Armchair Anonymous: Las Vegas

Dax and Monica talk to Armcherries! In today's episode, Armcherries tell us about a crazy Las Vegas story. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Speaker names marked ? are inferred from speaking time and the show’s known hosts — they are not voice-verified.

• 0:00Dax Shepard?

  Welcome, welcome, welcome to Armchair Anonymous. I'm Dan Shepard and I'm joined by Monica Miniature Mouse Padman.

• 0:06Speaker 01

  Hi.

• 0:07Dax Shepard?

  You guys wanted it? I don't know if they wanted it. Vegas stories. Of course they deliver.

• 0:12Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 0:13Dax Shepard?

  And we're stupid to have not had this prompt a bunch of times.

• 0:16Speaker 01

  I know. I have regrets about that.

• 0:18Dax Shepard?

  There's drugs, there's singing, there's injury.

• 0:21Speaker 01

  There's singing.

• 0:22Dax Shepard?

  There's kidnapping. I mean, this has it all.

• 0:25Speaker 01

  Yeah, this is a good one.

• 0:26Dax Shepard?

  Everything that happens in the world happens in Vegas.

• 0:30Speaker 01

  In Vegas, that's right.

• 0:31Dax Shepard?

  Please enjoy crazy Vegas stories. We get support from Quince.

• 0:37Speaker 01

  I have to say, I am so ready for fall. I want sweaters. I've been craving a true crisp morning where I actually need a jacket. I can't wait.

• 0:46Dax Shepard?

  I'm fully there. The second it dips below 70, I'm like, this is my season. Give me the layers, give me the boots, give me a reason to wear something other than a t-shirt. And honestly, that's why I love Quince because fall is when your wardrobe actually has to show up. And everything at Quince is 50 to 80% less than similar brands. We're talking 100% Mongolian cashmere sweaters, starting at $60.

• 1:08Speaker 01

  $60. $60 for cashmere that you'd expect from a luxury brand without the luxury price tag. It's amazing. Gets me every time. It really shouldn't be real, but it is because they go straight to the factories, they skip the middlemen, and they just hand you the savings. The stuff isn't trendy. It's the kind of pieces you grab over and over because they work every time.

• 1:26Dax Shepard?

  The 100% Mongolian cashmere sweaters for me are it. When I look at Steve McQueen, this man owned a couple of sweaters he wore all the time and he looks iconic.

• 1:35Speaker 01

  It's a uniform.

• 1:36Dax Shepard?

  Mm-hmm.

• 1:37Speaker 01

  And Quince isn't just about the clothes. They have hotel quality bedding, cookware, bath essentials, thoughtfully designed furniture. You can really go there and outfit your entire apartment or house. So if you're in need of any kind of fall refresh at home too, same quality, same attention to detail for every corner of your life.

• 1:54Dax Shepard?

  Find your next fall favorites at Quince. Download the Quince app for app exclusive offers or go to quince.com. Get free shipping on your order and 365 day returns. Now available in Canada and the UK too. And when Quince asks where you heard about them, let them know it was Armchair Expert. It's the best way to support the show. We get support from AG1. Fall is that time when your body and mind are getting ready for the winter. You're settling in, bracing for the cold. Your body's already running a deficit from the shorter days and broken sleep patterns. You don't want a nutrient deficit stacked on top of that, too.

• 2:30Speaker 01

  That's where your AG1 routine earns its spot. It's not fixing your sleep or your alarm time. It's giving your body what it needs so the dark mornings don't tank you before you even start. One scoop, cold water every morning before anything else.

• 2:43Dax Shepard?

  AG1 Next Gen has 75-plus ingredients, vitamins, minerals, pre- and probiotic, superfoods, backed by four separate gold standard clinical trials. Key nutrient levels improved with three months of consistent use.

• 2:57Speaker 01

  That's the part people miss. It's not a one-day fix. It's what happens when you stay consistent.

• 3:01Dax Shepard?

  It's an easy, everyday thing. I've added it to my morning routine and I'm going to tell you, I actually love the taste of it. It's like Pavlovian. I drink it and I know, mm, I'm going to get that little vitamin buzz.

• 3:11Speaker 01

  Well, that's also the thing. When you do it first thing in the morning, you already feel kind of self-esteem because you're like, I already did something good for myself.

• 3:18Dax Shepard?

  Yes. Go to drinkag1.com/dax and for a limited time, get a free immunity bundle, including a bottle of omega-3 fish oil and a bottle of vitamin D3K2 with your first subscription order of AG1 Next Gen or AG1 Pro. That's drinkag1.com/dax. And after checkout, be sure to let them know that Armchair Experts sent you.

• 4:15Dax Shepard?

  Okay, so what fake name should we go with?

• 4:17Speaker 02

  I think we're gonna use Marie.

• 4:18Dax Shepard?

  Marie, okay, wonderful.

• 4:20Speaker 02

  Cute, love it.

• 4:21Dax Shepard?

  And Marie, are you allowed to tell us where you're at?

• 4:23Speaker 02

  Yeah, I'm in Fullerton.

• 4:25Dax Shepard?

  Oh, sure. 126? What's the highway that goes through there? Never mind.

• 4:29Speaker 02

  It's okay, you don't have to know. I don't know highways. I don't, yeah. I get off the 91.

• 4:34Dax Shepard?

  Okay, great. So Marie, you have a good Vegas story.

• 4:38Speaker 02

  I do. Okay, so it took place in September 2020, so like right after COVID.

• 4:44Dax Shepard?

  You could go to Vegas for like 30 cents, right, at that time?

• 4:47Speaker 02

  Yeah. We were going for my birthday and we had been, you know, kind of cooped up for a while. So we decided to, taking advantage of the good prices, get this beautiful suite, two-bed, two-bath, wraparound balcony.

• 4:58Dax Shepard?

  Oh, baby. Is it a secret which place?

• 5:00Speaker 02

  The Cosmopolitan.

• 5:01Dax Shepard?

  Okay, great. Lovely, newer offering.

• 5:04Speaker 02

  The balcony overlooks the fountains and just all the fun stuff. It's me and my husband, Chris, and our two best friends, Taylor and Eric, and our dog. We brought our dog Killer.

• 5:13Dax Shepard?

  Oh, why not?

• 5:14Speaker 02

  Scary. You know, we brought him everywhere with us at the time. So Chris and I are really excited. We get to Vegas early. We're like, who cares? We don't need to be there at check-in time. Like, we're gonna go start the party. Taylor and Eric meet us there. They meet us at a bar that we've been at for a little while. Nothing too crazy, just a couple of drinks. By the time they met us there, it was time for us to check in. So Taylor and I went to the hotel while Chris and Eric stayed at the bar. We get in the room, we're running around, just like little kids, so excited to be in this hotel room. And we're looking at the view, and I'm in one bedroom, Taylor's in like the living room, and she wants to FaceTime her niece to show her this really fun room where it happened at the weekend. This is crazy. Like, we don't do this sort of thing, you know? So it was really exciting for us. I hear the FaceTime connect, I hear the niece on the phone, and I get so excited. I take off running into the living room.

• 5:59Speaker 02

  Why I felt the need to basically break into a sprint, I'm not sure. I did not clear the doorway, hit my toe.

• 6:06Dax Shepard?

  Oh.

• 6:07Speaker 02

  Directly into the wall. I dropped to the ground. Oh. It's one of those ones that like almost knocks the wind out of you.

• 6:13Dax Shepard?

  And the toe pain is a hot pain. It's an immediately searing pain.

• 6:18Speaker 02

  It also sucks because it's such a small, it's like, I hurt my toe, people don't take that seriously.

• 6:24Dax Shepard?

  They're like, boo hoo, they're expendable.

• 6:26Speaker 02

  Exactly, but it hurts. It hurts, and there's not much you can do for a toe. You just kind of have to deal with it.

• 6:32Dax Shepard?

  That's right.

• 6:33Speaker 02

  It was my toe next to my little toe, so it wasn't great.

• 6:39Dax Shepard?

  But better than the big toe, right?

• 6:40Speaker 02

  Better than the big toe, yes. Still made it very difficult to walk. The boys come back to the room, we decide we're just gonna stay in. I'm gonna let my toe heal in the morning, it's gonna be better. We decide to party in the room, we had drugs, we had alcohol.

• 6:54Speaker 01

  Oh, God bless.

• 6:56Dax Shepard?

  What drugs are we doing? Please tell me.

• 6:58Speaker 02

  We were doing cocaine mainly.

• 7:00Dax Shepard?

  Wonderful.

• 7:02Speaker 01

  This is fun time. Were you doing meth?

• 7:04Dax Shepard?

  No.

• 7:05Speaker 02

  No meth.

• 7:05Dax Shepard?

  You only do meth if you don't have cocaine. That's like the poor man's cocaine.

• 7:09Speaker 01

  Well, I'm on meth right now.

• 7:10Dax Shepard?

  Oh.

• 7:11Speaker 01

  And I've been enjoying it.

• 7:12Dax Shepard?

  Yeah, well, of course.

• 7:13Speaker 01

  I didn't realize I am on Sudafed. And it's nice.

• 7:18Dax Shepard?

  But you already realized that, Monica, I have to tell you.

• 7:20Speaker 01

  I just haven't done it in a while.

• 7:22Dax Shepard?

  Yeah, you've had a layoff, but you've always enjoyed the D.

• 7:24Speaker 01

  I relapsed.

• 7:25Dax Shepard?

  Yeah, yeah. Okay, great. So we have a little cocaine. Not to get bogged down in the drugs, but of course I'm going to. Did the boys score the coke at the bar they were drinking at? Or had they brought it with them?

• 7:33Speaker 02

  They brought it from somebody we know and trust here.

• 7:36Dax Shepard?

  Sure, sure. Trusted source. Okay.

• 7:38Speaker 02

  Yes. So that's the night we're having a good time. I don't remember all of the details, but I'm sure I was not babying my toe the way I should have been if I wanted it to get better. I felt invincible. It was great.

• 7:47Dax Shepard?

  Now, another pervy question, the drugs was part one. Is there any talk about anyone having sex out on that balcony overlooking the fountain?

• 7:54Speaker 02

  There was no talk about it.

• 7:56Dax Shepard?

  Okay, you're smiling. Oh, wow, wow, wow, wow. Okay, I might have jumped to that. Okay, okay. So, okay, that's night one.

• 8:02Speaker 02

  We wake up the next morning and it's not better. It's probably worse. You know, I'm in no shape to be walking around. So that day is my birthday and we decided to call the front desk and they sent up a medic.

• 8:13Dax Shepard?

  Oh.

• 8:13Speaker 02

  And he came up and he wrapped my toe for me and gave me crutches.

• 8:16Speaker 01

  Was he hot?

• 8:17Dax Shepard?

  Oh, nice. He had crutches, too.

• 8:18Speaker 02

  I don't remember, honestly. Yeah, strange. I don't even know. I would have never thought to call a medic from the hotel.

• 8:25Dax Shepard?

  I would just deal with it. Thought it was my fault and I deserved it.

• 8:27Speaker 02

  Yes, it was so embarrassing, too. So I quickly realized, like, there's no way I'm gonna be able to get around the strip on crutches. So we decide to rent, you know, those little motorized wheelchairs?

• 8:37Dax Shepard?

  Little rascals, yeah.

• 8:38Speaker 02

  So we rent one of those. I don't look like I need it, first of all, unless you like, look at my foot.

• 8:42Speaker 01

  Right.

• 8:43Speaker 02

  And it beeps every time you reverse and you're always reversing. You're never not reversing in these things. You know, you're in the bathroom, you gotta reverse out of the stall. We had to call handicap accessible taxis.

• 8:55Dax Shepard?

  Oh.

• 8:55Speaker 02

  And I had to ride the scooter up into the back. Sit there and then reverse out. It was incredibly embarrassing, but it is what it is. Got me around the strip. We had a great day and we had already planned. So with doing the coke, we also brought ecstasy.

• 9:09Dax Shepard?

  Okay, great. Yeah, let's shift gears for the next night.

• 9:11Speaker 02

  That night, we're gonna roll. We're gonna have a good time. So we get back to the hotel. We get in like our cozy clothes. There's a nice big couch in the living room. We're gonna all kind of just pile on there, watch music videos for a little while. And at the time, you know, the song by Justin Bieber called Holy? Yes.

• 9:27Dax Shepard?

  Yes.

• 9:28Speaker 02

  So the music video is incredibly emotional and sad. And why we thought this would be a good idea to put this music video or not skip it or whatever? I'm not sure. So I should also mention that up until this point, I had done ecstasy just a handful of times and each time I'd only done a half a pill at a time.

• 9:45Dax Shepard?

  So responsible. Congratulations.

• 9:47Speaker 02

  Well, not tonight. I took the whole pill and basically the last thing I remember is the music video playing. After that, I have two snapshot memories. One of them was I was in like the corner of one of the bedrooms on the ground and I threw up.

• 10:02Dax Shepard?

  Oh, okay.

• 10:02Speaker 02

  And I proceeded to go right into the throw up. Oh.

• 10:06Dax Shepard?

  Oh, face down into the throw.

• 10:07Speaker 02

  Yeah, for the listener, face plant. Yeah, not sure what possessed me to do that. And then the other memory I have is at some point, I'm looking in the mirror in the bathroom and seeing bruises on my face and like not understanding where they came from. Oh, my God. So because I don't remember all of this, I got with Taylor, Eric and Chris the other night to get all the details because basically the rest of the story is like them retelling it to me. When I told Taylor, like, oh, I have these snapshot memories. She was like, Brian, those were six hours apart.

• 10:39Dax Shepard?

  Hold on one second. I just gotta say something. First of all, anyone listening, don't do drugs. Secondly, what I think is hilarious about drugs is it does make you like six years old again. You can't handle your shit and it's funny because you're an adult. You throw up like a baby does and then you fall in, then you're bruised up. It's like a time machine back to being incompetent. I like that part.

• 10:57Speaker 02

  It's not fun for the people around you who aren't on it. And they have to take care of a baby.

• 11:03Dax Shepard?

  Well, that's why you do it all together. Yeah, yeah, all in, yeah. All for one, one for all.

• 11:07Speaker 02

  We all took it. I guess what happened is the video played, I got hot, as you do when you're coming up. And one, it was like, let's go on the balcony, which is why we got this room to specifically like enjoy our trip, watching everything. Pretty quickly, upon getting out there, I like started rolling around on the ground, kicking my feet, flailing my arms. It's a cement balcony. My toe is in no shape to be being kicked onto the ground. They couldn't get me to stop, so they were like running into the room to get pillows to put under my legs, under my feet. Unsure why I'm doing all of this, they finally got me to come inside because they're like, this can't keep happening. And that is when I started throwing up again on the floor, rolling around. Oh, my God. Being like violent, not like trying to hurt anybody, I think, other than myself. I was like hitting my head on the wall, hitting my head on the floor.

• 11:51Speaker 02

  This sounds not fun.

• 11:55Dax Shepard?

  You're not making a great case for MDMA for Monica, which I keep trying to convince to try to.

• 11:59Speaker 02

  The only bad time I've had, I promise you that. They were like, hey, we need to get her on the bed. So they picked me up, they put me in the bed. And at this point, their mission was to just physically restrain me. So Chris is holding my legs, Taylor has one arm, Eric has another arm, and I'm fighting, I'm like trying to get away from them. And I must have been going through like some turmoil at the time, because the only thing they could make out me saying was like, I'm not a good person.

• 12:20Dax Shepard?

  Ah, yeah, yeah.

• 12:22Speaker 02

  Gibberish. So that took about an hour, hour and a half. I must have calmed down enough that they were like, we gotta get out of this room. It smells like throw up in here. It's hot, it's sweaty. I had like cut myself at some point, so there's like blood. And apparently we get outside and I like that snap right out of it.

• 12:39Dax Shepard?

  He just needed to change the venue.

• 12:40Speaker 02

  That's exactly what Taylor said. She was like, we need to get her out. She needs fresh air. She needs a new scenery situation.

• 12:45Dax Shepard?

  Yep, yep. Let's do a hard reset. It was like me taking you on that walk, Monica.

• 12:48Speaker 02

  Oh, yeah, that did help.

• 12:50Dax Shepard?

  Yeah.

• 12:50Speaker 02

  During the craziness of it all, Chris got really scared and looked at Taylor and was like, do we need to call 911? Is she overdosing? Yeah, sure. Taylor was like, she's just having a bad come up. That's all this is. Come up for eight hours?

• 13:03Dax Shepard?

  No, no, it was only an hour and a half in.

• 13:05Speaker 02

  That's a long time.

• 13:07Dax Shepard?

  No, that time clicks by when you're.

• 13:11Dax Shepard?

  Really quick, this is all really telling. Like, I love what's happening right now. It's all about what your comfort level is with chaos. That's just from your childhood. You're hearing this stuff in, with good reason, Monica. You're like, this sounds terrible. And I'm like, oh yeah, this is novel and interesting.

• 13:25Speaker 02

  Yeah, didn't stop me from doing it again in the future. But yeah, so we stayed outside where the dog was when this was happening. I have no idea. We got all the clean blankets and pillows we could and took them back out into the balcony. Brought like a speaker out and then just spent like four or five hours. All just like kind of cuddled together, watching the lights. It was a great time. Wow.

• 13:44Dax Shepard?

  Wonderful.

• 13:45Speaker 02

  Vegas, baby. Send pictures.

• 13:47Dax Shepard?

  Oh, great.

• 13:49Speaker 02

  The aftermath.

• 13:50Dax Shepard?

  Oh, yes, that fourth toe is definitely purple. Although it could have been fatter. Okay, your legs are much worse for the wear. Oh my God, it's like you took a ball ping hammer to your.

• 14:01Speaker 02

  Oh, my God.

• 14:04Dax Shepard?

  Oh, yeah.

• 14:05Speaker 02

  What the fuck?

• 14:06Dax Shepard?

  You got a purple eyelid. You, you really went through it, Marie.

• 14:10Speaker 02

  Oh, shit.

• 14:11Dax Shepard?

  Oh, wow.

• 14:12Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 14:13Dax Shepard?

  Had you guys driven there or flown there?

• 14:15Speaker 02

  We drove.

• 14:15Dax Shepard?

  How was the drive home?

• 14:16Speaker 02

  Not great. I didn't have to go to work. I had all these bruises on my face. How am I gonna explain this to my job?

• 14:23Dax Shepard?

  You guys think you got jumped or you crashed your little rascal? One of the two?

• 14:26Speaker 02

  Yeah, so that was my story.

• 14:29Dax Shepard?

  The time you lost your marbles inside of the really nice hotel room. Did we get the vomit cleaned up? Did you guys incur any costs?

• 14:36Speaker 02

  I'm sure we did. I'm sure we had to pay. I can't imagine we were cleaning that up on our way out. We just needed to get out of there. These hotel rooms have seen so much.

• 14:44Dax Shepard?

  They have. When you're walking around barefoot, you gotta really consider all the action that's.

• 14:49Speaker 02

  No, no, no. You don't want to consider.

• 14:51Dax Shepard?

  Okay, so no one had sex on that balcony? That was the long and short of it.

• 14:54Speaker 02

  Not at that trip, no.

• 14:56Dax Shepard?

  Okay.

• 14:56Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 14:56Dax Shepard?

  On that trip.

• 14:58Speaker 02

  We returned to the hotel one time. Did you request the same room? Same style, maybe that's a room number.

• 15:04Dax Shepard?

  Yeah, they didn't want to touch that room.

• 15:05Speaker 02

  Yeah, exactly.

• 15:06Dax Shepard?

  A hundred foot pool.

• 15:06Speaker 02

  Yeah, that one should be hazmat.

• 15:09Dax Shepard?

  Oh, that was great. That was wonderful. Yeah.

• 15:12Speaker 02

  If I could just give a little shout out to Taylor. She was actually supposed to be here with me today to say hello. But she went into labor yesterday and had the most beautiful baby girl early this morning. Congratulations, Taylor.

• 15:25Dax Shepard?

  Yeah, congrats.

• 15:27Speaker 02

  What's the baby's name? Do you know? Her name's Indigo. Ooh, cute. Indigo. I love it.

• 15:32Dax Shepard?

  What if she said Marie?

• 15:33Speaker 02

  Shout out. Cute little baby. Got to hold her for a little bit. Sweet.

• 15:37Dax Shepard?

  Is she the first in the friendship group to have a baby?

• 15:40Speaker 02

  Yes.

• 15:40Speaker 01

  Oh, it's the best.

• 15:41Dax Shepard?

  They hit the lottery because everyone's gonna be really, really excited. And then when the fifth person in the group has a kid, you're like, okay.

• 15:50Dax Shepard?

  Okay, well, shout out Taylor.

• 15:51Speaker 01

  Yes, and thanks for sharing that story.

• 15:54Speaker 02

  Thank you guys for having me. This is so great. We love listening to you guys. Me and Taylor actually consider ourselves like the Dax and Aaron. Because we've been friends our whole lives since we were babies.

• 16:03Dax Shepard?

  By the way, from that story, it sounds very similar to some Dax and Aaron antics.

• 16:07Speaker 02

  Yeah, we get into some crazy things.

• 16:10Dax Shepard?

  If you can pull it off, it's good. All right. Well, lovely meeting you.

• 16:14Speaker 02

  Lovely meeting you as well. Bye bye.

• 16:15Dax Shepard?

  Okay, bye.

• 16:17Speaker 01

  Can I have a tissue, please?

• 16:19Dax Shepard?

  Oh, yeah, yeah. The transformation's complete. You're me. You're late.

• 16:22Speaker 01

  I hate it.

• 16:23Dax Shepard?

  You're late. You're blowing your nose and you love meth.

• 16:27Speaker 01

  I hate blowing my nose. I feel so vulnerable. Also, this morning, I hit my head so hard right here on a wall that I wasn't ready for.

• 16:39Dax Shepard?

  You don't know your surroundings.

• 16:40Speaker 01

  Yeah, and I was like, CTE.

• 16:46Speaker 01

  So I just want to let you know that I have CTE.

• 16:49Dax Shepard?

  Okay.

• 16:50Speaker 01

  Oh, my goodness. Hi.

• 16:51Speaker 02

  Hi.

• 16:52Dax Shepard?

  Hello, Madison. How are you?

• 16:54Speaker 01

  I'm good. How are you guys?

• 16:56Dax Shepard?

  Good. You have an enormous shoe collection, I'm seeing. We got sixty to seventy pairs of shoes behind us.

• 17:02Speaker 01

  This is a ding ding ding. So I have a new closet. My shoes are displayed. Now you can see them. And Jess was like, oh, my God, you have eighty pairs of shoes. And I was like, eye roll. You're exaggerating so much. And then he was like, we're gonna count. And I had in the seventies.

• 17:21Dax Shepard?

  Oh, my God.

• 17:24Speaker 01

  I said, I was like, I have forty.

• 17:28Speaker 01

  And those things add up.

• 17:30Speaker 03

  They do. I actually can't take credit for any of the fabulous things in this room. This is actually my sister's office slash closet, and she is quite possibly the most fabulous person I know.

• 17:41Speaker 01

  Good for her. She's got a hundred to 200.

• 17:43Speaker 03

  She's a wizard when it comes to style, everything. So I'm very grateful for her very fashionable background.

• 17:50Dax Shepard?

  We can thank her on our behalf as well. Madison, where are you?

• 17:53Speaker 03

  I am in Raleigh, North Carolina.

• 17:54Speaker 01

  Oh, nice. I love it there.

• 17:57Dax Shepard?

  I'm hearing so much about Raleigh because I'm going through a lot of the old Sedaris books on tape all over again. And of course, Raleigh comes up quite a bit.

• 18:05Speaker 03

  It's a quality spot. I just moved back here nine months ago, so happy to be back.

• 18:09Dax Shepard?

  And is he the pride of Raleigh? Do people know that David Sedaris hails from there?

• 18:13Speaker 03

  Maybe. I'm not from here originally. I'm a military kid, so I call a million and 10 different places home, but I'm sure some Raleigh locals would love to weigh in on that one.

• 18:31Dax Shepard?

  This episode is supported by Helix.

• 18:34Speaker 01

  Dax, is there anything better than crawling into a perfect bed on a cold fall night? Candlelit, hoodie on, maybe even some rain outside. The dream.

• 18:45Dax Shepard?

  That's the dream. You just described one of my ideal fall nights.

• 18:49Speaker 01

  I know. And thanks to Helix, my bed actually lives up to the vibe. All I had to do was take the Helix sleep quiz, and within two minutes, they matched me to a mattress built for exactly how I sleep. I have a midnight mattress. It also has cooling technology, which I really.

• 19:05Dax Shepard?

  Increasingly so.

• 19:06Speaker 01

  I need it. I have to have it. And I heard that you're supposed to sleep at a cold temp for optimal sleep. It's very, very helpful.

• 19:16Dax Shepard?

  She is not wrong. I have one too, and it's been such a game changer for sleep. And I love that they make it so easy. Free shipping right to your door. And with their happy with Helix guarantee, you'll get a full 365 nights to try it. A whole year to live in that cozy. They've got over 20 mattress models, so no matter how you sleep, they've got one for you.

• 19:36Speaker 01

  And it's not just us saying it. Helix has been named the most awarded mattress brand by Forbes, Wired, and more. You gotta try it for yourself.

• 19:43Dax Shepard?

  Go to helixsleep.com/armchair for 20% off sitewide. That's helixsleep.com/armchair for 20% off sitewide. Helixsleep.com/armchair. This podcast is brought to you by Squarespace. We've talked before about Rob building our website on Squarespace, and I bring it up again because it's a perfect example of what they do well. Rob had all the pieces, the content, the vision, the ideas, but he needed something to actually take all that and make it public facing. And Squarespace was that bridge. Maybe you're in the same spot. You've been developing something, a business, a skillset, a body of work, and it's been private. It's been yours, but at some point you're ready to put it out there.

• 20:25Dax Shepard?

  And that transition from private to public can feel like a huge leap. Squarespace makes it feel like a step. Beautiful templates, built-in SEO, email campaigns, scheduling, analytics, everything you need to go from "I've been working on this" to "Here it is, come find me." All in one place, no code, no stitching together a bunch of different tools. So if you've been sitting on something and waiting for the right moment, this might be it. Head to Squarespace.com/dax for a free trial. And when you're ready to launch, use offer code DAX to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain. We get support from ZipRecruiter. Oh, get recruiting. So I went down this rabbit hole the other day

• 21:10Dax Shepard?

  on real holiday jobs that exist, and I couldn't stop. Somebody out there is hiring a ham glazer, a professional ham glazer. Another place is hiring a lead elf, implying a whole hierarchy of elves I had never even considered. Here's the thing, these jobs need real skills. People like that are hard to find. And whether you're hiring for one of these roles or any other role, the best way to find qualified people who are genuinely excited about your role is on ZipRecruiter. And right now you can try it for free at ziprecruiter.com/dax. Plus ZipRecruiter has a new feature that shows you the most interested qualified candidates first, so you meet the right people faster. No wonder ZipRecruiter is the number one rated hiring site based on G2.

• 21:54Dax Shepard?

  Let ZipRecruiter find the right people for your roles, seasonal or otherwise. Try it for free today at ziprecruiter.com/dax. That's ziprecruiter.com/dax. Meet your match on ZipRecruiter.

• 22:10Dax Shepard?

  We get support from Superhuman. Look, I love what I do. The conversations, the ideas, the creative stuff. But there's this whole other layer of work that eats my day alive. The inbox that never ends. Docs I need to get through, threads I'm behind on. And by the time I've dealt with all that, the stuff I actually want to focus on gets whatever's left. What I needed was something that just works where I'm already working. Not another tab to open, not another thing to set up. Superhuman Go from the makers of Grammarly is different. It's already right there inside your email, your docs, your browser. You don't go to it. It's already working alongside you. You're deep in a long thread, highlight it, and it pulls the key points. About to send something important? It flags what doesn't add up before it leaves your hands.

• 22:55Dax Shepard?

  It knows your style, your workflows, and it just backs you up without getting in the way. A thought partner that's already up to speed at your service, not after your job. So do yourself a favor and try Superhuman Go from the makers of Grammarly. Find out more at superhuman.com.

• 23:22Dax Shepard?

  Okay, so you have a crazy Vegas story.

• 23:23Speaker 03

  I do. So to give you a little bit of context, when I was in high school, I was in a nationally recognized high school show choir. So just about the coolest group of kids you could possibly imagine. It was for everybody from third grade to 12th grade. And the closer you got to high school, the more it kind of became a little bit intense. And my sophomore year, I had made it into the elite high school choir group. So it was a big deal. Not that many sophomores get to have that moment.

• 23:52Dax Shepard?

  And can you tell me what happens when you're in an elite choir? Do you travel around? Is there competitions or do you just perform? What happens?

• 23:59Speaker 03

  So we gave multiple performances throughout the year. We did a Christmas show. We did a choral production. And then in the spring, we did a Showtime show, which was like kind of anything goes. So we do different Broadway sets. One time we did like a British Invasion number. With all of these different songs and mashups, think Glee, but with more sparkles and like a very weird obsession with red lipstick. Oh.

• 24:23Dax Shepard?

  Okay. And are there competitions or no?

• 24:26Speaker 03

  No, but every summer we would go on tour, which is how my sophomore year, we found out we were going to Las Vegas.

• 24:33Dax Shepard?

  Oh.

• 24:34Speaker 03

  And it was pretty exciting. And that for me was like a peak year. I would say maybe as close to my seventh grade year as I could get.

• 24:42Dax Shepard?

  Okay, 10th grade was it?

• 24:43Speaker 03

  So I had just moved to Florida, to this little panhandle town, joined this choir. I had my first boyfriend.

• 24:50Dax Shepard?

  Are you going to the beach?

• 24:51Speaker 03

  So much, yeah. Town is on the beach. It was the height of life. All year, we were so excited to go to Vegas. It was all anybody could talk about. And sure enough, summer came and everything fell apart. My boyfriend broke up with me the week before the trip. And I was not looking forward to this, but here we were, 40, 50 kids on a flight to Vegas, about to have the best week of our lives.

• 25:15Dax Shepard?

  How many chaperones? Like, how many adults per?

• 25:17Speaker 03

  I think about six or seven, and then plus the two choir directors. Fifty kids?

• 25:22Dax Shepard?

  I'd want max three kids per chaperone.

• 25:26Speaker 03

  You would think. I don't know how they did it, but it was chaos nonetheless. So naturally, you have a breakup. I'm heartbroken. Friends are picking sides, tensions are high. And if you know anything about the show Choir Life, choir kids are competitive. We're all friends, but we're all like upset you got the solo, we're upset you got that part.

• 25:45Dax Shepard?

  Limited real estate.

• 25:46Speaker 03

  Dog eat dog. So all week, it had just been a disaster. Girls were fighting, the boys are just like having a great time and they're enjoying all the attention that the girls are giving them. And that was the week that my boyfriend, or my ex-boyfriend, decided that he wanted to have a little rebound fling with one of my friends on the trip. Oh, he's also in choir? Oh, yeah. Oh, fuck. Extra tense. Oh.

• 26:10Dax Shepard?

  Oh, I had no idea he was on the trip.

• 26:13Speaker 03

  Yeah, the chaperones and the moms are just as in all the dramas, all the kids. Oh, no. We're doing workshops for a masterclass in church choirs for people like we're performing to teach these church choirs in Nevada how to choir. Then at night, we're going to see different shows. So we saw like Celine Dion one night, went to Phantom of the Opera. And then during the day, we're hanging out, we're seeing all the sights.

• 26:36Dax Shepard?

  What hotel do they have you guys at?

• 26:38Speaker 03

  We were in the Venetian. Ooh.

• 26:40Dax Shepard?

  Okay.

• 26:41Speaker 03

  Is going to be the location of the pinnacle of the drama. So all week drama, all week chaos.

• 26:49Dax Shepard?

  Do you have words with the gal that he hooked up with? Are you guys ignoring each other?

• 26:53Speaker 03

  Had to stay as far away. I was like, I'm not even going to be around you. I'm going to go hang out with another group of girls. At one point, we're like, we can't shop anymore. We have no more money. We are so over it. We just want to go have fun. So the chaperones against the rules were like, yeah, just go ahead without us. Just don't cause trouble. So we went off on our own for the day and had a lovely time. Well, that afternoon, texts come bombarding in. And this is 2011, so there's no real social media yet. So everything had to be done by like mass texts. And my boyfriend, ex-boyfriend decided that they were going to do like a whole make out on the strip and they were going to send photos. And so photos got sent to me, I'm crying.

• 27:32Dax Shepard?

  Now I've transferred into he's a dick. It's okay if you don't want to be with somebody, but now this is a dick move.

• 27:37Speaker 03

  You couldn't have waited. Also, not to mention, my 16th birthday was the last day of this trip. Oh, yeah. Let me have fun. So my friends and I had gone down this trip. Well, this happens, I start crying and my friend Mary, who we're still very close to this day, looks at me and says, we need to do something big. We need to like show everybody that you don't care. And so what are 15 and 16 year olds to do when you're alone in Vegas? We decided to go into the nearest CBS and buy a box of hair dye and we were going to dye my hair. Oh, okay. Big change.

• 28:06Dax Shepard?

  Okay, okay, a big revamp.

• 28:07Speaker 03

  We were not cool by any means, but this was as edgy as we could get. Yeah.

• 28:12Dax Shepard?

  I keep thinking like, how are they going to get booze?

• 28:14Speaker 03

  You would think. So we grabbed the box of hair dye. We raced back down the strip. We have to be at the taxi line by 6:00 PM. So my friend is dying my hair in the sink of the Venetian hotel bathroom. I went from like a very sandy blonde, like beach blonde hair to as dark brown as I could get without it being straight Megan Fox black. And I thought I was hot shit.

• 28:35Dax Shepard?

  Oh, good. You liked how it turned out.

• 28:37Speaker 03

  Yeah, I was like, this is amazing. I had texted some friends. I was like, wait till you see what I did. Of course, rumors spread. People were thinking I went and found a way to get an underage tattoo. Or I had gone drinking at one of the day clubs or I had gone gambling. I don't even know how all these rumors got out of control. But they were spreading so much so that the moms were upset because they thought that something real no-no had happened. So sure enough, I show up at six o'clock with my friends in the taxi line and we are like, look at her. She is fabulous. I'm feeling good and not a single person notices because they're like, how dare you go to the club? How dare you drink? This is not okay. What are you doing? And my one friend just could not be more upset with me.

• 29:21Speaker 03

  And as I am trying to calm her down, she says something and I see this thing behind her, just like a blur. Oh, and I hear this giant sound. Trigger warning. The next part of the story gets a little sad.

• 29:34Speaker 01

  Oh, no.

• 29:37Dax Shepard?

  Okay, okay, we're gonna take a big turn here.

• 29:40Speaker 03

  The whole area just went still and silent. My friends and I all turn. I had witnessed it. It turns out that a drunken selfie had gone wrong. Somebody had fallen from the parking garage.

• 29:52Speaker 01

  Oh.

• 29:53Dax Shepard?

  You saw a body fall out of the parking garage?

• 29:56Speaker 03

  Ryan Murphy could not have written this glee line. It would have never happened.

• 30:01Dax Shepard?

  But he didn't land on any other people, though.

• 30:03Speaker 03

  No.

• 30:04Dax Shepard?

  Was it he or she?

• 30:05Speaker 03

  It was a man.

• 30:06Dax Shepard?

  See, really quick, I'm just gonna add. So I'm getting nervous. A big fixture fell off of the ceiling and killed a very innocent person from the choir. That would be the worst case.

• 30:14Speaker 01

  Okay, well, we don't need to do what's worse.

• 30:16Dax Shepard?

  No, I'm gonna, you get yourself into it doing a selfie by trying to be a daredevil. I'm feeling less bad.

• 30:22Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 30:22Dax Shepard?

  And then when it's a boy over a girl, even less bad. So as bad as it is, there were a few things that lessened it for me.

• 30:29Speaker 01

  I also thought someone was trying to die by suicide.

• 30:30Dax Shepard?

  Okay.

• 30:31Speaker 03

  We all just start panicking and we're looking around and plus we're all fifteen, sixteen. There's one mom standing there like, oh, fuck. And people start frantic. They're like running up to him. They're calling nine one one. And some of us are just in shock. Some of us start sobbing hysterically. We get pushed into a cab because we were next in line. When I tell you this was all within a very close space. So they pushed us into the cab. We're all sitting there. People are sobbing. People are calling other moms. People are freaking out. I'm just sitting there like, what the heck? I text my mom and I'm like, what did you send me to? Where am I? This is the worst week of my life. And she's like, I don't understand what's happening. You come home tomorrow. Just hold on one more day. I haven't cried yet because you're fifteen. How do you even mentally process

• 31:14Speaker 03

  something like that? And we don't even have all the details. So we just know what we saw. They rush us down the strip. We get to the next hotel. We're at the MGM. We see all of our friends who've now heard from all the frantic calls. My boyfriend's looking at me like, are you okay? And I'm like, please don't talk to me. Oh, yeah. Now he wants.

• 31:30Dax Shepard?

  I love your new hair. What happened?

• 31:32Speaker 03

  No one notices my hair. No one notices anything. People are asking me what I did that day. I'm like, how could you talk about this rumor right now? Something terrible just happened. And it is just a frenzy. And so the choir director gets up and he's like, everyone needs to shut up. Everyone needs to get over this. We have got to keep this ball rolling. Show must go on.

• 31:48Dax Shepard?

  Get your shit together.

• 31:49Speaker 03

  So they're like, let's go into the theater. Everybody sit down. We'll watch the show and it will take your mind off of everything and you'll be okay. Except, we were seeing The Lion King. And if you've never seen The Lion King on stage, act one ends when Mufasa is thrown off of the cliff. Oh, fuck.

• 32:04Dax Shepard?

  Okay, so.

• 32:05Speaker 03

  Well, sim moment.

• 32:07Dax Shepard?

  Yeah, a little PTSD.

• 32:09Speaker 03

  So everyone starts crying.

• 32:10Dax Shepard?

  I'm so sorry. I'm trying not to laugh a lot, but I had just said to Monica the other day.

• 32:15Speaker 03

  Oh, yeah.

• 32:16Dax Shepard?

  I don't know what it is about Vegas, but girls be crying in Vegas.

• 32:21Speaker 03

  Very traumatic.

• 32:21Dax Shepard?

  They did, but they were crying even before that, Monica. There's been a lot of crying in this story. And I'm just saying, I hope it doesn't sound sexist, but they had to have a good cry in Vegas.

• 32:30Speaker 03

  Yeah. Yeah, not to mention we're choir and theater kids. So like, we just like to cry anyway.

• 32:35Dax Shepard?

  Yes, yes, yes. Double whammy. Like she was saying, the boys are having a good time. All the girls are crying.

• 32:40Speaker 01

  They're having a good time and they're falling off buildings.

• 32:43Dax Shepard?

  No, no, I'm talking about the group.

• 32:44Speaker 01

  I know, but I'm saying that's the difference of what's happening in Vegas. Yes, the girls are crying, but the boys are

• 32:50Dax Shepard?

  Falling off.

• 32:51Speaker 01

  Falling off buildings.

• 32:52Dax Shepard?

  Yeah.

• 32:52Speaker 03

  The boys are having a great time. The boys are wearing matching fedoras.

• 32:55Dax Shepard?

  It works for our gender. I don't know why. We go to Vegas and we're fine. Okay. So you're in the show and everyone's now crying all over again.

• 33:01Speaker 03

  At one end, we're all sobbing and everybody is just like, this is just too much. After The Lion King, we actually had to stay and do like a meet and greet with the cast. And so it's just this group photo with these incredible performers and then all of these kids who are like red face and puffy.

• 33:18Dax Shepard?

  New hairdos.

• 33:19Speaker 03

  Yeah. And so the next day they were like, don't talk about it. Don't bring it up. We don't want to hear about it. Like everyone just keep moving forward. We're going home tonight. But now tensions are too high. The next day I get reprimanded because they're like, you went to a club. I was like, that was a rumor. There's no evidence to wrap it all up on the very last night. Of course, we hit all of the flight delays. It was like every possible terrible thing that you could imagine on a trip went wrong. We're stuck in the Atlanta airport flying home and that's when our choir director decides, you know what we should do? We should have you guys get up and cheer up all these travel.

• 33:50Speaker 01

  Oh, that's cute.

• 33:50Dax Shepard?

  Absolutely. You guys have a superpower.

• 33:53Speaker 03

  Flash mob. So a predominantly all white choir got up and they insisted that we do our African tribal number complete with dance.

• 34:02Dax Shepard?

  In Atlanta too.

• 34:03Speaker 01

  Yeah, exactly.

• 34:04Dax Shepard?

  You could have gotten away with that in North Dakota, but that's not gonna.

• 34:06Speaker 01

  No, they would have been like, take this shit out of here.

• 34:10Speaker 03

  We do it. Not a single clap, not a single, that was good. Nothing. Everybody looked at us like they wanted to just end us right there. And we got on the plane. I got home and I looked at my mom when I got in the car and I was like, that was quite possibly the worst way to turn 16 I could ever imagine.

• 34:27Dax Shepard?

  We would call that an unmitigated disaster, the whole, the whole trip. Although it does sound like you went to a lot of cool shows and Celine Dion.

• 34:33Speaker 03

  We did.

• 34:34Speaker 01

  Did you go to the O show?

• 34:35Speaker 03

  No, we did Celine Dion, Phantom, Lion King, and then we got to go to the oldest burlesque show on the strip. But we went to the show where they covered the nipples because children cannot see that.

• 34:48Dax Shepard?

  There'd have been more crying probably.

• 34:50Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 34:50Speaker 03

  So it was the choir trip from hell.

• 34:53Speaker 01

  Wow.

• 34:54Dax Shepard?

  Oh, well, that was enjoyable for us. Not for you. Lovely meeting you.

• 34:58Speaker 01

  Yeah, thanks for sharing.

• 34:59Speaker 03

  Thank you guys so much. It was so fun to share this story. All of my friends were so excited. And if I could just give a quick shout out to my mom, Elizabeth, and to my friend Alora. They are my fellow arm cherries because we've been listening since day one.

• 35:11Dax Shepard?

  We love having you. Thank you. Yeah.

• 35:13Speaker 01

  Thank you all.

• 35:14Dax Shepard?

  All right. Take care.

• 35:15Speaker 03

  Have a great one, y'all.

• 35:17Dax Shepard?

  Here's Jack. This one's gross. First photos. Oh, good. Severed penis?

• 35:22Speaker 01

  Thing.

• 35:23Dax Shepard?

  We haven't had a severed penis. Should we have that as a prompt? Hello, Jack.

• 35:27Speaker 04

  Hi.

• 35:28Dax Shepard?

  Ooh, tell me about this side piece headphone here. This is new for me.

• 35:31Speaker 04

  I'm actually visiting a friend in Los Angeles and I'm borrowing his equipment.

• 35:36Dax Shepard?

  Is that a gaming headphone or something?

• 35:39Speaker 04

  You know what? I have no idea.

• 35:40Dax Shepard?

  Okay, great, great, great. I'm gonna be honest, that doesn't look like a closet in Los Angeles. That looks like a closet in the Midwest.

• 35:48Speaker 04

  It's in Santa Clarita.

• 35:50Dax Shepard?

  Okay, that helps. I do call Santa Clarita the Midwest of LA. I really do.

• 35:54Speaker 01

  You do?

• 35:55Dax Shepard?

  Yeah.

• 35:55Speaker 01

  What?

• 35:55Dax Shepard?

  I do. I've said that a million times. It's like normal.

• 35:59Speaker 01

  You definitely.

• 36:00Dax Shepard?

  What?

• 36:01Speaker 01

  You haven't said it a million times.

• 36:02Dax Shepard?

  Well, I'm not saying anything a million times, but I've said that a lot because I used to shoot out there.

• 36:07Speaker 01

  I remember that, yes.

• 36:08Dax Shepard?

  Yeah, and I'm always like, yeah, I feel like I'm going back to the Midwest when I come here.

• 36:12Speaker 01

  Wow.

• 36:13Dax Shepard?

  It's like all chain restaurants. A lot of people that are in the labor side of the show business.

• 36:18Speaker 01

  Yeah, definitely more suburban over there.

• 36:19Dax Shepard?

  Where are you visiting from?

• 36:21Speaker 04

  Currently in Tucson in the winter, but I'm semi-nomadic, mostly in Northwest Bellingham, Washington, and Squamish, Canada. So I'm snowboarding right now.

• 36:30Dax Shepard?

  And that's what you're chasing? And in the summer, do you go like whitewater rafting or anything? What do you transition into?

• 36:35Speaker 04

  I'm actually a climber, which feeds into the story.

• 36:38Speaker 01

  Oh.

• 36:39Dax Shepard?

  Oh, okay.

• 36:40Speaker 01

  Okay, I'm excited.

• 36:42Dax Shepard?

  Yeah, yeah. Okay, set us up. Tell us everything.

• 36:46Speaker 04

  So this happened at the end of 2017. I was going to a music festival with two people that I knew through rock climbing. And at the time I was living in Tucson, Arizona, so we were traveling. We got a hotel and we went to this festival called Life is Beautiful. Blink 182, Muse, some big names. We were really excited. The first night went without a hitch. Everything was great and we had a ton of fun. Made it back to the hotel. The second night is where things went a little sideways.

• 37:13Dax Shepard?

  Can I ask what kind of things we're consuming on this trip? Is this a group that just drinks? Are we doing drugs and drinking? What's happening?

• 37:19Speaker 04

  Just drinking and alcohol is one hell of a drug.

• 37:22Speaker 01

  It sure is.

• 37:23Dax Shepard?

  It's probably the worst one. Yeah.

• 37:24Speaker 04

  The stupidest mistakes are probably on alcohol.

• 37:27Dax Shepard?

  Yeah, and you're losing your equilibrium. Everything's getting downgraded.

• 37:31Speaker 04

  Absolutely.

• 37:40Dax Shepard?

  We get support from Skims. So Monica just informed me that she's a girl's girl and I nodded like I knew exactly what that meant.

• 37:49Speaker 01

  Yeah, but the girls who get it, they get it.

• 37:52Dax Shepard?

  Okay, but for those of us who are clearly not girls, walk me through it.

• 37:55Speaker 01

  Well, you know how much I love my Skims fleece joggers because the plush fleece is so soft. It's cozy. It's really comfortable without feeling too heavy. Well, I went to friend them and she would not stop talking about how comfy they were. She almost didn't give them back to me, which was upsetting, but I'm a girl's girl, so I let her have it.

• 38:13Dax Shepard?

  Great, great, great.

• 38:14Speaker 01

  So the sleep sets are awesome because they are very soft and comfortable, but they're cute. If I'm in my sleep set, I feel fine about going down the street to pick up my food. I'm still looking cute, but I'm comfy and I'm cozy.

• 38:27Dax Shepard?

  Roger.

• 38:28Speaker 01

  A really fun thing to do is if you're going on vacation with your girlfriends, to get matching Skims pajamas. I've done this with Callie and it is so fun. First of all, the pics are so cute, but also it's just fun and friendship.

• 38:41Dax Shepard?

  So a girl's girl is looking out for your friends with better loungewear. I get it. Am I one of your girls now?

• 38:46Speaker 01

  You are. You and the other girlies can shop my favorite loungewear and pajamas at skims.com. After you place your order, be sure to let them know we sent you. Select podcasts in the survey and be sure to select our show in the dropdown menu that follows.

• 39:00Dax Shepard?

  We get support from our sponsor Lilly. For adults with obesity or with excess weight and weight-related medical problems, it's time to find out about Foundo or for Glibron. Foundo is a once-daily prescription GLP-1 medicine used with a reduced calorie diet and increased physical activity to help adults with obesity or some adults with overweight who also have weight-related medical problems to lose excess body weight and keep the weight off.

• 39:26Speaker 05

  Foundo should not be used with other GLP-1 receptor agonist medicines. It is not known if Foundo is safe and effective for use in children. Don't take Foundo if you're allergic to it, or if you or someone in your family had medullary thyroid cancer or multiple endocrine euplasia syndrome type 2. Stop and call your doctor right away if you have an allergic reaction, a lump or swelling in your neck, or severe stomach pain. Serious side effects may include inflamed pancreas and gallbladder problems. Tell your doctor if you experience vision changes, if you're nursing, pregnant, plant to be, or taking birth control pills, and before scheduled procedures with anesthesia. Taking Foundo with an insulin or sulfonylurea may cause low blood sugar. Side effects include diarrhea, nausea, and vomiting, which can cause dehydration and may cause kidney problems.

• 40:05Speaker 05

  Once-daily Foundo is available by prescription only in 0.8mg, 2.5mg, 5.5mg, 9mg, 14.5mg, and 17.2mg tablets. Learn more at foundo.lilly.com or call 1-800-LILY-RX. Now is perfect to talk to your doctor about Foundo.

• 40:23Dax Shepard?

  This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. If you've thought about trying therapy with our long-term partner BetterHelp, insurance options may now be available nationwide with an average copay for eligible members of just $23 per session. October 10th is World Mental Health Day, but you don't need a day on the calendar to give yourself permission to talk to someone. I've been in therapy for a long time, and the stuff rattling around in my head always just quiets down the second I say it out loud. And it doesn't have to be some big life crisis. Maybe it's a work thing that's taking up too much space, or hard relationship moment, or just a feeling that something's off. That's enough. That's worth talking about.

• 41:01Speaker 01

  You know, I love... Therapy, more than anything, gets me through. Often I'll want to cancel because I'm like, I don't really have anything to talk about. And then I'll go and I have some major revelation.

• 41:12Dax Shepard?

  You know, I was just talking to a friend who has just started it. And I said, one of the most powerful elements of it is just hearing yourself say out loud, the thing that's been ruminating in your head and how different it sounds. Once it's out into the world, you gain perspective immediately just by hearing yourself say it.

• 41:27Speaker 01

  Yeah, you do.

• 41:28Dax Shepard?

  If you've been waiting to start therapy, BetterHelp works with more than 125 health plan networks and eligible members have an average copay of just $23 per session with insurance. Don't have insurance or live outside the US? You can still get 10% off your first month. Do yourself a favor and just try it. Future you will be grateful. Visit betterhelp.com/dax to explore your payment options. That's better H E L P dot com slash DAX.

• 42:04Speaker 04

  So the start of night two, we pre-gamed a little too hard. I think we might've consumed anywhere from like seven to 10 drinks, even before we made it through the gate. I think we were just trying to save money because the drinks at the festival were like $15. In the end, it didn't save money.

• 42:20Dax Shepard?

  It was penny wise and pound foolish.

• 42:23Speaker 04

  We go to the festival, we have a great time up until the last set. And at this point, I'm pretty drunk and I'm also hungry. So I go off and I do a little solo adventure.

• 42:33Speaker 01

  Oh.

• 42:33Speaker 04

  And I find some carne asada fries. They were probably like $22.

• 42:38Speaker 01

  Oh, God.

• 42:39Speaker 04

  And as I'm waiting for my food, I see this art sculpture. And this art sculpture spells out the word love in 3D letters. It's a metal sheet and it has these cutouts. And the cutouts are the shape of a bird. So being an avid climber, that was like my identity at the time. I said, I want to climb this.

• 43:02Dax Shepard?

  Oh, sure. It's taunting you.

• 43:04Speaker 04

  Yeah, exactly. And everybody else was climbing the easy letters, the L. And I wanted to climb the V, which was overhanging.

• 43:12Dax Shepard?

  And what's the height of this thing? Can you give us a ballpark?

• 43:15Speaker 04

  It's about 12 feet. It's not awfully tall. So in my drunken state, I essentially am sticking my fingers in these metal cutouts.

• 43:25Speaker 01

  Nah.

• 43:26Speaker 04

  To my fingers. In this metal cutout and it's the shape of a bird and my ring finger slots into the wing of the bird.

• 43:35Dax Shepard?

  Hmm.

• 43:35Speaker 04

  Oh my god.

• 43:37Dax Shepard?

  Hold on, I'm gonna tell the listener, I'm gonna tell the listener because I'm looking at you and you have all your fingers. I think, cause I would be on pins and needles that he doesn't have fingers. Please continue.

• 43:45Speaker 04

  So as I'm climbing, my feet slip and this finger is slotted in. Essentially, the flesh of this finger is removed. Through the bone, about three-fourths of the way around. Oh my god. So this injury is called a degloving injury. Oftentimes happens with wedding fingers. It happened to Jimmy Fallon.

• 44:09Dax Shepard?

  How did Fallon do his drinking, drinking related, I think?

• 44:12Speaker 04

  I think it was on a countertop.

• 44:14Dax Shepard?

  Yeah, it sounds drinking related, okay.

• 44:16Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 44:18Dax Shepard?

  Degloving, what a terrible.

• 44:20Speaker 04

  I hate that word.

• 44:21Dax Shepard?

  Yeah, I mean, it's so like, we know immediately.

• 44:22Speaker 04

  It's an onomatopoeia.

• 44:23Dax Shepard?

  Yeah, it is really a great word, because we know exactly what it means, but it's rough. Is your whole body weight now hanging from just that one finger?

• 44:31Speaker 04

  Essentially, yeah. I was able to get it out. I was able to make it to a first aid station. And at the time, I didn't know how bad it was, but I knew I was bleeding and I knew it was quite bad. And I looked down and I just see most of the finger hanging off. At that point, I knew I needed medical care. I knew it was pretty serious.

• 44:50Dax Shepard?

  But also a blessing that you didn't leave the tip of your finger back at the art installation. Cause that could have easily got hung up in the wing and stayed, right?

• 44:59Speaker 04

  I'm very fortunate. So they took me off to the ER and I got several different pain blocks in this finger and they stitched it up as best as they could. I think it was an intern at the time, which I wasn't so happy about.

• 45:14Dax Shepard?

  Although you kinda deserved an intern, if I mean honest.

• 45:18Speaker 04

  Your standards are too high. Two days later, I got reconstructive surgery from a hand specialist. Okay.

• 45:24Dax Shepard?

  In Vegas or back in Tucson?

• 45:26Speaker 04

  It was back in Tucson.

• 45:28Dax Shepard?

  Okay, we have photos. Is this a good time for us to look?

• 45:30Speaker 04

  I'm scared. I think it is.

• 45:32Dax Shepard?

  If there were ever a good time. Okay, oh great, so we get, um.

• 45:35Speaker 04

  Oh, we got good pics.

• 45:36Dax Shepard?

  How did we have such great?

• 45:39Dax Shepard?

  Oh.

• 45:40Speaker 01

  No, no, no, no.

• 45:44Dax Shepard?

  Wait, how do we have such good photos of the finger in the bird thing? Did you go back and recreate this?

• 45:50Speaker 04

  I actually found that art installation about five years later in Las Vegas.

• 45:54Dax Shepard?

  No way.

• 45:55Speaker 04

  I cringed when I saw the art installation because it just brought me back to that memory.

• 46:00Speaker 01

  Wait, so you put your fingers in it again?

• 46:03Dax Shepard?

  To show what had happened, right?

• 46:05Speaker 01

  Yeah. You guys.

• 46:06Dax Shepard?

  Well, he was probably standing on terra firma at that point, right?

• 46:09Speaker 01

  Who are you?

• 46:09Dax Shepard?

  You weren't climbing.

• 46:10Speaker 04

  I was very sober at that point and I was not climbing.

• 46:15Dax Shepard?

  I don't really know how anyone was climbing any part of this.

• 46:18Speaker 01

  Seriously.

• 46:19Dax Shepard?

  Were the people climbing the L also putting their fingers in these?

• 46:22Speaker 04

  No, I think they were doing photo shoots and that's about it. But they weren't putting fingers in sharp metal holes.

• 46:28Dax Shepard?

  When you had the reconstruction, did they have to like attach any tendons or anything? Or they were just getting the glove back on?

• 46:33Speaker 01

  I hate that picture.

• 46:35Dax Shepard?

  Yeah, it does look like a penis a little bit because it's such a demarcated head. What was the extent of the reconstruction? I'm going to cover this so you can think, Mako.

• 46:42Speaker 01

  Yeah, I want to. Yeah.

• 46:44Speaker 04

  I know that they attached the nerve together through a nerve bridge. I think the tendon was mostly okay, but the arteries needed reconstruction.

• 46:53Dax Shepard?

  But as a climber, that's the number one tool right there, right? You must have been a little panicked.

• 46:57Speaker 04

  Absolutely. In resolution, I actually have good strength in this finger. I just have sort of weird feelings, pins and needles, but that's to be expected.

• 47:08Dax Shepard?

  Yeah, I have on my shoulder where all the metal is. The mobility is fantastic. I can lift weights, I can do everything, but I have some nerve between the metal and my skin. And you can just graze it and it's like you stabbed me there with an ice pick. It's just shocking.

• 47:20Speaker 04

  Yeah, similar for my finger.

• 47:22Dax Shepard?

  Yeah. Wow.

• 47:24Speaker 01

  That is yuck.

• 47:25Dax Shepard?

  Well, that's a bummer, but also it sounds like it could have gone a lot worse.

• 47:29Speaker 04

  It could have. Also worth noting, the two friends that I went with, they were brothers. One of them, he, on that same night, this was separate after my injury. He went and climbed a bus stop. He did what's called a bat hang in climbing where you essentially flex your feet and you try hanging from your feet with no hands.

• 47:50Dax Shepard?

  Okay.

• 47:51Speaker 01

  What?

• 47:51Speaker 04

  He ended up falling. Obviously.

• 47:54Dax Shepard?

  Oh my God, what if this was the guy?

• 47:55Speaker 01

  I know, from last.

• 47:56Dax Shepard?

  From the other call that watched a body come off of it.

• 47:59Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 48:00Dax Shepard?

  Okay, so he fell. You're right, Monica.

• 48:02Speaker 01

  Did he go to the emergency department, too?

• 48:04Speaker 04

  He didn't, no. I think he went to urgent care.

• 48:06Speaker 01

  Dax is obsessed with the idea that women cry in Vegas and like, come on.

• 48:12Dax Shepard?

  You're right, you're right. I'm conceding to.

• 48:13Speaker 01

  Thank you.

• 48:14Dax Shepard?

  Yeah, my point is, I can't tell you how many elevator doors have opened when I'm in Vegas and there's like two or three girls on the ground of the elevator just bawling. She said, well, also you have got guys jumping off stuff and doing this shit. So it's like, yeah.

• 48:25Speaker 01

  Yeah, wowee.

• 48:27Dax Shepard?

  Oh, Jack, this was delightful.

• 48:29Speaker 04

  It was really great meeting you guys. Thank you for hearing my story.

• 48:31Dax Shepard?

  Yeah.

• 48:32Speaker 01

  Thanks for listening.

• 48:32Dax Shepard?

  Are you listening while you're driving back and forth? Is that it? You're in the car lot?

• 48:36Speaker 04

  All the time. It makes the drives much more bearable.

• 48:39Dax Shepard?

  That makes me happy. Well, great meeting you, Jack. I hope you have a great rest of your trip.

• 48:43Speaker 04

  Thank you so much.

• 48:44Dax Shepard?

  All right.

• 48:44Speaker 01

  Bye.

• 48:45Dax Shepard?

  Take care.

• 48:47Speaker 01

  Handsome man.

• 48:48Dax Shepard?

  Fucking gorgeous.

• 48:49Speaker 01

  We like when our arm cherries are hot.

• 48:51Dax Shepard?

  They always are.

• 48:54Dax Shepard?

  Oh, oh, oh, Riley. I don't know if it'll be a boy or a girl.

• 48:58Speaker 01

  I think it's a girl, because yeah, the way it's spelt, well.

• 49:03Dax Shepard?

  Very feminine with all the Y's.

• 49:04Speaker 06

  It's a boy.

• 49:05Dax Shepard?

  It's a boy! No, you were wrong. You said a girl.

• 49:09Speaker 01

  I know, but I wanted it to be a boy.

• 49:10Dax Shepard?

  Oh.

• 49:11Speaker 06

  The spelling makes it seem like it's a girl, hey?

• 49:13Dax Shepard?

  Yeah, a little bit, right? You're in Canada?

• 49:16Speaker 06

  I am in Canada, Alberta, Canada.

• 49:17Dax Shepard?

  Got it really quick that time.

• 49:19Speaker 06

  The accent gives it away.

• 49:20Dax Shepard?

  You threw an A in right out of the gates, which I appreciate. Tell me about this background. I see maybe electric drum kit. What's going on?

• 49:26Speaker 06

  Yeah, so I'm in my basement here. This sounds kind of the best. I have a five-year-old daughter, so she creates a little bit of noise.

• 49:31Dax Shepard?

  Sure.

• 49:32Speaker 01

  Is she right there?

• 49:33Speaker 06

  No, so this is my wife here with me. So here's a fun one. We're both named Riley.

• 49:38Dax Shepard?

  Oh, fun. How's hers spelled?

• 49:40Speaker 01

  R I L E Y?

• 49:42Speaker 06

  No, R A I L I.

• 49:44Speaker 01

  Wow.

• 49:45Dax Shepard?

  And do you manufacture candles?

• 49:47Speaker 06

  My wife does. So she wanted to put that in the background to hide what I had going on back there. So she thought that was a good idea.

• 49:52Speaker 01

  It's cute.

• 49:53Dax Shepard?

  Ren candles. So does your house smell great?

• 49:55Speaker 06

  All the time. Our business is named after our daughter, Ren.

• 49:58Speaker 01

  Oh.

• 49:59Dax Shepard?

  Lovely. And what do you do? You assist in the manufacturing of these or you just play the electric drums all day?

• 50:05Speaker 06

  Just all day out down here, just wasting time. I have a construction company that I run and then help with the candles as needed.

• 50:12Dax Shepard?

  Okay, great.

• 50:13Speaker 01

  Family biz.

• 50:14Dax Shepard?

  Let's first start with when you're a Canadian, you're up in the Great North and you're thinking of visiting the States. I gotta imagine Vegas is one of these places where you must visit at some point. Is it up there with New York or LA?

• 50:27Speaker 06

  Yeah, I've been to Vegas many times, even after my Vegas mishap. It's one of my favorite spots, Vegas, LA. I've been to New York once, but yeah, it's a top destination for us here up in Canada.

• 50:37Dax Shepard?

  Okay, so walk us through the year, whatever backstory we need, let's hear it.

• 50:41Speaker 06

  So I was nineteen, it was in twenty fourteen. I had just got a notice in the mail saying that due to excessive speeding in my car, I was gonna have my license suspended starting November first. So I reached out to my buddy, who funny enough, got the same letter within a couple of days.

• 50:59Dax Shepard?

  Oh wow.

• 51:00Speaker 06

  Saying that he also was gonna get his license suspended for speeding for thirty days. So we had like a two-week window where we could still drive, which doesn't make any sense if you think about it.

• 51:10Dax Shepard?

  No, it makes a ton of sense. You gotta get as much driving in as you can.

• 51:13Speaker 06

  We're like, you know what? Let's just leave. Let's go to Vegas.

• 51:16Dax Shepard?

  Uh huh.

• 51:16Speaker 06

  Go to Vegas, LA, up the West Coast, do a whole like ten-day, two-week thing. We pick up a friend of ours along the way. And so from where I live, Vegas, if you drive straight through, it's twenty-one hours. We left at about six o'clock, I think it was a Thursday.

• 51:30Dax Shepard?

  PM or AM?

• 51:31Speaker 06

  PM, sorry.

• 51:32Dax Shepard?

  Yeah, that sounds like the kind of decisions you guys are making.

• 51:35Speaker 06

  So we drive straight through, we get to Salt Lake City, which was about sixteen hours. It's now like the sun's coming up kind of thing in Salt Lake. We hit the parking lot and the three of us, driver's seat, passenger seat, backseat, we say, you know what? We're gonna sleep for a couple of hours. So we sleep there, get up and we head to Vegas. And then the first thing we do is like, well, we need a place to stay. We got no accommodations, no planning whatsoever. So Circus Circus seemed like a great idea.

• 51:58Dax Shepard?

  Oh, can I add one thing to you? At that time, we're allowed to drink legally in Canada at nineteen, right?

• 52:03Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 52:03Dax Shepard?

  But not now when you get to the States. So what the fuck's the game plan for booze?

• 52:07Speaker 06

  That's a big part of the story.

• 52:08Dax Shepard?

  Okay, okay, okay, okay. I'm just immediately nervous for you that you've left a place you can drink and now you can't.

• 52:13Speaker 06

  And naturally, we didn't tell our parents either. In Alberta, we can drink when we're eighteen. So we get there and we're like, well, we need to get a hotel, which comes into play here with the being twenty-one thing. You need to be twenty-one to get a hotel room.

• 52:24Dax Shepard?

  Yes. Okay.

• 52:25Speaker 06

  So I'm like, well, we brought some dress clothes, we brought a suit, right? I told my buddy and our friend there, I said, go park the car. And I'll go check us in. So I go in and I start talking to the front desk like, yeah, you know, my pregnant wife is in the parking lot. She's very pregnant and she has her 18 month old son with her as well.

• 52:45Speaker 01

  Oh, wow. Okay.

• 52:46Speaker 06

  Need a place to stay for three nights.

• 52:48Dax Shepard?

  Riley, I must pause you because there's so many great details. I'm not even sure that you're picking up on, which is like, you said her.

• 52:53Speaker 01

  I know.

• 52:54Dax Shepard?

  Which implies like, not only, you've got your hands full. You've got a woman with her own kid and then presumably one in the oven.

• 53:00Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 53:00Speaker 06

  Just say whatever I need to, to get a room. I hand them my ID. Again, you need to be 21 to check into the hotel. And I just kind of catch me if you can, like the movie with Leonardo DiCaprio, right? Just talk my way through it. He scans the ID, doesn't look at it once, and here, sir, have a good stay.

• 53:15Dax Shepard?

  Beautiful.

• 53:16Speaker 06

  So we're there for three days. Vegas starts fairly normal. We just hit the strip, go from resort to resort, just look at all the pretty lights kind of thing. We learned quickly that we couldn't get booze inside the casinos, but the slushy stands, Fat Tuesdays, no questions asked.

• 53:32Dax Shepard?

  No problem.

• 53:33Speaker 06

  I'll give you whatever you want.

• 53:34Dax Shepard?

  Oh, wonderful.

• 53:35Speaker 06

  Every 300 meters, those things are available. We just hit them up. Day one was fine. Day two was fine, but day three, we're kind of bored of that. Like, we want a little bit more. We put the suits on, again, that apparently solved all our problems. We walk around the strip, we have dinner. It's 9:30 kind of thing. The Cosmopolitan was under renovations at the time. And so it's all boarded up on the sides there. We weren't walking just from one end of it to the other to get to the rest of the strip. A lady comes out of nowhere and she's got a guy with her and she says, hey, guys, this is kind of weird, but they love the suits. Your buddy's suit jacket would make a perfect backdrop for some photos we're making. And we're like, what photos are we making here? She's like, oh, we're just making some fake IDs for a couple people.

• 54:17Speaker 01

  Oh.

• 54:18Speaker 06

  And we're complete idiots. And we're like, that could work for us? Now we hold all the cards in our eyes, right?

• 54:23Dax Shepard?

  Yeah.

• 54:25Speaker 06

  We'll give you the suit jacket, but we also want fake IDs. She's like, yeah, no problem. It's just off the strip. Just come with us and we'll make that happen for you. And keep in mind, I'm 120 pounds at this point. Like, I'm not saving anybody from any problems.

• 54:38Dax Shepard?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 54:40Speaker 06

  We think that we got them right where we want them. It's one guy. Guy who's younger and then this older lady, she probably forty ish. We follow them off the strip. Rule number one, don't do that. Don't go to a second location.

• 54:50Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 54:51Speaker 06

  Yeah. Next thing you do, you certainly don't get into their car.

• 54:53Speaker 01

  Oh.

• 54:54Speaker 06

  Oh goodness. Okay. Yeah. We're so pumped. We're getting in the car and they take us to like an off strip mini resort kind of thing. So there's a hotel with a mini casino. It's got a parcade. We go to the top of the parcade and we park there. We walk down, go into the thing and they're like giving us food, getting us drinks, some spending money for gambling. What? Oh yeah. Having a great time. We think we've hit the jackpot, right? Like next best friend right here. So what I didn't realize is that one of the people we were with, the buddy we picked up, it was a girl. So her name's Sam. They drugged her. Oh my goodness.

• 55:31Speaker 06

  I didn't know it at the time. I don't know what that looks like. I'm like, oh, she's just really drunk, but like she couldn't see, she couldn't stand, like they messed her up. Yeah. We wait there for like an hour and a half, like having the best time, right? Other than, you know, she's been drugged. Didn't know. So we get back in their car. She says the fake IDs are ready. So we go to another location. We get to this motel and it's out of a movie. I kid you not. The car that we're parked beside has bullet holes in the side of it and the car, a couple of cars over, the windows are smashed out. The motel doors are like a couple of them are knocked off the hinges. Oh, wow. Okay. And I'm from a small town, Alberta. Yeah, you're in over your head. Oh, absolutely. We park and she's like, I just gotta go into the room and get the IDs.

• 56:13Speaker 06

  And so she leaves and there's the one guy on the front left. I kind of start looking around and he sees me looking around and that's when problem number one starts. So he looks at me and says, put your fucking head down. If you look up again, I'm going to put a bullet in the back of your skull.

• 56:25Speaker 01

  No.

• 56:25Speaker 06

  And then he lifts up his shirt and shows me his gun and I'm like, oh shit.

• 56:32Speaker 06

  I do what I'm told. And now I think there's probably a pretty good chance for not getting fake IDs.

• 56:38Speaker 06

  Keep in mind, when they did the fake ID thing, it's illegal. So they took our phones, our credit cards, our cash, right? Cause that's like, oh, just to make sure we're good. Nineteen, stupid, right? She comes back out and doesn't have ID, shocker. We drive around some more and we're just going from location to location and I'm not really getting it. Now I understand that. We're doing drug deals. Oh. Like she's going and dropping off drugs and stuff. Okay. And we picked up a third person in the process. So now she's driving. There's a muscle number one in the passenger seat. And now we got muscle number two in the back and three more in the back. Oh, my. You three, yeah. Crucial to the story because now there's four people in the backseat. So we do this all night. At one point she gets me out of the car and sends me into a very sketchy gas station to go get them supplies,

• 57:23Speaker 06

  which I can see now was a test to see if I'm willing to like come back. Uh huh. So now the sun is up. Oh. We're just held hostage in the backseat of this car. There's tears, we're shaking, we're not saying a word. And full daytime, it's six AM. So we get to a point where we're at a red light. No one else is on our side of the intersection. There's a bus stop to the right. And so I speak up and I say, hey, you got our credit cards, you got our IDs, you got cash. I don't know who you are. Just drop us off. The two muscle guys don't say anything and she just nods. And then it turns green. Instead of turning right to the bus stop, she turns left. And we're on the outside of Vegas. Like there's like three lights remaining and then it turns into a gravel road. Then it's just desert. That's where we're heading. Yeah. Oh, my goodness.

• 58:07Speaker 06

  I'm focused on that and I'm thinking now's a good time to pray, do whatever we need to do. Yeah. Be prepared, right? What I didn't see, there was a cop on the other side of the intersection facing us. So we turn left and he can see in the car. Four people, not enough seatbelts. Yeah. So he sees that lights on. Yes. Pull her over. And this is where I learned everything. So this lady, in the time that the cop pulled us over, she called someone and it was on speakerphone. She put the phone in the middle console. She starts screaming to this guy and turns out she had just got out of prison a month ago. She had three guns in the trunk, three bricks of cocaine in the trunk. Oh, my God. And she's screaming at the guy wondering what to do. And the guy says, shoot everybody and get the fuck out of there. No.

• 58:52Speaker 01

  No.

• 58:54Dax Shepard?

  That's his pro tip.

• 58:55Speaker 06

  Advice 101. So at that point, though, the cops, they were quick. That's what saved me. There was one guy on the passenger side, one guy on the driver, and the passenger guy had his little baton. He taps the window and then the other guy is kind of already looking in. So she pulls her window down a couple inches. He doesn't even ask her. He looks in the backseat to us and he's like, do you know these people?

• 59:14Dax Shepard?

  Oh, wow.

• 59:15Speaker 06

  And we're just wide eyed like, no, it's out of the movie. They pull their guns. They draw them and they're like, get the fuck out of the car right now. We get out, the one cop pulls us aside. He gets our IDs and stuff from the car. We were like, hey, like they have our stuff. So he looks through them. These were underage and he's like, you didn't know them? We're like, no, no chance. And he's like, do you know what was happening to you? We were getting fake IDs. So we're 19. We're thinking the cops are better than option A.

• 59:42Dax Shepard?

  You think you're in trouble. Yeah.

• 59:43Speaker 06

  They're like, they take people like you. They bring you in. They love you. They make you feel like you're part of the group. And then when it comes down to it, they take you out to the desert. And they say, you either work for them now, your old life is gone. You got new names.

• 59:58Speaker 01

  What?

• 59:59Speaker 06

  You're never leaving. And if you don't say yes to that, they kill you and you're never to be heard from again. Like that's it. He gave us money to get on a bus and he said, go back to your hotel and just leave Vegas, man. Like come back when you're 21.

• 1:00:12Dax Shepard?

  Wow.

• 1:00:14Speaker 01

  So I assume they arrested those people.

• 1:00:16Speaker 06

  Yeah, we didn't stick around for that.

• 1:00:18Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 1:00:19Dax Shepard?

  You made your way back to the bus stop.

• 1:00:21Speaker 06

  He said that they knew who she was, like she was a big time player, I guess.

• 1:00:24Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:00:25Dax Shepard?

  Woof. Oh, wow. Reminds me of Justin Long's story.

• 1:00:29Speaker 01

  Oh, yeah.

• 1:00:30Dax Shepard?

  Yeah, yeah, being kidnapped.

• 1:00:31Speaker 01

  Oh, God.

• 1:00:33Dax Shepard?

  So when you got back to the hotel room, do you guys go like, all right, let's nap? Or do you go, let's get in the car and leave immediately?

• 1:00:40Speaker 06

  The issue we had was that it was like 9:30 at this point. Our checkout was 11. Guess we're hitting the breakfast. We didn't go home. We continued on to LA and did three days there and then went up the West Coast.

• 1:00:52Dax Shepard?

  Sure. Played it a little tighter to the vest the rest of the trip.

• 1:00:55Speaker 06

  There was no hunting for fake IDs.

• 1:00:59Speaker 06

  The reason I'm here, talking about it right now is because my wife loves. You guys. She's been for years been like, you gotta submit your Vegas story. They do it the Friday. You gotta submit it. And I'm like, no, I'm not gonna do that. And then you guys put the prompt.

• 1:01:12Dax Shepard?

  We curtailed it exactly to you.

• 1:01:14Speaker 01

  That's right. So you had to.

• 1:01:15Speaker 06

  Yeah, I've become a fan over the last six months specifically. We spent a lot of time together. So I listen to a lot of you guys' stuff. Love what you do.

• 1:01:21Dax Shepard?

  Oh, thank you. Thank you. That was exceptional. We love that Riley.

• 1:01:25Speaker 01

  I'm so glad you guys made it out.

• 1:01:27Speaker 06

  I didn't tell my mom for a while. Let's just put it that way.

• 1:01:29Dax Shepard?

  Yeah, that's best told like 10 years later. Great meeting you, Riley. That was great.

• 1:01:33Speaker 06

  Thank you so much for this. This is awesome.

• 1:01:35Dax Shepard?

  Take care.

• 1:01:37Speaker 01

  Wow, scary stuff.

• 1:01:39Dax Shepard?

  Scary stuff. Vegas is scary. Lots of bodily injury and harm.

• 1:01:46Speaker 01

  Oh, my God. True.

• 1:01:47Dax Shepard?

  Oh, wow.

• 1:01:49Speaker 01

  Well, that was a good prompt.

• 1:01:50Dax Shepard?

  It sure was. I bet there's more water in that well.

• 1:01:53Speaker 01

  That's right.

• 1:01:54Dax Shepard?

  Is that a saying?

• 1:01:54Speaker 01

  Yeah, sure.

• 1:01:55Dax Shepard?

  Okay, more ink in the well. All right, love you.

• 1:01:58Speaker 01

  Love you.

• 1:02:00Dax Shepard?

  Do you want to sing a tune or something? We know a theme song.

• 1:02:04Dax Shepard?

  Okay, great. We don't have a theme song for this new show, so here I go, go, go. We're gonna ask some random questions and with the help of our cherries, we'll get some suggestions. On the fly, Rhyme Dish. On the fly, Rhyme Dish. Enjoy.

• 1:02:27Dax Shepard?

  We are supported by Allstate. Checking Allstate first could save you hundreds on car insurance. Not checking if your alarm is actually set before you go to bed. You could have sworn you set it, even remember looking at your phone. But apparently, looking at it and pressing the button are two different things. Because now you're waking up to sunlight and panic. Yeah. Checking first always makes sense. So check Allstate first for an auto quote. It could save you hundreds. You're in good hands with Allstate. Potential savings vary, subject to terms, conditions, and availability. Allstate North American Insurance Company and affiliates, Northbrook, Illinois.