Ep 48: Romantic Comedies, But Platonic
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 that we just don’t understand.
KAYLA: On today’s episode: Romcoms.
BOTH: — Sounds fake, but okay.
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SARAH: Welcome back to the pod. First of all, small apology. You may not be able to hear it at all, but if you can hear noises, my roommates are watching Orange is the New Black and I already made them turn it down, so I wasn’t going to tell them they couldn’t watch it.
KAYLA: But the good news is, this is our last episode that we’ll have to record remotely.
SARAH: Yay.
KAYLA: For a whole year.
SARAH: At least for a while.
KAYLA: And then, who knows?
SARAH: And then, who knows? So this is the last remote recording of the summer, we’re going to be taking –
KAYLA: This is the last episode of the summer.
SARAH: Sure. We’re going to be taking next week off, so next week is Labor Day here in the United States which – Well, it’s not as we’re recording this, but when you hear it, it will be. That’s a thing, and also I will have just gotten home and I’ll be with my family and so we were like, no, we’re not doing that.
KAYLA: And that’s when Sarah and I move back to school, so we were like, we’ll give ourselves a week break.
SARAH: Yeah.
KAYLA: Hopefully, you don’t mind.
SARAH: Because we didn’t take a break all summer, and we could have.
KAYLA: Which is surprising for us. We really did that.
SARAH: We were dedicated.
KAYLA: Dedicated ladies.
SARAH: So next week off, see you on September 9th after this.
KAYLA: And we have a lot of really good things planned for the fall, we have lots of guests and exciting things to come.
SARAH: I made a table –
KAYLA: She made a table.
SARAH: On Google Docs.
KAYLA: I’ve been being a business lady. Things are wild, you guys.
SARAH: Things are happening.
KAYLA: Stay hashtag tuned.
SARAH: True. So, this week’s episode – I don’t even remember how I thought of this.
KAYLA: I don’t either, you just texted me about it and I was like, alright.
SARAH: It just came to me. So, romcoms.
KAYLA: What is a romcom, Sarah?
SARAH: It’s a romantic comedy, usually in the form of a movie. I’ve never been too into romcoms, for a number of reasons. One, the rom, and two, when things are just straight com, as in just straight comedy, I often find I can’t really sit through them, I need it to be genre comedy for it to entertain me. It’s not a hard and fast rule, but I often find it harder to be invested in things that are like, you know.
KAYLA: Sure.
SARAH: So I’ve never been huge on the romcom, but there are some good ones out in the world and I was like hmm, we should rank romcoms by how good they would be, if the romantic plot weren’t there. So if the romantic plot were instead, platonic.
KAYLA: Okay, here’s – I have a question because I think, going forward, we’ve received feedback that we talk about aromantic stuff a lot, and that is aromantic so I feel like – So are we taking out the romance and the sex?
SARAH: Yeah, we’re taking out anything that would fall under [a]relationship that is not platonic, anything there.
KAYLA: Okay, because I feel like taking out the romance is more of an aro thing, taking out the sex is more of an asexual thing. We’re just taking out both.
SARAH: We’re taking it all out.
KAYLA: It’s gone.
SARAH: We’re just looking at it purely as, if this were platonic, if it were platonic how good would it be?
KAYLA: So would the movie be good and entertaining?
SARAH: Yeah, would the story be a good time?
KAYLA: Or even make sense.
SARAH: Yeah.
KAYLA: Alright.
SARAH: Cool, so I wrote some movies down, Kayla wrote some movies down – I haven’t really seen that many romcoms, so I worked with what I had.
KAYLA: I honestly couldn’t think of many more than you put though, I feel like these are the big ones.
SARAH: And I googled romcoms –
KAYLA: I also did that.
SARAH: But a lot of them I couldn’t put on the list because I’d never seen them.
KAYLA: There was one I hadn’t seen in a while so I had to read the plot, but I feel like we’re good. There’s actually one that neither of us have seen.
SARAH: What – Okay.
KAYLA: Anyway.
SARAH: Interesting. So these aren’t in any particular order, they’re just whatever, because Kayla put hers in between mine in weird places, I don’t know.
KAYLA: It was necessary for formatting purposes.
SARAH: It really wasn’t. Okay, first one. I watched this movie recently, Friends with Benefits.
KAYLA: So what is the actual plot of Friends with Benefits?
SARAH: Oh yeah guys, this is full of spoilers, spoilers abound.
KAYLA: Only one of these is a new movie, so.
SARAH: Only one of them is new, and I won’t give spoilers for the new one.
KAYLA: Okay.
SARAH: So Friends with Benefits, basically it’s the movie with Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis. It’s not No Strings Attached with Austin Kutcher –
KAYLA: Though it is the same plot.
SARAH: And Austin Kutcher and Mila Kunis are married which is fun. So basically it’s –
KAYLA: I thought it was Ashton Kutcher?
SARAH: It really is, I just said it wrong.
KAYLA: Okay.
SARAH: It came out of my mouth and I was like, that’s not right.
KAYLA: Yeah.
SARAH: But I said it confidently enough that I went with it.
KAYLA: Good for you.
SARAH: You’re totally correct, it is Ashton Kutcher.
KAYLA: Good for you though, good confidence.
SARAH: (laughs) Thank you. That was fun, anyway. Friends with Benefits, to simplify it to as simple as it can go, two people decide that they’re sick of dealing with the stupid stuff, relationship stuff. They were both recently dumped and they’re like, we’re going to just have sex and be friends with benefits. And then as one could assume, especially if one reads a lot of fanfiction –
KAYLA: They catch the feels.
SARAH: They catch the feels. There’s a lot of other things that happen, but that’s the gist. At one point, they decide not to do that anymore, and then they decide to date other people and then it’s like –
KAYLA: It’s all sad. And they meet each other’s families –
SARAH: There’s a family thing.
KAYLA: And it’s like, oh my God.
SARAH: Yeah, there’s some shit. But basically, if this movie had no sexual or romantic plot, it would just be two friends –
KAYLA: It would just be two friends –
SARAH: Deciding to have sleepovers a lot.
KAYLA: It would be like two friends – No, here’s what it is, Sarah. Two friends decide to have a QPR, but not a full QPR.
SARAH: And then they’re just like, oh maybe I want to have a QPR with someone else.
KAYLA: And then they get sad.
SARAH: And then they get sad.
KAYLA: And then they’re in a full QPR.
SARAH: Yeah, and then at the end there’s a flashmob. There’s one at the beginning too, but –
KAYLA: Yeah. I’m not sure this one holds up. (laughs)
SARAH: Oh it absolutely doesn’t hold up, that’s why I put it first.
KAYLA: Because sex is in the name, you know.
SARAH: Right, and it’s like the story does – If just sex were left in, with the romance taken out, it would still work maybe.
KAYLA: Yeah, I don’t think it would be as exciting, but it would be there.
SARAH: Yeah, it doesn’t make sense at all with the romantic plot turned to platonic. It’s a great movie though.
KAYLA: It’s very good.
SARAH: Which is so strange because me as an aro-ace person, I don’t even like romcoms that much.
KAYLA: I know, that’s one of the only romcoms you like.
SARAH: Yeah, it’s one of my favorite romcoms, and it’s literally about sex, so deal with that.
KAYLA: It’s funny, though.
SARAH: It’s very funny.
KAYLA: Yeah, because if you took out the sex then they would just be friends who decided to be friends, and then they were like, I want to be friends with other people, and then they were like, let’s be best friends.
SARAH: Right. I think it’s just two friends being like, we’re friends, but do we want to be best friends? Do we want to commit to the best friends thing? I feel like when you have a best friend it’s just too much, let’s be –
KAYLA: Fake best friends.
SARAH: Fake best friends. (laughs) Yeah, it doesn’t work.
KAYLA: I’m going to put a big old no on that one.
SARAH: Big old no. Alright, so the next one is my personal favorite romcom –
KAYLA: It’s a good one.
SARAH: Of all time. My sister actually sent me a snap, she was watching this last night.
KAYLA: That’s very exciting.
SARAH: It is 10 Things I Hate About You, the 1999 classic with Heath Ledger and Julia Styles.
KAYLA: A good time.
SARAH: It’s a great movie, if you haven’t seen it, see it.
KAYLA: Would recommend.
SARAH: If you haven’t seen it, I don’t want them to hear the spoilers, but they can probably guess what’ll happen.
KAYLA: I think it’s been out long enough that perhaps it can be spoiled.
SARAH: 10 Things I Hate About You is about this girl –
KAYLA: Isn’t it based on the Shakespeare?
SARAH: It’s based on Taming of the Shrew. So it’s basically, there’s an older sister and a younger sister, and the younger sister’s super popular and wants to date, but their dad is really afraid of them dating, and he knows that the older sister Kat, who’s Julia Styles, won’t date anyone because she thinks it’s dumb in high school or whatever, and so –
KAYLA: Hot take, she’s aro as hell.
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SARAH: Hmm.
KAYLA: Until later.
SARAH: I don’t – But her reasoning for not dating though leads me to believe she’s not.
KAYLA: That’s what she says her reasoning is.
SARAH: Yeah, I just –
KAYLA: No, it really doesn’t hold up, that’s just my hot take. Continue.
SARAH: That hot take doesn’t really make sense if we’re not changing the plot.
KAYLA: That’s why it’s hot.
SARAH: Anyway, so the dad’s like, alright fine. Younger sister, you can date if older sister does. So younger sister tries to get –
KAYLA: Younger sister wants to date Joseph Gordon-Levitt, which is –
SARAH: No she doesn’t, she wants to date the asshole. Joseph Gordon-Levitt wants to date the younger sister, and so he is also trying to get it figured out so that Kat dates someone. So they try and – Basically, they pay Heath Ledger to take out Kat –
KAYLA: To prom.
SARAH: Yeah, and it doesn’t go well and then it sort of goes well, and then she finds out –
KAYLA: Because she finds – They end up liking each other and they go to the prom, but then she finds out what had happened and then her sister punches the asshole in the face –
SARAH: Breaks his nose, dances with Joseph Gordon-Levitt –
KAYLA: As we all would love to, and then they’re mad and then Heath Ledger is like, I’m sorry, I’m going to buy you a guitar.
SARAH: She says a really sad poem in class, and starts crying.
KAYLA: She does, and that’s embarrassing. I don’t know why she did that. Like, girl.
SARAH: And then she leaves, and then he buys her a guitar, and then they make out.
KAYLA: And then they’re like, we’re going to make out in the parking lot.
SARAH: (laughs) There’s the plot for you.
KAYLA: And that’s the tea, sis.
SARAH: I mean, it sort of makes sense.
KAYLA: I think this one could work.
SARAH: Yeah, because it’s like, older sister has no friends – The reasoning for younger sister not – I can’t even remember the character’s name (laughs). The reason for younger sister not being able to have a best friend because her sister doesn’t –
KAYLA: It could be like, you can’t hang out with your friends after school and have a sleepover, go over to their house, unless your sister does. And the sister’s like, fuck that, and the younger sister is like, but there’s this great party I want to go to.
SARAH: Mmhmm.
KAYLA: So she pays, or the asshole guy pays Heath Ledger to be her friend to go to the –
SARAH: Well no, Joseph Gordon-Levitt convinces asshole to pay Heath Ledger.
KAYLA: Okay, so then Joseph Gordon-Levitt is like, I really want to be her friend and for her to come to this party, so you pay Heath Ledger to be best friends with Kat –
SARAH: Which is a very difficult task to achieve.
KAYLA: Is it more difficult to get someone to like you romantically, or to become best friends, though?
SARAH: I was just saying in general, to get her to even have a positive view of anyone.
KAYLA: Well, it happened.
SARAH: Yeah, it did. But I think it depends on how you look at it because I feel like people can become romantically involved faster than they can become proper best friends, but it doesn’t always have to go that way.
KAYLA: I feel like we were best friends after a day, so –
SARAH: It was maybe two days (laughs).
KAYLA: Probably two, but I’ll say two max.
SARAH: Yeah, I think it really just depends on the situation.
KAYLA: I still think this movie could hold up though.
SARAH: I think it might work. It would be a little weird, but it would work.
KAYLA: It wouldn’t be my favorite movie, but the plot still makes sense at least.
SARAH: You know why I love this movie?
KAYLA: It’s because of the marching band?
SARAH: (laughs) That scene gives me so much secondhand embarrassment, I can’t even watch it.
KAYLA: I love it.
SARAH: No, enemies to lovers trope.
KAYLA: Oh, that’s my favorite trope.
SARAH: Yeah, love it.
KAYLA: We love that.
SARAH: What’s the next one? The next one is The Proposal, I’ve never seen The Proposal.
KAYLA: First of all, we need to have that happen. So, The Proposal is Ryan Reynolds is the assistant to this bigshot editor lady in New York, and she basically is the meanest lady, has no personal life, work work work all the time, everyone in the office hates her. And then, she’s Canadian, and she finds out she’s about to get deported to Canada –
SARAH: Wait, she’s an asshole who’s Canadian? Sounds fake.
KAYLA: I know. It’s because her parents died when she was young.
SARAH: Well, if Ryan Reynolds was in this movie, I trust that he thinks it’s an acceptable representation of Canadians.
KAYLA: True.
SARAH: Oh wait no, is he Canadian? He and Ryan Gosling are both Canadian.
KAYLA: Can I please continue?
SARAH: Sorry.
KAYLA: So, she’s about to get deported and then she’s like wait, if I make Ryan Reynolds pretend to be my husband and that we’re getting married, then we can just stay married for a little bit, I won’t get deported and it’ll be fine, I can still work here. So she’s like, Ryan Reynolds, we’re going to be pretend to be married. And he’s like, well that’s interesting, if we’re going to do that you have to let me take this vacation to see my family in Alaska, and she’s like, (sighs) fine. So they go to Alaska, and they pretend to be engaged in front of his family, in case the government asks his family.
SARAH: [In case the government] is watching.
KAYLA: And so they go up there and then eventually they fall in love and they’re about to get married in Alaska because his family is like, you have to get married here, right now. And then she feels really bad because she’s in love with him, and she’s like, I don’t want to force him into this, so she goes back and she calls the government and she’s like, deport me, it’s fine. And then he races to the airport and he’s like, nooo, but her plane was gone, so then he rushes back and he comes into the office when she’s packing up, and he was like, no, and he kisses her right in the middle of the office.
SARAH: Wow, that sounds great.
KAYLA: And then they do get married and have to go back to the government and they’re like, no it’s for real this time, we swear.
SARAH: Wow.
KAYLA: It’s funny, Betty White is great.
SARAH: That’s a good time. Update, Ryan Reynolds and Ryan Gosling are both Canadian.
KAYLA: Of course they are.
SARAH: I sometimes, sometimes I mix them up, just a little bit. Just a little.
KAYLA: They do not look the same.
SARAH: They have similar shaped faces.
KAYLA: I guess.
SARAH: It’s always brief, it’s not like I’m like, I can’t tell them apart, it’s just wait, I’ve got to think for a second.
KAYLA: This is riveting, thank you.
SARAH: But I mean, if you’re in a QPR and you’re going to get married, you can get married if you’re in a QPR. A marriage isn’t inherently a romantic and sexual thing. It usually is.
KAYLA: I think even taking out a QPR, this could be a thing. You hate your boss, and they’re like, you’re going to marry me. You go to Alaska, you become really good friends, and you realize I don’t want to make my really good friend marry me, when he doesn’t want to. And then they come back and they’re like, no, we’re friends and I’m doing this for you, we’re going to get married for a little bit and it’ll be fine, we’re doing it.
SARAH: Yeah.
KAYLA: I think that makes sense.
SARAH: I think that actually holds up, as long as you accept that marriage is allowed in this platonic story.
KAYLA: Well, it’s a platonic marriage.
SARAH: Well right, it’s just some people would say that marriage is inherently not platonic, but I think marriage –
KAYLA: Okay, people marry people for green cards all the time though.
SARAH: Oh yeah, for sure and there are plenty of weddings that are not borne out of love, it’s just some people think that marriage is supposed to be about love, but I don’t think it inherently is, because what is it? It’s just a legal document saying that you can combine your assets, it’s not inherently romantic. So I think that holds up.
KAYLA: I agree.
SARAH: Alright, cool. What’s the next one? The next one is The Notebook. Kayla, I –
KAYLA: Neither of us have seen this.
SARAH: I have never seen The Notebook.
KAYLA: Okay, but I know the gist, I think.
SARAH: I don’t. Young people, old people –
KAYLA: Ryan Gosling goes to this town to work for a while –
SARAH: The other Canadian Ryan.
KAYLA: He’s not a comedian.
SARAH: Canadian.
KAYLA: Oh. He goes to this town and he meets Rachel McAdams and they fall in love but then he’s had to leave and her parents were like, he’s not good enough for you, you’re a rich lady. So he has to leave and he writes her a letter every day, but her bitch-ass mom intercepts them so she never got any of them, and it was very sad. And then they meet a year later or whatever and they cry about it and they’re in the rain and I guess the whole story is being told while they’re old and she’s losing her memory in an old persons’ home, and he’s telling her the story.
SARAH: Right, yeah.
KAYLA: That’s all I really know, I’ve never seen it. So it would be like you can’t be –
SARAH: It would be like –
KAYLA: You can’t be friends with this person because you’re rich, which is a thing, that was a thing.
SARAH: Oh yeah.
KAYLA: So then the mom was like, no talking, and then they found each other and they were best friends, and they were best friends in an old persons’ home and they were like, here’s how we were best friends.
SARAH: That totally holds up.
KAYLA: I think you could probably take out – There’s a lot of romance things in the movie, but overall plot, I feel like you could platonically be birds together.
SARAH: I think the bones of this plot would work fine, platonically.
KAYLA: Yeah, you just have to change all the kissing, I guess.
SARAH: Yeah, I guess that’s true of all of these. But that’s really interesting because The Notebook is considered this quintessential love story, but it would totally work.
KAYLA: Boiled down though, it’s like really simpl[y] a class issue, though. You could really boil this plot down.
SARAH: Right.
KAYLA: Wow, can’t believe we solved The Notebook.
SARAH: The next one –
KAYLA: Having never seen it.
SARAH: I know. The next one is Titanic, which Kayla said is not a com[edy]. That’s probably true, but the internet told me it was a romcom, so I’ve put it in the list.
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KAYLA: I mean, there’s funny parts in it.
SARAH: Yeah, whatever. I’m counting it.
KAYLA: Okay.
SARAH: I think again, class stuff happening here. I think the reason why The Notebook might hold up better than Titanic is because if you were best friends with someone, and you were biffles for life, would you really let them just – I mean, I really think the whole like, I’m going to sacrifice myself thing for you is like, ugh. That’s how I feel.
KAYLA: But do you think scientifically they both would have survived on the door?
SARAH: Some people say they would, some people they were too heavy.
KAYLA: I feel like they might have been too heavy.
SARAH: Yeah, but it’s just the fact that one of them intentionally sacrificed himself for the other, that’s a very grand romantic gesture. That’s what happens with FitzSimmons.
KAYLA: I agree that it is seen as something romantic, but I don’t see why that couldn’t be something very platonic.
SARAH: I just feel like if I were – I feel like if it’s a platonic friendship, it’s harder to make the argument, or it’s harder to get someone to believe the argument that you deserve to live, and I don’t. I don’t know, I know –
KAYLA: I think the reason the argument is harder to make is because romantic relationships are often seen as more important and greater than platonic ones.
SARAH: Yeah, I guess.
KAYLA: If they were treated as equals, and platonic love and romantic love were treated more equally, I don’t think it would be such a weird thing to do that for a friend.
SARAH: That’s valid. I just, I guess I am thinking of being Rose in the situation, I’d be super pissed if someone pulled a Jack on me.
KAYLA: That’s also you as a person though, Sarah.
SARAH: Yeah, but then also I’m thinking if I were in Jack’s place, what would I do? I don’t know, I’d probably try and survive.
KAYLA: I mean, that’s human instinct.
SARAH: Yeah.
KAYLA: I don’t know.
SARAH: I don’t know. I think technically it stands up, but I think if it were created as a movie, just because of our perception as you said of romantic versus platonic relationships, I think people would criticize that for being unrealistic.
KAYLA: They definitely would. I think if things were more equal, it would hold up a lot better, in an ideal situation. But as things stand, I think the rest of it would hold up fine.
SARAH: Yeah. Also if this were platonic, the hand in the car scene would totally be murder.
BOTH: (laugh)
KAYLA: Murdering each other though?
SARAH: Anyone.
KAYLA: Okay, but –
SARAH: I think we mentioned this in the pod before, we know some people who thought that in the scene in Titanic where they’re fucking in the car, and there’s a hand that just hits the window and slides down, we have a friend who thought that someone was getting murdered in that scene, and that’s what that was.
KAYLA: That’s fair though, if you just saw that part, it looks creepy.
SARAH: Yeah. Paint me like one of your French girls.
KAYLA: But with clothes on.
SARAH: Actually, I think it’s draw me, isn’t it?
KAYLA: I think it’s draw.
SARAH: But also, why are we sexualizing the nip? Free the nip.
KAYLA: That’s true, you could platonically draw someone naked.
SARAH: Yep, people do it all the time in portraiture classes.
KAYLA: That’s true. We have a friend that did that.
SARAH: Yeah, one time. Alright, the next one is Forgetting Sarah Marshall.
KAYLA: I don’t know this movie.
SARAH: I saw it for the first time two weeks ago. I didn’t actually see the last half an hour, but I can figure out what happens. Should I google it? Maybe. Will I? No.
KAYLA: Nice. Research.
SARAH: I also missed the first ten minutes, because my roommate was watching it without me and I was like, hey, I’m standing in the kitchen and I’ve been interested by this, so now I’m just going to sit down and watch it with you. That’s how that happened.
Basically, you have what’s-his-face, that guy who was in the Muppets movie. You know the guy?
KAYLA: No.
SARAH: Jason Siegel?
KAYLA: Ah.
SARAH: He – I don’t know, I’m assuming she dumps him. He is dating Kristen Bell and they break up, and she’s a famous actress, which she is in real life.
KAYLA: That’s true.
SARAH: And they break up, and he is totally torn up by it, he cannot handle himself. So his friend who is Bill Hader, his friend is like dude, you need to just go somewhere, go forget about it. So he’s like, alright, I’ll go to Hawaii, so he goes to Hawaii. Lo and behold, guess who’s staying at his hotel in Hawaii?
KAYLA: Kristen Bell.
SARAH: Kristen Bell and her new boyfriend, Russell Brand.
KAYLA: Oh, tea.
SARAH: So he’s like, fuck, what the fuck am I going to do? So hotel receptionist Mila Kunis is like dude, I feel bad for you. We don’t have any open rooms, but we do have the super super fancy suite, and no one’s going to be staying in it for a while, and they don’t really go into it if no one’s staying in it so you can stay there, but secretly. And he’s like, okay cool, because I’m poor. Well, he’s not poor, he’s just you know, a broke dude. And so things happen, he meets Jonah Hill, he meets Paul Rudd, he befriends Mila Kunis, they become buds. And then Kristen Bell is like, they have some weird interactions, they have a really awkward double date, it’s a time. I don’t really know what happens in the end, but I think it’s fair to assume that Jason Siegel and Mila Kunis end up together –
KAYLA: That sounds correct.
SARAH: And then Kristen Bell, I don’t know if she stays with Russell Brand?
KAYLA: Probably not.
SARAH: But I don’t think it matters to the plot. So yes, I think that holds up.
KAYLA: (laughs) What?
SARAH: I think it holds up.
KAYLA: No it does not.
SARAH: (laughs) You have a horrible best friend break up, you’re so sad, you go to Hawaii, you make a new best friend while your old best friend makes their own new best friend –
KAYLA: And you’re roomed next to each other and it’s very awkward, and you go on a best friend double friend –
SARAH: Well, I don’t think it was a double date, I think Russell Brand invited Jason Siegel to sit with them, which was a bad idea.
KAYLA: Yeah, I don’t know why Russell would do that.
SARAH: No, me neither. I don’t if it holds up so much as I find it really, really funny.
KAYLA: It does not hold up. It is funny –
SARAH: I think it’s hilarious.
KAYLA: But it does not hold up.
SARAH: I really think it’s hilarious. Also the movie is totally reliant on coincidences, but it’s still amusing. Hold on, I’m going to google the ending, because I am curious. Oh no, they do accidentally, they do have an awkward double date with Mila Kunis. Mila Kunis fucks Jason Siegel and my girl Kristen Bell hears them, because they’re next door and she’s like, wait, I need to fuck you now, Russell Brand.
KAYLA: Oh my God.
SARAH: And then they realize that they’re just – Well, Jason Siegel realizes that Kristen Bell’s doing this just to be like, neh. And then, blah blah blah – Oh, ooh, interesting, this is fascinating, Russell Brand is like dude, Kristen Bell, I know that you’re not over him, can you fucking stop, just stop, we’re not doing this anymore. And they break up, and then Kristen Bell is like, I still love you Jason Siegel, and then they’re like, let’s fuck, and then Jason Siegel’s like, wait, Mila Kunis. And then Mila Kunis is mad, and then he goes back to Los Angeles – Oh, he’s writing a weird Dracula puppet comedy rock opera –
KAYLA: Yeah, same.
SARAH: And he’s like, Mila Kunis, come. Which, she lives in Hawaii, I’m confused. Oh, she’s looking into attending school in the area, and they’re like, oh wow, I miss you. Kiss. That’s the end.
KAYLA: So he does stay together with Mila Kunis?
SARAH: I was actually kind of right, because I was like yeah, I don’t know if Kristen Bell and Russell Brand are going to stay together, and they didn’t.
KAYLA: So Kristen Bell’s now single –
SARAH: Mmhmm, single and sad.
KAYLA: And Jason Siegel and Mila Kunis are together, after a brief period.
SARAH: And Russell Brand’s just wherever, yeah.
KAYLA: It’s very complex.
SARAH: Yeah. I think that would be absolutely hilarious platonic, but not in the sense that the movie is funny, in the sense it’s so dumb, it’s funny, you know?
KAYLA: Yeah.
SARAH: Alright, the next one is Pretty Woman.
KAYLA: I. Love. Pretty Woman.
SARAH: I’ve never seen Pretty Woman.
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KAYLA: You’ve seen parts of it, haven’t you?
SARAH: I’ve seen maybe five minutes of it.
KAYLA: Oh, okay. Pretty Woman is great. There’s a new musical, me and our friend drove to Chicago last minute to see it in previews, the cast album is coming out soon, I’m so excited.
SARAH: For context, driving to Chicago is like five and a half hours, one way.
KAYLA: So anyway, the plot of Pretty Woman, it’s set in the 90s, so there’s this prostitute and she’s hustling with her prostitute friend Kit, doing her best, and they see this fancy car man driving down the road, and they’re like, that’s a rich –
SARAH: Fancy car man, or a fancy man in a fancy car?
KAYLA: Fancy man in a fancy car. And they’re like, that fancy man looks lost as hell, because this is downtown Hollywood and he does not belong here, my dude.
SARAH: If you’re in a really fancy car in Hollywood Hollywood, this is not where the fancy people are, guys.
KAYLA: Nope.
SARAH: Go to Beverly Hills.
SARAH: So Julia Roberts goes up to what’s-his-face, and she’s like, let’s fuck, and he’s like no, I’m a fancy man. And she’s like, I can at least get you back home, you’re lost, for $20. So she drives the car, because it’s a stick shift and he’s stupid, and they go back to his hotel and he’s like, okay bye, and she’s like, oh okay. And then he’s like, alright you can come upstairs.
So she goes in, and Joe from Princess Diaries –
SARAH: Joe from Princess Diaries?
KAYLA: - is suspicious, but he’s like, I’ll let it happen. And then they go up, and then they’re just chilling, whatever, and then they have sex. He hires her to be his personal lady for the week, to attend events and shit with him, because she’s a charming lady.
SARAH: I think maybe I’ve seen ten minutes of this movie, now that you say that.
KAYLA: So they do that, and there’s this really good scene where he sends her to get fancy lady clothes, and the store is like, you don’t belong here, and then she tells rich man, and rich man’s like, I’m going to get you pampered. And then she goes back into the old store and is like, oh, you work on commission, right? And she has all her boxes and bags, and they’re like, yeah, and she’s like, big mistake, huge, and it’s like, woah.
SARAH: Yes.
KAYLA: So anyway, they do that and they go to the opera one night, and it’s very fancy, they’re falling in love.
SARAH: Wait, hold on, question. Does she actually say big mistake, huge?
KAYLA: Yeah.
SARAH: That’s what my roommates have been quoting for three months.
KAYLA: You idiot.
SARAH: I knew they were quoting something but I didn’t know what it was.
KAYLA: It’s that, it’s that moment.
SARAH: We say that, I’m going to come home and I will be saying that, just prepare yourself.
KAYLA: Well we need to have you see the movie then, if you’re going to be saying that.
SARAH: Yeah, big mistake, huge. (laughs)
KAYLA: Anyway, so they’re falling in love and they keep having sex, and then they kiss on the mouth, and her prostitute friend told her never kiss a guy on the mouth, because that’s how you get the feels. And then she does, while they’re sleeping one night, she’s like, I love you, and I think he hears it. Anyway, the week is over –
SARAH: They always hear it.
KAYLA: They always hear it. Anyway, the week is over, and he’s like, I can put you up in a nice apartment and pay for all your shit, and you’ll just be here –
SARAH: Sugar daddy?
KAYLA: Yeah, basically. And she’s like no, now that I’ve seen this life, I want more, I can’t be a prostitute anymore, I’m going to take all the money you paid me and go and get a real job, and get out of Hollywood, and he’s like, that’s sad. And so then they leave and they’re sad, and Joe from Princess Diaries is like, it’s okay rich man, I know where she lives. And so rich man comes in a limo with flowers and with music, because he’s being a knight in shining armor because that’s a thing. And he climbs the balcony which is a thing, because he’s afraid of heights, and then they kiss, and it’s over.
SARAH: Wow. That would not work at all, platonic.
KAYLA: No, it’s a prostitute.
SARAH: Yeah.
KAYLA: You buy a friend –
SARAH: (laughs)
KAYLA: And then you’re like, but we can’t really become friends, but then you do, and then they’re like, I’ll pay you to be my personal friend, and they’re like no, I want more than that, I want a real friend.
SARAH: Yeah, that doesn’t work at all.
KAYLA: But they were friends all along, and so they ride in a limo with platonic flowers, and they hug.
SARAH: It’s like if you’re just pretending to be friends with someone to look good to the rest of the world, and then you decide that you’re actually going to become friends with them. But it doesn’t quite work.
KAYLA: It doesn’t, but it’s a great movie.
SARAH: Alright, I think that’s kind of the theme of this pod.
KAYLA: (laughs) Yeah.
SARAH: The next one is The Princess Bride.
KAYLA: This could work.
SARAH: Contrary to what our friends like to say, I do like this movie.
KAYLA: Me and our housemates showed Sarah The Princess Bride our sophomore year, because we’d all seen it, and we love it, obviously. Sarah had never seen it –
SARAH: I had seen bits of it, I had seen the “My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die.”
KAYLA: Everyone’s seen that.
SARAH: No but my dad was watching it on TV one time when I was like, 12.
KAYLA: Anyway, we watched it and the reaction you’re supposed to have to this movie is that it’s perfect and you love it, and Sarah did not have that reaction –
SARAH: But you had amped it up so much.
KAYLA: It deserves to be amped up, Sarah.
SARAH: Yeah, but if you amp it up, even if someone enjoys what you’ve watched, they’re not going to give you the reaction you want them to.
KAYLA: Whatever.
SARAH: Anyway, I think this could work.
KAYLA: Okay, we need to explain the plot. So Buttercup and Wesley are farmer people, and he is farm boy, his family is farm boy, she calls him Farm Boy. Eventually they fall in love and they have this thing where ‘as you wish’ means that they’re in love, whatever, it makes sense.
SARAH: But she’s a fancy bitch, and he’s not.
KAYLA: Yeah. And then he’s like, I need money to marry you, so I’m going to go off on this ship and do whatever, and then he never comes back, and she’s very sad. And then this new bitchass king that reminds me of Lord Farquaad comes into town, and he’s like, I’m going to pick a wife out of the commoners so I seem hip and cool, and he picks Buttercup, and she’s like fuck, but she can’t say no. So then they’re about to get married and secretly –
SARAH: There’s a pirate.
KAYLA: Okay, and then a pirate shows up, and steals the princess, and you’re like, the fuck dude? And then you find out that really the king is planning to kill Buttercup after the wedding.
SARAH: Why was he planning to do that again?
KAYLA: I don’t know, I think just for shits. So the pirate steals her and then meets up with this Spanish sword man, and the giant – What’s his name?
SARAH: The giant. (laughs)
KAYLA: His real name, he’s a wrestler.
SARAH: He’s the guy – He’s a big dude.
KAYLA: Yeah, he’s big.
SARAH: Also there’s the guy with six fingers.
KAYLA: Okay yeah, they meet this – No, the king is the guy with six fingers. Oh yeah, no –
SARAH: It’s the guy on the horse.
KAYLA: It’s one of the king’s worker dudes, that’s the man with six fingers and he’s the one that killed Inigo Montoya’s father when he was a kid, and that’s why he’s so good at swords, because he wants to kill this guy. Anyway, so the pirate stole her and then we realize that the pirate –
SARAH: Andre the Giant?
KAYLA: Yes, Andre the Giant. And then we realize that the pirate is actually Wesley, and that when he was out on the sea, he got taken over by the Dread Pirate Roberts and then he became the next one, and then he was like, I wanted to come back and I found out you were marrying this dude, what the fuck? And then they like, oh.
Then he had to, they were trying to run away but then the king caught Buttercup again and almost killed Wesley, but he was only mostly dead, and so they fixed him. Then they break into the castle, and they steal her back and then they tie up the king and Inigo Montoya kills the guy, and then they jump out a window onto horses which looks very painful and then they ride away into the distance.
SARAH: They ride away, yeah. And the whole thing is a grandpa telling a story to his grandson, which is not relevant to the story.
KAYLA: It’s not at all. Also, I feel like it sounds lame, but it’s very funny.
SARAH: It’s well done, and it’s very funny.
KAYLA: Anyway, that’s it.
SARAH: I think that would work, it’s just a BFF.
KAYLA: Yeah, you’re best friends, your best friend is like, I’ve got to go work for a while because I’m poor, and then they never come back. And then this other person is like, now we’re best friends because I want to look like I’m nice to people, and you’re like alright, I guess. But then suddenly you get kidnapped by a pirate, who was really your best friend all along.
SARAH: They been your best friend all along, yeah, it works.
KAYLA: It works.
SARAH: Cool. Next, Clueless. Here’s the thing, I think Clueless is the best one when made platonic. You know why?
KAYLA: You need to remind me of the plot again.
SARAH: Okay, I saw it once. I saw the first half at night, and then the second half the next morning, when I was spending the night at my friend’s house in high school.
KAYLA: Oh good.
SARAH: Basically you have this girl, her name is Cher, and she says “As if!” a lot and I don’t even totally remember the plot, all I know is that she has a step-brother who is Paul Rudd –
KAYLA: She does.
SARAH: And by the end of the movie, she ends up dating Paul Rudd even though they’re step-siblings. They’re not related by blood, but they are step-siblings and I find that still a little bit weird, but if you make it platonic, that’s not weird anymore, she just learns how to get along with her step-brother.
KAYLA: That one’s also a Shakespeare one, but I can’t remember which Shakespeare it is. Oh no, it’s a Jane Austen one, I read it, it’s based off a Jane Austen book.
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SARAH: Let me look it up. Okay yeah, it’s based on Emma, the Jane Eyre – Not Jane Eyre (laughs), fucking what’s-her-face.
KAYLA: Anyway, I think it would work.
SARAH: Yeah, I think that one’s the one that works best because the part that’s weird works better platonically.
KAYLA: [It] would not be weird.
SARAH: Cool. Next is Grease.
BOTH: (laugh)
SARAH: Imagine, well actually I was about to say imagine changing your entire personality for a best friend, but people do that all the time.
KAYLA: People do that all the time. This one, especially in high school, this one totally pans out. You have a best friend –
SARAH: Apart from the pregnancy thing.
KAYLA: Well yeah, but that’s fine. You have a best friend over the summer, and then you part ways, maybe it was a summer camp friend.
SARAH: Oh, that totally works.
KAYLA: And then you go back to school and you’re like oh, but then you don’t fit in with their other friends. This is just stuff that happens.
SARAH: Yeah, they’re someone different when they’re with their friends, they’re different and you’re like well, I’m pretty sad about this and you change yourself to be like – They try to change themselves to be like you and it doesn’t work, so you change yourself to be like them, because you’re the girl and you have to be accommodating. That’s the part I hate.
KAYLA: Tea.
SARAH: But it totally works because I mean, that’s very realistic.
KAYLA: It does work.
SARAH: Because what happens in this movie is what a lot of people do when they’re that age.
KAYLA: True. I think this one works the best, honestly.
SARAH: It works pretty well. Alright, next is 13 Going on 30 which I also watched –
KAYLA: I don’t think I’ve ever seen that.
SARAH: I saw it for the first time this summer. What’s-her-face is 13, and she has this best friend, and her best friend has a huge crush on her but she does not reciprocate it, and she’s trying to be cool, she’s trying to be in with the cool girls. It’s not really working, in large part because of her nerdy best friend and she read in this magazine “30, flirty and thriving” and so she’s like, I want to be 30.
So she wishes to be 30 and then her wish comes true, and so she wakes up, a 13-year-old wakes up 30, with a boyfriend who lives with her. And she works at a magazine which is her big dream, but she doesn’t know what the fuck she’s doing, because she’s 13. It’s very amusing, and she doesn’t know what to do, because she doesn’t know who she can tell or whatever, so she finds, she tracks down her childhood best friend who had a crush on her, who is Mark Ruffalo. He’s actually in a lot of romcoms, weirdly. I think of him first and foremost as Bruce Banner –
KAYLA: Of course you do.
SARAH: Yeah, anyway. But he’s like, what the fuck? You totally ditched me years and years and years ago, what is this? And some weird shit happens, and she breaks up – Basically, 30-year-old her is a huge bitch and so she basically learns how not to be a huge bitch by being 13 and then at the end she becomes 13 again and she’s like oh, best friend, wait, you’re cool. That’s how it ends, something like that.
I think it could work, because if you – Basically the whole thing was that 13-year-old her wished for perfection, this perfect life, and 30-year-old her had it, but was a huge bitch, and so she had to learn to appreciate what she had.
KAYLA: Yeah, because even if her best friend didn’t like her, it could still be like, oh my best friend is nerdy, I want cooler friends.
SARAH: Exactly, because that’s what happens.
KAYLA: And then she learns to appreciate her real friend.
SARAH: And then her friends when she’s adult are the bitches.
KAYLA: I think it could work.
SARAH: I think it works. Singin’ in the Rain. I remember a lot of songs from Singin’ in the Rain, but I always forget the plot.
KAYLA: It I don’t think would work, because it’s another one – So there’s this famous movie star back in the silent film days, and his co-star who he does all these romantic movies with, loves him. And then he meets this girl that’s just starting off in showbusiness, and she’s just a chorus girl and they start going out, and then for some reason they stop going out and then they end up together and they –
SARAH: And Moses supposes.
KAYLA: And then they basically showcase that his co-star actually has a shit voice –
SARAH: Oh right.
KAYLA: And is a terrible actress, and that this new girl’s a really good singer, and all this tea.
SARAH: I remember now.
KAYLA: I don’t think it would work, because it’s another like, you’re my fake best friend, but now we’re best friends and you’re jealous of my new best friend, you know?
SARAH: Yeah, I don’t think that would work.
KAYLA: Songs are good though.
SARAH: Songs are great. Debbie Reynolds is my queen.
KAYLA: True.
SARAH: Sixteen Candles, I’ve never seen it.
KAYLA: Okay, this is one [where] I had to look up the plot too. So Sixteen Candles, this girl is turning 16 but her whole family forgot about her birthday because her sister is getting married the next day, and she’s all sad.
SARAH: Why would her sister schedule her wedding the day after –
KAYLA: I don’t know. So then –
SARAH: I mean, my cousin’s getting married the day after my birthday, but I wanted him to get married on my birthday, because it’d be festive.
KAYLA: (pause) Okay.
SARAH: Also because his sister got married on my sister’s 21st birthday and it would be my 21st birthday, so it would be festive. Anyway, continue.
KAYLA: Okay, so she’s all sad. And then she’s in love with the popular guy at school, but the popular guy is dating this other girl, but the popular guy is like, I don’t really want to date this girl anymore, things are kind of boring. And the main girl who’s turning 16, her best friend likes her but is super nerdy and tries to hit on her all the time.
So they go to this dance and he tries to hit on her and it’s like, whatever, and it doesn’t work, and so the nerdy kid’s friend is like oh, I dare you to make a move on her, blah blah blah. And then he finds out that the popular guy is asking about her, and he goes and he’s like, listen, I made this bet and I need your panties to prove this bet, and she’s like, whatever, here’s my panties, thanks for helping me out with this guy, whatever. So then they go to this party and they’re chilling, but she’s not there because she got upset for some reason, and the popular guy is like, okay nerdy guy, if you let me take the panties and return them to her, then you can make out with my ex in my dad’s fancy car.
SARAH: That is really weird.
KAYLA: Yeah. And so they’re like, chill. So nerdy guy makes out with the ex in the car, he goes to the house and there’s a miscommunication with the foreign exchange student there, and he thinks that the girl is going to get married, not her sister, so he goes to the church, and he’s like, what? And then she comes out and he’s waiting for her, and it’s like, oh my God. And then they kiss, and yep.
SARAH: I totally, I didn’t even follow all of that, it doesn’t seem like it – Well, I don’t know. I think it might, but I think it would be very hard to achieve.
KAYLA: I think it would be another one of those things that’s like, I want this cool person to be my friend, but –
SARAH: Yeah, I don’t think it would work. It’s my birthday, it’s my party and I will cry if I want to.
KAYLA: Ah, yes.
SARAH: I just added one just now, that I remembered.
KAYLA: Sarah, we –
SARAH: I know, but Easy A.
KAYLA: Okay Sarah, we have – This is so long.
SARAH: It’s not that long, it’s not going to be that long.
KAYLA: It really is.
SARAH: But it’s not, we’ll be quick. Easy A, wouldn’t work at all.
KAYLA: It really would not.
SARAH: Because the premise of Easy A is that this girl is a virgin, but she –
KAYLA: Pretends to have sex with people to get them more popular.
SARAH: Yeah, she pretends to have sex with her best friend who’s gay because he’s like, I don’t want them to think I’m gay, and she’s like, I don’t want them to think I’m a virgin so let’s pretend to have sex. So then word gets around, and then some people think she’s a total slut and – Is it Amanda Bynes?
KAYLA: Yeah.
SARAH: And Aly Michalka?
KAYLA: I don’t know.
SARAH: Of Aly and AJ?
KAYLA: I don’t know.
SARAH: (laughs) I don’t remember. But she’s super religious, and she’s like, no, you’re a ho. And then she’s like, fine, you know what? I’ll be a ho. And she literally puts the scarlet letter A on her clothing, and her teachers are like, I’m concerned about you.
KAYLA: Then a bunch of loser kids are like, please pretend to have sex with me, and pay her.
SARAH: They pay her in gift cards.
KAYLA: And she’s sad, because she’s like, but I want this guy to love me who wears the chipmunk costume.
SARAH: Yeah, she likes this popular kid. Woodchuck?
KAYLA: Whatever.
SARAH: It is Aly Michalka. I just realized the woman who plays her mom in Easy A also plays the mom in Friends with Benefits. And Cesar Flickerman plays her dad.
KAYLA: Yep.
SARAH: He’s also in The Devil Wears Prada. Anyway, but basically I don’t even remember how it happens, but she ends up with the guy.
KAYLA: She exposes to the school, she’s like, this is what I did, this was my plan, and then she ends up with him.
SARAH: Yeah. It wouldn’t work at all because the important pivotal part of the plot that makes it work is the fake sex, and without it, it wouldn’t work.
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KAYLA: She’d just be being someone’s fake friend.
SARAH: Yeah, and that doesn’t work.
KAYLA: Being a friend slut.
SARAH: Alright, lastly, Crazy Rich Asians. Before I say anything, this movie came out – As we’re recording this, this movie came out yesterday, it’s really fucking good and you all need to go and see it now, if you haven’t already. If you have, see it again because representation is important and it’s fucking good, and it’s the first movie since 1993 made in the United States with majority Asian cast, so watch it. It’s been 25 years, watch it.
The last one was The Joy Luck Club, and there is an actress who’s in both, which is fun.
KAYLA: That’s fun.
SARAH: But yeah, listen, I’m not going to give too many spoilers, because even though there’s a delay on this episode, it still will be relatively soon after it came out, but basically the general plot is you have this girl Rachel who is dating this guy Nick, and he is from one of the richest families in Asia, his family owns Singapore basically, and they’re old money, their money has been in the family for a very, very long time.
But he doesn’t tell her that he’s super super rich, and he’s like hey, my best friend’s getting married in Singapore, I’m the best man, do you want to come with me? And she’s like yeah, sure, only to find out that he’s very, very rich and that he hadn’t told her for the entire year they’ve been dating. And because she has a single mother, and her mother emigrated from China but she’s a single mom, she’s a college professor but she did that because that’s what her passion was, and she basically has a very American mindset where she was like, I had this passion, I chased it, I did what I could to achieve it. She thinks of it as a good thing, but Nick’s mom is like, I don’t like this, you are not a suitable mate for my son.
Again, it’s kind of a class thing, but it’s also definitely a cultural thing, it’s both. And then she has a really good friend who lives in Singapore who she went to college with, who’s played by Awkwafina, who is hilarious. Nico Santos is in it, who’s also in Superstore, which is lit. It has a bunch of great people, I’m not going to give away what happens, but I think it would work because again, it’s just like the class/cultural difference, it would still work with best friends.
KAYLA: Yeah, I agree. Haven’t seen it, but I agree.
SARAH: This is mostly just my plug to say you should all watch it.
KAYLA: Okay.
SARAH: It’s really good. It’s very good, it’s important that everyone watches it. So what are the final numbers? I feel like it’s kind of half and half. It’s kind of surprising which ones work and which ones don’t.
KAYLA: Yeah, you would think the more classic ones like The Notebook and Titanic wouldn’t, but then you boil them down. It seems like the ones that are more backed by societal things still work, but if it’s just a romcom for the sake of being a romcom, that’s when it completely falls apart.
SARAH: Or if it’s too reliant on sex, it’s hard to transfer that to platonic things, because there’s not a platonic equivalent.
So yeah, that was fun. I enjoyed that.
KAYLA: That was fun.
SARAH: I feel like that’s the sort of thing we could do again, if y’all enjoyed this?
What’s our poll? Do we want to say which one would you most want to see if it were platonic?
KAYLA: Yeah.
SARAH: Should we just pick good ones and see?
KAYLA: I feel like we should pick big ones that everyone would know.
SARAH: Okay, Titanic.
KAYLA: Titanic, I think The Notebook.
SARAH: Can we say Clueless?
KAYLA: Sure.
SARAH: And what was the other one we thought would work really well?
KAYLA: Grease.
SARAH: Woah, we skipped one, we skipped one.
KAYLA: It’s fine.
SARAH: Nooo –
KAYLA: Sarah –
SARAH: 27 Dresses –
KAYLA: Sarah –
SARAH: 27 Dresses wouldn’t work.
KAYLA: Sarah –
SARAH: Moving on.
BOTH: (laugh)
SARAH: What was the other one? Grease.
KAYLA: So let’s do The Notebook, Titanic, Clueless and Grease. Which would be the best movie if they were turned platonic?
SARAH: Which would work best?
KAYLA: Yeah.
SARAH: You can find that poll on our Twitter @soundsfakepod, but before I get too much further, Kayla what’s your beef of the week?
KAYLA: Oh, okay. My beef of the week is when you email people and then they don’t email you back.
SARAH: Mmm, yeah.
KAYLA: That’s it.
SARAH: I thought of a beef of the week earlier today, and then I forgot it, so I’m doing it on the fly.
KAYLA: Your beef of the week should be how often you forget things.
SARAH: Yeah. That’s my beef of all the time though.
KAYLA: That’s my beef of life.
SARAH: That’s my beef of forever. My beef of the week is that we – Oh, two beefs of the week. Our fridge smells disgusting, and we cleaned it out and it’s nothing in our fridge, so we think something died in the vents, and that air is being ventilated through our fridge and not the rest of our apartment, because we have a wall air conditioning unit and that would explain why the smell is stronger in the freezer, because more air gets pumped through it. So that’s been really fun, smelling horrible.
KAYLA: That’s good.
SARAH: Also we ran out of Ziplocs but we’re leaving in a week so we’re not buying new Ziplocs, so we have to put everything in Tupperware.
KAYLA: It’s more sustainable anyway.
SARAH: It is, but it takes up a lot of space in my bag.
KAYLA: It does.
SARAH: I just had some salami in a Tupperware, it was mostly empty. (laughs)
KAYLA: Incredible.
SARAH: If you want to tell us your beef of the week or if you want to check out that poll, you can find it on our Twitter @soundsfakepod, you can also find us on Tumblr, soundsfakepod.tumblr.com, or you can email us soundsfakepod@gmail.com.
KAYLA: And our website is also down there, we have some fun new stickers that will be out at this point.
SARAH: Yes.
KAYLA: Check them out.
SARAH: Yeet. We also have a Patreon, patreon.com/soundsfakepod where you can give us your money.
The following people have given us their money: For our $2 patrons we have Sara Jones and Keith McBlaine. Our $5 patrons, we have Jennifer Smart, Asritha Vinnakota, Austin Le, Drew Finney and Perry Fiero.
And our $10 patrons we have Emma Fink, you can find her on YouTube by looking up Emma T Fink, and Tristan Call who would like to promote the DeviantArt and Tumblr @rationallyparanoid.
Again, we’re not going to have an episode next week, but the following week we will be recording in person with one another.
KAYLA: And we’ll have some fresh new content.
SARAH: Yaaas. And hopefully not too long after that, we will have microphones?
KAYLA: Oh my God, a blessing.
SARAH: A blessing. But yeah, that’s all, hope you enjoyed, thanks for listening. Tune in next Sunday, no, not next Sunday. Tune in in two Sundays for more of us in your ears.
KAYLA: And until then, take good care of your cows.