Jennifer Aniston

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2025

⏱️ 132 minutes

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Summary

Jennifer Aniston (The Morning Show, Cook with Clydeo, Friends) is an Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning actor. Jennifer joins the Armchair Expert to discuss the hidden messages in children’s literature, why doing podcasts can be like waking up from anesthesia, and the bait and switch of her actor dad deciding to train as a doctor in Greece. Jennifer and Dax talk about her apocryphal encounter with producer Warren Littlefield at a gas station, the cultural significance of why the show would never hurt a Friend, and whether she’s ever disguised herself to be anonymous to the outside world. Jennifer explains her contribution as a dog mother to the kids book universe, the balance she strikes in her character within the world of Morning Show, and why making people laugh becomes the salve that gets us through the world.

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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.
0:14.0	Welcome, welcome, welcome to armchair expert.
0:16.5	I'm Dach Shepard and I'm joined by Monica Lily Padman.
0:19.3	Hi.
0:20.6	Congratulations to my little friend from down in Duluth, Georgia goes around the bend.
0:27.9	Oh, nice.
0:28.7	She loved this show called Me and My Friends.
0:32.2	Her number one pals come down, Jennifer Anastan.
0:36.0	Wow, that was pretty good. That was kind of good.
0:37.9	Kind of not great.
0:39.6	I really like that, actually.
0:42.3	Congratulations, Ronnie.
0:43.3	This was a big deal.
0:45.2	Huge deal.
0:46.4	Big full circle.
0:47.5	Humongous deal.
0:49.0	Jennifer Aniston's here.
0:50.6	And all because of you.
0:52.0	You wrote a beautiful letter to her.
0:54.4	Our good friend, Molly McNerney, passed it on to Jen.
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