Celebrity candor meets messy relationship calls.
Anna Faris Is Unqualified mixes celebrity guest chats with relationship calls that can turn surprisingly practical. Episodes move from Ed Helms on history and politics to callers wrestling with co-parenting, friendship drama, abuse, infidelity, and dating pressure.
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Anna Faris Is Unqualified is a celebrity conversation show with an advice line running through its center. The title’s joke matters. The show often admits its own limits, then keeps talking with warmth, curiosity, and enough humor to make painful subjects feel speakable. Episodes can begin with a familiar celebrity name and end inside a caller’s private dilemma. Ed Helms brings a conversation about Snafu, Able Archer 83, Cold War anxiety, political money, national identity, and the strange act of saying feelings out loud until they become clearer. Rachel Bilson’s visit moves through Los Angeles memories, friendship, dating apps, Deal Breakers, authority anxiety, and the odd details people weigh when deciding if someone is worth seeing. Scott Adkins talks about action movies, martial arts, Accident Man, Hitman's Holiday, John Wick Chapter 4, and the comic book he held onto from childhood. Rikki Lake brings talk of home, Raised by Rikki, Hairspray, marriage, children, and the impulse to fix other people. April Beyer’s appearances shift the format toward grounded relationship coaching. Her calls include partners who criticize appearance, long-term emotional abuse, perfectionism, family expectations, and the pressure people place on themselves before dating. The listener calls keep the celebrity side from floating away. One caller is now divorced and facing co-parenting. Another is dealing with unnecessary drama in a mothers’ friend group. Another is pregnant and single after betrayal, while an ex asks to attend the birth. The show is frank without pretending to be clinical. It can be playful for several minutes, then suddenly careful around safety, self-worth, or emotional control. That tonal swing is part of its identity. It is not a clean advice manual. It is a room where famous guests, recurring relationship guidance, and callers’ real complications meet in conversation. The best episodes feel improvised but attentive, with laughter sitting close to vulnerability. For listeners drawn to celebrity intimacy and relationship problem-solving, it offers both celebrity ease and genuine emotional stakes.
Made for: For listeners who like celebrity interviews with real emotional stakes, especially around dating, divorce, friendship, family, and self-worth. It fits people who prefer conversational advice over clinical certainty.
What sets it apart: The show’s edge is its hybrid shape: celebrity guests bring loose, funny personal stories, while listener calls pull the episode into concrete relationship problems. April Beyer’s recurring appearances add a more qualified advice counterweight to the show’s intentionally unqualified premise.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
Ed Helms turns Cold War screw-ups, civic anxiety and self-acceptance into a nimble celebrity conversation.
Ed Helms gives the episode a sharp comic hook with Snafu, his true-history podcast about history's greatest screw-ups, and its look at Able Archer 83, a Cold War crisis he frames with snark and audio-collage energy.
April Beyer grounds difficult relationship stories in self-worth, safety, and the hard work of leaving.
Rhea's boyfriend's constant judgments about her appearance and Jess's 11-year emotionally abusive relationship give the episode its weight. Anna Faris and dating and relationship coach April Beyer stay close to the way criticism can wear down self-worth, and to the fear that can…
Swiss fame, with the polish loosened.
Loose mornings, local life, big-hearted detours.
Drag Race recaps with chaotic queer voltage.
Actors, unguarded, from the Hollywood Hills.
Anna Faris hosts a re-released episode featuring actress Rachel Bilson, discussing their early friendship in LA, motherhood in Hollywood, and Rachel's experiences on 'The O.C.' The conversation covers identity, divorce, and Rachel's new podcast rewatching the show.
Anna Faris interviews actor Scott Adkins and takes a call from a listener seeking advice about drama in her mom friend group.
Anna Faris and guest Rikki Lake give humorous relationship advice to callers dealing with family and romantic issues.
Anna Faris interviews Ed Helms about his history podcast Snafu and takes a call from a divorced listener about co-parenting.
Anna Faris hosts dating coach April Beyer for a special episode of Unqualified.
Anna Faris interviews Ed Helms about Snafu, his history podcast on Able Archer 83, a 1983 NATO exercise the Soviet Union feared could conceal a real attack.
Gina Rodriguez explains how accepting emotional abuse became a betrayal of herself.
Alyssa Milano says activism requires planting seeds without controlling who eventually gathers the fruit.
Julie separates genuine boundaries from ghosting by refusing to accept relationships built on someone else's potential.
Joel Kinnaman proposed to Kelly during a Hawaii sunrise hike, then faced police for trespassing.
Anna Faris and relationship coach April Beyer discuss dating and relationship advice, with a focus on listener questions and personal experiences.