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Birthday Boy, ET Gown, New Year's Resolutions | Fact Check for Cher

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This is the full, timestamped transcript of "Birthday Boy, ET Gown, New Year's Resolutions | Fact Check for Cher", an episode of Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard published January 5, 2026 (1 h 1 min, about 12,207 words). It mentions 12 people, works and ideas, including Kristen, Eminem, Santa Monica, Fuglers, Heart the Lover.

What is discussed, and when

  1. – 10:00: Fuglers, Santa Monica
  2. – 20:00: Kristen, Heart the Lover, Santa Monica, Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
  3. – 30:00: Brandon Maxwell
  4. – 50:00: Kristen
  5. – 1:00:00: Eminem, Kristen, Lana Clarkson, Santa Monica
  6. – 1:01:29: Eminem

Notable quotes from "Birthday Boy, ET Gown, New Year's Resolutions | Fact Check for Cher"

  • I sure hope there weren't any mistakes in that episode, but we'll find out when my mom, Mrs. Monica, comes in and tells us what was wrong.
    about Santa Monica · at
  • Well, I learned about fuglers because I took Delta on her shopping spree as we that's our tradition for her birthday and she wanted fuglers.
    about Fuglers · at
  • And then when I w when I finished Heart the Lover I thought this I shouldn't read.
    about Heart the Lover · at
  • Well, let's move on. It's already been indulgent, but Kristen had written me a birthday card that was on my sink when I woke up, which was lovely. Or after I meditated, and it said like happy 52nd birthday.
    about Kristen · at
  • But it makes sense. So, there's a designer that I love, an amazing designer, Brandon Maxwell. He is an armchair.
    about Brandon Maxwell · at
  • He murdered actress Lana Clarkson. O u finding her dead from a gunshot wound in his California mansion in 2003. He was later convicted of seconddegree murder and sentenced to 19 years to life.
    about Lana Clarkson · at
  • But I mean it is to me the reason I picked it is because white people listened to Eminem. So white people listen to they listen to all but not all white people in certain areas they don't. and they.
    about Eminem · at

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

Books & papers

  • Heart the Lover — Book · 2 mentions · first at
  • Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow — Book · 1 mention · first at
    Yeah. I did think when I finished because last time I was home I finished a book tomorrow and tomorrow which is my favorite book I've read in the past decade and that also made me feel so melancholy.

Products & tech

  • Fuglers — Product · 2 mentions · first at
  • Groot — Product · 1 mention

Full transcript with timestamps

I sure hope there weren't any mistakes in that episode, but we'll find out when my mom, Mrs. Monica, comes in and tells us what was wrong.

You know what's really funny about this studio? What? It's almost the exact same size. But we are about 18 in further apart than we are in LA.

Can you feel that or no? Weirdly, like you're dist. Really? Can you see me? I can't. That's what I was Let me put my glasses on. They're reading glasses. So, they're the opposite.

Don't put your glasses on because, you know, I feel like I look better when fuzzy.

Better from afar. I look best from afar. Um, happy birthday. Oh, thank you. It's my friend's birthday today.

It is. It's not a very fun age. No, it's a good age. Well, just there's a landmark 50.

Yeah, I know. Which we had. That's over. No more 50s. That's right. And then 51 is just like okay.

But I was talking to I don't remember who about this but they were saying that there's kind of a mental trick where you feel you should feel kind of young when you're at the early stage of the decade. So like 51 52 you're young.

Okay. When you're 54 is when we got to start sounding the alarm probably. No like 57.

Okay. Okay. Okay. But it works in all decades. So like right now I'm 38. So I'm like feeling old. Yes.

But I'm about to feel young. About to be a young 40-year-old. Exactly. Yeah. Optimism.

What are your thoughts about turning 40? Yeah. It's weird because a lot of my friends from home from Georgia who I, you know, is of my class are turning 40 this year. Not me though.

Yeah. Yeah. Um, were you a year younger than everyone? Well, I was born in August and I started kindergarten when I was four.

Oh my goodness. A little wonder. Yeah, you are a wonderk kid. But you turned 39 in August. I did.

Okay. So, you got a year and 8 months. Yes, I have time. But I feel from my perspective 40 feels great. Like to be turning 40 sounds wonderful.

The only thing of course that is a little scary is kids. I just saw on Instagram this woman's pregnant. She's 45.

71. 71. She's the right age. She's in early 70s. Early, so she's young. I was just telling the girls on our vacation, we were kind of Well, a Delta was saying how she can't wait to have a baby.

Yeah. Which Yeah, of course. She's going to really, really do it. Well, yeah. Yeah.

For people who don't know, our life is a traveling circus of Delta stuffies. Like the bulk of our luggage as a family is her stuffies. And now there's I've already forgotten the names of them.

Lebert. No, I I know Lebert's name. There's a new class of toys that are these 3D printed things.

Oh, I know. Yeah. And somehow she needs a lot of those. They're cute, though. Sure, but they're tiny and they get lost a lot.

They're trinkets. At least Groot, we had like when we were trying to find Groot at the Monster Jam.

Oh [ __ ] You're like, "Okay, he's a foot and a half tall. You can get a APB on the guy.

Yep, that's right. All all points bulletin. Guy's about two feet tall. Yeah, but this these are microscopic. Anyways, there's that. And then do you know about fugles?

Well, I learned about fuglers because um I took Delta on her shopping spree as we that's our tradition for her birthday and she wanted fuglers.

Yeah. Fuckload of fuglers. I cannot with these young the young generation loves

ugly ugly but we I did too. You didn't have that? Well, we had garbage pal kids and they were the most collectible thing of my whole youth.

And they were ugly. Yeah. It was like um Fatsy Nancy, you know, these are bad. These are these are outdated.

They're old. They're old. Gay Mike. No, that wasn't one. But can you imagine? But it could have been.

Black Sarah. Oh my god. You don't know it was the '8s. OH NO. Oh no. No. They were terrible. Do Do you not know? Do you know?

I don't really know. Like maybe you've talked about them, but I don't I didn't collect them or I don't really know about them.

That's probably the only thing I got obsessed with as a kid where it was like there was first edition, but by the time I got into them, they were already on second or third edition. So, you really wanted these first edition ones.

My cousin Jamie had all of them. He was pretty good at giving me doubles. Anyways.

Oh, that's nice. Point of all that is is like I look at these fuglars and for people who don't know what fuglars are they're these little stuffed animals and they have like human teeth in them.

They're ugly. They are. But they're cute. I mean literally they're ugly. That that stands for [ __ ] ugly.

Oh is that what [ __ ] I think you're right. Buggies from the movie Mean Girls.

Yeah. But [ __ ] ugly. Wait butt [ __ ] ugly. I guess I guess I'm going to go with a competing brand called Buff Ulies.

And what are they going to have? Well, these are butt [ __ ] uglies. So, is the butt human flesh?

Yeah. You We'll harvest We'll harvest some human flesh. Well, I guess the original fugler was a woman who made this little creature and put real teeth in it.

Real human teeth. Yes. Wonder where she got those. Where does one get? So, I'm giving her the benefit of the doubt that she wanted to preserve her children's baby teeth.

I' I've decided this. So, so she made this little creature to put the teeth in there, but then people

loved it. Loved it, I guess. So, now fuglers that you buy, they're not human teeth, but they look like human teeth.

This is probably one of these overnight. This person's probably a billionaire. I know

cuz this we had to have all the fuglers, and we got fuglers for everybody. Yeah.

This episode was brought to you by Fuglers. Please sponsor us, Fuglers. Yes. Anyway, so she's saying she wants to have a baby. And I said, "When do you think you'll have your first child? when you turn 18.

Oh, okay. And she I want to be supportive of whatever. Of course. Yeah. Yeah. I don't want to plant any seeds that I'd be judgmental or whatever. And she said, "What?" No. 18. What do you think? I really And I said, "I my guess is between 35 and 45 is when I think you'll have kids."

I said, "And I think we'll if you want to, we'll freeze your eggs when you're 18." You know, like,

wow, I love I'll pay I'll pay for you to get your eggs frozen so you don't have to think about that.

Yeah, that's lovely. Because your issue is just when you started freezing eggs, right? Like had you started at 14?

Well, I think you might have to be on hormones before you even hit had your period.

No. Um, I don't know because I've never like looked You didn't look into it. Yeah, I didn't look into it. So, maybe I always had a low count. I do think the earlier the better. Yes.

And I think and look acknowledging all lucky privilege, obviously this is an option for most people,

but I think given where it's the the the trajectory, yeah, it would make the most s like I think they're going to be wrestling with the same thing. Every woman is like, you're going to want to do your career or whatever the hell.

Um, so anyway, all to say she was like, no, that's great. That's too old. No, again, she's 11, so that probably seems like 80. Yeah, but Oh, yeah. Ouch.

Yeah. She's thinking mid20s. Okay. Okay, that's fine. Whatever. I think whatever she does is going to be great.

Yeah, me too. Um, but I do think she's underestimating what mid20s feels like. Yep. I think she is. And how much fun particularly she'll be having.

It's just so fun. It won't be time for her to be in the house every night with the child. I was thinking about that sim like eight minutes ago because I just arrived. We're in

Nashville. Okay. 80 minutes ago because I just arrived in Nashville and um came from the airport and I don't know why I was thinking this but I moved to LA when I was 22.

Oh, really? Yeah. And I I've never thought about that. I always think like, oh, I've been there 15 years or I've been there 16 years or whatever. And then I was like, "Oh my god, that was a big move. That's a big deal."

22s are babies. Yeah. Yeah. If I know a 22-year-old now and they say, "I'm going to move across the country," I'd probably say, "Whoa, that's a big deal."

Yes. So, I I was proud of myself. You should be. Yeah. I I know. I similarly hi. Come on. You can sit here. Jeff, can you turn that other mic on? Hi Jeff.

That's Jeff. So, disappointingly about Jeff, he's from New Orleans, but he doesn't have a Cajun accent.

Jeff. Jeff. And sorry. And I was on the verge of boring him with the story. Do you remember Aaron when you and I we went to Aaron and I went over Christmas probably senior year to we just wanted warmth.

We pulled out the Rand McNal, okay, map because there's no internet, right? And at the back of the Rand McN map, it had a chart with um monthly average temperatures for cities around the country.

I remember this now. Yeah. And we just looked in the the warmest place in the entire graph in the contiguous US was um Corpus Christie or Corpus Christie, Texas.

Yes. Y So we're like, let's go there. It'll be warm. Oh boy. We drove to Corpus Christie, Texas. We got there and we're like, what is this weird place? It was like this pavement.

Have you ever been there? I don't think I've been. Okay. Mind you, this was also 92 or 392.

So, no restaurants, no coffee, nothing. It was banking dis. It was It was warm, wasn't it? So, we were in that city for a total cement and no business.

I just remember sitting on the cement in front of the bank building going like, "What are we doing here?" Like, we just drove for two days to get to this cement. But you still had fun cuz you guys are friends.

Well, then we got out the Rand McN Monica. Okay. Well, like what are we by? And we were by Padre Islands right across

South Padre the bridge from Corpus Christi, but I think we were on North Padre.

South Padre. And we ended up on this section. There was Federal Beach for like 5 miles and like State Beach for 10 miles. And you could drive on the beach

and we drove the car there. And this is where we had our we brought speedos with us. Micro brief underwear.

You've seen the pictures? Yeah. Have I seen pics of us at the beach in our micro brief with our um We also have winter gloves on.

Sure. I think you've seen it. Erin's posted it. We can post it for this episode.

Is hitchhiking with a winter glove and a bikini bottom. A little blue bikini bottom.

I don't even know why we needed to do that stuff cuz there was really no one there.

I know. That's how you guys have been operating your whole life. So, it's just for each other. It's very pure.

Very pure. Okay. All to say, we then were there for a few days. We met the weirdest cast of characters who live on these beaches. And they go from the federal beach to the state beach back and forth. And they live there all year long, but you can only be there for 10 and 5 days, respectively. So, they move back and forth.

Volkswagen buses and whatnot. Yeah. Drinking beer, all that kind of stuff. Um, a jellyfish all over the beach that popped when we drove. It was gross. That was memorable. Like when you're driving wall to- wall jelly like the packaging bubbles you're driving.

They're like dead and inflated. I don't know what I'm doing. Not that we saw clear blood if there was blood. It's clear Pepsi.

Um then we were like, let's go to New Orleans. The best. We had never been. So we cross Alligator Alley. We're like getting kind of closeish again. No, no internet, no phones.

Go over to a gas station, ask a guy how to get to Bourbon Street. Yeah. And I was in there for like 12 minutes and I came out and I got back in the car and Aaron goes, "Did he tell you where to go?" And I go, "No idea what he said."

Sure. Understand? 12 minutes. Dang. Uhuh. Over there. And yeah, I just came out like we got to go to another gas station.

Yeah. It's such a unique place. I love it there. I haven't been in Oh, yeah. We went in college. It was so fun.

I'm going. When? To do the Isacson's Tain. Remember, did he asked me to come to Tain Book Festival?

Tain Book Festival. Yeah. And I'm going. When is it? I think in March. I want to go

go to the book festival. I love books. You love You love to start books. Yeah, I do. I finished a book though over the break.

You did? Which one? Um, it's called Heart the Lover. Okay. It's a very popular book right now. I bet Ruthie read it.

Did you read it with your eyes or your ears? My eyes. That's how Ruthie reads. I can't read with my ears. I'm deficient in that. Um, but I finished it. It was really sad.

It was. And it made me feel melancholy for the holidays. Yeah. Well, okay. Great.

Just for what you want. Yeah. I did think when I finished because last time I was home I finished a book tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow which is my favorite book I've read in the past decade and that also made me feel so melancholy.

It did. And then when I w when I finished Heart the Lover I thought this I shouldn't read.

Yes. Well, you should read a different genre for sure. But reading has a way like maybe a Jack Reacher book or Tom Clancy not that interesting.

Harvin Corland. Wait, Har Corbin Reese Witherspoon's partner partner. What? Yeah, they wrote her book together. But no, I um I think books are the the medium that cuts the deepest.

Yeah. Yeah, it can change you can like form your identity around a book, not not a movie.

Yes. Exact. Well, I did form my identity around a TV show and a movie to be fair.

That's true. You were susceptible though. I guess I get it. I'm just sensitive to art.

Was it you that was telling me you like most of your music you discover from TV shows? Yeah. Yeah.

I do have to say one funny thing about my birthday before we move on. Yes. Well, we don't have to move on.

Well, let's move on. It's already been indulgent, but um Kristen had written me a birthday card that was on my sink

when I woke up, which was lovely. Or after I meditated, and it said like happy 52nd birthday. And I thought, oh, that's kind of a funny bit. just be off by one year. That was definitely a bit. And then I got into the interior of the card, what was written, and then we went back to being 52.

Uh oh. And I was like, she definitely thinks I'm 52. Yeah. Did she um did she tell you?

We've since talked cuz then I read the whole thing. Then I got busy talking to a neighbor. Then I came back into the bathroom and then she was in there at the time fixing the car to one

and I go, "Honey, did you you got my birthday? you got my age wrong. And she's like, "Well, I did the math from 74."

Oh, it's like that's the problem. Yeah. I was born in 75. Your neighbors came over and I came over and met them and and uh we were sitting there and and they're like, "Oh, it's his birthday today." And I go, "1, baby." And Kristen goes, "No, 52."

But by the way, I'm going to drag her a little bit. I mean, you would remember last year was my 50th. That's my That's more my If you like If you can't keep 57 56 straight, duh. I probably won't be able to either. But just last year was 50.

I thought she was doing a bit with me, too. I will say this. I for some reason that birthday party, like your roller skating party, feels like a really long time ago.

Does it? Yeah. I I don't know why cuz this year went by very fast, I think. Yeah.

But a lot h I think a lot happened this year. I do too. And I'm having a lot of what you're explaining right now. There are many events. Uh the the award show season is the one right now where I'm like we were just at these award shows with

Kristen. Sure. Sure. Cuz I guess probably Emmys is the latest one and then what is that?

That's in the fall. That was sort of recently. Is that in the fall? I think it's in like September.

Okay. So, probably I'm getting a little confused by that. So, yeah, there's all these different things where it's like, well, that feels like that was two months ago. yet then there's an event that was on the day before that does feel like two years ago.

Yeah, I know. Time is Time is very Yeah, it's very um topsyturvy that way. Can I tell you guys now that we're on the subject of um the awards?

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So, this will be out on Monday. Happy New Year everyone. Happy 2026. I feel it's going to be a good one.

It's going to be a good year. I feel it. So, we're going to the Golden Globes. So exciting.

Yeah. Next Sunday. Yeah. Yeah. this Sunday. This tomorrow. Yeah. And I've been on a real ride over this break. So, I have I've been really humbled.

Oh, okay. But humbled to the point where I just like I felt worthless. Okay. Okay. So, so it's a real hot.

It's a real the game you're playing. Yeah. It is a roller coaster because of course it's so it's so incredible that we are nominated that we're getting together

done like enough already happened. Exactly. It's already incredible first year podcasting. It's so spe It really is so special. I'm so proud of this.

So I'm trying to get a stylist. Okay. And I cannot get one. It's a busy night for the life of me. And I really started like I was like, "Oh my god, I I am so worth I'm I'm bottom of the barrel. Oh, you're you went ugly."

Of course, I'm like ugly. I'm so ugly. No one even will like get near me. What if that stylist did it? They like they like Oh, no. They looked at pictures of the people.

They might. I think I think they might. You think they'd rather sit home without a job?

That well that was my point. I'm like don't these people like money? I don't understand. This is a job.

But I think there is a lot of politics and there is a lot of like busiest night of year for stylist

and they already have clients and they're already working with clients and it's like it's last minute and I that's what I'm being told. Yes.

Okay. Yes. But in my heart, but for me on the outside, I'm like, girl, this is your whole this is like me hiring someone to tell me how to what motorcycle to ride to the Gloes. What? No, I got that covered.

I know. So that's okay. But that's also part of Is there anything you couldn't get help with? This would be my pick for you.

That's right. But I I I did think like But you know, I it just got so big in my head. I was like, I have to look so good because I do care. I care about fashion and I want people to say like, "Oh my god, she looks great." And a stylist does do some things I can't do like tailor her. Like they know things like that.

The finishing touches. Exactly. The accucha, the um accessories, the jewelries.

At one point I was like, I have a dress. I do. I have this vintage dress that I I love and I think will be great. I just had this incredible image of you and do you remember when um she dresses up ET in that grandma outfit? There's like so much stuff. I just mentioned you on the red carpet with like seven necklaces, three purses, a bunch of pearls, huge earrings, a crazy hat.

I should do that. I should just throw in the D. You should look You should look up the picture and dress exactly like the grandma. really should.

At least that would be funny. Like anyway, and I'll come as the little boy in the like puffer jacket he wore the whole movie.

That would be so cute. I'll carry you in a milk crate like on the front of the bicycle. Well, we rolled up on the the [ __ ] right carpet on bicycles and you were in a milk crate dressed as that.

Oh my god. So great. Anyway, so so now I'm going on my own, but not really. So, luckily, and this is truly a miracle,

okay, but it makes sense. So, there's a designer that I love, an amazing designer, um, Brandon Maxwell. He is an armchair.

Oh, thank God, Brandon. Thank God for Brandon. Perfect. Thank God cuz so he had DM'd me like years ago and said, you know, he loved the show and I could not believe it cuz he's amazing. And then he popped in my head, of course, when all this was going on. I was like, should I just reach out directly? You're not really supposed to do that.

Like these stylists go to the designers and then they, you know, it's a whole thing. And I was like, I well, I guess I have to. I got to hack the system. That's what I do in my life. You got to just, you just got to keep plowing forward. Exactly.

So then um I DM'd him and he said, "I I heard on the podcast, congratulations. That's amazing. I was going to reach out to you. I'd be so honored."

No. Yes. Oh yeah. And so he is going to provide me an incredible dress. It was just really It was very I felt like I really needed that little boost.

Send him ET as an inspiration photo. I will. No, it makes sense though that it would of course be an armchair that came through.

Yes, of course. Of course. Like how like that's what gave me all of this. Yeah,

but it I really went on a real e What days were these? Were these be This was before Christmas or post Christmas?

Oh, the whole time. The whole Christmas. When did you hear from Brandon? Um this morning?

Like three days ago? Three days. So you've had a good three day. You're back. Yeah, I'm back.

Okay. How was Let's quickly go through a little bit of Christmas morning, okay,

in Georgia. How was it? It was really nice. My brother and his girlfriend. You met your brother's girlfriend?

I did. And she's lovely. What's her name? Her name's Emily. Emily. Shout out Emily. She's so good for my brother.

Uhhuh. Um, you know, she's like she's very cute. She's kind of she's easy. Anyway, so yeah, Christmas was was was lovely. What about you,

Erin? Did you get anything nice? Yeah. Yeah. I um I got a t-shirt that said really GREAT STATION.

Ruthie got him merch. Official official merch. Yeah. And I was like, "Wow, this is actually the nicest t-shirt I think I've ever

had." I agree. That one in particular. put it on, I'm like, "Okay, now this is like next level."

The quality and the color and the whole, you know, having had living in Georgia during that time, like I was like, "Wow, this is like full circle."

The best. Yeah. Yeah. I love that shirt. And as Murphy's Law would have it, I have two of them. And both of them I've done where you get one of those weird oily stains. You did it already up to both of them.

I'm positive I did. I think that was my first worry when I put it on was I'm going to do something to this. And I even when I was just grabbing two shirts to come here for two days.

Yeah. I didn't grab it. Yes. I was like I was thinking of all the eating we might be doing.

That's instead I'm wearing a a white shirt. Like I don't care about that. We can throw that in the trash.

Right. I mean that is true. But like I'm always when I put it on I'm trying to evaluate do I care when people have a little oil stain on there? Like I I'm I'm just I can't decide if it's even a thing or not.

I think it's fine cuz I love that shirt. You have to keep wearing it. I guess it's going to be impossible not to get an oil

games we play. You're nailing something so on the head that I play these weird games like I could get I presume unlimited numbers of those shirts. There are merch, but I'm not. I'm dealing with the two that are stained that I've had for two months now. instead of pulling.

And then I definitely wouldn't bring it like you. Like I got this new shirt I love. I better not bring it.

Wow. Anything I like I try not to use. I do. Anything I like I don't I don't want to use.

Yeah. I've like ruined my Ted Seager's hat from sweating so horribly in it playing pickle ball.

Washing it the way I shouldn't have. And instead of grabbing another one out of the box because it's our merch thousand,

I [ __ ] hate it and I and I put it on my head once in a while and it's not right anymore.

But I still won't grab another one. What is that? That doesn't sound familiar to you, does it? I feel like that's the shared childhood.

Yeah, it probably is a scarcity mentality slash like uh I I messed up so I don't deserve another one or something. It was probably about something about deserving

her guilty conscience. Exactly. And we don't. You do deserve a question. You deserve the merch of the brands you invented.

Yes. I'm not sure about that. Um, I do want to say one thing about time. Yeah. My dad retired.

Oh, already or coming up next year? He retired on New Year's Eve. On New Year's Eve

was his last day. He had to do his exit interview and today's the second. He's probably in the deepest depression he's been in in his whole life.

I'm try I'm trying to I think Monday will be a little harder because what's he going to do Monday morning?

So, okay. Well, this is of course my dad. He is going to do some contract work. So, he's going to go back to work.

He's basically doing part time. He starts a new job Monday. Yeah. Well, he's going to climb that ladder

at the same company, too. He's basically just like staying. But it is a big deal. I mean, he's about to turn 72. He's been working his

He's so spry. In my mind, he's like 60. I know. I agree. I know. I hate He kept saying, "I'm 72." And I was like, "I don't want to hear that.

Stop that. Stop saying it." And then it was so funny on New Year's Eve right when the ball dropped. He was like, "I have Medicare."

He was so he was so excited that he he now has Medicare. For him, it's it's a way he's been he's been working the system his whole life, right? It's like he's been saving for retirement his whole life.

His plan is coming. It's here to fruition. Which to me, that's what's dangerous about life. Continue.

Yeah. Because to me, I would if I did that, if it was like, oh my god, and I'm saving for Medicare and I'm saving and then it's here, I would be very depressed. It's like I not only did I work and my work identity is over. It's like I worked towards a thing and now that's here now.

And this is the thing. Yeah. This is what it's like to have all your ducks in a row and you have done it perfectly. How does it feel? And then you're like, "Oh, it's fine."

Exactly. It's just another day. It's all a mental trick. I know. But because he's retired, I want the world to know that he has a little more time to spend on the sim. Oh, so things could really

It's going to be a big year for my family. So he need to make some time. Stay tuned for more armchair expert if you dare.

Okay, so now we have a new fun thing for Mondays, which is we get to do the fact check seamlessly.

That's right. That's right. We're so excited about this. So, this is for Share. My mom, it was funny cuz um I guess my mom loved Share.

Oh, okay. Growing up, that makes sense. Yeah. You know, she said, "I saw you were editing Share." And she was like, "How was that?" I told her, I was like, "You know, Sunny took all her money." And she was so shocked.

And then she, you know, she was like, "Yeah, from the outside when they got divorced, it was so sad."

Yeah. And she's like, "You just never know what's really going on." And it's so cool. They continued to do their show after they were divorced.

Yeah. Yeah. Oh, they did. Yeah. And was she like really young? Yes. Yo, yeah. She moved in with She moved in with Sunny when she was 16. Different times.

Yep. Exactly. That was a lot of the other Well, she's got a story about like [ __ ] um Warren Batty when she was 16 and he's like a 30-year-old. I don't know the age.

Oh, that's a fact. Oh, it is. Yep. Okay, we can do it now. So, Sher was born in 46. You can do fast math.

46 4 and 80. She's 79. She was born in May of 47. She was born yesterday. And and um Warren was born in March of 37.

Whoa. What was her year of birth? 46. They're not as far as So he was maybe 27 or 26. And she was

It's not as much as I was expecting. That's not too bad. That's all right. We can certainly live with that in the 60s and 70s.

Yeah, I know. Really different time. Yeah. But what was funny is she said she was like it was a different time, but I did have to lie and say I was 18. So it was like they they still she still knew. But she was kind of saying you had to lie because the men wouldn't

[ __ ] you. [ __ ] you unless you were 18. Yeah. Or have you around cuz they thought you were like babyish

or just it was illegal. Depending on what state maybe. Yeah. I even grew up in an era where it was like,

okay, check well a okay a okay and then b like how old is she check her license like that awareness of like is she really

that stuff was going on even in the '9s. Um, we were watching last night Beverly Hills Cop 2 with the whole crew and all the little kids and Lincoln goes in the middle of the movie.

Just was every guy in the 80s a huge pervert. And I go I go, "Well, we still are. We just are much quieter about it now." But the movie you forget. It's kind of like when I watched Chip with them the other day and I'm like, "Oh, I'm so perverted. I didn't think I was this perverted, but now that they're watching with me, I realize I am." But like, yeah, there's just these random scenes like uh like, "Yeah, let's uh let's find the [ __ ] Let your dicks do the walkin. Wake up, dick." They're like, "Let your dick point you the way. Point the way."

This is like a big blockbuster summer movie. Yeah. And that's how we were. How long does it take you to shave those legs?

Yeah. You need me to be your groomer? I'm offering my grooming services. He just met her.

Hot. But let's get a lot of cashmere that way. Yeah. Um, speaking of your your movie your movie situation at this house last time you were doing Tom's Tom Cruz's cruises.

Yeah. And I was going to text you that my family start went to Tom did Tom's Cruz's cruises,

but it was short-lived. Uh oh. Um because the movie we started was Eyes Wide Shut.

No, that's not a family movie. Why did you guys pick Okay, that one. Because when I was flying home, I was listening to a podcast and someone said it was their favorite Christmas movie.

And I was like, "Oh." And I was like, "I've never seen it. I know it's sexual, but I've never seen it. And if if there's if it's Christmy, like, we're going to watch it." So that night, me and my mom and my dad

turned on Eyes Wide Shut. Yeah. And I It's a porno. It was a literal porn ories. Everyone's so naked

and I'm sitting there with my mom and my dad. How's that for y'all? And it's like this was a horrible mistake. And I was like, I am old because I'm not that uncomfortable.

Oh, good. Yeah. Like I was like, okay, I don't like this. This isn't recommended,

but it's tolerable. But I I can see you would have died, right? Oh my god. Yeah, your dad would have died. Well, actually,

my dad probably would have left. He might have left. Yeah. I will say no. Now, now that I'm a dad and I'm older, the stuff I thought my parents thought, they didn't think

like I'm not uncomfortable. Really? No. Yeah. Maybe he wasn't. They're like these your kids are these like they're a whole different category of human.

Yeah, I get that. I don't know how to explain it. It's just like all that stuff. I thought maybe my parents were uncomfortable at the same time. They weren't. You're just your dumb little kids and then they grow up, but they're still your dumb little kids.

But not the other way. Your kids are mortified. Yeah. You're like, h I don't want my dad to be watching sexuality. The

thinking. Yes. Acknowledging I guess that's my point. That's how I could sinly say it. Acknowledging your parents are sexual is deeply uh creepy.

Yes. Acknowledging your children are sexual is not, right? It's not a thing. It's like, oh yeah, they're little human creatures and they're going to be sexual

and they're going to have boyfriends and that's all exciting for them. It's not creepy.

Yeah. But your parents like, oh god, did you ever hear your mother making love?

Yeah. Oh boy. Well, they lived in a very small Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. And Aaron's mom's so [ __ ] sweet, too. She might be the sweetest lady I've ever met.

Oh my god. My mom said uh she listened to mom's car. Oh, okay. Or watched it on YouTube and um and she I talked to her, you know, we don't talk often. She and she said she started crying and she said, "I am so sorry that um I didn't for childhood pretty much." Oh,

and I was like, where does that come from? And she goes, I listened to your episode. And I was like,

this is why they're not allowed to listen. And I was like, I don't even know what he said. But I then I was asking Ruth. She goes, I think was that you guys were like talking about Butch and throw. And I was like, oh, for [ __ ] sake. I go, would you ever guess she would be listening to that?

Yeah, I know. But yeah, I would never guess she listened to it. And then duh, she listened to it if my kids podcast when I'm older. I'm going to listen.

But they shouldn't listen. I deal with I I'm I deal with this with my mom, but I'm in a really lucky situation, which is like I often, in fact, the only person I'm reading my memoir to

is my daughters and my mom. That's nice. Um, and she is going through a lot of that stuff. And I'm just constantly going, "Mom, like I'm [ __ ] I hit the lottery." whatever the recipe is, I'm so happy. Like I literally I don't say any of this with

regrets or sadness. It's just like, well, here are the facts. But we've had we've been going through that a lot for like two years as I'll like write certain events and then I'll read them to her and

it's kind of I think kind of good cuz then we have a good hour chatting about it all and

her reaction I wonder what your mom's is. My mom's is just like mostly Yeah. Wow. all that happened and it feels like 10 lives ago and I can't really

connect all that and yet I know that all happened and I'm like yeah same it doesn't mean anything it's just what it is.

Yeah. I never want to talk to my mom about anything. I just like pretend to Yeah.

Cuz then you kind of end up feeling guilty and it's like well I don't want to feel guilty about this. It's like it's a weird cycle that starts happening.

Yeah. What you really want to say is like Well, well, it's just the truth. I have zero resentment against it. Like I have no ill feelings about anything.

Yeah. Yeah. I'm just like that's cool, man. We all took a wild ride. Yeah. Well, so you guys are parents, so you could, I assume, imagine that if you heard your kids

talking about some horrible stuff. You would also want to say, "I'm sorry for that."

Yeah. True. Yeah. So, maybe it was good for her that she got to say that to you.

Yeah. You know, it's not like she It's not like she doesn't know. Yeah. Exactly. For sure. Yeah. Same with my mom. And then Yeah. And I think she's been able to say like, "I'm I'm really sorry." And I'm like, I Yeah, you don't need to be Yeah.

Yeah. You were [ __ ] 22 years old. I know. Two kids and a lot. Yeah. Um, share. Very on topic.

It is on top. You would love her book, dude. I think I might have already told you this. I loved it. She

talk about a wild [ __ ] ride. Through it. Yeah. And she's been a adult since she was 9 years old.

Yeah. Um, okay. So, Prim, Nevada. Remember she said Prim. I brought up her her mom's boyfriend was a man with the last name Prim.

Exactly. Who owned a casino and I thought maybe he started Prim Nevada, the whole town,

but she didn't know. So, the casinos and resorts in Prim, Nevada, um are primarily owned and operated by Affinity Gaming, though they were originally developed by the Prim family, Ernest and Gary

Prim. Gary Prim. It says who the town is named after. Mhm. Okay, that's cool. I looked up, are you born with your temper?

Oh, okay. Um because she said her dad had like no temper and so she could relate to him kind of because of that cuz the rest of her family had a has a big temper.

Yeah. Um it says you're not born with a specific temper, but you are born with a temperament. a baseline for emotional reactivity that's influenced by genetics around 20 to 60% and shaped by your environment and learned behaviors. Meaning some people have a natural predisposition to frustration or strong emotions that can be managed or worsened by how they're raised and experience life. I have a bad temper, I think.

Yeah. You like real bad. I have a bad temper. I think crickets I don't know. Do you

sure? I'm easily frustrated. I will say that. Yeah. You don't have like temper. Well, no. You have your tantrums now. Those are fun tantrums. Yeah.

Playful tantrums. But I don't think I get angry that fast. Maybe I do. I don't have a thought. Just so you know.

You can have a thought. It's your birthday, so you get to be whatever. No, no, no. I have none. I'm like I'm I'm evaluating you real time with you as you explore this.

I have a what I think is your murial. That's worse. No, material sounds cool. It sounds cool, but it is bad.

No, it just means that you have a lot of es and flows in your Yeah. Uh disposition.

Yeah, but mercurial is like This is funny. We're going too long, but I got to say I I couldn't not observe it. I think there's so many funny gender things. I just constantly see them. And then as I enter different age groups, I see the gender thing play out differently. But

I'm we went to this very special place in the Bahamas. Yeah. Over the break and everyone's wellto-do. And I just was observing. I think men men just we just don't want any emotions.

Yes. And we're so afraid of emotions. We don't know what to do with them. And um and then we get resentful at you if you have them. Mh.

And so we're constantly, if we're in a position to, we're trying to create the perfect environment where everyone will be happy, which can't happen obviously, but but you think it can. You go, well, take everyone to where it's warm and it's a nice house. Clearly, everyone will be happy

for 6 days, right? And that's of course not the case cuz you can't buy your way into just being in a good mood.

No, you can't. So, I'm experiencing that, but mostly I then I get distracted by noticing, oh, all the dads here are having experience. Like, I'm watching a table like with a meltdown happening and I can just see on the guy's face like [ __ ] Amy and I [ __ ] brought everyone here and the food's good and it's sunny. Like, why is everyone so upset?

Oh my god, I do that too. Do you do that? Yeah. Like, so I pay Yeah. You think you can create the perfect situation where you'll control

really what I think as a guy you're trying to control is just no emotions. I know which is like

you want love ones. I like I like loved ones. I know you guys only want the good ones, but it's just that's not real. That's not how it works.

And can I I mean I I actually I can't say this about Aaron because I've never seen it.

But you have ne you have bad you have negative emotions. Never. Yes. You do. up and they affect people too and that's life

and it's okay. Yeah, but vacation should be perfect. That's why we went there. We all declared this was going to be a perfect week. That's the no compact.

But look, that's also your expectations. Like I was crazy sick. Still am a bit sick, but like with my brother to New York, you know, really really sick.

Yeah. But no one heard about it, you know. I wasn't laying in bed. People were bringing me things and I wasn't like, "Oh my god, I'm so sick." But, you know, some people got a little feeling less than perfect on the trip and it's just like a big event that they're sick.

I know. Is that not a gender thing? No. No. I actually think Oh, there's men that are

Yeah. I think I kind of can't handle being sick personally. But I think just cuz you don't

share that you're sick doesn't mean other people shouldn't say that they're sick or get taken care of.

Yeah. I also you're with your brother. So that's probably neither of us knew how to take care of.

Yeah. But if you were home, you get taken care of. People do try to take care of me for sure.

I don't do well with that. And I try to minimize you seeing that I need any help.

Right. But you're right. It's probably just me. It's probably not male female. Do you like Do you like being taken care of?

Well, I wish I could lie. Don't lie. But I can't lie. It's been getting pretty uh ridiculous.

I like to be taken care of. AARON, GOOD. I'M GLAD you're saying that. It's a good It's limited to one person I'll complain to, but I'm like,

"Yeah, kind of been turning into that a bit." Oh, good. It feels good to have someone take care of you. It feels safe. It's nice.

Well, and I've always Well, like I've always been taken care of by Dax. Yeah. He's always been the caretaker who can't show weakness. So,

he can't receive. I don't want to take care of But yeah, I think you allow me to help you sometimes.

Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Might be harder for you. It's becoming clear. It's just my issue.

It might be more of a male thing, though. You might not be able to receive help from a male more than you probably can receive a little more from women.

Yeah, that's definitely true. Yeah, I've never liked it in the past, but I definitely

like it. I've I've seen it get out of control where I'm like I'm like, "Oh, you're not feeling good either." And I was like,

well, I'm not here to do the taking care of. Yes. Right now, we're really getting somewhere, too. Cuz I do think a good chunk of mine is like, "No, no, we're all in an agreement. We're in a social contract. Handle your business." And like, "I don't want to receive it cuz I suck at giving it." I'm like, "Don't give it to me cuz I'm when it comes time to give it to you, I'm going to suck out of this and I don't want it."

Even though you're not going to suck at it cuz there's no way of sucking at it other other than just saying like, "Are you okay? Do you need anything?"

That's crazy to me. Yes. So, women are great at that. I My thing is like I can't fix it.

I don't know that you're going to be Everything I need to say I don't know if it's true. I don't know if you're going to be okay. I don't know if you're going to feel better tomorrow. say you're going to be okay or you're going to feel better tomorrow. You just say, "How are you?"

And then I'll go like, "Can I get you?" Like, "Can I do anything to help?" And they'll say,

but I know there's nothing to do to help. It feels like [ __ ] You're going to feel like [ __ ] for 5 years.

It just it just means something that somebody is thinking of you and somebody's like wants to whether they can do anything, they want to.

That's exactly right. Yeah. And that's the hurdle I have to get over. Yeah. This I had to get over 18 years ago with Kristen. She was like, "We should go to Africa this spring." And I would go, "Well, we can't go in spring because you're doing that movie there and I'm doing blank."

Oh, that sounds the reality of it. And I don't want to be promising you we're going to Africa in spring when I know that's not possible. So, I'm so literal and I have such a fear that I'm going to disappoint something. You know, I've promised you something. Yeah.

So, I'm not going to do that cuz of your mom. And then after a year or two that I realized she just wants to know, I'd like to go to Africa in the spring with her.

That's what she really wants to know. Like I we should go to Africa in the spring. Yeah, we should.

Okay. And that's fine. And what I had to learn and trust is she's never going to be mad at me come spring and say, "Why aren't we in Africa? You said we were going to go to That's never happened." But I had to

learn that that part's never going to happen. these. So now I can be like, "Yeah, let's" She'll go like, "Let's go to such and such tonight." And I'll go, "Yeah, that sounds great." And in my head I'm like, "We're never going there tonight. I know this thing's happening at 4. We'll never make it."

Okay. The other day she's like, "Oh, they did a popup of the Home Alone Pizza Shop in um on Ventura Boulevard in Studio City at a pizza place. Princess Pizza." Okay.

They did. They made it look like the Home Alone Pizza Place, which again, I don't even know what the Home Alone Pizza. They're just ordering pizza. They don't have a pizza place.

They order at the beginning. Oh. So, they make it that place. Okay. And Erica took the boys and everyone had a great time. So, this is Friday night.

Yeah. In LA. Yeah. And Kristen says, "And we're going to go to a party at 7 or 8. We're going to drop the kids at the Hansen's." She goes, "Let's go to this popup at 6 before we drop the kids at the Hansen's at 6:40."

Sure. And I'm like, "Not a [ __ ] chance." Yeah. We'll drive there in rush hour.

But you say yes. I said yes. I go great. I go great. Um that is gross. We drove there in rush hour. We got there and lo and behold, there was a line two blocks long.

No, you did drive. Which I knew would be the It's Friday night in LA a week by the Hansen anywhere. That's true. That's true. It wasn't like completely I knew like I'm like okay

I'm gonna say yes, let's do it. I go great. Let's do it. I'm like it's not gonna happen. Wow.

We But I go, "But we'll be in the valley. There'll be other places to eat. We'll get drive-thru. We'll make this work."

Uhhuh. But I was smart enough just to go like, "Yeah, let's go." And we went there. It was everything I thought. There's two block line. Kristen goes, "Oh, [ __ ] this." I'm like, "Yeah." And I'm already know. I'm like, "That is I'm almost like actually real gross there." I

I am impressed. I haven't done that yet. That I That just What's suspicious is I go, "Oh, well, let's hit shark." Like clearly I decided two hours ago we'll be able to hit Sharkies. No one will be there on Friday night and it's right by the hands. I just from the sec like as she was saying that lines long. I'm like let's just go to Sharkies cuz I already knew we were going to end up at Shark.

That's because you you know her. That's very individual. You've adjusted and what she wanted to know is that her partner was excited to try this fun thing she heard about that could be really fun. And she's with someone who wants to go do that.

That's nice. And I got to give her that. Right. And the outcome was all the same. We didn't go there. We didn't wait in line for two hours like I thought.

But you drove there. But we drove there. Yeah. That that I have that is impressive. That would be hard for me. I don't think I could do it.

It's hard. It's hard. I would have to say the reality which is like, okay, but there will be a line. So, we either have to go really early or we probably won't be able to go.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um, so I'm impressed that you can do that. That's very impressive. Let me impress.

Well, this brings us all down perfectly to New Year's resolutions, which do do you have any? I have two. And then this is one of them.

Um, no, let me hear it. One is just continue. I'm not going to crack it this year, but I know, and I've already vocalized it like

we got to not be affected by the emotions of other people. We got we got to [ __ ] get on this like it's a job this year. I like

so this is front of the mind like you're just going to let everyone have all their emotions and not

but do you get to do you so in that case are you able to have any like when don't need them?

No spoken like a true dad. Well, it's the expectations. It's just having the right expectations, I guess.

Yeah. Yes. True. had I thought we were going to go there and walk right in and get a slice of pizza and we got there and then it was two hours and then she did want to I mean luckily she didn't want to wait in that line. That could have Well, we couldn't have cuz we had to be at the party.

Exactly. Yeah. Um Okay, then then sprints. Oh yeah. I want to do sprints once a week this year. They're the worst. When's the last time you did a sprint?

A long time. I just decided if there was They're hard on the knees. They're hard on everything.

I'd be terrified. Yeah, they just tear everything. But you know, don't you know intuitively like, oh, if I can run full speed, I'm in good shape.

Yeah. Like if ever there were one signal of your fitness, it's like, can you run as fast as humanly possible away from an animal? That's pretty important.

Do you got to work up to a sprint? Like I'm I'm thinking of and this is even a long time ago, but I

baseball fantasy camp. It was before that, but it was just a softball league, like a bar league. Yeah.

And I was so excited to play some ball. Yeah. You know, and I'm drinking and I'm everything else and I'm uh not stretching and not doing anything. I [ __ ] crank the ball my first at bat

and I take off like a son of a [ __ ] and just tore my hamster on the way to first base.

And I had to be the catcher the rest of the year. Oh no. And have a pinch runner.

Like today's going to be day one. Mhm. I'm going to do six 30se secondondoo uh sprints.

Wow. 30 seconds. That's long. That's what I keep reading is the magic number. But can you maybe work your way up?

30 seconds is probably like a 200 meter okay run for me. I don't know when we were kids. Remember um Brooke did the

he did the one lap like a quarter mile in like 59 seconds. I remember Bill Booker.

Bill Booker, junior high. That was his last name. Yeah. And Brady Tucker. Those two were the fastest [ __ ]

Brady Tucker is built like sliced along. Yeah. So muscular. Yeah. Anyho, so I'll probably run at like 70% today so I don't tear

your birthday. But within four sessions, I intend on running as fast as I can for those 30 seconds.

Wow. I hope I won't rip anything given that stretch. Make sure you're stretching. Really stretch. I hate stretch.

I also tore my hamstring and I don't stretch. I don't stretch ever. No, the older you get, you have to start stretching.

I believe in a warmup, but I don't believe in a stretch. Stretching is Yeah, it does negative things for me. I And I know pickle ball and everyone laughs at it, but like I walk into where we play pickle ball and every [ __ ] [ __ ] is doing the most stretches when they get there. I'm like,

I'm like, give me a break. And I mean, come on, right? Let's get real. I play every day and I don't stretch.

Yeah, I shouldn't said that. Yeah, you're going to rip something. You're going to rip something injury next time.

Okay. My New Year's resolution is stretching. But it might be now because I do want to stretch.

I need weight training. Oh, yeah. I do. I have to get back into that. But your farmer carries

my farmer. I did do some accidental farmers carries over the break because of shopping.

Oh, sure, sure, sure, sure. That was tough. I was carrying a lot crusade and all this other stuff.

You do any jogging this trip? Cuz you generally jog on your trips. I normally am very good at exercise when I'm home

and I was not. Yeah, it's okay. I need to do my exercises, but I will. That's Yes, that is a resolution to get back in a routine, a workout routine. And I had another one, but I forgot it. I feel like that wasn't obviously that good.

More material. No, I guess less material. I don't know. Um Oh, well, one that we kind of talked about on the Christmas special is I do I want to get

I want to have um a looser grip on on change. Right. Right. Right. Right. I want to accept change more

and not be so scared of it. So yeah, all these things are the exact same thing by the way. Funny enough. Yeah. And and also just this like

if you could start by telling yourself like I'm not going to die. Like okay, she wants to go to this pizza place. There's no way it's going to work.

But at the end of that, no one's going to shoot me in the head. Yeah. I'm not going to be in pain. Like things won't go my way.

Yeah. And but I'll be just fine. That's hard to uh for me to believe, right? That if I don't get my way, I will be upset.

But it's not even a get Okay, I'm gonna give you a little something here, though. That's not not get your way. That's do something you know is not going to work out.

Yes. Yes. That's different. That's true. That's true. That's true. It's like you're entering a situation that you know

is Yeah. Yeah. And that I think is hard that but also and it won't kill me. It won't kill you. No, it's fine. If I could just get to the part where it's so like you're control sub. It's like they're doing this and they're doing, you know, whatever the thing is that's stressing you out.

Yeah. And you're like, "Yeah, and then I'll also be fine." I know. It's It is all also sort of um cousins to getting taken advantage of and and things like that.

Yeah. Yeah. Like they don't respect my time. They don't, you know. But again, we know it's like none of it's that deep. No one's even thinking about us.

Well, but I know. But then I don't like that. But that's a thing. Yeah. Yeah. I don't like that. There's zero thought about

Yeah. Uh the other people. Um who did Phil Spectre murder? He murdered actress Lana Clarkson. O

u finding her dead from a gunshot wound in his California mansion in 2003. He was later convicted of seconddegree murder and sentenced to 19 years to life in prison, dying in custody in 2021.

Oh, he's dead. Yeah. Can you visually picture what he looks like? Monica, he's insane looking to Google a picture of him. You can Can you picture Phil Spectre?

I sure can. The same hair, dude. He look the same. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Scary. He looks like a murderer.

I can't believe how many women he worked with or Yeah. Um, wasn't he? Yeah. I canina.

Yeah. I think he did all that. He he he was doing Sunny and Sher. Yeah. All the mottown

I canina. Yeah, you're right. John Lennon, the wall of sound. That was his Yeah, wall of sound. Good job. Okay. You said hund you you were giving her like credit for all the stuff she did. And you said 100 million albums, which what's the I'm kind of confused. So she sold over 100 million records.

Yeah. But I think albums means like how many you're putting out, right? No. Albums. Records. same thing. Yeah. Okay.

Was that number right? Over 100 million records. That's [ __ ] crazy. Yeah. I was just I saw this over the break. I saw a list of the top 50 rap albums of all time.

Okay. What would you do off the top of your head like what do you guys think? Who's leading that?

Um like a single record or artist? Yeah. It was like per album like number one rap album of all time sold. And I'll give you a hint. It was like I think it was 51 million copies.

Eminem. Boom. Eminem was five of the top 10. Oh wow. Jay-Z wasn't he didn't show up on the list until like 40. I think his biggest album had like 7 million.

And I was saying to Kristen after I read that list, I was like the industry is weird. Like Jay-Z's a billionaire

and he's in 38th with only one album on the list. Yeah. And I was thinking like what you're really talking about is like the monetization of cool.

Yeah. And cache. Cache. Like it's so weird. Jay-Z doesn't have these 50 million, but he we all know he's the coolest [ __ ] to ever do it. And so if he has clothes, I want those. And if he has this, like it's just interesting how you can skin a cat.

The the respect that comes with some people if it's worth a lot. Yeah. Like MC Hammer's above him,

right? in like number eight or some [ __ ] with the you know no one's wearing those pants anymore.

No one's wearing those pants and he's not a billionaire. Yeah. I still proper though.

You do? Yeah. But I mean it is to me the reason I picked it is because white people listened to Eminem. So

white people listen to they listen to all but not all white people in in certain areas they don't. and they would listen to Eminem. So, I feel like he was really universal.

I remember thinking I remember when his album came out, the first one, which was 99 maybe or

close to that, 2000. Mom Spaghetti. Um, my Name is Slim Shady. Yeah. Yeah. and um the real Slim Shady album was.

I remember being at the Detroit fireworks um like in a sea of craziness if you remember.

Yeah. Yeah. I think that was one of the last years I went because I was like what why do we do this? It's people get shot. It's like and you can't escape. Anyway, so I remember that song or that album was playing everywhere and there's barely white people, at least where I was. And I was like, "Wow."

Yeah, he broke through. The weirdest thing about Eminem is like a I think he probably is the most skilled out of all them, white or not. His his his poetry is off the chart. Like his rhymes are

more than Jay-Z. Yeah. And Kanye. Yeah. Yeah, they're so abstract yet work. They're so complicated. The things he's rhyming don't make sense. Like I think he's next. I think he might be skills-wise, but he was never for me. Like I can I can totally appreciate the mad talent, but I never owned an Eminem album.

Yeah. And I'm not sure why. Because in fact in this case he was walking like I don't want my rappers to be white.

I'm getting it to get a glimpse into your world and I love being able to get this authentic glimpse into your world. It's like wait this dude grew up in Clarkston by me.

Is that where he grew grew up? No he grew up in uh Okay. Yeah. Well the movie I guess. All right. We really did it here.

Hour. Okay. I think that's it. Y um happy new year and happy JTC. All right. Love you.

Love you. Love you.

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What is discussed in "Birthday Boy, ET Gown, New Year's Resolutions | Fact Check for Cher"?

In order: 0:00 Fuglers, Santa Monica; 10:00 Kristen, Heart the Lover, Santa Monica, Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow; 20:00 Brandon Maxwell; 40:00 Kristen; 50:00 Eminem, Kristen, Lana Clarkson, Santa Monica; 1:00:00 Eminem.

What is mentioned in this Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard episode?

12 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including Kristen, Eminem, Santa Monica, Fuglers, Heart the Lover, Delta. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "Birthday Boy, ET Gown, New Year's Resolutions | Fact Check for Cher"?

The episode runs 1 h 1 min; the transcript is about 12,207 words in 388 timestamped sections.

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About this transcript: the episode's spoken words as captioned on YouTube, split into timestamped sections. Reclip.Me locates every person, work and idea in the text, keeps the time it is first named, and quotes the words around it verbatim. Last updated January 24, 2026.