Dax Shepard

Tell me.

Well, just feeling like you see the end.

I want to be measured here because I'm not 70.

But for all of that, you know the fantasy you live in about life going on forever.

You can't have that at 50.

There's something really, really troubling about knowing in the best case scenario, which I doubt I'll make it to 100, we're more than halfway there.

That's right.

That's a bummer.

You were an adjunct professor.

You're still an adjunct professor.

I'm still an adjunct professor at Stanford.

What is an adjunct professor?

An adjunct professor just means you're affiliated with the university.

It's a credential.

So in my case, there's a dean or even a provost that had to actually sign off on it.

But you're not a tenure line professor.

So professors in today's academic world are largely leading research groups based off of money they get from the government through grants and also through private foundations.

And so as an adjunct, I cannot lead those.

Okay.

I can be on them, and I can participate, and that's largely what I do.