“A lot of people who are on the show now know the dynamic and they know I’m there and I co-host and produce it.
Over time, Padman began to join in the conversation and ask questions of the guests. In its early days, she only did a fact-check segment at the end to correct Shepard if needed. Padman accepts she’s now an important part of the show’s identity. That morphed into becoming Bell’s assistant, and then she became a producing partner with each of them on different projects. So that’s been interesting,” said Padman, who originally was hired by Shepard and Bell as their children’s nanny. If somebody runs into me on the street and they know me from the podcast, they really know a lot about me. “I moved to Los Angeles for acting so I had an idea of what it would look like if I became well-known. Padman has found fame in a way she didn’t imagine for herself. I don’t need to hear my opinion as much as I used to,” he laughed. “I think through 800 hours of doing this, I have gotten more disinterested in myself, which I think is very healthy. Now, he doesn’t feel the need to talk and talk. In the early days of the show, it wasn’t edited down, so pauses or dead space terrified him. The five other shows under the “Armchair Umbrella” production company - including the new “Shattered Glass” podcast co-hosted by Padman and Shepard’s wife, Kristen Bell, are available on Spotify and other podcast platforms.īoth Shepard and Padman agree they’ve experienced personal growth thanks to “Armchair.”įor Shepard, a self-professed “blowhard,” he’s also learned to be quiet sometimes. He went in with talking points but the conversation steered into the former politician’s house-cleaning process. Another example: a conversation with Hillary Clinton. It’s moments like these that tickle Shepard. He then suggested his contribution to a future calendar could be a photo of the top of his head. “Why am I not September,” joked Harry, whose birthday falls in that month. (Shepard has long pontificated about his appreciation of a fit, strong, male physique and even dedicated an “Armchair” episode to the topic.) With Harry, the fact that Shepard dared to broach this conversation with a member of the British royal family was not only bold, but perhaps allowed the duke to go off script. In the interview with Harry, Shepard broke the ice by showing him a calendar Padman had made for him as a joke featuring various male body parts that he aspires to emulate. “Armchair Expert” isn’t the first or only podcast to feature long-form conversations, but Shepard’s no-airs approach to his guests often gets them to let their guard down.
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