Monica Padman
Appearances
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
It's had a real resurgence. I was just at a friend's house in Georgia and all the kids were playing this.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
What are they saying? Like, hey, you should really think about my client. And you're like, yes or no. And then they call back and say, actually, you really should. All the time. And then the manager would call and say, this is the person.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Growing Pains. I fucked that up. That's sad. You wanted to ask about an early Leonardo DiCaprio.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Yes, and it looked fun.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
It's the reality of the times. It's not like anyone was kind of— No, it's the reality of the times.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Some of these things, like, I think should be in the Smithsonian.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
I don't know. They're all in my storage unit. That's fantastic.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Also a 1920s Spanish-style villa.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
I'm so excited to listen to James, which is a new title by Percival Everett that is very, very hot right now.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
We love Audible. This is how you go to bed.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
And it looks very profesh.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Therapy is essential to me during the holidays especially because I generally am going home.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
And I need sort of some stability from my therapy and guidance to stay nice.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Already, I'm already in. It's already tasty. Okay, well.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Well, no, sorry. I first worked for them as a nanny. So I worked for both of them originally.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
He was kind of hot at the time. Oh, enormous. He was definitely physically hot at the time. He also was in the zeitgeist. Breathtaking. Yeah.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
And then maybe you were also going in and because you thought they didn't like you, you might have been being mean.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Not mean, but you might not have been warm.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
I was like, wow, this kid from Punk, he's really actually a good actor.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
That's so funny. I had the opposite feeling towards casting.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Like, I knew about you way before I moved to L.A. I was like, oh, my God. That is shocking to me. She's the person. And if I could get an audition. Like, even just getting an audition. I remember when it happened. And I was like, oh, my God. This is the craziest day of my life. I was so excited. But to me, casting directors were almost like teachers.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
The teacher I wanted the approval from, the person who was going to give me an A plus. And obviously I wanted the job, but I really wanted the casting director to like me so much. Yes. Which I think backfired a lot because then I wasn't just me. In commercials, this is probably bad to say, I did really well in commercials because I didn't care that much. which I just went in and did it.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
And then lo and behold, you do pretty well when you don't overthink or you can just be you. Yeah, I had that. I was like, Cassie, you're an actress. Please love me. She's a good actress, though.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Very sweet.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Now the show's over. Yeah, I got in the sweet spot right before it ended too.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
It was before, because House of Lies, as House of Lies was ending, kind of, is when I started taking on more stuff.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Yeah, when all of your favorite comedies you look and it's you who's casted. Wait a minute. Yeah, I think this might be about her.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Yeah, I think it's because comedy requires you to be paying attention. It requires a lot of pain. It does.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
The camera stuff is new for all of us actually here, but you forget.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
It would be so hard for me for them to be passing on Brie Larson and Elizabeth Banks and Amy Adams. I would be like, guys, why are you doing this?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Exactly. I would be saying it.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
And you deserve to have the ego. Your resume.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
We call it ABR, always recording. Let me get this coffee. Okay.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
And you're talking about in a studio.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
She's a casting extraordinaire.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
We love. The best of the very best.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
I think a mix is always good. Like if you, for the most part, stick to the sides the whole time, but maybe you improvise on the button or you add a little something. You better ask. Okay, great.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
I was going to say that.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Yeah, you can't take on everyone's energy. The amount of energy. Oh, my God. But God bless actors.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Now we're adding up to like half a Kristen Bell. All three, it's looking pretty good.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Earlier you said, I love meeting new people, as all casting directors do, but I don't think that's true. I think you're an exception. I think a lot of casting directors, they don't necessarily want to see anyone new. They want reliable people they already know, and I think it's special.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
That's not real for anyone.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Well, I think it's special.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
But I think that's an exception. I really do. You really do? I don't know. I think it's special.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
It's not a humble opinion. Your opinion, again, your resume is insane. I was right to be so excited to get an audition from you.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
It's where the party's at. Yeah, but it's fine.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Monica? Two. Me and my brother. He's eight years younger than me, though. Yeah.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
He wants to show up for his friends.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
It's like a reindeer.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
I think he's a bear reindeer.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
It's from Pottery Barn Kids.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
I think those are ears and then he, and then.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Is it remote control? That's our hat.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Yeah, so he's just sitting on some branches.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Yeah, it's festive in here.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Yeah, which we should tell, we have a holiday episode coming up. It's a bonus episode.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
It will be on YouTube though.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
I think people should watch it on YouTube.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
What constitutes a great meditation?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
And it definitely would have been her.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
That was the first thing out.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
That would be great. People would buy it. Are you done with your Christmas shopping?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
She does all Mike's stuff. Basically.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Well, it's not always the rules. You can make new rules. Like Secret Turkey, we have to make our gifts. You don't have to go out and buy. It's just taking time to think about people.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Yeah. Your favorite word.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
His wife's still alive?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Yeah, we need to know.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Is this the pumping the brakes thing?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Yeah, and we used to ask all British people if they agreed with this, and pretty much no one did.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Yeah. For me, the most intimate is holding hands. I have to basically... be about to marry you in order to hold my hand.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Well, this happened. It happened? I went on a couple dates with someone and they held my hand and I- You were ready. Was like, what are you doing?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
I guess the only real memory I have of having my handheld is as a kid from my parents.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Or my grandparents or someone like making sure I was safe.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
It wasn't just, no one in my family just holds hands. They don't. Yeah. I think it's on too, but it's my life. So my parents don't hold hands or anything. So it wasn't, it wasn't a symbol of like romantic affection. It was a symbol of safety and that's extremely intimate.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
So unless you're about to propose, you're not allowed to hold my hand.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Yeah. I feel like you hold your, you hold Kristen's hand, you hold people's hands. I hold Aaron's hand. Yeah. Yeah.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
I think it's very nice. Yeah.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
It is. It is. Okay, do I have my Christmas presents done? This year, I didn't feel like I got the there was a perfect gift for anyone, really. So I didn't really so far. I haven't got the satisfaction that I normally get in buying presents. But that's OK. You can't win every time.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Well, I know everyone will like it.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
But I, it wasn't, I wasn't like, I'm not feeling like, I'm so excited for everyone to open their gifts. To see their faces. And see it and they're going to, and it's so thoughtful. It's like not as thoughtful this year, but you know, it's okay.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
A lot is sold. You said a lot was sold out and I thought you were just being nice. But then I went on to buy some, to send some stuff to my mom to buy me. And because she needs, she needs a written list.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
And a lot was gone. Oh, yeah. I wanted stuff off of that. Virtually nothing.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Oh, they got back in stock?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Oh, that's nice. That is really nice.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Oh boy. Yeah. Yeah, the signature can get very stressful.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Like I have to sign for it.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
It's true, but this is what happens with technology. We just get accustomed to...
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Yeah. And we want it to be, I mean, again, we've talked about this a lot, but like the amount of minutes my brain has spent on wishing there was teleportation and really wishing, like thinking like, I think that's coming and that needs to come now.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Yeah. Where is it? Yeah.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Well... I think these are- You look great. Thank you.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Thank you. But I think these are actually dark navy.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
I bought these at a store. And when I bought them, they were navy.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
I want to be honest and say I don't really remember, but I'm pretty sure they were.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Yeah. Okay. Thank you, Rob, for being honest, speaking your mind. Yeah.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
I know. I will say that normally I'm more, it's Navy. Like I feel very definitive about it.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
I'll give you that these, a couple times I've thought, are these black? But then they're not.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
You prefer me to say these aren't Navy than are these black?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
I just think it's literally the exact same thing. This is like what happens on sets where there's a line written and normally the writer says like, oh, this is the best way to say it. The main writer. Well, sometimes me. Yeah, I mean, sometimes me. Exactly. And says, well, no, this is... I've dissected that this is the funniest way to say it.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
And then the actor or whoever will say the same line.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
And then the original person is like, oh, no, no, no. Can you go back? Can you say...
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
This isn't Navy and is this black?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Okay. Are these black?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
New read. Oh, is this Navy?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
No, but do the Navy one.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Oh, but I want you to do both so I could pick in the edit. Oh, oh. My God. You told me. You set this up.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
That was such a Rob joke.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
It wasn't a pun, though, but it was like a behavioral pun.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Yeah. Wow, that was great. Okay, wait, so.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Yeah, this is just like.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
No, no, no, no, no. It's, I just thought it was chic.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Because I have a fuzz.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Okay. I look down. This is my outfit. And then I saw I have a bunch of fuzzies on.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
You're dressed to impress.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
For me to look at my outfit and not look at my boobs, I'd have to like- Okay, fair, fair. I feel so conscious now.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
That was so long ago. Yeah. Well, I'm glad you had a great meditation. Mm-hmm.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Oh, I'm sorry. Well, also to them, like the 50s is like the 1900s to us.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
I don't want to watch a movie about the 1900s.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
So then you just text it throughout the whole movie.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Acting used to be so easy. All you had to do was move your tongue around.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
And it was considered good acting.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Hold on. Do a roll. Do it. As if you're, yeah, I want to see it.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
It's a little out. Yeah. Oh, yeah.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
I guess I have seen that face.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Since when do you want to clean it up? It's the holidays. The holidays are sexy. What are you talking about? People love to have sex.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
And for... People in couples, they have sex by the fire and stuff.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Yeah, but for even, right? People with children, like, don't they still have sex by the fire?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
But do you have a fireplace?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Well, you should fuck in front of it.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Oh, no. And I know that. They think it's because of that?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
I'm kind of curious why it bumps you.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Well, that's the whole thing when your parents are afraid you're going to move to Hollywood and then become a porn actor. Yes. That's like the whole thing. That's the stereotype. They're like, don't go become, you're going to get sucked into porn.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Well, maybe then. Maybe he was just following his dad's dream.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Yes, I was about to say that he was.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
I haven't watched it since I learned that information, but yes, I can't, I wouldn't, I can't like see a picture and not think that.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
But I also, it's more than just like, oh, he did a porno. It feels dark. There's something that feels dark about it.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
For me, TV, I was obsessed. And now when it's like screen time, that was not a thing. My parents were like, you can watch as much TV forever.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Would you really have?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
I guess you're hanging out with them.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
No. You'd have sex with them, but you wouldn't have them film it. On camera.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Have you ever filmed yourself having sex?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
We're not saying who with.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Wait, what's the difference? This is like the... I'll tell you the difference.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Yeah. No, I didn't do that. Oh, then what is running some video on nudity? What's that look like?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
But it's not the act.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Okay. Okay. Okay. I mean, I don't have any problem with people making a sex tape.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Having sex by the fire. The holidays. Like most couples do.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
All right. Well, this is for Allison Jones. And this is our last episode of the year. I mean, sort of. We have a...
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
No, no, no, we do. But this is our last real episode. Then we have an Armchair Anonymous coming out on Friday. And then we have our holiday special.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
We added this location. That was a big deal. That was scary. That was a big change, a big challenge.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
And we're embracing it.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Oh my gosh. I can't believe I forgot to say this. Do you know that the Pantone color of the year was announced?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Yeah. I'm so sorry. It's taken me this long.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
But do you know what it is? No, close.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
It's called mocha mousse, which is basically mocha mouse, which is basically brown mouse.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Okay, fine. Hold up the Pantone color to your cheeks. It's not really, but no, that one's little.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
It's called mocha. Miniature mousse? Mocha mousse.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
The TV shows were the babysitters. But for me, it was such a fantasy world. Like I could go in and I could pretend I was in full house and the whole thing. Did you have that with TV? Like you were using it as an escape or not really?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Okay, but it's a little more pink.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
But that's a great sign.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Yeah, I think so. For all all of the people who listen, it's going to be a great year.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Yes, that's the whole you know, it's my background on my phone.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
That's the whole that's what I do.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Mocha Moose. Moose Knuckle. Brown Mouse. They'll do some collabs. Sometimes there's often a mug. I might get that this year. Yeah. And yeah, so I make the background of my phone the color.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Yeah, that's more peach. That's more what this year's was.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
No, I don't get to put it on until January 1st.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Oh, wow. Oh, my God. Do they have the mug?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Okay, great. Oh, I wish they made an iPhone case in it.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
That would be great because then the wallpaper, everything would be brown mouse.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Anyway, this is this year's. That's more nude to me. I mean, the color.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Yeah, and the mocha mousse is nude for a brown person. Light brown person.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Whatever. I embrace this as me.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
I didn't. I promise. It's because when you zoom in, for some reason it looks.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Yeah, so there you go.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Okay, two facts. One, she got her business degree for $750 a trimester at UCLA. Now, I made a mistake when I checked this fact before.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
When I type in now, UCLA business degree cost, it says the total cost of the MBA program is, Is $128,000 per year, including tuition and living expenses. The tuition is $78,000 per year.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
It must have been not the MBA program that I looked at. It must have been regular tuition. Because I Googled this now like eight times because I was also confused. Right. That's wild.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Yeah. So obviously I looked up the wrong thing. Yeah. So I don't know.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
All right. And then why are they called sides?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
In acting, sides refers to a specific part of a script given to actors for auditions because historically actors would only receive their own lines from a scene, essentially just their side of the dialogue, which helped protect the full script from being copied or shared with competitors, especially during Shakespeare's time when printing was limited, hence the term sides.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
We also discovered that he's married. His wife's name is Anne Hathaway.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
That is shocking. And I'm surprised that I didn't know that.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
No, because I had to take a lot of Shakespeare.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
I should have known that. Maybe I did and I blocked it. I don't know. But Anne Hathaway, well, she is a style icon.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
I agree. I agree. I agree.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Yeah, I mean, Princess Diaries, she was just two years old.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
No, but she was young.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Not as young as Pepsi Girl.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
I would love to interview her and ask her that.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Or if she wants to come in as Anne Hathaway, Shakespeare's wife.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
That would be cool. Yeah. Who could I be? I don't think they have many brown. I will dress up as a piece of poop on the floor. What? Because they didn't have very many brown people.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
We're trying to be true to the times.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
I know who I'll be, a butler.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Chambermaid? Because they had Indian... Servants?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
I think. I'm pretty sure. I'm pretty sure. I'm pretty sure. I'm pretty sure back then, England, because they owned India. Listen, I'll be a poop.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Wow. All right. Well, we aren't going to do this again until I guess the holiday special, but that'll be a little different.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
And then next year, 2025, your 50th year.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
And 2025 feels really sharp.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, there's something about you being 50 and it being 25. That's nice.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
You should be more excited about that. All right. All right, love you. Love you.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Hugely important, especially for the talent. You don't really realize that until you come here and you're like, oh, wow, casting directors and casting is a huge component of this.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)
Yeah, they don't know.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
I feel like I'm going through therapy very soon. Yeah, well, that is the goal. We do want people to feel very relaxed. Too comfortable, really.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
Right. Yeah, did you feel like you had to, after that, sort of like keep your head down? Maybe it's just my own personality.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
That's your teacher?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
You have such a full circle. Yeah, yeah.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
We call it ABR, always be recording. Always be recording. Okay, okay.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
How do you even start something like that? Do you literally just look around the room and you're like, okay. Here we go.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
And do you have to pay? Because if you pay, you'll probably get a certain group more than you'll get another group. Right.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
The climate too would be the other more recent thing. There's a Paris Accord and there is things that globally people have come together.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
I mean, I think that's part of it. It's just an acknowledgement globally that we're all going to have to do something. And especially the superpowers do need to take more on than others. But it's just getting on the same page that I think we've done okay at. And at least there's some consensus there. So there could be some consensus here potentially.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
Oh man, so jealous.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
Right. Yeah, it's hard to listen to your own stuff. Well, it's not her. I know, but your own stuff. Yeah. You spent so much time writing it. Right.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
You have a lot of other stuff. Don't waste your time.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
I did. We shot a commercial.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
Yeah. I had a really fun full circle moment.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
Because I got out of the car. You know, I haven't acted in a while.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
Yeah. I got out of the car and I started recognizing some of the people on set. And I realized I had worked with a lot of that crew on some previous commercials in my day. Sure.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
It felt so nice and cool. Like, you know, I had done these commercials as just this actor auditioning and doing this thing. And now we're doing a commercial.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
And we're doing it together. Yeah. not for this podcast, but- But because of this podcast. Yeah. And it was something really cool about it.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
I liked it. And it, I think it's because my ring is fixed.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
I see. Yeah, that's hard.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
Yeah, he's doing great.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
Do you want to tell people what Toto texted you? It was so funny.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
Yeah, it was a great episode. And so, yeah, just so cool. We get to talk to anyone we want to talk to. Not anyone. I still have a list. We still got Tay.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
No, we already had Machine Gun Kelly.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
Become better than everyone.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
Yeah, me too. But he did say, because Toto was like, when did he see me dance?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
He was just... He's being funny. He was doing a yes and.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
Yeah. I think the- Who wouldn't believe it?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
I think he is a great dancer.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
How many more Christmas cartoons are there?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
Of course. I think he is given his due props.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
You know, there's a Seuss land.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
Yeah, at one of the parks. I think.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
You should go. You should pay your respects.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
But it kind of sounds like Sisyphusian, which is my favorite word.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
That's a lovely way to look at it.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
It's actually Sisyphean.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
Me too. And I maintain it. Yeah. Okay. So you're in the Christmas spirit.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
Ooh. Ooh, that sounds lovely.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
Wow. Ding, ding, ding.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
Nice. You used a little bit of my...
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
There were good gifts on there.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
Yeah, well, I pick great items.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
Yes. That's the goal.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
There's fun stuff abound.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
So, and let's just, so your tree has colored lights, right?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
But I just want to talk about lights.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
I wonder how Hermium, does he have a delivery service? How does he get his tree?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
Oh, okay. So it's all on the up and up.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
Okay. Getting a little taken advantage of, but you seem fine with it. Okay, great.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
Now remember, I'm not your mom.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
Yes, the lights, because Chris and I assume on her nice tree has white lights. Yep.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
Yeah. And this is, you know, this is a big thing. I don't know if it's Rob. Yeah. What color lights do you have?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
He's trying to walk in the middle and be nice, but really he has white lights and he likes them.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
Yeah, I know what you mean. There's like a warm and a cool.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
Yeah, yes, because Aaron grew up exactly like you. So it's not fit. You just assume it's men because you and Aaron believe it.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
So, yes, Rob did not grow up with you and like you.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
So, I don't think it's gender, but I do think some people love— The nostalgic colored lights and then other people who care about aesthetics love the white light.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
Is that what you're going to say? No, I wasn't going to say that. Your life does not match that mentality anymore.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
Yeah, that's fine. Okay, for him. Yeah. Okay, but for me— Yeah, you aren't—you're of the highest class in this country.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
Okay, okay. And you also hobnob with the highest class.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
And where's your tree?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
Because your second tree is in your second living room. Okay?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
You know, I got to keep you. I got to just remind you.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
It's just, to me, the class warfare thing, I would hope you now see.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
Okay, so I have white lights, obviously.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
Yeah, everyone would know that.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
Thank you. Yeah. Yeah. Jess and I had pig day and we went to home. We just missed you, I guess, because we really like the timing.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
I think it's hard for families to have to decide.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
And everyone has their things they care about. And luckily, Jess and I have the same thing. We don't like bald—call it bald puss.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
Bald pussy. Bald pussy. If there's bald spots. Okay, great. And we don't like that. Okay.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
I thought Brazilian is... Clean? Clean. Rob?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
Just definition of Brazilian wax.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
You can do that on your own time.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
Yeah, there's like, you can just get different kinds, but Brazilian generally means all hair.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
Oh my God. That's so funny. Did she laugh?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
That's really funny.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
This is very exciting. It's holiday party season.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
Work parties, family parties, parties with friends.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
Parties with your animals.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
It's a great reason to shop for new clothes or accessories and really like spice up your wardrobe. Make it fancy.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
Oh, tell me about it. I really like to make my house feel very me during the holidays. You could be decorating the outside of the house, getting some lights, something for the windows, grab some new holiday towels, some festive hand soap. Oh, I love a good festive hand soap. Candles. You really you can do it all.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
Oh, and one other thing. Amazon Music is here to help with the playlist. Curating the party playlist, it's an art.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
Now, we were also so quick. So quick. In fact, it was almost eerie. We walked in and we were doing just like a quick look and Jess just beelined. He knew his daughter.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
Yes. And he knew his daughter. Yeah. And it was the one.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
No. The tree is our daughter. Okay, okay. That makes sense. We co-parent. Okay. But she lives at my house.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
So he's a little bit of a debbie-deb, but whatever. And she's really pretty. She's so nice. She's... We said—because last year, Archery was a boy, and he was a model. Oh. He was gorgeous. Striking. Striking and very—angular. Exactly. Very angular. Not around features. Not around features. This girl is—she's not a model, but she's a star.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
Exactly. And I've been trying some different hats on her, toppers.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
I haven't decided yet.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
It's a sweet story.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
Oh, my God. The way you feel about the trees is like how Kristen feels about the dogs.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
So, for her, trees are not dogs. She wants a pretty one.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
So what'd you do with the truck?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
Yeah, I don't feel bad for the... You don't? I don't.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
Make him go away. Make him go away. I can only take, I can't, I kind of forgot.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
Yeah, practically none.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
Wow. It's like quadrupled in size.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
Do you want to feel her? I do. I want to touch it, but also last time we touched it.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
Wow. There is so much.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
Are they separated? There's no real.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
You're probably illegal. It's like, yeah, it's illegal.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
Did you use tweezers?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
That's okay. Yeah, we live and learn. This is an R&D situation.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
All right. Oh, one more thing. One cool thing that happened that I want to put out there in the world, because I think it's good for me to manifest this. Okay. When Callie and I were shopping, we went into one store and I bought some cute little boxer shorts.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
As we were leaving, Callie was in front of me and someone had held the door open for her to come out. And like some woman walked in and then Callie walked out. And then he this person continued to hold the door for me. And I was like, oh, thank you. Then I kept walking. I don't know. He's a mystery man.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
It was the most gorgeous person I've ever seen. Really? Male or female?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
Build it for me. But now he's sort of a haze. Oh. Like, I don't remember. I don't like that part. I know, I know. But part of it was, it happened so fast, he took my breath away. Yeah. And I think it read, you know, it read.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
Yeah. And he smiled. And I don't remember if he showed teeth or not. But no, he just like, that's who he is. Okay. And I turned, you know, I turned and I said, oh my God, that guy was so hot. And she said, I know.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
Yes. So we, so this is an undeniable situation.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
Well, I think they were together.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
Well, I don't know. Okay. There's no way to know.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
Brentwood Country Mart.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
On Black Friday. On Black Friday. Probably around noon.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
I'll read them all. Comment or.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
No, because, you know, when I walk through the world, I'm extremely unobservant. I don't notice people. You're blind, basically. I really am. And speaking of blind, I got some soap in my eye this morning, and it was— Blinding? I thought I did some permanent damage.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
Okay. So anyway, I walk around so unobservant, and yet this person was strong. He pulled me out. It was shocking.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
He was, he was so attractive.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
That day? A lot of times. A ton. Yeah.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
I am prone to fantasies. I, I didn't actually. I was more just like.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
A little bit. Oh my God. And I don't even believe in that, but like maybe. Anyway, that was a big mystery.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
No, it's starting to dissipate. And I don't remember him.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
Yeah, guys, seriously.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
Seriously. Okay, anyway, so that, we'll add that to the mystery pile with the guy I met in New York, the restaurant guy.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
That mystery is also.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
I don't give him permission to say my name.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
Okay, this is for Fei Fei Li.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
Not intimately. Yeah.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
And he was giving her a lot of props and reverence.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
That she really deserves. She was, I loved her so much.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
She was a delight. Yeah. Now some facts for her. How long did Einstein live at Princeton? He lived in Princeton, New Jersey for 22 years from 1933 until his death in 1955. He purchased a house at 112 Mercer Street, which became his home until his death. The house was for him, his wife, Elsa, stepdaughter, Margo, and secretary, Helen Dukas.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
I bet it's more like an assistant. Nowadays, we'd call it an assistant.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
Okay. Oh, we talk about Cambridge Analytica. which was the whole thing that happened with Facebook. I encourage people to listen to Acquired, the podcast Acquired. They do an episode on Meta, fantastic episode. And they talk about what happens with the Facebook Cambridge Analytica scandal. And a lot of it's very misunderstood.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
A lot of what the public thinks, we're all missing a ton of information.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
Exactly. And that's not what it was. And she didn't.
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Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
But they were using old information from an old quiz. Oh. Or quiz or something that Facebook did a long time ago. And that's what they used. Oh, okay. They weren't using current information. And yeah, they- Like, Facebook didn't sign off on... They didn't hand over this information.
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Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
It's such a good podcast.
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Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
I'm always shocked.
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Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
In the business world, like learning. I mean, you listen, I mean, they're four hours long. Meta six. Yeah, they spend a month researching a company and then they just tell you everything about the business and how it came to be and all of it. And you do leave feeling like you went to, Like you took a course in business.
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Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
I recommend Acquired. And that's it.
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Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
That's the line we learned from the Lisa Kudrow fact check that we say to people that I'm just grateful for you. I'm grateful you exist.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Jesse Eisenberg
At first, I thought it was so good that at first I was like, he still doesn't get it. But he really got it. He got it.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Jesse Eisenberg
And so she was working at the same time you were before.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Jesse Eisenberg
I'm so excited to listen to James, which is a new title by Percival Everett that is very, very hot right now.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Jesse Eisenberg
Speaking of when you just said it's the only time you feel like a movie star, do you like feeling like a movie star?
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Jesse Eisenberg
Okay, that's probably why you didn't have to go there.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Jesse Eisenberg
I'm just Team Motrin. Stop trying to make me who I'm not.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Jesse Eisenberg
I'm so excited to listen to James, which is a new title by Percival Everett that is very, very hot right now.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Jesse Eisenberg
Work can be validated externally, but you cannot be validated externally.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Jesse Eisenberg
You as a person, your character, that's got to come from you. So it doesn't matter what your wife says. That's the juxtaposition.
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Jesse Eisenberg
We shook hands. You shook hands. I'm wearing perfume.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Jesse Eisenberg
You have the opposite. You've been working for so long and you're on Broadway. You're like, I've really done it.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Jesse Eisenberg
They maybe thought that it was going to be such an enormous hit that it would be at the Smithsonian and then it would end up being worth millions and millions.
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Jesse Eisenberg
But that's the part that you don't think in the moment that it's happening to him. Everyone thinks I'm Michael Cera and everyone thinks he's Jesse Eisenberg. Exactly. You forget that piece.
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Jesse Eisenberg
I love that movie. I rewatched it recently. It's still so great. You did just rewatch it. I did. Yeah. I was obsessed with it. I would just watch it over and over again for a while.
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Jesse Eisenberg
I have a handful of movies that I end up just watching every night. Contagion. During the pandemic. Contagion.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Jesse Eisenberg
That's interesting. Yeah. Good Will Hunting is my number one. That was the original.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Jesse Eisenberg
I wouldn't want to be put to the test right now because it's been a minute, but at one point I could recite the whole movie.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Jesse Eisenberg
In my head, I would watch it and then rewind it and watch it again.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Jesse Eisenberg
I wish. No, because I was too busy watching movies in my head. But Social Network is so good. You're so good in it. Everyone's so good in it.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Jesse Eisenberg
And when I was listening back, I was like, holy, this guy is great.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Jesse Eisenberg
Yes. Okay. They also have, they're called Ultra Stretch Point, P-O-N-T-E, straight leg pants. And they are really, really great. They're great for travel. They're very cozy.
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Jesse Eisenberg
Therapy is essential to me during the holidays especially because I generally am going home.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Jesse Eisenberg
And I need sort of some stability from my therapy and guidance to stay nice.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Jesse Eisenberg
Ooh la la. You know, the Nest Candles were on my gift guide. Oh, they were? Yes. Well, go to Macy's. Go to Macy's and grab one.
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Jesse Eisenberg
He is. And he's very quick. He's very funny. He was a joy.
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Jesse Eisenberg
Maybe the character smoked and you were holding it. Yeah, I was holding it for him.
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Jesse Eisenberg
But I don't even know what you're talking about. And that's another fallacy. Another reality. This is another thing that we think.
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Jesse Eisenberg
Yeah, we think everybody knows. I'm sure you think we know what you're talking about the movie. And then you were poorly. Like, I didn't know that until you just said it.
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Jesse Eisenberg
Yeah, it must require so much if there's all this crap around and all these people around me.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Jesse Eisenberg
I don't think you need to pick it back up or anything. Yeah.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Jesse Eisenberg
I say this a lot about our current hatred of billionaires. I don't have that hatred. I'm like, poor people don't hate billionaires. It's a certain class of people that is actually pretty privileged that has the luxury of saying that's bad and capitalism is bad and X, Y, Z is bad. It's like if you're actually disenfranchised, you don't think that.
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Jesse Eisenberg
It's a weird cycle that happens with privilege where you start picking apart the way to get.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Jesse Eisenberg
Yeah, but it's a similar thing. It's like the cultural. If your parents left a country to come here so that you could have the opportunity to make a ton of money, you're not going to be like, I think money is bad. You're like, that's literally the whole purpose of the life raft. Yeah, exactly.
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Jesse Eisenberg
pretty cool, but he wants me to go extreme. He wants me to shave my hair.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Jesse Eisenberg
Well, you want to watch it and be like, holy shit, this movie's incredible.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Jesse Eisenberg
I like it too. On others, it's not that I don't think I'm cool enough for that. It's just not me.
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Jesse Eisenberg
Or you want to feel like shit, Bambi. Yeah, exactly.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Jesse Eisenberg
It makes sense. So it's the only way to get kids to care immediately. That's the only thing they know and could understand as painful.
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Jesse Eisenberg
Well, that's true because speaking of cigarettes for Halloween, I was Mary-Kate and Ashley, one of them, current era. And so I was holding a cigarette the whole time. I've never smoked in my life. And so I wasn't smoking, but I was holding it. And I was like, it is cool.
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Jesse Eisenberg
I could see that. Yeah. You have little brother energy.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Jesse Eisenberg
Yeah. Yeah. It's true. You don't want it to be true, but it is.
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Jesse Eisenberg
I wonder what Simmons is going to do next because he's on a roll.
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Jesse Eisenberg
That would be fantastic. Speaking of, I got a lot of really sweet reach outs from people in my life, like old people in my life when I was in middle school and high school. And they were so happy for me that we got to have Lisa on.
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Jesse Eisenberg
It was like people who I don't talk to really, but were there for when it was really.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Jesse Eisenberg
Yes. And so they were all very, it was very heartwarming and sweet that they were like, oh my gosh. That is nice. Yeah. And then Anthony, who also was there, he texted me.
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Jesse Eisenberg
Well, not a blast from the past, but a longstanding friendship. Yeah, he was in the past and he was a part of it. And he's also a huge Friends fan. And he said, I almost commented, Lisa Kudrow, this is how I find out. I have forgotten to tell him.
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Jesse Eisenberg
Yeah, I'd forgotten. And then I said, oh, some people reached out, which was really sweet. And he said, yeah, you really created strong brand awareness even back in the day.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Jesse Eisenberg
Yeah. I told people about Lisa Kudrow. I guess I just forgot to tell the most important person.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Jesse Eisenberg
Well, you just told me you decided you might not do that.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Jesse Eisenberg
Okay, got it. You see the confusion. It looks fine.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Jesse Eisenberg
Yeah, they have little like sticks on them. You could do the thing and then use the scalp thing to get it all over. And then you wouldn't be using your hands to get it all over.
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Jesse Eisenberg
Because you definitely want to get you like you have to put it up here.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Jesse Eisenberg
All right. Well, it's almost Christmas time. Are there any Christmas updates? I got a new table scape. So that was exciting.
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Jesse Eisenberg
New tablecloth. This is from Heather Taylor Home. Gorgeous.
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Jesse Eisenberg
My tree is 35, but she's still my baby, just like Harley is always your little girl. Her skirt is pink and green.
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Jesse Eisenberg
I just wanted to match the beautiful skirt. The skirt's so cute. It doesn't look wicked-y. Okay. I don't think people would think it. I'll ask. I'll ask everyone.
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Jesse Eisenberg
I guess because, yeah, I think she wears pink stuff. Popular?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Jesse Eisenberg
Yeah, Glenda, Glenda. She wears pink. I forgot that. I only think green when I think Wicked, but you're right. Pink is a color.
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Jesse Eisenberg
You told me this a little bit ago. And so then some videos have been popping up about her. I mean, I get so many wicked videos, which is kind of weird.
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Jesse Eisenberg
Maybe they know about my tree and they're confused. Look, I loved the movie. I love the movie. But I'm not... Like some people are... die hard wicked and they've seen it multiple times and they their sing-alongs exactly it's a whole it's like a whole thing it's so fun that's not really me so i guess i'm i'm interested it's interesting that i'm being targeted in that way
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Jesse Eisenberg
Yeah, they have, I think they have whole divisions at Meta that are fully ethics based. Right, right, right, right. And so a lot of the things have to run through that.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Jesse Eisenberg
I got an Anytime Fitness membership for my brother one year for Christmas. Oh, you did? I did. Oh, that's a great gift. It was a very big hit.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Jesse Eisenberg
And I sometimes think to send them to you to show Delta, would you do that? Or are you like- Probably not. Probably not videos. Yeah.
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Jesse Eisenberg
Right. Yeah. I get that. But how's she learning about like her vocal range and stuff?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Jesse Eisenberg
Myron. All right. Do you have any, have you watched any more Christmas movies?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Jesse Eisenberg
Yeah, I watched The Holiday. I mainly just have it on in the background. The Holiday, Home Alone, Love Actually.
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Jesse Eisenberg
It's a blessing. It's almost like. what we do sort of like how podcasts are so intimate they they become part of the your fabric like your daily fabric Christmas movies have that they become part of your traditions they're good triggers yeah and like when we had Jude Law on and we talked a little bit about the holiday it it Yeah. He's like part of my year.
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Jesse Eisenberg
Always. And Jack Black, too. I forgot that he was also in my role in his role.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Jesse Eisenberg
Well, you're really lucky if you're like die. I haven't seen it, but die hard, which is like, Christmas movie, but it's not right.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Jesse Eisenberg
Yeah, that's right. I think we think it because guns.
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Jesse Eisenberg
But I guess my point is, I think that originated just even that colloquial term originated from a gun trigger. yeah or a crossbow probably okay um rob um is the home alone house in chicago like immortalized at christmas yeah i used to work not far from it and i'd sometimes just drive over there and eat lunch on the street oh my god just like outside in my car Do people and like.
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Jesse Eisenberg
Yeah. Well, that's also funny because all time, the restaurant I love, you love, we all love. They just opened a new restaurant in Altadena.
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Jesse Eisenberg
And I went the day before we shot the commercial. And it was so weird because I never go to Altadena.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Jesse Eisenberg
How are they doing this? It's there's always I've never been in my entire life. And there's not been a line at random times. It's pretty cool.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Jesse Eisenberg
And they don't market like I've never seen a commercial for In-N-Out.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Jesse Eisenberg
Oh, I thought I like that because I thought you were going to make it gross. Dirty.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Jesse Eisenberg
I was infected with the fantasy of Hollywood. And I knew that was there. We went on a family vacation when I was 11.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Jesse Eisenberg
Definitely. Yeah. We did that too. Went to Chinatown. And we went to San Diego. Went to the zoo.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Jesse Eisenberg
No. Um, we sit right by the airport and you could hear the, the planes, the whole thing.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Jesse Eisenberg
Um, anyway. Okay. So this, so Jesse, ding, ding, ding. He lives in Hollywood. Actually doesn't. I think he lives in New York. Damn it.
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Jesse Eisenberg
Yeah. I feel bad because when you talked about Jesse's sister, I was like, I was, it was new information and I reacted as such. And then like four seconds later, I was like, oh, I did know that.
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Jesse Eisenberg
But I forgot. And when you said it, it sounded new. Yeah. And then I felt fraudulent.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Jesse Eisenberg
I think it might be Ireland. There she is. Look how cute she is.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Jesse Eisenberg
She looks like him. Yeah. Like they definitely have a family resemblance.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Jesse Eisenberg
Oh, my God. I wonder if he thinks she's so cute. He didn't say so in the interview.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Jesse Eisenberg
But if your sister is known as being like the cutest girl in America. I wonder if I would hate it. Yeah, exactly.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Jesse Eisenberg
I love her dimples. Dimples are a thing. If and when science is good enough, which it will be, I'm going to pick dimples for my kid.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Jesse Eisenberg
Right. But what happened to your freckles? I don't see any.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Jesse Eisenberg
Maybe with age, also freckles dissipate on the face. I would say the sun exposure, but that also seems counterintuitive because sun also brings out freckles. Yes, it does. A lot of people in the summer, their freckles come out.
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Jesse Eisenberg
Oh, yeah. So I'm going to pick dimples. Okay. For my kid.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Jesse Eisenberg
Dimples. It is. Yeah, yeah. Do you think if I go to my face guy, if I tell him I want dimples, he could do it?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Jesse Eisenberg
Actually, that's what I said. I said carve something out.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Jesse Eisenberg
You're going to get multiple dimples. Some went wrong, so I did another one.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Jesse Eisenberg
When I design my kid, she's going to have one on each side. Okay. I guess I have to figure out exactly where. And then she's going to have curly hair. Okay. I don't think I have to design. I think she's going to have naturally curly hair like me. Well, I guess depends on who her dad is.
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Jesse Eisenberg
But remember I saw that mixed girl at Mixed Late Woman. Yeah.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Jesse Eisenberg
I've never seen one. Yeah. Well, that's natural. People dye their hair. Right, right.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Jesse Eisenberg
That's a recessive gene that I don't think has made its way to dominance. All right. Anyway, Jesse. Next fact. Jesse has sort of red hair.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Jesse Eisenberg
Crickets. Okay. What is going on? What is going on in LA with crickets? Because this happened when I was recording something else in a different location and we had to stop.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Jesse Eisenberg
I didn't hear it because it was a big enough. It was a sweet enough moment that I think you're in it. But I mean, this is like not good for sound.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Jesse Eisenberg
Unless you're talking about me. Yeah. Love eating plastic.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Jesse Eisenberg
And they chew right through it to keep their incisors from growing too long.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Jesse Eisenberg
Yeah. Well, he loves plastic. Okay. So eBay's a thorough astronaut costume. Not there anymore.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Jesse Eisenberg
Nostalgia. Yeah. All right. Was Squid and the Whale Noah Baumbach's first movie? No, it was called Kicking and Screaming in 1995. That was his first movie.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Jesse Eisenberg
It's different. Yeah, okay. Yeah, this is about four young men who graduate from college and refuse to move on with their lives. Okay, when we cease to understand the world, Arthur, is he French? He's from 10 different countries. He was born in the Netherlands. He spent his childhood in Buenos Aires and Lima, and then he moved to Santiago at the age of 14.
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Jesse Eisenberg
A lot of countries. And if you type in, is Benjamin Labatou French? It says no. Oh. No, he is Chilean, not French.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Jesse Eisenberg
Yeah. It says nationality. He is a Chilean author, birthplace, childhood. It doesn't say. It doesn't say like his dad is from. It doesn't say that.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Jesse Eisenberg
Yeah. Well, my Ariana Grande is Friends, I guess. Like that, I sat that pure time.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Jesse Eisenberg
No, I did. I did. But I was not like I liked friends or nothing. I wasn't owning it in the way that.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Jesse Eisenberg
I was actually because my dad would play music in his car. Soft rock.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Jesse Eisenberg
All right. Yeah. Okay. That's fine. Okay. Well, I think I said this already, but I am planning on reading this book over the Christmas break. Oh, good. Yes. I'm excited to read it.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Jesse Eisenberg
And I'll read The Maniac. And I'm going to read three more books.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Jesse Eisenberg
Are you confident driving even though you've never had a car until a couple of years ago?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
Oh, they did this for us to save our relationship.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
So... Make sure it's not like Brandon or some sort of... Oh, I don't think... It just says Jeremy, Jeremy, Jeremy on it.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
What's his riz? Like, why is she so obsessed?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
It's had a real resurgence. I was just at a friend's house in Georgia and all the kids were playing this.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
Did you feel like after Pitch Perfect, everyone was saying that to you? Like, oh my God.
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Holiday Spectacular 2024
Oh my God, well, you sound amazing. I'm having a real-time realization.
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Holiday Spectacular 2024
I cannot believe I have not put this together before. the thing the song that i've listened to probably the most in my life is you and justin timberlake singing true colors and i just now i'm realizing that that's you because now i know you to some extent that i i've like removed that as put it in its own compartment i used to watch that video on repeat
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
We've talked about it, but I didn't realize it was our friend Anna Kendrick. I mean, I did realize, but this Monica did not realize it in her heart until right this second. Wait, when you say the video, are you talking about the Cannes performance? There was a performance you guys did. I just watched it on YouTube over and over and over and over. Yeah, we were both really sick. Oh my God.
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Holiday Spectacular 2024
Happy holidays. Happy holidays. Jingle, jingle.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
Not me, man. I'd like to throw in in the mix. Please. That we got you a chandelier. Oh. From Paris. Now that I remember.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
Oh, these are pieces of shit, these files. Yeah. They're like Easy Bake Ovens, essentially.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
Yeah, they come out and they go all the way up into your, they? Do they come out your butt?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
Well, he told us that he just shaved his pubic hair.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
Oh, that's so cool because we've done it before and we really loved what we learned. Also, do it as a family or like as a friendship. It's really fun because you get your results and you can read them together. It's fun.
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Holiday Spectacular 2024
One time, you did it one time into a landing strip for funnies.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
Okay. Sounds lovely. Wow. A buffet. People can pee if they need to. Wow.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
I always thought it was two words. It is. Oh, it is. Oh, yeah. Okay.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
Both are absolutely delicious. Our listeners have heard a lot about the spaghetti. So I want them to, it's good that they get to see it.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
That's what I would do, a pair of shoes I love. What's Panda Prank?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
I don't know what happened. Theatrical. Yeah.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
With the fur. Oh, there's a platform for you, Shorty. Platform is great. Those are sweet. Who's talking? I love a platform, too.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
Thank you. Wait, but in the meantime. I don't need things.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
I buy my own things. Oh, sweet, the original mouse. Dax drew this. And I used it on my gift guide and now it's on our sweatshirt for this year.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
I'm so excited to listen to James, which is a new title by Percival Everett that is very, very hot right now.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
This was the original drawing. I love it. Thank you so much. What does it say? The world's all time most special mouse, in quotes. Sometimes I think you guys forget this is a podcast. Because we didn't say those were AirPods.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
Oh my God, these feel amazing. Also, if we're not doing a good job talking about the items, I guess you should just watch it on YouTube.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
Also, the present I got you two, I need you to open at the same time.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
We have a lot more. I got presents for you too.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
Ladies first. It's from Wobby Wob. Hollis.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
Kind of like the hat on the hat. Is there gonna be another?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
Oh, my God. Oh, my God. It's my dream come true. Is that a real picture? No. Yeah, I spent time.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
In my dreams. Oh, and it's a picture. It's a picture of me. Okay, for the listener and not the viewer. There's a sweater coming. Oh, thank you. Oh, my gosh. How sweet. But this is the real gift. It's a picture of me with Mary-Kate and Ashley, and I look like I'm friends with them. You're in the sweater. It's so cute.
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Holiday Spectacular 2024
That's great. I love it. And I'll buy these pants for sure. Okay, this one can live like that. And that's a manifest because they're going to come on at some point. Thank you, Rob. That's so sweet. Okay, now I need you guys to open. Go ahead, Rob. But can you open yours of this too? Well.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
It's olive oil, but they were personalized.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
You know what I like? I like a candy cane ornament. It's very classic.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
Yeah, well, candy cane ornaments are really for colored lights.
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Holiday Spectacular 2024
You're not going back in. What's the name of the artist, Rob?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
Well. Monica, they don't deserve this. No.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
I mean also obviously we can return if things don't fit but it was imperative that everyone in this room had something from the row based on how much we talk about it beautiful you're welcome but if it doesn't fit obviously oh wow let me see oh yours okay yours a little thinner yours more of a springtime mine's more of a let's hit the slopes
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Holiday Spectacular 2024
That's beautiful. And I got a rose sweater, too. It all worked out.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
I like to picture my whole year when I hear it.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
The one I just had. It's bye. It's bye to the year.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
And what's the verdict on this year? Oh, it was a complicated year. Yeah. But a good building year. Oh, cool. Building year. Wow.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
The big one? Oh, we should get... Erica, we have a closer. Yeah.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
And if you listened to Synced, Erica had made an appearance on Synced, and people were like, she needs to be on every episode.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
Well, Rob said he's going to ride it. Do you want this for when you ride it? He's going to ride it.
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Holiday Spectacular 2024
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Holiday Spectacular 2024
That doesn't align with your values. We squish back on it.
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Holiday Spectacular 2024
It's a good time for Defiance. That's right, that's right. Tell us about your choir class.
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Holiday Spectacular 2024
You're not supposed to eat stuff from strangers.
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Holiday Spectacular 2024
That's low money. That's really tasteless. I went to a children's hospital.
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Holiday Spectacular 2024
I'm just Team Motrin. Stop trying to make me who I'm not.
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Holiday Spectacular 2024
He missed an opportunity because, Easter egg, someone's coming here in a bit to help with the singing, whose son is a dancer.
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Holiday Spectacular 2024
He's 11. He's the best dancer in the world. And Perfect 10 Charlie, his father, posted a whole thing, a video and a whole thing about it. And he called himself a dance dad. And there's nothing hotter than a man calling themselves a dance dad. So your dad missed out. He could have been a dance dad and like that would have been hot. Cleaned up. Yes.
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Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
But you also want them to be opening the stuff.
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Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
It's a good cautionary tale story as well for people.
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Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
That's fair. How would you have known?
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Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
I'm just team Motrin. Stop trying to make me who I'm not.
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Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
They did this for us to save our relationship.
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Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
So it might be used. Yeah, I know what it is. Yeah, me too.
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Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
Because death was a part of this story.
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Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
But then what does she get from it? The joy of a prank is to then be like, just kidding.
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Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
I like you. I'm very impressed. I know that I would have felt fucked with, especially if I was in the middle of grief myself and had lost my mom. And then I was having these ashes and I'd be like, oh, I guess I got to do the right thing, even though I don't want to do this. And I got to help this other person. And then it was all a lot. I would be so pissed. So I'm impressed.
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Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
Oh my God. Is it a famous painting?
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Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
Wait, what happened? Did the fire, it was just from the fireplace?
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Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
I mean, the whole house burning down.
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Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
I mean, it really speaks to addiction in some ways because that wasn't his bottom and he kept going.
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Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
Yes. Big shout out. Thank you for sharing that.
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Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
100% someone was going to get stuck under there.
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Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
So they kept going back in there and doing it.
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Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
Oh, wow. More, more, more.
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Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
It actually says her name on it.
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Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
And it also says the name of the painting, but my eyes are bad.
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Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
How weird that he has the same one. How funny.
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Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
Art.com, yeah. The dolly, like the melting clocks, and we didn't know it.
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Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
Anyway, well, happy holidays to all.
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Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
The whole thing was a cautionary tale.
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Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
Oh, my God. Yeah, that was Thanksgiving.
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Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
Mimi, I don't remember. We've had some great stories over the years.
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Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
Yeah, you're aging very gracefully.
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Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
I'm so excited to listen to James, which is a new title by Percival Everett that is very, very hot right now.
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Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
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Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
Ready for the cooler months.
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Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
It's had a real resurgence. I was just at a friend's house in Georgia and all the kids were playing this.
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Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
OK, I think this is what I would have done. I would have written a note from Santa and it would have said something along the lines of Santa couldn't make it everywhere this year. And so he's coming back in a couple of days. OK.
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Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
And in the meantime, the elves dropped off some trinkets. But the real presents are coming in a couple of days because he got in over his head.
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Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
And her coming over every 14 minutes.
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Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
Yeah, there should be some sort of mandate. If you're wreaking a lot of havoc, you have to go somewhere.
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Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
Yeah. The stakes are so high because the option is to move. Ugh.
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Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
Therapy is essential to me during the holidays especially because I generally am going home.
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Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
And I need sort of some stability from my therapy and guidance to stay nice.
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Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
I'm so excited to listen to James, which is a new title by Percival Everett that is very, very hot right now.
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Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
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Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
I'm so excited to listen to James, which is a new title by Percival Everett that is very, very hot right now.
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Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
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Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
Was she weird? What was her personality like in general?
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Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
They want shock. That's part of the thrill of doing that.
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Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
Tommy Hilfiger, like maybe by a sailboat. Maybe Ralph Lauren even.
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Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
Oh my God, I want to squish that baby. Yeah, me too.
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Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
Absolutely. When I was in second grade, we had to do a project on a city and I really wanted to do it on Little Rock. But there was another girl in my class who was from Little Rock. And so she was competing with me and she won.
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Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
Yeah, like she's like, this is the gift to give new neighbors.
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Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
You did? Yeah, that's hilarious.
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Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
It is. Yeah. But also the broom kind of foreshadowing.
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Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
Because you needed to clean up eventually. Oh, okay.
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Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
We've got some nutty neighbors out there.
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Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
But they did. It's okay. I have a question. Why'd you kill Randy?
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Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
Yeah. Sarah, you have color-coded sweaters as I do in your closet. I do. That's how I decide what to wear.
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Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
But also, how is he deemed not a threat when he had just told you that he was about to blow up?
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Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
She feels like she's a wizard trying to pretend to be a muggle and is not doing a great job.
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Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
Yeah. Then I don't know what else more anyone could do. That's a full threat.
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Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
That would have been smart. Yeah.
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Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
I did have an incident. I don't know who listens, so I don't want to say anything. And I wasn't involved, but there was an incident above me and there were cops. Also, at one of my other apartments, there was a sort of similar cops and firemen came because of a threatening their life situation. Yeah. I think people know I have a neighbor issue currently.
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Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
That's true. I had a neighbor for a second that was dating Zac Efron and her roommate was Sean Penn's daughter.
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Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
It was always like Allison saw him walking. I'm pretty sure his car was blocking my car and I couldn't go to my improv show.
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Armchair Anonymous: Crazy Neighbors
Yeah, and one of them, last story, is intense.