Em Rusciano Opens Up About Perimenopause, Anger, and Her Explosive Show Rage Against the Vagine
When comedian, author, and all-round force of nature Em Rusciano joined the podcast, we knew the conversation wouldn’t be quiet — and it absolutely wasn’t.
In this episode, Em sits down with Oldmate & Josh to unpack the raw, funny, and deeply honest reality behind her hit show “Rage Against the Vagine.” What starts as a conversation about comedy quickly opens up into something much bigger: perimenopause, identity shifts, and why so many women feel like their experiences have been ignored or dismissed for decades.
Em doesn’t hold back. She talks about the anger, the absurdity, and the humour in navigating midlife while society pretends it’s not happening. It’s confronting, hilarious, and strangely liberating — exactly the kind of conversation that reminds you comedy can tell truths people are usually too uncomfortable to say out loud.
Oldmate and Josh bring their usual curiosity and chaos to the chat, asking the questions many people are quietly wondering but rarely hear discussed openly. The result is an episode that moves effortlessly between laugh-out-loud moments and genuinely important conversation.
And just when you think the chat couldn’t get better, Em drops an exclusive about her next show — something listeners will definitely want to hear.
This episode is funny, raw, and surprisingly powerful — a reminder that the best comedy often comes from telling the truth about things people have kept quiet for far too long.
The Producer
Every good podcast needs someone who actually knows what the buttons do. For us, that person is Caleb.
While Oldmate and Josh are busy talking, laughing, and occasionally forgetting the microphones are even there, Caleb is the one quietly making sure the whole thing is being recorded properly. He runs the tech, wrangles the audio, and somehow turns a room full of chaos into something that sounds like a real show.
Caleb is the man behind the scenes making sure the lights are on, the levels are right, and the conversation actually ends up where it is supposed to. When the boys drift off topic, forget what they were saying, or start talking over each other, he is the one patiently sitting there making it all work.
He rarely jumps into the conversation, but when he does it is usually because something has gone terribly wrong or because the boys have said something too funny to ignore. When Caleb speaks, people tend to listen, partly because he is usually right and partly because it means something technical is probably about to break.
In short, Caleb is the quiet engine room of the podcast. The calm technical brain in a room that often forgets microphones are even on. Without him there would still be a podcast. It would just sound like two mates yelling into a toaster and wondering why the internet cannot hear them.
