Andrea Dunlop (on Munchausen by proxy)

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2024

⏱️ 150 minutes

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Summary

Andrea Dunlop (Nobody Should Believe Me, The Mother Next Door) is an author and podcaster. Andrea joins the Armchair Expert to discuss her journey to becoming a writer, how her sister tried to sue her for defamation after her first book, and her personal relationship to Munchausen by proxy (MSP). Andrea and Dax talk about willful deception and reality distortion, the gendered aspects of MSP, and why confronting and taking action against it is so hard. Andrea discusses the disorientation of betrayal trauma, the medical kidnapping conspiracy theory, and if there are any predictable causes of MSP. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome, welcome, welcome to armchair expert experts on expert. I'm Monica Padman and I'm joined by Dax Shepard.
0:06.0	Hi. Hi. I'm Dax. I'm Dax. I like the live for each day.
0:13.0	Oh, boobs.
0:15.0	That wasn't fair to Andrea Dunlop at all.
0:18.0	Not really.
0:19.0	Andrea Dunlop is a writer and a host of an award-winning podcast which we talk about a lot in this
0:24.4	episode called Nobody Should Believe Me. This was tasty. This is all about
0:30.4	moonshousin and moonshousen by proxy one of our favorite topics.
0:34.3	This episode is so fascinating.
0:36.9	I've just told everyone I've encountered since then about this, so a lot of people are
0:41.0	waiting for this episode to drop.
0:43.0	She's also written several books.
0:45.0	Women are the fiercest creatures, losing the light.
0:48.0	She regrets nothing we came here to forget and Broken Bay.
0:52.0	But please check out nobody should believe me the
0:54.1	podcast. It's phenomenal and we discuss a lot. We really get into it here. Yeah, yeah.
0:58.1	Please enjoy Andrea Dunlop. We are supported by Squarespace. Guys we have a
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1:10.9	yourself from using all the templates, yeah.
1:12.8	I sure did.
1:13.4	Yeah, easy peasy?
1:14.6	So easy.
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