Kristen Bell
Appearances
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Josh Gad Returns
I sure hope there weren't any mistakes in that episode, but we'll find out when my mom, Mrs. Monica, comes in and tells us what was wrong. Burberry?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Best of Monday 2024
He said, I want to, but I can't because her parents work at Dairy Queen. And then, you know, that got back to me. And then I was like, oh, I see. so they can't. It's not that they don't want to. It's just, okay, this thing about me has made it actually impossible for love. And then that really, really detoured the rest of my life.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Best of Monday 2024
I don't know how much I can keep in of the story I'm about to say. We had someone on this show who was flirting with me. I was like, yeah, he's flirting, but I know he's not so interested. Like, I know. And we left and Dax was like, he's going to ask you out. And I was like, I mean, maybe, whatever. And did Letterman call you? Actually, yeah.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Best of Monday 2024
Okay, so he didn't, right? Well, hold on. Like, this went nowhere. And I actually was kind of mad at you when it went nowhere. Hold on a second.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Best of Monday 2024
That would have been more clear. I would have liked that. It wasn't clear. No, and that's also not what happened. He texted right after we recorded and said like, hey, I got you or something. I'm sorry? I know. That's like new slang. I'm learning it too. What does it mean? Like, I got your number. That's flirty to me.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Best of Monday 2024
Then I texted him, and then I was flirting. Did you say you up? That's what everyone says. That's the go-to.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Best of Monday 2024
I texted him, and I was flirty, and then there was no response.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Best of Monday 2024
I was mad at you first because I was an easy target. And then I really was honest with myself. And I was like, man, this is why I don't do this.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Best of Monday 2024
Yeah, because I know. Listen, stop. So he so, you know, it's like he likes you. That was me protecting myself. And then I was like, you know what? No, I am going to text him. I am going to flirt. And then full ghosting was like, oh, yeah, this is why you don't do this.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Best of Monday 2024
But it doesn't penetrate. Yeah, it's true. Did you have a thing that I've figured out I have in therapy, which is I seek specifically white male approval so much because that was who was rejecting me all the time. Oh, God. I have to think about that one.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Best of Monday 2024
Exciting. We pulled together 10 of our favorites.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Best of Monday 2024
And it just pulls out the thing in the other person that they don't even know. It's so under the surface. And all of a sudden this like recluse is crying and opening. It's unbelievable.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Best of Monday 2024
Oh, I love this. That makes me love Steven Spielberg.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Best of Monday 2024
He gave them a percentage of their— But this, like, 12-year-old boy, like, they could have easily been like, meh.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Best of Monday 2024
This is the best story I've ever heard. This is so special. I know you know it because you reflect on it a lot and you give a lot of gratitude vocally. But how wonderful.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Best of Monday 2024
That must be so annoying. It is. That every time you do a project and you're doing these incredible roles and incredible work and the rumors that come out are always about who you're fucking or who you're dating. Right.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Best of Monday 2024
I was like, oh my God, that is fucking so cool. That's life, right?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Best of Monday 2024
Does she respect the balance? Does she like that they're up?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Best of Monday 2024
That's a tremendous amount of empathy for a six-year-old. Most kids looked around and they were like, yikes, that's bad, but I have to protect myself. At that age, we're all just trying to survive elementary school and middle school, trying to get through it. And so to bring people in is very rare.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Best of Monday 2024
I do, because I thought you were saying ringworm. That's like an intestinal disease, and it could be that, too.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Best of Monday 2024
But I kind of like that she called, you can call it a rain worm if you want.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Best of Monday 2024
It is. Yeah, I like that. But she's also said that about her wedding because they got married at the courthouse and she wore just like a cute outfit. And people asked like, oh, you didn't want to get dressed up? And she was like, I get to do that a lot for my job. So this got to be a different thing.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Best of Monday 2024
I do. But mine's reality. So it's like not cool to call it a story. That was great. Well, yeah, I grew up in, you know, God, how many times? She's never heard it. You can cut it out. Grew up in Georgia, all white. The boys didn't like me. me. Same experience, by the way. Yeah.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Best of Monday 2024
Well, that was the culmination. Okay. It wasn't, there were lots of things that were telling me, Oh, uh-oh, being brown isn't so great in this environment. And then it culminated in sixth grade. And this boy said he couldn't date me because my parents worked at Dairy Queen, which they don't. But Indians worked at the Dairy Queen or ran the Dairy Queen, I guess. Owned. Owned, probably. Franchised.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Adam Scott Returns
And everyone's like, I know, I know. Totally. I totally agree.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Chelsea Handler Returns Again
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Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Chelsea Handler Returns Again
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Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Chelsea Handler Returns Again
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Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Chelsea Handler Returns Again
But I read there was an op-ed in the L.A. Times. And let me start by saying I do respect everyone's opinion and they're all allowed to have their own opinion. But I just in my bones vehemently so disagreed with this because it said the Grammys were trying to give credit credit to the firefighters and ended up using everyone involved in the fire as pawns, basically.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Chelsea Handler Returns Again
And I sat there and I thought, was that true? Let me think about it. Let me read a little bit of this. And after reading it, I thought, what is the alternative? That they don't mention the L.A. fires at all and that they don't raid $7 million? Or let me give you an even crueler alternative.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Chelsea Handler Returns Again
that they have a charity event with no Grammy artists, no celebrities whatsoever, that nobody watches, and then $100 is raised. And I'm like so clearly going to choose the utilitarian outcome there. But it did make me think that about how saccharine it can become, and you don't want anyone to feel like they're used as pawns, but there is no alternative.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Chelsea Handler Returns Again
And I, for one, liked seeing how much they were saying thank you for seeing our area. Yeah.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Chelsea Handler Returns Again
You know, everyone here, particularly the Grammys, because musicians are known to have things like band aid. You know, all the we are the world like the they're known to band together and raise money for causes with their art way more than actors are.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Chelsea Handler Returns Again
I said don't invite any actors. Just invite firefighters. It didn't. That'd be a hot room.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Chelsea Handler Returns Again
I'm going to push back a tiny bit on virtue signaling. I also don't like it. I also have a lot of experience in the philanthropy space, which I've been in since I've been 25 years old. And let me start by saying, never is there bigger egos than in the philanthropy space. For sure. But as we've learned... Cricks?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Chelsea Handler Returns Again
They're here to stay. There's nothing we can do.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Chelsea Handler Returns Again
As we've learned that emotions are contagious, which is proven, and we are chimps and we watch our alphas, dare I say without virtue signaling, kindness, compassion, empathy, giving, generosity might not travel at the speed it travels Unless people talk about it. And there's obviously a fine line because you want to do it with humility. And it needs to be genuine. It needs to be genuine.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Chelsea Handler Returns Again
I have needed a lot of your guidance over the years and yours, Monica, because I'm so like just ready to wear my heart on my sleeve and be like and just believe any story without a second thought. And I've needed both of you to talk me off a ledge a couple of times of like, does this really seem like the best use of your time or use of your money? Yeah, I'm grateful.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Chelsea Handler Returns Again
Right, right, right. Think about the impact.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Chelsea Handler Returns Again
You know, there's missing a very, very key component of participation. And feeling linked to... The solution. The solution.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Chelsea Handler Returns Again
So if somebody in the middle of Minnesota can donate $10, that might... This is what my aunt calls it to my mom. You actually steal her blessings if you're not allowing her to do that or him. You need to let people participate. You need to let people participate and be a part of the solution. And it's actually... Self-esteem comes from esteemable acts. Track your story.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Chelsea Handler Returns Again
No, no, we do. You're a very valuable member of this household.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Chelsea Handler Returns Again
I'm going to need an electric motorcycle ride.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Chelsea Handler Returns Again
Delta and I are both on the verge of tears the whole time. Sounds scary. And the cortisol jolts are so strong. Although I did, I did enjoy it.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
Why don't we start out with something with the three of us? We're going to hit you with one of the hot Christmas classics.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
O tidings of comfort and joy, comfort and joy! O tidings of comfort and joy! Oh my God. That's a slog.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
And who were you in the last five years with? Jeremy Jordan. What's happening?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
You know that Lincoln's like... Oh, oh, oh, oh. She's obsessed. She can't even say his name without being like, Jeremy Jordan. Oh, I see. She loves him so much. She has for Jeremy Jordan t-shirts for Christmas. Are there such t-shirts? No, but I just got one on Amazon that said Jeremy.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
I did. Yeah, I did. I did. I did end up coming home. In my mind, I'm still there. I talked to them on FaceTime and both Dax and the girls are like, you look different. You look different.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
He rides it like a Brazilian strip. Oh, yeah, you're smart. Oh, this is great.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
No, then it just gets awkward, right? When you stand up and then if it doesn't, tell me if you have this. If you stand and you go like, oh, I'm going to need to stand and you don't.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
Money, there's a sparkly hat. No, wait. You have a special one, too. What? You don't have to switch. So there's right next to you, Daddy, is a bunch of different hats. There's a sparkly version. I also got you some antler ones if you wanted. That one I got for you, Money. Oh, I had fun.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
And when we're together, it's my favorite time of year. Beautiful.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
He's crying. Did you bring anything special?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
Right before this, Gabe was mentioning the Emily Burger sauce and you said you had one more thing.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
Emily Goliath's cabaret show. That's how it's pronounced.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
We tracked on down. We shot the season finale, the series finale of The Good Place in Greece and in Paris in And when I was in Paris, I went to the flea market there and I was looking around and I loved it so much. And I saw this white terracotta chandelier that's kind of like it's huge. And it's like there's all these little like white terracotta birds all over it.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
But it's very it's kind of minimalist. It's very chic. Just trust me. And I said, how much is that? And he said, and I was like, OK, thanks so much. It was way too expensive. And then I left. But I came home talking about it. I was like, oh, Monica, I got to talk to you about decor. I saw the chandelier and I loved it so much. 10 months go by. I mean, like a very, very long time.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
Maybe even a year over. And Monica had the realization that she could track down someone who lived in Paris that I had known who could go back and see if it was still there. The masseuse you guys are both in love with?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
That's not a bit. There is a great masseuse in Paris. Laurent. I mean, half of it is just like hair play, but it is out of this world.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
No, we went to dinner. That's not normally on the docket. It's not one of the services he offers. But then Monica tracked down this chandelier from our beautiful friend Tibor, and they gave it to me for my 40th birthday, and now it hangs above my bathtub. It's so beautiful. It's so beautiful. I'm gonna. It's a really special chandelier.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
This one's a song that everyone's gonna know, but Gabe and I like this particular version, which is Mel Torme and Judy Garland, which we're gonna do it with them in mind, because it's very clear during this recording that they are sauced.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
They did it on purpose? They did. We had a field day with that growing up. We were all learning to drive. Like, where are you going to drive to? Big Beaver 69.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
Yeah, there's some word mangling. There's just, it's just.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
She really did. Did she? Yeah. Oh, yeah. What was her stroke? Well, we Britney speared her. She was the first Britney speared.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
So, yeah. So we have this little one prepared in the.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
How'd you do that? If you hit them, they'll come. You know what we need to get? Nice. A snake.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
Well, what if we brought, I got an even better idea.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
No. No, no. Do you know, have you fact checked this? Yeah, it's a real rumor. What? What if Erica brought Norbert over, their lizard? Although he, last time I heard he wasn't eating for a while and she was very nervous, yeah.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
He's on strike. Okay, so this is Garland smashed and- This is Mel and Mel Torme trying to keep it together.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
Chestnuts roasting on an open fire Jack Frost nipping at your nose Yuletide carols being sung by a choir And folks dressed up from head to toe Everybody knows a turkey and some mistletoe. make the season bright tiny tots with their eyes all aglow will find it hard to sleep tonight they know that sad
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
He's loaded lots of gifts and toys up on his sleigh And every mother's child is gonna spy To see if rainbows really know how to fly To kids from one to ninety-two. Although it's been said many times, many ways, Merry Christmas to you.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
No nod to it at all. It just, that's what she wanted to sing. It came out of her mouth. No one's going to argue with it. It's Judy Garland. Wait, that didn't really happen. Yeah, yeah. We just did the track.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
For those who don't know, it's titled The Christmas Song, but that is really, that's an incredible version. That's my favorite version and I really wanted to try it with you.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
And I think that was live because I think Mel was playing.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
Really? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, because a lot of those songs from way back when, they were just taken from live performances. They weren't like doing them in the studio. They were like, you can hear the live tracks on... Oh, man, that was funny. That was delish.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
On my word of the day today, it was bah humbug.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
And I learned the full meaning. In the 17th century, 18th century, somewhere on the cusp, Ba essentially meant not, right? It was a sign of disagreement. And humbug meant a hoax or a befooling trick. So if you didn't like the merry season, you'd say not. This is a hoax.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
Jacob's not eating, so I'm going to give him his present.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
Wow! Jacob, we're looking for someone to turn the entire show over to.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
You put them in the freezer overnight and take them out when they're cold and put them directly on. is when leather's cold, as it will sort of, I guess, melt, essentially, it will form to your foot.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
I especially love that the sorting hat is wearing a Christmas hat. Oh my God. It's very, it's a nice touch.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
I'd also like to comment on the paper because what I'm not hearing is a bunch of like crazy crunch wrap. Because this paper, there is a real, there is a hierarchy with wrapping paper. And this one has a fabric type quality to it. It almost feels like. Like a dress.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
Okay. But it's delicious wrapping paper, Wobby Wob. Real high end. That must have cost you a fortune. And is that because you're the sound guy?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
For the listener, there's a wrap present inside the wrapped present. It was a wrap within a wrap.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
He's got like a little workshop at his house. The high-end wrapping store, they have a lot of wrappers. We're down to the actual gift.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
That's the tree from their bedroom? Yes. I thought you threw it out because they were both saying the needles were falling. And I was like, thank God he threw it out.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
The listener, it seems to be a race, and Dax is in the lead.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
And for people who don't know, Jax has been on a real kick of eating elk lately. And so in the mornings he has elk and eggs, which makes the house smell terrible, but it's actually pretty tasty. And he gets like 160 grams of protein during breakfast.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
Alyssa Dax is having trouble opening the package.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
I was going to ask. Yeah. 15 of 20 I read at the bottom. Oh, I love a limited edition.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
That's true. I don't know. Somehow I caught it.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
Should old acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind? Should old acquaintance be forgot and days of old langside? For auld lang syne We'll take a cup of kindness yet For auld lang syne And here's a hand, my trusty friend, and here's a hand of thine. We'll take a cup of kindness yet for auld lang syne. My dear, for auld lang syne. We'll take a cup of kindness yet for auld lang syne.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
Yeah, Erica's a very powerful presence. She's very decisive, assertive. She's also can, she can wail. She's got such a beautiful voice. Hi, Erica.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
But I love that you love it, and that is why it was important to get it, because Charlie Brown Christmas is very important to us.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
You know I love a theme and I love a holiday and that really got my motor running.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
Right, and now you can watch it. It's on, what is it, on Apple Plus?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
And it's the one to watch. Yeah, we watched it last night.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
I like to have a theme every year. We've done Whoville and the Grinch. We've done Vintage Christmas. We've done a couple different things. Candy. This year was going to be Candy Christmas. A lot of pepperminty stuff. And then Wicked came out. And I said, psych, we're going to rip it all down, which I did. And then went for the Wicked theme and did everything pink and green. But I love a theme.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
And Dax was like, just sing it alone. I was like, I cannot sing it alone. That will ruin the integrity of the arrangement. I must have Erica pop in and do the alto part.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
Mm-hmm. And Erica, who knows everything about publicity and marketing, she was like, let's beta test this. And after I looked that up, I was like, yes, let's do that. And we like basically emailed, DMed a bunch of like local singers that we know, some that aren't local, some people that we know that have different jobs, but just like really, really whale.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
And one of the coolest things is when we first started and now it's like probably 32. Five of us? Yeah. And about 25 or 28 come every week. And it's like, that's sort of rotating.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
He's the best. He's the absolute best. We don't know how he got there, but he's incredible and he helps us set up and it's wonderful. He bakes bread.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
Well, we're eating in this choir. We're eating a lot of stuff from strangers. Everybody bakes something. We bring wine. We sit around. We harmonize together. If you don't love a pot light, look, it's not for you. One of the first times when we were at a theater, there was a security guard at the theater and halfway through the class, he starts... just riffing.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
And it was the most beautiful sounds we had ever, and we were like, whoa, whoa, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Sir?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
And he was singing with us, and we've had a lot of drop-ins of very cool people, and it's just been very soul-fulfilling. It's lovely. It's such a cool thing you guys did. It's so casual. We just socialized. It's great.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
Well, I felt all the same things, and I'm sweating. In fact, I even put on a red tank top because I know I'm going to start flashing when we start singing, and I'm going to have to take this off. Also, let's make sure your visitor badge is still on yours. Yeah, why are you a visitor?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
I'm in love with you because the reason he said he's not allowed to say it is because sometimes he's come at it too hard. Because I'd be like, yes, I agree. A lot of it is cheesy. And yes, I agree. Nobody walks. Like when you see a musical theater actor walk across the stage, they're always in like an earthquake windstorm. That's never how people walk. And I love it. I love it.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
And I can agree with you. That's sometimes really silly. But then sometimes Dax will like dig in and I'll say like, uh-uh. No, that's my medium.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
I'm into it because I'm into the medium. I guess if you came hard at ballet for sleeping like that, I'd feel a little bit more like you were, you know, a little bit more critical of everyone. But I think it's just because we discuss musical theater so often because I bring it up.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Cults II
I don't know a whole lot. I know originally it started, the church that I went to was kind of in the Jesus movement and it was taking hippies and helping them function in the world type of a thing. But then that church got associated with a church up in Olympia, Washington. And that's what I call the mother church, where a lot of the very culty things came from in the way we lived life.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Cults II
So I think it's more from up there is where it all started. It's pretty small. It's not very connected with other things. There's a few churches kind of in Oregon, Washington, and then the one in Northern California. So there's really not many. There's maybe five total that are really involved. And then the church has its own school where we're all educated. We were taught by parents originally.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Cults II
None of them really had degrees or educations. They weren't teachers. Some of the classes we were self-taught. I didn't really learn science or anything like that. It was pretty basic.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Cults II
It's grown. So they always say that their church growth plan is be fruitful and multiply. They almost never let people come in from the outside, but they just have lots of kids. And then they kind of intermarry, and eventually that's going to get interesting. They send women to the other churches so that they kind of have more of a pool to choose from. Oh, nice.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Cults II
I was a student teacher at a very young time there in the school. And then when I was 15, they said, OK, time to be done. Go take your California high school proficiency examination. So I went and took it and I failed. And then I took it a while later once they offered it again after some studying and I passed. I was 16 then. And then at that point, I just taught full time in the school.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Cults II
I was never paid. It was all free. I didn't have any really education to speak of, but I was one of the teachers, which was somewhat of an esteemed position. You wanted to be a teacher. As a woman in that environment, your job is to be a wife and a mother. There's nothing else for you. You shouldn't pursue a career. No one should go to college. College is considered to almost be evil.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Cults II
Getting married is a really huge thing. You have to be recommended for marriage. You have to attain a certain level of status. And the last thing you would want is to be old and alone. The marriages were somewhat arranged. You could express interest in a person as a man if you wanted to. The men who leave the church might say no, they might say yes, they might say look at someone else.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Cults II
You also might just go to the men and say, who should I marry? And they would tell you who you should marry. As a woman, you do have the right to say no to a marriage offer, but it will probably be your last offer. Oh my God, this is wild.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Cults II
No plural marriage. It's all one-on-one and it's all of age. So they're winning there.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Cults II
Kudos. They're keeping it legal. They look really good from the outside and they do well at that. People are always very impressed. How do I get to be a part of this? This is so amazing. You guys are doing such good things. Your kids are so well-behaved.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Cults II
So my school, the one in Eureka, California, was very small. So at the time I was there, it was only maybe 40 kids in the school. So in my age group, I had five boys, very few options, unless I was to be sent to another church.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Cults II
It's a really, really simple thing to admit that you would have a crush on somebody. So you really have to kind of suppress that part of yourself. Be very careful not to be seen interacting too heavily with boys. You don't ever touch in any kind of a way or sit too close. If they think you might like somebody, it's not going to work out well for you generally. You need to leave that to the church.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Cults II
I was pretty bought in. This is my life. This is everything I know. I've got to do the right thing. Leaving the church is the ultimate worst thing you could do. And so it was really scary. I was kind of doing what they wanted me to do. The other thing that's interesting about the school day is we did school as in math language till noon. And then from noon on, we did only music.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Cults II
We recorded and produced CDs. I think Wobby Wob has some pictures. Oh, wow. I was 17 and the picture of me and that boy...
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Cults II
Well, recruiting can get dicey because people aren't usually willing to give everything if they didn't grow up in that environment. There's going to be some inherent skepticism. It'd be tough. And then people will question things.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Cults II
We would go perform in front of large audiences. We would do like Christmas performances. The CD that I sent the song and the pictures, we did box fourth cantata. We did very like intricate, difficult music and got pretty good because it's literally everything we do. It's pretty insane and comical to me to listen to because it's like a whole different person.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Cults II
So how I left, I wasn't the highest status, but I was doing all right. But I was very bought in. And then one day, my dad sat my whole family down in the living room. There's seven of us kids, and I'm the oldest. And I was 19 at the time, and he said, we're leaving the church. Total shock to us. We all just started sobbing. We were devastated. It's our whole life.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Cults II
We don't even know people outside the church. So it's like the worst thing that could happen to us. And I remember he said we could stay for like another month until some performance happened with music. So we had to go back to school and my friends were crying in the grocery store, crying till they'd throw up. Like it's the worst thing that could happen.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Cults II
We went through the last little bit and we left. But the day that he told me we were leaving, I called someone who was like a mentor, a woman who is higher up as far as women can be. And she said to me, how much do you love the church? Do you love the church enough to leave your family? And I remember that I thought, yes. And I said, maybe, I don't know.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Cults II
The next day she took back her offer and said, I talked to my husband and he said, I need to stay out of it because she had mentioned maybe me coming and living with them. And she was like, nevermind, you stay with your family. And I was devastated by that. And I found out later that my dad had gone and threatened the men of the church and said, don't fuck with my family.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Cults II
I don't remember a lot of that day, but I know that he had gone to the men of the church and said, I don't believe that we're doing things biblically here. I think there's some real issues and we should make some changes. And they said, we don't care. You need to either do what we're doing or get out.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Cults II
And then when we left the church, to me, it felt a lot like if you've moved to a different country that was English speaking, like, yeah, we speak the same language, but I don't really get your humor, your culture. Yeah. I don't really understand what you're saying. I was really shocked by boys just being even mildly flirtatious. It was very alarming.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Cults II
It was really scary and lonely. It was so hard. But I met friends and gradually have become the person I am now. It was a very long evolution because there's a lot of boundaries in your head that you might not even realize you have. Like the pursuing a career. I really didn't feel like I could pursue a career anymore.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Cults II
And I remember one day early in my husband and I's marriage, I said something about one day, it'd be cool to go to nursing school. And he said, you should do it. And I was like so shocked by his response because I was like, wait, I could do it. It just didn't seem possible to me. I did eventually go to college. I was 30 when I took my first ever college class.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Cults II
I had nervous shits in between every class.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Cults II
It was so scary. But I have a bachelor's degree and I'm an ER nurse. Oh, wow. It's so cool to look back. And it's a big part because I had people in my life who just supported me and wanted me to be a full person. And my husband was a huge part of that.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Cults II
A kid with a lipstick. Oh, no. Did you watch The Pit? Yes, I watched The Pit. Hands down the most accurate medical show I've ever seen. There we go. The one thing they never get right is nurses are so underrepresented. We're doing everything. The docs put in the orders, we do it. Wow.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Cults II
Yes. is a pastor and he has a small church.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Cults II
We've all kind of had a hard time in different ways. They're all doing good, but it's been a struggle. Mentally, it's a lot to get through locally. Some of them were a lot younger. I was the oldest. So some of them had much shorter periods of time that they lived in the religion and they were mostly outside. So that helps a ton.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Cults II
To some degree, there's things I have expectations of people, how they're going to treat me, how they're going to act. And I think that's been most poignant in my marriage where he'll say something pretty benign and I'm like, why are you trying to attack me? Why are you coming after me? But I just expect that. So we've had to definitely work through some things.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Cults II
I'm 38 now. I was 20. Were you high school sweethearts? No, we met. Well, this kind of comes into play. I grew up in a cult.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Cults II
So I did not know him in high school. Okay.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Cults II
I'm from Northern California. You know, Humboldt County. I think you've talked about it, actually.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Cults II
Up where all the good weed and meth are.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Cults II
I was almost born into it. My mom got married and I was in the religion from the time I was really tiny. So it wasn't something where I joined. It was something where I was there as a child.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Cults II
It was. called Gospel Outreach. It's still around today. It's one you wouldn't have heard of. It's a lot smaller and they're pretty good at keeping themselves on the down low and not being too obvious about what's going on there. Their religious beliefs would be evangelical, Lutheran type of thing.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Cults II
They believe that you are born full of sin and every day your old man, as they call it, needs to be killed so that your new man can come forth in Christ. So the way they do this is they try to break you by just beating down on you. You have meetings as children. We would have circle meetings where you'd pick a person and you just verbally attack them until they finally get to their breaking point.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Cults II
And they would do weird things like make us wear signs about our shortcomings and wear those around school. Oh, my God.
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It made about $500,000 in its opening weekend here in the United States, which is by all stretches of the imagination, a hot flop. Right. So I don't think that the, I don't think we've bought into this yet, but you know, we know Robbie, we know of Robbie Williams. And when we, when I see his face, I'm like, Oh, that's, that's a singer from the UK who has done very well for himself.
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But the challenge is, is that, you know, There's an old saying in Hollywood, never work with children or monkeys. And he went straight for monkey and I just think maybe it was not, as a plot device, maybe not such a hot thing. But is it playing well over there? Are people going to see it and they like it?
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Yeah. Oh, yeah. Do you know what I mean? He explained it. Then when he was on, I think it was Graham Norton, he explained that the director came in and said, hey, if this play, if we, you know, we have to, I want a story device because the regular musical biography is played out, right? It's just the same. We're doing the same thing over and over again. Let's do something different.
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I want you to think of an animal. What do you want to be? And he said, lion. He said, well, I don't know about a lion, right? So he said.
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What? How was your experience out in LA? You know, we were scheduled to do an interview last week and Russell was stuck in the heat, really, in the heat of the moment, right as the fires started. It was awful. Was there a lot of panic in the air? Yeah.
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And yeah, they seem to be happening more often, or at least we get that news so quickly now that it's like, you know, cycle after cycle of kind of these things. And we have friends and family in LA and. It's brutal, eh?
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It really is. It's weird and apocalyptic. And, you know, that's just not something that's on your bingo card. Earthquakes happen all the time. Hurricanes you see coming. Tornadoes you can kind of predict. Something that happens here in the United States. But flash fire that takes out thousands of structures is really terrible. Russell, I have a question for you.
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I want to just step back for one minute on something you said. When you come to America... you're going to be on tour here. It looks like you're hitting a lot of the West Coast cities out there. When you come to the United States, what are the differences in the audience tastes? Do you have to tailor some of your comedy for, and I'm really interested to hear this answer from a British comic.
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Do you feel like you have to tailor a little bit the jokes? I know you might have to take out some of the slang that you typically, you might use that's familiar to the audience over the pond. But tell me about that experience when you come here to the States.
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And I think if you had three words to describe the United States of America, it would be funny, unfair, and wild.
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I think this is happening throughout the world, this kind of tribalism. And I mean, I only live here in the United States, but to travel a lot. And I see, you know, my father-in-law who lives in Venezuela is fond of saying extremes on both sides end up in the same place.
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And and that's why you need that healthy push and pull. And I am very much what you just said. I am not all against everything that Trump says. I am not all for everything Biden says. I have my preferences. But at the end of the day, this tribalism makes people feel like they belong. And I think that's really where the story is. The story is. Is there something going on in this world?
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He's the Robbie Williams of comedy over there in the UK. And we're so excited to have him. Feeling very grateful that he's decided to stop by the commercial break because he's British and he doesn't know. He doesn't know that the commercial break is not a place you go.
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And I think it might be the disconnection and loneliness that makes us feel like if we are on a team, if we are a Packers fan, if we are a Trump supporter, if we, you know, if we're British comedy fans, we can get on and knock the American comedy fans on Reddit because that makes us feel like we're part of something. Where did we go wrong that this type of identification?
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Makes us feel like we're someone. That's the story to me.
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Did you... I read this and I looked for it, but I don't know where it is. Did you do a series during 2020 and 2021 where you were in your childhood bedroom talking to everybody on a daily basis or a weekly basis?
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That's right. If you're trying to get the word out. But honestly, we've been grateful to have so many wonderful guests as of late. Roy Wood Jr., Felipe Esparza, so many that we can talk about. But go check out those episodes because they are doing very well, Chrissy. I am.
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wasn't as rock and roll but you know listen it it kind of you know what it's like that's what we big realized that's when we started the show and i hope well there you go this may have saved our lives and we do hear from a lot of people uh people who i don't know i wouldn't classify them as lonely they're just human beings that are looking for connection yes and this is part of the way that they feel that connection some girls in a
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in a factory doing whatever, making widgets or whatever she does. And there's a thousand hours of the commercial break she can listen to while she's doing that. It makes her feel better. And so I imagine, and we started this during COVID. This was more of a saving grace for us at the time because no one was listening.
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But yeah, but I imagine you were a saving grace for a lot of people also because you were some kind of real connection on the TV that was actually going through it. Have you ever seen The Morning Show on Apple TV? Have you seen this? No. So Jennifer Aniston plays a morning show. Yes, I've seen, yeah, I've heard of it.
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So there's a whole plot line where she starts doing the show from her bedroom because she has COVID.
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And when I read this about you, I was like, he's the real life morning show, Jennifer Aniston. You're, the Russell Howard hour, you're like, what, you were 200 hours into this or something?
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On the interwebs. There you go. And who knows? Maybe we'll make a little news today with our good friend Russell Howard, currently on tour. He's going to be coming to the West Coast of the United States here very shortly. We'll put all the links in the show notes, as we always do. And his special is now out.
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I think the show is brilliant. Check it out on YouTube. Yeah, there's loads of it.
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So Russell, you in your new special, which is brilliant, by the way, thank you for providing a script. I know it's out now as this show will be released. It's out now. It's on a platform called Drift. Is that right? That's right. You can stream it.
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Links in the show notes, everybody. Just go there and we'll link to the special and we'll link to the website. Also, this special is hilarious. It's brilliantly funny. It's kinetic. Your type of comedy is kinetic. It can be physical. You're really funny. You're really good at pointing out... Pointing out hypocrisy on all sides of the spectrum and then making it funny. And I really enjoyed it.
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One of the things that you said that really resonated with me, you were talking about how I think the way that my brain works, this is the only job that I could ever have. And that really struck a chord with me because you walk around life just like I do. And I'm sure Chrissy does too. We walk around life
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observing and seeing things in such a weird way that if we said those things out loud in the moment, we'd be arrested or certainly kicked out of the party. But then you get to I get to get on a microphone, you get to get up on stage and and do this. Did you were you always like this? Did you always we was comedy always a pursuit of yours?
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It sounds like my parents. Yeah, well, exactly.
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Oh, we got Jeff laughing. Yes, Jeff was laughing. Then we know that we've hit on something special because Jeff doesn't laugh. He's a humorless son of a bitch. Jeff is a humorless son of a bitch.
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Loosen up, dude. Actually, Jeff's kind of like one of the loosest people I know. He's very loose.
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It's a whole brand of comedy. Some people do find it funny. Totally. Absolutely. I think there are people who do it, like you said, masterfully. It feels like at the end of the day, it's done with some level of love and not at the expense of someone else's feelings. And then sometimes it's just mean for the sake of being mean. And, you know, there's...
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They go in there. They ring the door. They stick their hand in and they wave. They drop a package off and then they... Amazon comes in Jeff's door. That's all I got to say. That's how loosey-goosey he is. Anyway, Russell's going to be here. And yeah, I'm very excited. Me too. Speaking of UK news, it seems that...
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I've been to small comedy clubs and it feels like if you're too close. You're in trouble. She already feels the fear, and then I feel the fear for her. And we went to a comedy club one time, and this guy, his whole shtick was pointing out people's physical appearances and then knocking them without them having said a word. Now, was it funny?
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There were parts that were funny, but he was randomly going through the audience. And I was like, please don't pick my wife because I'm going to have to hear about it the entire car ride. Please don't pick my wife. And, you know, I think some of the...
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That Meghan and Harry have done the right thing and they have postponed the much ballyhooed premiere of her, I don't know, cooking with Kate thing that's going on. Meghan. Meghan. I'm sorry. Cooking with Meghan.
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Speaking of picking on people. I have to tell you this. This is the most interesting thing I've seen in two weeks on any website ever. Right. You, on your website, you clearly are a very popular comedian who's got accolades from all over the place, and you've done it. I mean, would you consider yourself one of the UK's most popular comics?
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Your own government set up a website that tracks the popularity of comics. Do you know about this?
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You gov dot UK. Is that your like official government? They do. I found a website, a web page dedicated to tracking the popularity of the comics that come from the UK. Wow. It's crazy. Now, I'm sure there's only six people who voted on this. There's got to be, you know, I mean, it's like this random website.
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You are a very popular comic, by the way. You can break it down by men, women, Gen X. I'll send this link to you. You can check it out if you feel so inclined. But Johnny Vegas, you know Johnny Vegas? Yeah, I do know. Have you heard of this guy? Yeah. The guy from Benny Dorm, right? Yeah. And like the glamping show? Yeah. Yeah. He ranks so highly up there.
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And I was like, I didn't even know Johnny Vegas was like a stand-up comic.
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That's the other sister. Yeah. Cooking with Meghan.
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I don't know, but he's a really great comic, but, and well, listen, the only thing that I knew him from was right. But then I, I somehow got on down the rabbit hole and then I watched his show on glamping. I won't go too far off on this, but I watched the show on glamping where he's just like, he's trying to start this camping park, right.
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RV park or whatever, by making these things, I found him to be a very lovely, lovely human being, a complete opposite of what you see on Benny.
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It was a lifestyle show, but I think you did it supposedly. Lifestyle. Lifestyle. Style.
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Chrissy, we might be beloved podcasters and he might be a beloved comic, but you have never been named the UK's weirdest crush of 2013. Did you know you were named UK's weirdest crush of 2013? What is that all about?
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Uh, do you get followed by the press over there?
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Oh, listen. I'm sure that Meghan Markle is tuned right into Frank Bernardo. Bernardo. Bernardo. Even he says his name wrong.
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People can find the special now available on your website. That's right. We're going to put links in the show notes. He's doing a tour mainly of the West Coast of America, but we'll put the links there.
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People, by the way, love Frankie B. I mean, every time we do an episode, we just get so much feedback about our Frankie B episodes. And I wish that there was more to do, but I think we've done run out.
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So we have broke down a couple of these videos. So watched them here in the studio and then commented on them as we're watching them. Yeah. And our listeners are floored. Last time we did it, it was a woman with men and we just talked about penises for an hour. And I think that probably half our audience tuned out. But we have always wondered about this show.
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He's got a girlfriend, and she's not letting him anywhere near the YouTubes. But don't, fear not, if you've heard any of Frankie's relationship advice, he'll soon be back to YouTube. At 72 years old. We didn't find his social media, so that's good. But actually, I applaud Megan on this one because apparently she called it a love letter to Southern California and all things wonderful.
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It's available on one of our streaming platforms here, HBO Max. Now, I'm not sure how many people watch it, but we've always wondered who's going to the grocery store the next day. I know. I mean, everybody in the entire world just saw your cock and now you're naked. Everything.
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We need a, where are they now? Yeah. after the dates. And I mean, I know they show the first date that they go on, but Naked Attraction, one of my favorite oddities currently anywhere in the world. Absolutely. Russell's special is brilliant. It is available on his website. Again, links in the show notes and his tour. And there is so much of Russell out there on YouTube.
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We'll also link to his YouTube channel and of course his social media. Russell, you are welcome back here anytime. Please come back. We are fans of yours.
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If you have the chance, then you've got our information. We would love that. And if you should come close to Atlanta and do your act, we will be sitting not in the first row, but somewhere third.
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Russell, you're the best, man. Get back to that kid of yours. Thanks for coming on. We appreciate it.
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Listen, I personally... I think some of the content that they're producing for Netflix is a little tone deaf in general. But, okay, whatever. I mean, there's lots of cooking shows out there. And, you know, a lot of them focus on the higher end. What's that one? The Ina Garden? In the Garden? Ina? Ina Garden? There's Ina Garden. There's Martha Stewart. There's a whole channel now.
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So fun to talk to Mr. Russell Howard. And I like how he described, he says, you Americans think that all British people are reserved and, you know, quietly funny. And then he comes on and he's reserved and quietly funny.
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Mo Gilligan, who was our other British comic friend that we made here on the commercial break, and Russell Howard. Both of them are proving that British people are, in fact, a little bit reserved and very funny and very nice.
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What's that? And very naked. Well, there you go. I think what he was trying to say is that it is as much of a sensation over there as it is over here. It's like, wow, that's crazy. But I am still looking for that person that knows that person that was on the show and what was their life like afterwards. How do you ever date someone again and not know that they know what your penis looks like?
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When I went to the bar, at least I knew that I had my sense of humor and that they weren't going to see my penis, likely for a long time. If I go on that show, then I know it's all over. All right. Thanks to Mr. Russell Howard for coming in today. We certainly appreciate it.
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All of his stuff will be in the show notes, links to his YouTube, links to tickets to his show, links to his special, links to his website, links to his social media. We'll put it all in the show notes. Please do us a favor and go check out that special. He didn't come here for his health, Chrissy. He needs people to watch that special. Yes, he does. I think he will.
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He's going to have a lot of people watching it. Oh, I think so, too. Yes. But we want to make it a thing here in the United States. We do. Because we know the people over there are going to watch it because they love Russell Howard. People here, do they know Russell Howard? Do they know Robbie Williams? No. Is Russell Howard, in fact, a dolphin or an octopus in a sexy wig? We're not sure.
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Also, Astrid is imploring me to implore you to go and check us out on YouTube.com slash The Commercial Break. Check out the new studio. Check out the new digs. Watch all of our episodes, every single one of them, now available on youtube.com slash thecommercialbreak. That includes all of our interviews. So if you want to see just how handsome Russell is compared to me, go check that out.
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Naked attraction. Dating naked is a different show. They don't actually show anything. They just tell you they're going to show something, but they don't really. I just noticed the camera keeps swaying over to one side. Are you noticing that? Our camera doing its own camera tricks. That's kind of cool. He likes to do that. There you go. All right. Add the commercial break on Instagram.
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TCB podcast on TikTok. If TikTok's still around. Yeah. I think it will be. I think, I think he just, Trump just invited the CEO to the inauguration. So I think we're all good. Yeah. 212-433-3TCB. 212-433-3822. Questions, comments, concerns, content, ideas, all there. Please talk to us. We want to hear from you. All right, Chrissy. I think that's all I can do for right now.
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I'll tell you that I love you. And I love you. Best to you.
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Best to you out there in the podcast universe. Until next time we talk, Chrissy and I will say, we do say, and we must say, goodbye.
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No, not the cooking channel. There is a cooking channel. I know about the cooking channel. I'm saying a cooking channel, like a chef channel, a food-related channel that is dedicated to just like food porn. It's a lot of – Oh, I've heard of that. Have you heard of this one?
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I can't remember the name of it, but I saw it in a doctor's office once, and it was – I was waiting for like a half an hour, and it was literally just shots of food with not a lot of talking. Yeah.
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in beautiful settings in France and you know I'm sure in the wine country and all this other stuff so you know I understand that there's like a there is a demand for that kind of content that people like to see their food being cooked in beautiful settings and eaten by beautiful people and all that shit but It's kind of a do or die for Meghan and Harry as far as that Netflix deal is concerned.
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So I'm super interested to see how that all plays out. Does this in fact become the hit that Meghan and Harry need? As if they need any more money. They got $150 million from Netflix. But I do think the right thing is to hold off on that given all the circumstances that are going on out in California.
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It is just terrible. We've talked a lot about it on the show. And I think partly because it's hard to believe that it's happened in a major metropolitan city has burned like this. I think partly it's because we know people that live out there and who are our own agent has been, you know, him and I have been in conversations and he lives close to one of the fires.
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And they have been getting all kinds of notifications. You're in, you're You're out, you're in, you're out, you're in, you're out. That must be a terrible way to live. And then they went out without power for four or five days, which if you've ever done is a very uncomfortable situation.
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That is like I mean, I have never been through a fire, but that has got to be one of the things that no pun intended gets seared into your psyche and that you just can't forget as a child. That's one of the that's one of the basic fears of humanity, getting eaten by some wild animal shark or getting bitten by a snake.
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Those I think those things were just born with because it's a fight or flight response. Fire is one of those things. Super helpful, but very scary, right? And it can go either way. It's like it can get out of control very quickly. So our hearts go out. And Russell was supposed to be with us last week talking about his new special that came out on the 15th.
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But he's here today because he was in L.A. and had to get out very quickly to make sure that he and his family were safe. So Russell Howard is an extraordinarily –
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popular comic out in the UK some might say the most popular comic that's working from the UK right now and he has had so many television shows on the BBC he has had he's been on for like 20 years yeah so many different iterations of Russell Howard he did a
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I guess the best, the thing that we can liken it to the best, the thing that I think he's most known for, at least from my research, because I don't live in the UK.
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I am a British expert on television, that's for sure. I love that British television. And any time someone British from the British television comes in, I do get a little fanboy-y.
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Yeah, it's I don't know why I just I'm so giddy about British comedy in general. But the thing that he's probably best known for is the Russell Howard Hour, which is a television show that ran for some 200 hours over there. And it's kind of like our daily show. It's like satire about pop culture and news and politics, stuff like that. There is a ton of that on his YouTube channel.
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I will put Christina, not I, Christina will put those links. Thank you, Christina. Thank you, Christina.
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We'll put those links in the show note. Also to his tours, to tour tickets that are mainly on the West Coast. But if you're near, you should go check him out. He's going to be doing smaller venues here than he does. Or if you're in Helsinki. Oh, yeah.
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So anyway, so Russell's doing that tour here in the United States. Tickets are available. We'll put a link and then you can go to this Drift website and get access to his brand new special. Highly suggest you do because even Jeff's laughing. Even Jeff is laughing. That's right. Okay, so let's do this. Why don't we take a short break? We'll bring Russell on through telepodcasting magic.
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And then when we get back, our conversation with Mr. Howard.
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We are not sure who actually put that up. There's a running gag on this show, and it's actually not really all that funny to us here in the studio, but technically we are inept. We're five years into this. We're a thousand hours worth of programming into this. You don't know how much goes wrong technically on this show. There's tape here, wires there.
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Well, next time you're in Atlanta, Georgia, you come to our house and we'll have to lift you into the studio to avoid knocking over any wires. Most importantly, since you're the only British person we're going to have on the show this week, we have to ask, who is Robbie Williams and why is he a chimpanzee? And how's this playing out in the U.K. ?
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There is, I agree with you here is that like as a story device, I can understand why I'm the monkey and, you know, I play like a monkey and I sing for a monkey. You know, I can understand like there, it could be a deeper meaning behind it and it could all play out well. And apparently it's been received well by critics and the golden globes and maybe Oscar talk. I don't know.
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