Our next guest is one of our favorites.
He is one of the new hosts of Top Gear America.
Please welcome Dax Shepard.
Hi, Dax.
Hello.
Hello, how are you?
Oh, wow.
I'm good.
How are you?
I'm good.
You look good.
Happy belated birthday to you.
Thank you.
I don't want to jinx you but I do
have a friend who does the engravings of the Emmy statues.
And I don't know what this means,
but they did just call me and ask if I knew
how to spell your last name.
Something about a Buccaneers joke.
They have already seen this show.
They know it.
I don't know.
Again, I don't want to jinx you.
But I do think it's weird that the engraver asked me
how to spell DeGeneres.
And I don't know how to.
So Andy maybe could follow up on that.
OK, yeah.
I'll have someone follow up.
It's usually on the show.
Listen.
I saw you doing a--
there was a video of you doing squats with Kristen.
Can I show this?
This is very impressive.
I mean, look at you.
Is this a new thing?
Have you always been this strong and we're just
seeing it for the first time?
Oh, well wow.
What a compliment.
And no.
I don't think my squats have always been on point like that.
But I had a couple of self-induced injuries
this year.
And then I had some surgeries.
And then I was feeling good.
And then I had like three months before I
started shooting again.
I'm like, I'm going to really dedicate some time to this.
And Kristen was like, I don't know what this is about.
Do you think you're going to compete
in something at some point?
Is there a like 46-year-old foot race
that's happening I don't know about?
And so I had to demonstrate to her the great value
of this strength training.
Wow.
No, that's really impressive.
Squats are hard enough.
But to have your wife on your shoulders, I mean she is small
but still that's very impressive.
But I do have to tell you, my wife
after making fun of me she presented me with this,
which is so wonderful.
You won't be able to read it but I can read it to you.
Most impressive--
In Los Feliz.
That's right.
Which is a small community we live in.
So it's not that big of an award.
But it's not small either.
No.
As I said, you look really good.
You've always been open and honest.
And recently, you were open about your lapse in sobriety
after 16 years.
And I know that must have been really hard because you could
have just tried to deal with it and not let anyone
know that happened and just go right back to your sobriety.
That must have been hard to admit.
Yeah.
I did not want to at all.
I had all kinds of bizarre fears like I
have sponsors on my show.
Is that something that could cost me money financially?
But the number one thing I was afraid to lose
was I take such--
I get so much esteem out of being
someone who's vocally sober.
And I have people who write me, I'm month one.
Or I'm week two.
And I love that.
That's my favorite thing about being in public.
And so I was just terrified I would lose that.
I really cherish that.
And I have a good friend that said,
if your real goal is to help people,
it's not very helpful that you're 16 years sober
and married to Kristen Bell.
That doesn't help a ton of people.
In fact, it probably makes their life worse.
So the fact that you just fell, that's the actual value.
That's the thing you could do that's helpful.
And so when it was framed that way to me, it got a lot easier.
Yeah.
That's so true.
And everyone is flawed.
Everyone makes mistakes.
And the hardest thing to do is to get up again
and to admit it too.
So good for you.
I heard kids--
If you can exit quarantine alive and married,
my hat's off to everyone.
So--
Yeah.
Yeah, no.
We've all been through a lot.
I heard the kids laughing.
And how are your kids doing?
My kids are fantastic.
They are so much fun.
I know there's been so much heartache, and loss
of employment, and all this for so many people.
But for us, I just got to see them so much,
which I've been so grateful for, and which
is not to say they're not terrible as well.
They're ferrets.
They steal everything I have and have been doing so for now
7 and 1/2 years.
So I can't have a pair of tweezers.
I can't have nail clippers.
They will get stolen within 30 minutes
and then they go somewhere I don't know.
Maybe when we move, we'll discover
where all these things are.
But I can't have a hairbrush, nail clippers, you name it.
So I recently invested in a safe.
So I put these items in a safe.
And when it arrived, Kristen thought it was a joke.
That's me getting it.
I was so excited.
And it's not a joke because that stuff adds up.
I also cut hair semiprofessionally.
And those scissors are like $100 a pop.
I've gone through a dozen pairs of those.
So I finally got $100 safe in hopes of saving
a couple thousand bucks.
I put the key up high above the mirror
so no one could reach it because I'm the only one above five
feet in the house.
And then lo and behold, [INAUDIBLE] a chair pulled up.
There was a chair pulled up, went
to get the key, it's not there, opened
the drawer, the safe's open, scissors are gone.
So now I'm going to get a combination safe for the key.
I got to figure it out.
Well, I sure hope you find them, Dax.
That sounds horrible.
We're going to take a break, and more with Dax Shepard
after this.