Mindy Kaling

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2025

⏱️ 134 minutes

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Summary

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 for, relate over the sexiness and status marker of a good yard, and ask whether one can be Indian on the west side of LA. Mindy and Dax talk about her parents coming from two different parts of India and their meet cute in Africa, how every show she makes has a slow motion shot of a shirtless man’s torso, and why accidentally breaking her costar’s nose during a play taught her the true meaning of ‘the show must go on.’ Mindy explains how Reese Witherspoon convinced her not to wait to have kids, developing the assumption that she wouldn’t be truly great in anything unless she wrote it herself, and how her relationship with her mother has actually continued since her passing.

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0:00.0	Wondry Plus subscribers can listen to Armchair Expert early and ad free right now.
0:06.5	Join Wondry Plus in the Wondry app or on Apple Podcasts.
0:10.0	Or you can listen for free wherever you get your podcasts.
0:13.8	Welcome, welcome, welcome to armchair expert.
0:16.1	I'm Dan Rather and I'm joined by Lily Padman.
0:18.8	Now this.
0:20.2	People were curious what I wore a suit for.
0:23.9	Oh, I also posted a picture and said, this is the face of someone trying to play it cool.
0:30.3	So a lot of people have their guesses.
0:32.7	Uh-huh.
0:33.5	It was for Mindy Kaling.
0:34.7	Big deal.
0:35.4	I want to say Mindy Kalling's Kaling.
0:37.2	But it doesn't really work. But I want to say Mindy Kallings Kaling it, but it doesn't really work.
0:38.7	But I want to say it.
0:39.8	Okay.
0:40.2	She's Kaling it.
0:41.7	Still doesn't work.
0:43.2	We made a third time.
0:44.4	Mindy Kaling's Kaling it.
0:46.0	Wow.
0:46.5	Check her out this fall on NBC.
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