I’m joined by Anthony Voulgaris for a chaotic, unfiltered conversation about dating, friendship breakdowns, influencer culture, and the psychology behind modern relationships.

We get brutally honest about dating icks, red flags, and why confidence is attractive but insecurity is an instant turn-off. Anthony spills on bad dates, performative niceness, disappearing men, fake apologies, and the difference between being “nice” and being genuinely good.

We also dive into friendship drama, petty fights that are never actually petty, defensiveness, accountability, gossip, and why some people would rather justify their behaviour than reflect on it. Plus, influencer culture, social climbing, oversharing online, and the controversial idea that maybe shame needs to make a comeback.

Expect messiness, strong opinions, hot takes, and a full tea party on dating, friendships, and modern internet culture.

Comedian Meg Jager joins me for one of the funniest and most insightful episodes yet. We dive into autism, anxiety, anger, identity, dating, chaotic life choices, unhinged DMs and why only boring people get bored.

Meg opens up about discovering she’s autistic in adulthood, how that reframed her entire life (including realising she was bullied without knowing), and why her autism actually protected her. We also explore OCD, everyday rage, Melbourne tram etiquette, mental health as physical health, antidepressants, grief, burnout and the strangely calming world of pimple-popping videos.

And of course… we expose some of Meg’s wildest DMs — from unsolicited “confessions of love” to sour reactions when she doesn’t reply. The parasocial relationships are real.

If you love episodes about autism, mental health, dating, feminism, comedy, boundaries and modern adulthood, this one is for you.

• Autism in adulthood & the moment everything “clicked”
• Why Meg thought her bullies were confusing her with another Meg
• OCD, anxiety & the physical symptoms no one talks about
• Everyday rage & Melbourne’s complete lack of spatial awareness
• Why some people get bored — and why Meg never does
• The mental load on women vs men’s learned helplessness
• Parasocial DMs & men treating comedy like Hinge
• Boundaries, love languages & being misunderstood
• Weight, antidepressants & navigating burnout
• Grief, family, community & the butterfly effect

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Emily Grosser enters Mads World! We get straight into the chaos: the TikTok Awards scandals, fake attendance stories, influencer delusion, the terrifying rise of the red-pill pipeline, why men in pearls can’t be trusted, unhinged dating experiences, the three-week ick, unstable situationships, the politics test for first dates, and why Australia only has ten celebrities.

Emily shares wild truths about the creator industry, being verified, living in Belgium, why she never laughs on dates, how to spot an undercover misogynist, and every hot take she’s been dying to say online but can’t.

We dive into:

• The real story behind this year’s TikTok Awards chaos

• Dating men who reveal traumatic stories within two minutes

• The anti-vaxxer date that escalated in a café

• Incels, the red-pill pipeline, and teen boys falling into it

• Luke Bateman, BookTok, and why publishing is cooked

• Why Travis Kelce might be a beard

• Taylor Swift’s confusing fashion era

• Making men feel inferior as a talent

• Personal Roman Empires and 2016 nostalgia

• The things we misunderstood our whole lives (snowflakes… wind farms…)

• Influencer delusion and the blue-tick drama