Josh Gad Returns

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2025

⏱️ 148 minutes

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Summary

Josh Gad (In Gad We Trust, Frozen, Book of Mormon) is a Grammy Award-winning actor. Josh returns to Armchair Expert to discuss why he believes he would be the Unsinkable Molly Brown on the Titanic, the unthinkable bravery and precision of LA firefighters, and questions whether Dax thinks he would’ve ended up as an Ira Glass or a Howard Stern. Josh and Dax talk about having permission to send Kumail Nanjiani shirtless pics, growing up without his emerald kingpin father, and how his comedy was born out of the despair from his parents’ divorce. Josh explains bombing his audition to Juilliard, how Disney became the salve to soothe loss in his life, and the acknowledgment of being your own worst enemy as long as you come out the other side.

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0:00.0	Wondry Plus subscribers can listen to Armchair Expert early and add free right now.
0:06.5	Join Wondry Plus in the Wondry app or on Apple Podcasts.
0:10.0	Or you can listen for free wherever you get your podcasts.
0:13.8	Welcome, welcome, welcome to Armchair Expert.
0:16.0	I'm Dan Shepard and I'm joined by Monica Mouse.
0:18.5	Hi.
0:19.0	Hello.
0:19.9	Our returning guest, he was phenomenal the first time he was here.
0:24.4	He joined us for Christmas as well.
0:27.3	He came by for Christmas.
0:29.0	He's been around a few times.
0:31.2	Josh Gad, what a party, Josh is.
0:33.3	Josh is a Tony Award nominated actor.
0:36.4	He was in the Book of Mormon, which I got to see him in.
0:40.1	She's lucky.
0:40.5	I feel very lucky about.
0:41.2	So lucky.
0:42.1	He was in the Putnam County Spelling Bee.
0:44.0	Yes.
0:44.4	We get some backstory on that.
0:45.9	Yeah.
0:46.5	And then Frozen Pixels, the wedding ringer, beauty and the beast.
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