Episodes

Mindy Kaling
March 3, 2025

Mindy Kaling

Mindy Kaling (Running Point, The Mindy Project, Never Have I Ever) is an Emmy-nominated writer, actor, and producer. Mindy joins the Armchair Expert to discuss how she is the only the second person Dax has ever worn a suit fo...
Armchair Anonymous: DIY Disaster
Feb. 28, 2025

Armchair Anonymous: DIY Disaster

Dax and Monica talk to Armcherries! In today's episode, Armcherries tell us about DIY projects gone wrong. Follow Armchair Expert on the Wondery App or wherever you get your podcasts. Watch new content on YouTube or listen to...
Blaise Aguirre (on overcoming self-hatred)
Feb. 26, 2025

Blaise Aguirre (on overcoming self-hatred)

Blaise Aguirre (I Hate Myself: Overcome Self-Loathing and Realize Why You’re Wrong About You) is a child and adolescent psychiatrist specializing in dialectical behavior therapy. Blaise joins the Armchair Expert to discuss be...
Nikki Glaser
Feb. 24, 2025

Nikki Glaser

Nikki Glaser (Alive and Unwell, Someday You’ll Die, Not Safe with Nikki Glaser) is a comedian, actor, and television host. Nikki joins the Armchair Expert to discuss why Dax’s name has good joke texture, her plea for people n...
Armchair Anonymous: DNA Testing
Feb. 21, 2025

Armchair Anonymous: DNA Testing

Dax and Monica talk to Armcherries! In today's episode, Armcherries tell us about a crazy DNA testing story. Follow Armchair Expert on the Wondery App or wherever you get your podcasts. Watch new content on YouTube or listen ...
Alison Wood Brooks (on the science of conversation)
Feb. 19, 2025

Alison Wood Brooks (on the science of conversation)

Alison Wood Brooks (Talk: The Science of Conversation and the Art of Being Ourselves) is a behavioral research scientist. Alison joins the Armchair Expert to discuss why growing up as a twin is like watching an alternate vers...
Walton Goggins
Feb. 17, 2025

Walton Goggins

Walton Goggins (White Lotus, Fallout, Hateful Eight) is an Emmy-nominated actor. Walton joins the Armchair Expert to discuss no longer being willing to perpetuate cultural stereotypes of the south, being raised by the real St...
Armchair Anonymous: Bad Proposals
Feb. 14, 2025

Armchair Anonymous: Bad Proposals

Dax and Monica talk to Armcherries! In today's episode, Armcherries tell us about a proposal gone wrong. Follow Armchair Expert on the Wondery App or wherever you get your podcasts. Watch new content on YouTube or listen to A...
Nate Silver (statistician)
Feb. 12, 2025

Nate Silver (statistician)

Nate Silver (On the Edge, The Signal and the Noise, Baseball Between the Numbers) is a statistician, author, and founder of FiveThirtyEight. Nate joins the Armchair Expert to discuss his youthful aspirations for a starter job...
Chelsea Handler Returns Again
Feb. 10, 2025

Chelsea Handler Returns Again

Chelsea Handler (I’ll Have What She’s Having, Dear Chelsea, Chelsea Lately) is a comedian, producer, and best-selling author. Chelsea returns to the Armchair Expert to discuss appreciating words more than gifts, having the be...
Armchair Anonymous: Sports Event
Feb. 7, 2025

Armchair Anonymous: Sports Event

Dax and Monica talk to Armcherries! In today's episode, Armcherries tell us about a live sporting event disaster. Follow Armchair Expert on the Wondery App or wherever you get your podcasts. Watch new content on YouTube or li...
Acquired Podcast on the NFL (with Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal)
Feb. 5, 2025

Acquired Podcast on the NFL (with Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal)

Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal (Acquired) are hosts of the critically acclaimed podcast covering business history and strategy. Ben and David join the Armchair Expert on this special Super Bowl episode to discuss the metric ...
James Marsden
Feb. 3, 2025

James Marsden

James Marsden (Paradise, Jury Duty, X-Men) is an Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated actor. James joins the Armchair Expert to discuss paying the price for such a dominant chin, the reality of being an Oklahoman in Los Angeles, a...
Armchair Anonymous: Nurses II
Jan. 31, 2025

Armchair Anonymous: Nurses II

Dax and Monica talk to Armcherries! In today's episode, Armcherries tell us their craziest nurse stories. Follow Armchair Expert on the Wondery App or wherever you get your podcasts. Watch new content on YouTube or listen to ...
Reid Hoffman Returns (on an optimistic AI)
Jan. 29, 2025

Reid Hoffman Returns (on an optimistic AI)

Reid Hoffman (Superagency: What Could Possibly Go Right With our AI Future) is an internet entrepreneur, author, and co-founder of LinkedIn and Inflection AI. Reid returns to the Armchair Expert to discuss Socrates’s musing o...
Josh Gad Returns
Jan. 27, 2025

Josh Gad Returns

Josh Gad (In Gad We Trust, Frozen, Book of Mormon) is a Grammy Award-winning actor. Josh returns to Armchair Expert to discuss why he believes he would be the Unsinkable Molly Brown on the Titanic, the unthinkable bravery and...
Armchair Anonymous: Dated a Criminal
Jan. 24, 2025

Armchair Anonymous: Dated a Criminal

Dax and Monica talk to Armcherries! In today's episode, Armcherries tell us about a time they dated a criminal. Follow Armchair Expert on the Wondery App or wherever you get your podcasts. Watch new content on YouTube or list...
Sunita Sah (on defiance)
Jan. 22, 2025

Sunita Sah (on defiance)

Sunita Sah (Defy: The Power of No in a World That Demands Yes) is an author, award-winning, tenured professor at Cornell University, and expert in organizational psychology. Sunita joins the Armchair Expert to discuss living ...
Adam Scott Returns
Jan. 20, 2025

Adam Scott Returns

Adam Scott (Severance, Parks and Recreation, Stepbrothers) is an Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated actor and comedian. Adam joins the Armchair Expert to discuss why the era of movies that produced ET, The Goonies, and Temple of...
Armchair Anonymous: Unauthorized Evacuation
Jan. 17, 2025

Armchair Anonymous: Unauthorized Evacuation

Dax and Monica talk to Armcherries! In today's episode, Armcherries tell us about an unauthorized evacuation. Follow Armchair Expert on the Wondery App or wherever you get your podcasts. Watch new content on YouTube or listen...
Jenny Taitz (on stress resets)
Jan. 15, 2025

Jenny Taitz (on stress resets)

Jenny Taitz (Stress Resets, How to Be Single and Happy) is a licensed clinical psychologist, best-selling author, and assistant clinical professor in psychiatry at UCLA. Jenny joins the Armchair Expert to discuss the initial ...
Josh Brolin Returns
Jan. 13, 2025

Josh Brolin Returns

Josh Brolin (From Under the Truck, No Country For Old Men, Dune) is an Academy Award-nominated actor. Josh joins the Armchair Expert to discuss his infiltration of Dax’s algorithm, the fact that Monica has only half-seen The ...
Armchair Anonymous: Embarrassingly Caught
Jan. 10, 2025

Armchair Anonymous: Embarrassingly Caught

Dax and Monica talk to Armcherries! In today's episode, Armcherries tell us the most embarrassing thing they’ve ever been caught doing. Follow Armchair Expert on the Wondery App or wherever you get your podcasts. Watch new co...
Ken Goldberg (roboticist)
Jan. 8, 2025

Ken Goldberg (roboticist)

Ken Goldberg (Why Don’t We Have Better Robots Yet?) is an award-winning artist, roboticist, and engineering professor. Ken joins the Armchair Expert to discuss being born in Nigeria, growing up in rough and tumble City of Bro...