Advice, family chatter, and lovable detours.
Dear Albie turns listener questions and life updates into lively group conversation. Episodes move quickly from pregnancy brain and parenting choices to dating nerves, TV reactions, stranded-car rants, and running jokes that only get funnier as the room keeps talking.
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Dear Albie is an advice show that behaves more like a lively family conversation than a tidy problem-solving program. The show often begins with a listener-style prompt, a community note, or a personal update, then lets the room follow the real conversational trail. That trail can go almost anywhere. One episode can circle pregnancy, second-child parenting, toddler routines, sensory play, and the way family starts to feel different once a baby arrives. Another can start with Albie Manzo explaining a difficult surgery recovery and end up in TV breakup analysis and what it means to leave television on decent footing. The show is warm, but it is not precious. People interrupt, correct themselves, tease each other, and keep moving. Jules and Martino bring much of that ensemble rhythm, especially when the topic turns into dating behavior, confidence, yellow flags, or whether someone gives off the wrong first impression. The conversations are often personal without becoming heavy-handed. A discussion about raising kids can turn into concern about the social environment they will grow up in. A bit about a changed voice can become a check-in with the audience. A rant about being stranded without gas becomes part customer-service nightmare, part comic monologue, part communal vent. The recurring mailbag format gives the show structure, but the real shape is improvisational. The community clearly matters here, both as a source of questions and as a running presence the speakers talk back to. Dear Albie also has a strong appetite for strange small obsessions. Punch the Monkey becomes a full scenario. A dating clip on social media becomes a debate about whether someone posting eligible men online is charming or awkward. The result is loose, domestic, funny, and emotionally direct. It is for listeners who want advice with side conversations still attached.
Made for: For listeners who like warm ensemble advice shows where dating, parenting, family, and TV get talked through casually. It especially fits people who enjoy mailbag energy, recurring inside jokes, and candid everyday stories.
What sets it apart: The show’s edge is its unpolished group dynamic: the advice rarely stays in a straight line, but the tangents reveal how the speakers actually think. It feels less like a segment machine and more like being included in an ongoing conversation.
With the help of family and friends, Albie Manzo is here to answer your advice questions in his own unique style. Relationships, sex, dead dogs, bored housewives, honeymoon protocol — and everything in between. The advice show you never knew you needed.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Dear Albie turns dating and family questions into candid group talk about judgment, self-trust and the pressures shaping everyday choices.
Dear Albie turns advice questions into roomy group conversations where ordinary dilemmas open onto dating, family life and the habits people bring into both.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A warm family conversation where a second pregnancy opens into the everyday work of raising a child.
This single-episode conversation looks at pregnancy as part of ordinary family life rather than a polished milestone. With Al away at a doctor's appointment, Chelsea talks about being pregnant with her second baby, sensing it early because her body felt different, and learning…
Albie returns after surgery for a loose, personal catch-up about recovery, breakups and life after television.
Albie's post-surgery return starts as a check-in on recovery, then wanders into reality-TV breakups and the strange business of moving on after appearing on television. His voice has changed, and he recalls being warned just how difficult recuperation would be.
A loose, warm conversation about private uncertainty and the awkward social machinery of modern introductions.
Dear Albie settles into the uneasy space between private doubt and the performance of dating in public. Jules begins with uncertainty over whether surgery is happening the next day, before the discussion turns to videos made to introduce single men to interested women.
Punch the monkey sparks a funny, revealing debate about fear, care and where an unexpected houseguest should sleep.
Punch, a small monkey abandoned by his mother in Japan, sets off a surprisingly revealing group debate. Once Jules poses the practical problem of housing a wild animal, everyone starts drawing personal lines: two hours or two days, animal control or a night in the garage.
A baby announcement and a dating joke lead into a warm, loose conversation about faces, family, and worry.
Dear Albie starts with the kind of family news that gives the episode an easy glow: a baby boy is on the way, and the children are expected to be about 23 months apart.
A public story widens into fake letters, online attention, and the body still carrying past exposure.
This single-episode review treats a public moment as the start of a larger story about attention and what follows once people begin adding to it.
A candid episode about surviving a damaging relationship and the unfinished work of healing.
Dating sits on the surface of this Dear Albie episode, but the stronger thread is the aftermath of pushing through pain before it has really been processed.
Three friends recap Daredevil, Fallout, and new releases scene by scene, in Spanish.
Slasher talk with sharp teeth.
Albie Manzo and co-host Jules discuss listener-submitted advice topics, starting with a community member's story about an ex-boyfriend who stalked her for years.
Jules introduces the first co-host, Smiles in Spanish, an OG community member who recently graduated with a Master of Science in Industrial Management and is a mom of three.
The hosts discuss community-driven topics, including drone sightings and a funny update about teaching a child to roar.
Albie and Jules discuss Albie's recent solo show and community reactions to a video that made people think the show was ending.
The hosts discuss their reactions to the movie 'Wicked', including crying, feeling sympathy for the witch, and excitement for the upcoming sequel.
Albie Manzo hosts his first-ever guest on Dear Albie, author Rory Uphold, to discuss her book 'A Final Girl's Guide to the Horrors of Dating'.
Chelsea says she knew she was pregnant before the test, then found out right after Thanksgiving and had one last sushi-and-drinks outing with her family.
Al returns to Dear Albie after surgery, saying his voice changed, he lost about 30 pounds, and he lived on bone broth and popsicles for nearly a week.
Dear Albie opens with a practical problem: Albie says he may have surgery tomorrow, has been told only that “we’ll call you,” and is staring at paperwork warning that his voice could become “squeaky or high-pitched” for weeks.
The hosts discuss the viral story of Punch the Monkey, a baby monkey in Japan abandoned by his mother and given a plush surrogate.
Jules and Martino discuss Martino's newfound confidence and aura, with community feedback and a playful tone.
Host Al opens 'Dear Albie' by announcing he and Chelsea are expecting their second child—a boy—set to arrive about 23 months after son Albie, while co-host Jules shares that she became an aunt on Valentine's Day when her nephew was born.
Dear Albie follows Albie’s four-hour attempt to leave a snow-covered New Jersey highway after his car stopped accelerating with 25 miles showing on the dashboard.
Albie introduces a first-time guest, Rory Uphold, to discuss the horrors of dating on the Dear Albie podcast.