Pod Insights Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard Armchair Anonymous: Graduation About this episode Dax and Monica talk to Armcherries! In today's episode, Armcherries tell us a crazy graduation story.
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0:00 Dax Shepard? Welcome, welcome, welcome to Armchair Anonymous. I'm Dan Rogers and I'm joined by Lily Padman.
0:05 Speaker 01 Hi.
0:06 Dax Shepard? Today we have crazy graduation stories. It's that time of year.
0:12 Speaker 01 It is. Happy graduation. Congratulations.
0:15 Dax Shepard? Congratulations. Congratulations, graduates.
0:19 Speaker 01 Yes.
0:19 Dax Shepard? Are you starting to see people around town in their
0:23 Speaker 01 Their hats and gowns.
0:25 Dax Shepard? Fun Saturday lunches because the family's in town.
0:28 Speaker 01 No.
0:29 Dax Shepard? It's so fun.
0:30 Speaker 01 It is fun. Your, one of your children is graduating.
0:33 Dax Shepard? Yeah. I mean, they do a graduation now for every single grade.
0:37 Speaker 01 Well, this is a big one.
0:38 Dax Shepard? Out of elementary into middle school.
0:41 Speaker 01 It's a big one.
0:41 Dax Shepard? They didn't do anything for us. Did you have a graduation?
0:44 Speaker 01 Yeah, we had to sing. We sang, um.
0:46 Dax Shepard? When the saints come marching in?
0:48 Speaker 01 No, what's, I believe I can fly.
0:50 Dax Shepard? I believe I can fly.
0:52 Speaker 01 That's right. We sang that.
0:54 Dax Shepard? You want to hit me with some?
0:55 Speaker 01 No.
0:55 Dax Shepard? I can believe I can touch the sky.
0:58 Speaker 01 That's.
0:59 Dax Shepard? Think about you every night and day. Yeah.
1:01 Speaker 01 Think about it, but yeah.
1:03 Dax Shepard? Every now and then.
1:03 Speaker 01 I think if I remember correctly, when I was in fifth grade.
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4:38 Speaker 02 Hi, can you hear me?
4:39 Dax Shepard? Beautifully. Where are you at?
4:40 Speaker 02 I'm in DC.
4:41 Dax Shepard? What line of work are you in?
4:42 Speaker 02 I work for a nonprofit.
4:44 Speaker 01 Oh.
4:45 Dax Shepard? And how's it going? Are you moving the needle?
4:47 Speaker 02 Maybe a little bit. I've only been here since October. I was in a lobbying firm, so it was quite the switch.
4:52 Dax Shepard? Wow, were you going out and whining and dining politicians and urging them to?
4:56 Speaker 02 Yeah.
4:56 Dax Shepard? Wow.
4:57 Speaker 01 Oh, my God.
4:58 Speaker 02 It was a lot of fun, but you know, it kind of takes a toll.
5:00 Speaker 01 I bet.
5:01 Dax Shepard? What does it take a toll on? Because you're burning the candle at both ends, or ethically you feel compromised?
5:05 Speaker 02 It's a little bit of both. It's a lot of drinking. It's a lot of going out.
5:09 Speaker 01 I'd be great at that.
5:10 Dax Shepard? You would.
5:11 Speaker 01 Yeah, actually, no, I like to be in bed by seven.
5:14 Dax Shepard? Okay, so you have a crazy graduation story.
5:18 Speaker 02 Yes, I'll go with the name Patricia. I don't want to get anybody in trouble. It's also my drunk alter ego name, so it felt fitting.
5:24 Dax Shepard? Okay.
5:25 Speaker 01 Great.
5:25 Dax Shepard? Where are you from originally?
5:26 Speaker 02 I'm from Virginia.
5:27 Dax Shepard? Oh, okay, great.
5:28 Speaker 02 So my girlfriend and I, at the time, we decided to have our graduation party joint at a brewery that was about an hour away from our school because her parents happened to know the owners.
5:38 Dax Shepard? Your college graduation?
5:40 Speaker 02 College graduation, yes, 2021. So we go, we get there. I, for some reason, scheduled a job interview at the same exact time as our party. So I show up, I'm wearing my blazer over my party outfit. I go into the taproom, I take my interview, everybody else is partying, having a great time.
5:58 Speaker 01 Oh, because it's on Zoom.
5:59 Speaker 02 Yeah, COVID, post-COVID. So I had applied to so many jobs, so I was like, if I can get an interview, I've got to take it. So I have this interview, I crush it, I'm feeling so good. I'm like, going to get a beer, I'm going to go outside, join all my friends, like, it's going to be awesome. So we go out there, we have a great party, gifts, and we do all the stuff, cornhole, we're drinking, we're having so much fun. And I look over and I see this gator. And Monica, you might not know what a gator is.
6:25 Speaker 01 Oh, I do.
6:25 Speaker 02 Not an alligator, the driving.
6:27 Speaker 01 Yep, my friend had one.
6:28 Dax Shepard? Yeah, like a little six-wheeler.
6:29 Speaker 02 And so I see it, and I'm like, I got to drive this thing.
6:32 Dax Shepard? For sure, a couple beers in, yeah, yeah.
6:35 Speaker 02 My girlfriend's parents know the owners, and I'm like, hey. Can I please just take this for a spin? And so I convinced them to let me take it for a spin. I convinced like four or five of my friends to get on it with me.
6:48 Dax Shepard? Did anyone give you a how to on how to operate it?
6:50 Speaker 02 I don't need a how to.
6:51 Dax Shepard? Okay, so sorry. Yeah, okay. My apologies.
6:54 Speaker 02 I'm like, we gotta do this. So we get on, we go down this big hill and then there's a river and a lot of land at the bottom. We get down there. I've got like three people in the back, a couple of people in the front seat with me. I'm having fun. I'm gonna show off a little bit.
7:08 Dax Shepard? Okay, sure, sure.
7:09 Speaker 02 I'm gonna do some donuts. And so I turn it real hard and I just gun it. And of course it flips.
7:16 Speaker 01 Of course, of course.
7:17 Dax Shepard? And you got chock full of passengers.
7:19 Speaker 02 I jump off. I got my fight or flight. A couple of people in the back, they fall over. I look around. The gator has landed on top of my girlfriend.
7:29 Speaker 02 Keep in mind, her whole family is there. We haven't been dating that long, a couple of months. My other friends in the back, they're kind of beat up, but it's not too bad. People start running over. They have to lift the gator off of her.
7:40 Dax Shepard? Oh, this is the nightmare.
7:42 Speaker 02 I look at her and it's like this color that I've never seen in her face. She's not crying. It's just like white mixed with yellow. I can only describe it like you just know there's bones that are broken. And so immediately my stomach just drops. And so they get her in the gator and they drive her back up to go to the urgent care. And I'm sitting there just taking it all in. I get up to the top of the hill. Her mom gives me this look like, you really did it.
8:10 Speaker 01 Oh, no.
8:11 Dax Shepard? Yeah, yeah.
8:12 Speaker 01 Did they think you were a bad influence already?
8:15 Speaker 02 Yeah. I mean, who does this?
8:20 Dax Shepard? Turns out you kind of maybe did need a little precursor.
8:22 Speaker 01 Yeah.
8:23 Dax Shepard? Yeah, like maybe you did need a little, hey, just reminder, these flip easy.
8:27 Speaker 01 Yep.
8:28 Speaker 02 Yeah.
8:30 Speaker 02 Hindsight's 2020. So we get to urgent care and you know, we get her checked in. She wants nothing to do with me at this point. So I sit in the car with my friend. We're looking around. We're like, this is gonna be a while. So we found some Jell-O shots. Those like pre-made ones that are prepackaged in the car. We take at least one of those. We're like, this is gonna take the edge off. You know, it's been a really tough day.
8:54 Dax Shepard? Sure, sure.
8:55 Speaker 02 It ends up, my girlfriend has a broken wrist and a broken ankle and we have graduation like two days. And so she had to walk across the stage with a boot, with a cast on her arm and a mask because it was COVID.
9:09 Dax Shepard? Oh.
9:10 Speaker 01 She looked just horrible.
9:11 Dax Shepard? She fell out of a skyscraper or something.
9:14 Speaker 02 But I do have to say, we got married in September, so it did all work out.
9:19 Speaker 01 Oh, I thought you definitely broke up.
9:22 Dax Shepard? Oh, you thought because of the Jell-O shots?
9:24 Speaker 01 Yeah, like you can't even not drink right now after you basically killed me.
9:28 Dax Shepard? Well, that's all the more reason. You really need drinking at that point. You feel terrible.
9:33 Speaker 01 I know.
9:33 Dax Shepard? Shame.
9:34 Speaker 02 Yeah.
9:36 Dax Shepard? Have you fucked her up more?
9:37 Speaker 02 She does most of the driving.
9:39 Speaker 01 Okay, good, good.
9:40 Speaker 02 I'm so cautious about it. I really learned my lesson and I was so embarrassed. And my friends love to bring it up.
9:46 Speaker 01 That's what they're there for.
9:48 Speaker 02 I know, but it all worked out and her mom loves me.
9:50 Dax Shepard? Oh, good. Well, lovely meeting you.
9:53 Speaker 02 Yeah, thank you guys so much. I was really nervous, but.
9:55 Speaker 01 Oh, you were great.
9:57 Speaker 02 It was great to meet you guys.
9:58 Dax Shepard? All right.
9:59 Speaker 01 Bye.
9:59 Speaker 02 All right, thank you.
10:00 Dax Shepard? Bye.
10:02 Speaker 01 My friend Kim had a Gator.
10:04 Dax Shepard? Okay.
10:05 Speaker 01 And she had a lot of money.
10:06 Dax Shepard? Okay.
10:07 Speaker 01 Um, and we would go to her big, big house and ride around in her Gator.
10:11 Dax Shepard? On the yard?
10:12 Speaker 01 Yeah, and in the neighborhood. It was really fun.
10:15 Dax Shepard? Were you ever nervous she was gonna crash you?
10:17 Speaker 01 No, she was very responsible.
10:18 Dax Shepard? She wasn't a daredevil.
10:19 Speaker 01 Mm-mm.
10:19 Dax Shepard? My kids are. You know, I watched them drive the golf cart. And it's an interesting experience for me because I'm like, well, I know they're like me. So this thing's gonna end up on its side at some point, you know? And that's just, that's just how life goes. Yeah.
10:33 Speaker 01 But then if it's on their bodies.
10:36 Dax Shepard? Then we gotta go to urgent care and we gotta wear a boot, but we'll live.
10:39 Speaker 01 And a cast.
10:40 Dax Shepard? And a mask.
10:40 Speaker 01 And a mask. Yeah. For fun.
10:42 Dax Shepard? Well, what else are you gonna do?
10:44 Speaker 01 Yeah, I know.
10:45 Dax Shepard? Everyone's allowed to learn their lesson. My Pippi used to tell me this allegory, that that's what it's called. He said that life is like driving up a mountain and it's a twisty road that goes around the mountain in concentric rings. It gets tighter as you go up the hill. And so your first lap around, you go pretty fast. You know, you don't really know better and you say to yourself, I'm gonna go a little slower. I barely made it. But when you get on that next ring, it's a little tighter as you get older.
11:13 Speaker 01 Okay.
11:14 Dax Shepard? And so even though you slow down, you find out a little too fast for that, too. And then so the next ring you go up, you're like, I'm gonna go even slower, but it got tighter again. And that's life. That's the process of life. I guess for a male.
11:28 Speaker 01 Interesting. Like you're just constantly adjusting?
11:32 Dax Shepard? Well, because your responsibilities are going up and the stakes are getting higher as you get older and you can't go as fast. You have to keep going slower and slower and slower because it tightens.
11:41 Speaker 01 You have to be more and more responsible for the, okay.
11:44 Dax Shepard? And probably a really good man notices the pattern of, oh, it's getting tighter every year. So I gotta double.
11:51 Speaker 01 Compensate.
11:52 Dax Shepard? Yes. Yes. That's the art of life. Cause you do want to go as fast as the road will permit.
11:57 Speaker 01 Right. Otherwise you get run over, hit.
11:59 Dax Shepard? You just, you just try to maximize.
12:01 Speaker 01 Oh, just for fun.
12:02 Dax Shepard? But you don't want to go off the side.
12:03 Speaker 01 No, you don't.
12:04 Dax Shepard? You want to be right on that edge.
12:06 Speaker 01 Hmm. Wow. Pippi.
12:08 Dax Shepard? Pippi had a lot of wisdom.
12:10 Speaker 01 That's nice.
12:11 Dax Shepard? And a lot of shortcomings too.
12:12 Speaker 01 Well, don't we all?
12:13 Dax Shepard? Yeah. He had short man complex, I think.
12:16 Speaker 01 My God.
12:17 Dax Shepard? If I want to get into it. He was French. It was a mix, double whammy, very French and identified as being very French.
12:22 Speaker 01 Like.
12:23 Dax Shepard? Thought of himself as French.
12:24 Speaker 01 Oh, that's the.
12:25 Dax Shepard? Well, we called him Pippi. And this motherfucker wasn't from France. And he was insisting that we call my grandma Mimi, but she, she wasn't up for it. So that never stuck. So it was Pippi and grandma. He wanted to be Pippi and Mimi.
12:38 Speaker 01 I know, but so Pippi is what they call a French grandpa.
12:41 Dax Shepard? That's what a Frenchman.
12:42 Speaker 01 But he wasn't French?
12:43 Dax Shepard? He was by ethnicity, but it's not like he came from France.
12:47 Speaker 01 Like, yeah.
12:47 Dax Shepard? And his parents didn't come from France. He was like eightieth generation, you know?
12:51 Speaker 01 Right.
12:52 Dax Shepard? Took a lot of pride in the LeBeaus.
12:54 Speaker 01 Did he call his grandpa Pippi?
12:55 Dax Shepard? Mm hmm.
12:56 Speaker 01 Oh, well, then that makes sense. You kind of want to be called.
12:58 Dax Shepard? For him, yeah. But to say that you got to call my Belgium grandma Mimi, although maybe they speak French in Belgium.
13:05 Speaker 01 Maybe he just thought that was cute and she obviously didn't give a fuck.
13:08 Dax Shepard? And he was tiny. And it didn't work, which is the best part because we never called her.
13:12 Speaker 01 Grandma Midge?
13:13 Dax Shepard? Yeah.
13:14 Speaker 01 So you didn't really just call her grandma. You called her Grandma Midge?
13:16 Dax Shepard? Always Grandma Midge.
13:17 Speaker 01 Yeah.
13:18 Dax Shepard? Never grandma. And to remind everyone, Midge was her replacement name because she thought Madeline was an old lady's name, but Midge was really youthful.
13:26 Speaker 01 That's really cute. Is she still with us?
13:28 Dax Shepard? No.
13:29 Speaker 01 When did she pass?
13:30 Dax Shepard? Just a couple of years ago.
13:31 Speaker 01 I don't think you told me.
13:33 Dax Shepard? I'm sorry. Grandma Midge has passed.
13:35 Speaker 01 That's really sad, actually.
13:37 Dax Shepard? You know, don't make me mourn right now.
13:38 Speaker 01 Oh, okay. I'm sorry. I would have texted your mom.
13:42 Dax Shepard? That'd been five years ago. I don't.
13:43 Speaker 01 Oh, my God.
13:44 Dax Shepard? I lost track with her.
13:47 Dax Shepard? Hi, is this Olivia?
13:49 Speaker 03 This is her.
13:50 Dax Shepard? I was just scaring Monica with stories of my grandma.
13:52 Speaker 01 I learned a really sad thing that Dax's grandma died like five years ago.
13:56 Dax Shepard? Yeah, years ago. And she's a little upset right now. I hadn't told her.
13:59 Speaker 01 Well, that's a big thing.
14:01 Speaker 03 That is a big thing to not share.
14:04 Speaker 01 Did you go to the funeral? You didn't. I would have known that.
14:07 Dax Shepard? No, I didn't. Stop running me over the cold here.
14:09 Speaker 01 I'm not. I'm just like.
14:10 Dax Shepard? I loved my grandma and I was a good grandson.
14:12 Speaker 01 I know.
14:13 Dax Shepard? I did not go to the funeral. I don't even know if there was one. Okay? All the kids were spread out.
14:19 Speaker 01 You weren't even invited.
14:19 Dax Shepard? I might not have been invited.
14:21 Speaker 01 Okay, Olivia, I'm so sorry.
14:22 Dax Shepard? I loved her and I was a great grandson.
14:23 Speaker 01 You were. You were. I'm not taking that. Well, you were kind of a bad one because you didn't tell any of your friends that she passed.
14:28 Dax Shepard? I didn't want to make anyone sad. Listen, again, Olivia, if I saddled up to a woman at a bar and I was like, hi, I'm Dax. Are you staying at the hotel? And she said, yeah, I'm Midge. I'd be like, mm.
14:39 Speaker 01 This is you trying to prove you're a good grandson? My God.
14:45 Speaker 03 You're like, you're a little old for me.
14:46 Dax Shepard? Yeah, you look forty, but your name is a thousand.
14:49 Speaker 01 Okay.
14:50 Dax Shepard? Sorry, you got ensnared in that. Where are you at?
14:53 Speaker 03 I am currently in Iowa, visiting my family. Speaking of grandparents, I'm here for my grandpa's 95th birthday.
15:02 Speaker 01 Oh, my gosh, that's wonderful.
15:04 Dax Shepard? What a ding ding ding.
15:05 Speaker 01 That is, that's like so sem scripted.
15:08 Dax Shepard? Yeah.
15:08 Speaker 01 Happy birthday, grandpa.
15:10 Dax Shepard? Also, congrats to you on those genetics.
15:12 Speaker 01 Yes.
15:13 Speaker 03 He's like very healthy too. So yeah, fingers crossed. But I live in Chicago. So Rob, shout out. I live in Wicker Park.
15:23 Speaker 04 Right next to where I lived in Bucktown.
15:24 Speaker 01 I have to say, Rob.
15:27 Dax Shepard? He's lived everywhere.
15:27 Speaker 01 Yeah. Every time people say where they live in Chicago, he's like, that's by me.
15:31 Speaker 04 That's where I live. Chicago's not that big. It's not like LA.
15:35 Dax Shepard? Also, this is the same for Michigan. Like, I was in Milford, Highland, Wald Lake, Dearborn, and Detroit.
15:41 Speaker 01 I know, but all you guys just act like you're right by where it is and you're not.
15:45 Speaker 03 I will say Bucktown and Wicker Park are connected. So in this instance, I got your back, Rob.
15:52 Dax Shepard? I've lived in Wicker Park at one point, too. In the stadium.
15:55 Speaker 03 Yes.
15:56 Dax Shepard? Okay, you have a crazy graduation story.
15:59 Speaker 03 I do. So to set the stage, I am in a master's program at the University of Illinois at Chicago, 2021.
16:08 Dax Shepard? What's the graduate degree in? I must know.
16:11 Speaker 03 You know, I was a little worried you'd ask this, actually, because it's weird. It was half medical, half design. It was called biomedical visualization.
16:21 Dax Shepard? Ooh.
16:22 Speaker 01 Wow.
16:22 Speaker 03 One of the easiest things to think about is, you know, during COVID, when that image of the virus, the like red one with the spiky balls came out, that was made by somebody who went to school where I did.
16:35 Dax Shepard? Oh.
16:36 Speaker 01 Interesting.
16:37 Dax Shepard? So they can make artist renderings of biological things.
16:41 Speaker 03 My first job outside of grad school, I worked for a company that did surgical simulations to like teach doctors how to operate before they're doing it on a person. And then I also did it for like. An e-learning anatomy company.
16:56 Speaker 01 So niche.
16:57 Dax Shepard? You could come to LA and do pre-vis probably.
16:59 Speaker 03 Oh, what's that?
17:00 Dax Shepard? So when you're gonna do a complicated, really expensive action sequence, quite often they'll build the whole model digitally. So everyone can watch it and get their sense of where there'll be in time and space. So that door is open to you in case you want.
17:16 Speaker 03 I don't know that I'll be moving to LA anytime soon. But yeah, I'm in grad school and I am just very depressed. I'm just straight up not having a good time. I'm really going through it. And there's just like a combo of things going on and I won't get into detail there, but I in my head, I'm thinking, okay, graduating school, that's gonna fix all of my problems. I just have to get to May 7 and then everything will be better. To keep this forefront of my mind, next to my desk, I have a sticky note and it says XX days until May 7. And so every single day I'm going, I'm racing the number. I'm going, okay, 302 days left. Okay, 301 days.
17:58 Dax Shepard? You started a while. Yeah.
18:00 Speaker 03 Yes, like pretty much a full year in advance. But I'm like, okay, I can do this. Graduation finally arrives. My family comes to town and everything's going well. It's a really great day. I'm feeling good. My life's gonna be better from here. Things are really looking up. It was raining that day, but who cares? Like, everything's great. And we go out to dinner with my friends and my family who'd come to town. My friends and I go out to drinks after dinner and while we're out at drinks, my sister calls my fiance and says, hey, mom's in the ambulance. I need you to come here ASAP.
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23:51 Speaker 03 They'd just gone to the hotel, and they were walking from the parking lot into the hotel. And it was raining that day, and it was dark after dinner. And my mom accidentally stepped off of the sidewalk into some grass and did a full frontal split.
24:10 Dax Shepard? Oh.
24:13 Speaker 03 That was really bad in itself.
24:15 Dax Shepard? Late age splits.
24:17 Speaker 03 And she also has an artificial hip.
24:20 Dax Shepard? Oh, boy. Oh, boy.
24:23 Speaker 03 Big double whammy there. And we find out later on that what happened when she does go into that full frontal split is the cup that holds the joint of your ball cracked. And so it completely came out.
24:40 Dax Shepard? Oh, so her leg is out of the socket.
24:43 Speaker 03 Oh, yes.
24:45 Speaker 01 It's like a Barbie. I just imagine a Barbie.
24:47 Dax Shepard? She's a Barbie. Yeah. She's a disfigured Barbie right now.
24:51 Speaker 03 So she's taken by ambulance, and she's taken to a hospital that's pretty well-known in Chicago for not being the best at all.
25:02 Dax Shepard? Okay, we're kind of like the pit.
25:03 Speaker 03 Lots of things happened. I don't want to bore you with every single thing that happened in the time we're at the hospital, but to give a few highlights. One, they really drugged her up when we got there. So she was out of The entire time we were in the hospital with her, like loopy, out of her mind. One especially spooky moment was at three AM. She was like really high on ketamine. And was like in a different voice and screaming and laughing all at once. And we were like, what is going on? And what they used to give her, the drugs, the needles and stuff like that, they left all over the bed around her. Oh, what?
25:44 Speaker 03 We found out like once I made it to the ER and like, what is all of this? And my sister and I had to clean that up. Also, after they moved her out of the ER into the other part of the hospital. They just decided not to tell us where they're bringing her. And so for hours, we're trying to find out where she is. Some people are like, oh, she's not even a patient here. It's a big mess.
26:08 Dax Shepard? She's undoubtedly in a hallway waiting for a bed to open up.
26:10 Speaker 03 Yeah, exactly. But then as we're looking around, suddenly I just get a call from a surgeon at the hospital. And since I am her medical proxy, he was like, we're taking her into surgery right now and I just need you to say, okay. And I'm like, okay, if she needs it, I guess. A very long 24 hours short, she got out of surgery. The surgeon told me she was stable enough to get back home to Iowa. It wasn't fully fixed, but it was like good enough to like get her back home. And from there, we had to get a wheelchair to get her out of the hospital. So you're thinking, okay, hospital, great. Give us the wheelchair. We will take it. We are dying to leave here.
26:53 Speaker 03 And they say, oh, no, no, you need to get your own wheelchair. That's something I never knew was a thing about hospitals. And so we're scouring Facebook Marketplace. We're asking any friends and family. We're looking all over the internet.
27:08 Dax Shepard? I'd imagine people, they buy a wheelchair and then they don't need it. I'd imagine that the free section in the paper would contain tons of wheelchairs.
27:15 Speaker 01 They should.
27:16 Speaker 03 Facebook Marketplace, that isn't allowed on there because it's a medical thing.
27:21 Dax Shepard? Oh. You gotta go to Craigslist.
27:23 Speaker 03 We end up finding like a really sketchy website. We call up the guy. He's like, okay, I can come drop it off in an hour. He comes in his van. He drops it off. We're like, great. Let's get the hell out of here. We do. And now my mom lives back here in Iowa. We're in visiting right now. And luckily I just graduated. I had some open time. So I go ahead and drive her back home. She's laying in the backseat, her legs like tied together, basically.
27:54 Speaker 01 Oh my God, that's horrible.
27:56 Speaker 03 We make it back to Iowa. The next day, we go to her original hip surgeon and he like takes a look. He's like, nope, everything looks good. Don't need to do anything else. I was like, well, the other surgeon said it's not all good. And he's like, no, it's fine. And so two weeks later is my wedding.
28:14 Speaker 01 Oh.
28:15 Speaker 03 So fast forwarding through that two weeks of caring for my mom, doing last minute wedding prep, because I pushed a lot of stuff out because I was working on graduating. Get to my wedding day. My mom was doing good. She was actually like walking a lot better. And we were doing like the cute mom, daughter thing of I'm putting on my dress. She's like buttoning it up. And then we are about to do first looks. Suddenly she falls over and she is like holding a mimosa, splashes it all over my dress that I just put on and is in a ton of pain again.
28:55 Speaker 01 Ah.
28:56 Dax Shepard? Okay, hold on, pause for one second.
28:57 Speaker 01 This is horrible.
28:59 Dax Shepard? I mean, again, this is so flimsy and generic, but. From the outside, you could go, mom's really having a hard time letting go of daughter. It's like the graduation's a symbol. She goes down. Are you suggesting Munchausen? And then, and then the marriages today, not even that she would be aware of it, but the way the body takes care of yourself. Wow. Anyways, okay, that's just worth noting.
29:24 Speaker 03 I actually gave birth a year ago and we were joking about that. We're like, oh, mom, like be careful. Like it's a big moment for me. So we're at the point where we can joke now.
29:35 Dax Shepard? Yeah, maybe it's best you just stay in bed, mom. Okay, so she pitches her mimosa all over you. She hits the deck. Fuck, mom.
29:43 Speaker 03 So she's like, I can get up. I can get up. We're like, okay. She's like trying to get up and she could not get up. My aunt and uncle take her to the emergency room.
29:53 Dax Shepard? Oh, my God.
29:55 Speaker 03 This is like devastating on multiple fronts. Of course, I want my mom to be at my wedding. Two, I really wanted her as well as my dad to walk me down the aisle. That was something that was super important to me. And then another thing is my sister was actually going to be singing during the ceremony. She had like learned to play the ukulele and she was going to surprise me and like play the ukulele while she sang the song. So my mom's in the ER. She's like going like absolutely ballistic. She's devastated. She's distraught. She's like asking the physician, like, can you just get me out of here? It's my daughter's wedding day. And she's like going on and on about my sister's song for some reason. She's like,
30:36 Dax Shepard? you gotta see it.
30:37 Speaker 03 My other daughter's playing the ukulele. So like, I gotta go. Five minutes later, the physician comes back in with the ukulele and plays that exact song for her.
30:49 Dax Shepard? What? This is an Iowa doctor. Yeah, this is a different. What? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
30:56 Speaker 01 Ew, that just made me feel grossed out for some reason. I don't know why, like viscerally, I hated it. I don't know why.
31:03 Dax Shepard? Oh, interesting.
31:04 Speaker 03 Oh, it made me like sob. I was like, someone's taking care of her and was making her have like a good day.
31:10 Speaker 01 But I guess my thought is, the point is it-
31:12 Dax Shepard? You just don't trust doctors who can play ukulele?
31:14 Speaker 01 No, no, no, no, no. The point wasn't that she wanted to hear a song on the ukulele. It's that she wanted to see her daughter
31:21 Dax Shepard? Clearly.
31:22 Speaker 01 play at her other daughter's wedding. This doctor-
31:27 Dax Shepard? Well, clearly that's what it was. And he was like, let me try to, no.
31:30 Speaker 01 No, I'm kidding, I'm kidding.
31:31 Dax Shepard? He was trying to go like, well, let me give you the next best thing.
31:34 Speaker 01 I know, I just like, I don't know why I said ew.
31:36 Dax Shepard? Yeah, I appreciate your honesty.
31:38 Speaker 01 Yeah.
31:39 Dax Shepard? I don't think you trust doctors who play ukulele. I think if you dig deeper, that's what this is about.
31:43 Speaker 01 Maybe there's something there.
31:44 Dax Shepard? Yeah, it's like, why you gotta know how to play?
31:46 Speaker 03 With his fingers? Like, maybe that translates well into the medical field?
31:50 Speaker 01 He shouldn't have time.
31:51 Speaker 03 I just don't understand how there was a ukulele at the hospital already.
31:55 Dax Shepard? He's probably wooing nurses. Yeah.
31:57 Speaker 01 See? Now you met me there.
31:59 Dax Shepard? You're getting me there, so.
32:01 Speaker 03 The nurse was in the room like holding the sheet music for him on an iPad. They'd like looked it up.
32:07 Dax Shepard? I still like it.
32:07 Speaker 03 My mom actually ended up being able to make it to the wedding. They like got it in place enough. We just pushed back the ceremony a little bit and then she was able to still walk me down the aisle.
32:19 Dax Shepard? Did you have to buy a second wheelchair or how'd she get around?
32:22 Speaker 03 We had that one still.
32:24 Dax Shepard? Okay, so Olivia, I have some thoughts about this whole chain of events. I'm worried about how ambitious your scheduling is.
32:32 Speaker 01 Yes.
32:32 Dax Shepard? The notion that you scheduled your wedding two weeks after graduation-
32:36 Speaker 01 I didn't want to say it, but I thought the same. But I think it's because you're like, I gotta be done with college and I gotta start my life. And starting my life means I'm getting married, I'm gonna be done with this. Why was it so bad, the college?
32:51 Speaker 03 Oh, it was like a lot of personal things. And then we were in college during COVID. I'm just sitting alone at my desk and like up all night, like alone and like kind of going a little bit gloopy by myself. But yeah, the wedding two weeks after- Would not recommend to anybody. I think I was just like, let's just get it done. Then I don't have to worry about things anymore.
33:13 Dax Shepard? But this is none of my business, but I will say I'm old enough now. It's like, unfortunately, that is how we march through life. It's like, get to this thing, get to that thing. And then you, you don't realize, no, that's life.
33:24 Speaker 01 That's life. You're missing it.
33:25 Dax Shepard? Yes, you're missing it, trying to speed to this next thing. It's so human.
33:28 Speaker 03 The one last thing I wanted to say was that sticky note creeps me out now that I was like, counting down the days until this like, bad thing happened.
33:37 Speaker 01 Ooh, yeah.
33:38 Speaker 03 All the time I'll say to my husband, like, I just like hate thinking about that sticky note. It's like a doomsday clock I had for myself. And he's like, you're thinking way too much into it. Like, it's not that big a deal.
33:49 Dax Shepard? The more people we interview, it's like the mind's capable of these crazy things we don't understand.
33:53 Speaker 01 Oh, my God.
33:54 Dax Shepard? Right? Like manifesting weird stuff and.
33:57 Speaker 01 Yeah.
33:58 Dax Shepard? Yeah, there's something spooky going on.
34:00 Speaker 01 It's unreasonable to think, I mean, we've all done this, but like, as soon as this is over, everything's better. And it's kind of just the world telling you, that's not how it works.
34:10 Dax Shepard? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
34:11 Speaker 01 You know?
34:11 Dax Shepard? I think too, we, Olivia, live in a city that is asymmetric in this way, that so many people are out here trying to achieve a career that is very elusive. And I think we're surrounded by a lot of people that think their life's gonna start.
34:26 Speaker 01 Once they get the thing.
34:27 Dax Shepard? When they get that thing. And that's kind of heartbreaking because it already started.
34:30 Speaker 01 Yeah.
34:31 Dax Shepard? Yeah.
34:31 Speaker 03 It's all such up and downs. I will say, I do think things got a little better after grad school, but there's other dips and valleys afterwards.
34:39 Dax Shepard? The hits keep on coming.
34:40 Speaker 01 There's no perfection.
34:41 Dax Shepard? Yeah, that's life, man. The hits keep on coming.
34:43 Speaker 01 Yeah.
34:43 Dax Shepard? Well, Olivia, you're delightful. You have a smile that many times reminded me of our friend, Amy, who's our favorite person.
34:50 Speaker 01 Oh, we just love Amy.
34:51 Dax Shepard? She's just as pure as they get. Yeah, yeah. You have that same quality.
34:55 Speaker 03 Well, it was so great to meet you guys.
34:56 Dax Shepard? Tell grandpa a happy 95th. My goodness.
34:59 Speaker 03 I will.
35:00 Dax Shepard? I hope your mom lets him have this holiday without any theatrics.
35:04 Speaker 01 I know, I know.
35:06 Dax Shepard? Because she's gonna be like, this is closer to letting go. Like, there's a lot here.
35:09 Speaker 01 Oh.
35:09 Speaker 03 It actually is her 60th on Monday, too. So she's, she's got her own thing going on.
35:15 Dax Shepard? Okay, she's got to stay healthy for that. All right. Well, lovely meeting you, Olivia.
35:19 Speaker 03 Lovely meeting you as well. Bye.
35:21 Dax Shepard? Bye. Take care. Amelia?
35:23 Speaker 01 Yeah.
35:25 Dax Shepard? I don't know that I've ever met an Amelia, have you?
35:27 Speaker 01 It's a great name. Only Amelia Bedelia.
35:30 Speaker 06 Yeah, Amelia Bedelia or Amelia Earhart, rest in peace.
35:34 Speaker 01 Well, we don't know.
35:35 Speaker 06 Oh, true.
35:36 Dax Shepard? She could still be alive. She could still be up there.
35:38 Speaker 01 She could be. She's just up there.
35:40 Dax Shepard? Up in the clouds.
35:41 Speaker 01 Circling.
35:42 Dax Shepard? Who is the second Amelia?
35:43 Speaker 01 Amelia Bedelia is a very popular children's book series.
35:48 Dax Shepard? That's the protagonist or the author?
35:49 Speaker 01 The protagonist.
35:51 Dax Shepard? Did you have those books when you were a child, Amelia?
35:53 Speaker 06 I did, yes.
35:54 Dax Shepard? Did you feel special?
35:55 Speaker 06 I did.
35:56 Speaker 01 Yeah.
35:57 Dax Shepard? You deserve that.
35:58 Speaker 06 Thank you.
35:58 Dax Shepard? Where are you at?
35:59 Speaker 06 Just outside of Ojai. Yeah, not far from you guys.
36:02 Speaker 01 Nice place.
36:02 Dax Shepard? Did you grow up there or did you relocate?
36:04 Speaker 06 We just moved here. I lived in LA for like 15 years and then before that, I'm from the East Coast.
36:11 Dax Shepard? Okay, so you have a crazy graduation story.
36:14 Speaker 06 Yeah, I'm cheating a little bit. This is right after graduation, related to graduation. Story happens because of.
36:22 Dax Shepard? We pay it loose.
36:23 Speaker 06 Right after we have our high school graduation, this is June of 2009. We all graduate, everything's great. The following week, it's tradition for the graduating seniors of our school and I think most schools in that county to go do a beach week to celebrate and it's usually in Ocean City, Maryland, which is like three hours to the coast. We all celebrate, we're all freshly 18. We can all get in real legal trouble. We're like groups of these freshly graduated kids renting houses near each other at the beach and then everyone would party for that whole week. My very best friend Megan, still to this day, her mom was somehow able to rent us this like massive mansion. It was perfect. It was like three stories and then
37:07 Speaker 06 square shaped, so each corner had a bedroom. So we're like 12 bedrooms, balconies all around, big old central staircase.
37:14 Dax Shepard? How far from the water?
37:15 Speaker 06 It was like a 10 minute walk. So we would party all night and then go die at the beach for a while the next day and then just same thing over and over again.
37:23 Dax Shepard? Hookups? Any hookups happening?
37:25 Speaker 06 Oh, yeah.
37:26 Dax Shepard? Oh.
37:26 Speaker 01 Sure.
37:27 Dax Shepard? Wonderful.
37:28 Speaker 06 Cause we had like 25 people sleeping in that house. So many kids in that house.
37:36 Speaker 06 Best part is that it's in a gated community and it's at the end of a dead end street. And it's surrounded by vacant lots and like beach woods. So the chances of us getting busted by the cops were brought down way low. And that's like all we cared about at that point. We're used to running, but like in high school, you get caught, we just get a citation. We do some alcohol classes, we do some community service and then it's expunged from your record. But now we're all 18, so we're on high alert for cops. That's why this house was the best because we weren't getting a lot of reaction from the neighbors. So we made all of the other houses mostly come to ours to party.
38:20 Speaker 06 And this is like way before Ubers, so kids are piling up like 10 people in their Honda Civics and then driving over, partying all night, passing out and then driving back to their houses in the morning. And it's pretty much rinse and repeat every day. And then we get to the last night before checkout. The checkout's on a Sunday morning and so we decide to throw a rager on Saturday night, invite everyone from the other houses to our spot. And then clean up the next morning, worry about it then. So it's like 10:00 PM, people are arriving and it's already like a house full of like 50 people. When all of a sudden, somebody on the front balcony who can see the driveway shouts cops.
39:00 Dax Shepard? Uh oh.
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42:08 Speaker 06 So terrible. Everybody panics. They like default is like girls hide and the guys are looking for any excuse to like run.
42:17 Speaker 01 Yeah, jump off of something.
42:19 Speaker 06 Yeah, they're kicking out the screens and the windows and jumping off the balcony. And I'm with a couple of girls like flushing shit, hiding shit. All the dudes are just booking it into the woods behind the house. And this is all within like one minute, like 60 seconds. It's just panic.
42:34 Dax Shepard? Yeah.
42:34 Speaker 06 In through the front door walks a group of poor girls. And we were like, what? And turns out it wasn't a cop. It was just a cab because they decided to take a cab. Whoever was on the front balcony just saw the top of the cab in the dark and was like, oh, that must be cops because nobody in our group is responsible enough to take a cab.
42:56 Dax Shepard? Also cabs either were Crown Vics or Caprice Classics, which are also cop cars.
43:00 Speaker 06 Yeah, you default. You're like, that's cop. Let's go. Now we're all communicating in the house. It's a false alarm. We're all like flip phone texting. The guys that ran off like, it's all good. Come on back. And we're all like gathered up on the main floor, catching a breath. The boys are making their way back in. They're like covered in scratches from hopping the backyard fence. And they've got like massive mosquito bites from the woods and we're laughing. And then in through the front door walks our friend, Tyler. Tyler is now only wearing boxer shorts and his shirt is flung over his shoulder. And both are soaked in blood.
43:39 Speaker 01 Oh.
43:41 Speaker 06 He looks at us. Everyone is silent. He's silent. And then he just makes a 90 degree turn and goes into the bathroom and slams the door. And we're like, okay, uh, we're not prepared for any medical emergencies.
43:57 Speaker 06 There had been some injuries that week already. Somebody got a full can of beer thrown at their head. Megan got cellulitis from a bug bite. Somebody got their foot like stuck in a door and their toenail ripped off. It was already a mess, but we were like, that was a lot of blood. We're like, Tyler, are you okay? You know, knocking on the door and his boys are like, oh, we found some Band-Aids. Do you need that? And we're like, I don't think that's it. He finally opens the door and he's still like gushing blood.
44:26 Speaker 01 From where?
44:27 Speaker 06 Just down his legs.
44:28 Speaker 01 Oh.
44:30 Speaker 06 He's just like, somebody has to take me to the hospital. And we're like, no, are you sure? He's like, yeah. And so we're like, okay, new task. Who's the most sober to drive Tyler to the hospital?
44:42 Speaker 01 Yeah.
44:43 Speaker 06 So we had a group breathalyzer that I think somebody stole from one of their alcohol citation classes, but we would bring it to parties and like,
44:52 Speaker 01 Yeah, yeah.
44:52 Speaker 06 Of course. You know, play games with it. So we're passing it around. Everyone's been drinking for a week straight. So we're all like, no, no, no. And then it gets to Megan and Megan hadn't been drinking that day because she was reacting so badly to her bug bites. So she was the most sober. Megan was like, okay, I'll do it. But she was reluctant because this is her brand new car. It's an R32. She loves it. And she also has a suspended license for speeding. So not ideal.
45:26 Dax Shepard? This is my kind of group.
45:28 Speaker 01 This is really taking me back.
45:30 Speaker 06 Yeah, you guys would have fit in great. So she's like, fine, put some fucking beach towels down, please. So she's driving. Tyler gets in front passenger and me and my other bestie Shelby were like, we're gonna come as mortal support, even though we're shitfaced, we're gonna hop in the back with you guys.
45:48 Speaker 01 I know. It's hilarious because five minutes before everyone was avoiding cops and adults. And now it's like, I'll go, I'll be the hero.
45:55 Dax Shepard? Time to shine.
45:56 Speaker 06 I'll risk it all. And then we sped off, definitely because Megan's driving and that's why her license is suspended. And this is before GPS. We don't know where the hospital is at all. We're just driving to the downtown boardwalk area of Ocean City. And we're like, maybe we'll see a sign. I don't know what we thought or our plan was. We're driving for like 10 minutes and he's still gushing blood. He's in like a puddle of it. And Megan spots two cops walking.
46:23 Speaker 06 On the boardwalk and she was like, fuck it, guys. Like, I gotta do it. And so she jumps out of the car, she runs over to them and she's like, you guys gotta help my friends. It's like his dick or something. It's bleeding. You gotta help them. The cops come running over and they're like, hey, man, you gotta tell us what's up. You know, we're calling an ambulance, but you gotta tell us. And he's like, nope, just call the ambulance. And they're like, it's coming, but we gotta tell the EMTs what we're working with. And he just like sits there and he just goes, I ripped my fucking ball sack open, okay?
46:57 Dax Shepard? Oh.
46:59 Speaker 01 Cause when he was jumping off the fence or something, no.
47:03 Speaker 06 I don't have the fact on this, cause he never spoke about it again.
47:07 Speaker 01 Oh.
47:07 Speaker 06 But everyone jumped the fence and we don't think Tyler cleared the fence.
47:11 Speaker 01 Ah.
47:11 Speaker 06 And he ripped open, so.
47:14 Dax Shepard? Oh, mama.
47:15 Speaker 06 These cops are young too and they're like giggling.
47:18 Dax Shepard? And they love it, sure, yeah.
47:20 Speaker 06 Megan is like dry heaving, cause she's like, nutsack blood all over my new car. But the ambulance shows up, takes Tyler, Megan volunteers to go with him. They leave and then the cops turn to me and Shelby and they're like, you guys are a mess, so you're not getting anywhere near a car. And we're like, we'll walk back. It's like miles away. And they're like, no, you can't walk back. We have to see you off safely, so why don't you get in the back of the cruiser and we'll take you home.
47:49 Dax Shepard? You're gonna bring the cops to the party?
47:52 Speaker 06 Oh, fuck.
47:53 Dax Shepard? Yeah.
47:53 Speaker 06 But we were like, no. And they were like, yeah, let's do it. And they were like, nobody's in trouble. Promise you are not in trouble. We just gotta see you off safely, then you can go have your night. And we were like, okay. So they get to the entrance of the gated community and we're like, no, just drop us off here. We're good. And they were like, no, we gotta see you off safely. Which house is it? So they pull up to the house and sure enough, an actual cop car is pulling up, so everybody goes running again.
48:22 Speaker 01 Jesus.
48:23 Dax Shepard? Oh, boy.
48:24 Speaker 06 People leaping out the balcony, out the windows and that's promised. They drove off.
48:29 Speaker 01 That was nice of them.
48:31 Dax Shepard? Yeah, yeah. How fucked up was the house the next day?
48:34 Speaker 06 Oh, my God. There's blood everywhere. I mean, it's been a week's worth of booze. It's just sticky. All the toilets are clogged because people were flushing blunts.
48:43 Speaker 01 Oh.
48:45 Speaker 06 All the window screens are kicked out and checkout was like 11 a.m. So I don't know how we did it.
48:52 Dax Shepard? I got a hunch the mom got a little bit of a bill.
48:55 Speaker 06 I don't remember. I think we did an okay job. It might have been passable enough for whatever poor cleaning crew was there.
49:02 Speaker 01 I know, I know.
49:04 Speaker 06 I do know that Tyler does have kids.
49:07 Speaker 01 Oh, okay.
49:08 Dax Shepard? Great.
49:09 Speaker 06 So I think everything's fine. It was a happy ending.
49:12 Speaker 01 It didn't totally end his.
49:14 Dax Shepard? Vasectomy him? Yeah, yeah, that's good. That's best.
49:18 Speaker 01 Oh, wow.
49:19 Dax Shepard? What a time to be alive. You're just hoping to be one of those kids that doesn't go down. As long as you're one that doesn't go down, everything's groovy.
49:25 Speaker 01 You're right. Thanks for that crazy story.
49:27 Dax Shepard? Yeah, it made me very nostalgic for trouble.
49:30 Speaker 06 Yeah, every time I tell it, I do get nostalgic. Can I give two quick shout outs?
49:34 Dax Shepard? Yes, of course.
49:35 Speaker 06 Megan, of course, she's the hero of this story. And then my brother Corey, who introduced me to your show a couple of years ago, he listens to a lot of podcasts while he's on the road driving his 18 wheeler from monster truck show to monster truck show.
49:49 Speaker 01 Oh, amazing.
49:52 Dax Shepard? We could have met him when we lost Groot last year at Monster Jam and we had to search the semis.
49:58 Speaker 01 Sad day.
49:58 Dax Shepard? Yeah, he might have been transporting the gravedigger communal vehicle.
50:02 Speaker 06 Yeah.
50:03 Dax Shepard? That's a fun life.
50:04 Speaker 01 That is.
50:05 Dax Shepard? Shout out Corey. Well, lovely meeting you.
50:06 Speaker 06 Nice to meet you too. Thank you so much.
50:08 Dax Shepard? All right, take care.
50:09 Speaker 01 Bye.
50:11 Speaker 01 Hi.
50:12 Dax Shepard? Hi there. Do you have headphones? I'm trying to grab my bag, man. Sorry. Yeah, take your time.
50:16 Speaker 01 Are you in the South?
50:18 Dax Shepard? Yeah, in Georgia.
50:18 Speaker 01 I knew it. I knew it.
50:20 Dax Shepard? I've said like four words. You already knew it?
50:22 Speaker 01 You know how I knew it? Your shirt. And don't ask me how, but all my friends have that shirt.
50:27 Dax Shepard? Oh, really?
50:28 Speaker 01 Mm hmm.
50:28 Dax Shepard? That's a standard Georgia issue. It is peach colorish.
50:31 Speaker 01 I don't know. I just could sense it.
50:33 Dax Shepard? Also, what's it like to be so handsome? Is it fun? It gets a little old, but my wife is the only person that doesn't constantly remind me.
50:40 Speaker 01 Sure.
50:40 Dax Shepard? Yeah, that's why we get married, to feel shitty about ourselves.
50:45 Speaker 01 Sounds like you got a good one.
50:47 Dax Shepard? She's the best. If I were you, here's what I would do. Well, I would have sunglasses on that had little tiny mirrors on the sides so that I could watch women turn around after I passed. Isn't that the dream, Monica?
50:59 Speaker 01 Yeah, really sorry. I was. Wasn't listening because I did see a Georgia something in the background.
51:04 Speaker 04 I can't tell what all y'all can see back there, but we've got two Coca-Cola bottles from our two national championships.
51:10 Speaker 01 Oh, hell, yeah.
51:12 Speaker 04 I'm never gonna open these guys.
51:14 Speaker 01 Tell me this is a UGA graduation story.
51:17 Speaker 04 It is.
51:17 Speaker 01 Yes. You know, I went there. Do you know this, Will?
51:21 Speaker 04 No, tell me.
51:22 Speaker 01 I went to Georgia. I graduated in 2009.
51:25 Speaker 04 Really? Are you from Georgia?
51:27 Speaker 01 I am from Duluth.
51:28 Speaker 04 Duluth. Okay. Yeah, I'm in Peachtree Corners right now. So I'm right next to your hometown.
51:32 Speaker 01 Yeah. Oh, this is so exciting. Too bad I didn't meet you before you met your wife.
51:36 Speaker 04 Yeah.
51:37 Speaker 01 Moved out here.
51:37 Speaker 04 What year did you graduate?
51:38 Speaker 01 Would have been a catch.
51:39 Speaker 04 That is too bad. I graduated in 2021.
51:42 Speaker 01 Oh, my God.
51:43 Dax Shepard? That's okay.
51:44 Speaker 01 I need to leave.
51:45 Dax Shepard? No, no, no, no, no.
51:47 Speaker 01 I gotta run right out of here.
51:49 Dax Shepard? No.
51:50 Speaker 01 Will?
51:51 Dax Shepard? Will, you're too young for this phone call.
51:53 Speaker 01 Way too young. You don't pass my test, which is that you're younger than my brother.
51:57 Dax Shepard? Oh.
51:58 Speaker 04 That's a good litmus test. That's the cutoff.
52:01 Dax Shepard? No, look at his face again. Who gives a fuck?
52:03 Speaker 01 It's true.
52:04 Dax Shepard? Are you 24?
52:05 Speaker 04 I'm about to turn 27.
52:07 Speaker 01 Oh, we did something. Yeah.
52:09 Dax Shepard? Okay, so how did that?
52:10 Speaker 01 I'm 38.
52:11 Dax Shepard? You're 38. So 11 years.
52:13 Speaker 01 Fuck you.
52:13 Dax Shepard? Well, I thought you were 36.
52:15 Speaker 04 Age shaming out here.
52:16 Speaker 01 I know.
52:17 Dax Shepard? I'm trying to help.
52:18 Speaker 01 And how dare he? You're 51.
52:20 Dax Shepard? I'm helping you. I'm pretending you're younger and he's older.
52:24 Speaker 01 Thank you.
52:24 Dax Shepard? Okay, anyways, graduation.
52:26 Speaker 01 Let's get to graduation.
52:27 Dax Shepard? Yeah.
52:28 Speaker 01 Go dogs.
52:29 Speaker 04 Go dogs. That's honestly the only great thing about this story is that it was the University of Georgia. Everything else, it's just a mix of humiliation, but also a joke. And the further we get away from it, the more I can laugh about it now.
52:42 Speaker 01 Oh, I can't wait.
52:43 Speaker 04 The only reason I'm even doing this is because my little sister, I have two younger sisters. My middle sister followed me to Georgia, and she literally called me like three weeks ago and said, Will, I listened to this podcast. This is the content that they like to talk about. They have a website. One of the topics is crazy graduation stories. She was there the night of it, and she said, would you be willing to just go for it and see what happens?
53:06 Dax Shepard? Please thank her on our behalf. Yes.
53:09 Speaker 01 That's incredible.
53:09 Dax Shepard? This is our favorite is when Armcherry's in snare other people into, yes, it's great.
53:14 Speaker 01 Hopefully she'll get you and you'll start listening as well.
53:16 Speaker 04 She already sent me a couple of episodes. I started listening. I'm not as good of a podcast listener as I used to be a couple of years ago.
53:21 Speaker 01 We'll get you back.
53:22 Speaker 04 I'll get back on to it. Yeah.
53:24 Dax Shepard? Okay, well, tell us what happened. What year? What went down?
53:27 Speaker 04 This was May of 2021 and I was graduating from the University of Georgia and it was a great day. It was a great evening, great weather. However, we were still kind of in that weird COVID time. And so graduation for us actually got split over a couple of different nights. So it wasn't our entire undergrad class. It was just the business school graduating class. And so we were actually, we were doing it on the field of Sanford Stadium. The University of Georgia football field right there was outside and I was really excited. Most of my friends were going to be with me that night. A few of our friends that were not in business school had graduation on different nights, but I was greatly looking forward to it. And I knew it was going to be a mix of emotions. To celebrate, my family came in town.
54:10 Speaker 04 I'm originally from Birmingham, but my parents had come in town, my two younger sisters had come in town. And then I actually had a new girlfriend at the time. We'd been dating for a handful of months, but she only met my parents a few times. And so this was her second or third, maybe fourth time, really spending meaningful time with my family.
54:26 Dax Shepard? And so really quick, this is a master's degree, obviously, business school?
54:29 Speaker 04 Undergrad. I thought about doing the double dogs, but I'd had enough schools.
54:33 Speaker 01 Terry.
54:34 Speaker 04 Terry College of Business. That's right. Good shout out.
54:36 Speaker 01 Yeah, I had to. Taxes in Paris.
54:39 Dax Shepard? No, I love it. I'm just laughing at Monica. Her love for UGA is very endearing.
54:43 Speaker 04 I'm not kidding. One of the only reasons I'm really enjoying this right now is because of the Georgia thing. Having to tell a humiliating story. I'm kind of like, why am I doing this? We've got a fellow dog on here. I want to say the ceremony was starting about seven o'clock. So we got an early dinner reservation at a steakhouse right there in downtown Athens. It was my parents, my two sisters, my girlfriend and myself. I've got some jitters, like it's college graduation. This is a big deal. I also have some jitters. This is my girlfriend. She's meeting my family again, but overall it was really successful. We had a nice dinner. We drank a beer, like we were having a good time. And then we get in the car. The plan is going to be drop me at graduation so I can go down on the field. I've got my cap and gown on. I'm dressed up. My family was going to park and then walk into the stadium and find seats up in the stands.
55:28 Speaker 04 So I run down on the field. I meet up with my buddies. There's probably 30 or 45 minutes until the program is set to start. And I'm just chopping it up with the guys. We've got our friend group of guys and girls. We're hanging out. We're taking pictures. It's pretty surreal. How have we already made it to this? The time has been flying. I look back in the corner in the stands and I see that my family and my girlfriend had found some seats. I was waving to them. They're waving to me. I'm texting them like, this is awesome. So they've got on the big screen up there. They've got the countdown of how close we're getting until like three, two, one. And then that's when the lights go off and they do like a big introduction video. And then the president's going to come out and the whole thing starts. So I'm looking up and there's 10 ish minutes left before we're supposed to kind of get our seats and the whole thing's going to get rolling.
56:09 Dax Shepard? Really quick, I need to know, what did you eat at the steakhouse?
56:12 Speaker 04 The 12 ounce filet.
56:14 Dax Shepard? Okay. All right. No seafood?
56:16 Speaker 04 No, no, I stuck to the red meat. Honestly, in hindsight, I wish I'd had the seafood because there's about 10 or nine minutes left. I'm wearing a cap and a gown and we're outside and I'm feeling great. And so I was just kind of farting it up a little bit, like subtly. But there's some mixed nerves and I've also just eaten a bunch of steak in the last hour.
56:34 Dax Shepard? Yeah.
56:34 Speaker 04 And I'm a guy.
56:35 Dax Shepard? Yeah. And you've had some beers?
56:37 Speaker 04 Yeah, I had a couple beers and I, what do you guys call it? An unauthorized?
56:42 Speaker 01 Evacuation. That's right.
56:44 Dax Shepard? Yeah, that's a technical term.
56:45 Speaker 01 Thank you.
56:45 Speaker 04 So I'm talking to my friends. I just got to let out a tiny little fart and I immediately felt something wet come out.
56:51 Dax Shepard? Ooh.
56:52 Speaker 04 I froze and I tried to play it super cool. My face got immediately red. I'm looking around. I'm like, there's no chance that just happened. We've all had that experience probably at least once. I'm literally standing there, looking around, begin panicking. My heart is pounding through my chest. I know for a fact I just had an unauthorized evacuation in my pants.
57:12 Dax Shepard? And sizable, it sounds like?
57:13 Speaker 04 Decent size. It was just really wet was the problem. It wasn't like something just sitting in my underwear. Like my boxers were just wet.
57:19 Speaker 01 Were you only wearing underwear?
57:21 Speaker 04 No, I had slacks on. I looked good. I had slacks and I had a button down tucked in. I was wearing a bow tie.
57:26 Dax Shepard? Oh my God.
57:27 Speaker 01 Oh, yeah.
57:28 Speaker 04 We've been having a good time. I was even down like five minutes before that. I was waving. They had some cameras going around. I got on the big screen on my phone. The sign said, hey, mom. And so they were texting me. It was awesome. And then this happens. And so I start panicking. I look up. I'm seeing there's an eight minutes until. Supposed to get going and I look at my friends. I'm like, hey, guys, I gotta go to the bathroom real quick. I waddle as quick as I can and my parents are looking down at me and my girlfriend and my sisters and they see me. Everybody else is hanging out because it's about to start and I am high tailing it back towards kind of where the stands are and I'm looking around for a bathroom. They have the main bathrooms closed because it's COVID. They have individual porta potties and so I go into a porta potty.
58:09 Dax Shepard? Really quick, are you at least grateful that you're in a gown? Like if you're gonna shit your pants, there's nothing better than having a cloak around you.
58:16 Speaker 01 That is true.
58:16 Speaker 04 It was certainly helpful. It helped cover up and mask any potential damage of what could have been really humiliating publicly. And because I had normal clothes on underneath too, I knew there were some layers here, but really having that gown on to cover up any potential stains that could be showing, it did make me feel slightly better. I was also, I was just mortified. I'm in this porta potty. It's like 115 degrees in there. I'm sweating bullets. I can hear the countdown starting to begin. I'm freaking out. So I ended up just having to drop the drawers, throw the boxers into the porta potty. They're just floating in the water. I pull my pants back up.
58:52 Dax Shepard? Was there a lot of seepage into the dress slacks or were they pretty dry?
58:56 Speaker 04 The slacks were dark, which was helpful. It was better than wearing like khaki pants. There was only a little bit of seepage and so I throw the gown back on. I'm using toilet paper to dab my face off because I'm sweating. Do I just need to try to go to the bathroom right now while I'm in here? Do I need to try to like finish this thing out? Is this gonna happen again? What's going on? And I'm having to think quick, guys. I mean, the countdown is starting. When this thing starts, people are gonna be looking around. I'm in front of, I don't know, let's call it 20,000 people. They're gonna be looking at me walking down the middle aisle in the field. Like, why is this dude late? What's going on? And so I'm just having to think quick. I was not making the most rational decisions, but I'm just doing what I can to be productive here and try to cover up my mistakes. And so I end up throwing the gown back on, zipping up the pants and the shirt
59:38 Speaker 04 and getting all settled. And then I go back out. It is starting. As I'm walking out, the lights go off, the screen comes on. I look up at my family and they're kind of looking at me, giving me a sign. And I'm like, no, we're good. We're good. We're good. Don't worry about it. So I go and I sit down in my seat with my buddies. The entire time I cannot. Focus on anything. I'm just wondering, can they smell me?
59:57 Speaker 01 Yes.
59:57 Dax Shepard? Ah, yeah.
59:58 Speaker 04 Did I get this all the way gone? Are they gonna smell what just happened? Like a lot of insecurity. It was the longest two hours of my life.
1:00:07 Dax Shepard? Were you doing any weird, like, were you pushing on any fabric with your hand and then smelling your hand?
1:00:13 Speaker 04 No. Well, again, the gown makes it kind of hard, but I am sitting there and I'm kind of moving around a little bit. Like, I'm trying to feel with like my legs, like, hey, are we good? Do I get everything out? And again, thankfully, we were outside, so I suppose that might help rather than being inside. But I'm looking around. My friends aren't saying anything. They never asked, like, hey, why'd you go to the bathroom? They think I played it cool and I was just cutting it close to the when the program started. But over the course of the two hours, the mixture of sweat and any residue that was left behind and being outside. Again, it's May, it's Athens, Georgia, and we're on a football field. It's like 7:00 PM. So the sun's still kind of high. I just began chafing so bad.
1:00:51 Speaker 01 Oh.
1:00:51 Speaker 04 Sitting there, I could feel it. It was like the way it was all drying and it was just not gonna go well.
1:00:56 Dax Shepard? Yeah, yeah.
1:00:57 Speaker 04 I really could not focus. I don't remember much of that entire program because I'm just thinking, what next? What's gonna happen after this? Are we going out? Or am I going back home? Are we gonna take pictures for an hour with my girlfriend and my parents?
1:01:10 Speaker 01 This is such a metaphor for life. You're graduating. It's like, what's next?
1:01:14 Dax Shepard? Yeah, that's right.
1:01:15 Speaker 04 Yeah, guys, this was the night I became an adult.
1:01:17 Speaker 01 Yes, that's right.
1:01:19 Speaker 04 This is my first experience. I'm not a child anymore. I'm an adult, an independent adult.
1:01:23 Speaker 01 But in fact, you are a child because you poo-pooed in your pants.
1:01:26 Speaker 04 Correct. Very much so. It was very, very humbling. And so I go meet up with my family up in the stands. I'm wondering, do I tell them? Am I making a joke? I tend to be pretty easy on myself. I like making fun of myself. I have a good sense of humor. It's okay. I knew we were gonna eventually laugh about it. The question was when? And also, my girlfriend's here. Now, this luckily was the girl that I am married to today. So ultimately, this worked out.
1:01:49 Speaker 01 Okay, great.
1:01:50 Speaker 04 Because of that, I don't have near as many regrets as I would have if she'd ended up breaking up with me. And this probably been one of the reasons. But I just decided to rip the Band-Aid off. And we're taking pictures and I say, guys, guess what? They said, what, Will? And I said, I'm not wearing any boxers right now. And they looked at me like, what are you talking about? And I said, yeah, I pooped my pants about two hours ago. They're floating in that porta potty down there. If you don't believe me, you can go look. I'm sorry if I smell bad. I don't know how I'm gonna get home. We have like a mile walk back home. Athens is very hilly. My parents tell me that they ended up parking at my house and walking all the way there. I thought they had parks closer. They tell me that. I'm like, we're about to have to walk a mile.
1:02:28 Dax Shepard? Did you ask anyone if they had any baby powder or talc on them? Like, Mom, are you carrying any talc by chance?
1:02:35 Speaker 04 Some Gold Bond would have been super helpful, but no, at that point, I figured I was pretty out of luck until I got home. And I will never forget, my mom grabbed my arm and she looked at me. She said, Will, why are you saying this out loud? I was like, Mom, I have one of two options here. I'm just embarrassed about this. I don't tell anybody or we just start laughing about it right now. And that was the route that I chose. And so my sisters, they laughed it off. We go back home. My roommates, they're like, hey, why are you running back to the, because we're all trying to hang out on the front porch? Guys, I gotta go to the room. I gotta go change. What do you mean you have to change? It's like, I'll tell you in a little bit. So I tell them the story. They're dying laughing. I still am kind of mortified in disbelief. It ends up being okay. I was chafing like crazy. Grabbed Gold Bond at the house.
1:03:19 Speaker 04 Because we had the rest of the night. We were going out. We were gonna go celebrate with my family and friends. And we were gonna go hang out and spend some time together. And I did not want that to dampen the night any more than it dampened my pants up until that point.
1:03:30 Dax Shepard? Yeah, I would call it a bottom boot and rally.
1:03:32 Speaker 01 Yeah, that's right.
1:03:34 Dax Shepard? You had like, you bottom booted, but then you rallied.
1:03:36 Speaker 01 That's right.
1:03:37 Dax Shepard? And you got to.
1:03:38 Speaker 01 You got to. You got to. I mean, only a couple more days left to party in Athens. You gotta use it up.
1:03:45 Speaker 04 True.
1:03:45 Dax Shepard? Also, I hate to keep bringing up your handsomeness, but you know, the gift, it's like, you can tell he looks so hot, even with shit in his pants. It's kind of a luxury.
1:03:53 Speaker 01 You're so lucky. Like, if you weren't so handsome, you wouldn't be married to that girl. She would have definitely ditched you.
1:03:59 Dax Shepard? If you're like a monster and you're like, I just shit my pants. Like, everyone's like, fuck, Frank, get the fuck out of here, man.
1:04:07 Dax Shepard? But they're like, Will, you little stinker, you.
1:04:11 Dax Shepard? Let's clean your buns, Will.
1:04:13 Speaker 01 I'm gonna go help you clean your buns.
1:04:15 Speaker 04 My wife is great. And again, just being like a pretty new girlfriend at the time, she was a trooper for sticking that out with me. She's a real one. She loves me through and through. She loves making fun of me for my weirdness and my mistakes. My sisters love pointing out my mistakes and laughing about it. And now my parents do as well. My mom, she ultimately was the one that was most wrong here. I think she thought there was no chance that relationship was gonna last.
1:04:36 Dax Shepard? Right.
1:04:37 Speaker 01 Yeah.
1:04:37 Speaker 04 Here we are, mom.
1:04:38 Dax Shepard? She's from the south.
1:04:40 Speaker 01 That's right. She has a decorum that she wants to maintain.
1:04:43 Dax Shepard? She's like, Will, that's not polite conversation.
1:04:47 Speaker 01 William, I did not raise you this way.
1:04:50 Speaker 04 If I hear William, I know it's serious.
1:04:51 Speaker 01 Yeah, real serious.
1:04:53 Dax Shepard? Come again, William? You say you defecated in your slacks? That was delightful.
1:04:57 Speaker 01 Thank you, Will. That was great.
1:04:59 Speaker 04 Of course.
1:04:59 Dax Shepard? You never know what someone next to you at graduation's going through.
1:05:02 Speaker 01 It's a real life lesson.
1:05:04 Dax Shepard? All right. Well, again, thank your sister.
1:05:06 Speaker 04 Claire, this was for her.
1:05:07 Dax Shepard? Claire Bear, we love you.
1:05:08 Speaker 01 Shout out Claire.
1:05:09 Dax Shepard? All right.
1:05:09 Speaker 01 Bye.
1:05:10 Dax Shepard? Be well, be well, Will. That's hard. Be well, Will.
1:05:15 Speaker 04 Thanks, guys. Y'all too. Go dogs.
1:05:16 Speaker 01 Go dogs.
1:05:17 Dax Shepard? Roll tide.
1:05:18 Speaker 01 No.
1:05:19 Dax Shepard? Oh, sorry.
1:05:19 Speaker 01 Don't worry, I'll cut that.
1:05:22 Speaker 01 Oh, my God.
1:05:25 Speaker 07 I didn't kick him out, he left.
1:05:27 Speaker 01 He was like, get me the fuck out of here. He is from Birmingham, so he might not hate that. But he hates that because he's a big Georgia fan.
1:05:34 Dax Shepard? Yeah, he was. He's got the bottles. Fucking hot.
1:05:37 Speaker 01 So hot.
1:05:38 Dax Shepard? Yeah. You were aggressive, and I loved it.
1:05:40 Speaker 01 I won't?
1:05:41 Dax Shepard? Yeah, yeah, I loved it.
1:05:42 Speaker 01 Emma, cut me being aggressive.
1:05:43 Dax Shepard? No.
1:05:44 Speaker 01 What do you mean I was aggressive?
1:05:45 Dax Shepard? You're like, I want to wipe your butt like you were.
1:05:47 Speaker 01 I didn't say that.
1:05:48 Dax Shepard? Yeah, and you want to, and I know you do. And he knows, and I love it. You would wipe that butt all day long, wouldn't you?
1:05:55 Speaker 01 Yes.
1:05:57 Dax Shepard? I think I would clean his butt.
1:05:59 Speaker 01 Speaking of changing, I gotta go change my pants, too.
1:06:03 Dax Shepard? I love you.
1:06:04 Speaker 01 Love you.
1:06:07 Speaker 07 Do you want to sing a tune or something? We have a theme song.
1:06:09 Dax Shepard? Oh, okay, great.
1:06:12 Speaker 07 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 fire, Rhyme Dish. On the fire, Rhyme Dish. Enjoy.
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