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Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Anonymous: Cooking Disaster II

06 Feb 2026

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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?

0.605 - 5.49 Dax Shepard

Welcome, welcome, welcome to Armchair Anonymous. I'm Dax Shepard and I'm joined by Randall Padman.

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5.65 - 6.071 Monica Padman

Hello.

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6.211 - 11.597 Dax Shepard

Today we have cooking disaster stories. What do we say? Warning alert?

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Chapter 2: What cooking disaster stories are shared in this episode?

11.617 - 12.478 Dax Shepard

Trigger warning.

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12.638 - 13.819 Monica Padman

Oh, trigger?

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13.839 - 20.106 Dax Shepard

If you hate burning, this is not the episode for you.

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20.146 - 21.187 Monica Padman

Don't listen to this one.

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21.387 - 24.39 Dax Shepard

No, skip it. Please enjoy Cooking Disasters.

26.412 - 43.639 Unknown

Hard times come and go. Take them slow. My life. I had them both. But one thing. You gotta know. I'ma keep on shining.

46.825 - 47.185 Seth

Hello.

48.307 - 48.367 Monica Padman

Hi.

48.687 - 53.934 Seth

Where are you? I think you may know the town that I'm from, Brevard, North Carolina, west of Asheville.

Chapter 3: What was the pancake brunch disaster about?

157.818 - 174.18 Seth

Probably two pounds, three pounds, maybe. Not a crazy amount, but enough to fill probably two sheet pans. We're almost to the point of everybody having their brunch, eating pancakes. The bacon is the last thing to kind of come out of the oven. And around that time, the family shows up, kids are playing. It's a little bit of a compact kitchen.

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174.3 - 190.885 Seth

So, you know, my mother and mother-in-law are in the kitchen. Of course, they're like, what can we do to help? Where does this go? Where does that go? And it just gets a little chaotic around family as it tends to do. So I go to reach for the bacon, open the oven. And I guess I'm just so focused. I pull it out probably a little quicker than I should.

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190.925 - 195.613 Seth

And just ever so slightly tilted it back towards me.

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197.755 - 201.821 Seth

entire pan of bacon grease spills down my forearm.

203.163 - 205.066 Dax Shepard

Oh, fuck. I can feel that.

205.347 - 219.308 Seth

Obviously there's the initial shock reaction, drop the pan immediately, kind of freak out a little bit. There actually wasn't a ton of pain, which is also maybe a little scarier than, you know, you don't really know what you've done in the moment. I rushed to the sink.

219.288 - 241.802 Seth

start to rinse my arm off and this is where my wife swoops in to save the day she's a nurse comes in handy on a lot of occasions and so yeah she helps me get this thing washed off and i think at the moment i'm trying to just keep as calm as possible you know there's kids around i don't want to freak my daughter out and it sort of becomes evident what i've done almost immediately my arm starts to like blister and bubble up oh

241.782 - 258.171 Seth

By this time, my daughter finds out. And of course, she like runs over. And I mean, she's going to have to be in health care like her mom because she's like immediately interested, not scared at all, not concerned, just like wants to know what's going on. And she also shifts into take care of dad mode.

Chapter 4: How did the bacon cooking incident unfold?

404.444 - 412.095 Dax Shepard

Yeah, they're cute. The thing I live in the most fear of in these burn situations is when you hear people where the skin just rolls off.

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412.115 - 424.953 Seth

Yeah, I was a little nervous. That was what I was in for. There's a few seconds that pass between when it happens and when you start to realize what you've actually done. I mean, it was rough, but it thankfully was not. That sort of situation.

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424.973 - 431.339 Dax Shepard

This is a PSA because I would definitely try that. Like if I didn't hear the end of the story, I'd be like, oh, that's a hack. Cook the bacon in the oven.

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431.419 - 431.96 Monica Padman

Exactly. No.

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432.06 - 440.027 Dax Shepard

Yeah. Don't do it. Get it all done. I was even thinking while you're telling us like, oh, I even had a grate. I would add a little grate between the cookie sheet and the bacon so that it wouldn't be sitting in the oil.

440.207 - 465.138 Seth

I think I did have a grate on the pan, which I thought that's a great idea. But obviously the grease is still in the pan. Yeah. It sure is. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. Slowly and carefully remove and make sure it's level. So how old's baby now? She's almost six and baby number two, almost three. Oh, congratulations. Another girl? Two girls. Wouldn't have it any other way.

465.458 - 467.882 Dax Shepard

Now go get you a vasectomy because you don't want three.

468.383 - 469.605 Seth

Yeah, already taken care of.

471.668 - 478.899 Dax Shepard

Okay, good job. Just pour a little hot grease down there. That could also... Let's do a prompt.

Chapter 5: What immediate actions were taken after the burn incident?

525.828 - 533.561 Dax Shepard

Casey, you know the old adage, fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame. We're already at the shame on me part. The third would be like, shame, I'm a fucking dum-dum.

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533.721 - 536.686 Casey

No, that's like, third would be shame on Casey.

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536.726 - 538.049 Dax Shepard

That's why I asked.

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538.069 - 540.974 Casey

Well, I mean, Dax has already had to operate once. He did.

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540.994 - 542.216 Dax Shepard

Once or twice. Have I done two?

542.236 - 542.937 Casey

Well, finger in.

544.064 - 545.447 Dax Shepard

Always jewelry related.

545.507 - 545.928 Casey

Yeah.

546.228 - 547.351 Dax Shepard

How long have you been nursing?

Chapter 6: What was the outcome of the hospital visit after the burn?

656.294 - 658.777 Monica Padman

We like when people are left out. Something to work through.

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658.797 - 680.788 Dax Shepard

Too dangerous. Sarah. mile a while for me sarah if you want to be free hi all you got to do is say so how annoyed are you or how much do you love sarah smile

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680.768 - 689.437 Sarah

Honestly, I've never heard that one before. Hall & Oates? I think you have. Probably. It's probably just not a good rendition that Dax is doing. That is definitely the case.

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689.657 - 690.598 Monica Padman

I didn't know what you were singing.

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691.259 - 695.944 Dax Shepard

And I know Sarah Smile. Sarah Smile. Won't you smile a while for me, Sarah?

695.964 - 703.552 Monica Padman

I think it's because there's so much other band stuff going on. The company man? I was in that movie, in that song. Acapella's tough.

703.612 - 705.835 Dax Shepard

Well, especially when you're not a good singer. Sarah, where are you?

706.115 - 709.999 Sarah

I am in the McDonald's garbage can. I am in London, Ontario. Oh!

712.831 - 718.036 Dax Shepard

I literally was like, you're in a garbage can right now at McDonald's.

Chapter 7: How did the kitchen accident affect family dynamics?

841.55 - 842.031 Dax Shepard

On your head?

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842.091 - 852.226 Sarah

That's so scary. It landed on the pie plate and just sort of like bounced off of it. How big is this ceiling fan? Just the light fixture in the center came down from the fan.

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852.246 - 853.968 Dax Shepard

Okay. Not the fan blades.

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854.229 - 869.302 Sarah

No. So just the light fixture part came down and hit the pie plate vicinity. Nothing broke. We put the light fixture back up, carry on making the pie. And there's nothing else memorable that happened during that dinner until we served the pie.

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870.143 - 871.726 Dax Shepard

Uh-oh. I have a terrible guess. Me too.

871.746 - 872.667 Monica Padman

I have a bad idea.

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Yes.

888.112 - 893.759 Sarah

So I'm serving the pie. This is it. This is the first time I've made anything for this family to consume.

894.059 - 897.563 Dax Shepard

Quick question. How did it look visually? Did you guys feel like you nailed it?

Chapter 8: What lessons were learned from the cooking disasters?

1076.329 - 1076.811 Dax Shepard

Ew, mosquitoes.

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1077.517 - 1080.663 Sarah

Don't listen, Monica. But the reason I knew it was bugs was because I saw a wing.

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1087.816 - 1089.7 Monica Padman

I hate this story.

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1089.84 - 1091.543 Dax Shepard

It's so funny. I don't mind. I know.

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1091.563 - 1096.232 Monica Padman

I hate bugs and maggots. This is kind of like maggots everywhere.

1096.272 - 1098.917 Dax Shepard

But you got married and everything worked out.

1098.897 - 1106.775 Sarah

We have two kids. No bugs are eaten in our household. Actually, that's not true. My oldest eats ants and there's nothing I can do about it.

1106.815 - 1111.806 Dax Shepard

No need to stop. Again, we're omnivores. We're totally fine and equipped to eat ants.

1111.826 - 1112.989 Sarah

I don't want to eat them.

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