Name: Dax Shepard Is Fine Leaving Acting For Podcasting
Uploaded: 2024-03-18T16:50:48.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Dax Shepard Is Fine Leaving Acting For Podcasting' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-03-18. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Dax Shepard Is Fine Leaving Acting For Podcasting' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-03-18. Transcript available.

do you enjoy podcasting more now like what do you feel like for yourself yeah i
didn't answer
your question how free did you get when that started like were you because you
you started
podcasting a lot of people weren't doing it yeah but i also felt late to it
like there were like
marion was already there chris hardwick was already huge like i definitely felt
like i'm a
poser that i'm starting a podcast we just had our six-year anniversary last
week yeah i think that's
what we're about at you're beyond that i looked you you've you've been podcasting
for like eight
years oh wow minimally hey jesus christ yeah so you already doing it i felt
self-conscious like oh
this is this is so embarrassing i'm about was it embarrassing in your acting
world like or in that
hollywood world did it feel like kind of a weird thing to do kind of because
sometimes you know
people are always a little weary sometimes i think they're less weary now but
people at the
i think five or six years felt like it was below yeah just like what am i do
you know i didn't have
that fear i had more of the fear of like what does maron think what does chris
hardwick like the
people who have already done it and proven what what what does rogan think like
this is embarrassing
that i'm now trying to hop into this thing that they've all been doing for
years yeah um but weirdly
yeah now people will act like i was somehow early because then of course there
was a much bigger wave
after we started but um i love it so much i don't have any desire to act i
haven't acted in a couple
years i guess now i'm so fulfilled i i i am on four shows a week and i produce
six shows a week
oh wow i didn't know you guys were doing all of that yeah so it's very like
good well thank you so much
for taking the time today dude oh my god i was like i wanted to be on so bad
that's awesome man
but it's i love it do you love it like yeah i love it i just love it i love
wanting to learn more
i love the scary part i think i've evolved as a human because of it which is
like i was kind of
happy where i was yeah yeah yeah it was working just fine yeah i think i was
enjoying myself and
it's like i don't know if i've gotten like i mean i just learned you can't help
but learning more from
listening to people you know well i do so mondays on our show is celebrities
and then thursdays is
experts so like scientists and fucking you know startup people you name it uh
bill gates has been on
well who was last you just saw i had that um you know pulitzer prize winning
author who's written
this book on communication um so thursdays is constantly someone really
challenging that's super
duper smart and yeah i feel like i'm still at college but i don't ever have to
go to class i don't
have to write an exam paper i just the smartest people in the world come bill
gates has sat down and
chatted with me you know was there a reason that you wanted to not add or take
a break from
acting or not act was there like a were things not as funny as it used to be or
was there yeah i was
on the verge of telling you this thing i would have not put all this together
but i had this guest on
adam grant he's a behavioral psychologist at wharton he writes a bunch of shit
he's like a thinker
we've had him on a few times and i was we were talking about my story was okay
i spent two and a half
years making chips it came out it didn't open well and i was like fuck what are
we doing now i thought
for sure i'd be writing directing for the next 10 years that was my identity i'm
a writer director
blah blah blah blah blah and i'm like what are we doing now and then i was
depressed and then i
started the podcasts in the mists of all that right and i was the my story was
like yeah be flexible
don't get too set on something if something shows up like just run at it and
see what happens
and he said well do you think these things are so different and i go yeah a
podcast and acting and
shit yeah i think that's a lot different and he said well what's your favorite
part of acting i was
like hmm i was like oh hanging out at video village and shooting the shit with
the other actors and the
directors and the writers like that's my favorite part of hollywood it's like
all these people have
moved from some town they were on fire and i get to hang with them shooting the
shit at video
village where they watch playback and everything if you don't know after you do
a shot you'll go there
and just like look at the shot with the director and he'll say you did this and
blocked him there
she'll say don't walk over there whatever it is i said that's what i love about
acting and he said
well don't you think you've just made video village in your attic like don't
you just sit here and
now actress come over and you do your favorite part of acting which is like
shooting the shit at video
village i was like oh damn i guess that is what happened i kind of weeded out
all the stuff i
didn't want to do wardrobe fittings and auditions and all this stuff and now i
just get my favorite
part which is like hanging with other creative people and chatting yeah dude
that's cool yeah
that's interesting because yeah sometimes i get uh people will talk about do
you want to do this
i want to do that and sometimes there may be like a you know a friend or two
you want to do
something cool with yeah but the best thing about it would be that you get to
hang out with that
friend yes yes the other shit would just get in the way of the hang yeah it
feels like a nightmare
some of it like well i just want to you know yeah i don't want to talk to a
second ad about a wardrobe
fitting across town for two hours yeah i just want to hang with david spade and
fucking cut up yeah yeah
Thank you.