EXPERTS ON EXPERT: Erin Lee Carr

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2019

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Erin Lee Carr is an American documentary film director, writer, and producer. She sits down with the Armchair Expert to discuss her journey to sobriety, her interest in complicated humans and growing up with parents who are addicts. Dax asks about Erin's relationship with her father and Erin talks about creating boundaries in her filmmaking. The two talk about process-oriented work, her need to speak for those who are silenced and how AA meetings taught her how to listen. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome, welcome to armchair expert. I'm Dan Shepard. Sad news. Well, happy news really.
0:07.2	miniature mouse is on a little much needed on our vacation.
0:11.5	Somewhere here in California, I don't even even quite know the location, do you Rob?
0:15.2	It's near Palm Springs, but I think that would have changed.
0:17.7	Okay, great.
0:18.3	So somewhere in the Palm Springs area, Monica is hosting all of her pals from
0:22.4	Atlanta, Georgia, and they're having a big blowout,
0:24.5	which I'm so excited for her about.
0:26.1	And of course, I was in Michigan for some medical things for a friend, but I'm back.
0:31.0	I'm so happy to be in the attic.
0:32.8	Our guest today is Aaron Lee Carr and she came to us circuitously,
0:38.6	I think that's the word and how you say it.
0:40.2	Through Lena Dunum, she suggested that we have her on and what a great recommendation and then as I learned about her I realized I've seen all of her movies just by coincidence and I knew her dad right now HBO, she has an incredible documentary about the Female Olympic
0:56.4	molesting scandal called At the Heart of Gold that's currently on.
1:00.1	You probably also saw her documentary that was incredible and it's now a TV show called
1:03.7	Mommy Dead and Dearest about moonchilds and by proxy which was super fascinating and even
1:09.3	more exciting she gave us a link to her new documentary that's coming out called I Love You
1:15.8	Now Die, the Commonwealth versus Michelle Carter, which is that very famous case everyone's
1:22.1	on the news about a gal who was texting a boy
1:24.7	to kill himself. Rob did you watch the link? I did it was great. It's awesome.
1:29.8	It's two parts and it led to so many juicy debates.
1:33.1	I cannot recommend it enough.
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