Interviewees frequently take them up on this. Padman give guests the option to cut portions of the interview after recording, should they regret something they said. “There becomes something about Dax and about the way he deals with his own history which makes me want to meet him at his level of vulnerability.” (A fan of the show and a connoisseur of crystals, she brought green apophyllite as gifts for Mr. “He creates a very safe space for an interviewee,” said Monica Lewinsky, who appeared on “Armchair Expert” in October.
Shepard’s co-star on “Bless This Mess.” When she appeared on the show, she spoke about the traumatic birth of her son, which she hadn’t discussed publicly before. “His best quality in interviewing is making sure you don’t feel alone and naked out there,” said the actress Lake Bell, Mr. Shepard’s frequent expressions of vulnerability - about his road rage, about his vanity, about being molested as a child - encourage his interview subjects to feel comfortable sharing something of themselves. “You could say that he’s the poster child for an alternative to what sometimes gets called ‘toxic masculinity.’ I’m not a fan of that term - I much prefer the social science of what’s called ‘precarious manhood’ - but I think he’s a role model for how not to be someone who’s constantly trying to prove your manhood.” “It feels like Dax is a much more enlightened Howard Stern,” said Adam Grant, an organizational psychologist, whose interview aired in December. Shepard is inclined toward self-analysis of his insecurities, motivations and shortcomings. On “Armchair Expert,” as in real life, Mr. He was trying to police himself, he said, to make sure he didn’t sabotage the podcast’s success somehow. Shepard was sitting in the attic’s leather recliner, rocking back and forth and sporadically tucking a long leg up under him. I would like this to go on for a long, long time.’” “So to have something that’s a hit for me also comes with fear as well as gratitude. “I’ve been in a bunch of things that work just enough,” he said. “But then my brain shifts immediately into fear, like, how do we maintain that?” “It’s so wonderful to read that, to know that,” he said. Shepard, it is often downloaded more than five million times in a week: roughly one million apiece from two new episodes, and another three million from the archive. The show closed out 2018 as the most downloaded new podcast on iTunes and won “Breakout Podcast” at the 2019 iHeartRadio Podcast Awards.Īccording to Mr. Now “Armchair Expert” competes with podcasts like Mr.
Shepard said, was never meant to be groundbreaking long-form interviews have existed practically since the dawn of radio. Monica Padman, a 32-year-old actress, is his quieter co-host she also handles the behind-the-scenes work of wrangling guests and editing interviews. Shepard - known for his roles on “Parenthood” and the new sitcom “Bless This Mess” - is the face and primary voice of the podcast. Shepard’s wife, was the show’s first guest. The episodes feature a mix of Hollywood names (Will Ferrell, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ellen DeGeneres, Emilia Clarke), authors (Elizabeth Gilbert, David Sedaris, Gillian Flynn) and specialists in various fields (Richard Dawkins, Esther Perel, the California surgeon general Nadine Burke Harris, Bill Nye). Shepard’s interview podcast, which premiered in 2018. Such casually blunt questions are a hallmark of “Armchair Expert,” Mr. Filling the coffee maker with water for himself, he asked: Did I have addictive tendencies? Shepard wanted to know: Would I like coffee? I said that I’d already had tea that morning, and besides, I was trying and routinely failing to honor my doctor’s suggestion to drink less caffeine.
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