Variety presents the first-ever Variety Creative Impact in Podcasting Award to “Armchair Expert” co-hosts Dax Shepard and Monica Padman.
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00:00I'm behind on my TV viewing because I am loving
00:03Podcasting so much and really understanding what it is as a medium and how incredibly how incredible it is as a habit as as a
00:11Guilty pleasure as a treat. I love hearing that ping when new episodes and
00:16Wondery, you know Wondery has been there very early on and so it is no surprise to me
00:22That was savvy management that this brand is doing as well as it is and we are really grateful for the partnership here
00:28We're excited to talk about this stuff and you know
00:31this emerging world of audio audio for itself and audio transforming into other media, it's very exciting times and
00:40Certainly when we look around, you know
00:41The one of the now one of the longest running sort of podcasts of its type and one that is you know
00:47Gaining steam as it goes on is in fact armchair expert
00:52By our honorees here that is hosted by our honorees here
00:55Dax Shepard Monica Padman and we're gonna hear a little bit about sort of what inspired them and what inspired their
01:02What I love about the show is that it is very it is
01:06Never quite the same episode twice whether in duration or the or timing of when it comes out and they've now
01:12Franchised into some other formats and there's just it's a great example of the kind of creativity
01:17That people can have in the audio format. It really really captures it and I'm looking forward to digging in just chatting here a minute ago
01:24I learned something about how they produce it and it was like, oh my god, very exciting
01:28So we're gonna we are going to but also we really just as we looked around to Dax Dax and Monica both through their own
01:37Philanthropies and just kind of who they are on air at a time of
01:42misinformation of fake news of
01:44Tearing down people. These are intelligent intellectual thoughtful conversations with
01:51Movie stars and celebrities and showrunners and authors and it's just it and the best of it is when they talk from the heart
01:58And they do they share a lot
02:00And in a wonderfully camaraderie way
02:03but the best of it is when you're really just
02:05getting to whether it's a movie star or somebody who's just written a book about a issue of climate change getting to the
02:11Heart and the humanity of us and those companions in our ear when they get it for me
02:16They can it's just it is such a powerful medium and I learned so much and I've learned quite a bit from their podcasts
02:23So enough of me talking about it. Let's bring up Dax and Monica
02:27We'll give you your awards because it's LA and we love handing out awards. It's been a couple days
02:34It's time to hand out some more awards. So seriously. Thank