Ep 91: 36 Questions to Make You Fall in Love

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 demi-straight 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, the 36 Questions. Sounds fake, but okay.

Sarah: Sounds fake, but okay.

Kayla: Oh, we almost got it that time.

Sarah: Not from my end.

Kayla: Well...

Sarah: Welcome back to the pod.

Kayla: M'other Theresa.

Sarah: Okay.

Kayla: I believe that was Perry who told me that one. He just texted me randomly at one point with just that.

Sarah: Oh, boy.

Kayla: If you guys want to start tweeting at us these, so I can store up a bank of them, please do.

Sarah: Don't. Oh, Jesus. Please don't. Please don't.

Kayla: Please do.

Sarah: All right. Kayla, what are we talking-

Kayla: Well, first I have an announcement.

Sarah: Okay.

Kayla: And, I oop.

Sarah: I don't understand that meme. I'm too old.

Kayla: What? You've seen the video, right?

Sarah: I've seen a video. I don't know if it's the video.

Kayla: Of the woman that's like talking, and then she goes, "And, I oop."

Sarah: No.

Kayla: Jesus. You're old.

Sarah: I'm old.

Kayla: Okay, well announcement. If y'all were around this time last year, you remember that we put out a fun survey for you all to answer

Sarah: Very fun.

Kayla: Very fun, with just questions about you and then also asking for what's your favorite topic and any suggestions for us. We do this basically so one, we can get to know who actually is listening and what everyone's background is because it's just interesting for us. Also, it helps because if we go out and try to get more advertisers, they like to know who you guys are. Full disclosure, that's part of the reason we're doing this, so I'll link that in the description below. It'd be super helpful if you'd answer. You don't have to answer any questions you don't want to, obviously. Yeah.

Sarah: Yes, please give us content. We have been in a dry spell for several weeks.

Kayla: This always happens though. We'll go through times where we have nothing.

Sarah: It comes in waves.

Kayla: Then we'll have everything for a month.

Sarah: We decided on this topic today.

Kayla: Yeah.

Sarah: Classic Sounds Fake style.

Kayla: Oh, yeah. It's been real classic lately. Yeah. The survey, it's basically just demographic questions and then asking for your suggestions on topics and what you guys have liked and stuff, so we can make more episodes of stuff that y'all like.

Sarah: But, I want to make stuff that they hate, Kayla.

Kayla: We can do that every other week.

Sarah: Okay.

Kayla: We probably do that already.

Sarah: Isn't that what we do already?

Kayla: Yes.

Sarah: Well, because we try to keep a balance of serious episodes and stupid shit.

Kayla: Yeah. Really, I honestly don't know which ones people like better.

Sarah: I think people like the serious stuff better is what I've been told.

Kayla: I know, which sucks because that's my least favorite.

Sarah: But, we got to make the content.

Kayla: You got to give the people what they want.

Sarah: No one else is making that ace content, so we got to.

Kayla: Also, in the next month or two, there should also be some more exciting announcements.

Sarah: For a second I was like, "What will they be?" Then I was like, "We're literally going to have a meeting about this after we record."

Kayla: After we record, yeah. Some of you probably already can guess what it is, and know what it is, or are involved in it, but excited.

Sarah: Spooky.

Kayla: Spooky. Okay. That's all.

Sarah: Okay. What are we talking about this week that we decided on today?

Kayla: Those 36 questions.

Sarah: Yeah. If you listen to... Was it last week's episode or the week before?

Kayla: I think so. I think it was last week.

Sarah: Yeah, it was just so long ago. One of my juices was this podcast, musical podcast, musical called 36 Questions.

Kayla: Pusical.

Sarah: No. It deals with these 36 questions, which were already existing. They didn't make this up. Basically these people who studied psychology...

Kayla: At UC Berkeley?

Sarah: Yes. They wanted to research romantic love, and so the question that they set out to answer was, quote, "How might we, in a laboratory setting, find a way to create instant intimacy between strangers?" These are often called...

Kayla: In classic science fashion.

Sarah: Classic science fashion. They did some science, and basically they found that some of them were better than others. The way for it to best work is to start out with more superficial ones.

Kayla: Questions, she means, is what she's talking about.

Sarah: Yeah. Sorry. Questions, questions, questions. Start with more superficial ones, and then get more intense as you go. It's a thing, and some people believe that it can make you fall in love with people.

Kayla: Basically what it is is they did a bunch of tests and stuff on how can we make people fall in love?

Sarah: See, this is why I made you do some research because I knew you could explain it better than me.

Kayla: Yeah. You really didn't explain it at all.

Sarah: You're right.

Kayla: Thank you. Basically what it is you have two people sit in a lab, or I guess you can just do it wherever, and you go through these 36 questions. I think they're broken up into three chunks, and you go through them, and you just answer them. Yeah. They go through from more superficial questions to more deep or intimate questions. I saw the one thing you sent me to read was like, "Oh, it's so gradual that you get into really personal stuff, and by the time you're already talking about really personal stuff, you don't even realize it." It's basically these 36 questions that make you really close to this person because you're getting all vulnerable or whatever, and it's supposed to make you fall in love.

Sarah: Yeah. What are your thoughts on this?

Kayla: I don't know. I mean, I think it's very interesting just from a psych perspective, and just like anything, I definitely think it's interesting. I'm sure that they did have some statistically significant results or else it wouldn't have been published and gotten as popular because they did publish it, an actual research paper. But, that's also the hard thing with psychology is... In the hard sciences, when you get a correlation of 90, that's good, but in psychology, because there's so many variables, and it's so hard to actually find correlations between things and actually find causation between something in the outside world and a person's feelings or actions, that oh, a correlation of 40 is good. It's hard because in psychology, when someone says that there's a statistically significant result, it's still pretty variable, and there's still a lot of other stuff going on. You know what I mean?

Sarah: I sort of do, but you're the psych major here. No, I understand it well enough.

Kayla: Yeah. I feel like... I don't know how to explain it.

Sarah: You explained it well. I'm just stupid.

Kayla: Okay.

Sarah: I have a degree from the University of Michigan.

Kayla: Sidebar, someone answered the survey, and it was suggestions or in whatever section it was, they were like, "Oh, did you know Kayla is in a feminism class?" I was like, "This is rude." In my own survey that I made, you do this to me?

Sarah: Whoever you are, I love you.

Kayla: Yeah. Whoever you are, whatever, because I know you're in our Discord because we sent it out to our Discord first, so I know where to find you.

Sarah: Amazing, but back to the 36 questions.

Kayla: Yeah, so what do you think about this?

Sarah: I was talking to our friend Miranda about this because I introduced her to a musical, for once. Also, she claims that she came up with this idea to talk about on the pod because she did mention it to me last week, and then I forgot about it, and then I thought it myself, but it was probably just me thinking of what she said.

Kayla: Okay. All right.

Sarah: Thanks, Miranda. She wanted to know my take being an aro-ace bitch. Here's what I think. That is a fucking train in the background. That's what I think.

Kayla: I also heard that.

Sarah: Oh, the train. I think that it can be very effective in making you close to somebody or just knowing a lot about them, obviously, because that's the point of this thing. I also think it's meant to work best when it's a stranger. The point is that you do it with a stranger, and I think it is more... My guess is that it would be more successful with a stranger than with someone you know because there's not as much at stake if you tell very personal things to a stranger because if it doesn't go well, you can just be like, "Bye," but if it's a person you know, it's harder to do. I do think it can form a strong bond between people if you know a lot about each other, especially intimate details. I'm sure that that can lead to romantic love in some cases. I don't think these questions alone can make you fall in love.

Kayla: Yeah. I mean, I haven't read the questions yet, but it's also hard... I mean, the thing that I read was... The hard thing is a lot of these tests were done in a laboratory setting, which just changes everything too, because these are strangers coming into a lab, so you don't know how the lab is going to affect them. But, there was someone in the article we read that was like, "Oh, I wasn't sure about it, so I went home and did it with..." It was someone they already knew, an acquaintance or something, and they were like, "It worked, and we're still together now." For them, it obviously worked outside the lab.

But yeah. I do wonder, and I didn't read the study, so maybe they did do stuff like this, of controlling for how attractive the other person was or stuff like that because I'm wondering if there's other stuff that affects it. If I do this with someone that I find really attractive, am I going to be more likely to then fall in love with them after the questions than someone who I think is ugly?

Sarah: Right. A lot of times people talk about this as if it's the 36 questions that will lead to love, and they never made that claim, the people who did this study, but a lot of people do jump to the conclusion of, "Oh, these questions will make you fall in love," but there are so many factors. A, sexuality, that's a factor.

Kayla: That's also what's hard about studies being put in popular culture. I remember I had a professor, and I don't remember what their study was about, but I had a professor that was like, "Yeah, one of my research articles got picked up by the news, magazines, and internet blogs, and whatever," and they do exaggerate it a lot because obviously you want to write a good headline and an interesting story. Yeah. People exaggerate a lot when you're actually reading about it, whereas if you were going to actually read the research article, yeah, it's probably a lot less like, "You're going to definitely fall in love when you ask someone these 36 questions."

Sarah: Right. I'm just thinking about the podcast musical, which obviously is fiction, but the way it operates in that is on their first date they did the 36 questions. This isn't a spoiler. This happens right at the beginning. The relationship falls apart, and to try to save it, the wife is like, "Let's do the 36 questions again, and if at the end of the 36 questions you want this to be over, it can be over." Things ensue.

I just thought that was really interesting because they weren't treating it as this foolproof, "Oh, we're just in love now because we did the 36 questions." The 36 questions, it was a way of discovering more about each other and digging into their own personal issues the second time they did it especially because some of the answers changed and some of them didn't. From that perspective, it's really interesting to reassess a relationship using these questions because I do think these questions tell you a lot about a person if they're truthful.

Kayla: Yeah. Again, I haven't read the questions yet or anything, but I was thinking of that.

Sarah: I have.

Kayla: Oh, cool. I was thinking about that when you first sent it of could I do this with someone that I already know, and what would that do? With my partner, if I already love him, am I going to love him more after I ask him these questions?

Sarah: What if you uncover something horrible?

Kayla: Yeah. Wait, ooh. If you're already in love, and you ask the 36 questions, does it make you immediately fall out of love? Is it the reverse?

Sarah: I bet it is.

Kayla: Next week on Sounds Fake But Okay, live on the podcast, my boyfriend and me falling out of love.

Sarah: Classic.

Kayla: I think it's going to happen.

Sarah: Perfect. Oh, this is the content we need in this dry spell.

Kayla: Sarah's like, "Yes. Break up. Yes. Give me content."

Sarah: Hungry for that.

Kayla: Sarah, maybe we should break up. We should have a big fight.

Sarah: Okay. Kayla?

Kayla: Yeah?

Sarah: I don't like your shoes. I don't know what shoes you wore today, but I don't like them.

Kayla: Yeah. I mean they are new white tennis shoes, and I was upset about having to get new ones, so I understand

Sarah: I have to get new ones because mine are just so nasty. I was going to wash them...

Kayla: My mom made me get new ones.

Sarah: ... but then I was like, "I think it's hopeless."

Kayla: No, mine had a bunch of holes in them, and they were high top Vans. Then apparently they don't sell the kind of high top Vans I had for the past three years. You've seen them. You know the ones.

Sarah: I know. The ones I remember when you dropped some Slurpee on them.

Kayla: It was Red Pop.

Sarah: Fruit punch? Red Pop, yeah.

Kayla: It was Red Pop. Then we stood out in the rain in a football game one day, and the Red Pop washed out because that's how rain works.

Sarah: Several years later.

Kayla: Yeah. Now I have mid-top white Converse, and they're just not the same.

Sarah: I'm sorry. I wore my white Converse today, but they're not white anymore. They're basically brown. I need to get new ones.

Kayla: Yeah. Mine, I just got them two weeks ago, and they're already not white anymore. Anyway, this is the content that I wanted for us. Yes. Good.

Sarah: Dry spell.

Kayla: Yes.

Sarah: Okay. Do you want to go through and read the questions? We can answer some of them if we want to. I'm not going to answer all of them because I have no emotions. I like to pretend I have no emotions.

Kayla: She does. It's true.

Sarah: That's why we're breaking up.

If I said this to everyone who listens, would everyone fall in love with both of us, or is it you have to hear each other's answers?

Kayla: This is wild. Could you do it over the phone? Do you have to see the person?

Sarah: No, you actually can't because... You'll see. You'll see why you can't do it over the phone.

Kayla: You have to look at them? Okay.

Sarah: There's a thing at the end.

Kayla: Read me the questions.

Sarah: Okay, so there's three sets of 12. The first one is, given the choice of anyone in the world, whom would you want as a dinner guest?

Kayla: That's lame.

Sarah: Well, it starts out simple.

Kayla: Lame?

Sarah: Also, we're supposed to alternate asking each other, but I'm the only one looking at the questions.

Kayla: That's true. I could look at them.

Sarah: I would have dinner with Lin-Manuel Miranda. That's been my answer for a couple of years now, and it hasn't changed.

Kayla: Yeah, that's a good one. Alive or dead?

Sarah: It says anyone in the world. It doesn't specify. I assume alive just because of the way it's phrased.

Kayla: Okay.

Sarah: Who would it be if it were alive or dead?

Kayla: Oh, okay. Well, what if I don't know if they're dead?

Sarah: Say it anyway.

Kayla: Okay. The wife of the guy who leads Scientology has been missing for years.

Sarah: Oh my God. Yes. Oh, that's a good one.

Kayla: He claims she's still alive, but they keep paying off the police to not doing anything about it. I want her as my dinner guest, so I can check if she's okay.

Sarah: I want to see how she's doing.

Kayla: I want to see if she's okay. That's my answer.

Sarah: Good. Okay.

Kayla: Does that tell anything about me?

Sarah: You're caring, and you're interested in Scientology, but not in that way.

Kayla: Yeah, that's fair. That's fair.

Sarah: Okay. How are we going to decide which ones to not answer? Whatever.

Kayla: Well, if you just don't want to answer it, then don't answer it. What do you mean?

Sarah: Fair. I got to make everyone fall in love with me though, Kayla, because I love it when people are interested in me. It doesn't make me stressed out at all.

Kayla: Yeah, that's actually your favorite thing that happened. We can just read them all and decide what not to answer.

Sarah: Yeah, we should read them all anyway. Two, would you like to be famous? In what way?

Kayla: I would be internet famous. I think that could be fun. I don't know.

Sarah: I've thought about this because I plan on going into Hollywood.

Kayla: Oh, yeah. I guess this is an actual potential reality for you.

Sarah: Yeah. Also, we have a podcast. You don't think we're going to get podcast famous?

Kayla: Okay. Well, that's what I'm saying. If I was going to get famous, I would want it... Maybe I'm just saying this because it is the only maybe feasible way I could be famous, but I would be okay with being podcast or content famous.

Sarah: Yeah. Okay. What my thought is... It definitely relates to what I want to do because I want to write for TV. Usually, the writers themselves aren't that famous unless you're Shonda Rhimes, but how many people would recognize Shonda Rhimes on the street? I'm not sure.

Kayla: Not me. I don't know.

Sarah: I don't know. If I see a picture of her, I'm like, "Oh, that's Shonda Rhimes," but if I saw her out of context, I'm not sure I would recognize her.

Kayla: Yeah. No, absolutely not.

Sarah: I would want to be famous enough to be verified on Twitter.

Kayla: Okay.

Sarah: Here's the thing though. Here's the thing. I just want my actual name to be my handle.

Kayla: But, you don't just have to be famous for that though. You have to have money for that because you're going to have to pay someone off.

Sarah: I know, but here's the thing. Twitter verified where if I'm writing in Hollywood, I want to know the famous people, but not have any trouble walking out on the street.

Kayla: Yeah. Well see, that's why being podcast famous is good.

Sarah: If someone were to recognize me every once in a while, that'd be chill, but I do not want to be so famous that I can't leave my fucking house. That'd be awful.

Kayla: See, I think I would rather be internet famous because there's just less obligations.

Sarah: There is.

Kayla: I don't have to do a press tour.

Sarah: Here's the thing with being internet famous is that some people who are internet famous can't leave their house.

Kayla: Yeah.

Sarah: The way I think of it is I would want to be famous adjacent...

Kayla: Yeah, that's fair.

Sarah: ... where I get to know the famous people and I get to actually have relationships with people who I admire and are cool, but I don't want to be super famous myself.

Kayla: I don't know if it's so much a want, that I want to be famous, it's just like, "That could be cool," but it's not a goal that I'm actively trying for.

Sarah: Yeah. I think it's also just for me, if I succeed in my career, that is definitely a possibility. I think it's partially just coming to terms with what my life could be.

Kayla: For me, nothing in my life is actively leading towards that, whereas yours is.

Sarah: Yeah. We've talked about this before, but the degrees away from Kevin Bacon game?

Kayla: Yeah.

Sarah: I'm now very good at it. I can be one or two degrees away from a lot of people.

Kayla: Which means I can be three degrees away.

Sarah: Yeah. I only interned in LA for one summer. Okay, next one. Before making a telephone call, do you ever rehearse what you are going to say? Why?

Kayla: Yes, because ew. That's my answer.

Sarah: Oh, okay. Yes, I do. I do it less now because...

Kayla: Yeah, I definitely do it less now.

Sarah: ... I am a more experienced adult. I've heard of people refer to McDonald's situations where when you go to McDonald's you don't really get anxious usually. Some people might.

Kayla: Ooh. There's a psych thing for that.

Sarah: Yeah, I think that's what I'm thinking of, but I just don't know what it is.

Kayla: It's called a schema.

Sarah: Stuff where you know exactly what the interaction is going to go, what it's going to entail.

Kayla: What it's supposed to be like.

Sarah: Yeah, it's going to be like, you go up to the counter and they're like, "Hi, how can I help you?," and you say, "I want 10 chicken nuggets," and they'll say, "You want any sauce with that?," and I'll say, "No," and they'll say, "Anything else?," and I'll say, "No," and they'll tell me the cost, and I'll give them my money. You know what's going to happen, but for phone calls where I don't know what's going to happen, I have to rehearse what I'm going to say, or at least think about it.

When I was younger, I would straight up write it down. I don't have to do that as often anymore because I'm better at calling to make appointments because calling to make appointments, especially if it's your first time having an appointment there, it's not quite that situation where you know exactly what's going to happen, but you have the gist. I'm much better at that now, but I do rehearse what I'm going to say.

Kayla: Yeah. I guess now that I think about it, I don't know that I so much rehearse as I just think about it.

Sarah: I can't just wing it all the time.

Kayla: Yeah, no.

Sarah: Yeah. Okay. Four, what would constitute a perfect day for you?

Kayla: Oh.

Sarah: This gets hard because I just don't know.

Kayla: It really depends on the day.

Sarah: Yeah.

Kayla: I don't know.

Sarah: Yeah, I don't either. I can't believe no one's going to fall in love with us now.

Kayla: Well, for me, it really depends on the day and my situation in life. Right now, I've just moved away from home, and I don't see my friends as often, so right now my perfect day would be getting to see my family and friends, but if I was living back home, it would probably be not seeing my family and friends.

Sarah: For me, it's summertime, so I'm thinking about what northern Michigan is like in the summer, and I'm like, "I really like Northern Michigan in the summer," but if it were winter, I would probably be thinking of Christmas.

Kayla: Yeah. I don't know.

Sarah: There's that. Five, when did you last sing to yourself, to someone else?

Kayla: When did I last sing to myself and to someone else?

Sarah: Yes.

Kayla: I last sang to myself probably three days ago because now I live alone, and I can do whatever the fuck I want.

Sarah: You mean you didn't always sing to yourself prior to that?

Kayla: Well, before that it was I was singing to myself and other people.

Sarah: Yeah. I think the last time I sang to myself was probably the last time I was in the car, which was Tuesday. The last time I sang to someone else, I was singing something weird at you at the beginning of this, at the beginning of our phone call. I don't remember what it was. Also, an hour ago, I was just singing, "Ikea, Ikea," at my friend Miranda.

Kayla: I bet she loved that.

Sarah: She did, and because I told her that this is the topic we were doing, she goes, "Sarah, you can't sing anything else because you have to say that that was the last thing you sang to someone," which is why I mentioned it, even though it wasn't the last thing I sang to someone.

Kayla: The last time I seriously sang to someone has probably been a year or two.

Sarah: The last musical I was in was the last time I seriously sang to someone.

Kayla: Oh, yeah. I forgot about musicals.

Sarah: We've been doing a lot of karaoke in my house, but even then, I can't quite bring myself to do it seriously. Also, because they don't let you do vibrato. They dock you points for doing vibrato. Fuck off.

Kayla: That's weird.

Sarah: Well, because they want you to just hit the note, and it's not that nuanced.

Kayla: Boo.

Sarah: Boo. All right. Six, if you were able to live to the age of 90 and retain either the mind or body of a 30-year-old for the last 60 years of your life, which would you want?

Kayla: Mind. Hands down, easy.

Sarah: I went back and forth on this, but mind, I think definitely in part because I watched The Notebook last night and also...

Kayla: You finally did it.

Sarah: I did. It was on TV. I had to, and also the other day I was listening to a podcast in which Alzheimer's was brought up, so Alzheimer's is just on the mind right now.

Kayla: Yeah. I've watched someone go through and die from Alzheimer's, and it's really hard.

Sarah: It's not fun.

Kayla: It's hard to watch, and it's really, really, really sad.

Sarah: Yeah.

Kayla: Yeah. A hundred percent mind.

Sarah: Also, my body peaked in sixth grade, so 30-year-old body may not be that cool. My 30-year-old body will be a 90-year-old body.

Kayla: 30-year-old bodies really aren't that. By the time you're 30, you're already deteriorating anyway.

Sarah: It depends who you are. Yeah. Okay.

Kayla: Well, yeah.

Sarah: Seven, do you have a secret hunch about how you will die?

Kayla: No.

Sarah: It's not a hunch, but it's something I think about sometimes is I just think I'm going to get shot by someone who brings a gun to somewhere they're not supposed to bring a gun.

Kayla: Do you really think that?

Sarah: I just kept having this vision of getting shot at Quidditch nationals.

Kayla: Really?

Sarah: Yeah. I've had this for two years.

Kayla: That's really weird.

Sarah: I just think about it sometimes.

Kayla: I mean, I guess it makes sense.

Sarah: I don't know that I actually die from it though. It's more so just I've been shot.

Kayla: I mean, sometimes I would think about what if someone brought a bomb into the big house because it's honestly astounding to me that hasn't happened yet.

Sarah: I mean, that's why you're not allowed to bring bags in... The big house is our football stadium at school, our school.

Kayla: But, the security isn't even that tight.

Sarah: The big house is the football stadium at our school.

Kayla: It's massive.

Sarah: It seats like 108,000, but you can pack more people in there, so it's big. Hence, big house.

Kayla: It's a big house. Get your field off.

Sarah: Your field off of my house. Get your field out of my house.

Kayla: Get it.

Sarah: Get it. Also, I've definitely thought about what would happen if there was a school shooting at our school which there was a scare for.

Kayla: Yeah. That's not so much of how I think I'm going to die though. It's just more a topical situation.

Sarah: This is just America, but it is really specific that I was like, "What if I just got shot also during a Quidditch game?"

Kayla: That is weird.

Sarah: On the field, I am shot.

Kayla: I mean, I do often have a thing of if I'm walking next to a street or next to a subway, I do often have a thought of, "I could just step out. I could. I am fully able to do that."

Sarah: Yeah. You have free will.

Kayla: I have that thought a lot.

Sarah: You, subway, me, shooting at Quidditch tournament.

Kayla: Yeah. You only have a few years left to die that means.

Sarah: I know, but I got to wear my MQ white jersey. The white jersey is a part of it. It's a weird vision. I don't visualize a lot of things. I've mentioned this before. When I'm writing, I don't see faces, but I can imagine this happening. It's really strange.

Kayla: That almost makes me think it's actually going to happen.

Sarah: That's why I don't know that it's a hunch, but maybe it is a hunch.

Kayla: I mean, if you never have experiences like that, but you are, that is freaky.

Sarah: But, I'm wearing my MQ uniform, so it's what if it's too late?

Kayla: What if it's how parallel you in a parallel universe, what if that's how you die?

Sarah: Oh, shit.

Kayla: That's why you're having such a strong connection to it, because it really did happen.

Sarah: Weird. Okay. Number eight, name three things you and your partner have in common. This is where it starts working better for people who don't know each other is because you start making assumptions about each other.

Kayla: Yeah. Wait, how do you answer this if it's a stranger?

Sarah: You have to just look at each other. It says, "Appear to have in common," so you have to guess.

Kayla: Oh, weird. Yeah. All right. Sarah, what do we have in common?

Sarah: I don't know. Some stuff.

Kayla: Or, appear to have in common?

Sarah: I don't know. Nine.

Kayla: Oh, okay.

Sarah: We know each other too well to answer that question.

Kayla: That's fair.

Sarah: Nine, for what in your life do you feel most grateful?

Kayla: Ooh, you go first.

Sarah: The first thing that came to my mind is just my family, and by family, I also mean the family that I have chosen.

Kayla: Yeah.

Sarah: How there's your blood family, and then the family you have chosen. My mom is probably listening to this crying right now. Don't let it get to your head, mom.

Kayla: I think I would say the same thing, especially in the past couple weeks. The past two weeks, I was having a really, really, really hard time, and my parents were on the phone with me literally every night for hours just to be with me. Some of my friends from back home, I was texting them a ton, and they were just always there. Yeah.

Sarah: Lit. 10, if you could change anything about the way you were raised, what would it be? I've been sitting on these questions for a little bit because I heard them a week ago. I have thought about this one. I don't really have anything, but then I was like, heteronormativity. It wasn't my parents' fault necessarily, but heteronormativity,

Kayla: It's weird to wish this because I know that if I had been raised this way, I would've hated it, but when I was growing up, me and my sister didn't really have chores or anything, and I never had to learn how to cook. My parents never pushed us to do that. I was pretty old when I learned to do my own laundry.

Sarah: Do you know how to mow the lawn?

Kayla: No.

Sarah: I don't either, but my mom learned when she was in eighth grade.

Kayla: We have a riding mower though, so it's different.

Sarah: Oh, we don't.

Kayla: Our yard is really big.

Sarah: I didn't have chore chores, but my parents would just tell me to do things, and then I would do them.

Kayla: I mean, we sometimes had that, but not even that much.

Sarah: I learned how to do laundry when I was pretty young, and I started making my lunches for school when I was pretty young.

Kayla: Oh, I never made lunches all the way through high school. Never made lunches.

Sarah: I started making my own lunches, at least for sure by middle school, maybe even fifth grade.

Kayla: Yeah, no. It was really nice. I was even really too old. Okay. This has been the thing my whole life. I was way too old when I finally learned how to tie my shoes.

Sarah: How old were you?

Kayla: I don't remember, but I remember it was like, "I should be tying my shoes." Yeah. I just didn't want to because I was like, "I have Velcro. Fuck this." I don't remember how old I was either, but I remember being probably too old to still have my parents be giving me baths, but that was still happening. I just wish I had been more independent and my parents had made me do more things, which I would've absolutely hated, but probably would've made the past two weeks easier.

Sarah: I wish my parents had forced me to learn how to take pills when I was younger because...

Kayla: Yeah, you were bad at that.

Sarah: I couldn't take pills until I was 19. Now, I'm very good at it because I have to take them every day.

Kayla: Our freshman year, Sarah still couldn't take pills. What she did was she put them in a rice crispy treat and balled up the rice crispy treat around it.

Sarah: I hid it like a dog.

Kayla: Then didn't chew too hard, so she wouldn't bite through the pill.

Sarah: If I found the pill, I would not swallow it. If I could find it in my mouth, I wouldn't swallow it.

Kayla: She just had to take big swallows.

Sarah: My parents, they did try to make me learn how to swallow pills before then, but they didn't push it that much. I think if they just started teaching me a little bit younger, it would've been okay.

Kayla: Yeah. I think if I had just been... It's hard because I'm also the youngest child, so making a youngest child more independent is just hard no matter what. I feel bad because my mom was saying this the other day. She was like, "I didn't challenge you enough as a kid." I was like, "Mom, it's fine. You were just trying to make me happy."

Sarah: Yeah. I feel like my life would be easier if I weren't such a picky eater.

Kayla: Your parents really should have pushed food when you were younger.

Sarah: But, also I like the foods I eat.

Kayla: Everyone likes the foods they eat. You're not special.

Sarah: I'm just saying I don't feel like I'm missing out on anything.

Kayla: It would make things easier for you though.

Sarah: It would make things easier, but I don't feel like I'm missing out on foods. You know what I mean?

Kayla: Yeah.

Sarah: It would make my life easier, but not because I wish I ate chocolate. I don't wish I ate chocolate.

Kayla: Well, they couldn't have helped that one anyway.

Sarah: Yeah. Okay. 11, take four minutes and tell your partner your life story in as much detail as possible. Ain't nobody got time for that. This is a podcast.

Kayla: Yeah. You don't need that.

Sarah: But, I think that is interesting that you only have four minutes to do it.

Kayla: I met a new therapist last week, so I basically just did that because that's what you have to do in the first appointment of therapy.

Sarah: Classic. All right. 12, if you could wake up tomorrow having gained any one quality or ability, what would it be?

Kayla: Oh, a filter?

Sarah: The one I always come back to, and it's stupid because other people have made arguments for other superpowers, and qualities, and whatever that are so much better than this, and so much more effective, and would impact your life in a positive way better than this, but super strength. I want super strength.

Kayla: I would rather have the elastic girl power.

Sarah: I have some weird strength complex. I don't know. I've known this for many years. I do. I've been very aware of it since high school.

Kayla: That's weird.

Sarah: But, I just can't let go. I got to be super strong. I got to pick up a car and throw it.

Kayla: You don't. A superpower, yeah, but realistically, honestly, patience because I do think having patience would solve most of my problems, including my anxiety.

Sarah: I think if I... A realistic thing to want, it would be being more bold and being better at just, not confrontational necessarily, but just being better at putting myself out there because that's not my skillset.

Kayla: Yeah. I think having more patience would honestly solve the majority of my problems, I think in one way or the other.

Sarah: Yeah. All right. That was the end of the first set of questions.

Kayla: Fun.

Sarah: Thoughts?

Kayla: Are we in love yet?

Sarah: No.

Kayla: I mean, I definitely think these are just good questions to get to know someone for sure.

Sarah: Yeah. I agree. All right. Are you ready for things to get a little bit more intense with set number two?

Kayla: Oh, shit.

Sarah: All right. I feel like we're going to start not answering as many now.

Kayla: Okay. Okay.

Sarah: 13, if a crystal ball could tell you the truth about yourself, your life, the future, or anything else, what would you want to know?

Kayla: Ooh.

Sarah: I don't know.

Kayla: Okay. Here's the thing. My initial gut reaction was to know what other people really think of me.

Sarah: Yeah. That doesn't surprise me.

Kayla: Hey, shut up.

Sarah: It doesn't. That's what I think,

Kayla: But, also I would not have the balls to actually look at it.

Sarah: Yeah. It's like the thing where it's, "If you got a book with everything that happens in your life, would you read it?"

Kayla: I don't know if I would.

Sarah: I think I would reread the stuff I've already experienced, but I would make myself stop.

Kayla: Oh, yeah. Yeah. I'd read the old parts for sure.

Sarah: Well, I would make someone else make me stop because I can't trust myself.

Kayla: They have to rip up the book and just give you the first half.

Sarah: Yeah. All right. 14. Oh, wait. My answer is, I don't know. 14.

Kayla: Oh, okay.

Sarah: Is there something that you've dreamed of doing for a long time? Why haven't you done it? Skydiving. I want to go skydiving.

Kayla: I also want to go skydiving. This is hard.

Sarah: Why haven't I done it? Because, I had to be 18 before I could do it, and also, it's just costs money and takes time. I don't know. Effort.

Kayla: I don't know. This is something I'd have to think about more. That one's hard.

Sarah: All right, we're moving on then, bitch. 15, what is the greatest accomplishment of your life?

Kayla: Oh, God.

Sarah: The first thing I thought of was I have a sleep schedule now.

Kayla: Okay. To be honest though, that's a big accomplishment for you.

Sarah: It did change a lot of things.

Kayla: Yeah. I feel like it really did turn things around for you.

Sarah: It really did. I don't know if I would call it the greatest accomplishment of my life, but it's up there.

Kayla: I mean, honestly, I think I'd say still being out here after the past two weeks I've had.

Sarah: Yeah, you is.

Kayla: It sounds really stupid, but it's honestly a really big deal for me.

Sarah: Yeah. Yeah, bitch. Also, another one of the first things I thought of was just getting into the University of Michigan and going there. I mean, obviously I worked hard to get in, but it wasn't like I was ripping my hair out to get in, but just because pretty much all of the good things that have come out of my life recently have been because I came to this school.

Kayla: Yeah. Recently, I keep thinking about what if I had gone somewhere else? It's such a weird thought to have.

Sarah: Weird. Okay. 16, what do you value most in a friendship? I don't fucking know. Don't be a dick. If you're going to be a dick, have it be playful. Don't be a real dick. Be a fake dick. Be a dildo.

Kayla: Oh, what the fuck? Hello?

Sarah: That is my answer. Goodnight.

Kayla: I don't like that.

Sarah: You're not answering quick enough. We got to keep moving.

Kayla: Okay. Just move on.

Sarah: Okay. What is your most treasured memory? I don't know. I don't know. I really don't.

Kayla: I could pick one maybe for an individual person, but not my whole life.

Sarah: Yeah. It's too hard. Also, I have a whole horrible memory. I remember nothing.

Kayla: Oh, same.

Sarah: 18, what is your most terrible memory? This is so stupid. It's not my most terrible memory. Okay. It's so stupid, but it's in my head, and I can't get it out of my head. When I was little, I don't know, I was probably eight or younger, might have been younger, someone knocked on our door at my house, and no one got the door. I was like, "Why did no one get the door?" For some reason, even though it was very out of character, it was like, "I'm going to open the door," and so I did. Then it was a telemarketer. Then my dad had to talk to her. Not a telemarketer, it was at the door, but one of those people, and my dad had talked to her. My dad was like, "We didn't answer the door on purpose," and then I was like, "Okay."

Kayla: Maybe that's why you are how you are.

Sarah: Maybe. That for some reason just really scarred me. I don't know.

Kayla: I'm going to pass.

Sarah: All right. 19, if you knew that in one year you would die suddenly, would you change anything about the way you are now living? Why?

Kayla: What I'm doing now?

Sarah: Yeah.

Kayla: Yeah. For sure. Hello? Yeah. I wouldn't be working.

Sarah: I would travel, and I would try to write more.

Kayla: Yeah. I think I would just travel. Working is great, but not if you only have a year left.

Sarah: Yeah. I don't think I would make any huge systemic changes in my life.

Kayla: Yeah. I think I would just travel.

Sarah: Kayla would upturn everything.

Kayla: I didn't say that. Okay. You're telling me you if you had a job...

Sarah: How much would you travel though? I do have a job.

Kayla: You know what I mean though.

Sarah: Yeah, I guess. Okay. 20, what does friendship mean to you? Too vague, can't answer it.

Kayla: Yes.

Sarah: 21, what roles do love and affection play in your life? Get out of here.

Kayla: Okay.

Sarah: That's the role they play.

Kayla: Anything? We got to pass?

Sarah: Too much is my answer. Yep.

Kayla: Hey!

Sarah: That didn't mean anything. It was just me moving on.

Kayla: Whatever.

Sarah: Oh, okay. 22, alternate something sharing you consider a positive characteristic of your partner. Share a total of five items.

Kayla: But, you don't know them. That's bananas.

Sarah: Yeah, exactly. That's the thing.

Kayla: I guess by now maybe you do.

Sarah: Yeah, but it forces you to... I don't know.

Kayla: This makes me really curious. I don't know if I'd ever feel comfortable doing this with a stranger unless I went into a lab, and they were like, "This is your activity for the day."

Sarah: Yeah.

Kayla: I'd like to watch a YouTube video of people doing this.

Sarah: Yeah. There are some I think. I think you can watch them.

Kayla: It definitely makes me really interested to hear what people would say at that point because if we were strangers and did answer all those questions, honestly, I mean, there would be some shit that came up for sure.

Sarah: I think I would be better at doing this with a stranger than with someone I know.

Kayla: Yeah. This is weird.

Sarah: Genuinely.

Kayla: Well, also on a podcast, there's like things that I'm not about to say.

Sarah: Well, yeah. It's because the audience is much larger, at least to me. Okay. 23, how close and warm is your family? Do you feel your childhood was happier than most other people's? Yes.

Kayla: Yeah.

Sarah: 24, how do you feel about your relationship with your mother? Hi, mom. You're listening.

Kayla: Hi, mom. You're probably not.

Sarah: Cool. That was set two.

Kayla: Okay.

Sarah: It's getting a little more intense, right?

Kayla: Yeah.

Sarah: Are you ready for set number three?

Kayla: Yeah, that's definitely... What's your relationship with your mother? That could bring up some shit. For some people, that could bring up everything.

Sarah: Oh, yeah.

Kayla: Wow. That's wild. Okay.

Sarah: All right. Question 25, make three true we statements each. For instance, "We are both in this room feeling..." That's another one where you just have to make assumptions, and it tells you a lot about a person.

Kayla: Wild.

Sarah: Well, because it tells you a lot about a person, what assumptions they make.

Kayla: Yeah, for sure. Yeah.

Sarah: Okay. 26, complete this sentence, "I wish I had someone with whom I could share..."

Kayla: What?

Sarah: Complete this sentence.

Kayla: No, I heard you. I just don't...

Sarah: What do you wish you had someone you could share that thing with? Some people might be like, "My life." The first thing that came to my mind was a bunch of ice cream. I want want ice cream. It's warm.

Kayla: I would like someone I could share the becoming an adult experience with.

Sarah: Billie.

Kayla: Well, yeah, but like another human.

Sarah: You are becoming adults together.

Kayla: That's true.

Sarah: Okay. 27, if you were going to become a close friend with your partner, please share what would be important for him or her to know. I'm non-confrontational. Next.

Kayla: That is important to know.

Sarah: What?

Kayla: I don't know.

Sarah: Okay. 28, tell your partner what you like about them. Be very honest this time saying things that you might not say to someone you've just met.

Kayla: But, you don't know them.

Sarah: Well, that's the point.

Kayla: That's so weird.

Sarah: But, I mean, you've been talking to each other for a little while at this point.

Kayla: Yeah. I guess.

Sarah: You probably know them a little. At least 20 minutes at the very least.

Kayla: I guess

Sarah: Okay. Share with your partner an embarrassing moment in your life. It's the same story I told earlier about the telemarketer.

Kayla: Embarrassing story? Here's the thing is I also have a pretty bad memory, and for embarrassing things, I think I block them out of my mind because whenever people are like, "Oh, what's your most embarrassing story," I can never think of anything.

Sarah: I've never actually told anyone about my telemarketer trauma, so maybe it'll go away now.

Kayla: Wow. What a moment. See, we are having a moment, Sarah.

Sarah: This is fresh off the press here on Sounds Fake But Okay. Sarah once got freaked out because she accidentally let a telemarketer into her house.

Kayla: The most on-brand story ever.

Sarah: Okay.

Kayla: Yeah. I honestly have no idea. This is a question I can never answer.

Sarah: 30, when did you last cry in front of another person. When did you last cry by yourself? I last cried in front of another person yesterday because we watched The Notebook. I last cried by myself also yesterday.

Kayla: Mood.

Sarah: Classic.

Kayla: I last cried by myself probably... Was it yesterday I texted you about watching that video?

Sarah: What?

Kayla: It was either yesterday morning or the day before that I watched this video.

Sarah: Oh, yeah. I think it was two days ago. No, maybe it was yesterday.

Kayla: I don't know. I was watching a video while I was eating breakfast before work, and it was a Ladylike video about how they were going to do a Make-a-Wish week with this girl, and I just got really emotional. I'm sure the last time I cried in front of someone else was, I think, you probably yesterday.

Sarah: Classic. Tell your partner something that you like about them already. Too bad. 32.

Kayla: We just did... Wait, wasn't that the question we just did?

Sarah: Yeah. Well, the first one specifically said things that you wouldn't say to someone you've just met.

Kayla: I guess, but that's weird.

Sarah: Okay. 32, what, if anything, is too serious to be joked about?

Kayla: Rape?

Sarah: My knee-jerk reaction is to say the Holocaust.

Kayla: That's a good one.

Sarah: Also, I guess they weren't making jokes about the Holocaust. They were making jokes about Hitler

Kayla: I mean, Hitler jokes are funny.

Sarah: There are things that you can make jokes about that are adjacent to really bad things, but I don't know.

Kayla: Yeah, I get what you mean.

Sarah: I don't remember why this came up, but when I was in Germany, the idea of people making Holocaust jokes to German people somehow came up.

Kayla: You shouldn't do that.

Sarah: Oh, no. What came up was the idea of making a 9/11 joke to an American.

Kayla: Those are pretty acceptable at this point though.

Sarah: It depends on what kind of joke. If it's like, "Bush did 9/11," that's fine.

Kayla: Yeah. I guess those are the kind I'm thinking about.

Sarah: But, if it's like, "Oh, ha ha ha, 2,000 people died from a terrorist attack," that's not.

Kayla: Okay. Yeah.

Sarah: Yeah. Okay. I agree with rape. Okay. If you were to die this evening with no opportunity to communicate with anyone, what would you most regret not having told someone? Why haven't you told them yet? It's none of y'all's business.

Kayla: Okay. All of the things I'm thinking about are things I have told people though.

Sarah: Oh, there are a lot of things I don't tell people because I'm me.

Kayla: Yeah, I know, but I actually tell people my feelings for them, so not as big of a deal for me.

Sarah: I don't. 34, your house containing everything you own catches fire. After saving your loved ones and pets, you have time to safely make a final dash to save any one item. What would it be? Why?

Kayla: Oh, God.

Sarah: If it's my house, as in the house I live in right now in Ann Arbor, I don't know. If it's my house as in my parents' house, and everyone, me, and my parents, and my sister we're all there... I've actually thought about this before. My mom's going to start crying again. My sister has this bunny named Bunny, and I would make sure Bunny is safe.

Kayla: That's really sweet.

Sarah: My mom's crying again. Sorry, mom.

Kayla: I can tell. I can hear it. I honestly don't know. I've thought about this a couple of times, but I don't know. I don't have anything that I have a very strong connection with that can't be replaced.

Sarah: Yeah. I feel.

Kayla: My initial reaction was, I don't know, my computer because it's expensive. I don't know.

Sarah: I feel like the reason that I came up with something that my sister has a very strong connection with that can't be replaced just because I don't really have one of those things.

Kayla: Yeah. I don't either.

Sarah: Okay. 35, of all the people in your family, whose death would you find most disturbing and why?

Kayla: Oh, I can't answer that.

Sarah: Okay. See, this is where it gets intense. Okay. 36, share a personal problem and ask your partner's advice on how he or she might handle it. Also, ask your partner to reflect back to you how you seem to be feeling about the problem you've chosen.

Kayla: Interesting.

Sarah: Yeah. Yeah. We're not going to do that. No. Then the last thing that you're supposed to do is not technically a question, but you're supposed to stare each other into each other's eyes for four minutes.

Kayla: Okay. I've definitely seen YouTube videos of people doing that.

Sarah: Yeah. That's a thing that Vanity Fair does now which we cannot do via remote podcasting.

Kayla: Sure can't. Sure cannot.

Sarah: Those are the 36 questions. Do you feel in love with me?

Kayla: Yeah.

Sarah: Interesting. I mean, I did share some new things here, but you really did nothing really that... There were a lot of things I definitely did not share.

Kayla: Yeah. I mean, I definitely think it's interesting because I think a lot of those questions are very serious and could tell you about someone really fast.

Sarah: Yeah. Do I think they can make you fall in love? No. I think they could lead to a bond that might turn into love.

Kayla: Yeah. I don't think just answering those questions is what's going to... Well, it's also hard because it does depend on your definition of what love is...

Sarah: I guess.

Kayla: ... which is different for some people.

Sarah: That's true.

Kayla: I definitely do think, though, that this could definitely be an exercise of making people a lot closer.

Sarah: Absolutely.

Kayla: I do think it could lead to you falling in love with someone, but I don't know if it'd be immediate, but I don't know. I guess it depends on your definition of love.

Sarah: Based on my definition of romantic love, being in love with someone, no.

Kayla: Yeah.

Sarah: As you all know, I'm an expert on what it means to be in love with someone. I am aro-ace. I know nothing.

Kayla: Incredible.

Sarah: There's that. Kayla, what's our poll for the week?

Kayla: Yeah, maybe just do you think... What?

Sarah: Would it work?

Kayla: Yeah. I need to write this down. Do you think the 36 questions really could make someone fall in love with someone?

Sarah: Lit. Okay. Kayla?

Kayla: Yes?

Sarah: Juice and beef. Do you have them prepared?

Kayla: Hold on, I'm writing down the poll.

Sarah: Okay. I'll do my juice first because I'm prepared. The US Women's National Soccer Team, I love them so much. My sister recently became super obsessed with them, me style, the way I get obsessed with things, and she was like, "I don't know what to do." I was like, "Ride the wave."

Kayla: Story of your life.

Sarah: They're wonderful. They won. They used their lawsuit for equal pay as confetti at their parade.

Kayla: Oh my God. Did they really?

Sarah: Yeah. Also, after they won, they were basically drunk for three days straight.

Kayla: I saw that.

Sarah: Ashlyn Harris's Instagram stories are so fucking funny. The frequency with which she goes, "Bitch." Also, previously there were three out gay women on that team, and now there are five...

Kayla: I love it.

Sarah: ... because they were just like, "I want to kiss my girlfriend because we won."

Kayla: I know. Those pictures were so cute.

Sarah: Yeah. My other juice is going on walks by yourself. My third juice is Stringer Fangs.

Kayla: I've only watched the first episode.

Sarah: Okay. I started the entire series last week. I hadn't seen any of it.

Kayla: Oh wow. Okay.

Sarah: I'm on season three now. I haven't finished it yet. Okay.

Kayla: I've only seen the first episode of season three, so be quiet

Sarah: At the moment of recording, I've only seen the first two, but hopefully by the time this episode comes out, I'll have finished it.

Kayla: Okay. I'm watching probably the whole thing this weekend.

Sarah: Same, so give me updates.

Kayla: Okay.

Sarah: Okay. That's my juice. I didn't have a beef prepared this week. My beef is still that my room is hot, but it's less hot this time because I did leave the windows open, so sorry if you can hear things, but too bad. Train. Train.

Kayla: I can't hear it this time.

Sarah: Yeah, there wasn't one. I was just saying train.

Kayla: Oh.

Sarah: Choo choo. What's your juice and beef?

Kayla: My juice is that my week has been a lot better. I've been able to eat actually, which is exciting.

Sarah: Yay.

Kayla: That's Juice one. Juice two, my partner, boyfriend, whatever... Saying boyfriend when I'm this old sounds so fucking stupid.

Sarah: Oh, okay.

Kayla: But, he's visiting this weekend, so excited. Then juice three is, I've been really into the McElroy family of products, like Adventure Zone, and My Brother, My Brother, and me. Two of the brothers have this show that they do on YouTube called Monster Factory, where they just go into video games. You know when you make a character in the Sims and you can make them look real fucked up?

Sarah: Yeah.

Kayla: Their whole thing is every episode they go into a different video game and just make the most fucked up characters ever and then play the game with them. I rarely actually laugh out loud when I'm watching videos or things, but I was crying just by myself watching these videos just crying.

Sarah: Many moons ago we had a Wii, and we decided to make a Mii that looks like my dog, and so it's so creepy.

Kayla: We once made a Mii that was named Buzz Boy, who we made look like a bee.

Sarah: Oh. Oh, we know. I know.

Kayla: Oh, yeah. That's right. You have my Wii.

Sarah: I've seen Buzz Boy.

Kayla: Oh, that's true. You do have my Wii still there.

Sarah: Yeah. We've been doing karaoke on it.

Kayla: You're welcome for that great gift and the blanket I gifted you.

Sarah: Thank you. I haven't been able to use it because it's too fucking hot.

Kayla: Boo.

Sarah: Okay, so that's some. Do you have beef? That was a lot more juices than you have had the past couple episodes. Good job.

Kayla: Thank you. It's been a bad... Well, yeah, I mean the last two episodes I recorded mid-anxiety attack. Yeah. I don't know. I can't think of a beef, so just don't do it.

Sarah: Good.

Kayla: I'm having a happy episode.

Sarah: Yes. Good.

Kayla: Okay.

Sarah: You can tell us about your juice, your beef, your life, your thoughts on 36 questions at Sounds Fake Pod everywhere.

Kayla: Or, send us an answer to one of the 36 questions.

Sarah: Yeah, send an answer. That'd be fun. We also have a Patreon, patreon.com/SoundsFakePod, if you'd like to support us. I now have a pop filter for my mic, so I'm popping less, hopefully.

Kayla: It'd suck if you weren't.

Sarah: Yeah. It's a little janky the way I have it set up, but it's less janky than it almost was. I almost had to use duct tape.

Kayla: I really wish that the picture depicted how janky it was. We could post it.

Sarah: The picture doesn't depict it.

Kayla: It doesn't even look that bad.

Sarah: It doesn't look that bad in the picture, but it really is janky. If you want to help support us, Kayla can get a pop filter, and maybe it won't be as janky as mine. Support us on Patreon, patreon.com/SoundsFakePod. Our $2 patrons are Keith McBlain, Roxanne, Alice is in Space, Anonymous, Nathan Dennison, Maria Walter, Jonathan, and we have a new one. It's ChangelingMX. I've always pronounced it Changeling in my head, but I don't know if that's right.

Kayla: I always pronounce it as challenging because that's just what my mom says.

Sarah: Because you can't read.

Kayla: Much like my character in my D and D podcast, go listen to it, I can't read.

Sarah: Kayla can't read. Thank you, however. I think it's changeling, I think.

Kayla: Tell us if we're wrong.

Sarah: Thank you for your money. Our $5 patrons, Jennifer Smart, Asritha Vinnakota, Austin Le, Drew Finney, Perry Fiero, my aunt Jeannie, D, Megan Raul, Quinn Pollock, and Emily Collins. Our $10 patrons are Kevin and Tessa, at Dirty Uncle Kevin and at Tessa_M_K. Sarah Jones at Eternal Lolli, and Arcness who would like to promote Trevor Project, and Benjamin Ibarra. Did he tell us what he wanted to promote?

Kayla: Yeah, he wants to promote...

Sarah: Tabletop games.

Kayla: People playing tabletop games. Yeah. He thinks more people should play tabletop games.

Sarah: That's the tea. Our $15 patrons are Nathaniel White, NathanielJWhiteDesigns.com, and my mom, who would like to promote free mom hugs and probably cry during this episode. I'll be very disappointed if she didn't.

Kayla: Oh my gosh. One of my coworkers went to Pride with her son, and also her mother, so her son's grandmother, and they signed up to do the free mom hugs. The grandmother, they gave her an extra big button and a thousand people came up to her and were giving her hugs, I guess. It was so cute.

Sarah: That's amazing.

Kayla: Her son met Tan France at New York Pride. Ooh. Another juice, Queer Eye is coming out this fourth season in two weeks.

Sarah: Also, one of the people from, I almost said characters, one of the people from season two that was the mayor of a town in Georgia is now running for House, or Senate, or something.

Kayla: Wait, for real?

Sarah: Yeah.

Kayla: That's wild.

Sarah: Yeah.

Kayla: Thanks for listening. Tune in next Sunday for more of us in your ears when we... What are we going to do next? What did you say we were going to do that we're not actually going to do?

Sarah: Oh, Kayla's going to do this with her boyfriend, and they're going to maybe break up?

Kayla: Oh, yeah. Me and my boyfriend are going to break up live on the podcast next week. Tune in. Tune in. Until then, take good care of your... Wait, that's, that's what you say. Sorry, I was just reading.

Sarah: No, it's done now. You took it.

Kayla: I have never made that mistake before. Now, what, 89 episodes in...

Sarah: This might be episode.... Is this episode 90?

Kayla: I don't know.

Sarah: No, it's over. You said it. That's it.

Kayla: Cows. Bye.