Episodes

Chris Nowinski (on CTE)
May 14, 2025

Chris Nowinski (on CTE)

Chris Nowinski (Stop Hitting Kids in the Head, Head Games: Football's Concussion Crisis, Concussion Legacy Foundation) is an author, retired pro-wrestler, and neuroscientist. Chris joins the Armchair Expert to discuss never f...
Mo Amer
May 12, 2025

Mo Amer

Mo Amer (Mo, The Vagabond, Black Adam) is an award-winning comedian and actor. Mo joins the Armchair Expert to discuss feeling anxiety only when there’s something unsettled at home, embracing the responsibility of being a com...
Armchair Anonymous: Cults II
May 9, 2025

Armchair Anonymous: Cults II

Dax and Monica talk to Armcherries! In today's episode, Armcherries tell us about a time they escaped a cult. Follow Armchair Expert on the Wondery App or wherever you get your podcasts. Watch new content on YouTube or listen...
Michael Lewis (on the gambling epidemic)
May 7, 2025

Michael Lewis (on the gambling epidemic)

Michael Lewis (Who is Government: The Untold Story of Public Service, Against the Rules, The Big Short) is a best-selling writer, journalist, and podcast host. Michael joins the Armchair Expert to discuss his dad’s advice to ...
Jon Bernthal
May 5, 2025

Jon Bernthal

Jon Bernthal (The Accountant 2, The Bear, Real Ones) is an Emmy Award-winning actor and podcast host. Jon joins the Armchair Expert to discuss making peace with the beard, how looking like a real person has been an asset in h...
Susan Morrison (on Lorne Michaels)
April 30, 2025

Susan Morrison (on Lorne Michaels)

Susan Morrison (Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live, SPY Magazine, The New Yorker) is a journalist and author. Susan joins the Armchair Expert to discuss never wanting to subject her children to a life of moving a...
Anthony Anderson
April 28, 2025

Anthony Anderson

Anthony Anderson (G20, Black-ish, The Departed) is an Emmy Award-nominated actor, comedian, and television host. Anthony joins the Armchair Expert to discuss being in the Guinness Book of World Records for furthest hit golf b...
Armchair Anonymous: First Responder
April 25, 2025

Armchair Anonymous: First Responder

Dax and Monica talk to Armcherries! In today's episode, Armcherries tell us a crazy first responder story. Follow Armchair Expert on the Wondery App or wherever you get your podcasts. Watch new content on YouTube or listen to...
David Blaine (magician and mentalist)
April 23, 2025

David Blaine (magician and mentalist)

David Blaine (Do Not Attempt, Buried Alive, Above the Below) is a magician, mentalist, and endurance performer. David joins the Armchair Expert to discuss the deck of cards his mom gave him as a kid in Brooklyn, keeping his m...
Monica Lewinsky Returns
April 21, 2025

Monica Lewinsky Returns

Monica Lewinsky (Reclaiming) is an activist, writer, and podcast host. Monica returns to the Armchair Expert to discuss confronting deep trauma listening to her own voice while making her new podcast Reclaiming, the argument ...
Armchair Anonymous: Cedar Point
April 18, 2025

Armchair Anonymous: Cedar Point

Dax and Monica talk to Armcherries! In today's episode, Armcherries tell us a crazy Cedar Point story. Follow Armchair Expert on the Wondery App or wherever you get your podcasts. Watch new content on YouTube or listen to Arm...
David Sedaris #5
April 16, 2025

David Sedaris #5

David Sedaris (Happy-Go-Lucky, A Carnival of Snackery, Calypso) is a comedian, humorist, and author. David returns to the Armchair Expert to discuss why his Picasso painting is what he would grab in a fire, what in 50 years w...
Bert Kreischer
April 14, 2025

Bert Kreischer

Bert Kreischer (Lucky, Bertcast, 2 Bears 1 Cave) is a standup comedian, television host, and podcaster. Bert joins the Armchair Expert to discuss the fact that he would have thrived in a content house, how his discontinued fl...
Armchair Anonymous: Haven’t Confessed to Parents
April 11, 2025

Armchair Anonymous: Haven’t Confessed to Parents

Dax and Monica talk to Armcherries! In today's episode, Armcherries tell us something they still haven’t confessed to their parents. Follow Armchair Expert on the Wondery App or wherever you get your podcasts. Watch new conte...
Rebecca Lemov (on brainwashing)
April 9, 2025

Rebecca Lemov (on brainwashing)

Rebecca Lemov (The Instability of Truth: Brainwashing, Mind Control, and Hyper-Persuasion) is a historian of science, author, and professor at Harvard. Rebecca joins the Armchair Expert to discuss the meet cute with her husba...
Dove Cameron
April 7, 2025

Dove Cameron

Dove Cameron (Too Much, Descendants, Liv and Maddie) is an Emmy Award-winning actor and singer. Dove joins the Armchair Expert to discuss the origins of bloomers, realizing she was a stimulus addict at a very young age, and h...
Armchair Anonymous: Meet Cute II
April 4, 2025

Armchair Anonymous: Meet Cute II

Dax and Monica talk to Armcherries! In today's episode, Armcherries tell us about their meet cute. Follow Armchair Expert on the Wondery App or wherever you get your podcasts. Watch new content on YouTube or listen to Armchai...
Herman Pontzer (on evolutionary anthropology)
April 2, 2025

Herman Pontzer (on evolutionary anthropology)

Herman Pontzer (Adaptable: How Your Unique Body Works and Why Our Biology Unites Us) is an evolutionary anthropologist, author, and associate professor at Duke University. Herman joins the Armchair Expert to discuss growing u...
Eiza Gonzalez
March 31, 2025

Eiza Gonzalez

Eiza González (Ash, Baby Driver, 3 Body Problem) is an actor and singer. Eiza joins the Armchair Expert to discuss whether there is human DNA in hotdogs, how she wanted braces because all the cool girls had them, and being a ...
Armchair Anonymous: Animal Attack II
March 28, 2025

Armchair Anonymous: Animal Attack II

Dax and Monica talk to Armcherries! In today's episode, Armcherries tell us about a time they fought a wild animal. Follow Armchair Expert on the Wondery App or wherever you get your podcasts. Watch new content on YouTube or ...
Seth Rogen Returns Again
March 26, 2025

Seth Rogen Returns Again

Seth Rogen (The Studio, The Boys, Sausage Party) is an Emmy-nominated writer, actor, and director. Seth returns to the Armchair Expert to discuss Snoop Dogg being the only person that’s ever gotten him too high to function, h...
Ike Barinholtz Returns Again
March 24, 2025

Ike Barinholtz Returns Again

Ike Barinholtz (The Studio, Running Point, The Mindy Project) is a comedian, actor, and writer. Ike returns to the Armchair Expert to discuss how the Declaration of Independence was really the result of one big goon fest, pre...
Armchair Anonymous: Children's Party
March 21, 2025

Armchair Anonymous: Children's Party

Dax and Monica talk to Armcherries! In today's episode, Armcherries tell us a crazy children's party story. Follow Armchair Expert on the Wondery App or wherever you get your podcasts. Watch new content on YouTube or listen t...
Mary Claire Haver (on menopause)
March 19, 2025

Mary Claire Haver (on menopause)

Mary Claire Haver (The New Menopause, The ‘Pause Life) is a board-certified OBGYN, culinary medicine specialist, and best-selling author. Mary Claire joins the Armchair Expert to discuss how she ended up as one of eight child...