Olivia Munn

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2025

⏱️ 115 minutes

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Summary

Olivia Munn (Your Friend and Neighbors, The Newsroom, The Daily Show) is an actor and advocate. Olivia joins the Armchair Expert to discuss accepting that a messy home with kids is not a sign of failure, the story of her family’s exodus from Vietnam, and the endearing best friend dynamic between her husband and her mom. Olivia and Dax talk about feeling powerful for other people by overcoming abuse at home, inventing her own language just so she could cheat in math, and not regretting sticking to her instincts despite its effects on her career. Olivia explains following the fragility of appearance in Your Friends and Neighbors, how life or death problems streamline your priorities, and why we so often spend our time in positions that are comfortable over those that are right.

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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.
0:16.2	I'm Dax Shepherd.
0:16.9	I'm joined by Monica Lilly Padman.
0:18.9	Hi.
0:19.4	Hi.
0:20.0	Welcome.
0:20.7	Someone on an Armchairchair anonymous recently said MVP.
0:25.0	I was struck by the big mistake my parents made by not giving my middle name of me.
0:28.6	Veronica.
0:29.5	Yeah, or Victoria.
0:31.0	Yeah, or Vince.
0:32.4	Yeah, I would take it.
0:33.8	Or Victor.
0:34.3	To have MVP.
0:36.2	Monica, Victor Padman.
0:37.8	Ooh, I like that. That's strong. Victor. To have MVP. Monica Victor Padman. Ooh, I like that.
0:38.8	That's strong.
0:39.7	Victor.
0:40.7	Her victory.
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