Having A Self-Love Affair (w/ Jujubee)
Why Won't You Date Me? with Nicole Byer
Headgum & Nicole Byer
4.9 • 16K Ratings
🗓️ 12 June 2026
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
You ready for some good juju? This week, iconic drag queen Jujubee (Drag Race, Stop! That! Train!) joins Nicole to talk about the power of self-love and why she’s officially stopped looking for a relationship. Nicole pays tribute to her first dog, Charlie, and the two discuss why the true soulmates are actually the animals in our life. Jujubee shares her philosophy on why love never dies, and opens up about the clarity she's found from being 9 years sober. She shares her best advice on having the ultimate solo date, and the two Delta Diamond Divas share their travel tips.
Go see Stop! That! Train! in theatres today. Check out Jujubee's latest EP, MESS FOR YOU.
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| 0:00.0 | Want to watch this episode? Catch the full video on YouTube. Just hit the link in the episode description. |
| 0:07.0 | This is a headgum podcast. |
| 0:10.0 | We talk a lot on this show about how messy, dating, and relationships can get. But here is something that will make life a whole lot messier. The ongoing efforts to defund Planned Parenthood. Shutting down health centers |
| 0:22.5 | makes it so much harder and so much more expensive for everyone to get the affordable care |
| 0:27.7 | that they need. Recently, a law was passed to defunded Planned Parenthood as a part of a year's long |
| 0:33.6 | effort to shut down these vital health centers. Now some members of Congress want to make |
| 0:38.3 | that defunding permanent, which robs care from the millions of people who rely on Medicaid to get |
| 0:44.9 | their health services. Cancers will go undetected, STIs will go untreated, and patients won't get the |
| 0:50.8 | birth control they need to plan their families and their futures. But Planned |
| 0:54.8 | Parenthood isn't backing down. They're still showing up for patients every single day, making |
| 1:00.9 | sure everyone can access life-saving, life-changing, sexual and reproductive health care. |
| 1:06.0 | Planned Parenthood needs you in this fight right now. No matter the size of your donation, it makes a real difference. |
| 1:12.4 | Don't let them get away with this. Go to planparenthood.org slash defend and give today. |
| 1:18.3 | Oh, baby, we're working on some fun stuff behind the scenes, and we want you to help shape the future of |
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