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Dax's Gold Tooth, Anthony Hopkins, Halloween Hayride | Fact Check for Anthony Hopkins

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This is the full, timestamped transcript of "Dax's Gold Tooth, Anthony Hopkins, Halloween Hayride | Fact Check for Anthony Hopkins", an episode of Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard published November 10, 2025 (41 min, about 7,950 words). It mentions 42 people, works and ideas, including Santa Monica, Lucky Charms, Lane Norton, Dog the Bounty Hunter, Empire State Building.

What is discussed, and when

  1. – 5:00: Lucky Charms, Lane Norton, Justin's, Santa Monica
  2. – 10:00: Nordic Naturals
  3. – 20:00: Carrie Bradshaw, Dog the Bounty Hunter, Harry Potter, In-N-Out
  4. – 25:00: Dog the Bounty Hunter, Ellen Pompeo, Not Scary Farm, Santa Monica
  5. – 30:00: Defending Jacob, Presumed Innocent, Santa Monica
  6. – 35:00: Clarice, Edgar Allan Poe, JK Simmons, MAOA gene
  7. – 40:00: Empire State Building, Mike Nichols, Raising Arizona, Smokey and the Bandit

Notable quotes from "Dax's Gold Tooth, Anthony Hopkins, Halloween Hayride | Fact Check for Anthony Hopkins"

  • Is an arm care expert, but he makes mistakes all the time. Thank god Monica's here. She's got to let him have the facts.
    about Santa Monica · at
  • Okay. Right. And by the way, guys, Lane Norton has been saying this for years. Protein and fiber, you look at all these different studies, huge. The big thing they all have in common for longevity is like you got to.
    about Lane Norton · at
  • Nordic Natural. Yeah. Every night before bed, it's three Nordic Naturals.
    about Nordic Naturals · at
  • And then yeah, the we [snorts] had the In-N-Out truck.
    about In-N-Out · at
  • And I remember when we did Harry Potter Halloween and I was Rita Skeer and I had a wig and I this like bright green outfit. You look like a little school girl as I remember, didn't you?
    about Harry Potter · at
  • Erica was Edward Scissor Handmaid's Tail. Fantastic. It was so good. And Charlie was Hot Dog the Bounty Hunter and he crushed it.
    about Dog the Bounty Hunter · at
  • To be zombies going around the neighborhood like you were at not Scott Not scary farm or Universal Horror Night.
    about Not Scary Farm · at
  • How tall is the Empire State Building?
    about Empire State Building · at

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

  • Santa Monica — Person · 3 mentions · first at
  • Lane Norton — Person · 2 mentions · first at
  • Dog the Bounty Hunter — Person · 2 mentions · first at
  • Nick & Ari Ashley — Person · 1 mention · first at
    Yeah. oh, last year I was a little married Kate Ashley. Maybe that's what you're overalls.
  • Carrie Bradshaw — Person · 1 mention · first at
    So, what was Carrie Bradshaw Shank Redemption was Kristen?
  • Ellen Pompeo — Person · 1 mention · first at
  • JK Simmons — Person · 1 mention · first at
  • Clarice — Person · 1 mention · first at
    You know what's funny is I would never have the gall to say Could you give me a little Clarice?
  • Nicholas Cage — Person · 1 mention · first at
    Nicholas Cage from Vampires Kiss.
  • Edgar Allan Poe — Person · 1 mention · first at
    Yeah. okay. Let's see. He said he thought Edgar Allan Poe said, If we think about it, our lives have been written by some other author.
  • Will and Ariel Durant — Person · 1 mention · first at
    Misattribution and a popular misunderstanding of a philosophy expressed by Will Durant.
  • Mike Nichols — Person · 1 mention · first at
    You want was Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf Mike Nichols first film? Yes.
  • Edward Albee — Person · 1 mention
  • Michael Morell — Person · 1 mention
  • Rita Skeeter — Person · 1 mention

Books & papers

Companies & orgs

Products & tech

Concepts & topics

  • MAOA gene — Concept · 1 mention · first at
    Behavior, especially when combined with environmental factors like childhood trauma. The MAOA gene is located on the X chromosome leading to differences in how it affects males and females. but yeah, so it's passed by mom. Oh,.
  • X chromosome — Concept · 1 mention · first at
    Environmental factors like childhood trauma. The MAOA gene is located on the X chromosome leading to differences in how it affects males and females. but yeah, so it's passed by mom. Oh, isn't that interesting? They talk about.
  • Monoamine oxidase A (MAO-A) — Concept · 1 mention

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Full transcript with timestamps

is an arm care expert, but he makes mistakes all the time. Thank god Monica's here. She's got to let him have the facts.

Do I have lipstick all over my face? I don't. Okay. Cuz you touch it up from for him eating dad's oatmeal.

I did. Do you want to tell people about dad's oatmeal? Cuz this could be the first unbiased review.

Yes. Okay. So, you eat the same breakfast every day. Yeah. 365. And I got to try it today. Uh-huh. Before you give the review, what was your guess at what it was? It tasted like like

Yeah. What's this, Mom? Oh, I made you something. Let me try it. Like that would be the commercial. [snorts]

Yeah, that's why we have Lucky Charms. It's like a Lucky Charms commercial. Yeah. It's 100% a cereal commercial. Yes. So, I just thought it would be kind of bland because it's healthy.

Yeah. Right. Can I do the commercial again? Okay, sure. You be the mom. Give it to me.

Here, honey. Enjoy your breakfast. Okay, I'll try it. Oh, tastes good for me. You think that'd be a good commercial?

I want Lucky Charms with your hand falling out like that. That's a really sad boy. It

tastes good for me. I think you booked it. Good. They are going to ask um can you

age out your tooth? Shave my beard too. Yeah, exactly. Can we age you down a little bit?

Well, of course I wouldn't have my tooth in because when I eat I have to take my tooth out.

Or it's like Lucky Charms causes you your teeth to fall out, right? That's allegedly.

Mom would say she'd say, "Well, Han, what happened the last time you ate Lucky Charms? Your tooth fell out." Anyway, so I thought it was gonna be blah. Yeah.

Um, and I tried it and it is really good. It's really good. I'm glad that you tried it and it doesn't even look that appealing other than I dress it up with fresh blueberries. That part probably made it look a little exciting

a little bit, but it's Yeah, it's a mush. It's a big bowl of mush. And it's a big big bowl. And as I was telling you, this is my big reward.

Yeah. You said it's time for my reward. And I was like, oo, what's your reward? And then it was the same thing you do every day.

How many days do you think you've had it? Like how many months have you been eating this concoction?

Over two years. This exact one with the No. The fle the flesh the And that works. The fresh blueberries. The fleshy fresh blueberries I got into about probably nine months ago. And now that's like my real obsession. I put So I put

I buy so many blueberries. It's crazy cuz I'll eat half of the tray per bowl of porridge.

Oh my gosh. They have great antioxidants. Oh yeah. Yeah. This is I'm going to argue like if you you could only have one meal to be perfectly healthy.

Yeah. I think this is it. I'm going to poke a hole. Okay. But can I hit you with the macros first?

Yeah. Okay. So, it has this bowl of oatmeal has upwards of 60 grams of protein.

Yeah. It's a lot. is a big boy's serving of protein. Big bowl. Baby like big bowl. That's what

it has a very good amount of fiber, which is elusive. Fiber is hard to get. Fiber is hard. So, yes, I like that.

And then probably more antioxidants than any other frigin meal you could put together with [clears throat] that amount of blueberries. Half a rack.

Okay. Okay. Time to to poke a hole. And um wait, what was I fiber? Oh. Also, um, people have predicted that fiber is the new protein.

Oh, as far as like everyone's into fiber and you got to have it and you got to get the amount you need to get. So, that's that's ahead.

Okay. Right. And um, by the way, guys, Lane Norton has been saying this for years. Protein and fiber, you look at all these different studies,

huge. The big thing they all have in common for longevity is like you got to have a lot of fiber and you got to have a lot of protein.

Yeah. And you got to have a lot of chocolate. [clears throat] You got to have a lot of wine.

A lot of martini. But you give it you gave it a passing grade. Pass. I loved it. So,

okay. You gave it an eight. I was shocked because you your concoction is oats, Bob's red milk.

Swear by it. And Justin's honey almond butter. Yeahhuh. Uhhuh. And I don't remember the brand. Strawberry protein.

Oh, Lane Norton. Strawberry protein. It's because it's isolate, which I need if for people who are lactose intolerant or get upset stomach from whey. If you get isolate

or isolate, it's better. There's none of the what I I assume there's no lactose in it, which is what I think gives you the upset stomach.

Okay. Well, so see here I said I think a lot and I think. So I don't want anyone to quote me. Yeah. I think and I think

and normally I'm pretty turned off. I can be turned off by protein powders cuz it does give a bad to me. There's a taste that lingers that I really am not a fan of. Like I like it when I'm eating it, but then there's an aftertaste.

Okay. And can you tell me the brands you've tried? Um I can't remember. Okay. Okay.

Cuz there's a huge difference in the different brands. I will say that. I've had tons of protein bar. I'm like, "Gh, it's chalk. That's disgusting."

Yeah. That two I'm in love with. Well, this strawberry one that goes in your your breakfast is really good.

Again, it's all counterintuitive. Why would strawberry protein powder work in blueberry oatmeal

fruits? I guess fruit medley. I guess it just doesn't seem like that would be good, but somehow that comes together, especially with the almond butter.

Yeah, it's really nice. That's the other big secret sauce in there. Yeah. Okay. Now, my hole

Yeah. that I'm poking. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um I think in order for it to be the healthiest meal on planet Earth,

I would like a green vegetable in there. You don't think the blueberries handles that?

No. It's it's it's good. I'm glad it's there. I Monty, how are we adding any green vegetable?

That's my problem. I don't think we can call it that because I don't think you can add any green vegetables to that.

You could put mint. Nope, that doesn't count. And well, I mean, it's a good that's the least terrible option.

Mint is an herb, Rob. It's green. It's green as hell. It's a green herb. And I'm looking for a green vegetable. I'm looking for spinach.

I know, but it can't go. It doesn't. That'll have to be lunch. Okay. Yeah, you got to work in a spinach in your lunch.

That's fine. Um maybe. Okay. And and you and you'd really ideally you'd want a little omegas in there. So you want some some fish. I think you should smash up some fish in there.

Well, I do my fish oil. What's our sponsor? Cuz that is actually what I use. Yeah. Nordic Naturals.

Nordic Natural. Yeah. Every night before bed, it's three Nordic Naturals. Yeah. But I'm just saying um if you're saying this meal on its own, we need a little green vegetable.

Okay. Counter to your counter. Okay. You have to propose a different dish that would be better because

I think you might find your way over to a spinach dish that would be great, but then I think it would really drop the ball on a lot of other categories,

the fiber and the uh and the protein and the antioxidants. So, I might have the antioxidants and I think it's maybe fibrous, but regardless. So, this is like Yeah, there's never going to be a perfect meal,

right? Unless you're just making a smoothie. Well, yeah. Which I used to do. Yeah.

It's too much clean up. That's my issue. Yeah. It's also too cold for my mouth.

I think it is ironic that I've been making fun of Wilfred Brimley for 40 years now in those oatmeal commercials and lo and behold,

that's my most consistent meal. Same as you made fun of catheter cowboy and then you had to get one

and then I had calf and I don't like pain when I cal just like him. Exactly. Um, have we not spoken since Halloween?

I guess not. Yeah. No fact check. Wow. We have a lot to catch up on. Long for a catchup.

Yeah. For the audience for the charities. I guess the Halloween was Halloween was Friday and today is Wednesday.

Yeah. Yeah. Let's Let's talk about Halloween. Okay, but hold on. We can't go on without addressing your tooth.

Oh, I thought it'd be cool if we didn't address my tooth. But I'm happy to. Okay. Yeah, there's no way.

I've been wanting a gold tooth for I don't know, seven years. I think even when we interviewed um Kirby.

Oh, yeah. Didn't we discuss it? And I'm like, do you know somebody? I think we did.

And then our good friend Eric found for me uh this dentist that we both go to. Who would have known that this very normal classy dentist also does gold teeth and [ __ ] Yes.

So, I had a grill made. Yeah, that was first. I mean, I should wear that in one of these fact checks.

That one's not very attractive. Okay. It's intentionally not. Okay. I'm a little Yeah. Okay.

Cuz it's for a character I'm going to play. Oh, thank you. Okay. Oh. Oh, yeah. I guess I assumed you knew that somehow.

No, I didn't. Okay. Okay. So the the the the grill is for a character I'm playing. Got it. That they did not ask for

but great. Okay. Fun. And then I I and it was it came at some expense for me to have this thing made.

Sure. Well, acting is expensive in the heart. It takes a toll. You pay a price. I sent a photo to the showrunner and I was like, "Look, use them, don't use them. I don't care." I did have these made.

Yeah. And God bless. He said, "Use them for sure." Great. Yes. Oh, fun. And I uh I don't think that's a topic I can tackle. I'm well I'll tackle it. I am having again and I think it's it in the effort of being honest or in the pursuit of honesty. I don't need to make money for the acting,

right? So I said to them, I don't just pay me the minimum. Wow. Please pay me minimum. Give it to another actor you want to hire for the budget. Right.

Nice. It's not even that nice of me. But I but for me it was so that's a huge grant. emotional thing where it's like I used to be so uh panicked all the time like please you got to pay me the most cuz I probably never work again that whole thing and this is like I just want to come play and you guys don't have to pay me. I know legally you have to but whatever the minimum of that is.

Wow that's huge. That's really awesome. Yeah, it feels great and actually it's how I should have been started acting.

Well, you can't though but also a reality. Yeah, money we have to we need it. Yeah,

we need it. And so you are lucky enough to not I don't need it now. Yeah. And now I can actually solely

to go play with people I think would be fun to play with. And it's I love it. That was great. Okay. Now the tooth.

Okay. The tooth. So then the tooth I just always wanted. So the tooth is for me.

Okay. So it's nothing to do with the jobs or Okay. No. No. And how do you feel with the tooth in? How do you feel?

I'm largely unaware of it other than I like to play with the backing with my um my tongue. Yesterday was day one with it. I went to the movies and I and uh

you got to take it out to eat, but I was like pop man get away with some popcorn.

Oh god. Because I can throw it past the gold tooth and just get it on the mers.

Oh my god. So I did I did mess around with some popcorn with it still in. Okay. And then and then I went to now this is a big thing I learned yesterday. I went to out to lunch with a friend and I took it out and I'm like I have nowhere to put it. So I put it in the tiny little pocket and my jeans so I won't lose it there. And then when the meal was over and I wanted to put my tooth back in

the backside it was like it's like the back of earrings the back. So it's like it had poked through the denim

and I could not get it out. It was like embedded in my It has It has a post. Yeah. On the backside there's two like um uh what do they call them? Vampire clips like you'd have on a mic.

Oh. To to snap into your tooth. And so not only did those puncture the denim and were caught in there like it was like trying to get a fishing hook out of my pocket. And and then they it was all miscalibrated.

Oh [ __ ] I had bent up the [ __ ] day one. Yeah. Yeah. So then I re-calibrated them and then a lot of the movie I was like I didn't do that right. This feels really tight like a

orthodontia. Now is is it um did they do anything to your actual tooth? Oh no. Okay. Okay.

Well they took a mold which is how they make it. Right. But then they didn't like have to like shave anything down or anything. Right.

Oh man. You're really getting all the secrets out of me. So he's like close your mouth. Okay. It's hitting here. You know what we ended up doing, which feels insane,

veneers? No. Okay. We ended up grinding my real tooth down a little bit so it would fit with my fake tooth. And I was like, is this what am I? This is like a like a fad I'm going through and I've already altered my bottom teeth to match this fad.

I wasn't going to tell anyone that part. Yeah. Well, you told me. And now you told everyone. Which one did they share?

So, this one's now a little He's like, "That one's too big." Anyways, he sold me. I don't like

the one that's now small. The baby tooth. I got the one that goes backwards. The jacked one. And then next to that is this one. You think that's small now?

Oh my god. You do know the look on your face was like it looks small. It's shorter than It's shorter.

It's shorter. Why do you do that? So it fit my fake tooth. Okay. All right. It's fine. It's great.

I knew I shouldn't tell you that detail. It's great. It looks great. But I did go this is nuts. I'm I'm grinding my real teeth down. And then I'm like, I don't know. Who cares? I also think who's who cares about

Oh my god, I'm a little Mom. This tastes good for me. Stay tuned for more armchair expert if you dare.

Oh boy. Okay. Um, now Halloween. Okay. Halloween. It was spectacular. So fun. [snorts]

Per usual. Heyide by you. Hayride was louder and brighter. It was so It's so great.

You sent me a very nice text a couple days later. Yeah. And I meant it. Like it's a very very special thing you do for the neighborhood. Everyone in the neighborhood hops on and is in such a good mood. And it's such a community builder and we just don't have things like that anymore. And it's a really special place.

Small town, which I like. Or you're like in LA, but it's very small towny really. It's just the like everyone coming together and cheering and being excited and I It's very special.

It is very special. It is very special. And my brother was there for the first time. He rode with me the whole night and he did some filming which was lovely. That's his new hobby.

Oh. And it was a great like getting to spend three hours with my brother driving around and

yeah, it's just funny cuz siblings is funny, right? So sometimes when I would make the turn into the alley, people would cheer.

Yeah, I cheered. Thank you. You probably let a cheer cuz you know I like that. And I'm a cheerleader.

And you're Yes, you have the credentials. Um and then other times crickets. Oh, okay.

So my brother like crickets, you know, like he was like making fun of me a little bit which was but very goodnatured.

Yeah. And then if they would cheer, he would be like, um, he like, "Oh, well, god damn, I should have been recording." Like oh.

But then a couple times I would yell out the window when we go through the and he's like, "It's kind of a cheat cuz you're kind of initiating the like, you're right. That is a little

Okay, it doesn't count. Yeah, that's true. That's true. And then yeah, the we [snorts] had the In-N-Out truck.

You guys went all out. It's so fun." Yeah, you guys got an In-N-Out truck for the for the neighborhood. It's for so many people to enjoy and it's really lovely.

Halloween is a special holiday cuz everyone shows up event. They've put together a costume. So, like everyone's arrival is fun for them. It's fun for you.

Everyone feels special cuz you're getting the attention. They're trying to figure out your costume.

So, it's just like very heightened. In some ways, it's a very vulnerable holiday.

Tell me more. Cuz [clears throat] if you go like sexy, if you do anything, you're just deciding to like put yourself out there, participate

and look silly perhaps. Like I always feel it cuz I normally park a street down.

Uhhuh. And I remember when we did Harry Potter Halloween and I was Rita Skeer and I had a wig and I this like bright green outfit. You look like a little school girl as I remember, didn't you?

Um, no. I mean, she did have a quill, but no, she was a lady. She's a lady. Okay.

Yeah. Um, oh, last year I was a little married Kate Ashley. Maybe that's what you're overalls.

Yeah, that was the overalls. We did look more the bookworm, but I guess you were a teacher, but it came across. Okay.

Anywh who, it was really a look. And I remember when I parked and I got out of my car, I was like, "Oh my, I got to I got to do this." Yeah. Like I don't think this walk I'm going to make it. Like I'm so embarrassed.

Oh wow. Wow. Wow. But then as soon as I enter with all these people doing the same thing, it was gone and happy.

So I think it's vulnerable. Um Char, do you know the story about Charlie getting in the fight? Yeah. Please tell it. It's so good.

Okay. Again, for people, I know everyone knows we did mashups. That was our name, right?

Um and and quickly to explain a mashup, you're going to com they're going to share one mutual word.

Yes. So, what was Carrie Bradshaw Shank Redemption was Kristen? Yes, that was Kristen.

Row row. The row row row your bow. The row row your to be the row cuz it was row.

Yes. Right. I was Ferrari on a grande. You were Ferrari on a grande. People were upset because in the picture I posted, you had left, so you weren't in the adult picture, which was a bummer.

Oh, there was one with you with the kids, but I didn't post that, obviously. Okay.

Anyway, okay. Charlie and Erica and their two children were on their way and they were close to the house and they Erica was Edward Scissor Handmaid's Tail. Fantastic. It was so good. And Charlie was Hot Dog the Bounty Hunter

and he crushed it. It was so good. But he's in this huge hot dog. He's in a huge hot dog and he has the huge blonde wig on with the braids in the side.

And as we know, Perfect 10 Charlie is enormous. A human. Yeah. And they're on their way to the party and he somehow pissed off a motorcyclist.

Yes. They got in a tiff. He like And he waved and apologized and then that wasn't enough.

Yeah. So when Charlie turned into our driveway, the motorcycle decided to come back and get in front of his car in our driveway.

Yeah. And let him have it. Yes. And he did this. Yeah. He made that cut in your throat sign.

Yes. Which is so weird. And Charlie, it's funny. Charlie and I were bonding over this cuz this happened to me more than once, which is like, I'm nice. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. And if you're now indulgent and you and

then I go, "Okay, motherfucker." Like then I snap. Well, especi also it wasn't just like you owe me an apology. He was threat he was being like so aggressive and threatening.

Yes. So ultimately it got to the point where Charlie said [ __ ] this and got out of the car.

Yeah. And this motorcyclist, what could he have? First of all, he's a hot dog. Andy's dog, the bounty hunter, and he's huge.

And he's screaming at this guy as a huge hot dog. Hot dog the bounty hunter. I I wish there was video of that.

Me, too. So badly. It It was so sitcom this idea of how a Halloween fight and these people looking absolutely ridiculous.

Hot dog. a hot dog gets out. Oh my god. And like so serious. Yes. And if you got beat up by a hot dog, that would that would be so humiliating.

Anyway, the the hayride was fantastic. And the neighborhood took it to another level.

Oh my god. Yes. I believe we can credit a friend of the pod for this. I wonder.

I'm not sure. So, but I do think um I do too. Yes. Ellen Pompeo. Yes. Friend of the pod.

She was like, "Oh, you want to do a hay ride? I got tricks, too." Yes. And she hired six professional actors

to be zombies going around the neighborhood like you were at um not Scott Not scary farm or Universal Horror Night.

Yes. So, it worked in perfect concert with the hay ride cuz people would be on the hay ride and all a sudden zombies were like chasing them and stuff.

Yes. It became the haunted hay ride. It was so amazing and it really again just the commitment.

Yeah, I did get a little I mean I was personally extremely scared. Yeah, I I uh there is a very funny

husband wife story that came out of this, right? Which is like I pull up into the same spot in the neighborhood every time for people to unload and load.

Yes. And people know that's where you get on or off the hay ride. So, I pull up and Kristen is there and she's like, "You got to go find these zombies." And I go, "What?" She's like, "You have to talk to the zombies. You got to tell them. Tell them they they got to stop scaring kids."

Oh, I was nervous about that. And I go, "Oh, hun. I can't deliver that." Sure. I'm like, "That's just what this day is."

And she's like, "Three little kids have already left." I was like, "Oh, [ __ ] I know. We don't want that. We don't want kids leaving the Halloween.

I know. So, I'm like, "Oh, you know me. I want to be cool." And Yeah. So, I'm like, "Fuck." And I'm the one that's going to see Ellen next cuz I'll be at the top of the hill. So,

it's such a cool thing she's doing. It's so cool. Yeah. So, I get to the top of the hill and she's out in front of her house. Uh, and I go, "Hey, I really hate delivering the snow and I think it goes against the spirit of the holiday, but if the zombies can maybe not scare the little kids."

Okay, great. And she's like, "Yeah, yeah. Zombies don't scare." She didn't care at all. And I don't think the zombies cared at all.

Okay. But I did have to like clamp down on the zombies, which felt really compromising. Yeah. That's

Yeah. But probably was the right thing. I did think I did think, uhoh, like these are scary.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. And what about these little kids if I'm scared? Well, some left, Monica, is what I was told.

We walked Yeah. Rob, what was what were the boys? We walked up there first and Vinnie was leading the charge like just walking and they were they they laid off him. They were just one tall.

Oh, but even just the even just seeing them is a little scary. Yeah. Did they give Calvin hell?

Yeah. Yeah, they chased Calvin a little bit. And did he like it or Yeah, he loved it.

Oh, good. Yeah, that's the thing. You don't know who's going to love it and who's not. One of the zombies um knew my name.

Oh. which was flattering but also scary. I didn't like it. Right. IT WOW. That's what she said.

It was a girl. Yeah. Yeah. I think. And then cuz what if it was one of the boy zombies?

Oh, she called you pretty. So very flattering. It was too big. Maybe it was Gra or what? What's his name?

Groot. No, not Groot. The grandson. The the scary singer. Oh, Gu. The horned pigface goblin.

He was actually Gu. What's his name? Blowar the Berserker. Oh, Blar the We should have invited Guard to the [ __ ] Should we have Gu Oh my god. We find Cuz I'm like this whole night I'm like we've we've peaked. I really don't even know if we should host next year.

Oh, you have to. Yeah. But [ __ ] if you got to the top of the turnaround and Guar was on a stage up there shooting blood out of their penises and stuff, you think kids were leaving with the zombies wait to blar the blazer gets his penises out.

We got to get Gu performing in the neighborhood. Okay, just maybe put ask him to wear pants over all those penises.

Just desexualize it a little bit. Just a little bit on Halloween. Uh I guess that's it for Halloween. It was just really fun.

It was so much fun. It was really, really fun. Um, holiday. One thing we need to talk about.

Oh god. Yes. And we're adorned in it right now. So, not a problem. Not a problem, you guys.

Our new merch is the the best we've had ever. Absolutely. Ever. It's so high quality. This is actual embroidery.

Embroidered. And yeah. So, for the listener, you might want to go to YouTube to see it. I'm wearing a sweatshirt. Black sweatshirt. Gorgeous sweatshirt. Says armchair expert. Has a crow on it. has a little mouse on the sleeve.

Uhhuh. Tiny mouse. Very cute little mouse. And I really can't get around the qu over the quality.

The quality is off the charts. Um I And I've been wearing this non-stop. I wear like four days in a row.

Yeah, it just got out of the wash though for today. Um finally a really great station shirt. And then I'm going to turn around to look at the back.

Yeah, it's great. Hey y'all. Really great station. So, this is going to be available

in time for in time for the holidays, but it's coming out November 14th for pre-order.

November 14th for pre-order. And there's other stuff, too. There's plenty of There's lots of stuff.

Oh, I got a hoodie here, too. A new gorgeous hoodie. Show the hoodie. I'm going to show off the hoodie. Um, it it has a cute crow [snorts] embroidered.

Gosh. Yeah. Oh my gosh. It also has a mouse on the sleeve. Anna has cherries on the hood.

Yes. But it's all very minimal and like it's very discreet. It's it's a really good looking collection, guys. And it's

I applaud you, Monica. You really spearheaded and steamrolled. What is it? What are the words we use?

Here's micromanaged. You made people's life hell to get here. Yeah. Well, you really did all this and it turned out great. I'm so into it.

It's a really nice classic collection and we're excited to put it out. I think I was wearing one the other day, too. There's a super cute um heart-shaped cherries.

I love that one. Yeah. What does it say on that one? Just arm journey. Okay. Have a good time. Have a great time.

We love it here. Guar. Vote for guar. Yeah. So, go check that out and pre-order and it'll be for domestic. It'll be ready by the holidays.

Buy yourself something for Christmas. Yeah. Serve it. Okay. So, I started watching a show, an old show. M me too.

Oh my god. Wow. It's in the air. What did you watch? No one Trump think Defending Jacob. It was a It's a show on Apple and it's old or you know it's older

older than Apple. 2020. 2020. Okay. And um it has Chris Evans and is adapted from a book and it's a little bit of a who done it. It's kind of like a broad church. Oh,

who done it? Presumed innocent. Sure. Murder mystery. Exactly. And you know, obviously I watched the whole thing in two days cuz that's how I operate.

Yeah. Yeah. And there was something really interesting. So you used to you haven't brought this up in a long time, but you used to bring up a um something you read about a gene that you called like um you called Ma Matt. Oh, MAO.

You called it MAO. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. This is the watching the grass grow gene, right? So, so yeah, you talk about it and you say,

it's not a gene. It's just a chemical in your brain. People have high levels of it, low levels of it.

Okay. And then what happened? Tell people about it. Well, if you have a lot of MAO, you're very content to watch the grass grow. And if you have very low MA ma, you need a lot to stimulate you. So, these are like adventure seekers and adrenaline junkies.

Right now, you used to talk about that all the time. And I think I probably like looked it up at some point. I don't remember. But on this show, they talk about something called the murder gene.

Or the warrior gene. Ooh, warrior gene. And it is the ma gene. Oh, so maybe that's the gene that makes

I think it's connected to this. Yeah, it's um monoamine oxidasis MAOA enzyme which breaks down transmitters like serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine. Low levels of this enzyme are linked to a predisposition for aggressive behavior, especially when combined with environmental factors like childhood trauma. The MAOA gene is located on the X chromosome leading to differences in how it affects males and females. Um but yeah,

so it's passed by mom. Oh, isn't that interesting? They talk about that in the show.

Oh, wow. Yeah. And so some like in the show, I don't know how I don't know if this is used in real life, but like in the show they test kid for Yeah. this boy Jacob for it. Um

and they test the family. Yeah. Jacob doesn't have it. He doesn't have it. Yes. He doesn't have it, but also the mom cuz it's passed through the mom and the dad and the grandpa have it.

Okay. The maternal uh grandpa. No, the computer got to watch it. Okay. In the show.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. This is a spoiler. Uh well, it's 5 years old. Yeah. Yeah. Um Chris Evans has this son and then he also has a dad, but he's been lying about the dad. He says he didn't know his dad and he never knew his dad, but turns out he did know his dad. And when he was about six, the dad went to jail for rape and murder.

O, I wish I wish it would just murder. Yeah, everyone wishes that. Yeah. Um, it's played by JK Simmons.

Oh, we love JK Simmons. Yes. So, Jacob is in a little bit of a pickle. Okay. A legal issue.

Yeah. And so the legal team is trying to see if they can say that he has this gene in case he's found guilty. They can say it's it's not his fault.

Okay. Okay. Okay. So, I just thought this was a full circle moment. Murder Jean.

Now, I want to watch it. I've decided to start Boardwalk Empire. Oh, I never watched that.

It's great. Of course, it was a hit, but within two episodes I'm like, "Yeah, this is phenomenal. This is like Sopranos kind of." It's fun to find shows.

It is. Anyone else wants to recommend more Who Done It? I'm in the mood for Who Done It.

I'll I'll try to keep my thinking cap on. Okay. Okay. All right. Now, we can talk about facts.

Facts. It was so cool that he did Silence of the Lambs. Then we got him to That was scary.

You know what's funny is I would never have the gall to say like, "Could you give me a little Clarice?"

Yeah. But he just did it on his own. And I thought, "Get out of the way." Yeah. Yeah.

Hopefully he'll do this for the next 30 minutes. I could have watched his entire role.

Exactly. Yeah. We should invite someone on to do their whole role from something.

What would you pick? Nicholas Cage from um Vampires Kiss. I know cuz I need you to see him count to or do the alphabet.

Yeah, I want to see that. Also though, that's tricky cuz we also want to talk to him. Like who are you willing to not talk to but just have them do their role?

Tom Cruz as well would be a good one. Oh, because as I've said on here many times, and this is another pledge to anyone in his world or sphere.

Yeah. I won't ask a single hard-hitting question. Yeah. I just want to talk about his career. I don't care if he killed someone on the way over. I won't mention it.

For anyone listening, I have not agreed to that pledge. That's not your thing. Yeah.

Yeah. People have already yelled at me and it hasn't even happened. People are like, "You can't have them on." And I said, "No, I can just worship somebody

because you get a lot, you know, you get a lot of the other version. It's okay if I just fate someone once in a while."

You can I won't be doing that. Okay. What are you going to ask? Because you might just rule us out

on the way home. And how'd you do it? We both know he saved somebody on the way over cuz that's kind of that's probably right.

Um yeah. Uh okay. Let's see. He said he thought Edgar Allan Poe said, "If we think about it, our lives have been written by some other author." Now, that quote, it seems, is a misattribution and a popular misunderstanding of a philosophy expressed by Will Durant. Says Durant did not say this, but he wrote about how other people's opinions and actions can influence our lives.

Who's Will Durant? um historian and philosopher. He's a philosopher. What era? Uh 1885 he was born.

You know, my kids have grown fond of saying to me, "You were born in the 1900s." And it sounds so funny.

Cuz it's true. And it's true. I know. But it sounds ridiculous. It does. She's like, "Oh, you were born in the 1900s."

How tall is the Empire State Building? He knew that because of his books. Yeah. Do you want to guess?

Okay. I think it's probably 70 stories. So, I'm going to say 680 ft. More more. Is it like a 100 stories?

It doesn't say stories on here. Okay. I'm sure it's 860 ft. It's 1,250 ft. Almost a quarter of a mile.

That's a lot. Almost a quarter mile. Oh my god. Do you ever toothpaste. Yeah, it's really tall.

Yeah, that's much taller than I would have expected. Say it again. 1,200 ft. So, it's got to be like 110 stories or 108 stories.

And it's actually 1,454 ft to the tip. 1,04. So, more than a quarter mile. Wow.

It's 102 stories. 102 stories. I don't want to go to that 100. Actually, I've been I forgot. Yeah, with Kristen. We went to the top

for a press thing or something. Yeah. So funny all the places you end up going on a press thing and you can't because you didn't frame it right. You don't really experience it.

Yeah. It's a different I have to go to the Empire State Building today, right? At 10:00 and then we got to be blank at what?

Yes. And then you leave and you're like, "Oh, [ __ ] I was up there and I didn't even really

I know." Yeah. And you do go up some like creepy stairs to get to the tippet. Yeah.

Um Oh, I thought it was interesting cuz he knew Hitler's I mean his just his memory was so amazing

and he knew Hitler's doctor's name immediately. Like you were telling a story and you said Hitler's doctor and he said Dr. Moral.

Yeah. And he just knew it. Yeah. Wow. Whoa. You know, we were discussing this you and I off mic. Mhm.

And I was saying we have found this with a lot of people that were born in the 30s, 40s, 50s. My mom

Yeah. I do think there's something to be said with there was no stimuli. There was like you watch TV for an hour at night.

Yeah. That there was just way less info hitting you, I guess. And so everyone of that age seems to have a much higher retention of names of kids and teachers from their youth.

I think that's a good theory. I I mean there is something what else? Something's different.

Yeah, something is different. Or maybe it's that we're juggling a much huger pool of people cuz we're online and that opens you up to like thousands of people or whatever. Something there's some something has to be the explanation.

But he like knew lines. He like knew lines from movies and stuff he wasn't in. Like he

But that part is I think unique to him. That's his like that's why he can do Shakespeare.

Right. Right. He has that kind of memory. Yeah. Remembering sonnetss and and poems and stuff. I can't do that. I I have some rap songs from the '9s. I I know. Inside and out.

One. You would Would you like to? No. I You never enjoy when I do colors. When you do colors,

that's always the one I'll do. That's the one Aaron and I will do together. I am a nightmare walking psychopath stalking. King of the jungle. Just a gangster stalking. Living life like a firecracker. Quick as my fuse. The dead is the death. That's the colors I choose. Red or blue cuz of blood. It just don't matter. I could die for your life on my shotgun scatter. We come to LA. We never die. We'll just multiply colors.

That's just the first verse. Nice. We could go on. You can go on. We won't. You want um was Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf Mike Nichols first film? Yes.

Highly recommend. Yeah. An Edward Albi play. It was um one of my theater professor's favorite plays. So, she would talk about it all the time.

You know stuff that we don't know. I don't think so. You don't remember? Yeah. I don't have the memory that he has. So, no.

What do you remember? You remember Friends episodes in great detail? Not in as much detail as I used to. It's actually very sad. I don't like to be put to the test because I It makes me sad.

Yeah. I really I I used to be able to name all the episodes and stuff like that. I don't think I could do that anymore.

I used to know every single word in Smokey and the Bandit like from beginning to end. every single world word in raising Arizona beginning to end.

There were movies I knew inside out. Goodwill Hunting obviously. Yeah, I did I did someone's podcast and they

put this to the test. They had me finish lines of Goodwill Hunting and I couldn't do it. Like I did a couple but I I missed a lot and it was really upsetting.

I'm sorry they did that to me. I would never do that to you. Thank you. Is that a commitment?

Yeah. Okay. Thank you. out loud a verbal pledge. Um, well that's it. That was all the facts that he knew Hitler's

Well, I just thought that was interesting. It sure was. It's more of like a It is a fact.

We had like a we we named the things we thought were interesting about him. I mean, that is a lot of what I do.

That's true. So, I guess it's it's in keeping. It's a fact that you found it interesting.

I checked it and it was correct. The name was right. Yeah. Yeah. It's impressive.

It really is. Um, that's it. All right. Love you.

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What is discussed in "Dax's Gold Tooth, Anthony Hopkins, Halloween Hayride | Fact Check for Anthony Hopkins"?

In order: 0:00 Lucky Charms, Lane Norton, Justin's, Santa Monica; 5:00 Nordic Naturals; 15:00 Carrie Bradshaw, Dog the Bounty Hunter, Harry Potter, In-N-Out; 20:00 Dog the Bounty Hunter, Ellen Pompeo, Not Scary Farm, Santa Monica; 25:00 Defending Jacob, Presumed Innocent, Santa Monica; 30:00 Clarice, Edgar Allan Poe, JK Simmons, MAOA gene; 35:00 Empire State Building, Mike Nichols, Raising Arizona, Smokey and the Bandit.

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