Ramy Youssef Returns

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2025

⏱️ 112 minutes

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Summary

Ramy Youssef (Mountainhead, Number One Happy Family USA, Ramy) is an award-winning comedian, director, and actor. Ramy returns to the Armchair Expert to discuss how shooting Mountainhead was akin to a play, his subway take that everyone is inherently good and evil is just a virus, and why the US Constitution is dope. Ramy and Dax talk about likening his experience making TV to the national integrity crisis, who can throw a Molotov cocktail, and why the best things in life often emerge in spite of us. Ramy explains his initial understanding that at its core Poor Things is a romcom, how to him LeBron is the personification of discipline, and why he wanted to make a cartoon about a Muslim-American family set on and after September 10, 2001.

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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.
0:13.8	Welcome, welcome, welcome to Armchair Expert.
0:15.9	I'm Dax Shepherd.
0:16.7	I'm joined by Monica Padman.
0:18.7	And today we have Rami Yousef.
0:21.4	We love Rami.
0:22.7	Boy, oh boy.
0:24.2	Wise beyond his ears.
0:26.1	Very.
0:26.6	If ever there was an opportunity to say that.
0:28.7	Again, this is a second time.
0:31.5	His first go-round was a banger.
0:33.7	Yeah, worth checking out the first one.
0:35.3	Very spiritual, that one.
0:36.6	Yeah.
0:37.1	He is an award-winning actor.
0:39.6	He's a very good friend of David Zasloft.
0:43.3	A comedian, a producer, a director, and a creator, Rami Mo.
0:47.9	Poor Things.
0:49.2	Rami Youssef Feelings, Rami Youssef More Feelings, and his new movie that is out right now on Max,
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