Reviews

I had to counteract another reviewer that said it’s pointless or whatever. I love Flightless Bird. That is all.

Just wanted Monica to know that I was the same as a kid as not relating to cartoon characters love. I also never cared about Disney princesses or was attracted to cartoon characters! 😁 love you guys!!

PLEASSSEEEEE get rid of flightless bird, it is SO POINTLESS 😩😩 replace it with more armchair anonymous !! Love the other shows!!

I always love the guests especially the therapist based ones. The interview questions are always intentional. Dax is so honest and it’s refreshing ! Monica is a nice balance

You were able to articulate a lot about the negative coming at people who have gotten help with GLP drugs. For me, it has been life changing. And when my brother-in-law was prescribed something- he wanted to know if it was cheating?? I think there should be dietary programs to help support people who need this support. But no one questions heart medications or insulin but this medication has triggered a lot of negativity. So again - thank you for being articulate and addressing this topic so fairly.

While they are part of the Sim ;-). It is the best show, so many options, so many episodes per week. Thank you for all you do. It takes work, less work than pounding a nail all day, but work non the less.

I just discovered this podcast and I LOVE it! I’m a dog walker and this podcast really helps me get through my work days. Love Monica, Dax, and Rob! You guys are awesome!

Loved it

I particularly love Experts on Expert where Dax interviews non-celebrities. They are so interesting! Very reminiscent of Howard Stern’s interviewing technique. I no longer stick around for the fact check since most of it doesn’t have anything to do with the interview. The last fact check was over 40 minutes long with only about 5 minutes related to the interview. I would really prefer that they split up the podcasts into separate subscriptions since I don’t listen to any of the Synced episodes and very few of the Flightless Bird episodes.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do an episode about Ketamine for mental health. It has changed my life and I’d love to hear you talk about it with an expert.

🍒Been an Armcherry since the beginning. It’s hard to keep up while wfh, but it’s always my favorite way to start the week!!! Thank you Dax and Monica for introducing so many new things through your huge variety of guests. Such a fun show that both my husband and I enjoy together!!! 🍒

Hey- re the Sanjay Gupta podcast fact check, I always pictured Monica as Mindy Kaling and it blew my mind when I saw her picture eventually. Monica is perfect as she is and so beautiful but I still secretly imagine her as Mindy sometimes. I can’t help it!!

Dax Shepard is a great interviewer. He does his research to ask smart questions and also gets people to open up more than even they were obviously expecting. It’s often nice to hear from Monica Padman as well; however, she is frequently just mind-bogglingly out of touch with those of us not in the top five or ten percent. Love the Thursday shows and sometimes the Monday shows (except for the “fact checks” in which they just broadcast themselves chatting about their personal lives and mutual friends for often around 40 minutes). Wish they’d please just take the other stuff out of the feed. Also, they get an F on integrity for running (and reading!) McDonald’s ads after publicly and repeatedly articulating how fast food is engineered to be addictive and is a threat to public health.

Thank you for enriching my life. Love your episodes!

Where did you guys park?? … man I’ve been a fan since! I Love Hit and Run too. Thanks for what you and Monica and Robby Rob do. (And the team) much love.

I love Dax and Monica, but this show has too many different shows in one follow. I am not interested in ALL of these and am very interested is some. I would much prefer to be able to subscribe to flightless bird as a stand alone podcast same with Armchair. But I am not interested in Synced or any of these other mini shows. Start a podcast network or something and let me choose the content I want. I miss a lot of stuff I want to hear sifting thru all the stuff I don’t. BUT! Keep up the good work! Thank you all!

More Monica, Liz and Dax time please!!! Love all of your expertise, experience and interest, so many diverse viewpoints it’s wonderful 🥂 And then have Wobby wob and David have some bro convos too please! they remind me of my guy friends, their bromance makes me giggle so much

Loved the entire podcast, but the fact check had me uncontrollably laughing. The riff on Mikes coffee and Bobs paper towels was priceless. Monica’s acting skills shined while she played the straight guy. I hoped she was having as much fun doing it as I had listening to it. Thanks for the belly laughs!

Armchair anonymous is by far my favorite podcast. I look forward to Fridays and make an effort to clear my schedule for an hour in the morning to sit in my hot tub and listen to the show with an incredible view of the Rocky Mountains. It’s the best. Thanks for your good company (and conversation starters!)

Dax is an excellent interviewer with engaging viewpoints. Monica is just background noise laughs and when she does get get in the mix it feels out of place and adds nothing to the conversation. Dax would better off solo because Monica is distracting more than anything. Overall a great podcast. You can tell Dax does his homework and is truly interested in each and every guest and their backstory. I love hearing new things about celebrities I would've never known.

Synced needs to go away to its own universe I couldn’t be less interested but because I follow Armchair my feed automatically gets that and it drives me nuts. Time to separate that and see if it will stand on its own.

The 5 star rating is for the interview portion of this program. This interview with Chris Pine is one of the best that Dax Shepherd has ever done. He appropriately brings out his insecurities and shortcomings to direct the conversation in a meaningful manner. I am always grateful when Dax talks about his sobriety and and what he has learned along the way. It is a real active service to discuss this in such a public way. I know somewhere someone needs to hear his story and it will help them. I am grateful for anyone who discusses the things in life that have caused many people great shame to lose the shame that we feel for things that were not our fault it’s such a freeing experience. And to take accountability and express accountability for things we are responsible for is also justice freeing. I have always had issues with the fact, check portion of this podcast. I think it’s such an opportunity for Monica and Dax to look at issues that came up in the discussion and educate themselves about them as well as correct any mistakes. When Monica and Dax go into a sidebar discussion, the conversation often disintegrates into a foray of their own personal biases that exposes their limitations of understanding. This is where my eyes start to roll and though I should know better to just end my listening when that starts to happen, I continue with the program hoping for a redeeming conclusion to whatever point they’re trying to make. Most of this, I chalk up to the youth and inexperience in the matters of current everyday life. Most of the times Dax can breach the Hollywood bubble that they seem to inhabit. But Monica‘s consumerism seems to trump whatever values she may possess. Today, living as a middle-class American with my own home, and the ability to purchase whatever I need in ways of shelter food and clothing as well as pursue hobbies and enrichment, I have it better than so many others living on the planet. So when I hear Monica talk about fast fashion, and the millions of people who purchase it in such a dismissive way, it’s really repellent. When Monica expresses her complete surprise that Reese Witherspoon has a college education it just seems so naïve. What does that say about her thoughts about Reese Witherspoon? And why would she express it in that manner, it seems like a real dig at her. And this is where we come back to the title of the show, Armchair Expert. This episode is par for the course in terms of the fact check/social hour.

How can you not be a fan of Dax and Monica. What an incredible duo who share a lot of opposite opinions, but are a great example of how well that can work together. Dax is the man-child I wish I could be best friends with and Monica is the authentic, girl next door you have a crush on but know it’s better to be best friends with for a lifetime of awesomeness.

The way Dax and Monica are able to be vulnerable, caring, funny, and entertaining is beyond. I came for the guests, and I’ve stayed since 2018 for Monica, Dax, and Wobby Wob. Cherry for life!