Amanda Knox

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2025

⏱️ 141 minutes

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Summary

Amanda Knox (The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox) is an exoneree, author and producer. Amanda joins the Armchair Expert to discuss the human urge to find fault in others to exonerate ourselves, coming of age in the era of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl, and the personal journeys undertaken while studying abroad. Amanda and Dax talk about how people still have a hard time distinguishing when media is sensationalized, the vital distinction between an interview and an interrogation, and the deep, cartoonish misogyny endemic to her case. Amanda explains how comforting it is when people find her story relatable, the remaining sticking point with her prosecutor on facts versus interpretations, and the nuance in portrayal while making this show and what she needed to get perfectly right.

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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.
0:13.8	Welcome, welcome, welcome to Armchair Expert.
0:15.9	I'm Daxe.
0:16.7	I'm joined by Lily Padman.
0:18.0	Hello.
0:18.7	Today we have Amanda Knox on.
0:20.6	She's an exonerie, a journalist, a public speaker, author of the New York Times bestselling memoir,
0:25.6	waiting to be heard, and host of the podcast, Hard Knocks.
0:30.4	She has a limited series coming out on Hulu that's based on her book,
0:35.9	Waiting to Be Heard, The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox on Hulu that's based on her book waiting to be heard, The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox on Hulu now.
0:42.8	Which we've both watched and it is really good.
0:46.3	Yes.
0:46.8	I mean, this is one of the craziest stories you could ever hear.
0:50.3	And even if you think you know this story, there's so much more that isn't in any of the docks that I've seen. Yes, exactly. There's a ton here. I really, really enjoyed meeting her and talking to her. Me too. I think when we saw the doc in 16, we were like, God, we would just kill to talk to her. Yes. Well, that's pun not intended. Pun, not intended. Also, for anyone who loves best friend Aaron Weekly, as I do.
0:54.4	As we all. Well, that's pun not intended. Pun, not intended. Also, for anyone who loves best friend Aaron Weekly, as I do.
1:14.5	As we all do.
1:15.6	And many people have been clamoring, which delights me, for a show with the two of us,
1:21.7	building on race to whatever that was, 270.
1:27.1	We're back at it, and it starts tomorrow.
1:30.3	It's called Mom's Car, and Aaron and I drive around Los Angeles, and we deliver food
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