Comedian Oscar Aydin joins for an unhinged, very gay, very funny conversation between two friends with zero filter — capped off by a gay-slang lightning round where they rank each other with words like slay, shade, chosen family, and butch queen. Along the way: Emma announcing she got "rear-ended" and Oscar needing to know which kind, the fantasy always beating the reality (see: dressing up for the cable technician), and the amateur porn couple Emma followed so long she felt genuinely happy when they moved into a nicer house.

They also get into the comedy of porn comment sections, reclaiming the word "queer" and Emma's mom's total confusion about it, and whether Larry David would survive as a gay man.

Comedian and actress Brittany Schmitt joins Emma for a raw, funny conversation that starts with the eerie feeling that your phone knows your love life better than you do. Mid-breakup, Brittany's feed filled up with reels describing her exact situation — and she breaks down the meme that finally got her off the wrong train. They get into self-righteous anger as a drug, the interior designers who stole $25K, why saying "I'll never" paints a target on your back, and rerouting your brain the way athletes do.

Comedian Eva Evans joins for a sharp, funny conversation about saying the wrong thing online and the people waiting to punish you for it. Eva breaks down what happened when a follower told her a word she'd grown up hearing as a compliment in Jamaica was actually rooted in an ethnic slur — and how posting the apology publicly, hoping to help other people learn, turned into the thing she regrets most.

They get into the self-righteousness of "how did you not know that," the impossibility of code-switching without getting dragged for it (see: calling a Jamaican TRN a "social security number"), why outrage outperforms everything else in the algorithm, and how to protect your peace when the comments never stop. Plus: Eva's three-year process writing a joke about dating a trans guy that would actually land, leaving Christianity, getting into crystals, stress that shows up in your body, Jamaican beauty standards vs. American self-doubt, and the Bob Marley mix-up that turned Emma bright red on stage.

Plus an Am I the Asshole about a friend who sold a concert ticket after the buyer wouldn't pay up.

Comedian, actress, and TED talker Jaye McBride joins Emma for a funny and surprisingly tender conversation about growing up trans before there was even a word for it. Jaye opens with the childhood moment of seeing a trans person on TV — that flash of "that's me" — followed by her father's worst-possible reaction. They get into coming out as trans in 2007, how Pride has changed over two decades, the theory that the most rigidly conservative people are hiding the most, losing religion, neurodivergence, celebrity crushes, and the racism baked into how the NFL treated Black quarterbacks.

Comedian, actor, and writer Ali Kolbert joins Emma for a long-overdue catch-up that goes deep on the brutal mechanics of dating, breakups, and queer identity. They open on the gaslighting breakup Ali's still recovering from — the ex who insisted "I'm gay, he's just my friend" and is now a year-plus into dating that man — and the universal agony of not trusting your own gut until it's too late.

From there: what it's like being single-single for the first time in years, why being a messy partner makes you "a guy, but a shitty guy," whether every long-term couple is secretly up to something, and the art of breaking a rule inside an open relationship. They get into passing, masculine vs. feminine energy, "sneaky man ones," why neither of them can stand lesbian porn, and the strange new phenomenon of straight people being obsessed with gay people on stage.

Plus two listener dilemmas: a cuddle-not-sex bar encounter that somehow ended in a marriage, and the person who realized their breakup felt less like heartbreak and more like losing the one assistant who knew the context of all their enemies.

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A solo deep-dive bonus episode where Emma gets back from a mini comedy tour and can't stop thinking about perception — what it feels like to walk on stage and feel a room "register" you in real time. That spirals into the legendary tale of the Texas wedding where she set out to win over the most conservative guy there (sleeveless cowboy tuxedo and all) and ended up more popular than the bride.

Then comes the main event: a full investigative deep dive into Willa Ford, the early-2000s "bad girl" pop star behind "I Want to Be Bad," whose entire second-album rollout got buried when her single dropped on September 11th. Emma traces what actually happened to her (spoiler: interior design), connects it to her own show getting derailed by COVID and George Floyd, and lands somewhere unexpectedly philosophical about media, Marshall McLuhan, and the meaning we project onto the things we put into the world.

Plus: who lives rent-free in your brain (Chingy? Trillville?), and an Am I the Asshole about a vegetarian husband, a steakhouse anniversary, and a wife who went to Outback alone to prove a point.

Comedian, actress, star of Kevin Hart's Funny AF, and aspiring empire-builder Caitlin Peluffo joins Emma for an unhinged, very funny, very gay conversation about dating, desire, and the absolute state of modern courtship. They get into the frozen-peas-on-the-TV trick for sneaking past strict parents, getting caught by mom mid-hookup in high school, and Caitlin's quest to get back out there after seven months off the market.

omedian, actress, and podcaster Elle Orlando joins Emma for an episode that goes everywhere. They start with the anxiety symptom no one talks about — excessive yawning — and somehow end up explaining the double-slit experiment. Elle breaks down the four-day healing retreat led by her dad's girlfriend (a self-taught spiritual healer who studied with Tibetan monks), the finger muscle-testing technique that supposedly makes your body answer questions honestly, and her theory that every possible version of your life is happening in a parallel dimension right now.

Comedian Akeem Woods joins Emma Willmann for a hilarious and surprisingly deep conversation about gay hookup culture, getting catfished, and what it really means to code switch as a queer person of color.

Emma Willmann sits down with comedian Ashley Austin Morris for an honest, hilarious deep-dive into life with ADHD — from shame spirals over undone dishes to hyperfocus mysteries, lost wallets, and thriving in total chaos.

Check out Ashley Austin Morris at @AshAustinMorris on all platforms!