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Dax Shepard

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Appearances Over Time

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Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David Sussillo (on foster care and neuroscience)

He gets really, really high and he threatens to set the place on fire, the apartment on fire.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David Sussillo (on foster care and neuroscience)

Breaks up bottles, bleeding out.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David Sussillo (on foster care and neuroscience)

Cops have to come.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David Sussillo (on foster care and neuroscience)

The ambulance comes.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David Sussillo (on foster care and neuroscience)

I don't remember it well, but I have vague memories of it.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David Sussillo (on foster care and neuroscience)

And I have an older sister.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David Sussillo (on foster care and neuroscience)

Yeah, exactly.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David Sussillo (on foster care and neuroscience)

So what happened there is the whole thing fell apart because my father is like, I'm going to burn the place down.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David Sussillo (on foster care and neuroscience)

My mother is like, we're out.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David Sussillo (on foster care and neuroscience)

And so that resulted in a divorce.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David Sussillo (on foster care and neuroscience)

So I ended up living alone with my mother near my grandparents for that year.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David Sussillo (on foster care and neuroscience)

And I never really lived with my father again, although he would come in and out of my life here and there.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David Sussillo (on foster care and neuroscience)

Right.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David Sussillo (on foster care and neuroscience)

Mom decides she's going to start the nursing program up in Santa Fe, and then you guys up and move to Santa Fe.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David Sussillo (on foster care and neuroscience)

And you're in extreme poverty at this point.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David Sussillo (on foster care and neuroscience)

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.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David Sussillo (on foster care and neuroscience)

Where like there's a constant, gnawing, corrosive worry about making ends meet about eating.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David Sussillo (on foster care and neuroscience)

Yeah, all day consumed by this anxiety.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David Sussillo (on foster care and neuroscience)

Yeah, that's right.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David Sussillo (on foster care and neuroscience)

And then your buddy Shiloh who you meet, they don't have water at home.