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Armchair Anonymous: Moving

Dax and Monica talk to Armcherries! In today's episode, Armcherries tell us about a crazy moving story.Follow Armchair Expert on the Wondery App or wherever you get your podcasts. Watch new content on YouTube or listen to Armchair Expert early and ad-free by joining Wondery+ in t ... Show More

51m 58s

Oct 8

Toby Stuart (on social status)

Toby Stuart (Anointed: The Extraordinary Effects of Social Status in a Winner-Take-Most World) is an organizational theorist, professor of business administration at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, and author. Toby joins the Armchair Expert to discuss attending Harvard Bus ... Show More

1h 36m

Oct 7

Mom's Car: Jackie Tohn

On this week’s episode of Mom’s Car, we welcome longtime pal and Nobody Wants This supporting star Jackie Tohn. Jackie, Dax, and Best Friend Aaron Weakley talk through comparisons between the smells of broccoli and feet, being a part of the most streamed comedy of all time, getti ... Show More

54m 49s

Jun 2021

Barry Meier

Barry Meier (Spooked, Pain Killer) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and a former New York Times journalist. Barry joins the Armchair Expert to discuss investigating the opioid crisis, how Big Pharma played a role in perpetuating the problem, and the depths in which people will ... Show More

1h 17m

May 2020

Barry Seal Part 2: Into the Lion's Den

Tom Cruise played him in a Hollywood blockbuster movie. Barry Seal’s name has passed into legend. In this episode of Real Narcos, Barry Seal flips. The world’s most illusive smuggler becomes the DEA’s most highly prized informant. With a mission brief from his handlers, Seal emba ... Show More

51m 13s

Aug 2019

Contras, Cocaine and the CIA: The True Story of Barry Seal

Across the course of his strange and checkered career, pilot and smuggler Barry Seal was called many things: An informant, a criminal, an asset for America's alphabet soup of intelligence agencies and more. He met an ignoble end in February of 1986, when he was fatally shot outsi ... Show More

58m 32s

Oct 2016

Radio Host Bob Garfield on Trump and Telemarketing

Each week, more than 400 radio stations across the country air "On The Media," a program that takes a hard look at the boldfaced names in the headlines—and the smaller names in the bylines. The program has won many awards for its role as a watchdog for journalistic accountability ... Show More

44m 52s

Nov 2023

4. Cocaine

Mattes connects with world powerboat champion and cartel drug smuggler Jorge Morales. Morales says he knows all the people Mattes has been investigating because he has been running drugs for them and paying them to squash his indictment.Lawyers, Guns, and Money is available early ... Show More

44m 21s

Jul 2022

The Great Imposter: The Many Faces (and costumes) of Barry Bremen

A sports-loving jokester with a desire to be seen by the masses, Barry Bremen fraudulently made his way into some of the biggest sporting and entertainment events of the 70s and 80s. It's one thing to dress up as a ref at a game, quite another to accept an award on stage meant fo ... Show More

49m 3s

Mar 2020

Revealing Barry Sonnenfeld

Barry Sonnenfeld was among Hollywood's most in-demand cinematographers (Big, When Harry Met Sally, Misery) when he decided to make the switch to directing in 1991. The producers were nervous, but the proof was in the pudding: Sonnenfeld's directorial debut was The Addams Family, ... Show More

39m 11s

Nov 2021

Indictment of Steele dossier source humiliates its media, intel cheerleaders

Igor Danchenko, the main source for the Clinton-campaign funded Steele dossier, has been indicted for lying to the FBI. The indictment's revelations are humiliating for the influential political, media, and intelligence voices who promoted Steele as credible, and raise new questi ... Show More

42m 18s