Dax Shepard

And I've always had an affinity to basic science and to molecular research, but I didn't really pursue molecular.

I didn't have a PhD, but I really liked it.

And it was the analyst who said, well, maybe you should give it a try.

But he didn't really know what it means.

I didn't barely know even how to hold it by pet.

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But I found this one paper that I really, really liked about long-term memory and how long-term memory is conserved and epigenetic changes in those neurons in a plesia, which is a sea slug.

That has enormous neurons?

Yes, huge neurons.

And then I went, and again, I guess that theme of going and talking.

So I went and I talked to the last author on that paper.

but he wasn't the one who masterminded it.

So he listened to me for two minutes.

His name was Eric Kandel.

And then he basically said, let's go up a floor.

And we went, that's where I met James Schwartz, Jimmy, my first mentor.

I basically talked to him a little bit about my thoughts again, the same thing about the research and the ideas that I had.

And then he said, okay, we'll give you a try for three months and see how you fare.

And then we'll see what happens after that.