Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to Armchair Expert early and ad-free right now. Join Wondery Plus in the Wondery app or on Apple Podcasts. Or you can listen for free wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome, welcome, welcome to Armchair Expert. I'm Dan Rather and I'm joined by Leslie Stahl.
Oh my gosh.
She comes up occasionally. Back in the old days, she would pop up a lot.
That is high praise.
Very high praise.
I love Leslie Stahl. Yeah, she's great.
She's a firecracker. Okay, long time coming. Number one current obsession as an actor going on three years now probably, Walton Goggins. Walton Goggins, goggle glasses. Uncle Baby Billy's Bible bonkers. This guy's an alliteration wet dream.
Yes.
I love Walton Goggins. Yes.
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Chapter 2: How does Walton Goggins describe his upbringing?
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He's an object's world.
Oh, hey, whoa, wait a minute. Whoa, is there a guest? Go ahead. I think we have a star of the show. I'm just a guest star.
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Chapter 3: What insights does Walton share about his acting career?
It does. Which kind of happens. You know, you're sitting on that chairlift for minutes and minutes, and you end up talking about some stuff.
I feel like this is such a good product for you. You know how sometimes people have brands that feel like, I don't get the A to B. This is an A. Why does Tom Cruise have lawn care equipment? Exactly.
It makes no sense. Yeah, yeah.
But does he have lawn care? Perfect. No, no, no. But does he? Does he? Yeah, not yet. Top Gun mower.
Say the name out loud.
Walton Goggins goggle glasses. Oh. I mean, that's as close as you can get to Uncle Baby Billy's Bible Bunkers.
Yeah.
There's some similarities there. It's a bit of a nod. Yeah, it's just a nod. Just a little thing. It worked out for Baby Billy. Maybe it'll work out for me. I'm a good athlete. I'm not a great athlete at all. But really, the thing that I got out of playing sports more than anything else was I just love the equipment, man. I just love putting on the football pads. I love the gloves.
I mean, I love pep rallies. Let me ask you, wearing them right now, do you think that you would go for a pickleball shot that you might otherwise not go for since you have a strap on your head?
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Chapter 4: How does Walton Goggins approach his life and work?
You're thinking differently.
Oh, he just picked up some questions. Okay, here we go.
We're going to get serious now. Okay, let's get so serious. So yeah, you get it. I love you so much. I have been wanting this to happen for very, very long. And I was working with Rob Corddry for a period who I adore. And then I found out you guys are close and you would vacation together in Europe, which sounds exactly what I'd imagine you do. Hey. Always. So elegant.
And maybe I want to jump to one thing to then come back to where you're from, because I was watching an interview with you and you were discussing having been offered Justified to be in the pilot. You were going to die in Justified and that was going to be it. You read it and you turned it down twice for a very specific reason. And I want you to tell me why, because I really liked it.
I'm a huge Elmore Leonard fan for one thing, but I felt that it was so one dimensional and because I can afford not to do this anymore.
For much of your early career, all of us, we got to play what they offer.
Absolutely. I mean, if you're Italian and you're from New York, chances are you're going to you're going to shoot somebody. Yeah. Absolutely. You're going to be eating some fucking pasta. You're going to dig a hole in the desert. Absolutely. And you're going to smile while you're doing it. But we all look for boxes to kind of fit in when we're starting out.
And it just so happened to be at that point in my life that I'd gotten out of a number of those boxes. And this was one box that I just felt like I can't perpetuate this stereotype and sell out my culture anymore. From an outsider's perspective, like a lot of different people, Cultures in America, they're reducible to one impersonation.
And it's like, okay, well, if I can speak like this, you know, and I come down here and like I'm from the South, what does that even fucking mean? I mean, the South represents a third of this country. Each region and each state and each part of every state is very unique. Like the state of New York. The state of New York isn't just New Yorkers. I live in the state of New York now.
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Chapter 5: What humorous debate do they have about flying an airplane?
What I'm thinking, Monica, is our longstanding debate about whether or not I could fly an airplane if the pilot went down. Sure. You with those goggles on. You think I could do? I'm not sure who should be flying the airplane, you or me.
That is quite the compliment.
You look like a professional in any field with those glasses on. Hey, you know, what an honor, man. Well, I'm so glad.
What an honor for us.
Yeah.
We've been trying to get you in for years.
Thank you. You're so generous of yourselves and so giving of your time and such great listeners. And thank you.
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Chapter 6: What heartfelt moments does Walton share about his family?
What a pleasure, man. Just loving you from afar. So the fact that we're sitting together is such a blast for me. I adore you, Walton. This has been my blast. Thank you. What a joy. What a joy.
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He is an armchair expert, but he makes mistakes all the time. Thank God Monica's here. She's gotta let him have the facts. Oh, look at our trophy.
Look at our trophy.
That's a cool trophy.
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Chapter 7: How do they reflect on the importance of their audience?
Very Space Age.
Yeah. It's meant to be hung.
Okay.
It has this at the bottom. I guess it looks like a quotation above someone's head.
It does.
I'm holding up a square armchair expert with the Axe Shepherd Spotify logo. 500 million streams. Plaque, we were awarded. Gold status, I was told. Gold status. I need to start this fact check by saying my most deepest thank you. I've never been more grateful than last night. I was asked to be one of Bill's 10 or 11 stops on his book tour.
Yeah, awesome.
And it was at a live event, the Carmere. I don't know, some beautiful theater.
Where?
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Chapter 8: What thoughts are shared about the Super Bowl and its cultural impact?
I can't go out and I had a time and warm everything up and then bring Bill out. There's like a whole thing, you know, it's their show.
Right.
And there'll be a video and another woman introduced us for a while. And then we sit down. I'm in the wrong side. Suffice to say, it just wasn't like one of our shows. Sure. So I guess they gave me. Not a ton. I'm not going to exaggerate. Maybe like 20 percent nerves.
Of course, it's different.
And it's like, I don't know if it's all people there to see Bill Gates and they're learning who I am and they don't understand. I'm going to have a sense of humor, whatever. All this to say, as soon as we sat down, I said, are there any arm cherries here? Oh. And Monty. They loved it. The whole place was armchairs.
Oh, that's so sweet.
And I immediately felt so comfortable.
Yeah.
And confident and relaxed.
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