Shaquille O'Neal

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Shaquille O'Neal (Shaq's Scholars Campus Scholarship and Mentorship Program) is a 4x NBA champion, sports analyst, and philanthropist. Shaquille joins the Armchair Expert to discuss discovering his love languages, how he learned to tame his inner bully with silliness, and why a nuclear physicist is who taught him how to accept criticism. Shaq and Dax talk about the incredible highs that followed the lows of his life, how he unwinds now by going to a hookah bar, and navigating the fine line between pain relief and addiction. Shaquille explains how beating Michael Jordan was a teaching moment, learning early on to appreciate the people that make you who you are, and the impetus for partnering with Campus.edu was advice he received to invest in things that change people's lives.

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1. 0:00Welcome, welcome, welcome to Armchair Expert. I'm Dan Shepard and I'm joined by the miniature mouse from Duth.
2. 1:02:44she was like you're not ready you can't balance a checkbook you can't ready so then my junior year I took some business courses...
3. 2:10:40plane didn't crash and we got to do it. Me, too. All blessings to Shaq. What a sweetie pie. Yeah, that's it.