Rerelease: Monica Lewinsky

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2025

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Summary

On today's episode, we revisit Monica Lewinsky's episode from October 17th, 2019. Monica Lewinsky is an American anti-bullying ambassador to the Diana Award’s Anti-Bullying Programme, on the advisory board of Project rockit, founding board member of The Childhood Resilience Foundation and contributing editor to Vanity Fair. She sits down with the armchair expert to discuss overcoming trauma, cyber bullying and her experience being publicly labeled as a negative archetype. Monica talks about being an upstander and Dax is impressed by Monica’s resilience. The two discuss chasing and breaking patterns, public shame and the ways in which they both seek safety.

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0:00.0	Wonderie Plus subscribers can listen to Armchair expert early and ad free right now.
0:06.5	Join Wonderly Plus in the Wondry app or on Apple Podcasts.
0:10.0	Or you can listen for free wherever you get your podcasts.
0:13.7	Maybe you should do hello-low.
0:16.7	Hello.
0:20.7	Hi, everyone. Hello. I'm here. Oh.
0:22.3	Hi, everyone.
0:23.1	Hello.
0:25.2	I'm here.
0:25.8	This is Monica.
0:27.2	Monica Padman.
0:31.4	And I'm here with Dax Shepard and Wabiwob Hollis.
0:35.8	I had to say our last name is because it's about to get quite confusing.
0:36.4	Yeah.
0:37.9	We're doing... It wasn't confusing enough this year. so we thought, let's at the very end get even...
0:42.1	Let's get really confused.
0:42.8	Let's add another layer of confusion.
0:44.2	Yes.
0:44.7	We wanted to do a little of our favorites this week.
0:50.1	You just heard a couple days ago, you heard Laurelabo, Mom. Triple L. Dax's mom. That episode. And my pick for the week is Monica Lewinsky. That's why that's confusing.
1:02.2	Okay. Because of Monica and Monica? Yeah. Oh, okay. That's why I had to say last names.
1:06.7	Okay. And that makes sense. And why did you pick Monica?
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