{"podcast":{"title":"Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard","slug":"armchair-expert-with-dax-shepard-229033","podcast_index_feed_id":229033,"rss_url":"https://rss.art19.com/armchair-expert","website_url":"https://wondery.com/shows/armchair-expert-with-dax-shepard/","image_url":"https://content.production.cdn.art19.com/images/d6/39/3e/7c/d6393e7c-2c94-4bf8-ace5-22c075450625/5462340d2d523ce16f25efbd2b425f6ecdbdaa718e8222c7da564ce73eaaeca491e30d8a10cf99e9d351bdb65daad1681b4e54f264672188be0469655bad9155.jpeg","author":"Armchair Umbrella","episode_count":1071,"summary":"Hi, I’m Dax Shepard, and I love talking to people. I am endlessly fascinated by the messiness of being human, and I find people who are vulnerable and honest about their struggles and shortcomings to be incredibly sexy. I invite you to join me as I explore other people’s stories. We will celebrate, above all, the challenges and setbacks that ultimately lead to growth and betterment. What qualifies me for such an endeavor? More than a decade of sobriety, a degree in Anthropology and four years of improv training. I will attempt to discover human “truths” without any laboratory work, clinical trials or data collection. I will be, in the great tradition of 16th-century scientists, an Armchair Expert.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-17T16:19:56.634074+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/armchair-expert-with-dax-shepard-229033"},"episode":{"title":"Darby Saxbe (on Dad Brain)","slug":"darby-saxbe-on-dad-brain","published_at":"2026-06-10T07:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/armchair-expert-with-dax-shepard-229033/darby-saxbe-on-dad-brain","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/armchair-expert-with-dax-shepard-229033","url":"https://rss.art19.com/episodes/017ce8e5-eb6e-4dfe-9931-310e7825df24.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIg90cmFuc2NyaWJyBjoGRVQ%3D--952c5701c84ad333c69d5faa668f8177091704f0","audio_url":"https://rss.art19.com/episodes/017ce8e5-eb6e-4dfe-9931-310e7825df24.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIg90cmFuc2NyaWJyBjoGRVQ%3D--952c5701c84ad333c69d5faa668f8177091704f0","summary":"Darby Saxbe (Dad Brain: The New Science of Fatherhood and How It Shapes Men’s Lives) is a clinical psychologist, tenured professor, and researcher on family stress and the transition to parenthood. Darby joins Armchair Expert to discuss growing up in an academic household, her parents’ dramatic divorce, and watching her surgeon father suddenly learn how to become the primary parent. Darby and Dax talk about why fatherhood research has lagged behind motherhood research, what happens chemically and neurologically to new dads, and how hunter-gatherer societies, Barcelona playgrounds, and Swedish “latte papas” reveal very different models of raising children. Darby explains why “dad bod” is a real thing, how dads’ brains physically change when they engage in caregiving, and why kids may need more community, boredom, roughhousing, and freedom than modern parenting usually allows. Check Allstate first for a quote that could save you hundreds: https://www.allstate.com/ See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .","meta_description":"Darby Saxbe (Dad Brain: The New Science of Fatherhood and How It Shapes Men’s Lives) is a clinical psychologist, tenured professor, and researcher on fami…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":6476,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/armchair-expert-with-dax-shepard-229033/episodes/darby-saxbe-on-dad-brain/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/armchair-expert-with-dax-shepard-229033/darby-saxbe-on-dad-brain.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}