Luke Franks and Arielle Free dig into dating lives, to draw out the terrible, awkward and just plain embarrassing.
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50 Worst Dates has the schadenfreude of your true crime faves and the (potential) advice of your go-to sex and dating shows. Hosts Katie and Amanda will break down all the ridiculousness of dating in this future-world we live in while offering some legit advice, a couple laughs, some embarrassing stories, some binge-watch suggestions, a dose of self-love and a lot out shout outs to celebrities that they think are hot. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/50worstdates ...
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Sup kids, this week the pod is back with a chat about sexually transmitted diseases, infections and other various ailments, the stigma around them and that Katie really wants a porno robe to wear to her Zoom birthday party. In a world that is doing nothing but talking about one particular virus, we thought we'd take this time to teach about some ot…
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We know you can't leave your house right now but we're pretending that you can for 35 minutes and then following it up with Dua Lipa level new rules on how to handle your first post-quarantine first date, we swear. Following up from the Taboos episode, someone reached out specifically for the hosts to talk about sex on the first date. Why is it suc…
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46: Dating Taboos (Be A Slut Do Whatever You Want)
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There are a lot of "should I say this" or "should I do this" in dating. It feels often like a if you don't fit the mold, the system won't work for you. Frankly, that's trash and we don't care. So on this week's pod we're talking about dating taboos, why they happen, some common issues (body hair and period sex, BABYYYY) and how certain taboos can b…
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45: How Do You Social Distance (And Date)?
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Whew. It's been a time, right? You're cozy in your house and hopefully not overwhelming the American hospital system, right? You're social distancing, right? You know what that means, right? Well honestly, do you? If you're feeling freaked by the sheer amount of direction you've been given on doing your part to save humanity, this is your opportuni…
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44: Should I Quarantine With My Significant Other?
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It's week two for the hosts of social distancing and formal quarantining. It sucks. We hate it here. But alas, this week we discuss the pros and cons of quarantining with bae versus going it alone like the strong independent woman (or non-woman) you are. Between the space constraints, the working from home, the communication needed - everything is …
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43: A Dictionary of Dating Terms for Distraction
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Are you stuck inside right now? Maybe being told to involuntarily be less social? Weird stuff. Almost as weird as this week's episode which features: an hour of Coronavirus-free content, delicate quoting of Smash Mouth, a call from Amanda's (dead) grandpa, hardcore name dropping/bleeping-out, dragging Katie for being the most humble and modest woma…
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What to do about cheating... and a million other tangents. We're talking why people cheat, and embarrassing sex mishaps, we're discussing poor excuses for cheating, and personality tests, and we've even got what to do if you know someone is cheating... and our endorsement for the Democratic nominee. Honestly, this episode has it all. Because it's p…
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Hello ladies, gentlemen and everyone in-between, around or non-conforming because gender roles are unnecessary and stupid! This is the 50 Worst Dates podcast where one hour of riffing, definitions, Psych Today articles and awkwardly cut portions of the hosts dishing on big life drama will eradicate gender roles. What does that mean? Well you can li…
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Retrograde Re-Rerun: Meet Cubes & Meet Cutes
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Like we told you last week - Mercury is in retrograde and things are hard. Scheduling conflicts happen. Podcasting is like, barely, an art form. It's definitely not an art form when we do it. This week is a re-run of 14: Meet Cubes & Meet Cutes from August 1, 2019. This week the hosts are dishing out some well-needed cuteness with their guest, Lill…
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40: Reduce, Resuse, Recycle, Rihanna this Retrograde
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Have you been unable to express your feelings, read a map or understand basic directions recently? That's because the stars have spoken, Mercury Retrograde is here and we're all dumb-dumbs now. In an effort to prevent Dumb-Dumbhood, 50WD is here with a little communication #vibecheck for you. That's right, check them vibes. Starting with: What kind…
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Valentine's Day is super fucking metal. It's a historical fact. Today on this beautiful Galentine's Day, your favorite podcast (it's your favorite now, sorry, you don't have a choice) is just trying to be lighthearted and goofy and reassure you that this holiday doesn't matter - but that doesn't mean it's made up. It's actually based in some pretty…
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38: It's Really Whatever Works For You
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Hello friends, neighbors, people who found this podcast accidentally and are now mildly confused! Welcome back to another round of 50WD. This week the pod and the pals are diving deep into relationship milestones. As we're deep in (or at the tail end) of cuffing season, what of those relationship moments really matter? If you're not seeing the same…
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37: A Variety Show Cabaret About Gaslighting
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Sup, nerds! This week on the variety-show-caberet-comedy-hour-rant-session that is 50WD we are talking Gaslighting - because what the heck does that mean anyways? Well, Amanda has a definition for you, Katie has some #facts for you and you're going to learn yourself a thing. Gaslighting Is, at its core, manipulation that removes you from your grasp…
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Is it Cher/ABBA "Money" or Cardi B "Money?" Well, you'll have to find out in this episode. It's 2020 and people are getting DUMPED because they make more money than their boyfriends and we are MAD ABOUT IT. Basically, we're talking feminism and money and dating. Are you still a feminist if you want the guy to pay on a first date? Does your girl pow…
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35: Burps With A Side Of Podcasting (Exes and IG)
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Happy Thursday! Glad you're back! It's time, once again, to help the good 50WD community. This week, an anonymous IG DM-er has posed Katie and Amanda with some heavy questions, all about how to deal with an ex on Instagram. Do you block them? Keep them in close friends? How long do you do that for? How do you cope? This person is walking around wit…
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34: People Should Resolve To Suck Less
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They're back! 2020 is hitting hard with new years resolutions and returns to real life. As you brush off your brain to the reality of work, school, people, whatever you have to deal with - it's hard to keep your mental health together in general. Add all of this self-improvement business and it gets really tough. Today Amanda and Katie are talking …
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33: Desperate Times Call For Desperate Measures
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So you snuck in, snuck around, hide in a closet, got around the security cameras - but are you ready to be a Great American Dick Ninja? Probably. We've all done it, it's like a badge of life. This week A&K have a listener mail from the good old CSHS realm and they are dissecting on air almost as much as off air. Between tails of dick ninja-ing into…
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32: We Solve The World's Problems (Listener Mail Episode!)
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Another week of mild technical difficulties can't get these ladies down. This week Katie and Amanda are answering YOUR questions, giving YOU advice and solving ALL of the problems that exist in the world. Yeah, you heard that right. There are no more problems on Planet Earth. That's it, we're all happy now. JK JK JK we have more than a billion prob…
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31: Sage Stuffing Advice & Accomplishment Olympics
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Happy Thanksgiving, we're thankful for you bothering to read this! This week the pod features some more pep-talkin' and an old faithful guest, dear Bree Sauls. She's wise and argues that she's not a millennial, so her advice is legit. With Thanksgiving being, well, today, it's time to talk about being grateful - no, wait, we're not doing that, we'r…
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Helllllllllloooo friends, do these hosts have some business to get into with you. This week is another one of antics, giggles and meticulously cutting around the inner details about personal lives because it's about to get intimate up in here. And by that, we're talking sex toys. The holidays mean seeing your family, twinkle lights, cookies and roa…
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29: Cuffing SZN & Mercury Does The Cha-Cha Slide
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Welcome back nerds - this week we got some astro bish business for you. No, you should not be surprised. It's cuffing season, that time of year you just want to cuddle up in front of the fire with your new boo but it's also Scorpio SZN and Mercury retrograde and Katie and Amanda are here to talk about it. How do you navigate the cuffing while also …
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This week 50WD is covering one of the most 2019 things out there: Ghosting. It's ubiquitous to the Tinder age. It's happened to all of us, all of us have done it and some of us are trying to do neither of those things and find love or whatever. With the spark of some listener mail (thank u, basic listener) and Amanda being bitter about some dude, y…
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BOO! SPOOKY! SCARY! HAPPY HALLOWEEN y'all! It's the best day of the year. While last week your ghoulish hoe-sts walked you through the do's, don'ts and walks home from this glorious holiday, today is all in the spooky spirit with some scary whore-ror stories. Lord Farquaad and Medusa tell tales of the Dating Game Killer, who is named Robert, or Ran…
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Get ready, ghouls, fools and hotties in between: the Halloween episodes have arrived. Round one is a lovely lil' reminder to not be icky this holiday season. Whether that's being appropriative (don't be a Spacey Kacey, y'all), letting the patriarchy tell you to be a sexy baby or losing condoms inside of people - don't be icky. Plain and simple. Tha…
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25: Kiss Me Thru The Phone & Other LDR Tips
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Another week, another episode of shenanigans. This week your hoe-sts have a good old buddy on, Sarah, to talk about how at least 1/3 long distances relationships around the table don't have to fail. Sometimes bae moves, sometimes you move, sometimes you're just dumb, but however it happens, there's a lot of great tips to follow to keep the vibe ali…
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24: Dating & Disabilities Part 2 - Making Mental Illness Normal
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Wow y’all welcome back you’re in for a ride this week - and not the one you imagine taking with your hoe-sts, wink wink. This week you jump right into a normal gals conversation about gross stuff that was strategically cut to remove questionable privacy issues and the word “goopy.” Joining your darling ladies this time are with some of their most d…
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23: Dating & Disabilities Part 1 - Chronic Chillness
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Are you ready to hear about Osmosis Jones and spoons? Maybe a bad hook up story involving the phrase "dead turtle position?" Well dude, I hope you are because that's what's queued up for you this week. For this week's 50WD the pals dive into dating with physical disabilities, whether they are obvious, invisible or you're just clueless, because as l…
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22: You Don't Need An Organism for the Orgasm
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Welcome back to the channel, it's time to keep being woke. This week the ladies and their guest, Leianna are here to follow up on Episode #20: Get Kinky to talk about what isn't a kink... meaning people. Sorry to burst your bubble, jerks, but people are not kinks. You can't have a kink or fetish for any race, gender, orientation or whatever. If you…
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Love yourself, bish! That's it. That's the whole episode description. JK. Really, today your favorite hoes are on their own and talking the journey and constant work that is loving yourself. Like Lizzo wants you to. There's some heavy stuff, some serious reflection and a whole lot of tea this week. If you ever felt like you were not enough, too muc…
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The sluts are back and they have a friend this week, Amanda's STL-area Taruaean, Breanna Sauls. Bree has seen a lot, done a lot and has a very open mind (Any babies looking for mommies out there? She's got you) and is the perfect guest for this week's topic: kinks. Your hosts and their pal will educate you on the lingo of the kink community - from …
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Oh boy, oh boy, if you learn one thing today it's going to be not to slut shame the 50WD hosts because they will put you on blast. Thank goodness for the internet, allowing them an opportunity like this. Today's topic is slut shaming and they're (rightfully) angry about it. You got Amanda's recent tales, Katie's college stories, Slut Walk reflectio…
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Welcome back to another week of musing and burps with the 50WD ladies. This week, following up on last week's chat about expectations, it's time to define the relationship. What are weeeeeeeeeeeee? Katie and Amanda tell their own stories from DTR three dates in to Amanda's very fresh and heartfelt tale of the DTR. At the end of the day, relationshi…
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17: Horoscope People & Expectation Management
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Did you know the hosts are crazy astro girls? Well now you do. This podcast is a Leo, but your hosts are a Taurus and a Cancer. So this week expect some feels and some advice because that's what their signs are known for, but also that's what this podcast is about. This week, it's all about early stages of dating and handling your crazy - aka expec…
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Something a bit different this week, as we do a collaboration episode with our friends at the Life Hacks podcast. Katie Thistleton and Dr Radha joins Luke and Arielle to spill their dating secrets, plus we address some dating problems sent in by the Life Hacks listeners.By BBC Radio 1
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Is it awkward when twins talk about sex and dating in front of each other? We find out the answer to that on this episode with Luke Franks and Arielle Free. Plus we discuss nudes and chunky thighs (in two different conversations).By BBC Radio 1
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Sitting in a pool of vomit while trying to chat up a girl isn’t ideal, but it happened to one of our guests this week. Plus, Ukranian bear trainers and being taken on a date to McDonalds (which we can all agree is not acceptable behaviour).By BBC Radio 1
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Broken arms and wee on the carpet. Just two dating disasters this week from Love Island star Olivia Attwood and the winner of The Circle Alex Hobern. Plus, a catfishing story that beggars belief.By BBC Radio 1
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Zoos, kidnapping and papparazzi - all feature in this week’s selection of Worst Dates with Luke Franks and Arielle Free. Plus, that feeling when your ex’s parents prefer you to their new partner. Quite awkward.By BBC Radio 1
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We have our first couple on Worst Dates and it turns out one of their most memorable bad dates was spent together. Let’s just say, it must be true love after what they went through. Plus, quite a confusing story about a jellyfish.By BBC Radio 1
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Why is Sam Thompson so terrible at chatting up girls? Find out some of his not-so-successful flirting techniques, while Grace Victory tells us about a Nando’s disaster. Plus author Gabby Fernie remember her worst ever date - and it was on national television too!By BBC Radio 1
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Being shouted at by Brian May isn’t something you get to do every day, but find out why that happened on someone’s date as Dick and Dom give us a rare insight into their personal lives. Plus, a listener story that left us all completely speechless.By BBC Radio 1
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Angry saxophonists, theme park nightmares and being kicked in the balls. Plus Lauren Mahon brings her absolute a-game with three incredible worst date stories.By BBC Radio 1
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Ever panicked and put your head in your bag to avoid someone? Jessica Anne Woodley has a story about that, plus Joe Tasker tells Luke Franks and Arielle Free about the time he bumped a car on a date - but there’s a twist. Elsewhere, tables are flipped and dogs are sick - all in a day’s work here on Worst Dates.…
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Toes and feet, thumbs and bums, and terrible chat up lines are all on the table with Luke Franks and Arielle Free on this episode. Plus, why does James think dating is like being in prison, and why he nearly never saw his fiancé again after their second date.By BBC Radio 1
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Another bonus episode of some of our favorite stories from YOU!By BBC Radio 1
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Picking up dates in a local shop, throwing up over a balcony and some confusion between a tuxedo and a wetsuit - all this is on the menu with Luke and Arielle this week as they go through some of your best stories.By BBC Radio 1
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Kira Kosarin, Munroe Bergdorf and Josh Pieters
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Are magic tricks a good way to chat someone up? Kira Kosarin certainly thinks so - she tells us about some of her worst dates, as well as the ways NOT to chat her up if you see her around. Munroe Bergdorf and Josh Pieters are in the studio with Luke Franks and Arielle Free and tell us their stories of being catfished and ghosted, as well as why Mun…
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A rescue mission in LA involving a taxi driver and a whole band. That’s one of the stories the New Hope Club boys tell Arielle Free and Luke Franks - we also hear why Rhys can never go to the cinema again, why Arielle has lost her voice PLUS a man gets chased around Scarborough by a drag queen. Don’t say we don’t do variety on this podcast.…
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It’s hard to guess why a dog’s anal glands would be part of a date, but for one of this week’s guests they were. Marnie and Russell also discuss drowning in champagne and dirty knickers with Luke Franks and Arielle Free, and to cap it all off, we have the definitive ‘sliding into the DMs’ story. Plus, Charlotte De Carle’s worst date story, which in…
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Cuban Heels, being called 'daddy', and egg on someone’s face - Luke Franks and Arielle Free hear stories about all these and more as this week’s guests tell us their awful dating experiences, plus Ashley James tells us about the ‘worst day of her life’ (spoiler, it was a very, very bad date).By BBC Radio 1
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