Ep 351: 8th Birthday Q&A
SARAH: Hey, what's up? Hello! Welcome to Sounds Fake But Okay, a podcast where an aro-ace girl (I'm Sarah, that's me)
KAYLA: And a bi demisexual girl (that's me, Kayla)
SARAH: Talk about everything… All things? All things. Talk about all things to do with love, relationships, sexuality, and pretty much anything else we just don't understand.
KAYLA: On today's episode, ‘We're Eight!’
BOTH: Sounds fake, but okay!
SARAH: Welcome back to the pod!
KAYLA: We are so back. There are cats everywhere.
SARAH: Everywhere!
KAYLA: The cats are not ready for it to be back
SARAH: Not at all.
KAYLA: They are ready to be running around, screaming, and playing.
SARAH: Or maybe they are ready for it to be back and they just want to be really involved.
KAYLA: Mine, like, they're not being involved at all.
SARAH: Addie is being involved.
KAYLA: She's certainly on the desk.
SARAH: Yep. She was trying to play with my hand.
KAYLA: Her favorite toy.
SARAH: Her favorite toy.
KAYLA: Yeah.
SARAH: How is everyone? How was your break?
KAYLA: Was it so fun?
SARAH: Did you have a good time?
KAYLA: What did everyone do? Sarah, what did you do?
SARAH: I went to Michigan.
KAYLA: Mm-hmm
SARAH: I took my cat with me.
KAYLA: Mm-hmm
SARAH: I had my flight cancelled 15 minutes after it was supposed to board.
KAYLA: Yeah, that was a good one.
SARAH: That was a nice one. After it had taken me and the artist formerly known as my roommate 45 minutes to drug and harness my cat. And then I had to wait in line for an hour to check in. And then I got there finally on time. And then 15 minutes after it was supposed to board, they cancelled it.
KAYLA: Mm-hmm
SARAH: That was really cool.
KAYLA: Yeah.
SARAH: How about you?
KAYLA: What have I done? I have been taking a class.
SARAH: School.
KAYLA: That's pretty much about my whole life, it's this damn class, and I'm not even done. Addie, she's jumping so tall! Aww!
SARAH: My child is jumping at her own reflection in the mirror in the background, and she's getting some air.
KAYLA: Mine I think just ran into a wall; I just heard a loud bang.
SARAH: Anyway…
KAYLA: So, yeah, I've been taking a class, and it's not even done until next week, so.
SARAH: He he he. But hey! It's done next week.
KAYLA: It is done next week. And then I'll start another one.
SARAH: Noooo
KAYLA: Yay!
SARAH: All right, now everyone, briefly, quickly tell us what you did over the past month.
KAYLA: Wow. That's crazy.
SARAH: That is wild. I can't believe that happened to you.
KAYLA: Who to thank!?
SARAH: Congratulations.
KAYLA: I'm so sorry.
SARAH: I'm sorry that happened to you.
KAYLA: Better luck next time.
SARAH: Yeah. Better luck next time. And mazel, you know?
KAYLA: Yeah. Right. Exactly.
SARAH: Great. Thank you for all of these updates, they were wonderful to hear. Kayla, do we have any housekeeping updates?
KAYLA: It's our birthday!
SARAH: We were born, and we remembered it this year!
KAYLA: And we remembered. Technically, it was last week when you're listening to this.
SARAH: It was a couple of days ago as you're listening to this. But as we're recording it, it hasn't happened yet.
KAYLA: When is it actually?
SARAH: It's the 31st. July 31st.
KAYLA: Oh my God, the same day ‘The Subway’ is coming out!
SARAH: Aww, tea.
KAYLA: Huge.
SARAH: Tea. Isn't the train in Boston called the T?
KAYLA: It is called the T.
SARAH: So, T, you know. Subway T. Okay.
KAYLA: Oh, funny.
SARAH: I'm very silly. Kayla, what are we talking about this week?
KAYLA: This week, to celebrate how back we are and how eight we are…
SARAH: Big back. Big back
KAYLA: We’re eight, tea, boots down.
SARAH: How many letters in...
KAYLA: Oh, I'll wait. Oh, she's writing.
SARAH: How many letters… No, it doesn't work.
KAYLA: No. Yeah.
SARAH: I was gonna say, how many letters in ‘sounds okay,’ but that's 10, not eight.
KAYLA: ‘Sounds ok’ is... wait
SARAH: 10
KAYLA: I'm getting eight. Oh, I'm doing the ‘okay,’ just like O.K.
SARAH: Oh, I would never do that.
KAYLA: Okay, well
SARAH: And you should know that about me.
KAYLA: I was just trying to make it fit.
SARAH: I want all of our listeners to know that ‘okay,’ in the context of this podcast and as it should be in the rest of your life, is always four letters.
KAYLA: I think it's really funny, some people, when they will, like, email us or something, will spell out the podcast S.F.B.O.K
SARAH: Wrong.
KAYLA: And I think that's really funny, because I…
SARAH: Wrong
KAYLA: Would never think to do that. Because it's also interesting to abbreviate all of it except for the last one
SARAH: Yeah. SFBOK? No. SFBO.
KAYLA: SFBO.
SARAH: Also, I know that based on the actual origin of the word ‘okay,’ the letter ‘O’ and the letter ‘K’ actually is more accurate than spelling it out, but I don't care.
KAYLA: Is it? I did not know that.
SARAH: ‘Okay’ came from… it was like… it stood for something.
KAYLA: Oh, I didn’t know that.
SARAH: I'm gonna look it up, you yap.
KAYLA: Oh. Um, so we're gonna do a Q&A and…
SARAH: It most likely originated in the 1830s as a humorous abbreviation of ‘allcorrect,’ a deliberate misspelling of ‘all correct.’
KAYLA: Oh! So, they thought they were funny?
SARAH: It was part of a short-lived fun in the United States for using intentionally misspelled abbreviations.
KAYLA: Okay, I kind of like that
SARAH: Honestly, humans remain iconic.
KAYLA: Yeah, that's kind of fun, we should bring that back, I like it.
SARAH: Yes, we're doing a Q&A, you've Q'd and we will A.
KAYLA: Yes. If you want to look at these, Sarah, they're on Discord and Instagram.
SARAH: Yes, I considered submitting an Instagram question from my personal account, but I couldn't think of anything good.
KAYLA: Well
SARAH: The first one I saw was from Risden: “Either of y’all got a favorite dinosaur?” I'm not well read on dinosaurs…
KAYLA: I’m not either
SARAH: But I do like a triceratops.
KAYLA: What's the one that's, like, long?
SARAH: Brachiosaurus?
KAYLA: I like that one, I think. Long neck.
SARAH: I can't believe I just pulled that out of my ass.
KAYLA: Yeah, that's actually very impressive.
SARAH: I like a triceratops, it reminds me of a trapezoid, which is funny because it's a triceratops.
KAYLA: Not a trap-sarah-tops.
SARAH: I just realized it has my name in it.
KAYLA: Is that why you like it?
SARAH: Sarah-tops.
KAYLA: Sarah tops, it's like you going to the store trying on shirts.
SARAH: I was gonna say someone trying to convince me to have sex with them.
KAYLA: Oh
SARAH: “Try! Sarah. Top?"
KAYLA: Top? Tops? Good.
SARAH: Great. Anyway, Brachiosaurus was the correct one, I googled it to make sure I had the right one. It is.
KAYLA: I love that.
SARAH: I'm a genius. The giraffes of dinosaurs.
KAYLA: This is why I think maybe I like them, because I like a giraffe.
SARAH: Okay, thanks for that question!
KAYLA: Thank you.
SARAH: You next?
KAYLA: Me next? Okay, one of the big questions I saw that kind of stressed me out, so I think we'll do it now and then we can be done with it.
SARAH: Yeah, get over it.
KAYLA: Our beloved Barefoot Backpacker asked…
SARAH: Backfoot Barepacker.
KAYLA: Backfoot Barepacker. “As two people who started the podcast as a casual chat and then got popular, went through the full range of social activism, then wrote a book, what now motivates you to continue the podcast? Do you have anything left to achieve? Why do you still do this after all this time?”
SARAH: I'm sorry, I got distracted when you were reading that because I noticed a reminder on my computer that I had never seen before, that was set for 4:20 at 4 p.m., and the reminder just says “4 p.m.”
KAYLA: Well, hey, at least you'll know.
SARAH: I’ve never seen that in my life. Go away. Okay, uh, what? Okay. Let me read it with my eyes. Is it on Discord?
KAYLA: It’s on Discord.
SARAH: Great, that's where I am. Okay: “What motivates you to continue the podcast?” I don't want this to come off the wrong way…
KAYLA: A good start.
SARAH: Because I don't think it's a bad thing, but the word that I am thinking of is, like, obligation.
KAYLA: Mm, that doesn't sound great.
SARAH: It doesn't. I think I just mean that in the sense of, like, it is something we do.
KAYLA: Yeah.
SARAH: And it is something that I am glad we do, and that we get things out of, and that many other people get things out of. So why would we stop or why would we make it less frequent, when instead we could do this?
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KAYLA: Yeah. I think for me, it has changed a lot over the years. Like, at first, it was, yeah, for fun, whatever. We were having a 2017 giggle about, like, having a podcast.
SARAH: Yeah.
KAYLA: Then when we got into 2020 and got more into, like, the activism and got more popular online, I think there was definitely an ego part of it. There was like a, oh, we're these, like, bigger names now, we're gonna, like, be these internet people. There was also just, like, the activism piece of it.
SARAH: Mm-hmm
KAYLA: After seeing the downsides of that and realizing that I'm just, like, not the best person to do that and stepping back, yeah, I think a big part of it is honestly just… I mean, we've been doing this our whole adult lives, you know?
SARAH: Yeah.
KAYLA: Like, I do not know an adult life without this. Like, this is just, like you said, this is something we do, this is part of life.
SARAH: I was still a teenager when we started this.
KAYLA: What was I? 20?
SARAH: You were already 20, but I was still 19.
KAYLA: That's freshly 20. Yeah, I mean, I think it's a really cool way to document things. Like, I think, looking back at just how much our lives have changed, it's really cool. I think, yeah, obviously this means a lot to a lot of people, which is really amazing.
SARAH: Yeah.
KAYLA: When we started it, there was not that much ace-spec content, I think that's different now, or, like, there's a little bit more, but…
SARAH: I also feel that my… part of the obligation thing for me is the fact that I know that we are one of the longest running staples in ace-spec spaces. Not that we are, like, important, but, like, the fact that we have been around for so long, I just think it would be a shame to take that away if there's no reason to do it.
KAYLA: Yeah. I mean, I think… yeah, if we're not… yeah, if there's not some big thing keeping us from doing it, you know?
SARAH: Yeah. Also, like, we've gotten… I get to talk to you every week, ugh, horrible.
KAYLA: I know. I think that's… horrible. That is really a huge, huge part of it though, because I am famously really bad at keeping up with long-distance friends.
SARAH: Yeah.
KAYLA: Like, I have moved quite a few times, and so I have… I'm lucky enough to have friends in a lot of different places. But you are the one I keep up with the most consistently, and a lot of that has to do with this.
SARAH: Yeah. I agree.
KAYLA: Friends.
SARAH: Frans.
KAYLA: Can you imagine?
SARAH: Also, we got a book from this podcast!
KAYLA: Yeah. That's crazy.
SARAH: That's a silly, silly, funky thing. And as much as people always are asking, "What's the next book?" Like, "What are you trying to do to like grow your pod?" We're not.
KAYLA: Nothing.
SARAH: We're not. But…
KAYLA: We grew, and now we're coasting.
SARAH: And now we're coasting. I think there's… like, you keep doing it to like honor the fact that we got that opportunity and we did that shit.
KAYLA: Yeah. You can't just disappear after that, that'd be silly.
SARAH: That would be so silly.
KAYLA: Also, it doesn't look bad on our résumé, you know?
SARAH: No. No.
KAYLA: It doesn’t look bad on our résumé.
SARAH: Very impressive.
KAYLA: Mm-hmm
SARAH: Oh, is that all?
KAYLA: Yeah, we can be done.
SARAH: My next question is from Sisui
KAYLA: Oh
SARAH: “What's your favorite cake?”
KAYLA: Okay, I'm not a big cake guy.
SARAH: Not allowed.
KAYLA: I know. I know. I like a chocolate cake. I'll tell you what it is, my issue with cake is typically not the cake, it's the frosting. I'm not a frosting guy. I'm not a cream guy. I don't like a whipped cream.
SARAH: I'm not a whipped, no.
KAYLA: I'm not a cream guy.
SARAH: I'm picky about my frosting.
KAYLA: So, I like a chocolate cake that has more of the, like, fudgy frosting, like the thicker kind of thing. I like a chocolate cake that is verging on a brownie.
SARAH: Okay.
KAYLA: That is my preferred cake.
SARAH: A county.
KAYLA: A county. I'll tell you, my birthday cake as a child used to be a cookie-brownie cake, where my mom would make a large circular cookie and a large circular brownie and stack those on top of each other with some chocolate frosting and that's the cake.
SARAH: That is an abomination.
KAYLA: Oh, it's so good. We made it for my princess party this year because I was like, "I have to have her again."
SARAH: You're mixing together…
KAYLA: A cookie and a brownie
SARAH: Two different types…
KAYLA: A brookie.
SARAH: Okay, move on.
KAYLA: Brookies are like a real thing.
SARAH: Yeah. And I don't like it.
KAYLA: Well, you were never gonna like it.
SARAH: Nope. My favorite type of cake, I only eat approximately two types of cake.
KAYLA: Mm-hmm
SARAH: They are white cake and yellow cake.
KAYLA: Right.
SARAH: I prefer yellow cake.
KAYLA: Right. Okay.
SARAH: I like a good buttercream frosting, but it has to be good. A fair portion of buttercream frostings? Bad.
KAYLA: Mm-hmm
SARAH: There's a specific place that we would always get cakes from when I was a child, and that is the cake I like the best. Although a couple of years ago, they got bought by new owners…
KAYLA: Bitch!
SARAH: And it's slightly less good now.
KAYLA: I hate that. I do like a grocery store cake, actually, my local grocery store, I've had some cake from there, good.
SARAH: On the whole, Kroger cupcakes have acceptable frosting.
KAYLA: Mm, interesting.
SARAH: I don't like it when it's too whipped. I don't like it when it's, like, too buttery, like, buttercream, like hard.
KAYLA: Yeah
SARAH: Like, buuuuuttercream.
KAYLA: Uh-huh, right.
SARAH: But I like a good yellow cake. I would also try, like, a lemon cake.
KAYLA: Interesting.
SARAH: But I would probably not be interested in eating a whole piece of it.
KAYLA: Yeah. A bite, perhaps. I see.
SARAH: Yeah.
KAYLA: Are you looking at Discord or Instagram?
SARAH: Discord.
KAYLA: Okay, I'm gonna go to Instagram, and then you can do the Discord and I'll do the Instagram. What do you think about that?
SARAH: Oh, pressure. The pressure is on.
KAYLA: Okay. This one is not a question, it's a comment, but it was so fun. This is from… I don't know if I should say people's things.
SARAH: Is their account public or private?
KAYLA: Private.
SARAH: Okay, then don't say their whole name.
KAYLA: Okay, I'll just do a first name.
SARAH: Okay.
KAYLA: This is from Katelyn. Katelyn said: “I don't have a question, but congrats on eight years! I ran the ‘Out of Context Twitter’ when I was in high school, and y'all got me so much shit. Thank you for everything and welcome back.”
SARAH: Katelyn! Okay, when you said Katelyn, that is who I thought of.
KAYLA: Yeah. OG.
SARAH: But I was like, “there are a lot of Katelyns in the world.”
KAYLA: We love.
SARAH: Oh my God. Hi Katelyn!
KAYLA: I loved that era. Yeah. Katelyn ran, like, an out-of-context quotes Twitter for the show on Twitter, and we love.
SARAH: And we truly said some out-of-pocket shit.
KAYLA: And I truly never felt more famous.
SARAH: Yeah. What a delight. Thank you, Katelyn.
KAYLA: Thank you so much, Katelyn. Should I do another? A real question?
SARAH: Yeah.
KAYLA: “Do you think you'd be somewhere else, physically/mentally, without this podcast?”
SARAH: Hmm. On the whole? No, I think…
KAYLA: Damn, no impact. Fuck.
SARAH: I think the fact that I have this podcast, and that we have written a book, in some ways is good for me mentally because it can help my career. And so, it makes me feel like I'm less behind.
KAYLA: Sure.
SARAH: Even though I haven't done things, I'm like, “Well, I can use this.” Eventually.
KAYLA: But I did this, yeah.
SARAH: To help me do a thing. But I think on the whole, honestly, no. I think I would probably be in roughly the same place.
KAYLA: It's hard to say for me. But thinking, like, a butterfly effect
SARAH: Hmm.
KAYLA: I think it's very possible that I would be even in a different place physically. Like, it's not like us doing this podcast, like, got me and Dean together or anything, but this podcast was obviously huge for me figuring out my sexuality in college.
SARAH: Yeah.
KAYLA: And impacted the way I was dating and thinking about things like that, so, like, I don't know. Just thinking, butterfly effect, if I had not thought about my sexuality and relationships in that way, would my relationship with Dean have started or worked out in this way?
SARAH: Yeah.
KAYLA: So, like, I mean, I have no idea.
SARAH: What I'm hearing is that I have had a profound impact on your life and you have had no impact on mine.
KAYLA: Yeah, that is actually kind of what I'm hearing as well.
SARAH: Here's the thing about me, though...
KAYLA: So
SARAH: I am either… I'm trying to think of the other half of this metaphor.
KAYLA: Great. Good way to start with an either.
SARAH: Listen. And it's the first half, too. It's not…
KAYLA: Great. Right. And she's a writer, everyone.
SARAH: This is why I write, I don't speak.
KAYLA: Speak, right. Yeah, you famously haven't been speaking for eight years.
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SARAH: I am a bit like a runaway train, in that my mother once described it to me as, like, I'm a very indecisive person…
KAYLA: But once you decide.
SARAH: But once I decide to do something, I am doing it.
KAYLA: Yeah.
SARAH: And so, in that sense, I am like a runaway train, where it was like, once I started on this path of, like, “Okay, I'm gonna move to LA, I'm gonna do this,” it was going to happen.
KAYLA: Yeah.
SARAH: Regardless.
KAYLA: Yeah. Well, I'm just… I'm nothing, I guess.
SARAH: She's an icon. She's queen. She is the moment. I wasn't gonna have this be the next question, but just because, she is in the way, Taco Cat asked, how has my child been, and how often does she get the one orange brain cell? And Taco Cat also said, my dad’s orange boys almost never have the brain cell. Taco Cat, that's because they're men.
KAYLA: Oh.
SARAH: Um, my child on occasion gets the brain cell and she uses it to cause trouble.
KAYLA: Are you sure?
SARAH: She uses it to cause trouble exclusively.
KAYLA: When did she last have it?
SARAH: Mm
KAYLA: Mm
SARAH: Now, what has she done?
KAYLA: Yeah, what has she done?
SARAH: I don't know. She craves violence.
KAYLA: Right. But when did she last have the brain cell?
SARAH: Probably when she dragged her carrier across the house. Repeatedly. Even when I put it back.
KAYLA: Yeah, maybe.
SARAH: Maybe. Yeah. So that's your answer. Here's the real next question.
KAYLA: Okay.
SARAH: This is from Medus Jelus.
KAYLA: Oh
SARAH: MJ. I think this is meant to be two questions, but I'm taking it as one.
KAYLA: Okay
SARAH: “When you think back on eight years ago versus now, how do you think the landscape and visibility has changed for the aspec community, and what does it feel like to basically have done a PhD in ace issues, time-wise?”
KAYLA: That's horrifying.
SARAH: Mm-hmm
KAYLA: Um, the landscape. It's hard to say, like, comparing this exact moment to 20… what was it 2017?
SARAH: 17.
KAYLA: 2017, because of the way I think we've kind of done, like, a curve.
SARAH: Yeah.
KAYLA: Like a bell curve. Because I think when we started, there really wasn't much. I think, like, pandemic and post-pandemic, there was a lot more. I think, like, the pandemic just caused a lot of people to think about sexuality.
SARAH: Yeah, people were online, they were…
KAYLA: Yeah. There was a lot more media that came out, and so there was just, like, a lot more writing about it, a lot more, like, mainstream news. And I think that has maybe gone away a little bit as of late.
SARAH: I think it's hard to look at it in isolation, because it exists within the context of our general social upheaval.
KAYLA: Yeah
SARAH: And in the United States, that goes hand in hand with Trump. And basically, everywhere else, it goes hand in hand with Trump because…
KAYLA: Because he's everywhere.
SARAH: This fuck-ass country is just too influential for its own good. So, I think you can't look at it in isolation. Like, you can't say, “Oh, it's been on a direct… it's been on a nice, solid upward climb,” because it hasn't.
KAYLA: Yeah.
SARAH: But compared to the rest of society, maybe it has been. You know? I don't know.
KAYLA: Yeah. It’s hard to separate from, yeah, the current moment.
SARAH: Yeah.
KAYLA: But, I mean, like, there have been huge steps. And I think there is a lot more visibility than there was. And, like, from what I see, it seems like people younger and younger understand what asexuality and aromanticism is, which is huge. But not as much movement, like, mainstream and media-wise as you'd probably want, but…
SARAH: Yeah. But I think mainstream and media-wise, there are steps backwards being taken. So that's not surprising.
KAYLA: Yeah, for sure. L.O.L.
SARAH: Dr. Kaszyca, how do you feel about your PhD?
KAYLA: How do I feel about my PhD? I wish it was… who’s gonna give us an honorary doctorate? What college will have us?
SARAH: Do any of our listeners work really high up at any university?
KAYLA: We could get, like, a… what's one of the gay ones, a Sarah Lawrence, perhaps?
SARAH: Mm. My co-worker went to Sarah Lawrence.
KAYLA: A gay?
SARAH: She's married to a man.
KAYLA: What!? That's not supposed to happen.
SARAH: I know.
KAYLA: What!? What!?
SARAH: She has a funny story of one time she and her friend, who is a lesbian, of course
KAYLA: Yeah.
SARAH: At Sarah Lawrence, they went to, like, a store off-campus, and this was in the early 2000s, late 90s? Early 2000s. And so, like, the town was a little less liberal.
KAYLA: Interesting.
SARAH: Like, Sarah Lawrence was definitely more of a bubble in the region.
KAYLA: Yeah.
SARAH: And so, they went to, like, a store off campus, and they were basically being, like, treated poorly.
KAYLA: Oh.
SARAH: And they were like… and my co-worker was like, “is it because I'm a Jew?” or is it because she's a lesbian?
KAYLA: Jesus!
SARAH: Or is it both? Who knows!
KAYLA: Probably both
SARAH: Who knows!?
KAYLA: Probably both.
SARAH: Anyway, yeah. That is the thing, because we went to Michigan, it’s such a big school, like, if we had gone to a tiny liberal arts school, maybe we could convince them
KAYLA: Yeah
SARAH: As alums. But we went to too big of a school for that.
KAYLA: Yeah, they don't care. They don't give a shit. Well, it is weird to think about it in terms of, like, PhD things. Because every time I think about someone doing a PhD, I'm always like, “Oh my God, that's so long. What are you doing?”
SARAH: My cousin has a PhD, and he's younger than us.
KAYLA: What!? That's not right.
SARAH: Not by much, like, by a couple of months, but he was a grade below us.
KAYLA: He's like finished?
SARAH: Yeah, he's done.s
KAYLA: That's crazy, they usually never finish.
SARAH: Yeah. He's, like, doing…
KAYLA: Like, everyone I know that's doing a PhD has just been doing it for 20 years.
SARAH: Postdoc, I don't know, it's an engineering PhD, so I don't know if that's different. Because you can only waffle on engineering for so long.
KAYLA: I vaguely know someone who is doing a nuclear physics one, I don't know how long he has been doing it or when he'll be done.
SARAH: I know of someone who is getting a PhD in accounting.
KAYLA: What? No, that's not right.
SARAH: And to that, everyone has said, “What do you do with a PhD in accounting?”
KAYLA: Truly, though.
SARAH: And the answer is: “you become a professor of accounting.”
KAYLA: Yeah, that makes sense. But like, why?
SARAH: I don't know.
KAYLA: That's awful. That's, like, I think the worst thing I could ever think of to do with your life.
SARAH: Truly horrible.
KAYLA: Okay. Anyway. There's a couple of BTS questions.
SARAH: Okay.
KAYLA: From our good friend… what's his name? What’s his porn name?
SARAH: Oh, Dalton King.
KAYLA: From our good friend…
SARAH: I was supposed to watch ‘The Room’ with him the other day, and also the artist formerly known as my roommate and then they were both sick because the artist formerly known as my roommate had Covid and then got the stomach flu. And Dalton King got some, I don't know, he's on hella drugs now, he's fine.
KAYLA: Okay, well, anyway, he said, “BTS.”
SARAH: What’s the question? That's the whole question?
KAYLA: That's the whole question. And then someone else, Mara, asked, ‘Sarah, which BTS songs are the most and least ace-spec coded?” Let's see if there's any other BTS ones.
SARAH: The least ace-spec, if we're counting solo songs, the least ace-spec coded are ‘Seven’ by Jungkook.
KAYLA: Okay.
SARAH: A lot of the more recent ones have been less ace-spec coded, much to my chagrin.
KAYLA: That's tough
SARAH: Because, like, they're coming up like… it's like, they're solo work.
KAYLA: Yeah
SARAH: So, it's in theory, more personal. Although Jungkook has been like, “I don't know, I'm just singing songs. I don't know." And so, also, because they're this far into their career, like, they can kind of be more specific about, like, relationship things. Not that any of them have ever had a public relationship, because they haven't.
KAYLA: Yeah, because you can't.
SARAH: But I think they can be a little more upfront with it, rather than, like, the super vague, like, “Ooh, you're cute,” and that's all you can say, you know?
KAYLA: Yeah.
SARAH: So, yeah, some of the more recent ones have been less relatable to me, I will say.
KAYLA: Mm-hmm
SARAH: Top ace-spec BTS song is ‘Friends,’ it's called ‘Friends.’
KAYLA: That makes sense.
SARAH: It's a unit song with Jimin and Taehyung, also known as V, about how they're soulmates.
KAYLA: That's cute.
SARAH: Because they were born in the same year, and they're friends, and in the song, they literally say, "You are my soulmate."
KAYLA: Damn
SARAH: So that's, I think, very ace-spec.
KAYLA: I love. So cute.
SARAH: Aro-ace activist says, “As two friends who are living far apart, how do you maintain your long-distance friendship?” You start a podcast.
KAYLA: You start a podcast, it is actually the only way to do it.
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SARAH: And someone responded, Doptimus DT said, “It looks like you're gonna have to start a podcast.” You are correct.
KAYLA: Yeah. It's the only good way I've found to do it.
SARAH: Layla has two different questions, and I think they're both good. “What piece of advice would you give the you who started the podcast without spoiling the future?” And, “What is your favorite pod inside joke?”
KAYLA: “Get off Twitter.”
SARAH: Is there something I could tell my past self to invest in?
KAYLA: Oh, Bitcoin.
SARAH: Nooo, I don’t want anything to do with Bitcoin.
KAYLA: GameStop.
SARAH: GameStop but at the exact right time.
KAYLA: But at the right time. Tell her when to do the GameStop stock.
SARAH: Yeah. Without spoiling the future, honestly, no, I'm gonna chill like that.
KAYLA: She said, “#Noregrets.”
SARAH: Like, I don't know what I would say that would be helpful or even hurtful. Like, I don't know. Like, if future me came to me right now and gave me a piece of advice, what would I do with it? Like…
KAYLA: I think it would just freak me the fuck out, and that's all I would think about. Ever.
SARAH: I would also think, “Okay, you have to be really serious about believing in this piece of advice if you are coming to tell me,” just because I know how I am. Like, I wouldn't have anything to say to my past self. So, if my future self has something to say to me now, it's serious
KAYLA: It's serious. Wow, okay. You're really thinking about this.
SARAH: Yeah.
KAYLA: My advice is: get off Twitter and think before you tweet.
SARAH: Nice.
KAYLA: Yeah.
SARAH: And then also, what's your favorite inside joke? My favorite inside joke, which is obviously not a joke and is very real, is that ace-specs can't owe money.
KAYLA: That's huge, I forgot about that one.
SARAH: Yeah, yeah.
KAYLA: What else do we even have?
SARAH: They gave some suggestions, examples, the Kayla's feminism class, the cows, the my-phase
KAYLA: The my-phase is huge, don't miss it. I'll save that. I mean, the feminism class’s a classic.
SARAH: Yeah.
KAYLA: I think honestly, ‘the juice’ might be my biggest one, because that was a triumph for me because you hated it.
SARAH: Did I?
KAYLA: Yes, I really fought for that.
SARAH: Did I not like making it a thing? As in like ‘beef and juice’? Or was it just the ‘big juice’ that I just didn’t like as a concept?
KAYLA: Like, all of it.
SARAH: Okay. I feel like I was pro ‘the juice.’ I feel like the juice thing… I don’t know that it was my idea, but like, the balancing out the beef I think was important.
KAYLA: No, that was needed. I think you were maybe anti ‘big juice’ and like, naming the juice section after it.
SARAH: Okay, interesting. I have absolutely no recollection.
KAYLA: Right, well, that’s the recollection I have. I could be completely…
SARAH: You could be gaslighting me.
KAYLA: Gaslighting you, yeah. Because this was an early one, we did a livestream like really early on, because I know…
SARAH: It was in my room
KAYLA: Yeah, we were still in college. And I was drinking grapefruit juice just straight out of the Ocean Spray bottle, and everyone was like, “Big Juice!” And then…
SARAH: “Big Juice”
KAYLA: That is the juice on our…
SARAH: On our album
KAYLA: On our logo, album cover thing, that's the juice.
SARAH: Yep.
KAYLA: Yep.
SARAH: A lot of our inside jokes and lore and stuff really started so early. Like…
KAYLA: I know, I feel bad for…
SARAH: Like, the first episode.
KAYLA: I know, I do feel bad for people coming in.
SARAH: Yeah. Because then to understand, they actually have to listen to the previous episodes, which like I can't in good conscience recommend, you know.
KAYLA: No. There is someone that has been doing it lately, I’ve been seeing your Spotify comments; you are cruising and I'm sorry for our past selves.
SARAH: Cruising for a bruising. Oh, that’s silly. What a silly time.
KAYLA: Indeed. Okay, who edits the episodes? Sarah does.
SARAH: It's me. Your boy.
KAYLA: I think I saw a couple of questions, what was our favorite episode?
SARAH: There’s a similar one from Aro Mark that says, “I'm a relatively new listener, so what do you think your best episodes to start with are?”
KAYLA: Eww! To start?
SARAH: Any that are particularly memorable?
KAYLA: ‘The Little Women’ episode.
SARAH: Tiny, tiny women.
KAYLA: I remember that one.
SARAH: They’re so small, they have such delicate feet.
KAYLA: ‘Things to do instead of being aphobic.’
SARAH: Mm
KAYLA: Memorable.
SARAH: Mm-hmm
KAYLA: This is a recent one but the recent one we did about… it was about women, but what about them?
SARAH: Women.
KAYLA: Women. Like, separating womanhood from like asexuality, that was a very recent one, but I liked that one.
SARAH: Hmm, good to know that whatever I said in that at least sort of made sense then.
KAYLA: Well, I never said that.
SARAH: Okay. So, you’re just complimenting yourself on your intelligent discourse with yourself
KAYLA: Yes, with myself, yeah.
SARAH: I love an AITA, the AITAs are classics.
KAYLA: Yeah.
SARAH: You know, classics of the genre.
KAYLA: I also really love our guest episodes, especially the ones about books. And it's… I think I saw another question somewhere about…
SARAH: It was in the Discord.
KAYLA: In the Discord, yeah about having guests on and if we're gonna have like guests on more. I really like…
SARAH: From Becky.
KAYLA: Having guests on in the moment
SARAH: Yes
KAYLA: I really like those discussions and like… because we've talked to each other for eight years, so there's like only so much new perspective to have. But guests always just have such an interesting conversation. I find the process of like booking guests and scheduling it to be very taxing, which is why we don't do it more.
SARAH: Yeah
KAYLA: Also, just with us already being in such faraway time zones, it just makes it difficult.
SARAH: Yes.
KAYLA: So that's something I like, ideally would love to do more and maybe in the future, that'll happen when we get some… like, I stop taking classes and get some time back on my hands. But I do really like having guests on.
SARAH: There’s also just like a lot more preparation that goes into having guests. And like, our whole thing is that we don’t prepare for this podcast weekly.
KAYLA: Yeah.
SARAH: So, it adds another layer of just like stress and like, okay, we need to read this whole thing, or we need to do whatever.
KAYLA: Yeah
SARAH: Which, as we mentioned before, we both have full-time jobs.
KAYLA: Yeah.
SARAH: And also, I'm supposed to write or something.
KAYLA: We're both mentally ill too, is the thing that you have to be thinking about.
SARAH: Oh, God, I’m so ill.
KAYLA: You have to also be… anytime you're thinking about us, you need to be factoring that in.
SARAH: This isn't something we think about in advance, but editing the episodes when we have guests also takes longer.
KAYLA: Yeah, that's true.
SARAH: So
KAYLA: I like it though.
SARAH: Yeah, they're always really good episodes, but they're just more work. And what you have to understand is we're lazy.
KAYLA: We’re not, we're not lazy, we're mentally ill.
SARAH: Speak for yourself.
KAYLA: You're not lazy, you're mentally ill.
SARAH: [Foreign Language 00:37:37]
KAYLA: Perhaps. I'm trying to… I, for years, have been trying to remove the word ‘lazy’ from my self-vocabulary, so.
SARAH: Mm. I feel like I don't often use it for myself, which is a good thing.
KAYLA: I use it too much, and then I'm like, “No, you're not lazy. You're burnt out, queen. Go to bed.”
SARAH: “Your brain doesn't work great.”
KAYLA: Yeah.
SARAH: Yeah, that's valid. Usually, I just jump to the, “Oh, you're depressed.”
KAYLA: Yeah
SARAH: That's what it is.
KAYLA: Yeah, perhaps.
SARAH: He he he. WannaPineapple said, “Wait, is that the usual recording time? If so, I totally understand why Kayla is always so sleepy.”
KAYLA: Noooo! You're not supposed to be able to tell! You're not supposed to. You know what's funny is, anytime I talk to my dad about the podcast, he's like, “I really wish you guys recorded at a different time, I feel so bad listening to you being so tired.”
SARAH: Wake up.
KAYLA: I'm like, “I'm sorry!” You guys aren't supposed to be able to tell! You guys aren't supposed to be able to tell.
SARAH: Kayla is sleepy and Sarah's in full yap mode because I don't get enough…
KAYLA: Because you just got…
SARAH: And the I just off work
KAYLA: Sarah is just getting off of work, I'm like getting ready for bed, it's great. But yes. 11 p.m. Eastern on a Wednesday is the typical record time.
SARAH: Yeah. Just wants to know how many times I've seen K-Pop Demon Hunters, just once. It's great. It's a great film.
KAYLA: I’ve never seen it. I've heard of it.
SARAH: It's really funny because a lot of K-Pop idols have watched it, and their main takeaway is like, in terms of what's unrealistic about it, they don't care about the demons or the magic
KAYLA: Right
SARAH: They're like, they would never do a co-ed fan sign with two different groups together.
KAYLA: Stupid
SARAH: Which they wouldn't. And that scene was originally written as the ISAC archery competition, and then the execs were like, “Why the fuck are they doing an archery competition?” and they made them change it. But in reality, an archery competition is a much more realistic situation for them to be in than a co-ed fan sign.
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KAYLA: I don't understand what's going on.
SARAH: They have this thing, it's called ISAC at least that's how I say it, I-S-A-C, I don't know. It's basically like the Idol Olympics.
KAYLA: Oh
SARAH: They just do sports and they compete against each other, and one of the things they do is archery.
KAYLA: Mm, okay.
SARAH: That's all. Do I have any other questions? Oh yeah, this is important. From Valkyrie: “What are your top three forms of potatoes?”
KAYLA: Fry.
SARAH: What kind of fry?
KAYLA: Normal.
SARAH: I like a good curly fry.
KAYLA: I do like a curly fry as well.
SARAH: They always have the right ratio. Like, a steak fry? No. No. No. Too much potato, not enough frying.
KAYLA: For me, my favorite type of fry comes down to what is typically seasoned the best. Like, I have only ever had a good waffle fry from one place
SARAH: The Alexia's frozen waffle fries, very good. Most waffle fries, not good.
KAYLA: Severely under-seasoned.
SARAH: Yeah.
KAYLA: If you are in Ann Arbor, Mister Spots has, I think, the world's only good waffle fry, it is very good.
SARAH: In general, I don't like crinkle-cut fries, the ones at Shake Shack are good.
KAYLA: Okay
SARAH: But elsewhere I'm not a fan. If we're talking chips, I like a Wavy Lay. I prefer a Wavy Lay to a Ruffle. At the Fourth of July, there were chips, and I said, “Oh…” I said something about the Wavy Lays, and then I looked at it more closely… no, here's what it was, Miranda referred to them as Ruffles, and I said, “Oh, that's not a Ruffle, that's a Wavy Lay.” And she was like, “How do you know?”
KAYLA: What a stupid question for her to ask, by the way.
SARAH: And then I looked a little bit closer and I said, “Actually, this is neither a Ruffle nor a Wavy Lay. This is a secret third thing.” And she was like, “How do you know?” And I was like, “Well, the ridges are further apart than Ruffles, but closer together than Wavy Lays.”
KAYLA: Duh.
SARAH: And so, she went inside and she asked my uncle what brand they were and I was right, they were a secret third thing.
KAYLA: Of course.
SARAH: Basically, the more potato, the less I like it. Like…
KAYLA: Huh!
SARAH: If I have a mashed potato, you know how much salt I have to put on it?
KAYLA: I love a mashed potato.
SARAH: So much salt. You would not believe. I did not eat a mashed potato until I was, like, 22.
KAYLA: That tracks.
SARAH: So, like, I need the right… like, that's why a fry is good, because it can… salt eats the whole thing and then it's… so it has the seasoning and that's why I don't like a steak fry because a steak fry is too much potato.
KAYLA: Interesting.
SARAH: Not enough fry.
KAYLA: I think my top two is definitely fries and chips.
SARAH: Mm-hmm. I like a good like a breakfast potato not a hash brown.
KAYLA: Oh
SARAH: A breakfast potato…
KAYLA: What's it called?
SARAH: But it has to be properly seasoned, and if the chunks are too big, then no.
KAYLA: What are they called?
SARAH: Because sometimes you get a breakfast potato that's just, like, not seasoned enough, and I'm like, “I'm just eating a rock here.”
KAYLA: What's the name for a breakfast potato? That's a thing
SARAH: Breakfast potatoes
KAYLA: No. Like, when you go to a breakfast place and you get…
SARAH: Hash browns?
KAYLA: Potato cubes on the side. No, they're cubes.
SARAH: Breakfast potatoes.
KAYLA: There's a name
SARAH: Potatoes. Breakfast potatoes, I just looked up breakfast potatoes and they're cubes
KAYLA: I know, but there's… like, on the menu there's a name. Dean!
DEAN: Yes?
KAYLA: What is it called when you get potatoes with your breakfast?
DEAN: Home fries
KAYLA: Home fries
SARAH: Home fries, sorry, I'm too Midwestern for that. Some of us and by us, I mean you lived in the South for a single year, so you have…
KAYLA: I think they're just called home fries. You're telling me on the menu at the diner it's called a breakfast potato?
SARAH: Yeah, in my experience.
KAYLA: That's crazy, it's a home fry.
SARAH: If I saw a home fry, I would know that it's a potato, but I would not be able to picture it
KAYLA: It's the cubes.
SARAH: Okay, well, I prefer a breakfast potato, because a breakfast potato doesn't have to be like the small cubes, it can be a bigger chunk, but some of the bigger chunks can often be under-seasoned, so.
KAYLA: My top three are fries, chips, home fries.
SARAH: Okay
KAYLA: Really just… just really fry it.
SARAH: I just think home fries… when I think of home fries, I think under-seasoned.
KAYLA: Oh, you're going to the wrong places.
SARAH: Well, no, they don't call it… I don't… I gotta go.
KAYLA: Okay.
SARAH: Final question from me
KAYLA: Okay
SARAH: Kayla, what is the oddest button in your listener-sent buttons collection? It’s from Whispers
KAYLA: I saw this. I don't know that I've gotten any that are odd, I could tell you the most unique ones.
SARAH: Unique!
KAYLA: There was someone who sent a button that they, like, painted to look like a cow, I'll show you.
SARAH: Oh, that's so cute!
KAYLA: They used, like, I think white-out to, like, put little spots on it.
SARAH: Yeah
KAYLA: I can't remember if it's the same person, it might have been the same person then also put buttons together, like in the order of the ace and aro flags.
SARAH: Very nice.
KAYLA: That was really cute. Someone else sent me… I'm not going to say their name, because I don't know, sent me a bunch of white buttons that came off of their work shirt that ripped in the middle of their workday, which I… it's just… a bunch of white buttons taped in
SARAH: Stunning
KAYLA: Which I just think is really funny. I just think that’s…
SARAH: There's lore that comes with it
KAYLA: Right
SARAH: There's a backstory
KAYLA: Someone else sent me, they used to do, like, button crafts, they'd, like, put buttons on, like, a ribbon.
SARAH: Mm-hmm
KAYLA: And so, they sent me their childhood button craft which, I love.
SARAH: Like something they made as a child?
KAYLA: I think so.
SARAH: That’s wild
KAYLA: There's people… no, there are… I've gotten some buttons of people that are like… was it this letter? I have, like, pictures of the letters of people so I can remember, like, who sent them. But yeah, there's been a couple people who have button collections of their own who have sent me stuff from their button collection, but this person sent me some from their button collection and they keep, like, important buttons from important things, one is from… it’s one of two buttons attached to a baggie that's attached to my favorite polo shirt that I wore for, like, years, and the second one, let's see
SARAH: God, the responsibility of being entrusted with these important buttons
KAYLA: I know, another one was from, like, a fabric market that this person really liked, that they held onto buttons from.
SARAH: I could never send someone else my favorite buttons and I don't even collect buttons.
KAYLA: That is what I'm saying, they sent me important buttons, that's so sweet.
SARAH: Like, I can't even send people Pikmin postcards if I don't have a duplicate.
KAYLA: I know, it's true.
SARAH: Oh wow, that's fun. Are there any additional questions from the ‘gram that you want to discourse?
KAYLA: Let's see. Give us some podcast recommendations.
SARAH: Always Normal Gossip.
KAYLA: Mm-hmm
SARAH: Hold on, let me go to my podcast app, I don't listen to, like, narrative podcasts.
KAYLA: Mm
SARAH: The Dream is always good. Behind the Bastards, always good. That's kind of it. I mean, also the classics, Dear Hank & John, Golden Ratio Podcast.
KAYLA: Classic.
SARAH: I don't even really keep track of the Golden Ratio on social media, but I do still love to listen to their podcasts, they're just so silly and fun.
KAYLA: My top podcast recently because I've been listening from the beginning and they've been around for quite a few years is Hey Riddle Riddle, very funny comedy/improv/riddle podcast. And then anything by the McElroy brothers, love a My Brother, My Brother and Me. Love an Adventure Zone.
SARAH: Mib Mib
KAYLA: Mib Bim Bam
SARAH: Yeah
KAYLA: That's how they say it. Something I have not listened to yet, but I want to, is a podcast called Bitcherton
SARAH: Mm
KAYLA: An improvised comedy podcast satirizing the world of Jane Austen that tells the tale of a wealthy family, scandals, and shenanigans, I have not started listening to this yet, but I saw it and I saved it because I was like, “that's my shit.”
SARAH: That's so silly.
KAYLA: So silly. So, yeah.
SARAH: Is that all? Are we done?
KAYLA: It's over.
SARAH: Kayla, what is our poll for this week? What is your favorite Sounds Fake but Okay lore/inside joke?
KAYLA: Oh, that's fun.
SARAH: I want to know.
KAYLA: Or your favorite episode if you, like, don't… if you haven't been around long enough.
SARAH: Yeah. Or…
KAYLA: What's your favorite thing about us?
SARAH: Compliment us.
KAYLA: Compliments, please, is really what we're saying. Compliments, please.
SARAH: Or, if you don't have a lore or an inside joke that you like, make one up.
KAYLA: Oh, okay.
SARAH: Invent a new one for us.
KAYLA: Mm-hmm
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SARAH: Okay. Kayla, what's your beef and your juice for this week?
KAYLA: My juice is I'm going home this weekend. I'm very excited to spend some time on a lake, some fresh water. Every time I go to the ocean here, in the ocean state that I live in
SARAH: Yeah
KAYLA: I get in and I'm always surprised to find it salty
SARAH: It's horrible
KAYLA: Every time…
SARAH: Why is it salty?
KAYLA: And I'll remind myself on the way to the beach, I'll say, “Kayla, you're gonna get in the water, and it will be salty.” And it surprises me every time.
SARAH: It's so yucky in your mouth.
KAYLA: It’s so yucky.
SARAH: It irritates my skin.
KAYLA: Yep.
SARAH: I just don't get in.
KAYLA: I'm gonna start wearing goggles to the beach, I think. But anyway, I'm going home. And there's gonna be the baby, and I'm gonna see the baby.
SARAH: A baby
KAYLA: And I'm gonna squish the baby.
SARAH: Squish.
KAYLA: My beef is that I… okay, get a load of this shit, you guys.
SARAH: I'm ready.
KAYLA: Not to concern anyone, but PSA… and I really actually don't want to concern anyone, but I had the ParaGard IUD for a long time, and it was fine, it's the copper, non-hormonal one, and it was fine. And then my friend came to me, and she said, “Kayla, did you know there's a class-action lawsuit against ParaGard? Because people, when they get it out, it breaks inside of them.” And according to my doctors, very uncommon. So again, I don't want to freak anyone out. But it was almost expired anyway, so I was like, “Let's get this the fuck out of my body.”
SARAH: In one piece
KAYLA: In one piece, and it did. And it came out. And I really actually do wish I had kept it, but she threw it in the trash and then it was gone.
SARAH: Right.
KAYLA: But also, the nurse lady, OB lady, was great, so that's a juice.
SARAH: Slay
KAYLA: And then I got a new one. And I said, “you know what? I'm gonna try the one with the least amount of hormones.” Because 10 years ago, when I tried hormonal birth control, I ended up in the hospital. But certainly, that won't happen again.
SARAH: Certainly, that would never happen again.
KAYLA: Certainly, if I choose the IUD with the lowest amount of localized hormones…
SARAH: What could go wrong?
SARAH: That are supposed to stay local and not go to my brain, certainly everything will be fine. Um, and no.
SARAH: No.
KAYLA: Okay, I’ll start crying again. Every time I think about it I actually just start crying. No, I've been just crashing out for like… since Friday.
SARAH: So, silly.
KAYLA: L.O.L. I love to be a woman.
SARAH: A woman.
KAYLA: So please pray for me that my body learns how to deal with that.
SARAH: Accepts the foreign object.
KAYLA: Accepts the foreign... the sky-low within me.
SARAH: Mm, inshallah it works.
KAYLA: Thank you.
SARAH: I have a neutral fact that I was reminded of.
KAYLA: Okay, neutral fact.
SARAH: Is that I have gotten into the habit of when I'm driving, if I ever have to like hit the brakes really fast or like if I'm in just like a sudden-change situation, I go… in my car.
KAYLA: A silent scream?
SARAH: It's not silent, you'll hear it.
KAYLA: Oh, okay.
SARAH: I was doing it earlier.
KAYLA: It didn't come through.
SARAH: Yeah, Kayla didn't get it. But y’all will.
KAYLA: Okay.
SARAH: And I had someone in my car.
KAYLA: Uh-oh.
SARAH: And I did it. And I was like, “Sorry.”
KAYLA: “Sorry.”
SARAH: Luckily, when I had a stranger in my car… I went to a concert with a group of people, and two of them I already knew and one of them I didn’t, and the one that I didn’t, I had to pick up at her house.
KAYLA: Tough
SARAH: So, anyway. My juice is… we’ll come back to that. My beef is the motherfucking Tesla diner/drive-in movie theater next to my workplace opened, and the sheer quantity of Cybertrucks that have assaulted my line of sight in the past week and a half, absolutely ungodly. I have to perceive so many Teslas.
KAYLA: Mm-hmm. And one had truck nuts.
SARAH: One had… it was the first day it was open.
KAYLA: Matte blue truck nuts.
SARAH: It was a matte blue Tesla Cybertruck with matte blue truck nuts. Blue balls, if you will.
KAYLA: Oh yeah.
SARAH: And the license plate, I'm just gonna dox this person
KAYLA: I wish you would
SARAH: The license plate was just ‘GERMANY.’
KAYLA: I did not notice that in the picture.
SARAH: And it was one of those digital license plates.
KAYLA: Wait, what?
SARAH: California has digital license plates?
KAYLA: What?
SARAH: They're not very common
KAYLA: What does that mean?
SARAH: But it's like a screen. It's a little screen.
KAYLA: That should not be legal.
SARAH: I mean, they're regulated, I don't know.
KAYLA: I have to look this up.
SARAH: But they had a digital license plate that was just ‘Germany.’
KAYLA: What is the point of this?
SARAH: I don't know.
KAYLA: I mean, what's the point of having them?
SARAH: I don't know. You can change it so that if it's stolen it can say ‘STOLEN.’
KAYLA: But like, what is the point of this?
SARAH: This is the future, we live in the future, Kayla.
KAYLA: But like, what's the point of this?
SARAH: Yeah.
KAYLA: I don't understand.
SARAH: Good talk. So, that's my beef. My juice is I have, in the past couple of days, done a little bit of writing
KAYLA: Slay
SARAH: On various different things, not a lot, but a little and that is good.
KAYLA: Love, a win.
SARAH: And I was working on my pilot that I first started writing in 2019, after we graduated.
KAYLA: Old.
SARAH: And I'm rewriting it now, and I've been rewriting it forever, but I realized I'm closer to finishing it than I thought, which is good
KAYLA: Slay
SARAH: Because I don't write in order. So, I was like, “I still have more to do,” and then I was like, “Actually, at this point, it’s pretty much mostly written, just the end.” Anyway, that's all, you can tell us about your beef, your juice, your favorite thing about our podcast on our social media, @soundsfakepod.
KAYLA: Compliments, please
SARAH: If you have hate or critiques, send them to @donaldjtrump
KAYLA: Right, yeah.
SARAH: I don't even know if that's his @, I don't care.
KAYLA: No idea.
SARAH: We also have a Patreon, patreon.com/soundsfakepod if you would like to support us there. Our $5 patrons who we are promoting this week are Jolly Lizbert, Katharina, Kelly, Kevin, and Lily. Our $10 patrons who are promoting something this week are… bing, bing, bing, bing, bing, Derick & Carissa, who would like to promote supporting each other through the transitions we face; Elle Bitter, who would like to promote normalizing the use of tone indicators; Eric, who would like to promote Queer ASL; and my aunt Jeannie, who would like to promote Christopher's Haven. We also have a new $10 patron, it's Quartertone
KAYLA: Oooh
SARAH: Hi, Quartertone…
KAYLA: Hello
SARAH: Please let us know what you would like to promote. Hehe. Our other $10 patrons are… thank you, also, that too. Ate that. Our other $10 patrons are Johanna, Kayla's dad, Maff, Martin Chiesl, Purple Hayes, Barefoot Backpacker, SongOStorm, Val, Alastor, Ani, Arcnes, Benjamin Ybarra and Clare Olsen. Our $15 patrons are Ace, who would like to promote the writer Crystal Scherer; Nathaniel White, NathanielJWhiteDesigns.com; Kayla’s Aunt Nina, who would like to promote katemaggartart.com; and Schnell who would like to promote accepting that everyone is different and that's awesome. Our $20 patrons are Dragonfly, my mom, and River, who would like to promote the fact that my mom is doing a good job.
KAYLA: We love Julie
SARAH: At the things she's doing. I'm sure she'll hear this podcast in three to four years.
KAYLA: Well, it'll still be true then.
SARAH: That's true. Thanks for listening, tune in next Sunday, we're back, for more of us in your ears.
KAYLA: And until then, take good care of your cows.
SARAH: Give them juice.
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