Dax Shepard
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Podcast Appearances
He gets really, really high and he threatens to set the place on fire, the apartment on fire.
Breaks up bottles, bleeding out.
Cops have to come.
The ambulance comes.
I don't remember it well, but I have vague memories of it.
And I have an older sister.
Yeah, exactly.
So what happened there is the whole thing fell apart because my father is like, I'm going to burn the place down.
My mother is like, we're out.
And so that resulted in a divorce.
So I ended up living alone with my mother near my grandparents for that year.
And I never really lived with my father again, although he would come in and out of my life here and there.
Right.
Mom decides she's going to start the nursing program up in Santa Fe, and then you guys up and move to Santa Fe.
And you're in extreme poverty at this point.
The way I would say it is we weren't like Albania in the 60s poor, but for the United States, we were poor on a level that many people have a hard time relating to.
Where like there's a constant, gnawing, corrosive worry about making ends meet about eating.
Yeah, all day consumed by this anxiety.
Yeah, that's right.
And then your buddy Shiloh who you meet, they don't have water at home.