On this special episode, we revisit some of our favorite moments from Wednesday episodes in 2024. Molly McNearney remembers joining Jimmy Kimmel Live, Bill Gates wishes he were smarter, Finneas discusses the dynamics of a duo, Patric Gagne navigates romance as a sociopath, Vanessa Marin walks the walk of Sex Talks, Alegra Kastens explains the spectrum of OCD, Malcolm Gladwell delves into the science of the opioid crisis, Cat Bohannon talks about the medical discrepancies between men and women, Yuval Harari analyzes information networks through the lens of history, Orna Guralnik relates why we depersonalize, and Avett Brothers harmonize on We Are Loved. Follow Armchair Expert on the Wondery App or wherever you get your podcasts. Watch new content on YouTube or listen to Armchair Expert early and ad-free by joining Wondery+ in the Wondery App, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify. Start your free trial by visiting wondery.com/links/armchair-expert-with-dax-shepard/ now.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Chapter 1: What are the best moments from Wednesday episodes in 2024?
Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to Armchair Expert early and ad-free right now. Join Wondery Plus in the Wondery app or on Apple Podcasts, or you can listen for free wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome, welcome, welcome to Armchair Expert, Experts on Expert. This is our best of Experts on Experts for year 2024.
We had an incredible amount of great experts this year. It was really hard to pick.
An embarrassment of riches. It was. So please enjoy The Best of Experts.
You know those creepy stories that give you goosebumps? The ones that make you really question what's real? Well, what if I told you that some of the strangest, darkest, and most mysterious stories are not found in haunted houses or abandoned forests, but instead in hospital rooms and doctor's offices? Hi, I'm Mr. Ballin, the host of Mr. Ballin's Medical Mysteries.
And each week on my podcast, you can expect to hear stories about bizarre illnesses no one can explain, miraculous recoveries that shouldn't have happened, and cases so baffling they stumped even the best doctors. So if you crave totally true and thoroughly twisted horror stories and mysteries, Mr. Ballin's Medical Mysteries should be your new go-to weekly show.
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From episode 697, our sweet love, Molly McNierney.
A friend of a friend said, there's a job opening at Jimmy Kimmel Live to be an assistant to the executive producer. I had never seen Jimmy Kimmel Live. I had no idea what an assistant to an executive producer did. But I knew it was in the industry and could maybe get me closer to comedy. In the meantime, I'm doing improv classes out in L.A. and making great friends who are all really funny people.
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Chapter 2: How did Molly McNearney start at Jimmy Kimmel Live?
He didn't know.
Thank God Monica's there, because that guy just fucking sucks. That's what he said. So brutal. First academic to say that. So mean. It was an argument. We got in a debate. Did you hear this? Was this the end of the Wyatt-Kurt Russell episode?
Probably. It was that Monica had been watching... The Globes, right? Yes. Yeah. I heard this because I woke up to texts from my friends in New York that were like, I didn't know you were going to be on Armchair. And I was like, oh, and I listened to it. Oh, yeah, because we kind of, we never do that, but we did it. Exciting.
Yeah.
Okay, so then you're familiar with the debate. I remember it. Should we talk about it? Yes, let's talk about it. I remember both of your points. This is the day after the Globes or something. Monica's point, which was very kind, was Phineas stands there like a potted plant as they ask Billy a bunch of questions. And then they go, bye, guys. Wouldn't it be nice if they asked him a question? Yeah.
Dax's point was... Who cares? It's a little interview before the Golden Globes and she's wearing a cool outfit and he's wearing a suit and he's the millionth person that night in the suit. And it's not a representation of who's more important. It's a representation of the audience and the interview.
A red carpet, like the conceit of a red carpet, which is let's get the most popular person here to talk about their outfit.
Also, I'm going to throw this in there. Red carpets fucking suck.
Yes, yes.
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Chapter 3: What is Bill Gates' perspective on intelligence?
So it's a very different way of thinking about, let's say, a crisis that a couple goes through. You're trying to understand what's going on with the system, with a unit as a whole that leads them to this crisis. How did they each take this role? When you're raising kids, there are certain things that need to happen and not everyone can do everything properly.
What I was going to suggest as an example that people, I think, experience most strongly is they go out into their adult life and they kind of gravitate toward a system that they wanted. And then they return home for the holidays and you can feel yourself click into the role you were ascribed in that situation. And you're like, no, no, no, no, I don't want this role anymore.
I feel like that's when people are really aware of it.
Yes. And that's why around the holidays, I cannot go on vacation.
you have done a lot of work on disassociation maybe we could dig in a little bit of what that means for people i think it's very common it's a spectrum the one i'm not familiar with that seems like a sister state is depersonalization i don't know what that is
Generally, dissociation, going back to Freud, you really introduced the concept of repression. That if there's something you don't want to know about yourself or something happened to you, you repress it. Meaning it happened, you registered it, and then you push it out of mind. You forget.
That was in quotes.
That was in quotes. Dissociation is a different model of mind. It's when things happen that are either traumatic or to some degree something you can't tolerate. You either don't process it, you kind of leave it hanging and not fully comprehend what it means, or you shunt it towards a part of the psyche that is not your main part of your personality.
You kind of keep it to the side to a part that's kind of not me. That not me over there just registered all those bad things that were happening over there. But I'm not going to pay attention to it because the me that needs to keep functioning is moving ahead in the world.
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Chapter 7: What insights does Malcolm Gladwell provide on the opioid crisis?
Chapter 8: What medical discrepancies exist between men and women?
Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to Armchair Expert early and ad-free right now. Join Wondery Plus in the Wondery app or on Apple Podcasts, or you can listen for free wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome, welcome, welcome to Armchair Expert, Experts on Expert. This is our best of Experts on Experts for year 2024.
We had an incredible amount of great experts this year. It was really hard to pick.
An embarrassment of riches. It was. So please enjoy The Best of Experts.
You know those creepy stories that give you goosebumps? The ones that make you really question what's real? Well, what if I told you that some of the strangest, darkest, and most mysterious stories are not found in haunted houses or abandoned forests, but instead in hospital rooms and doctor's offices? Hi, I'm Mr. Ballin, the host of Mr. Ballin's Medical Mysteries.
And each week on my podcast, you can expect to hear stories about bizarre illnesses no one can explain, miraculous recoveries that shouldn't have happened, and cases so baffling they stumped even the best doctors. So if you crave totally true and thoroughly twisted horror stories and mysteries, Mr. Ballin's Medical Mysteries should be your new go-to weekly show.
Listen to Mr. Ballin's Medical Mysteries on the Wondery app or wherever you get your podcasts. You can listen early and ad-free right now by joining Wondery Plus in the Wondery app or on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.
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From episode 697, our sweet love, Molly McNierney.
A friend of a friend said, there's a job opening at Jimmy Kimmel Live to be an assistant to the executive producer. I had never seen Jimmy Kimmel Live. I had no idea what an assistant to an executive producer did. But I knew it was in the industry and could maybe get me closer to comedy. In the meantime, I'm doing improv classes out in L.A. and making great friends who are all really funny people.
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