Zooey Deschanel Returns

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2025

⏱️ 115 minutes

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Summary

Zooey Deschanel (Merv, New Girl, She & Him) is an actress and musician. Zooey returns to the Armchair Expert to discuss the lessons of the go-bag after the fire evacuations, the elegance-centered branding of cats, and the touching surprise that fans often comfort-rewatch New Girl. Zooey and Dax talk about having a partner who's a consummate tinkerer, growing up in a family of ADHD interrupters, and the embarrassing moments running through her head at all times. Zooey explains being a broken-up couple with a depressed mutt in her new movie Merv, her kids only recent interest in watching her in Elf, and a beautiful, special Armchair rendition of Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.

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0:00.0	Wonderie Plus subscribers can listen to Armchair Expert early and ad free right now.
0:06.5	Join Wonderly Plus in the Wondry app or on Apple Podcasts.
0:10.0	Or you can listen for free wherever you get your podcasts.
0:13.9	Welcome, welcome, welcome to Armchair Expert.
0:16.2	I'm Dan Shepard.
0:17.0	I'm joined by Lily Padman.
0:18.2	And today we have just one of the more adorable humans on
0:21.8	planet Earth. Yes, a Christmas mouse. Charming, quirky, smart, talented, great singer, Zoe Day Chanel,
0:27.3	an actor and a musician, new girl, 500 days of summer, elf, yes man. And she has a new movie on
0:34.5	Prime Video called Merv. Merv. I'm going to promise you right now this movie is getting watched by my family, who are all dog lovers.
0:41.9	Yes.
0:42.4	It's an adorable story about a couple that's broken up, and the dog is so depressed.
0:47.5	Oh, sorry, dog.
0:48.9	Sorry, Merv.
0:50.7	Please enjoy Zoe D. Chanel.
0:52.6	Well, there's a special surprise in this episode.
0:56.2	We get something very special from Zoe that we kind of forced to happen.
1:02.4	She came very generous.
1:03.6	She was in the holiday spirit.
1:04.7	That's right.
1:05.3	So enjoy the little special tune.
1:11.1	Thank you to our presenting sponsor, Audible, for supporting this episode.
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