Amanda Uhle (on hoarding)

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

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4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2025

⏱️ 116 minutes

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Amanda Uhle (Destroy This House, McSweeney’s) is a journalist, publisher, and author. Amanda joins the Armchair Expert to discuss the east meets west hodgepodge decor cultivated by her eccentric parents, her job as a child to not make her mother’s hoarding a problem, and her dad’s increasing involvement with a motivational tape MLM. Amanda and Dax talk about navigating the subculture of being a pastor’s kid, her mom obsession with death taking shape in a vocation as a hospice nurse, and her father’s pulpit mental breakdown and subsequent stroke. Amanda explains investigating her mysterious parents because she didn’t know what to make of them after their death, how we really have no idea what’s going on in people’s homes, and finding herself totally at peace with who her parents were.

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0:13.8	Welcome, welcome, welcome to Armchair Expert, Experts on Expert.
0:17.3	Today we have Amanda Yulean.
0:19.7	Yes.
0:20.6	Who's a journalist and a nonfiction writer. She is the
0:22.7	executive director and publisher of McSweeney's. She's been published in all kinds of very
0:28.4	reputable publications. Fun stuff. She's a successful writer. Yes. But she has an incredible
0:34.5	memoir called Destroy This House. For people who say it a different, some say correct way, memoir.
0:42.8	Great.
0:43.5	That's what I think I said, but clearly I didn't or you wouldn't be correct to me.
0:46.7	But her story is an incredible one.
0:51.3	Her mother was a hoarder, and her father was this incredibly charismatic guy who
0:57.5	had fortunes won and lost and it's a riveting tale of childhood. It's a tale of dysfunction.
1:05.7	Yeah. And it's wild. It's a wild ride. And we were really interested in the whole thing, but the hoarding is
1:12.1	really... We're pretty horny for hoarding. Yeah, we like that. We like to talk about hoarding. Please
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