The Male Loneliness Epidemic (w/ Drew Afualo)
Why Won't You Date Me? with Nicole Byer
Headgum & Nicole Byer
4.8 • 15.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2025
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
TikTok star Drew Afualo joins Nicole to share her enemies‑to‑lovers love story and the worst dates that taught her to trust her gut. She tells the time she dated a man who drank ocean water and ended up getting his stomach pumped, walks through her viral list of red flags in men, and the backlash she received online for sharing it. They dig into the male loneliness epidemic, red‑pill culture, and what we can learn from the dating on Love On The Spectrum. Plus, Nicole tells the time she accidentally went on a beach date with a 60‑year‑old comedian, and the story of how banana bread uncovered an affair.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a headgum podcast. |
| 0:05.5 | Hey! Did you know you can watch this entire episode right now? You sure can't. Click the YouTube link in the description and come see me! Why won't you date me? |
| 0:23.6 | Why won't you date me? |
| 0:25.5 | Why won't you date me? |
| 0:27.4 | Please tell me why. |
| 0:37.4 | Oh, baby, welcome to another episode of Why Won't You Date Me a Podcast where Meadow |
| 0:41.2 | a Call Buyer was trying to figure out why I was still single, even though you could come |
| 0:44.7 | on my window and tell me it was the moon. |
| 0:49.1 | Period. |
| 0:50.9 | My guest today is a TikTok sensation. |
| 0:54.4 | New York Times bestselling author and host of Spotify's The Comment Section Podcast. |
| 0:59.0 | I'm so happy she's here. |
| 1:00.9 | It's Drew Afiwala. |
| 1:05.6 | How are you? |
| 1:06.8 | I'm so wonderful now that I'm here. |
| 1:08.5 | How are you? |
| 1:09.2 | I'm good. |
| 1:10.6 | I'm good. I stabbed myself in the eye this morning, and by this morning, |
| 1:15.4 | me this afternoon when I was doing my makeup. Um, and that was pretty traumatic, but I survived. |
| 1:20.3 | You said, but other than that, all 10s. |
| 1:22.3 | She golden. Do you have a, ooh, you have teeth charms. Yes, I have the tooth gems. Tooth charms. |
| 1:27.9 | Teeth charms, all the same. |
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