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Dax Shepard

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“Well, they should read my autobiography, horsepower, story. No, I'm on Instagram, I think just under my name, Dax Shepherd. And then, yeah, and then armchair expert, if anyone would like to listen to the podcast, it's on all of the, so Rob tells me it's on all of the many platforms people consume their podcasts on. And yeah, I think that's it for me. I hate Twitter. I'm on it, but only to promote the show. What a cancerous.”
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“Sadly, I think the people that need to hear it the most are us boys. And yet only girls are listening. I feel like we're the ones that just, you know, it's all about weakness and strength for us. It's so stupid.”
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“Be as kind and forgiving to yourself as you are to the people you love. I'm pretty fucking brutal to myself, and I'll listen to a guy in a meeting share the exact same thing I just did. And I'm like, oh, that poor guy, it's hard. Course that happened. But for me, I'm like, you are the piece of I always knew you were. Here's more proof. You don't deserve love from anyone.”
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“Wow, that's a big one. I feel like that would take me like a couple weeks to come up with the right answer for that. Let's see. Let's see. So I'm driving on the road. I'm going to see a billboard. And what would I most want to see? Okay, I got it. I think it's the message I most need to hear.”
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“Well, even if you go through your own life, right, and you think of the times you got exactly what you wanted and then the times you didn't get the thing you wanted, and what I know most is that I don't know what's best for me. The things I got that I wanted did not turn out or result in anything I had forecast or dreamt of. And yet all these things I didn't want to do. I didn't want to be on TV. I had decided in my egotistical mind I was a movie actor. I didn't want to be in TV. I reluctantly was on this show parenthood because I was at a lull in my career. Best experience I've ever had as an actor. Opened up the doors for me to act in so many other ways. And, you know, I got to do the exact thing I want to do ride wheels on motorcycles in a movie I directed. And it fucking didn't turn out.”
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“So, like this thing that I had no desire to do and this complete collapse of this identity I had and desire turned out to be something that allows me to be with my kids a ton. I'm at home all the time. My wife can take work out of town if she wants. I can travel and do this. This life that came out of this epic failure, this 20-year pursuit turned out to be something better than I had even thought to imagine. I didn't even know that this could exist. So yeah, that's a very obvious one for me now that I look back and go like, fucking, thank God that thing failed. I would have been writing that movie, then directing that movie, then trying to get them to give me $100 million to do this one. And by the way, movie business is collapsing, so I would have been doing all that. And in a time, it's almost impossible to do that. So, yeah, I got so lucky in that thing not performing crazy enough.”
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“I'll never be holding an Emmy over my head, but I can relate if that person cheated on someone they loved and regretted. I can relate to the failures that led up to that. That's something I can learn from. And that's how I learn from people in AA. I don't ever learn from someone telling some victory story. It's always how they fucked up and realized it. And so now in hindsight, you know, had I had the thing I wanted, which was a being a writer director, It's so time consuming. My kids were One in three when I finish that movie, maybe two and four. And I would have been gone. I would have taken bigger movies. I would have been way more into that. Ironically, I would have ended up making less money.”
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“Commission chips two. I was already beginning to write that. And I got very depressed. Like for three, four months, maybe more, I started doing math and thinking, okay, could I retire now? Like, could I be done now if I live on this amount of money, blah, blah, blah. That's what I was spending most of my time thinking about is whether I was completely done. That's when I wanted to do the podcast. I was ruminating on so much stuff. I was thinking about my own life and identity and trajectory and the failure. And then I started it in the wake of that. And I think because I was so interested in failure at that time, I say often on the podcast, I have nothing to learn from someone holding a Emmy over their head.”
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“I mean, the one that jumps out immediately and is most relevant to this conversation is I was heartbroken when Chips didn't open because back to my identity crisis, I had a three-year stretch where in my mind I decided I wasn't an actor anymore, I was a writer director. And I liked that. It felt loftier. And substantively, I feel a lot more pride over having written a script than having acted. I do think it's harder. So some of it's worthwhile. But I had decided I was a writer-director, and that was going to be the next 10 years of my life. Chips had tested really high at Warner Brothers, and they immediately put me on another movie that I took over from some other people. And so I was doing that. And then overnight that ended. I did not have that identity anymore. And they had already...”
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“Well, I have a salacious personal experience, I'll tell you about that is probably inflammatory. But, you know, Marlon Brando had that island down in Borobora. And my wife shot a movie there. And we were there for six weeks. And I got to all the little islands in the atoll. I had gone on diving things and I met a lot of locals. And it is rumored there that he had had like a dozen or so kids, right? And I'm telling you, this is very anecdotal, but I personally met several people that were clearly half Brando and half Tahitian, I guess. And I thought, wouldn't it be hilarious if all of a sudden, not unlike when the Samoans overtook the NFL, if all of a sudden there was just a sweep at the Oscars for like a decade?”
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“Can I just tell you I have almost no knowledge of him other than he invent the shock troop, the stirruped rider on a horse utilizing the mass of the horse to strike other soldiers? Was that his big invention warfare-wise?”
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“I got to write it down on this little people's. So I can't spell Genghis Khan, but I'll figure it out. Genghis Khan What's the subtitle Genghis Khan”
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“Life was like that, and so just like this incredible human that I've never gotten to meet in real life that I get to meet through this book. And it's opposite of everything I assumed. And he was in a jingoistic patriot. You know, he was a, in fact, he got immediately disillusioned because he got deployed to Iraq instead of Afghanistan. He didn't think we should be in Iraq. Then he goes to Afghanistan. He's killed in friendly fire. There's a cover-up. His brother uncovers it in the family, and they speak out about it. They're like, you will not use him as the poster boy for the military because he was misled and lied to. And then he was killed by a friend. It's wild.”
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“Two, this guy has done something so dark in his past that he has to atone in this insane way. Those are my only guesses. I read that book where men win glory, and it's the Pat Tillman story, and I find out quickly it's not any of those things at all. And that this person had this level of integrity I certainly don't possess, and I don't think I've ever met anyone that has this level of integrity. Real quick, he was like last round pick to Arizona Cardinals. He becomes one of the best safeties in the league. He gets offered $8 million to go to St. Louis on a four-year contract. Arizona will only give him a one-year contract for like a million bucks, and he stays in Arizona. He's like, these people bet on me when no one would. I'm going to stay and get less money with less security because they deserve that. I wouldn't have done that. I would have fucking been shopping for a house in St. Louis or whatever team it was. And thing after thing in a...”
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“See a theme here. I love when I find out something's opposite of what I thought. It's why I like Malcolm Gladwell, right? Every single chapter is about some common sense assumption that we find out through testing is counterintuitive. I find that to be the most pleasing experience of going, oh my God, I'm dead wrong about that. I would have thought that doesn't make any sense. I love that. Pat Tillman, I remember when Pat Tillman quit the NFL and joined the army because he wanted to go to Afghanistan. And when I heard that, I thought, what could explain that? Either here were my guesses. He's either a religious zealot, and this is a crusade against Islam.”
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“Even as I'm talking to you, there was a period where he somehow took over all the shipping routes on Lake Erie. And I can't remember right now the exact mechanics of how he did that. And so that'll interest me. I'm like, how again did he get a monopoly of the Lake Erie shipping? You know, that's interesting. I want to find that out. I can't explain it. It's kind of like watching a favorite movie. It's like I enjoy it each time around. And then also I always recommend all the John Krackauer books. He's my favorite writer probably. Yeah, I wouldn't even know which one to say is the best, but where men win glory is an incredible book. Have you read that one?”
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“He was not what I would have thought. And just his weird confidences, I just loved it. And then all of the things he has impacted is there's not been an American that's had a bigger impact on life than him. There was no research medicine. That didn't exist. He funds the first research medical facility. He's the one who says, man, if you go get a procedure in Tennessee, those doctors have a totally different set of knowledge than the ones in New York. No one's doing the same thing. Why is that? Oh, because all these medical schools, they don't have a unified curriculum. Okay, who has the best curriculum in the country? John's Hopkins. What if I take that curriculum and I pay universities to adopt it? Like he unifies medicine. He gets rid of hookworm. He just tackled anything. He was so cocky and confident in the things he tackled and he succeeded.”
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“And that his approach to all these things was so unique and so confident. I don't know how this guy got this confidence. When he was running Standard Oil, which is a feat that'll never be accomplished again, I mean, the level of what he accomplishes is insane. But early on in the company, he set up a couch in his boardroom. He's a big believer in Naps. He napped every day. He napped a long time. And he would have all the board members at the table, but he'd be laying on a couch and he'd doze in and out. He'd listen to them talk. And then he just pop up with like one idea. And that was good for him. And then he walked home early that day.”
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“Seen the cover, I gotta tell you, it's a very for someone, I can already tell like you, like I'm blown away with the fact that you would have had someone go over your transcripts and point out things that you're doing wrong or that you would listen to find the errors, all the this is a very, you have such a specific commitment to betterment, which is fascinating and obviously very inspiring. That's why people adore you I would have guessed Rockefeller was one way. And then in this book, I learn he's almost the opposite of everything I would have guessed about him.”
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“Yeah, there's a number one. I can't stop talking about it. I've read it three times now. I will read it again soon. Is Titan, the Ron Cherno book about John D. Rockefeller?”
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“I don't go eight minutes into a conversation at any party, or I haven't asked, did you get molested? Or they say something and I think, oh, I'm just curious, like, oh, is one of your parents, like I noticed your husband is, he's very quiet. Was your dad quiet? Like, that's all I'm interested in. I want to know why we've all landed in these spots. And I think the clues are in your childhood. So that's all I talk about at parties, you know, and then that's all I talk about on the podcast.”
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“I'm just going to point out I've known you for 12 years. You've never brought that topic up to me, but I can tell you the topic you bring up all the time, which is like home furnishing. I know you think because you're a director or an actor or this, you should be talking about that, but you love home furnishing. That's what I know you like to talk about nonstop. Like, why isn't that what your show is? So I think first you just got to go like, what am I endlessly talking about? And I know.”
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“Of six weeks and edit it into 90 minutes. But if you're just going to drive the show, if you're the content, then it better be like being your best friend, or I just don't think it'll work. What are you thinking about right now?”
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“I'll just go, it feels a little limited to me because won't that be done in 10 episodes or won't that be done in 40, whatever. But mostly I just say like, you know, if you're going to do it, you got to make the decision that you're going to be 100% honest or it's not worth doing. And I don't think it'll work. And so often the people that are calling me are other public people. So that's kind of a big barrier for them, understandably. And I just don't know that it works unless you are. Maybe it. I mean, if you have a real procedural show, like let's say making a murder or not making a murder, but those wonderful girls who have women who have the best podcast, my favorite murder. If you're covering a case every time, yeah, I think maybe you could have a premise driven one, but you better have a research. You better be a radio lab or this American life and you got a team of journalists that are going to go out there and build this incredible show over the course.”
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“I guess he has 500 million. It's so wonderful. Like, here's a guy with 500 million sitting on a very nice toilet, presumably, and he's agitated that this other guy has a billion dollars. It's so human and wonderful. And I think most people would hide that about themselves. They wouldn't own that they're that shitty and petty. And so I guess when people call me, I'm like, yeah, the concept's great and blah, blah, blah. I may have a note or two about sustainability of a concept.”
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“And if you look at why he's so successful, is that he's just fucking brutally honest. He tells everyone what he's thinking, embarrassing stuff. I remember one time this was so great. He came in. It was a Monday morning show. He was grumpy all morning. And Robin's like, you're grumpy, huh? And he's like, yeah, yeah, I've been grumpy for two days. Why did I get grumpy? I was sitting, oh my God, I know when I got grumpy. It was right after I took a dump. I know what happened. I was reading a fucking article that said Ashton Kutcher has a billion dollars. And I was like, how the fuck, mind you, he's friends with Ashton. So the fact that he's acknowledging that that would piss him off.”
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“Well, it's interesting because I think that, yeah, the friends of mine who have reached out, they're a little bogged down in the idea, right, in the concept. And I don't think that's the relevant aspect, to be honest. I don't think if you give a one-line description of why Howard Stern's been on the radio for 40 years successfully, it's not like shock jock, who's not afraid to throw baloney at people. I don't know how you sum that up. The concepts are irrelevant. It's him”
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“And it was Bill Gates, and I think he was the number one guy I would have wanted to talk to. But of course, I would love to talk to Obama. I mean, that would be awesome. And then Bill Murray, I just, you know, I'm pretty obsessed with Bill Murray and I know he doesn't do anything either. So the odds of that happening are very, very slim. But yeah, I would love to talk to Bill Murray. He's a North Star as far as just like, like I said, I brought him up at the beginning, like, breathe. Believe in yourself, be calm. It'll happen.”
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“I guarantee if you give it five minutes, you're going to plow through all four episodes. It's so good. He is one of the most fascinating people to ever live on planet Earth. There's no question. So I just am obsessed with him. And we didn't invite him on. I just talk about him a lot because I'm obsessed with him. And someone from his team called and said, would you guys want Bill Gates? And Monica called better than if she had just hit the lottery. It was like, you are not going to believe you just has to be on the show. And my first thought was like Obama or Bill Gates. Like, who would I not believe?”
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“Well, I got to say, the most shocking event of my life, it's the only guest I've called my mom to brag about that I knew was coming was Bill Gates. I just, I saw that documentary on Netflix. I don't know if you've seen that Inside Bill's mind?”
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“But I just know as a fan of the show and someone who knows him personally He doesn't want to do anything. And I get it. I get it. You know, I want to do less and less. And I imagine with more and more success, I'll want to do even less. And so I know he doesn't want to be on this show. I have faith that if he were on it, he'd enjoy himself and not regret it as much as he thought he was going to. But I just know he doesn't want to. So I just would now I have his email. I've never asked him to be on the show. I will never ask him to be on the show. Hopefully, I have said to Baba Buoy once, look, he's promoting this book. Our audience fucking buys books, man. That's why we get experts. There's a huge uptick if someone comes on the show with book sales. So I'm not even saying I want a favor. I'm just saying if he wants to sell a lot of books, the door's open. And I just left it at that. But that was as far as I would go with inviting him.”
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“No, I'd be delighted to owe him a favor. Don't get me wrong. I would want to owe him a favor. But I want to add one thing, a gift he has that you and I don't have, which is he is the most skilled. There's no question. Also, he has a status that you and I don't have that actually has, no matter who he's interviewing, in deep desire of his approval, which is incredible. There couldn't be a more powerful, I think Letterman had that. People would go out there and they really wanted Dave. I certainly was dying for Dave to like me when I was on the show. It was way more about getting him to like me than whatever was happening with the audience or what movie I was supposed to promote. Singular goal, I want Dave Letterman to like me. And I think he benefits from that a lot, Howard Stern. I know I wanted him to like me when I went on. I don't think when people sit down with the URI, it's like, it's going to make or break their year whether we ultimately like them or not. So I think we have more of an uphill battle.”
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“Passionate interest in people is infectious, and there are many people he's had on that I think I don't like them going into it. And I got to say with the exception of maybe three of his guests, and I've listened to several hundred interviews, I like the person more after he talks to them. There's only a few times I was like, oh, that person's kind of a dick. I wasn't expecting that. It generally goes the other way. And what I like about that is like, I do believe that all these people we disagree with or they are divisive, I do believe we were stuck somewhere with them and talked to them for two hours that just the humanity takes over. We're so much more similar than we are different. And I just find his thing like oddly life affirming and encouraging. Like, oh yeah, I do like that person. Oh, I thought this person was this. No, they're a person who's afraid their kids are going to turn out shitty and that this and that.”
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“Well, the thing that you're almost guaranteed to get in every single stern interview is the person's going to say something they've never said before. You know, like if I'm a huge fan of Bill Murray or I'm a huge fan of Letterman, I mean, what could be more fascinating than Stern talking to Letterman? He doesn't talk to anybody And the notion that you're gonna learn something about them that doesn't exist anywhere else is exciting, I think. He has a monopoly on that. And then also his.”
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“Know it doesn't help when I don't know Lena Dunham gives a speech about gay rights. Her fans already feel that way. They already are in step with her. She's not going to convert anyone. And I always was just applauded him being so embracing of gay rights when his fan base, I don't think, was that way. I just think that enacted way more progress than the left talking to the left. And I think he's done that kind of bravely with like supporting Hillary and having her on the show. Most of his fans don't want to hear Hillary. So I just love that he kept the ear of people open and was very, very soft and gentle with evolving real time himself. He's had so much personal evolution. And I think taking his audience along for that ride in a really unique way. I don't think too many people have done. That”
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“Meditation. He doesn't really drink. He eats perfect. He's in love with his wife and it just monogamous to the core. I loved this dichotomy of him. I thought it's interesting that he's speaking to all these guys, yet is seemingly kind of different than his fan base. And I also credit him for doing more for, say, gay rights, something I've always cared a lot about.”
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“Yeah, it's really interesting because I only liked him a bit when he was on terrestrial radio. You know, I wasn't someone who, hey, I was never up that early and I didn't commute anywhere. So I'd had to like turn it on in my house, which is a foreign concept to me. But once he became satellite radio, I could choose when I listened to him because it just replays. And he had also evolved enough. I don't think I would have been on board for Throw and Baloney at girls' asses and stuff. That wasn't really my jam. What I really immediately loved about him is what an amazing interviewer he is. He's just such a great interviewer. And I loved that his like, I still find this very intriguing about him is that his fan base is, I would guess, opposite of mine. I think it's mostly dudes. And so here's this guy who has this kind of dude fan base and there's a lot of sexual stuff, yet he does transcendental.”
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“I'm doing four a week or something. But so I guess I see myself maybe not taking any more on air shit or on camera stuff and just doing this all the time because it is my favorite thing to do. Although Tob Gear is insane. I just go there and I horse around in fast cars that someone else owns and then I leave and I don't have to deal with anything. I don't have to put new tires on the back of it. And people are.”
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“Just curious. Well, I have a kind of commitment to not do it just to do it, right? So this David thing is a perfect example. Oh, I loved it and I want to do it a lot now. And I don't want to just arbitrarily fill up days. I want to make sure that I'm passionate about each day and excited to switch gears from an interview to maybe something more journalistic or whatever it is. And so I am committed to that to making sure that I'm super crazy passionate about it. And then also I have some outstanding obligations. I'm on a show Top Gear that'll come out in maybe January and I have 12 more. I got a film starting in February. And I have a game show my wife and I are going to do. So there's certain things that I'll have to just be mindful of making sure they can fit within a schedule where I'm still.”
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“I'd love to do this show four days a week. I would love to give people what I get from Howard Stern, which is like, oh, I'm following this story in a dream world, Monday's Candy at some super famous person you like. And then, you know, Thursday's protein, it's the experts, but maybe Friday is we give you some weird topics we just learned about that gives you something to talk about on the weekend at your barbecue. Like, I'd love to, you know, each day have its own thing and not get stagnant and stay interesting. And I have some faith that those things will present themselves the way this conspiracy thing did.”
2020-11-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #480: Dax Shepard on the Craft of Podcasting, Favorite Books, and Dancing With Your Demons · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And he is a journalist who investigates conspiracy. So I'm talking to him and I'm having the most amount of fun I've had interviewing somebody in two years. Like it's just candy. And so I'm loving it. And then we can kind of see from the results of that episode that people also loved it. And I'm like, well, fuck, I'd love to talk to that guy once a month. And so I call him like, do you want to do this once a month? And like we'll pay you like you be a part of the show. And he's like, yeah, I'm up for that. And then we saw the response. So it's like, oh, that's awesome. That just kind of presented itself and revealed itself. And so I can't wait to do that. And then we've had a couple different things like that where it's just, oh, it worked for us. And then it appears it worked for the audience. So let's do that again. And yeah, I have the 300 mile goal of.”
2020-11-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #480: Dax Shepard on the Craft of Podcasting, Favorite Books, and Dancing With Your Demons · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, no, it totally does. I'm trying to be as smart about this thing as I can. A, don't want to lose it. And B, I would like to grow it. And so we're in this great situation where you and I have a laboratory and we can try things for very little investment, right? I'll tell you an example that just happened is I got interested in conspiracy theories. As a result of having Bill Gates on and seeing all these crazy comments, I really had no idea what the hell they meant save the children. He's a pedophile. I was like, what is going on? Right. So that kind of, I got really fascinated with conspiracy theory. So I said to Rob, hey, find us a conspiracy theory expert. And he found this guy, David Ferrara. I can't pronounce his last name. I can spell it for you. But he directed this documentary tickled that I loved. And he also has a show on Netflix called Dark Tourist.”
2020-11-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #480: Dax Shepard on the Craft of Podcasting, Favorite Books, and Dancing With Your Demons · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Limousine like Mr. Drummond, you know. So I'm experiencing that to a degree, which is like I really just get to do things I'm really excited about today and that could totally change. The podcast could go away. You know, I could be back. But currently, yeah, I get to do things I'm super interested in. Or I don't do them.”
2020-11-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #480: Dax Shepard on the Craft of Podcasting, Favorite Books, and Dancing With Your Demons · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'm lucky enough to only do stuff that I am excited to do. I don't actually have to think about the financial component. I wouldn't do something motivated out of financial insecurity, which is very new for me. It's three years old. I always, I would always be tempted to take a movie I liked less if the payday was twice as much. I've interviewed a couple people that grew up with wealth and I've watched them navigate their career and I've been envious of it. Nick Kroll comes to mind. He has so much creative integrity. He just does what fascinates him. I think he said opportunities to do quote bigger things or bigger paydays. And he's just always stayed on his path of what makes what entertains him. And I just envied that. And he grew up with a ton of money. He said when I interviewed him, his fucking dad drove the school.”
2020-11-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #480: Dax Shepard on the Craft of Podcasting, Favorite Books, and Dancing With Your Demons · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's given me this insane freedom because I also grew up quite broke for a period of time and my family was very obsessed with climbing the financial ladder. So I'm obsessed with money and I have great fear and financial insecurity irrational, completely irrational. I've had numbers throughout my whole life. I had this amount of number. I'd feel safe. If I had this amount of money, I'd feel safe. And then I never felt safe. So first, I just want to own that it's a complete fear. But having a source of income that has nothing to do with movies or television or commercials is so liberating for me because now really I only”
2020-11-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #480: Dax Shepard on the Craft of Podcasting, Favorite Books, and Dancing With Your Demons · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Show them who you actually are. You're better off being at the job where you being actually you is wanted than you trying to be fucking Eddie Haskell and everyone finds out eight months later, oh guess what this guy does not like doing research on the weekends That's not his bag.”
2020-11-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #480: Dax Shepard on the Craft of Podcasting, Favorite Books, and Dancing With Your Demons · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And that may or may not work for you. I won't take it personally as I hope you won't take it personally that I don't want to go and shove a banana peel up my ass to get a laugh. That's just not what I want to do. So maybe neither of us want to do what each other wants to do. But occasionally, those things are going to overlap beautifully. And the more I've just been able to go, I'm excited to go show them this interpretation I have of this writing. And that'll be that. It's just the outcome's gotten a lot better once I switched into that mindset. I think that goes for a job interview too, by the way. I think if you go there.”
2020-11-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #480: Dax Shepard on the Craft of Podcasting, Favorite Books, and Dancing With Your Demons · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“At it in theory, but they're just not right. They don't, there's something, I don't know what it is. So recognizing it's not personal helped from being on the other side of it. And then also tricking myself into, if I love acting, if that's what I'm claiming I am as someone who loves to act, an audition's just an opportunity to go act. So I just get to go act. And that's something I'm supposed to love. So if I don't love going and acting in front of people, then I'm probably doing the wrong thing. To see the audition itself is an end in itself. Like I get to go act. And then I also have this point of view now, which is like I'm going to show you what I would love to do in this movie or TV show. And you may or may not like that. And that may or may not be right for this TV show. And that'll be okay. Because I really only want to do this thing. And so getting ownership over it. It's like I'd like to go be in your movie and act like this.”
2020-11-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #480: Dax Shepard on the Craft of Podcasting, Favorite Books, and Dancing With Your Demons · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“For audition. A couple things I've been lucky enough that I've cast things now, and I do know now that so often it's not about how good or bad you did. People are right or wrong for stuff. You know, someone could have been much better”
2020-11-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #480: Dax Shepard on the Craft of Podcasting, Favorite Books, and Dancing With Your Demons · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“To have. I didn't know enough about podcasting to know if I was a failure or a success. I can tell you what a successful comedy movie is that you spent $25 million on. I know you have to hit $13,5 that opening weekend for, you know, but I didn't really know that. So I wasn't even thinking about it. It's probably the thing in my life that has been purest in that it was really just about the experience and not about the results. And then lo and behold, I ended up with good results when I didn't care, which is so confusing. I try to tell this to like, I have no advice for actors, but one is just you got to somehow convince yourself you don't care if you get cast in this thing. That's the only way you'll be good in the audition. So you got to somehow trick yourself. I don't know how you're going to do it, but I found a method for me to do it. And yeah, that kind of seems to be the case here.”
2020-11-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #480: Dax Shepard on the Craft of Podcasting, Favorite Books, and Dancing With Your Demons · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT