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Dating culture, gossip, and public mess.
HELP! I Suck at Dating is a rapid, chatty panel show about dating, relationships, reality TV, and the social rituals around love. Recent episodes move from SEC sorority rush prep to Farmer Wants a Wife interviews, celebrity breakups, workplace scandal, and nostalgic reality-TV reunions.
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HELP! I Suck at Dating sits at the crossroads of romance, reality TV, celebrity gossip, and the rituals people use to perform belonging. It moves fast. Recent episodes do not stay boxed inside traditional dating advice, instead circling the larger culture around courtship, image, status, and public judgment. A conversation about high school seniors preparing for SEC sorority rush becomes a debate about resumes, recommendation letters, social media cleanup, PNM videos, outfits, and the pressure to package a teenage life into something camera-ready. The hosts and guests treat those details with fascination and disbelief. Then the show can pivot straight into dating-show territory, with Braden talking about how reality TV entered his life and why the search for a wife carries different expectations in different places. That jumpiness is part of the identity. The show follows the emotional logic of a group chat, not a syllabus. Celebrity couples become examples of how fans project certainty onto relationships they only partially see. Megan Rapinoe and Sue Bird’s breakup sparks a bigger discussion about transparency, privacy, and the pressure created when listeners feel invested in a public couple’s story. A sports-media resignation story opens another lane, focused on photographs, public speculation, professional reputation, and what a carefully worded statement does not say. The show likes the gray area. It asks why people react so strongly, who benefits from the attention, and where private relationships become public content. Reality-TV nostalgia gets similar treatment, with the Laguna Beach reunion remembered as a portal back to teenage fantasy, Southern California dreams, Kohl’s ads, and the strange economics of reunion specials. The mood is casual but not empty. Speakers interrupt, agree, push back, and turn personal memory into evidence. The result is a warm, opinion-forward show for people who want dating culture discussed through gossip, television, sorority life, and celebrity drama rather than formal advice columns. It is best when the conversation catches a tiny social detail and keeps tugging until a larger truth falls out.
Made for: For listeners who follow reality TV, celebrity relationships, sorority culture, and dating-show drama with the urgency of a group chat. It suits people who like quick opinions, friendly disagreement, and pop-culture romance treated as social evidence.
What sets it apart: The show treats dating as a public-performance ecosystem, where rush packets, reunion specials, statement language, and reality-TV appearances all belong in the same conversation. Its edge comes from conversational speed and the willingness to judge the spectacle while still caring about the people inside it.
HELP! I Suck at Dating
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Candid debate and practical examples turn dating etiquette, communication problems, and public relationship conflicts into choices listeners can examine.
HELP! I Suck at Dating turns romantic uncertainty into candid conversation, moving between first-date etiquette and the harder work of maintaining a relationship. Questions about who plans, who pays, texting habits, and fading communication give the discussion practical stakes.
First-date checks, fading texts, and reality-TV fallout get the group-chat treatment you wish arrived sooner.
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A gross campus memory that gets funnier the more specific it gets.
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Hosts discuss sorority experiences, including studying abroad and finding close friends within the sorority.
A promo for multiple podcasts, but the show 'HELP!
A promotional segment for various iHeart podcasts, but the show focuses on dating advice for those struggling with relationships.
Amy Robach and TJ Holmes break down the 80-minute court hearing between Taylor Frankie Paul and Dakota Mortensen, in which Taylor was denied unsupervised visits with her two-year-old son Ever and granted only eight hours of supervised visitation per week.
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The check debate never really starts.
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Jana gets pulled into the Jersey fallout.
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A sleeping porch gets messy fast.
Mega bed, vanity mirror, open door.
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Texting is tough.
Host Jen Fessler interviews April Kirkwood about her dating journey after appearing on Bachelor in Paradise.
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A promotional ad for various iHeart podcasts, including a dating advice show.
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