Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sep 14, 2026 · 2 hr 2 min · 17 segments
Dave Franco (Idiots, The Studio, Together) is an actor, writer, and director. Dave returns to Armchair Expert to discuss growing up as the youngest of three brothers, being a hopeless romantic from…
Dax ShepardHost
Dave FrancoGuest
Monica PadmanHost
Aaron WeakleyPanelist
You are not on social media, and people are astounded by that, and I've heard you answer questions about that already.
I'm hoping to bring a novel question to the table on this topic, which is, because you're not in the bubble with the rest of us- Do you feel like you have a unique perspective as an outsider of watching us all get infected by these memetic moments that sweep through social media? An example I'll give is, like, currently we're all obsessed with ADHD.
Like, are you ever somewhere and it's like you notice seven people at dinner are all talking about some topic where you're going like, "How is everyone abreast of this weird topic?"
You know what it is? It's more going off of what I just said, where I'm just blissfully unaware.
And because of that, I actually do feel a little on the outside sometimes, where I'm like, I don't know what people are talking about.
Is that affecting my own creativity of what I'm putting out there? Where I want it to be relevant, I want it to hit the zeitgeist.
Of just not being tapped into what's happening, but at the same time, it's worth it for me to not have the mental anguish of being on social media.
You are not on social media, and people are astounded by that, and I've heard you answer questions about that already.
I'm hoping to bring a novel question to the table on this topic, which is, because you're not in the bubble with the rest of us- Do you feel like you have a unique perspective as an outsider of watching us all get infected by these memetic moments that sweep through social media? An example I'll give is, like, currently we're all obsessed with ADHD.
Like, are you ever somewhere and it's like you notice seven people at dinner are all talking about some topic where you're going like, "How is everyone abreast of this weird topic?"
You know what it is? It's more going off of what I just said, where I'm just blissfully unaware.
And because of that, I actually do feel a little on the outside sometimes, where I'm like, I don't know what people are talking about.
Is that affecting my own creativity of what I'm putting out there? Where I want it to be relevant, I want it to hit the zeitgeist.
Of just not being tapped into what's happening, but at the same time, it's worth it for me to not have the mental anguish of being on social media.
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