Ep 285: Same Podcast, One Year Apart (The Fourth Year)
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SARAH: Hey, what's up? Hello. Welcome to Sounds Fake But Okay, a podcast where an aroace girl I'm Sarah, that's me.
KAYLA: And a bi-demi sexual 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 same podcast one year apart, the fourth
BOTH: Sounds Fake But Okay
[Intro Music]
SARAH: Welcome back to the pod for the last time in 2023.
KAYLA: You're not going to hear from us for a year
SARAH: We will disappear.
KAYLA: You'll never hear from me again
SARAH: Heartbreaking
KAYLA: What are you going to do?
SARAH: That's our reminder to you that this is our last episode before we go on winter break. We'll be back on the 14th of January, so, mark that down besties. Also, buy our book for winter holidays
KAYLA: For the holiday time
SARAH: You know my cousin like… was like hey here are the details of the book exchange and I said, “Hey if you bring my book, I will sign it.” It's… you know just incentive
KAYLA: Just saying
SARAH: I hope everyone gets my book for the book exchange because my cousin did specifically say this year that it should be a book that you've read and you enjoyed so that people don't just… like I think that how not to be a dick or asshole or whatever it is book will probably still be there but…
KAYLA: Yeah
SARAH: I hope everyone else just brings my book and it's just a big trading of my book
KAYLA: Well, because it’d kind of rude if they didn't
SARAH: Yeah
KAYLA: Because it's supposed to be something they enjoy so then like by not bringing it what are they saying?
SARAH: What are they saying? Like are they saying they enjoyed something more? Are they saying…
KAYLA: Are they saying they didn't even read it?
SARAH: Are they saying didn’t read it. Are they saying I'm a loser and they don't love me and I should leave?
KAYLA: Probably, that's… I think that's the most logical conclusion to jump to yeah.
SARAH: Yeah, so it's tough out there
KAYLA: Yeah
SARAH: I think that's all, merch, we have it, buy it for yourself, your loved ones, your dog
KAYLA: My cat, who's making a lot of sounds right now
SARAH: Delicious
KAYLA: You already ate dinner. She's trying to reach her hand up into the food machine to pull it out
SARAH: She doesn't have a…
KAYLA: It doesn't…
SARAH: Thumb
KAYLA: It doesn't work like that
SARAH: Amazing
KAYLA: Well, what are you going to do?
SARAH: Bogey got double breakfast of the other day because he’s a…
KAYLA: I know. Yeah, it happens.
SARAH: All right. Well, in that event Kayla, what are we talking about this week this week?
KAYLA: This week we're talking about the same thing we talk about every year at this time which is ourselves.
SARAH: Yes, this is the season for being obsessed with yourselves.
KAYLA: Yeah, I think so
SARAH: I mean, it's always that season but it's especially that season now
KAYLA: Now more than ever, love yourself
SARAH: Okay. Shall we just dive in?
KAYLA: Well, we can probably explain just in case
SARAH: That's a good idea, you've been very distracted by cats this whole time
KAYLA: I'm like really worried you're going to be able to hear her but I can't stop her at this point without…
SARAH: At this point, listen y'all, if you can hear weird noises, it's just cat.
KAYLA: Yeah, I’m sorry
SARAH: We're going to have to live with it
KAYLA: It's just this… I just… you know, you know, anyway
SARAH: Sometimes… sometimes cat, cat, you know
KAYLA: Sometimes cat, cat. Um, years ago, Billie Eilish started doing a series with Vanity Fair where she would do a video with them every year basically answering the same questions and you could like see how she progressed and like her career and her personal life or whatever and we said I want to do that so we started doing that four years ago different questions, we made our own questions
SARAH: Imagine if we just asked ourselves Billie Eilish's question
KAYLA: Like yeah, I don't even…
SARAH: How many Grammys do you have? Zero. Thank you
KAYLA: Zero. Thanks, next. So, this is the fourth time we're doing it.
SARAH: Mm-hmm. Number one question.
KAYLA: Yes.
SARAH: Oh, I said that weird, question number one
KAYLA: Uh-huh
SARAH: What's your name?
KAYLA: My name is Kayla Marie Kaszyca.
SARAH: Wow, you're just doxxing yourself.
KAYLA: I mean, I feel like it's probably out there
SARAH: My name is Sarah Costello. If you want to find my middle name, it's not that hard to find but you got to do the work yourself. No, I'm am going to censor you, let the children search for themselves.
KAYLA: Like there's no way we've never said your middle name in an episode.
SARAH: Probably not. I'm like… there's like… probably we have I mean
KAYLA: Okay
SARAH: I want to give them a slight challenge
KAYLA: Okay, if you say so
SARAH: If they are really dedicated
KAYLA: Well, I tried to tell you and she wouldn’t let me
SARAH: It's giving TikTok user Kahn you know
KAYLA: I don't know
SARAH: She's the girl who consensually doxxes people.
KAYLA: Oh, okay.
SARAH: No, she's great, she works miracles.
KAYLA: I love that for her.
SARAH: She can find… basically she finds she finds out people's birthdays based on nothing but their TikTok.
KAYLA: Oh, that's silly
SARAH: And everyone is like, “I bet you can't get mine” and then she's like, “yeah, I can” and let me tell you how
KAYLA: I love that
SARAH: Very good, anyway
KAYLA: Good for her.
SARAH: Um, my name is Sarah Costello
KAYLA: Yep
SARAH: Esquire. I'm not an Esquire.
KAYLA: Nope, BA
SARAH: BA. I was thinking yesterday about how I'm the least educated person in my nuclear family because I only have one degree
KAYLA: That is tough. But any of them have published books?
SARAH: No
KAYLA: Exactly
SARAH: Do they have patents?
KAYLA: Have patents? Yes
SARAH: Yes
KAYLA: Well, nothing to be done there
SARAH: My sister is published in like Medicare Booklets.
KAYLA: Oh, that's fun. That probably gets more readers than our book does if I'm honest.
SARAH: No
KAYLA: Damn, that's tough. It should
SARAH: It's not like a booklet for year old, 65-year-old, it's like a very detailed thing about like Colorado.
KAYLA: Oh. Okay, less fun.
SARAH: I don't actually really know what it is, but I know it…
KAYLA: Sure. Well…
SARAH: I don't even know if it's Colorado. Anyway, what's today's date? We are recording on December 4th 2023, it is Kim Seokjin’s birthday. He is 31 and he is in the military
KAYLA: And it’s 10:56 p.m.
SARAH: It's 7:56 p.m.
KAYLA: Good.
SARAH: Nice. Time zones, they still exist.
KAYLA: Oh, unfortunately
SARAH: How old are you?
KAYLA: I am 26
SARAH: Here's the thing Kayla you've been 26 for like seven months
KAYLA: I'm never and I'm never sure about…
SARAH: You shouldn’t have to think
KAYLA: So confidently. Ever since Covid, I just don't… I never know how old I am
SARAH: Like why do I know I'm 26? When I've only been 26 for a month and change.
KAYLA: I don't know. I don't know
SARAH: Ugh, unbelievable. All right. How do you identify? As a problem
KAYLA: Oh
SARAH: But not really, I'm so non-confrontational
KAYLA: Yeah, but I… you're my problem
SARAH: That's so romantic
KAYLA: It’s so sweet
SARAH: Love
KAYLA: Sarah identifies as Kayla's problem
SARAH: To be clear, I'm not owned by Kayla.
KAYLA: Yeah
SARAH: I'm like a community problem
KAYLA: Yeah
SARAH: Um, Kayla just has… Kayla just owns… She owns a lot of stock.
KAYLA: I have a… the majority share, I think. No?
SARAH: My parents?
KAYLA: I've got to be pretty close
SARAH: You can duke it out with Julie on that
KAYLA: I mean, I'll give Julie majority share, but I've got to be like pretty high up there. I feel like
SARAH: Yeah, that's fair
KAYLA: Okay. I identify as a man-hater, maybe a misandrist some days
SARAH: Misandrist, is how you pronounce that?
KAYLA: Misandrist, some days
SARAH: Like why are you trying… What are you… what are you doing?
KAYLA: I don't know, I am
SARAH: Trying to get canceled?
KAYLA: I don't think you can cancel me for being a misandrist
SARAH: Someone will try or someone could try
KAYLA: The type of person that would try to do that. I… that's okay. You know?
SARAH: I don't think they're listening right now.
KAYLA: I don't know that they're listening and I don't know that I care
SARAH: Let's just keep going
KAYLA: Okay, I am a woman and I am bi-romantic demisexual
SARAH: Slay. I forgot that this includes gender. I…
KAYLA: Hmm
SARAH: I identify as an aroace, a human person like I…
KAYLA: Every year we creep closer to my prophecy
SARAH: No, but also every year I'm just like… but like is it worth actually changing anything? No
KAYLA: Gender apathy?
SARAH: Mm-hmm
KAYLA: Mm-hmm. One day I'll get you
SARAH: One day Kayla will get me with a net
KAYLA: Didn't one of our friends recently see you and be like are you…
SARAH: Are you not in binary yet?
KAYLA: Binary yet? Yeah. I've had… Perry has done that, my roommate Perry who is our friend from college has asked me that about you before. They started like they theming you one time and I was like no and they were like, oh, I was like yeah I know, I'm waiting too, we're all waiting
SARAH: Well, everyone is on the edge of their seat.
KAYLA: Yeah
SARAH: We’ll see
KAYLA: Once again, I'm not pressuring Sarah into identifying a different way. I just have a prophecy that's waiting to be fulfilled is all
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SARAH: She is prophetic. She is a soothsayer.
KAYLA: I am
SARAH: A Sarah sayer if you will
KAYLA: I'm a Sarah sayer. So, I'm just waiting, you know
SARAH: Great, so how do I identify? I don't care. Okay. Next question, how many social media followers does the pod have? I also don't care.
KAYLA: Let's look, on Instagram we have 9,634
SARAH: I would like to go back, hold on. Woman, and I don't care, you know, not like a general I don't care
KAYLA: Um, I'm trying to… hold on. No, I don't… I don't have anything funny
SARAH: Bitch who doesn't care
KAYLA: A woman without a care
SARAH: Without a care in the world.
KAYLA: Yeah
SARAH: I have a lot of cares in the world, actually. There's a lot to worry about
KAYLA: Much to care about
SARAH: We'll get there. We'll get there. Anyway, how many social media followers does the pod have?
KAYLA: Like 9,600 something on Instagram, I think it's around the same for TikTok, Twitter, I don't look at her anymore really so who's to say
SARAH: I feel like the platforms that we've focused on for this question have changed dramatically.
KAYLA: Yeah, well because Twitter used to be like our main…
SARAH: Yeah
KAYLA: So now it's like Instagram, but even that are…
SARAH: Our TikTok has 9,173.
KAYLA: Yeah
SARAH: I don't care to go on our Twitter. So we won't know
KAYLA: It's fair, it’s fair, we don't use it.
SARAH: We don't use it, so
KAYLA: Twitter died.
SARAH: I don't even use my personal Twitter. I only use my BTS Twitter
KAYLA: I've never been on Twitter for forever.
SARAH: I use it a lot like I use Twitter quite a lot, but only my BTS Twitter
KAYLA: Yeah, fair
SARAH: But it's not… I don't only get BTS from it
KAYLA: Mm-hmm.
SARAH: How many patrons does the pod have? That’s a great question
KAYLA: Oh, I was looking at that the other day. I want to say like 150 something but that could be so wrong
SARAH: Bestie, I have this crazy, this wild thought which is that we can check
KAYLA: You can check. I’m like in a precarious, I'm bed casting so like my mic is set up on my knee so I'm really… like I'm in a limited range of mobility at this time.
SARAH: Okay. No, we don't have 273, that's not right. I want active, active.
KAYLA: Mm-hmm.
SARAH: Do we maybe only have 100 exactly?
KAYLA: Yeah
SARAH: That's so silly. We have less than before
KAYLA: Yes, I love that
SARAH: With the economy these days, you know?
KAYLA: Understandable
SARAH: We appreciate all of our patrons very much past, present and future
KAYLA: Past and future
SARAH: You didn’t say present, that's really mean
KAYLA: Present and future. No, we do, I feel like we don't talk about the Patreon a lot but speaking of I guess we have had a project for I feel like over two years now to transcribe… to transcribe every podcast episode from the past and we are finally, basically there, there's only like there's a couple like very recent like from the past couple of months episodes that are still missing
SARAH: Mm-hmm
KAYLA: But basically, it's done and this has been like a two-year project…
SARAH: Perfect
KAYLA: We've had like I feel like ten different transcribers over the years just like cycling through so and that's all because of the patrons that we were able to afford it. It's not cheap, you know, we want to pay people not just like do it through the computer.
SARAH: We want to pay people for their labor
KAYLA: Well, it has also usually been like aspec and queer people too, which has been really nice.
SARAH: Yeah
KAYLA: So, yeah, that has been really exciting. It has been a very long and hard project, but we're very excited that the pod is more accessible. So
SARAH: Slay
KAYLA: Slay
SARAH: Thank you to anyone who has transcribed our videos ever, videos? Our podcasts ever
KAYLA: Yes. Yes. Thank you to everyone who has funded and who has helped.
SARAH: Mm-hmm. Some people have done both
KAYLA: Probably true. Yeah
SARAH: I think
KAYLA: Probably
SARAH: I don't know, whatever.
KAYLA: Okay
SARAH: Okay, slay, the next question, do you have a job?
KAYLA: Yes
SARAH: What is it?
KAYLA: It's the same as last year and maybe… maybe not the year before, I might have just been about to… anyway, I work at Niche.com, as a marketing person
SARAH: Is that your title? A marketing person.
KAYLA: It's associate community manager.
SARAH: That means nothing
KAYLA: Hoping to knock off the associate soon because I'm 26 so
SARAH: You got to manage that community by yourself
KAYLA: I literally…
SARAH: This is your community
KAYLA: We don't have to get into it, but I literally do manage it by myself so there's no reason for associate to be there. It's just corporate bullshit, anyway
SARAH: Anyway, I also have a job.
KAYLA: Congrats
SARAH: It's also the same as my job last year. Um, yeah, a job
KAYLA: Yep
SARAH: I work at a production company
KAYLA: Yeah
SARAH: We produce, we actually have a show coming out every Wednesday
KAYLA: I followed its Instagram and I already have like all of my roommates and neighbors ready to watch it. So, you have like six fans
SARAH: Hell, yeah
KAYLA: Ready fans
SARAH: If you live in Canada, it will air before our next podcast comes out
KAYLA: Oh shit, are you going to say what it is? Or are we just going to
SARAH: Yeah
KAYLA: Okay
SARAH: It's called Wild Card, it's going to be on the CBC in Canada and in The US it's going to be on the CW, in Canada it's premiering on January 10th, in the US It's premiering January 17th
KAYLA: On… No, there's a girl… the main woman in it is from Riverdale, so that's how I know her
SARAH: Yeah, we got one from Riverdale and we got one from Grey's Anatomy
KAYLA: I love that
SARAH: They posted the first Instagram post and all of the comments were like, oh my god, “It's Tony and Deluca” which were their characters names on Riverdale and Grey's Anatomy
KAYLA: It's the crossover of the centch.
SARAH: Anyway, watch that show so maybe I can make more money
KAYLA: I plan on watching it. Don't worry about it.
SARAH: Slay. I've watched it many times except for episode…
KAYLA: I've seen some clips. I've seen the show binders
SARAH: Except episode 9. I haven't seen episode 9 yet.
KAYLA: I've seen a lot of set diagrams
SARAH: Yeah
KAYLA: That were a little weird… a little upsetting to look at actually. The human figure drawings in them were upsetting to me.
SARAH: I'm really sorry to hear that
KAYLA: Yeah.
SARAH: Yeah, I've seen every episode except for the 9th one
KAYLA: It must be confusing
SARAH: Yeah. I mean we jumped straight from 8 to 10 and I was like damn, there was some major plot points that happened in 9 and I have…
KAYLA: I bet. I already know something that's going to happen in season 2. I haven't even seen season 1 yet
SARAH: We know the secret.
KAYLA: I know the secret. What are you going to do?
SARAH: Hi, this is Sarah from the future to be clear we're not actually renewed for a season 2 yet. I just… as I was listening to this editing I had this fear of like really dedicated Vanessa Morgan fans stumbling upon this podcast and being like, oh my god they just announced season 2 on this podcast. No, we didn't, we did not. Anyway, Vanessa Morgan fans. Love you. Bye.
All right, where do you live? In my house
KAYLA: I live in Cambridge, Massachusetts
SARAH: I live in North Hollywood.
KAYLA: Yep
SARAH: Nice. What's your relationship status? Vibing
KAYLA: You saying that makes it like seem like you're dating.
SARAH: No, I'm not
KAYLA: Like you…
SARAH: I'm just saying vibing in a single way.
KAYLA: Yeah, just saying that seems like you're being like mysterious and like, you know
SARAH: No, no, I'm just vibing
KAYLA: Just vibing. I am in a relationship. Our anniversary is in ten days
SARAH: Wow. How many?
KAYLA: Five
SARAH: Wow older than this, um recurring pod topic
KAYLA: Well, I thought you're going to say the podcast. And I was like, that's not true
SARAH: No, no, no
KAYLA: But older than this concept. Yes
SARAH: Yes
KAYLA: Yes
SARAH: Um, what was the best part about this year pod-wise?
KAYLA: A book, duh
SARAH: We did book, we released book. We did audiobook, we released audiobook. We did book event at The Strand, at Literati, at something and something
KAYLA: Poets
SARAH: Poets, Busboys and Poets.
KAYLA: Busboys and Poets, yes. I was going to say Poets and Quants, but that's a website
SARAH: GR mom from the Golden Ratio she released a book like a week or two ago and she was saying how she was doing an event at Busboys and Poets and I was like…
KAYLA: I did
SARAH: I did that
KAYLA: I did that. Yes, all things, Book. Had we… what did we answer, because was the book like announced this time last year?
SARAH: Yeah. It was already on pre-order bestie.
KAYLA: Was it?
SARAH: Yeah
KAYLA: Maybe it was the year…
SARAH: February, it was the year before
KAYLA: It was the year before this that we were like he he he
SARAH: He he he
KAYLA: Oh, yes, as we write the link. Yeah
SARAH: Yeah, published authors
KAYLA: Published authors
SARAH: How silly. What was the worst part about this year pod-wise?
KAYLA: I was definitely feeling like very burnt out like midway through the year pod-wise
SARAH: I would just say like we continue to just never have topics
KAYLA: Yeah
SARAH: We just continue to never have ideas
KAYLA: Yeah, I think like after the book stuff was done. We did this very silly thing where… I guess it was my fault because I do like our like scheduling with like guests or people of the outside world but I just kept pushing everything off until like March I feel. Like guests and being on other people's stuff because I was like we just have too much going on and then…
SARAH: March doesn't exist
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KAYLA: March and April hit and then I was like, “I want to quit the podcast.” I was like so overwhelmed and then we got through it and it was like fine, but that wasn't fun
SARAH: Yeah, it's like in Parks and Rec where she schedules everything on March 31st
KAYLA: Which unfortunately
SARAH: She doesn't think it exists.
KAYLA: Yeah, but it does, that's literally what I did
SARAH: Quite literally.
KAYLA: Yeah
SARAH: Yeah. Good. What was the worst part about this year personally? I continue to suffer
KAYLA: This past like two weeks honestly have been pretty bad
SARAH: Yeah, you had a lot
KAYLA: Like, I've definitely had like, you know some stressful times that like throughout the year, but like the most concentrated like has… that was like last week probably
SARAH: Yeah
KAYLA: Which was like… it was a nice reminder that in general like I… life is pretty good, because I was like, oh I haven't like had to feel this way for a while.
SARAH: Yeah
KAYLA: But, yep. I would also say going back to bad things for the pod like when the book was about to come out or was like out for review that was not a great time, looking at reviews was…
SARAH: And I was like, Kayla, you need to stop
KAYLA: I had to block a lot of websites on my computer and my phone and my work phone and my work computer and my iPad and every device I had. Um, that was not… that wasn't fun because it's just like, you know we worked really hard on it and obviously not everyone is going to like everything but, it wasn't fun, obviously, so. But we made it through and lots of people have said very lovely things, so
SARAH: Yeah
KAYLA: Yeah
SARAH: A worst part about this year personally. Um, so are you saying last week?
KAYLA: I mean, I guess, I don't know. I mean definitely… bad stuff
SARAH: Recency bias
KAYLA: Recency bias, like bad stuff has definitely happened, but it has not been like... the other things I would say, I'm not going to share here, so
SARAH: Yeah, it's almost like we have personal lives that we don't share every detail of in public.
KAYLA: Yeah, that's crazy
SARAH: It’s a really silly funny thought
KAYLA: Yeah
SARAH: We do share probably way too much
KAYLA: Yeah
SARAH: But…
KAYLA: But we… you know, we can't share everything, we don’t want to get in trouble
SARAH: We don’t want to get in trouble, we woo we woo. Worst part about this year personally? I don't… I feel like this year has been kind of just a rollercoaster mental health-wise for me like not for… not for any particular reason just because my brain is like he he
KAYLA: Teeheehee
SARAH: Teeheehee
KAYLA: Time to be ill
SARAH: Time to be ill. And then there have been situations that have not been like, I don't know this work has been… work has been work
KAYLA: Yeah
SARAH: And I will not elaborate further, watch my show
KAYLA: Watch her show
SARAH: I'm actually not credited anywhere on the show
KAYLA: Which is so fucked, anyway. I'm mad about it
SARAH: But sometimes I'll see a line and I'll be like that line is in there because of me
KAYLA: I just… I can't believe you're not credited, that has been the worst part of my year.
SARAH: Okay
KAYLA: So
SARAH: Oh, what is your best part about this year personally? We published a book
KAYLA: Yeah, we published a book. I've seen Sarah infinitely more than I would on a usual year, which has been really good
SARAH: Yeah. I sent you the world's best shirt
KAYLA: The world's literal best shirt. Oh, um you also gave me the decorated Jeff Bezos like…
SARAH: Like photo card.
KAYLA: Yeah, photo card
SARAH: Photo card with a top loader?
KAYLA: Yes, hanging up in my office so that Jeff Bezos can watch over me as my… I perform my capitalism and my roommate just noticed it for the first time today and he was like is that Jeff Bezos and then we remembered that we had taken a Polaroid picture of a picture of Newt Gingrich for our other roommate to hang up in their room.
SARAH: Good
KAYLA: So, now we just need to make sure all of us have something…
SARAH: Newt
KAYLA: Newt. Yeah. Book, Sarah. I feel like I've like strengthened some friendships this year, which has been really nice.
SARAH: I think I've strengthened my arms this year.
KAYLA: That's good
SARAH: Congrats to my arms
KAYLA: Congrats to your arms. I've like kept up with my fitness in like October of… Last year I started like doing yoga and I've like been consistent with it for a year which like I've never been consistent with exercise before so huge, huge news
SARAH: I have been better about my exorcism too because I need it for my brain
KAYLA: Yeah
SARAH: And it was way better for me when I had an organized exorcism, but now I'm a big kid
KAYLA: Yeah
SARAH: I don't have an organized exorcism.
KAYLA: You don't have an after-school exorcism club.
SARAH: I exorcism myself.
KAYLA: Yeah.
SARAH: Well, right now me and my sister and my sister-in-law are doing a group exorcism
KAYLA: Good. Always better with friends
SARAH: Always better with friends, but I have here… y'all can't see it, I have here this handy-dandy little calendar with the… on every page and I put a little star on it every time I do an exercise. So, Kayla, you tell me how I've done. All right?
KAYLA: We've definitely done this before, maybe we weren't recording though.
SARAH: We weren't. This was February not very…
KAYLA: Not good.
SARAH: But to be fair, we published a book
KAYLA: Yeah, we were busy
SARAH: This is March
KAYLA: Very good.
SARAH: It's pretty good. This is April
KAYLA: Very good
SARAH: This is May
KAYLA: Not as good
SARAH: This is June
KAYLA: Not good
SARAH: This is July
KAYLA: Not good
SARAH: This is August
KAYLA: Very good
SARAH: This is September
KAYLA: Good
SARAH: This is October
KAYLA: Good
SARAH: This is November
KAYLA: Good
SARAH: And that week off was because I was ill and I was trying to fix my back
KAYLA: Fair
SARAH: That was on purpose
KAYLA: Good. She was recovering.
SARAH: This is December. We're only 4 days in
KAYLA: To be seen. TBD
SARAH: Anyway, what?
KAYLA: Next
SARAH: What were you doing? Rate your mental health one to ten
KAYLA: Right now, or like the year?
SARAH: Year
KAYLA: Mm. I’ll give it like a… I feel like a seven and a half
SARAH: Slightly above average.
KAYLA: Yeah
SARAH: I don't…
KAYLA: That's tough
SARAH: Six seems too high.
KAYLA: Yeah
SARAH: I feel like I've really been living in like the 4-6 range.
KAYLA: Yeah. If only there was something we could do to help that
SARAH: I actually can't read
KAYLA: Oh
SARAH: And that's really inhibiting my progress
KAYLA: Finding a therapist. Yeah, okay interesting
SARAH: Um, I have to talk to my sister about my insurance ah
KAYLA: That's the worst part of your year, is getting kicked off of your parents insurance
SARAH: Oh my God. It’s so true.
KAYLA: Mm-hmm
SARAH: One more dentist
KAYLA: One more dentist
SARAH: One more dentist. If I can get in off the waitlist, but I've done it every time so
KAYLA: You can do it
SARAH: How confident are you in your identity? One to ten
KAYLA: Like a nine
SARAH: I think I'm an eight. I'm confident in the fact that I just, meh.
KAYLA: Yeah, I like don't want to… I feel… I thought… I feel like a ten but I don't feel like I… you know, I always want to leave…
SARAH: You feel like you can't give yourself a ten?
KAYLA: Yeah.
SARAH: Room for growth.
KAYLA: You never know, you know?
SARAH: Yeah. Because we've talked about our relationship with our bodies as aspecs. How comfortable do you feel in your own body one to ten?
KAYLA: This is tough because I've been having a tough couple like body weeks. Um…
SARAH: When I have a tummy ache, not that good
KAYLA: Not good. This one is hard for me because it really… it like varies, closely linked to my period and my cycle like I get very bloated on my periods
SARAH: The moon
KAYLA: And like I know that my period is coming when I start looking at myself and being like ugh, ugly
SARAH: The moon, the moon
KAYLA: I don't know, I'd say like a six.
SARAH: I was going to give myself a six and a half and now I have changed my mind. I would also say six
KAYLA: Okay
SARAH: What did I say last year?
KAYLA: Off to scroll, let me look, you literally last year also made people guess what your middle name was
SARAH: Hell, yeah
KAYLA: Piece of shit.
SARAH: You're not very far into the episode?
KAYLA: No, I'm trying to… I'm trying to like make sure I don't scroll past anything but. You also said that you live at your house last year, your jokes are very unoriginal
SARAH: I'm consistent.
KAYLA: Okay, last year I was also at a six you said, you said whatever number I said last year two numbers lower than that
SARAH: Fuck
KAYLA: Maybe one and a half lower, it depends on what I said. Did I say six, six is my go-to
SARAH: Fuck
KAYLA: And then I said that you had said last year you said better than the year before that so now you're back down but you didn't ever give numbers. So, you were at whatever you were…
SARAH: I…
KAYLA: The first year then you went up, then you went down
SARAH: Down
KAYLA: And then now you're at six, I guess
SARAH: I'm at six point two seven. No six point two.. six point two eight two five
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KAYLA: You said, well, next year when we check in I'll be like two below last year which is higher than the year before and I said this was like a…
SARAH: What does that even mean?
KAYLA: I was like, this is like a math problem if Sarah said two below last year, but last year was higher
SARAH: Well, this year I said six point two eight two five
KAYLA: And you said that you weren't good at story problems and that's why you failed AP Calc
SARAH: It's true.
KAYLA: You’re funny
SARAH: I didn’t fail the class, I failed the test. I failed the AP test. I got an A- in the class
KAYLA: Yeah, well, there's your answer. I guess. I can't wait to do this again next year
SARAH: Well, I gave a number for the first time ever, I gave a number six point two eight two five
KAYLA: Okay, perfect. I cannot wait to check in on this next year. This is really cutting-edge stuff.
SARAH: I'm consistent, what can I say?
KAYLA: Yeah, what are you supposed to do about it?
SARAH: How often do you should, I feel like I don't actually should that often but I also don't combat the shoulds very often. I just don't
KAYLA: Interesting
SARAH: Like I don't mean that like I'm… I've grown beyond shoulding. I just mean I think I have grown beyond thinking
KAYLA: Yeah
SARAH: I don't think there's anything in there.
KAYLA: Yeah, I would agree with that. I don't know. I feel like I've gotten better about it
SARAH: Hmm
KAYLA: It depends, I feel like there's some areas of life I'm really good at not shoulding and then others where it's not as good, you know what I mean?
SARAH: I think I've gotten better at you know, I would like to thank the academy
KAYLA: Okay
SARAH: And the person who made the TikTok about this elevator song for their dog.
KAYLA: What are you saying?
SARAH: She's so brave
KAYLA: Okay
SARAH: And well behaved. She is not afraid. Because I… I just sing that to myself and I'm like she is so brave.
KAYLA: She is
SARAH: And she's well behaved and she's not afraid
KAYLA: So beautiful
SARAH: And as cringy as I did find that song at first I do think it has positively impacted my life because I just sing it to myself and I'm like…
KAYLA: Good
SARAH: You know what? I am doing my best and my best might not be very good, but that's okay, I'm doing my best.
KAYLA: You are doing your best
SARAH: So
KAYLA: So, take that
SARAH: There’s that
KAYLA: What do you want most for the aspec community in the next year? Peace and quiet. But like not like quiet as in we're being silenced
KAYLA: Yeah
SARAH: Just like peace and quiet.
KAYLA: Yeah. I want people to leave us the fuck alone.
SARAH: I want us to be heard when we wish to be
KAYLA: Yeah
SARAH: And when I don't want your attention don't fucking look at me.
KAYLA: Mm-hmm.
SARAH: Okay. All right. So, are you saying the same thing?
KAYLA: Um. Yeah
SARAH: What gives you hope? I think I say this every year but like young people
KAYLA: Yeah
SARAH: Who continue to fight for good things in spite of the world being a dumpster trash bucket of shit juice
KAYLA: Mm-hmm
SARAH: Because there's so much to be disillusioned and anti-hopeful, what's the… what's the anti-hopeful?
KAYLA: Despondent
SARAH: Depressed, disengaged, so many… so much… so many things to be all those things but we keep trying even though it's hopeless, hopeless
KAYLA: Hopeless
SARAH: Nailed it.
KAYLA: Published authors
SARAH: Published authors. You know what I did today? One of my friends on Twitter posted a picture of some snow because she lives in Canada and I saw the snow and I said “Oh, that looks like real wet thick shit, too.” And my other friend responded…
KAYLA: Why would you say that?
SARAH: My other friend responded, “me seeing this reply and not the tweet it was in response to on my timeline”
KAYLA: Yeah, that's scary
SARAH: And I said I am a writer, an author, a weaver of words
KAYLA: Mm-hmm
SARAH: And our friend Summer said maybe you should be a smut writer with that filthy mouth
KAYLA: I mean, yeah, seems like you're… yeah
SARAH: I weave words, I was right though, it was real wet thick snow because it was right around freezing is what I was informed
KAYLA: Yeah, but you didn't need to say that, you know
SARAH: Anyway, yeah that, what? that has nothing to do with…
KAYLA: No, it does not… Um, I mean, I think my answer is usually the same, this is like not on a macro level but more on like a personal hope level
SARAH: Mm-hmm
KAYLA: Is my cats and I feel like pets in general. I feel like anytime I'm like feeling shit about myself or I'm like I am the worst person ever I'm always like these stupid little idiots love me unconditionally and they, you know, that really does something
SARAH: So silly, so silly
KAYLA: It’s just so nice you're like as shitty as I could be these little cats they'll still like me and that's pretty nice
SARAH: Mm-hmm. You know what I have sometimes, I have the experience of this past year? If everything is very bad and then the cat misbehaves and I'm like do you not see what I'm going through right now?
KAYLA: Yeah
SARAH: Like now is not the time
KAYLA: Yeah, they do… yeah, they do like to do that
SARAH: Like if you're just like breaking down about something and then the cat is like I'm not going to stop scratching the couch, it’s like that's going to be the thing that's just going to push me to the end
KAYLA: Cat is like time to lick my asshole while you're crying. Is this a good time?
SARAH: Not even that just like… Because that's not misbehaving, that's just being…
KAYLA: Nice pose
SARAH: Having no decorum
KAYLA: I guess, it's just being rude.
SARAH: Yeah. So, animals they're just like us. Um, I don't… we don't lick our butts
KAYLA: Some people do I don't know
SARAH: How? This is probably like the whole like dudes trying to suck their own dick thing.
KAYLA: Yeah, I guess most people probably can't
SARAH: Probably can't. Anyway, what are you most worried about right now?
KAYLA: Uh-huh. Um
SARAH: Um, I got a couple, genocide.
KAYLA: Yeah
SARAH: Fascism.
KAYLA: Yeah
SARAH: The decline of global democracy.
KAYLA: Mm-hmm
SARAH: A lot of things that fall underneath those three categories
KAYLA: Yeah
SARAH: Those are the big ones
KAYLA: I would agree
SARAH: Great. A year from now where do you hope the pod will be? on the Internet
KAYLA: Mm-hmm
SARAH: It’s be really embarrassing if it just left
KAYLA: It’d be kind of weird if it was elsewhere
SARAH: If it like became a poster in Bozeman, Montana
KAYLA: Yeah, I don't know how that would go
SARAH: Way less accessible
KAYLA: Yeah
SARAH: Great for the people of Bozeman, Montana
KAYLA: Yeah
SARAH: But they can listen to this pod, you know?
KAYLA: Yeah, they can get it. I assume
SARAH: Anyway
KAYLA: Mm-hmm
SARAH: Aside from on a poster in Bozeman, Montana. Where do you hope the pod will be a year from now?
KAYLA: Where it is now, I guess, I don't know.
SARAH: I hope it will not feel like a burden. I'm not saying it does now.
KAYLA: Yes.
SARAH: I just I hope like that
KAYLA: Continues to be that way
SARAH: Yeah.
KAYLA: Yes
SARAH: That's more so in relation to myself not in relation to the pod, but
KAYLA: Fair
SARAH: I hope the pod is not a burden to you either, dear listener.
KAYLA: Yes. Yeah. Yeah, I hope it stays chill, I don't know, I think we've gone through waves with this where especially I have been like very ambitious and have wanted it to be very big and then I don't really feel that way anymore
SARAH: Mm-hmm
KAYLA: Obviously, I still want us to like reach the people who we need to reach but I'm not trying to like make this my career or like, you know
SARAH: Yeah
KAYLA: Put every waking minute of my spare time into it, I just want to, you know, I want it to be my goal is for it to be like fun, you know. I think we've gone through waves where it has been like less fun than it was originally because it was originally just meant to be like just for fun.
SARAH: Yeah
KAYLA: So yeah, I'm just… I want it to be something that we enjoy spending time on
SARAH: It's like, you know… you know when Instagrams have like the label that's like business and then there's the one that's just for fun.
KAYLA: Yeah, that's us
SARAH: That’s us
KAYLA: That’s us, just for fun
SARAH: A year from now where do you hope you will be? I just wrote writing, I hope I'll be writing a year from now.
KAYLA: Mm-hmm
SARAH: I'm still thinking about your roast from the other day
KAYLA: I hope that motivates you. I hope it… I hope it moves you
SARAH: It motivates me, the anger
KAYLA: You know what my cat is doing right now? behind my computer, licking her asshole
SARAH: No decorum
KAYLA: Licking her asshole live on the pod
SARAH: No decorum
KAYLA: I hope I'm still in the Boston area, I really don't feel like moving.
SARAH: Now, you took that literally
KAYLA: Yeah, no, like that's the goal of… it's literally a big goal of mine to not be moving next year
SARAH: I’ll move
KAYLA: I mean, I'm going to move my apartment. I'm not going to resign my lease. Don't tell my landlords but
SARAH: So, you are moving?
KAYLA: So, I am moving but I don't want… you know what I mean? Not like, you know
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SARAH: What's something you couldn't do this year that you hope to be able to do next year? I would like to travel for fun.
KAYLA: Yeah
SARAH: My family was originally supposed to go to Ireland next year
KAYLA: Mm-hmm
SARAH: It's looking like it's now going to be 2025 for logistical reasons that are they are
KAYLA: Yeah
SARAH: Probably for the better for all parties involved but
KAYLA: Yeah
SARAH: I only ever traveled for… like I traveled for pod things and then I just fly back and forth to Michigan a lot and I do
KAYLA: Yeah
SARAH: I do like going home, but I also would like to go somewhere even if it's just like to fucking Joshua tree or the Big Bear and just… but again this is a problem of like being a single bingo wingle.
KAYLA: Yeah
SARAH: It's like “well, who am I going to go with?”
KAYLA: Yeah
SARAH: But I would like to… I would like to do a vacation just to vacate
KAYLA: That would be nice
SARAH: It doesn't have to be long, I would just like to vacate
KAYLA: Mm-hmm
SARAH: How about you?
KAYLA: Um, well, I did mean of another good thing from this year was that I went to Ireland in Scotland
SARAH: Mm-hmm
KAYLA: It was like my first big like adult…
SARAH: A way to rub it in my face
KAYLA: Sorry, it just reminded me, but it was… it was, you know, it was my first like big adult trip especially with like me and Dean, so it was…
SARAH: Some of us need a bride
KAYLA: Informative. Some of us didn't… Couldn't do this year that I want to do. Hmm. I don't know fucking not travel…
SARAH: Get a third cat so you can stack them on top of each other like a triangle
KAYLA: I can't, I can't do, I'm sorry. I can't do a third cat. Dean also like really wants a dog so like
SARAH: Dog good.
KAYLA: I have a third cat and a dog. I know
SARAH: Dog good
KAYLA: I know. Um, yeah, I don't know, I don't know if I have an answer for that
SARAH: Okay. What is the one thing you want out of next year? This is like so stupid and cliche
KAYLA: Mm-hmm
SARAH: But um… That was cliche by the way, I don't think anyone understood that
KAYLA: I got that
SARAH: Yeah, Kayla… Well, yeah, because we have worms for brain, worms for brain, one brain, one brain
KAYLA: We have one worms for brain. We have one long worm that goes across the United States. It goes from… in one of my ears out the other one across the world into your ear
SARAH: No, no, no, no. It’s giving parasite, I don’t like it, I don’t like that at all
KAYLA: Worm brain, worm brain
SARAH: Anyway, we can share one brain cell and it speaks a weird language.
KAYLA: It's a worm, it’s a worm
SARAH: Worm. What… Oh, on Suchwita, which is Min Yoongi’s Youtube show the question he always asks his guests is like as a person not as like an artist or whatever like what is your like dream? Your one thing, and like they all have very different answers. Like some of them are like I would like to achieve this thing in my life and some of them are like I'd like to go to France. I don't know if any of them said that but…
KAYLA: Sure
SARAH: But it's… every time he asks that question. I'm like “Damn, bro, I just want to be happy. I don't know. I can't think of specific things”
KAYLA: Fair
SARAH: And it is cliché
KAYLA: It is cliché, but it's true. It's cliche for a reason, you know
SARAH: Yeah
KAYLA: I would like to continue my like relaxation journey. I don't know, I've explained it to my therapist…
SARAH: Kayla wants to keep chilling
KAYLA: Okay, listen though, I've explained it to my therapist as like taking an early retirement from my like hustling 20s because I feel like we achieved a lot very early in our 20s that a lot of people hustle their entire 20s into their 30s to achieve, you know and I feel like I spent a lot of time feeling like I always had to be very productive I always had to like do all this big stuff and then I did it and now I feel like I can kind of like fucking chill
SARAH: I think that's true for you
KAYLA: Okay. What do you mean by that?
SARAH: I just mean that in the sense of like as far as I'm aware in your career you're not like I really want to do this next big thing
KAYLA: Yes
SARAH: Whereas my career functionally hasn't started.
KAYLA: Yes, true. Like I am not… in my career I'm like where… I'm like good where I am. Yes, I'm not like the type of person who's like really trying to like climb a corporate ladder or like become a VP or whatever
SARAH: Yeah. And I'm not super ambitious in the traditional sense, but I also am not doing the job that I want… that I ultimately want to do.
KAYLA: Yes
SARAH: So, for me, I'm still very much in like grinding funky mode.
KAYLA: Yes
SARAH: But not…
KAYLA: I mean, yes. No, I get what you mean, I mean I think yeah, our careers and our like goals that way are just very different
SARAH: I think for me all the pod stuff has felt like a side quest. Aand that's why people are always like Sarah like you wrote a book like that's amazing and I'm like, okay but it's nonfiction
KAYLA: Yes, it didn't get you closer to your ultimate goal where I think I never had very clear set goals anyway, I just wanted to like be successful in some way and this got me there. You know what I mean?
SARAH: Yeah
KAYLA: Not like I'm going to stop trying to do anything but like this fulfilled kind of like what I was searching for I guess
SARAH: Whereas I'm fucking brain so tiny, I said I'm going to go into creative field where you have to keep getting new job every day
KAYLA: Yeah
SARAH: And suffer always
KAYLA: Not fun
SARAH: Why did I do that?
KAYLA: Because you're good at it
SARAH: At what girl?
KAYLA: Yeah, well, I don't know
SARAH: Sometimes I'm just like what if I just like wrote a book that did well and just like move back to Michigan
KAYLA: Sounds great to me.
SARAH: But I can't do that, I don't have a book right now
KAYLA: Well…
SARAH: I don't know what to tell you
KAYLA: All right. Well…
SARAH: What's one thing you want out of next year? Did we ask that question?
KAYLA: Yeah, I think that's what we just were talking about, so
SARAH: Where was it or was it the thing… we… there's two questions that are similar which was something you couldn't do this year that you want to be able to do next year and then one thing you want out of next year
KAYLA: We did both of those because I said what I want is to keep big chilling.
SARAH: Oh, yeah, yeah, I think you answered and I didn't
KAYLA: You said…
SARAH: I want a composter
KAYLA: Okay
SARAH: What's one thing that made this year better?
KAYLA: My friends
SARAH: BTS
KAYLA: I think that's probably what you said last year. I don't feel like…
SARAH: It’s part of it at all
KAYLA: But…
SARAH: Great. If you could give the you from a year ago advice, what would it be?
KAYLA: Don't look at your book reviews you fucking idiot
SARAH: Stop it, get some help
KAYLA: Get a therapist
SARAH: What’s something you're putting off doing right now? Getting a therapist
KAYLA: Getting a therapist. Um, well, there's… I need to finish my laundry but I physically can't because it's in my roommate’s room and they're probably going to bed right now. So, that's… I'm not so much putting it off as my roommate is putting it off for me. I don’t… going to bed. I don't know
SARAH: Yeah, why do you do the pod?
KAYLA: Good… good
SARAH: Because what would I do if I didn't?
KAYLA: Exactly
SARAH: You all answer that for us. Sum up the year with one song that you hate.
KAYLA: Yeah, this sucks
SARAH: It's my favorite. I have a song
KAYLA: I need to look at my Spotify.
SARAH: It is D-DAY by Agust D
KAYLA: Wait, I think I actually have one, Man's World by Marina, it's a good man-hating song.
SARAH: Nice
KAYLA: I feel like I really came into and accepted my man-hating this year
SARAH: Good for you
KAYLA: And then my therapist keeps telling me it's fine every time I bring it up so take that, everyone who's trying to cancel me.
SARAH: That's a permissive structure if I've ever heard one.
KAYLA: I don't know what to say, she keeps saying it's fine, so
SARAH: Mine is D-Day by Agust D, which can best be described as aggressive, threatening optimism.
KAYLA: Good
SARAH: You know?
KAYLA: I do
SARAH: Ending fun, what's the most memorable things the allos did this year? Every year I'm like, “damn I should have prepared for this one” and I think…
KAYLA: I think that Gerry the Golden Bachelor turning out to be evil is pretty fair
SARAH: That was all I could think of too. Yeah…
KAYLA: But I think that's…
SARAH: Recency bias
KAYLA: Recency bias but… Yeah, but also like who would have thought man?
SARAH: Who would have thunk that one of the Bachelor contestants is bad
KAYLA: I can't think of anything else. I don't know.
SARAH: Okay, great. Everyone tell us your most memorable thing the allos did this year. Who was your most hated… your most hated person this year?
KAYLA: I can't say that. Oh. Yeah, it was well my first thought was… But
SARAH: Oh
KAYLA: It's also pretty up there, the Israeli government. Is that a person?
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SARAH: I wrote down BB Netanyahu
KAYLA: Okay, cool
SARAH: Who is in fact the prime minister
KAYLA: Perfect
SARAH: I won't even call him BB. We're not… I don't know him like that. That's Benjamin
KAYLA: Exactly
SARAH: What's one thing you'd like to say to our listeners? It the last question, make it good.
KAYLA: Thank you. Thanks.
SARAH: Thank you.
KAYLA: Thank you. Um…
SARAH: I think you're cool.
KAYLA: I also think you're cool
SARAH: I know that I don't spend a lot of time in the discord but whenever I do I'm like “wow, these fuckers are so cool” and I like them and I'm glad that they're here and I will probably not spend more time in the discord on account of my brain can only handle three things.
KAYLA: Mm-hmm
SARAH: Because it is worm, but…
KAYLA: Because it is worm
SARAH: But y'all are great and I'm glad that you have each other
KAYLA: Yes, I'm very thankful for you all. Um, I agree. It's very fun seeing the community that people have made together because of this pod and I hope that it has helped you in some way
SARAH: Yeah
KAYLA: Yeah
SARAH: It's helped us
KAYLA: It has like I feel like we never answer the question…
SARAH: It also kicked us in the nose
KAYLA: It also kicked us in the nose. But I feel like we also… we’re always bad at answering the question of like why do we do the podcast because it's like hard to conceptualize.
SARAH: Yeah
KAYLA: But like obviously we would not be doing it if it did not bring us joy and a lot of stuff to our life so
SARAH: Fulfillment
KAYLA: Exactly, and that's because of you guys, like I don't think we would have kept doing it if people kept not listening, so
SARAH: Mm
KAYLA: Isn't there… there's like some stat, about like 99% of podcasts or something never make it past like second episodes or something so, pretty crazy
SARAH: We're beating the odds every day.
KAYLA: We really are, every
SARAH: In honor of 300
KAYLA: Mm-hmm.
SARAH: That's it.
KAYLA: Okay.
SARAH: That was the podcast.
KAYLA: We did it.
SARAH: So, see you next year in more ways than one. Kayla what's our poll for this week?
KAYLA: What does that mean?
SARAH: Well, we'll see you… we'll see you next year in that the next pod episode is in 2024, and we'll see you next year as in we'll do this pod again next year.
KAYLA: Oh, I see. I thought you were like teasing so I was like are we going on tour?
SARAH: No
KAYLA: What do you mean?
SARAH: Are we going on tour?
KAYLA: Not that I know of
SARAH: Are we announcing something to each other?
KAYLA: I do have something to tell you that I'm doing for the pod that you don't know about
SARAH: Are you getting married to it?
KAYLA: No, I'm going to a… it's like a communication. It's like the association of like communication experts or some conference for people that study communications and do professor things, but they've like a conference and there's like a sexuality like cohort and they were like we want to do a panel on people that are aspec and also a non-aspec identity and do you want to do it? And it's in Michigan. It's in Grand Rapids, so I was like, okay I'm a communications person and I'm also this and I just found out today that the panel…
SARAH: Slay
KAYLA: Got accepted. So, I'm doing that in a April
SARAH: Slay, the most aspec month, April
KAYLA: April, perfect. It’s like that's not what aspec is
SARAH: You know, I said that before I thought of April so I was just… it was just…
KAYLA: Hoping
SARAH: Going off my tongue
KAYLA: Good, good, good
SARAH: Okay, cool, what everyone our poll
KAYLA: Mm-hmm
SARAH: Is what is the most memorable things the allos did this year to you?
KAYLA: Yes, yes
SARAH: Not to you personally but like…
KAYLA: I mean, it can be
SARAH: In you in your opinion
KAYLA: Yeah
SARAH: And then should we ask another question?
KAYLA: Maybe
SARAH: Sum up the year with a song. I want to know what your songs are. Give me your…
KAYLA: That's a good one. I hate that question
SARAH: Because recently people were… Did… they did their Spotify wrapped and such
KAYLA: Yeah
SARAH: Some of my moots on Twitter we're doing a thing where it's like give me a number between one and a hundred and I'll give you that number of song
KAYLA: Oh that’s…
SARAH: From my 2023 playlist and I discovered a song that way that's a fucking… dude
KAYLA: Good
SARAH: So
KAYLA: So, there you go.
SARAH: It's called Last Day on Earth by Beabadoobee
KAYLA: Beabadoobee.
SARAH: Beabadoobee
KAYLA: That's very silly
SARAH: Anyway, it's a good song. That's my song wreck. Also, D-Day by Agust D.
KAYLA: Okay
SARAH: Great. Kayla, what's your beef and your juice for this week?
KAYLA: My beef is, well, I got back into my house on Friday, but then it was a very busy weekend of celebrating being back to our house and then now we have some house guests and then I leave on Wednesday to go to a conference. So, my life is just like, it's all over the place, which is stinky. My juice is my inhaler, it works.
SARAH: Is it a liquid inside the inhaler?
KAYLA: I have to imagine
SARAH: Like is it a juice?
KAYLA: I think so
SARAH: And then it becomes a…
KAYLA: I don't see how it could be anything, I think… I don't see how it could be anything other than a liquid in there but…
SARAH: Yeah
KAYLA: I guess I can look it up
SARAH: Probably juice.
KAYLA: But yeah, it works, wouldn't you believe?
SARAH: Wow
KAYLA: I know, who would have thought
SARAH: My beef is BTS rest of them going away, Jimin and Jungkook going together like besties. There's this thing that you can like apply for in South Korea where you basically apply to have a buddy
KAYLA: That's very silly
SARAH: And they are each other's buddies.
KAYLA: That's cute
SARAH: And they're going to be under Jin in his regiment.
KAYLA: Oh my gosh.
SARAH: He's going to be the boss of them
KAYLA: That's funny
SARAH: And then also Namjoon and Taehyung are also doing the military but not together like besties
KAYLA: Boo
SARAH: My juice is, I think it'll be nice to have a little pod break
KAYLA: Mm-hmm
SARAH: It'll be nice to be home for the holidays. Yep, email us about your beef, your juice, your… On our social media @soundsfakepod. We also have a Patreon, patreon.com/soundsfakepod if you'd like to give us your money there and fund all of our Transcriptions and maybe something else now, now that we're not going to be spending all of our…
KAYLA: Oh, yeah, we have to figure it out now
SARAH: Guess what we’re going to do
KAYLA: Okay, I'm looking up what's in an inhaler and I'm not getting any straight answers, it can be dry powder, metered-dose, whatever that is or soft mist, so I guess maybe it's not liquid
SARAH: Mm
KAYLA: News to me
SARAH: Damn
KAYLA: But when I did a nebulizer as a kid, I'm pretty sure that was liquid. Yes, liquid medicine into mist but that… I used a nebulizer as a child. So, I don't know what mine is currently
SARAH: I don’t even know what that means
KAYLA: It's like…
SARAH: Don’t explain it. Our $5 patrons…
KAYLA: Well…
SARAH: We’re promoting this week are Sofia P, Tall Darrell…
KAYLA: Is this how you felt when I laughed at you? When you wanted to write? Is this how it felt?
SARAH: Yeah. Alex is in star and Alex is in space. Our $10 patrons who are promoting something this week are Arcness who’d like to promote the Trevor project, Benjamin Ybarra who would like to Tabletop games, Boston Smith who’d like to promote their YouTube and TikTok @yourbuddyBoston and Selena Dobson who would like to the community Nick… no, the entertainment community fund to support striking workers, the strikes have ended, Selena would you like to change your… the thing that you’re promoting? If so, let us know if not, I guess we'll just continue promoting that fund in preparation for the next strike
KAYLA: Mm, good
SARAH: Our other $10 patrons are Allison, Annie, David Harris, Derek and Carissa, Albeter, my aunt Jeannie, Kayla's dad, Maff, Martin Giselle, Parker, Purple Haze, Barefoot Backpacker, Song of Storm and Val. Our $15 patrons are Ace who’d like to promote the writer Crystal Share, Andrew Horne who’d like to promote the Missile Spectrum podcast, Dia Chapelle who’d like to promote twitch.tv/melodydia, Hector Mario who’d like to promote friends that are supportive and help you grow as a better person. Nathaniel White who’d like to promote nathanieljwhitedesigns.com, Kayla’s Aunt Nina who’d like promote KateMaggartArt.com. And our $20 patron is dragonfly who would like to promote a lovely, delightful holiday season with absolutely no fucking conflict.
KAYLA: Mm-hmm
SARAH: And a happy new year without that one bitch on New Year's Rocking Eve kissing a random person
KAYLA: Kissing everybody
SARAH: I hope she doesn't…
KAYLA: You are…
SARAH: I know she will. But I hope she doesn't
KAYLA: You are all invited to my new year's party if you can find it
SARAH: You're not invited to mine
KAYLA: It's called 2020 whore. I forget what the subtitle was but it's slut-themed so everyone has to dress like a little slut even if you're not one you can just be a slut in spirit
SARAH: So, my party is invite-only. It's only for my family, but only certain parts of my family. It's very exclusive
KAYLA: What? Yeah, I'll just be quiet about it. Want to say hi?
SARAH: We're basically done
KAYLA: We're basically done. Do you want to say hi? Billie was being a little shit the whole fucking time.
SARAH: Hi
DEAN: Hello
SARAH: Oh
DEAN: Miss I, Kayla is currently occupying our bed. We have guests in town. So, they're taking up her office
KAYLA: Anything else?
DEAN: Hi, Sarah
SARAH: Hey Dean, I know you… I know you can't hear me
KAYLA: She asaid that I know you can hear me
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DEAN: But I'm sure you're saying something really profound
SARAH: Oh, yeah, like bugujucu
KAYLA: She said bugujucu
DEAN: You never let me down
SARAH: Thanks for listening…
KAYLA: This has been…
SARAH: This has been Dean. Thanks for listening, tune in not next Sunday, but on Sunday January 14th 2024 for more of us in your ears
KAYLA: And until then take good care of your cows
SARAH: Give them a little party blower for New Year's
DEAN: I was on the podcast?
KAYLA: Yeah. Why do you think I was holding up my microphone? Do you want to change anything you said?
DEAN: I thought you were just still talking.
KAYLA: No
DEAN: But I don’t care
KAYLA: Anything else you want to say to the people?
DEAN: I would have rehearsed my lines better
KAYLA: Oh
SARAH: Bye
KAYLA: We'll do some pickups later. Bye
DEAN: Wait, it's still recording?
KAYLA: It’s still… yeah anything else?
DEAN: No, just the cows
KAYLA: Okay, I'm really turning it off this time. Okay, goodbye.
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