Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sep 16, 2026 · 2 hr 1 min · 41 segments
Eric Goode (Monsters of God, Chimp Crazy, Tiger King) is a filmmaker, hotelier, and conservationist. Eric joins Armchair Expert to discuss growing up in an animal-filled home, surviving Northern…
Dax ShepardHost
Eric GoodeGuest
Monica PadmanHost
The craziest part of that entire doc is when those knuckleheads [laughs] fucking drag that cage up the stairs at a Holiday Inn.
Like, a lot of times when you look back on your addiction, like, the times where you go, "This is the most absurd I ever got." It's like if they're looking at their weird addictions, like the time they drug a fucking chimp upstairs in a cage [laughs] at a Holiday Inn.
Well, keeping these animals and hoarding and the obsession, and by the way, I like the word obsession.
It's also shopaholics, and in this case it's wanting these animals so badly that you'll do anything and ruin your life.
And what happened to Tonia after Chimp Crazy wrapped, you know, she went and got another chimp in her basement, and now she's in prison for it.
And I really worked with her after Chimp Crazy, trying to counsel her, help her to sort of just have some contrition.
The craziest part of that entire doc is when those knuckleheads [laughs] fucking drag that cage up the stairs at a Holiday Inn.
Like, a lot of times when you look back on your addiction, like, the times where you go, "This is the most absurd I ever got." It's like if they're looking at their weird addictions, like the time they drug a fucking chimp upstairs in a cage [laughs] at a Holiday Inn.
Well, keeping these animals and hoarding and the obsession, and by the way, I like the word obsession.
It's also shopaholics, and in this case it's wanting these animals so badly that you'll do anything and ruin your life.
And what happened to Tonia after Chimp Crazy wrapped, you know, she went and got another chimp in her basement, and now she's in prison for it.
And I really worked with her after Chimp Crazy, trying to counsel her, help her to sort of just have some contrition.
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