great.

[Dax Shepard]

Yeah. So they all. All these things that you thought were about this. It's this exaggerated thing. It really was about. And it was so fun to write. Yeah.

[Monica Padman]

I think you could have done it.

[Dax Shepard]

And now I'm just too old.

[Monica Padman]

What if when he dies, it's even worse?

[Dax Shepard]

I wanted to play him. I. It would be hard for me to watch someone else play him. Well. Because we're both tall and blonde and when this thing was. Had legs. I think I was 40 when this was really in full.

[Monica Padman]

Okay.

[Dax Shepard]

Swing. And he was a little older when he got famous.

[Monica Padman]

So could.

[Dax Shepard]

I couldn't tell those songs because I'm 51 and we know those songs were written in the 80s.

[Monica Padman]

Oh, well, can't you.

[Dax Shepard]

And then I'd have to watch Justin. Justin. I'd have to watch Butler.

[Monica Padman]

Austin.

[Dax Shepard]

Austin Butler do it. He would be my pick.

[Monica Padman]

What? No, that's a bad pick.

[Dax Shepard]

No. He's so handsome and tall and I met him, you know, I. Yeah. I was so smitten. Carly almost fell over.

[Monica Padman]

I know.

[Dax Shepard]

My brother said, oh, my God, you're Elvis. It was a whole thing.

[Monica Padman]

I remember. But I'm just saying. Hold on, let me look up Daryl

[Dax Shepard]

hall in the 80s 80s blue eyed soul.

[Monica Padman]

Okay. Austin Butler.

[Dax Shepard]

What's the matter? No, because he.

[Monica Padman]

This guy is a real face.

[Dax Shepard]

Like me.

[Monica Padman]

Exactly.

[Dax Shepard]

Like a real normal face.

[Monica Padman]

Why don't you use AI?

[Dax Shepard]

Like I could have played him.

[Monica Padman]

Yes, you definitely could have.

[Dax Shepard]

I had that hairdo. Yeah, I got the blue eyes.

[Monica Padman]

Okay. I don't think this. This is dead in the water. I think that.

[Dax Shepard]

Or I could play Jono. What do you think?

[Monica Padman]

You could go either way.

[Dax Shepard]

But I think I wanted.

[Monica Padman]

That would be fun.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Dax Shepard]

I really wanted pain you to play.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Yeah.

[Dax Shepard]

Okay.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Well, it looks like Jorma.

[Dax Shepard]

Sure, sure.

[Monica Padman]

Yeah. I think that you guys could do this and use the new AI technology to make you look younger, but it's still you. I. You know, Ben just sold. Sold a big company to Netflix, so I think you could do this.

[Dax Shepard]

Okay, I'll do it.

[Monica Padman]

Okay.

[Dax Shepard]

That doesn't change how Daryl feels about

[Monica Padman]

it, but maybe time is changing.

[Dax Shepard]

Oh. The thing is, is, by the way, I could do this. He's a public figure, so. And. And there is a version where I could have done it without his permission, but I need the music. The whole show's a celebration of the music.

[Monica Padman]

Would you that. Would you.

[Dax Shepard]

I wouldn't want it.

[Monica Padman]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Dax Shepard]

But the. The. There's no show without the music.

[Monica Padman]

Yeah. Did you ever think about doing it with another Musical figure that would say yes to it.

[Dax Shepard]

Well, the reason I didn't is because, you know, I had this like four year obsession with Daryl Hall. Hall and Oates, but Daryl Hall. I just. I, like, I. It was such an obsession that I was like, I'm being called to do something more than just listen. Listen to the music. Which is how I came up with the idea. I'm like, oh, I want to be more involved with this music than just listening to it.

[Monica Padman]

Yeah.

[Dax Shepard]

And I don't. I don't feel that way about the catalog of Sabrina Carpenter Sabrines. You could play her. Still brainy. Yeah. My window's closing of people I could play. You know, that's just. That's just a fact.

[Monica Padman]

New. A new category is opening up.

[Dax Shepard]

But no one's very proud, prolific in this period. Like, no one's trying to watch the third act of a famous singer's life. You know, you want to see the rhymes.

[Monica Padman]

You can be in the. You're not in the flashbacks, but you're in the current day.

[Dax Shepard]

Oh, boy. Okay, so it's me, current day, and then Austin Butler when we flashback.

[Monica Padman]

Okay, I think we can do some facts now.

[Dax Shepard]

Oh, I've done Ike Barinholtz. Fact.

[Monica Padman]

Yeah. Yes.

[Dax Shepard]

And I did his show.

[Monica Padman]

That's right.

[Dax Shepard]

Since he was on.

[Monica Padman]

And how was it?

[Dax Shepard]

So much fun. So much fun.

[Monica Padman]

You got caught.

[Dax Shepard]

I got a couple. Oh, I got several wrong. Is that what you mean?

[Monica Padman]

Yeah. But you said you thought you were. You were tricked on one.

[Dax Shepard]

Well, I was. He doesn't understand what anthropology is. Yeah. He got it confused with history, which is fine.

[Monica Padman]

Sure.

[Dax Shepard]

I did end up. I did end up getting it, even though I didn't really deserve it. Abigail Gilgamesh.

[Monica Padman]

My take on that was. You extra deserve it because it's actually not your skill set. And you still knew.

[Dax Shepard]

I didn't even give a great example to him when I was explaining why that wasn't anthropology. He's like, but isn't. Isn't. It's a study of man. I go, yeah, it's a study of man, but mostly the evolution to, you know, but really I was like, it's the study of man. Before we wrote and had written records of man. We don't need to. We don't need to do detective work. History historians tell us what happened in those periods through the written record. Yeah, it's pre. Written record that we're trying to figure out.

[Monica Padman]

Ouch.

[Dax Shepard]

Obviously it's not bothering me anymore.

[Monica Padman]

Clearly. Okay. The Moon river Fletch. Reference 1990. 5 movie Fletch.

[Dax Shepard]

Chevy Chase, not 1995.

[Monica Padman]

Oh my God. 1985. My eyes.

[Dax Shepard]

Oopsies.

[Monica Padman]

Cr. The song Moon river while undergoing a humiliating invasive rectal examination by a doctor. Yeah, and there's a video.

[Dax Shepard]

Play it. Drop your shorts and bend over, Mitch Babar. There we go. Oh, no, really, we don't need to. I. We don't want to do that, so. You know, my kidneys feel a lot better in this position. Maybe it's just that I'm not doing any calisthenics. You know, if I did some sit ups in the morning or bent over like this, I'd probably feel 100% Moon River. Thank you, Doc. Ever serve time? Breathe easy. Breathe easy.

[Monica Padman]

Oh, wow. There's more.

[Dax Shepard]

I was able to get that policy. I know there's a history of cancer in the family. There is? Yeah, as a matter of fact. Using the whole fist. Doc, just relax. Okay, that's enough.

[Monica Padman]

That's funny. I've never seen that movie.

[Dax Shepard]

You haven't? Well, I'm going to show it to Lincoln if you want to join.

[Monica Padman]

Okay.

[Dax Shepard]

You know, it's in a three way check tie with my top comedies.

[Monica Padman]

I know you love it. What year did Chevy Chase's talk show start and how long did it run? 1993 on Fox. It was canceled after six weeks. 29 episodes. His deal was supposedly $3 million. It was the first late night talk show on Fox since the Late show hosted by Joan rivers in 98. Ben Arsenio hall and Ross Schaefer. And it was the last until 2006. Talk show with Spike Far debuted. Then it got canceled because they promised 5 to 6 million viewers nightly, but delivered fewer than 2. The show's audience was generally misbehaved and the chairwoman of Fox Broadcasting said, quote, the show was uncomfortable and embarrassing to watch.

[Dax Shepard]

Oh boy.

[Monica Padman]

Ouch.

[Dax Shepard]

Not a great review. I didn't see it, so I don't have an opinion.

[Monica Padman]

Okay, Santa Khan, now I'm going to pull back the curtain here, okay? We're doing some fact checks in advance.

[Dax Shepard]

Uh huh.

[Monica Padman]

Which means I didn't pull these facts.

[Dax Shepard]

Okay.

[Monica Padman]

Santa Con is an annual bar crawl where?

[Dax Shepard]

I'm confused.

[Monica Padman]

You'll see.

[Dax Shepard]

Okay.

[Monica Padman]

Santa is an annual bar crawl where people dress as Santa in hundreds of cities around the world. It came to the US in 96 to Portland, and in 2013 it was in 300 cities globally. 30,000 people participated in the New York City 2012 event in parentheses. I, Sophia, am embarrassed to say I have participated in it. In my defense, it Happened to land on my 21st birthday.

[Dax Shepard]

Oh, how fun. Sophia was a part of Santa Crawl.

[Monica Padman]

Santa Con.

[Dax Shepard]

Santa Con.

[Monica Padman]

Yeah. Yes, she was.

[Dax Shepard]

I wonder what the arrest rate is. It might be the highest per capita of any distinguished group.

[Monica Padman]

I just. Can you imagine seeing all these drunk Santas peen in their.

[Dax Shepard]

Their Santa pants and stuff?

[Monica Padman]

Do you think Sophia was wearing a Santa costume?

[Dax Shepard]

Yes, I do.

[Monica Padman]

Wow. Or an elf.

[Dax Shepard]

Or. Miss.

[Monica Padman]

You probably got to go with Santa.

[Dax Shepard]

Yeah. It's not elf. Kh.

[Monica Padman]

Right. It's not.

[Dax Shepard]

It's not Mrs. Claus. We didn't even give her a first. Although he doesn't have a first name, so Santa. That's his last name.

[Monica Padman]

No, Claus.

[Dax Shepard]

Sorry. Yes. Stand corrected. Well, but does she have a name?

[Monica Padman]

Saint Cl. I mean, yeah, St. Claus, but Santa Claus, and then she doesn't have one.

[Dax Shepard]

Mrs. Claude. Her first name is Mrs. Yeah.

[Monica Padman]

What is the Dakota Johnson, Tilda Swinton movie Luca directed? There are two. They're both in two.

[Dax Shepard]

Oh, my goodness.

[Monica Padman]

A Bigger Splash, which was in 2015, and Suspiria in 2018.

[Dax Shepard]

Have you seen either?

[Monica Padman]

No, but I did. Did want to see Suspiria because it. They're like dancers, and it's. I think it's scary.

[Dax Shepard]

Oh, Tom York did the soundtrack for Suspiria.

[Monica Padman]

Oh, cool.

[Dax Shepard]

You know who that is?

[Monica Padman]

Yeah. Oh, he's a big musician.

[Dax Shepard]

Oh, my God.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Wait, what?

[Dax Shepard]

Radiohead singer of Radiohead, you say? Tom. Y. Tom York. Oh, okay. York. Yeah.

[Monica Padman]

I knew it was a lead singer of a big band because Rob said that. That before.

[Dax Shepard]

Great. I. I like his independent stuff even more than Radiohead.

[Monica Padman]

Oh, wow.

[Dax Shepard]

Yeah.

[Monica Padman]

What was the. Okay, what was the band that did Stereophonic?

[Dax Shepard]

Oh, it was Will Butler who was in Arcade Fire.

[Monica Padman]

Arcade Fire, Okay. Because. Ding, ding, ding. Sarah Pigeon, who plays Carolyn Bassette Kennedy in Love Story, was in Stereophonic.

[Dax Shepard]

Oh, wow. Multi hyphenate.

[Monica Padman]

Yep. What is the Ryan Murphy with two Ryan Murphy. Ding, ding, ding. Didn't even mean to. With two Coopers in it. She couldn't find a movie with two Coopers in it. The. The Menendez story has Cooper Cock and Eric Menendez.

[Dax Shepard]

All right. Because there's two Coopers in his. In Ike's movie.

[Monica Padman]

Yeah.

[Dax Shepard]

Show Running Point, there's two actors named Cooper. Oh, I think. And I said, you got two Cooper Coopers. That's pretty rare.

[Monica Padman]

Oh, and he said.

[Dax Shepard]

He said Bradley Cooper was in Ryan Murphy. He was in Nip Tuck.

[Monica Padman]

Oh, that's right.

[Dax Shepard]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's right.

[Monica Padman]

Early days. Now, I think you don't be Mad at me because I didn't check this fact. Okay, okay. The fact is, did the government go to Lamborghini and ask them to make the tractors? Was it Ducati?

[Dax Shepard]

Not tractors, military equipment. They were a tractor company that got asked to make military equipment.

[Monica Padman]

Okay, I'm just going to read what this says.

[Dax Shepard]

Okay, okay, okay.

[Monica Padman]

No. Lamborghini Trattori is an agricultural machinery manufacturer founded in 1948. Lamborghini was founded in 1963 after Ferrucci Lamborghini had a fight with Enzo Ferrari about the faulty clutch in his Ferrari 250 GT. Maybe what Dax is talking about. Following World War II, the Italian government took control of Ducati and shifted them into motorcycle manufacturing, starting with the Cucciolo moped.

[Dax Shepard]

That's what I'm thinking of.

[Monica Padman]

Right?

[Dax Shepard]

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's. That's it.

[Monica Padman]

I love it when Sophia does the facts.

[Dax Shepard]

Yeah, it's great.

[Monica Padman]

You can't get even mad at me.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Yeah.

[Monica Padman]

Okay. Fun facts about capybaras. Biggest rodent in the world.

[Dax Shepard]

150 pounds.

[Monica Padman]

Yep. 4ft long. 2ft tall.

[Dax Shepard]

4ft long.

[Monica Padman]

That's disgusting.

[Dax Shepard]

Your height. Well, virtually. It's more heavier than you. It's bigger than you. It is.

[Monica Padman]

It is heavier.

[Dax Shepard]

It's a rodent bigger than you.

[Monica Padman]

You. Okay. Found primarily in Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia, Argentina. Lives in rivers, lakes, marshes, flooded grassland. So they're great swimmers. Not like me. They practice. Oh. Eating their own poop.

[Dax Shepard]

Oh, wow.

[Monica Padman]

Yeah, they can live in groups of up to 100 in some places. You can have them as a pet.

[Dax Shepard]

Maybe I'll get one in Nashville. Roaming around the yard.

[Monica Padman]

Sophia added a little tell Kayla. Really? Cuoco.

[Dax Shepard]

Oh, smart. Smart.

[Monica Padman]

Oh, wow. It says supposedly there was something called a Jose Fortigaggia monster. An extinct rodent species that may have weighed over a thousand pounds.

[Dax Shepard]

Oh, yes.

[Monica Padman]

Ding, ding, ding. Wow. Probably right after Pangea.

[Dax Shepard]

Probably in the megafauna era of the Pleistocene when we had giant sloths and moly mammoths.

[Monica Padman]

Yeah. And yeah, probably was the caning of Michael Fay in Singapore because of chewing gum.

[Dax Shepard]

Oh, you're right. No.

[Monica Padman]

American student teenager Michael Fay did violate the vandalism act, but not with chewing gum. He was arrested for stealing road signs and vandalizing 18 cars over a 10 day period. In September 1993, he pled guilty, but later rescinded his plea to the vandalizing but not the roadsides. To avoid caning, his sentence was reduced from six to four can strikes.

[Dax Shepard]

Cane strikes.

[Monica Padman]

She forgot an E. And it was carried out in 1994. He also was sentenced to four months in jail and a fine of $3,500. At the time, equivalent to $2,230. The student who pleaded not guilty was sentenced to eight months in prison and 12 strokes. Interestingly, many months after returning to the US he suffered burns to his hands and face after a butane incident incited butane abuse in his rebel. In his rehabilitation program, he says that snuffing butane made him forget what happened in Singapore. Ooh. In 1992, Singapore did ban the sale, import, and manufacture of chewing gum to reduce vandalism and litter. Chewing gum is not legal in Singapore, but selling or importing can lead to fines in the thousands. Still true today. Oh, I'm so sorry. Chewing gum is not illegal in Singapore.

[Dax Shepard]

Oh, it's not.

[Monica Padman]

But selling or importing can lead to fines in the thousands. Still true today.

[Dax Shepard]

Okay, so you can't get it. You can't buy it. So it's.

[Monica Padman]

So it's virtually not. It's like tobacco Easter egg for something else. That another. Another episode.

[Dax Shepard]

Yeah. But I'm really glad my mother and I were still outlaws and smuggled gum in.

[Monica Padman]

Yeah.

[Dax Shepard]

Also, you present me with jail time versus caning Cane away.

[Monica Padman]

Oh, yeah.

[Dax Shepard]

Right.

[Monica Padman]

I agree.

[Dax Shepard]

Yeah. Let's get Kane.

[Monica Padman]

But I don't want any of it. No, I just wanted.

[Dax Shepard]

But I prefer it to. To. If I have incarceration.

[Monica Padman]

Yeah, that's it. Great job, Sophia. On the facts.

[Dax Shepard]

Love it. And we love. Like, Barinholtz.

[Monica Padman]

Yeah.

[Dax Shepard]

We sure do continue to love him. And he'll be back.

[Monica Padman]

He'll always be back.

[Dax Shepard]

For. We can count on it.

[Monica Padman]

All right.

[Dax Shepard]

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