Ep 375: Reddit Rabbithole (AITA) pt. 22
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 all things to do with love, relationships, sexuality, and pretty much anything else we just don't understand
KAYLA: On today's episode: Reddit Rabbithole
SARAH: Part, who knows?
KAYLA: Oh, sorry, I thought we were like past doing that, because who knows?
SARAH: We don't know, we can be
KAYLA: Okay
SARAH: Welcome back to the pooood!
KAYLA: No, we didn't say, “sounds fake, but okay.”
SARAH: Fuck me
KAYLA: Should we just start over?
SARAH: No, I think that's funny. Good intro
KAYLA: Right
BOTH: Sounds fake, but okay
SARAH: Welcome back to the pod, but for real this time
KAYLA: But this time like…
SARAH: This time we meant it
KAYLA: Listen, we didn't really record last week so we're all messed up
SARAH: We're all silly, silly gilly loosey-goosey
KAYLA: Mm-hmm
SARAH: Hi, did everyone have a good aro week?
KAYLA: We remembered it, kind of
SARAH: Did you shoot anyone with a bow and arrow?
KAYLA: I want to know if anyone went to Zachary's….
SARAH: Kayla you weren't looking, but Addie just had the most difficult time getting up on the desk
KAYLA: Aww, she’s stupid
SARAH: Hi, sorry, it stopped recording. Okay, Addie stepped on the thing and it stopped recording and then it said, “sorry Audition doesn't do CD burns on ARM processors.”
KAYLA: CD burns
SARAH: And I was like, “what the fuck are you talking about?”
KAYLA: Mm-hmm
SARAH: Anyway, hope everyone is well
KAYLA: We're doing great
SARAH: Here we are. Shall we just begin?
KAYLA: Yes. If you hear screaming in the background of mine, it's because my upstairs neighbors love to run around screaming at night.
SARAH: They just have passion, they have passion and they need you to hear it and feel it
KAYLA: They have something…
SARAH: Testosterone?
KAYLA: And knocking on the ceiling with a ski pole simply didn't seem to do anything to stop them, so
SARAH: Ski pole!
KAYLA: It's the best implement we have.
SARAH: The ski pole is much more advanced than a broom
KAYLA: We don't really have a broom and ski pole has like rubber ends, so
SARAH: What do you mean you don't have a broom?
KAYLA: I have a Swiffer and I have a vacuum, I don't have like a broom
SARAH: But like a vacuum is good, but sometimes a vacuum doesn't… okay.
KAYLA: My floors are not the cleanest, I will say. And that's something… it's fine because I don't like dealing with it and so it's fine
SARAH: Listen, as long as the whole house is mad but like in like a cool with the… whole house mad, whole house cool with… Okay…
KAYLA: Let's just start
SARAH: Kayla, what are talking about this week?
KAYLA: This week we're doing Reddit, you start reading and I'll listen.
SARAH: Okay, this one came from Discord, it came from…
KAYLA: Wait, sorry. I'm actually so sorry…
SARAH: What? Housekeeping?
KAYLA: Kind of. I recently learned, and I think maybe I had known this before and then forgotten, I recently learned about how many people in our Discord like met on our Discord and then like now like live together live and in person
SARAH: Yeah
KAYLA: Or like have become like real life friends and that really was so wild to me to learn, it was crazy. And I feel like I had other things to say about that, but that's all I remember, so I guess if…
SARAH: Bringing people together with the power of chaos
KAYLA: I was telling our mods that it makes me feel like a sperm donor who didn't know he had kids and like suddenly was like, “oh my God”
SARAH: Wow, that's not where I thought that was going.
KAYLA: Oh, well, anyway, if you're looking for some IRL friends that you potentially move across the world to live with, join the Discord
SARAH: We got a place for you
KAYLA: Okay, now you go on
SARAH: Anyway. This came… it came from Barefoot Backpacker, right?
KAYLA: I don't know.
SARAH: I think so
KAYLA: I'll look
SARAH: It came from someone that we know well and in my brain it was Barefoot Backpacker.
KAYLA: No, it comes from Tort
SARAH: Tort, okay
KAYLA: Mod extraordinaire
SARAH: Another discord user we know well, so I was just like, I guess all of you in my head are just like one toe of Barefoot Backpacker
KAYLA: A toe?
SARAH: Together you all make up Barefoot Backpacker
KAYLA: Oh, foot, foot, foot, foot
SARAH: Yeah. Anyway, Tort, sorry. Tort sent this in the cord and so I have not read it yet and we're going in, am I the asshole from seven days ago… Uh-oh, the user’s sweet and sour cum, I don’t like that. Okay, would I be the asshole for suing my friend when she didn't come to my wedding?
KAYLA: Yes.
SARAH: I, 25, female recently got married to my…
KAYLA: Okay, child bride!
SARAH: Yeah, child bride. Recently, I got married to my 25 male husband in Bali. Straight people also in Bali?
KAYLA: Child bride in Bali
SARAH: Bali Indonesia in January. Okay.
KAYLA: Maybe they're from there, no, just kidding
SARAH: No. It was a destination wedding, but my parents and his parents paid for their own plane tickets and hotel but we paid for our friends’ plane tickets and hotel stays, it must not have been a very big wedding.
KAYLA: Or they're rich, who’s to say?
SARAH: Well, if they're rich they wouldn't be doing this. Well, actually, no, they would be, because rich people are weird about money. Okay, each plane ticket was about $2,000 USD and the hotel was maybe $150-$300 for a week. Wow, Bali
KAYLA: Oh my God
SARAH: Inexpensive, it is probably why people go there, and because it's really fucking pretty, many reasons. My friend, we are calling her Jemma, brought along her newlywed husband John but paid for his plane ticket, the problem is that Jemma and John did not show up to my wedding
KAYLA: Uh-oh
SARAH: Jemma took the free plane ticket to Bali and the hotel room and when I asked her why she didn't show up, she said that since they couldn't afford their own honeymoon, that this was a perfect opportunity
KAYLA: Noooo!
SARAH: And that Jim decided he didn't feel like going
KAYLA: No!
SARAH: I was really hurt by this since Jemma and I have been friends for over 10 years. Would I be the asshole if I took her to small claims court for the money I spent on the plane ticket and hotel?
KAYLA: I don't think you'd be the asshole, I think you should take that bitch to court, that's so wild
SARAH: When I first saw the beginning of this, like I only saw like the initial details and I thought it meant that like they just like didn't even come to Bali, but no, no, no, no, no, they came to Bali, they just didn't go to your fucking wedding.
KAYLA: That is absolutely wild.
SARAH: Also, I'm sorry, the wedding was… unless it's like an intense South-Asian wedding where there are like lots of days of things, I'm assuming this was probably only one day
KAYLA: Yeah
SARAH: You couldn't have spent one evening at this wedding that your fucking friend paid for your trip to Bali for?
KAYLA: That's the thing, it is like, I have never… I don't know if I've ever heard of someone paying for… like maybe family's flights to a destination wedding or if like certain friends need financial help, I don't know that I've ever heard of someone paying for all of the people they want to go to a destination wedding
SARAH: You know what? I guess I respect it. Like if you're gonna do a destination wedding...
KAYLA: No, I think that's great. Like that's very like…
SARAH: Respectable
KAYLA: Yeah, I think…
SARAH: If you’re both 25, I don't know where that money came from but sure
KAYLA: I don't either but like that, you know, I have no problems with that, if you're gonna pay for people to go, I just like…
SARAH: And also, like this was someone that you were close enough, you’ve known for over 10 years, someone that you're close enough with that you wanted to pay for their ticket to come to your wedding
KAYLA: Yeah
SARAH: And also, they paid for the hotel for a week, it wasn't like, “oh, we'll pay for the weekend.”
KAYLA: Yeah.
SARAH: They were like… well, oh my God
KAYLA: Because that's the thing, it is like, that can already be another… like that can still be your honeymoon, you're there for a week.
SARAH: Right, one fucking day!
KAYLA: And you could like extend your stay, like, oh now that we're already here like… Other comments on this? Like, what is happening?
SARAH: There's an update
KAYLA: Already!? That's crazy
SARAH: Well, it's from seven days ago.
KAYLA: I guess
SARAH: Okay, update, I messaged Jemma per multiple comments advising me to invoice her for the plane ticket and hotel.
KAYLA: That's so funny
SARAH: But I did something a little better, I wanted to get proof so if I had to go to court, it would be easier to win, I messaged her this “hey, sorry for being so distant, but I just want to talk to you about Bali, I'm hurt that you didn't show up to the ceremony, I pulled a lot of strings to ensure that you could come and then you didn't show up. Do you think I paid for the trip just so you could honeymoon with John?”
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SARAH: She replied, “I've missed you a lot and I know the trip was for your wedding but John didn't want to go because he felt like your wedding ruined the illusion of the trip being our honeymoon and that you'd understand.”
KAYLA: Oh my God
SARAH: Mind you, John is not her friend, Jemma is her friend.
KAYLA: Oh my God
SARAH: And he was like, “oh, she’ll understand.”
KAYLA: Also, it's not your honeymoon, it's not your honeymoon, it's your friend's wedding that you're turning into your honeymoon. Oh my God, divorce the man.
SARAH: I replied, “no, I don't understand, you took advantage of me and that's not what real friends do. So, I'm invoicing you $2,387.53 for the cost of the plane ticket and hotel room. I will give you thirty days and after that I will be taking legal action.” I received no response, but she has been posting subliminal quotes on Instagram that are along the lines of the entitled friends and having snakes in your life. Thank you for all your verdicts and help.
KAYLA: How is…
SARAH: I cannot believe that she has the fucking audacity to post shit on her Instagram story about entitled friends when she is the fucking rattlesnake.
KAYLA: That's what I'm saying.
SARAH: She rattled her fucking way through Bali
KAYLA: She is the most entitled person of all time. Like you think someone is just gonna drop $2,000 on you and then be fine that you didn't follow through?
SARAH: Oh my God. It would be one thing if you got food poisoning and you were both puking everywhere, okay? But the fact…
KAYLA: The illusion of their honeymoon that didn't exist.
SARAH: I would… Okay, not the asshole
KAYLA: Not the asshole, for sure.
SARAH: Yeah
KAYLA: Do you think she could win?
SARAH: I'm going to go with yeah
KAYLA: It's so late, I'm trying to think of any of the lawyers I know who are awake right now.
SARAH: I don't think it's like a sure thing necessarily
KAYLA: Yeah
SARAH: I'm not an expert in small claims courts, but… especially because she laid it out in the message
KAYLA: Yeah
SARAH: And the friend did not refute any of the details
KAYLA: Yeah. Also, she could bring like so many… I don't know if you can bring witnesses to small claims court but like you have all of the other friends who had this same deal with her of like, I'm paying.
SARAH: Right
KAYLA: And there must be messages, like past messages of her saying like, “hey, I'm offering to pay for you.”
SARAH: For my wedding, not for your fucking honeymoon
KAYLA: It ruins the illusion of the honeymoon, that did not exist by the way
SARAH: I would blow up the planet
KAYLA: That is flabbergasting
SARAH: Yeah, so, not the asshole and as soon as you settle this never speak to Jemma or John again
KAYLA: No. Ten years!
SARAH: That’s insane. That’s insane.
KAYLA: It just makes me wonder like they've previously had issues with their friendship or of like… because, you know, some people are friends with someone for a really long time even though they're like, yeah, this person kind of sucks, but like, you know, they're like my sister or whatever, it just makes me curious if we could have seen this coming, perhaps.
SARAH: Yeah, I'm just looking at the comments, someone is like, “someone offers to give you a free vacation on the condition that you attend one party during that time, I’d be jumping in that opportunity.”
KAYLA: Oh, no, a party, that’s so wild
SARAH: And this person says, “there was a quid pro quo, if you come to my wedding, I will pay for your airfare and hotel” or “if I pay for your airfare and hotel, will you come to my wedding? Any answer in the affirmative will be a contract, it sounds like she already has enough evidence to make that case explicitly.”
KAYLA: I'm going to send this to a lawyer I know
SARAH: Oh, and then OP responds to a comment, “she wasn't even in the wedding party, all she had to do was show up, dance and be given food.”
KAYLA: That's wild, which was free to her.
SARAH: Yeah
KAYLA: More free things for her
SARAH: Funny thing enough, a weird phrasing, funny enough thing, funny enough, funny enough
KAYLA: Mm-hmm
SARAH: They did go on a honeymoon, it just wasn't abroad.
KAYLA: No, come on
SARAH: So, they already fucking had a honeymoon, they just went to fucking Dollywood or something
KAYLA: These people are evil
SARAH: This person says, “I can't see winning any sort of claim, legally you gifted her a plane ticket and there was no contract she had to come to the wedding.” But then someone responds and says, “judges are capable of finding an assumed condition with a gift, the classic example is engagement rings typically get returned to the man if the fiancée calls off the wedding.”
KAYLA: Yeah, I feel like I have seen court cases around that.
SARAH: Yeah
KAYLA: Girl!
SARAH: Well, that’s fucking insane. Oh my God. This person is like, “if you're done with the friendship, go ahead and sue her.” And someone goes, “it sounds like Jemma already decided she's done with the friendship.”
KAYLA: Yeah. I mean, why would she keep someone like that around?
SARAH: If she let OP pay her way to Bali and didn't feel like actually attending the wedding, I don't know how you come back from that. Like, I'm sorry, was Jemma thinking that… I cannot believe that Jemma and John were like, oh, yeah, she'll… you know what about this is? John fucking hates OP, John wanted to end the friendship.
KAYLA: That is like the only excuse I could think of for Jemma, is if it's actually John that's like really like manipulative or just like… that is the only redemption that Jemma could possibly give
SARAH: I think John fucking hates OP, wanted Jemma and OP to not be friends anymore
KAYLA: Crazy
SARAH: And like planted this whole thing in Jemma's head and was like, “no, no, no, she'll be fine, she'll understand.” Also, the fact they didn't warn her in advance proves that they knew she wouldn't understand.
KAYLA: Yes
SARAH: Because if they really thought she'd understand, they would have told her in advance
KAYLA: Mm-hmm
SARAH: I imagine they fucking RSVPed to the fucking wedding
KAYLA: They would have had to get their plane ticket. I want to know like when the decision was made not to go, was it like the day of that John was like, “ah, I'm not feeling like it,” or like how premeditated was this
SARAH: Right. Yeah, no, I think John just really wanted to get rid of OP and Jemma…
KAYLA: Interesting
SARAH: Is either a horrible person or just stupid.
KAYLA: Mm-hmm.
SARAH: Wow. Next!
KAYLA: Well, that was wild
SARAH: Next, next, next. Another wedding one. Am I the asshole…
KAYLA: Girl! These are like… now, that I'm doing my own wedding, I'm like, “please, why is everyone so crazy?”
SARAH: I have a friend, well, she's my friend but like not a close enough friend that I will be invited to the wedding but, you know
KAYLA: Yeah
SARAH: I know someone who is getting married, who is engaged, and I saw her over the weekend, I saw her and her fiancé and I was like…
KAYLA: You won't be invited to my wedding, we don't know each other that well, can you imagine!?
SARAH: Oh, okay
KAYLA: Can you actually… hold up, can you imagine if like all of this, like us being friends was such an illusion that like you didn't even get invited to my wedding and everyone is like, “huh!?”
SARAH: No, no, no, hold on, I no-show to your wedding, there's no one to officiate
KAYLA: That would cause many issues, do I need to get like a backup officiant? Like, damn, that'd be fucked up
SARAH: That just makes me think about how, you know, the Canadian ice dance couple, the famous ones from like 2018, I forget their fucking names, they did Moulin Rouge Routine
KAYLA: Yes, yes, yes
SARAH: And how everyone is like, oh my God, they're in love with each other, but also, they're married to other people
KAYLA: Yeah
SARAH: And one of them was invited… like, she was invited to his wedding but he was not invited to her wedding
KAYLA: I did not know that
SARAH: Yeah
KAYLA: That's tea. I don't think… technically though, it's not like I would need an officiant at my wedding. Like, someone else could stand up there and do it, we just wouldn't have someone to sign the papers, we'd have to sign the papers at a later time. So actually, I don't care if you no-show to my wedding
SARAH: That'd still be like annoying though
KAYLA: Yeah, I would be annoyed, definitely.
SARAH: Anyway, I was gonna say… This friend I was like, I don't want to ask like a touchy question but like have you like started doing like wedding planning stuff, like do you… and she was like, “no, we needn’t to do that.’
KAYLA: It's not fun
SARAH: Although I think she said that she's doing like a really small wedding with basically just families
KAYLA: Yeah. We've been doing wedding Tuesdays, which is where we do our wedding planning every Tuesday and Dean was so sad about wedding Tuesday yesterday, it was tough
SARAH: Okay, am I the asshole for asking my brother to not bring a cam girl as his plus one to my wedding
KAYLA: A cam… Oh, a cam girl, okay, interesting
SARAH: Before we start this, let's explain to the class what a cam girl is
KAYLA: Okay
SARAH: It's like someone who does porn but just by themselves, sometimes with other people
KAYLA: Is a cam girl… I guess, now that like phones are a thing…
SARAH: It's like an OnlyFans
KAYLA: When I think of a cam girl, I think of it in like the like Y2K way of it's like a laptop and like some weird like live streaming website
SARAH: Yeah
KAYLA: I feel like I've seen a movie where it's like some girl on her weird chunky laptop in her room
SARAH: Right. So, I’ve googled it, it is a woman who appears online via a webcam in particular to pose or perform sexual acts on a live stream as a form of sex work.
KAYLA: Okay. So, now, it's probably OnlyFans but like back in the day it would have been some random website on the internet, okay
SARAH: Yeah. At first, I just looked up ‘cam girl’ and it just gave me much really sketchy websites and I was like, “no! I need cam girl meaning.”
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KAYLA: I bet. I would be really interested in who the market is for someone still using a cam girl website instead of OnlyFans, like who is that?
SARAH: Maybe they're dedicated to their girl or their boy, they got cam boys too
KAYLA: They do, maybe they're like really like… not analog, because it's obviously not analog but they're really like…
SARAH: Yeah, old-school
KAYLA: Yeah, they're dedicated to the aesthetic of using their web browser to consume live porn
SARAH: Yeah. Okay, okay. Am I the asshole for asking my brother to not bring a cam girl as his plus one to my wedding? I, 29, F, am getting married in April. The wedding is a bit short notice as my fiancé only proposed in December but we chose April as we got a really good price for our dream wedding venue
KAYLA: That's wild
SARAH: We are offering plus ones for our single guests. My brother Fran, 27, M, is single and took us up on the plus one offer, he wants to bring a girl, Dani, 26, F. Dani is a cam girl and Fran is a client of hers. First of all, why are you telling your family about who camgirl’s services you pay for? Okay, anyway, very open
KAYLA: A very open family
SARAH: Fran sometimes pays her to meet up in person and go on dates and my wedding would be one of those times. I only know about the nature of their relationship because Fran started this while living with our parents and they eventually found out
KAYLA: No! Bold. Also, I'm so sorry, and I don't know this person's circumstances, so this is like extremely judgmental, but living at your parents' house I assume for free, but paying for like luxury escort services is wild
SARAH: Made up girlfriend, yeah. I just… you know, I'll never fully get it.
KAYLA: Like that's not… I guess, I don't know where these people live, but from what I've seen on TikTok, like the in person sex worker girlies I follow on TikTok, it is not cheap what they are doing
SARAH: Not cheap. Okay, I've only met Dani a few times, once when Fran brought her to our aunt's potluck baby shower
KAYLA: Yo, come on, Fran
SARAH: I feel like Dani's behavior during this event was really inappropriate
KAYLA: I bet
SARAH: They turned up two hours late, by then most of the food was gone, with no dish, it's a potluck
KAYLA: It's a potluck
SARAH: And Dani kept loudly complaining that she was hungry the whole event, she took a load of the unused paper plates and straws and stuffed them into her purse without asking if she could take them
KAYLA: Come on!
SARAH: She also made really rude comments towards my aunt about her pregnant belly and how big she is and how she should get liposuction after the baby
KAYLA: Oh!
SARAH: She managed to constantly make herself the center of attention by just generally being loud and unpleasant. I'm sorry, Fran, how good of a pussy does this girl have? And you don't even get the pussy, right?
KAYLA: Do you? I don’t know?
SARAH: He gets the dates and he gets to see the pussy, I don't think he gets the pussy.
KAYLA: That is like paying for the girlfriend experience just for it to be like the worst girlfriend that your family could imagine is wild
SARAH: Like what do you see in this girl? Okay, so, she made herself the center of attention by being generally loud and unpleasant, this really upset our aunt, understandably
KAYLA: Understandably
SARAH: She vented to my mom who wasn't at the baby shower because she was sick about it and when my mom confronted Fran…
KAYLA: Good for her
SARAH: He had a meltdown and it was never brought up again
KAYLA: Oh, mom, have a backbone
SARAH: I just find everything about her behavior really tacky. This plus the fact that she's not even Fran's girlfriend or friend but his sex worker makes me really not want her at the wedding. At first, I phrased it in a nonconfrontational way and asked if there's anyone else he'd like to bring, like one of his friends, Fran said no and got really defensive and asked me why I'd ask him that, then he accused me of hating Dani for no reason. I told him he's welcome to bring someone else as his plus one but he is not to bring Dani to our wedding because I've just not liked what I've seen with her behavior at the last family event she was at. This is… okay, I'm not done. But the fact that like… it's not like she's his real girlfriend and it's like, oh, I don't like his real girlfriend, he's literally paying this girl to be there, so, like yes she can say… okay, okay…
KAYLA: It's like getting offended if someone is like, your plumber was mad to me, it's like okay, I won't hire them anymore, like that's a service provider
SARAH: Right. He said I'm being judgmental and that Dani is a nice person
KAYLA: No
SARAH: I asked Fran to please not make it a big deal and just bring one of his friends and have a nice time with the family, Fran started yelling at me he called me a stupid bitch and said I've already offered him a plus one, so, he is bringing Dani and I can't stop him and that I'm being a terrible sister
KAYLA: Oh
SARAH: I feel like I'm going crazy because I don't think I'm being massively unreasonable but this is the biggest fight I've ever had with Fran. Am I the asshole? No! No! No! You are not.
KAYLA: No, you are not.
SARAH: Oh my God
KAYLA: I think the only mistake that OP made was giving people an open plus one
SARAH: Yeah
KAYLA: Just don't do it. I'm not doing it and you shouldn't either
SARAH: And you shouldn't either. Yeah, that's wild. This person says, “revoke bro's invite to the wedding full stop. Your wedding day is the last day you want someone with her behavior regardless of her being a sex worker, she has proven that she can't behave appropriately, if he insists on bringing her then both of them are no longer invited.”
KAYLA: That's the thing, to me it doesn't seem like the main issue
SARAH: That's a hard line to take
KAYLA: The main issue doesn't seem to be that she's a sex worker
SARAH: No, it’s her behavior
KAYLA: If she had been a nice sex worker, I don't foresee that this would have been a big issue, but it's that she has been to family events before and has been really nasty
SARAH: Yeah.
KAYLA: It doesn't have like the social position to fall back on of like, oh, well, it's his girlfriend so we have to even though…
SARAH: Exactly. That's what my brain was really like hooking onto earlier was like… hooking? Haha. Was like, okay, if she was his awful girlfriend there's not a ton you can do about that
KAYLA: Yeah
SARAH: But she's not even his girlfriend
KAYLA: No
SARAH: She's only there because she's being paid to do it
KAYLA: Yeah. And I just wonder, like what is his friend… I wonder, like is she always that nasty? Like, is he bringing her around like his friends? Like, what are we all thinking about this lady?
SARAH: Also, you can't show up to a potluck with no food and then complain about being hungry
KAYLA: And it's not like you couldn't have bought food, you paid for your girlfriend
SARAH: It was a fucking baby shower
KAYLA: So, stop wasting your money buying a mean girlfriend and buy some food for the baby shower, you don't even have to make it
SARAH: Like, I'm sorry when he introduced… because I'm sure there were some people at the baby shower that they didn't know, right?
KAYLA: Yeah, but who is to say?
SARAH: And they were like, oh, who's this? Did he say, this is my sex worker who I hired to be here with me at this baby shower?
KAYLA: Do you introduce her as like your girlfriend because you paid for her to like act like your girlfriend? I don't know
SARAH: Paid for those services, I don’t know
KAYLA: I'm just confused what kind of business she's running because I feel like if you're providing a service where you like pretend to be someone's girlfriend, you should be nice to their family because that's what a girlfriend is supposed to do.
SARAH: Yeah
KAYLA: Is be nice to someone's family. She seems bad at her job
SARAH: Yeah. Okay, I have another one, this one is short. Am I the asshole for telling my brother he cannot stay with me over Christmas if he brings his prosthetic leg?
KAYLA: Um…
SARAH: My younger brother has a prosthetic leg, I think it is creepy AF and I have no idea where he got it, I'm reasonably certain that it is something I would rather not know, to be clear, my brother has two perfectly healthy legs still attached to his body
KAYLA: Right, this is what I feared. This is what I feared is that he did not need that for any reason
SARAH: My aunt had these… it was like a mannequin, it was the lower half of the body, it was just the legs, and it lived at my grandparents’ house
KAYLA: Why!?
SARAH: Because she's an artist and she had them for some reason
KAYLA: Sure
SARAH: And they lived in the bedroom where when we were little we would take naps in there
KAYLA: Horrifying
SARAH: But we were scared by the legs
KAYLA: And you know why you should have been scared especially Sarah is because only legs go to heaven
SARAH: Exactly
KAYLA: So, it's like where was the top half if the legs are here?
SARAH: I know, I know, where… I mean the…
KAYLA: If the legs are here, not in heaven, then where are we!?
SARAH: Yeah, they were green and they were wearing like these like Converse
KAYLA: Green!?
SARAH: If I recall correctly
KAYLA: Nice of it to be dressed I guess
SARAH: But they were scary to a child who's trying to take a nap. And so, my grandma would always put them in the bathtub when we were napping
KAYLA: No, come on! You couldn't simply move it to like the basement?
SARAH: That's two flights of stairs down
KAYLA: Yeah, but was your aunt like using it?
SARAH: It's full-sized human legs
KAYLA: Right, but how often was it actually being used?
SARAH: Not… they were just there for fun
KAYLA: Right. But then… get rid of it
SARAH: They also had several other bedrooms they could have gone in. Also, the bedroom that the legs lived in wasn't even my aunt's bedroom, it was a different bedroom
KAYLA: And is there nowhere else the children could have napped? Like, is that where you… like, what? There are so many ways we could have avoided this
SARAH: We could have napped a bedroom that was hers and my aunt's because that was where the princess and the pea bed was, but the beds in the room…
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KAYLA: It sounds perfect for a child. It seems like there was a fairy tale room available for you and they gave you the legs’ room
SARAH: Well, there's the big giant queen bed that was my one aunt's and then this aunt she had, we called it the princess and the pea bed because it was two mattresses stacked on top of each other
KAYLA: Mm-hmm. But instead, you slept in the legs’ room?
SARAH: But in the room where the napping happened it was like a bed and then another bed underneath it but not in the same direction, don't worry about it
KAYLA: No, I understand. I mean, I still have a lot of questions but continue
SARAH: Ask any of my cousins
KAYLA: It's not that I don't believe you, I would rather talk to like the adults…
SARAH: No, but they could give you more details
KAYLA: But I want to talk to the adults who were making the decisions, not the children
SARAH: Okay. Do you want me to connect you with my aunt?
KAYLA: I would love that. Is it one of them that I know?
SARAH: It's… aunt
KAYLA: I know Jeannie
SARAH: It's not Jeannie
KAYLA: Well, that's the only one I'm on a first name basis with, so
SARAH: It's my aunt Annie
KAYLA: I've heard of her, but I know Jeannie, would Jeannie be able to tell me why the adults… Because I know it wasn't her legs, but certainly she could have prevented this
SARAH: She may be able to give me some insight
KAYLA: I know Julie, I'll talk to Julie, I'll talk to Julie
SARAH: Yeah, go ahead and talk to Julie
KAYLA: Because she could have stopped this, I know she could have, and she chose not to and I want to know why
SARAH: Okay.
KAYLA: Okay
SARAH: This is in r/BrandNewSentence
KAYLA: Wait, sorry, we never finished the thing with the brother and the leg
SARAH: No, that was it
KAYLA: Oh
SARAH: That was it
KAYLA: All right
SARAH: I can look at the comments
KAYLA: Why did he need to bring it to her house for Christmas though?
SARAH: Wait, oh my God, okay, this was all that was showed, I got it from a tweet, I guess there was more to the story, the original story
KAYLA: I bet there was
SARAH: The comment says, this story is actually wild, her brother actually stole this leg from some woman, that woman saw the post and reported OP's brother to the police.
KAYLA: Oh my God. Why did he do that?
SARAH: Oh my God, I know why. Okay, he had stolen it from a lady because he wanted to be the hero that found it so she would date him
KAYLA: Oh no. What is with these brothers and their insane decision-making. But why did he have to bring it to Christmas?
SARAH: A lot of references to Rocket Raccoon from Guardians of the Galaxy because he did steal a leg for no reason
KAYLA: Okay, but when was he going to have found it and gave it back?
SARAH: Okay. Am I the asshole for prosthetic leg Christmas. Okay, I'll keep reading, he just has this thing that he takes with him everywhere, I don't know why, I don't want to know, before you ask, yeah, it is probably a mental health thing. He wanted to stay with me rather than our parents while he is home for the holidays, I said he was welcome to stay so long as he doesn't bring that thing into my house, he said it wasn't a big deal. How long has he been carrying this?
KAYLA: That’s what I’m saying, when was he going to give it back and be the hero that found it?
SARAH: Why does he always have to have it on person?
KAYLA: Because it's a crime
SARAH: And they're pretty expensive. Okay, so he said it wasn't a big deal and that he would leave it in his luggage, I agreed on the condition that if I saw it outside of his luggage in my home that I had the right to destroy it, he backtracked on staying with me and is at our parents’ house where he is miserable, they still treat him like a little boy instead of a guy who is almost 30
KAYLA: Good, I think they should, he needs some parenting I think
SARAH: I'm really curious to see if OP is older or younger, my guess is older but it would be really funny if OP was younger
KAYLA: Older I think
SARAH: It would be really funny if OP was younger. He called me again after supper and asked to please stay with me, I said he could so long as we together took this thing and put it in a storage unit until he leaves, I get the key, he won't do it.
KAYLA: Storage unit is wild
SARAH: He says that I'm being a bitch for not letting him stay with me, I think he just needs to get therapy or medication or both or a girlfriend, boyfriend, dog, cat, hamster, something, just not a goddamn prosthetic leg
KAYLA: Why is she a bitch? Like, you're not entitled to stay with her under any conditions
SARAH: It's a major reward. Okay, I'm a prosthetist and I have to ask, what does this leg even look like? Below knee or above knee? Does it just have a pylon bare or is there a foam covering so that it sort of looks like a leg? Is there a foot shell on it or is the foot component just sort of hanging out? The reason I'm asking is because A, prosthetic anything is mind bogglingly expensive. And B, you can't just have a prosthetic leg if you have two perfectly healthy legs, you literally need a stump to make one that's specifically yours. Did your brother receive it from someone? Did he steal it? And just to be sure, it's an actual prosthesis and not a leg brace of some kind? I've had patients and their families make that mistake before. It looks like a carbon fiber cup and a steel knee and lower leg and foot. And then the prosthetist responds, “Oh Jesus.” AK prostheses are not cheap, that's an entire car right there, I would actually grill your bro on where he got it because it is 100% not his. If he stole it, he's looking at felony/grand theft charges. If he bought it, check his and your parents' financials because again these things are insanely expensive and he doesn't sound like the brightest bulb, make sure he does not try to sell the prosthesis or any of its components.”
KAYLA: What is wrong with this man?
SARAH: Oh my God. Not the asshole, and I'm terrified it's a fetish. Wow.
KAYLA: When was he going to give it back?
SARAH: How long had he had it? Okay, well, I'm not finding the updates here but two different people gave that update on Twitter, so, I believe that that update is somewhere
KAYLA: Well, where did they find it?
SARAH: And I found it on a Twitter called ‘Images AI Could Never Recreate.’
KAYLA: Good
SARAH: This one is from r/BrandNewSentence and it's a screenshot from r/[inaudible 00:36:22] I'm not gay enough for the gays. My husband and I are at a friend's house to watch RuPaul's Drag Race, everyone else is talking about some drag queen, I have no idea what's going on, I just smile and say, “work,” every few minutes, I've felt this way for decades, I've accepted my fate, I hope I'm never found out, all this just to fuck men.
KAYLA: I just smile and say, “work” is insane
SARAH: This comment says, my gay redneck buddy went to a big city for a pride event around his birthday, I texted him happy birthday and asked how it was going, he said he's coming home early because, “this is advanced homosexuality and I'm just an amateur, apparently.”
KAYLA: Oh my God. Yeah, that's fair
SARAH: That is funny. But listen, OP, I understand your struggle because there is not just one way to be gay
KAYLA: No
SARAH: And sometimes society will tell you there is
KAYLA: That's true
SARAH: And you know what? I'm glad that your husband and your friends like Drag Race, the RuPaul version, not the car version, maybe they like both, I don't know. But it's okay that you don't get it, sometimes you're just there to fuck men
KAYLA: And that's okay
SARAH: And you don't have to work every few minutes, you know?
KAYLA: You don't, you don’t, it's okay
SARAH: And then r/BrandNewSentence said, “not gay enough for the gays, work!” I don't know that that's a brand-new sentence, but
KAYLA: Probably not
SARAH: Am I the asshole for picking my mom's side over my wife's in baby names?
KAYLA: It depends how ugly the name is
SARAH: I, 37, male, have been married to my wife, 34. I'm assuming a female, but you didn't say, for six years. We're expecting our second child, first girl though, my wife and I have been going back and forth on baby names, but one name she really liked was my deceased sister's name
KAYLA: Boo
SARAH: When I was four, I had a sister who was a little over a year who died in a car accident that left my father disabled. I don't really remember much of it, but I remember the hit it took on my mother and father the years after. Also, to my wife, it wasn't even about honoring my sister, it was just a plus, she just really liked the name
KAYLA: No, no, no
SARAH: We were discussing it with my mother, and my mother had asked her nicely, please do not name her that. My wife was upset and said, well, I really like the name. I took my mother's side because it was traumatic for her, and I would never want to put that pressure on my daughter as well. When we got home, my wife was furious and said we're supposed to be deciding baby names, not my mom and I
KAYLA: Yes
SARAH: And how we could name her whatever we wanted, it wasn't up to anyone else. Here's the thing, it's up to both of you as a couple
KAYLA: Yeah, and he said no
SARAH: And if your husband says no, because his mom has a really valid reason for not wanting her grandchild to be named that
KAYLA: Yeah
SARAH: If it were just like, oh, I don't like that name, then fuck her. But no, that's like a very legitimate reason
KAYLA: Yeah. The fact that it's not even to honor the sister, it is so wild
SARAH: Yeah, r/TrueOffMyChest, surprisingly heartwarming.
KAYLA: Mm
SARAH: We just found out my husband has a daughter who he didn't know about, and I can't be more excited
KAYLA: Wow
SARAH: I've been with my husband for 13 years now, and we have three boys together who I love more than anything. My husband never cheated on me, and I never worried about him, he's a homebody, and he always trusted me with his phone and everything. He's a great husband and an even better father to our kids, and I feel blessed to have him in my life.
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SARAH: A few weeks ago, my husband received a message on Facebook by this teenage girl, and she introduced herself as his daughter. He had no clue about her, and she told him her mom, and he immediately recognized her. They dated for a couple of months 17 years ago, so it made sense to him, and she looked exactly like my husband. Apparently, her mom died a few years ago, and she has been living with her uncle ever since and she has been really wanting to have a relationship with her dad and get to know him for a while now, but she's been really scared and shy, and she finally worked up the courage to reach out. The girl is now 16, and she's exactly like how I imagined a daughter with him would look like, and she's so pretty and precious, he told her about me and my kids, and he invited her over to our house, she and her uncle live half an hour away from us. Two weeks ago, she came with her uncle, and we met. She was so pretty in real life, and she was so shy, and we talked for hours and she met our kids and us, and my husband hugged and kissed her, and she let me hug her too and she said she liked it, and we've been talking to her every day since. My husband loves her and wants her to move in, and honestly, I'd love that. I absolutely love kids, and I've always wanted a daughter, I know she isn't my daughter, technically, but I'd love her like one if she lets me. She's so…. why are you… stop mentioning how pretty she is
KAYLA: I was just going to say, enough
SARAH: And she has been through so much bullshit already at her very young age, it's unfair, and I just know he'd be a great girl, down to earth. And it honestly makes me sad that we didn't find out about her sooner, I'm so excited for whatever comes next now. Yeah.
KAYLA: That's very sweet, but I don't like the way she's talking about her
SARAH: Yeah, that's… yeah
KAYLA: Like that's a real human being, not your doll
SARAH: Yeah, it was… the part that I saw on Twitter that was noted as surprisingly heartwarming, was surprisingly heartwarming, and then it took a slight turn
KAYLA: Yeah, like I'm happy for you, I'm also just like, what's your deal?
SARAH: Why did you mention three times that she's really pretty?
KAYLA: And would you have liked her so much if she was ugly?
SARAH: Yeah
KAYLA: Who is to say?
SARAH: This comment says, “but what does she look like? Is she pretty?”
KAYLA: That's funny. A great question
SARAH: Also, apparently that account has since been banned, so people are like, is it even real? I don't know. Maybe it was a man who wrote all this, and that's why they mentioned so many times that the girl was pretty
KAYLA: Ew!
SARAH: I thought I had one more, but was that everything? Did we actually get through all of them?
KAYLA: There's no more Reddit left, we did the whole thing
SARAH: Oh, there is one, it's a name one
KAYLA: A name one? Okay
SARAH: My cousin just named her boy/girl twins Raedenn and Waeverlee, let me spell them for you
KAYLA: Okay, I'm imagining it
SARAH: R-A-E-D-E-N-N
KAYLA: No
SARAH: And W-A-E-V-E-R-L-E-E
KAYLA: Why? Like those are two fine names and you just ruined them
SARAH: Raedenn Wave and Waeverlee Rae
KAYLA: No, why?
SARAH: Okay, hold on, hold on, this is insane. Wave is spelled like a wave in the ocean, which is not how it's spelled in the girl's name
KAYLA: Uh huh
SARAH: Rae is spelled the same as it is in the boy's name. So, they masculinified Wave for the boy's middle name.
KAYLA: Why?
SARAH: So that it wouldn't be spelled the same as the sister but the sister's middle name is spelled… okay. The sister, sorry, cousin, has a nine-year-old named Queston Tayte, except when I first read it, I thought it said Question Tate.
KAYLA: Queston?
SARAH: Mind you, this is Tayte, T-A-Y-T-E
KAYLA: Is Tayte the middle name?
SARAH: I think so. Somehow, her seven-year-old daughter, Nayvie Claire
KAYLA: Oh
SARAH: Of course, N-A-Y-V-I-E
KAYLA: Nayvie?
SARAH: Claire normal, it is odd but within the realm of normal. Since the birth, 12 hours ago, my family has lodged a list of critiques and are wondering whether this qualifies as a tragedeigh, E-I-G-H. Wayverlee, with E-E, not E-I-G-H though, so there's something there. We have obviously been supportive and respectful to her and her family. One, she swapped the first parts of each twin's name as the other's middle, is this a normal tradition?
KAYLA: Yeah, I don't know about that
SARAH: Two, the spellings
KAYLA: Yeah
SARAH: Three, she has grammatical commitment issues. Wayverlee and Raydenn are spelled with an A-E, but Nayvie is spelled with an A-Y. Wayverlee ends in E-E, but Nayvie ends in I-E and Raydenn ends in E-N-N, but Queston ends in O-N
KAYLA: Huh
SARAH: Okay, then we have some relevant comments. Someone questioned about her aunt trying to convince her cousin to change names. And she goes, my aunt has been trying, might be making headway with reversed middle names, my cousin seems a little doubtful though. This person says, I swear people think adding lots of letters to their kids' names makes them look rich, like the letters cost actual money.
KAYLA: I think it makes it look cheaper, personally
SARAH: Yeah, but I think they think it, you know
KAYLA: I guess. I'm just like, Raiden and Waverly aren't even that outlandish of names in and of themselves, she could have gotten away with it if she had spelled them normal.
SARAH: Also, I just found out where Queston came from
KAYLA: Oh no
SARAH: She and her husband were too torn between Quentin and Weston, so they combined them
KAYLA: No! No!
SARAH: Between Quentin and Weston, Quentin, obviously
KAYLA: Ugh
SARAH: Also, Tayte is a family name, but they botched it by changing the spelling
KAYLA: I don't know, I just… I don't like it
SARAH: Can we get some demographic info on this mom? Okay, very surprisingly, or not, I don't know if we're assuming the same things, she is upper middle class, but from generational wealth, she went to college, big party school, but still works as a part-time nurse, part-time blogger
KAYLA: Uh-huh
SARAH: All the kids have the same father, Mitch. A great guy, he runs a construction company. She's a very kind, in kind of a high-strung way, but overall, they're pretty normal, just trying to be different, or niche, I don't know. I guess they bounced name ideas off of each other, combined Quentin and Weston for Question, but I'm pretty convinced the spelling came down to her. And the question of, is your cousin Mormon? No.
KAYLA: It gives that vibe though, I feel
SARAH: Update six days later
KAYLA: Oh
SARAH: So, my family talked to her about the name choices and expressed concern about the spelling specifically and how it will play out in their future. Which, Queston and Nayvie I think are a little rough, but I understand why they would let those go
KAYLA: Yeah
SARAH: But I do see why Raydenn and Wayverlee spelled that way is…
KAYLA: Yeah. I think especially if the oldest, if Queston and Nayvie are nine and seven like that was on the cutting edge of crazy names
SARAH: Yes
KAYLA: Now we're so deep in that the family is may be now more aware that like everyone is doing this and everyone hates it
SARAH: Exactly. And also, the inconsistency in like the style between all the kids
KAYLA: Yeah.
SARAH: Express concern about the spelling specifically and how that will play out in their future. We all think she was trying to be creative, but it just isn't cool when it comes to a real human's name, let alone two
KAYLA: Yeah
SARAH: I'm only 17, OP. I'm only 17, so the people who talk to her are mostly my mom, my aunt, her mom, grandparents, an older sister, and my older cousin, so her brother. I stayed out of it, but did suggest some alternative middle names that are family names and not the first syllable of each other's first name. She really likes the first names she gave the twins for some reason, especially the baby girl, but did agree to change the spelling and alter the boy's name a bit She was planning on calling him Ray anyways
KAYLA: Well…
SARAH: They didn't have their birth certificates finalized, but now they do. They are now Waverly Mae, Waverly spelled normal, like Wizards of Waverly Place.
KAYLA: Okay, I like that, Waverly Mae is cute
SARAH: Mae, M-A-E, which, okay, yeah, people do that
KAYLA: I like it
SARAH: And Raemond Wade, R-A-E-M-O-N-D
KAYLA: I don't love that
SARAH: Wade regular
KAYLA: I don't love that
SARAH: I don't love that either
KAYLA: But that's, you know, if that's the concession we have to make, I'll take it
SARAH: Honestly, I don't think Raedenn is that bad, but the spelling was abysmal.
KAYLA: I think you could get away with it, because it's not that different from like a Ryland or like a… you know
SARAH: Like Raydenn, Hayden?
KAYLA: Right, like I don't think it's that far away from other common names. So, I don't think Raedenn itself is a bad name, you just stop spelling it like that
SARAH: Yeah. Also, this is so… I hate that I'm saying this, but the spelling of Raedenn, R-A-E-D-E-N-N, to me, reads as a very feminine spelling
KAYLA: Yeah, I can see that
SARAH: And so, when I first saw the names were Wayverlee and Raedenn, and they said it was a boy and a girl, at first glance, I didn't know which was which
KAYLA: Yeah, I see that
SARAH: And then I figured it out pretty quickly, but like, not that boys have to have masculine-looking or spelling names, but it's just like, it doesn't seem… like I can imagine a kid being named like that, spelled that way, people seeing the name and always assuming it's a girl
KAYLA: Yeah. And also, these people don't seem like the gender-neutral, like these don't seem like the kind of people to do that, so that's also just like weird
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SARAH: Yeah.
KAYLA: Well, listen, I think that we got the best outcome we could have.
SARAH: She says she doesn't see a difference and both versions are good, but she's glad she now has the family support behind their name and we are just very glad they won't be bullied.
KAYLA: I mean, I hope not, but also, like, with parents like that, who knows how these people are going to turn out
SARAH: This person goes, your cousin probably should not even be naming pets, let alone humans and OP, a funny little 17-year-old, goes, “yes, I agree with this, but since she did birth the children and they exist and are in need of names, this is a big improvement from the originally drafted names.”
KAYLA: I mean, that's true, there's like only so much that we could have done, you know
SARAH: Love to see tragedeigh harm reduction in action
KAYLA: Mm-hmm
SARAH: She was never going to name the kids Susan and Billy, so Waverly and Raemond are big improvements
KAYLA: They are, and I don't… you know, I'm not even that mad at them
SARAH: This comment says, “Raemond, (R-A-E-mond) is a little weird, as is Rae, R-A-E for a boy, I've always encountered that the feminine version is a shorthand for Rachel, whereas Raymond, R-A-Y, is the masculine one.” So, the same thing, the same thought I had
KAYLA: Mm
SARAH: But whatever, small potatoes, much better now, good intervention
KAYLA: Good intervention, silly
SARAH: Too many parents act like they're only naming a cute little baby, not someone who will grow into an adult who needs to fill out forms and may tire of constantly spelling their name out loud to people, real
KAYLA: There's also some research that the name you give your kid affects their personality and how they grow up
SARAH: Yeah
KAYLA: So, you’re just making a crazy person
SARAH: As annoying as it can be to have a name that is so common, and a name that has more than one spelling, everyone has heard of my name. In basically the entire world, because Sarah is a name that you see pretty much everywhere, because it's a biblical name.
KAYLA: Yeah. She's from the Bible
SARAH: Like Old Testament, so like, I've met Sarahs who are Muslim, like I've met, you know, like…
KAYLA: Yeah
SARAH: And there are only two spellings, mine is the more common one, although a lot of times people are just… Like if you're like, at like a restaurant and they ask for your name, like a lot of times they'll spell it with no H just because that's one less letter for them to write
KAYLA: Yeah
SARAH: Which, whatever. But like, people have heard of my name, people… And my parents thought about that when they were naming us, as much as they failed in giving us the most common names possible. Like at least we do have names that people can spell and pronounce
KAYLA: They had good intentions
SARAH: Yeah, and it's not like tragedeigh
KAYLA: Yeah
SARAH: I will forever feel for my former coworker Tarl who had to forever explain to people, it's Tarl, like Carl, but with a T
KAYLA: That's really tough, Tarl
SARAH: That reminds me of the Marc with a C meme where the name on the coffee cup is written Cark
KAYLA: Cark. Cark.
SARAH: That's not where they meant to put the C
KAYLA: No
SARAH: Oh my God, this person goes, “what makes it even worse is that all of these people that name their kids Braxxton with two Xs, Kayden, spelled horribly, and Rayfarty and then go and call their dog Charlie, spelled normal.”
KAYLA: Yeah
SARAH: If I have to name a kid, there are two rules. One, if I can read it, I can pronounce it. And two, if I hear it, can I spell it?
KAYLA: That makes sense
SARAH: That is also the difficult thing about like a Kaylee or a Haylee, there are so many different spellings
KAYLA: There are so many spellings
SARAH: That like, I know quite a lot of Kaylees and Haylees, but there are so many different spellings that like, if I hear it, what is the spelling you default to? And it's not even like there's a default spelling because there's not, Haley, maybe H-A-L-E-Y might be the default
KAYLA: I don't know, I might think A-I
SARAH: A-I? I was going to say if not that, then it would be H-A-Y-L-E-Y
KAYLA: Oh, I was going to say H-A-I-L-Y or H-A-I-L-E-Y
SARAH: Yeah, like Hailee Seinfeld. No, hers is with E's
KAYLA: Girl, you can spell it however. I just feel like I grew up with a girl with the A-I-L
SARAH: As for Kaylees, I knew several K-A-Y-L-E-Es, so I think that's what I would default to, but that's I think just personal exposure
KAYLA: Yeah
SARAH: I don't think it's necessarily significantly more common because I've also known K-A-I-L-E-Y, I've known, I mean, Chappell Roan spells her the tragedeigh way, unfortunately
KAYLA: Yeah, that is an unfortunate one for her
SARAH: Yeah. Anyway, thank you for coming to my TikTok. That's all. Kayla, what's our poll for this week? If you know anything about small court's claim…
KAYLA: Yeah, do you think she'll win?
SARAH: Do you think she would win?
KAYLA: Do you think she would win? I hope so
SARAH: I hope so, it seems…. because they mentioned the prices in USD, I'm assuming that they're from the United States
KAYLA: That would make sense
SARAH: Wow, yeah, wow. Kayla, what's your beef and your juice for this week?
KAYLA: My… I'm so sleepy, I guess my beef is that I'm so sleepy
SARAH: Sleepy
KAYLA: My juice is, I finished reading Project Hail Mary and it was so good and I am so excited for the movie, I think it's gonna be so good.
SARAH: Yippee
KAYLA: Exactly
SARAH: My juice is, I went to a birthday party, it was a 30th birthday party and so it was themed after the 1930s
KAYLA: I didn't know she was turning 30
SARAH: She's one day older than my sister
KAYLA: That sounds wrong
SARAH: Today is my sister's birthday, everyone
KAYLA: Happy birthday!
SARAH: But it's not… well, the day we're recording, you will have to figure out what day that is
KAYLA: Yeah
SARAH: And the person in question is very into like old Hollywood, like old films and stuff, so it was like old Hollywood themed and so we all dressed up and did lose yourself karaoke while dressed up and we sang Happy Birthday six times for some reason
KAYLA: Oh
SARAH: It was Christian's fault. My beef is… okay, so… do you know flea and tick medication for cats?
KAYLA: I can't do this again. I’ll take a quick nap while you tell the story.
SARAH: And it's like not cheap, right? And so, imagine that you're trying to put it on your cat but when you twist the cap off, the seal breaks but you can't get the cap off. So, you're like, well, let me… I'll just like cut the back of it and dump it from the other direction because I can't get this cap off. But then because you've already broken the seal, what happens when you do that is all of it comes out, the front because then you've broke… And it gets on your hand and then it's all on your hand and you can't get it on your cat, so you just kind of wipe your hand on your cat and it doesn't really do a whole lot. And then you try and see if there's more in there to dump on the cat but there's not and then your hand's really sticky and you wash your hands and your hand is still sticky and mind you, the instructions say to wear gloves when you do this, you do not do that. And then you wash your hands again, and they're still sticky, and you wash your hands again and they're still sticky. And then you have to use Goo Gone on your hands to get them not sticky, it did work though.
KAYLA: It's true, I was there
SARAH: So, if you ever get cat tea and flea and tick, tea and flea
KAYLA: Tea and flea. Tea and flick.
SARAH: Medication on your skin, because it's meant to stay on your skin and it's like sticky, if you ever get it on your skin and you can't get it off and you're still feeling sticky use Goo Gone, it works on skin
KAYLA: Huge. Scientific advancements happening over here
SARAH: You can tell us about your beef, your juice, your Goo Gone pro tips on our social media @soundsfakepod, we also the Patreon, patreon.com/soundsfakepod. Our $5 patrons who we are promoting this week are Bronwyn Herron, Clark Fadoir, Jiro the Wolf, Arctic Enby and Cinnamon Toast Punch. Our $10 patrons who are promoting something this week are Benjamin Ybarra, who would like to promote Tabletop games, Clare Olsen who would like to promote Impact_Frame, Danielle Hutchinson who would like to promote Rainbow Pride Knits, Derick & Carissa, who would like to promote supporting each other through the transitions we face. And Elle Bitter who would like to promote normalizing the use of tone indicators /srs. Our other $10 patrons are Eric, my Aunt Jeannie, Johanna, Kayla's dad, KELLER Bradley, Maff, Martin Chiesl, Purple Hayes, Quartertone, SongOStorm, Barefoot Backpacker, Val… Did I get everyone? I went out of order for some reason
KAYLA: Why would you do that?
SARAH: Alastor, Ani, and Arcnes. Our $15 patrons are Ace who would like to promote the writer Crystal Scherer, Nathaniel White who would like to promote NathanielJWhiteDesigns.com, Kayla's aunt Nina who would like to promote katemaggartart.com, Schnell who would like to promote accepting that everyone is different and that's awesome. And our $20 patrons are Changeling & Alex who would like to promote their company Control Alt Access (dot com) and Dr. Jacki, Dragonfly, my mom and River who would like to promote the fact that they found a photo of my sister and my dad and my mom on the day that my sister was born and none of their eyes were open
KAYLA: Oh!
SARAH: They were awake, they were awake to be clear
KAYLA: Right
SARAH: They were just all blunk…
KAYLA: Sleepy
SARAH: When the photo was taken
KAYLA: Blunk
SARAH: When the polaroid was taken
KAYLA: Blunk
SARAH: Thanks for listening, tune in next Sunday for more of us in your ears
KAYLA: Blunk. And until then, blunk at your cows
SARAH: Oh, that's how you show love, slowly, slow blunk
KAYLA: Slow blunk
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