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Armchair Umbrella Limited Series
by Armchair Umbrella
Since 2018, the Armchair Umbrella network has created and produced many limited series in addition to its long standing shows. They are all housed here.- Monica & Jess Love Boys- Monica Padman and Jess Rowland are on opposite ends of the dating spectrum, but both searching for love. They bring experts on each week to talk through their individual issues and give them a dating challenge to complete by the following week.- Nurture vs Nurture- Dr. Wendy Mogel lends her psychology expertise as we listen to her give therapy sessions to parents in crisis.- Race to 270- Dax Shepard's best friend Aaron Weekly (300 pounds) and Perfect 10 Charlie Curtis (240 pounds) are on a race to reach 270 pounds first.- Race to 35 - Monica Padman and Liz Plank freeze their eggs at the same time and document their journey.- We Are Supported By- Kristen Bell and Monica Padman talk to a range of successful women who have played a part in cracking the glass ceiling.- Yearbook- Author, Chad Sanders defines
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Yearbook: Chapter 7: What The Living Can Offer
The basketball season comes to an unexpected ending, and Chad confronts his dad about a powerful moment in their relationship. Chad wants to close the book on these memories, but Dax and Monica push him to dig deeper on exactly what happened all those years ago.
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Yearbook: Chapter 6: The Hardest Book to Read
Chad’s mom said Chad never wanted things sugar-coated as a kid. He wanted the truth. Chad faces a truth he isn’t ready for when he uncovers information about The Driver that had been hiding in plain sight.
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Yearbook: Chapter 5: Teenage Love & Danger
Nothing compares to the butterflies of teenage love in high school. But teenage romance can lead to grave outcomes.
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Yearbook: Chapter 4: Local Celebrity
As the Blake basketball team roars through its thrilling season, Chad and his teammates experience local stardom. With his newfound status, Chad gets access to all of the hottest house parties…and ends up in white student’s houses for the first time with their parents out of town. Behold, the high school rager.
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Yearbook: Chapter 3: Insecurity
Like every high schooler, Chad wanted to be cool and wanted to be liked. He twisted himself in knots trying to be popular, trying to be an athlete, and trying to be a lady’s man. But some kids never get the luxury of normal teenage angst…
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Yearbook: Chapter 2: The Driver
Who was driving the car when Chad’s best friend died? What really happened the night when a student was killed in front of Blake High? Chad goes looking for answers to the questions he’s buried for 20 years.
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Yearbook: Chapter 1: The Perfect School
Chad’s junior year at Blake High School started off like pure magic. Blake was one of those perfect suburban high schools you see on TV and Chad was finally coming into his own. Then a tragedy struck that rocked the school and changed Chad's life forever.
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Welcome to Yearbook
In the inaugural episode of Yearbook, Dax and Monica sit down with Chad Sanders and they discuss season 1 of Armchair Umbrella's new anthology series. They talk about the working process, the reason they wanted to make the show, and the discomfort that accompanies quaking what you believe to be a solid foundation of identity. They prep the audience for what is to come in the following 7 episodes including self-exploration, death, sex, love, and redemption.
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Nurture vs Nurture: Family #21: Lucy & Joseph
Dr. Mogel speaks with family #21: Lucy & Joseph and answers the question: Will our children still respect us if we are divorced and happy? She also teaches us new words: nunchi and eomchina
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Nurture vs Nurture: Family #20: Jennifer
Dr. Mogel speaks with family #20: Jennifer and answers the question: Will my children hate me if I let them mother me? She also teaches us new words: mudita and firgun
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Nurture vs Nurture: Family #19: Susan & Julie
Dr. Mogel speaks with family #19: Susan and Julie and answers the question: Will my child hate me if I make her go upstairs alone? She also teaches us new words: kuchisabishii and shemomechama
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Nurture vs Nurture: Family #18: Annie
Dr. Mogel speaks with family #18: Annie and answers the question: Will my child hate me if I don't like what they like? She also teaches us a new word: jia yo
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Nurture vs Nurture: Family #17: Jimmy
Dr. Mogel speaks with family #17: Jimmy and answers the question: Will my child hate me if all the kids in school adore me? She also teaches us new words: kummerspeck and betsubara
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Nurture vs Nurture: Family #16: Marie & Wayne
Dr. Mogel speaks with family #16 Marie and Wayne and answers the question: Will my children hate me if I'm sarcastic? She also teaches us new words: acomedido and greng-jai
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Nurture vs Nurture: Family #15: Patricia & Nithin
Dr. Mogel speaks with family #15: Patricia and Nithin and answers the question: Will our children hate us if we don't worry about them equally? She also teaches us a new word: binnenpretje
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Nurture vs Nurture: Family #14: Samantha & Edgar
Dr. Mogel speaks with family #14: Samantha and Edgar and answers the question: Will our children hate us if we stop laughing at their jokes? She also teaches us a new word: baofuxing aoye
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Nurture vs Nurture: Family #13: Leah & Bobby
Dr. Mogel speaks with family #13: Leah and Bobby and answers the question: Will our children hate us if there's sibling inequality? She also teaches us a new word: pareidolia
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Nurture vs Nurture: Family #12: Denise & Ryan
Dr. Mogel speaks with family #12: Denise and Ryan and answers the question: Will our children hate us if we disagree about how to raise them? She also teaches us a new concept: Jimi Halloween
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Race to 35: Esther Perel
BONUS episode of Race to 35 with Esther Perel. Months after their retrievals, Monica and Liz return to the attic to discuss their feelings surrounding the egg retrieval process with some distance from the experience. Esther Perel joins the women in the attic to talk about ambiguous loss, jealousy/discomfort, and plans for the future.
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Race to 35: Post Retrieval
Monica and Liz get retrieved in episode 10 (out of 10) of Race to 35. In the final episode, L & M chat mere hours after their retrieval. They discuss their feelings, talk about the trigger shot experience, and discuss how their teams performed.
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Race to 35: Day 9 + Andrew Solomon
Monica and Liz are all synced up in episode 9 (out of 10) of Race to 35. The two are feeling unexpectedly sad as this process comes to an end. They have resigned to the idea that their follicles are players and that they, the coaches, can only do so much. Liz re-visits trauma from her synchronized swimming days and talks about the time she interviewed for Anna Wintour. L & M chat with Andrew Solomon (Pulitzer Prize finalist author of Far from the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity and The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression) about expanding the notion of the nuclear family, choosing surrogacy, his personal story of picking an egg donor and his experience interviewing polyamorous couples and parents of psychopaths. He, also, shares two new terms with the ladies: "supermarket people" and "the good enough mother".
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Race to 35: Day 8 + Chelsea Handler
Liz and Monica declare their sisterhood in episode 8 (of 10) of Race to 35. The two discuss how pain is passed down, Monica cries over Delta, and they talk about how this experience is affecting the way they view their parents. In the second half of the episode, they discuss the choice to not have kids with Chelsea Handler. They talk about the value of being able to give globally instead of insularly, Chelsea shares the story of when she realized she didn't want kids, and she reinforces the idea that one can have a full life without children.
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Race to 35: Day 7 + Dana
Liz and Monica are “feeling superior to men today" in episode 7 (of 10) of Race to 35. The two talk about their fears of being needy and question what it would look like to build a non-traditional family. They chat with a choice mom, Dana, who has a two year old son via IUI and donor. She talks the women through the process of picking a donor and the highs and lows of having a child without a partner.
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Race to 35: Day 6 + Christina Perri
Monica and Liz's trays finally arrive in Episode 6 (out of 10) of Race to 35. In this episode, the two women start a new shot and Monica lies to Liz about how much it hurts. Additionally, Liz is put on a blood thinner because she tested positive for a genetic blood mutation. The two talk to singer/songwriter Christina Perri about her struggle with fertility and her experience enduring multiple miscarriages. Christina learns vital information about her body and the simple solution that could have prevented her miscarriages. She bravely shares this information with Monica, Liz, and the listeners in hopes of preventing the same outcome for others.
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Race to 35: Day 5 + Andrew Huberman
Liz and Monica decide they can't get canceled in ep 5 (of 10) of Race to 35. They revisit a final destination moment from last night's shots and Liz declares she finally feels like a person after hearing words of encouragement from an Uber mom. Monica receives some encouraging news about her follicles and they lament about the stingy medication implementation. Then they get science-y with professor at Stanford, podcaster and friend of the pod - Andrew Huberman. Huberman talks about how to maximize egg and sperm health, he walks through the purpose of each relevant hormone, and they receive a call from a very special megalith.
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Race to 35: Day 4 + Eve Wiley + Bee
Liz and Monica don't know what's real in episode 4 (of 10) of Race to 35. Monica receives unfortunate news from her doctor, we learn about Liz's synchronized swimming history and they remind each other they can do hard things. The remainder of the episode focuses on fertility fraud. They speak with Eve Wiley, advocate for regulation and legislation in the fertility industry, who tells a harrowing personal experience in uncovering her genetic truth. We also speak to Bee, a young woman who discovers she has many "diblings" (donor siblings) across the US and how she has learned to embrace the positive.
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Race to 35: Day 3 + Emily Oster + January Jones
Monica and Liz are owning their dumbness in episode 3 (of 10) of Race to 35. They discuss last night's shots which were an utter disaster involving Monica giving Liz a proper stabbing. They talk to Emily Oster, American author and professor of economics at Brown, who talks about how to apply the principles of economics to fertility and pregnancy. She applies cost/benefit, optimizing the margin and opportunity cost to their egg freezing journey. They also speak to a friend of the pod, actress January Jones, who discusses her personal experience with egg freezing and solo parenting.
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Race to 35: Day 2 + Douglas NeJamie + Dre & Rachel
Monica and Liz are feeling "floopy" in episode 2 (of 10) of Race to 35. They discuss the previous nights' shots, the potentially deathly air bubble, substitute trays, and how they shouldn't be allowed to make purchases or decisions of any kind. They talk to Douglas NeJaime who is a professor of Law at Yale. Douglas specializes in parentage law and provides insight on what we deem legal parents in this country. Liz and Monica also talk to Dre and Rachel - a beautiful married couple who chose to use Dre's brother as their donor and sperm sample.
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Race to 35: Day 1
Day 1 - Liz and Monica embark on their fertility journey. They sit down with Monica’s BFF - who has gone through the egg retrieval process herself - to ask questions and discuss their fears about the upcoming 10 days. They talk needles, they learn what follicles are, and they equate the vaginal ultrasound wand to an uncomfortable dildo. At the end of the episode, Liz and Monica administer their first shot on air and it is quite a rollercoaster.
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We are supported by... Future is Female
We Are Supported By, hosted by Kristen Bell and Monica Padman is a 10 episode limited series podcast. Each episode deep dives with a woman who has put a crack in the glass ceiling. Bonus Episode: The Future is Female
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We are supported by... Sheryl Sandberg
We Are Supported By, hosted by Kristen Bell and Monica Padman is a 10 episode limited series podcast. Each episode deep dives with a woman who has put a crack in the glass ceiling. Episode 10: Sheryl Sandberg
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We are supported by... Reese Witherspoon
We Are Supported By, hosted by Kristen Bell and Monica Padman is a 10 episode limited series podcast. Each episode deep dives with a woman who has put a crack in the glass ceiling. Episode 9: Reese Witherspoon
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We are supported by... Kim Kardashian
We Are Supported By, hosted by Kristen Bell and Monica Padman is a 10 episode limited series podcast. Each episode deep dives with a woman who has put a crack in the glass ceiling. Episode 8: Kim Kardashian West
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We are supported by... Abby Wambach
We Are Supported By, hosted by Kristen Bell and Monica Padman is a 10 episode limited series podcast. Each episode deep dives with a woman who has put a crack in the glass ceiling. Episode 7: Abby Wambach
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We are supported by... Esther Duflo
We Are Supported By, hosted by Kristen Bell and Monica Padman is a 10 episode limited series podcast. Each episode deep dives with a woman who has put a crack in the glass ceiling. Episode 6: Esther Duflo
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We are supported by... Diane von Furstenberg
We are supported by, hosted by Kristen Bell and Monica Padman is a 10 episode limited series podcast. Each episode deep dives with a woman who has put a crack in the glass ceiling. Episode 5: Diane von Furstenberg
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We are supported by... Samantha Power
We are supported by, hosted by Kristen Bell and Monica Padman is a 10 episode limited series podcast. Each episode deep dives with a woman who has put a crack in the glass ceiling. Episode 4: Samantha Power
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We are supported by... Oprah
We are supported by, hosted by Kristen Bell and Monica Padman is a 10 episode limited series podcast. Each episode deep dives with a woman who has put a crack in the glass ceiling. Episode 3: Oprah Winfrey
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We are supported by... Malala Yousafzai
We are supported by, hosted by Kristen Bell and Monica Padman is a 10 episode limited series podcast. Each episode deep dives with a woman who has put a crack in the glass ceiling. Episode 2: Malala Yousafzai
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We are supported by... Gloria Steinem
We are supported by, hosted by Kristen Bell and Monica Padman is a 10 episode limited series podcast. Each episode deep dives with a woman who has put a crack in the glass ceiling. Episode 1: Gloria Steinem
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Nurture vs Nurture: Family #11: Ava & Quincy
Dr. Mogel answers the question: Will my child hate us if our family escapes to China, Egypt, Myanmar, Guatemala and the Marvel Universe? She also teaches us new words: zugunruhe & resfeber.
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Nurture vs Nurture: Family #10: Anne
Dr. Mogel answers the question: Will my son hate me if we’re happy together? She also teaches us new words: kinehora & irusu.
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Nurture vs Nurture: Family #9: Mike & Kim
Dr. Mogel answers the question: Will my child hate me if I love death metal? She also teaches us a new word: akihi
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Nurture vs Nurture: Family #8: Tina
Dr. Mogel answers the question: Will my child hate me if I voted for Joe Biden? Will my child hate me because I ruined Christmas? She also teaches us a new word: sturmfrei
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Race to 270: Septoplasty and 2X Neck Girth
We check in three months later with both contestants: Aaron has a girlfriend, septoplasty, lasik and colonoscopy while Charlie’s arms are back to looking huge. Dax & Monica present them with trophies and a framed photo of the baby in the white dress.
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Nurture vs Nurture: Family #7: Sherri & Max
Dr. Mogel answers the question: Will my children hate me if I love my wife? Will they hate us for our crazy life? She also teaches us new words: gilgil & hiraeth
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Race to 270: Peyronies & Sleeping Aids
Aaron looks great in a beard, Monica tells Charlie that his arms look smaller, and Dax reminisces about a time when he thought he’d never be able to have sex again.
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Nurture vs Nurture: Family #6: Diane & Mike
Dr. Mogel answers the question: Will my children hate me if I don’t give them equal time? She also teaches us a new word: uitwaaien
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Race to 270: Receptionist Ring Fingers & 6 Eggs on Top
Dax gets a drug test, Aaron reveals how often he checks out ring fingers, and Charlie discusses how much he plays along with scammers at his gym.
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Nurture vs Nurture: Family #5: Victoria & Elise
Dr. Mogel answers the question: Will my children hate me if I don’t allow them to curse in the bakery? She also teaches us new words: friluftsliv and iktsuarpok.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Since 2018, the Armchair Umbrella network has created and produced many limited series in addition to its long standing shows. They are all housed here.- Monica & Jess Love Boys- Monica Padman and Jess Rowland are on opposite ends of the dating spectrum, but both searching for love. They bring experts on each week to talk through their individual issues and give them a dating challenge to complete by the following week.- Nurture vs Nurture- Dr. Wendy Mogel lends her psychology expertise as we listen to her give therapy sessions to parents in crisis.- Race to 270- Dax Shepard's best friend Aaron Weekly (300 pounds) and Perfect 10 Charlie Curtis (240 pounds) are on a race to reach 270 pounds first.- Race to 35 - Monica Padman and Liz Plank freeze their eggs at the same time and document their journey.- We Are Supported By- Kristen Bell and Monica Padman talk to a range of successful women who have played a part in cracking the glass ceiling.- Yearbook- Author, Chad Sanders defines
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