Dax Shepard
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
In a pinch, they're making your older sister pretend she has a cough so we can get a prescription for CODI.
That's right.
And is he second-generation Albuquerque?
Your mother is.
My mother, she was actually born in Bakersfield.
She grew up in Albuquerque.
Her parents, your grandparents, lived there.
My father is from Brooklyn.
There's definitely tragedy on his side of the family.
My grandfather, I think he was a captain in the Navy, and he died in a plane accident over Phoenix in the 50s.
My grandfather on my father's side and my grandmother, these are
serious practicing Catholics.
So they had a family of five kids, very serious.
He passes away.
And now my grandmother is left with five kids aged seven through three months.
Woof.
Holy moly.
So she hauls back to where she's from, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.
And that's where my aunts and uncles and my father grew up.
Father, the middle child, bigger pain.