Hey, what's up? Hello! Welcome to Sounds Fake But Okay, a podcast where an arrow ace girl, I'm Sarah, that's me. And a bi-demisexual girl, that's me, Kayla. Talk about all things to do with love, relationships, sexuality, and pretty much anything else we just don't understand. On today's episode, Would You Rather? Sounds fake, but okay.
Welcome back to the pod. I can finally speak to Sarah again. I told her I was no longer going to converse with her off mic. I was basically done. But it's never done, is it? Something more to say. There's always something to yap about. It is 11.43 p.m. This might be our latest start ever. That is absolutely not true. You don't think? No.
We've started after nine before. Why would we do that to me? We had business. We had other things. I don't know. I got out of work late. I don't know what to tell you. Terrible. Anyway. Late night housekeeping. Late night housekeeping. Yes. Next week's episode. We're planning ahead, guys. Can you believe? We planned next week's episode before we knew what we were going to talk about today. Yes, true. Okay.
So next week we are going to be doing a listener lore drop. Okay. So think our classic Reddit episodes that everyone loves so much, but we want it to be listener stories. instead so for example your ex driving your car into a lake the ocean we'll get to it next week it was the ocean i think it was the ocean yeah we will be telling this was inspired by
I think we've talked about this before, but someone in the Discord shared a wild story inspired by our last Rada episode, and we were like, we have to have more. We need to do a listener lore drop. We must know. So yeah, it really can be open to anything. Just think along the lines of, like, the wild shit that's on in our Reddit episodes. And it can also be, like, a la normal gossip. It can also be, like, friend of a friend.
We don't know how true it is, but like we think it's at least partially true. That's true. It does not have to be your lore. It could be like, guess what my dumbass Aloe friend is up to. That's also acceptable. Yeah, so we will. I'm going to make up a little Google form and we'll have a link in the description of this episode. And then it'll be anonymous. You could tell us your name if you want or make up a fake name or just we'll make up a name for you.
making up names whatever yes Sarah loves making up names so there's the tea hell yeah don't lie to us you have you have to at least personally believe that the story is real I would be okay if you lied. No, don't. don't want liars submitting things i just want for a lying i want fun stories to read yeah but imagine how disappointed you would feel if you read this really good story on the podcast and then you found out that it was
was fucking made up. Well, then just don't tell me. I never have to find out. As long as I never find out it's a lie, it'll always be true in my heart. Kayla, what are we talking about this week? This week we are playing Would You Rather. I came up with another collection of incredible podcast ideas and Kayla didn't like them. Would you like to share? Shipping random household objects. Like how sometimes in media they just like force a hetero couple together.
And I sent Kayla a bunch of voice memos, and she hasn't even listened to all of them yet. I was reading about the gay man in my book, Kissing, so I was a little busy. Okay, well, I was sending you star-crossed lovers. Well, I was reading them. Featuring microplastics. Well, great. It gets worse. Okay. Anyway. Would you like to go first or would you like me to start?
You go first. Your idea. Okay, I have a couple ideas. Would you rather be heterosexual or heteroromantic? Okay, I have some questions. I don't know that I'm going to have answers, but okay. Do I keep my other identity? Yes. I would rather be heteroromantic because I don't want to fuck nobody. I thought that's what you were going to answer. Okay, great. Would you? I mean, I guess you thought for most of your life that you were one or both of those things. Yeah.
It's hard to say because, like, I feel like demisexual is a hard one to, like, switch from, quote unquote, because, like, demisexuality is really more about, like... how I become attracted than who. Yeah. And it's like my romantic attraction informs the sexual attraction. Yeah. So like for me, it's hard to switch one without the other being impacted. I guess, would you rather be sex repulsed asexual or romance repulsed aromantic? I think I would rather be sex repulsed.
Because as we all know, sex is inferior. I mean, just I personally, well, I personally just like. don't value sex as much as I think other people do. And I think also romance is harder to give up. than sex i i think there's because of the cultural right and everything and because there's so much overlap there's so much gray area about what even it is so i think I mean, perhaps I've never I've never had a conversation with someone who's romance repulsed, but I feel like if someone.
maybe if someone were they would have a clearer line in their head of like this is where the line is of like this is okay and this is not but like in my mind me trying to conceptualize what that might feel like i struggle to know where that line is because no one really knows where that line is so i'm like yeah well would would i be repulsed and maybe upset by like fucking people holding hands in the pda street
like would that like you know i feel like that there would be so many things that could that could make you feel icky um that like a lot of a lot of them even might make me feel a little bit icky sometimes and so like being like actually repulsed by it like I think that would be difficult yeah romance is just more on display than sex is so I think it would be easier
yeah the repulsion would like come up more right if you're romantic repulsed i would assume yeah again i also don't know but it's your turn again i gave you one yeah that's not very fair because you just like went off of mine, but, um, well, okay, I'm going to ask this, but I feel like I know your answer, but would you rather have sex with a man or a woman? But that makes it only two genders.
Would you rather have sex with a penis or a vagina? I'm just so scared of penises. I just think they're so yucky. I knew you were gonna pick a vagina. Yeah. The thing is, you have a vagina. Not to put you on blast. Not to put you on blast. funny um so i feel like so i feel like you're more used to it you know yeah i just i don't like penises don't even get me started what they come with balls gross
Yeah, oftentimes they do. Ew. No. I don't like it. What do you mean it just moves? It can. It can move on its own. I've been told. Yucky. Yeah. That question does not work for you. To be fair, your vagina can move on its own too. Kegels. Okay, but... I gotta go, man. I'm busy. I forgot I left my oven on. Bye. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Okay, so a vagina then? Yeah. Okay. I can't turn that back on you. It doesn't work.
I have to think of something on my own? Yeah, you can't just ask me my questions back to me. It doesn't count. Would you rather... I've thought of one half, but not the other half. Great start. Would you rather never have heard... of asexuality at the current age you are now or i can't think of another thing okay well you're gonna have to i'm trying to think of something that would be like equivalent because i was like or never have heard of heterosexuality like that's easy
Yeah. Never heard of asexuality at your current age or you could never drink a spicy McDonald's cock again. Okay. Well, I can't drink McDonald's Coke again. I know. I was just thinking about that today. Because they're illegal. So, I guess I would... Rather not drink a McDonald's Coke. Already not doing that. Think of something else. Ugh, McDonald's is cancelled. I miss it so much. I was just thinking about McDonald's Coke today. You're so brave.
I almost caved once, but then I didn't. You're so brave. I know. Roll up to a Wendy's and be like, hey, can you put some extra spice in it? Make it spicier, please. Or... Why was my brain like, lose the right to vote? Like what? Huh. Well, I think I'd keep that. So you'd rather not know what a sexuality was? Yeah, I think I'd keep my right to vote, probably. You would like to live in a democracy. What about you, Sarah?
I would like to keep my right to vote because then I could find out now about asexuality. I never said you couldn't ever. Yeah, I know. Great question. I also, to be honest, knowing me, I don't think me not knowing what asexuality was would have changed my behaviors. Yeah, I was kind of thinking that. I think for some people... It absolutely would. But for me, personally, it would not. Because I don't remember what context I was explaining this.
recently but like i do not give a fuck about what people think about like my orientation or gender expression or whatever yeah i do give a fuck about what people think about me in literally every other category yeah but those two hands off we're good yeah yeah i don't i think it would have made things especially in college much more difficult had i not
learned about demisexuality specifically uh because i think things definitely got easier once i locked that whole situation down um but i yeah i don't know that it would have changed behaviors then again of course this podcast would not exist and that would then there would be those ramifications but if we're talking just like sexuality wise yeah it would have sucked i think but i do think i would have lived yeah
Would you rather watch a porn or cut off your own arm? I would much rather watch a porn. Are you kidding? Yeah, I don't think I leveled those great. That's fine. Whatever. Okay, would you watch... Wait, okay. Go back. Would you rather watch a porn or... I'm trying to think of something or... I thought of something. Okay. this is going great i was gonna say would i rather watch a porn or eat a chocolate like eat a food that i refuse to eat yeah okay well i i would rather watch a porn
Then eat a chocolate, really. Yeah. And you have to watch the whole thing. How long is it? I don't know. I've never watched a porn. text talking i don't know i think they can vary in length right that's what i was that so that's why i want to know how long is this one uh 30 minutes i mean i wouldn't i wouldn't love it but i would probably i would i would i would like critique it like i would watch it like a film critic you know yeah that's probably true i hear that i'm shook by that
I got too much of that possibly autistic riz to eat chocolate. Are you kidding? Yeah, no, that's true. I really thought you would eat the chocolate. That's crazy. I mean, well, because, like, I'm sex averse for myself. Other people, it doesn't bother me that much. Well, here then. Would you rather make out with someone for 10 minutes or eat a chocolate?
make out with someone for 10 just making out with tongues i would rather do that than eat a chocolate okay would you rather would you rather have sex with someone or eat a chocolate That is where I would eat a chocolate. Okay. So is there anything between making out and sex? Where's the line? I don't know. Which base? Third base? How many bases? How many bases until we get to you eating the chocolate?
I would rather eat the chocolate than third base. Third base is sex. I don't know why we're. I agree. I don't know what we're doing. I agree. Would you rather? It's super duper my turn right now. I know. I was on a track and then I didn't. Okay. I don't have one. I was just being like, are you going to...
If you want to go ahead and keep thinking, you can go for it. Well, I have one half of one, but not the other half. A classic conundrum. Yeah. Oh, no, no, no, I have it. Okay. Would you rather... uh, be in a nude model for one of those nude modeling painting classes or do the painting. And it's a man with a penis that you're painting.
Are you either painting a nude man with a penis or you are the nude one being painted? That was a good one. I think I would rather do the painting because, again, I could... be clinical about it i could be like yeah plus there's usually other people they're painting so it's like well i guess we're all doing this yeah well which one would you rather do i would definitely rather do the painting yeah first of all
I don't want to stand still for that long. I can't. That hurts. I can't. I actively can't. I went to a concert the other day. Brother. Too much. Standing the whole time. It did not go well. I don't want people looking at my bits like that. I don't need that. Don't look at my bits. Don't look at them. Don't look at my bits. Don't look at my bits. Kayla Casica, 2024. Put it on a t-shirt. What are you going to do?
I live in a city and so does she. So does she. Would you rather live in a city or so does she? I do live in a city. And so does she. She being me. Exactly. Oh my god, we're, oh my god, it's us. We're us. We're us. Wow. Okay, go ahead. It's your turn. Time's like three. That was, like, I read there's a term for it when you smash idioms together. Oh. So, like, we'll burn that bridge when we get to it is, like, smashing together, like.
burning bridges and we'll cross that bridge when we get to it okay and there was there were there were a couple of them listed some of them like kind of made sense others of them were absurd but that is what we just did what did what did we smash together
She lives in a country and so do I and something else that I forgot. And so we may not have done that. I may have just been... I thought it was she lives in a city and so do I. Is it really she lives in a country and so do I? Is that the original? I... We've bastardized it so much. No, I think it is country. I think it is country. Because that's funnier. It is funnier. Because everyone lives in a country.
The only people who don't live in a country, well, that's not even true. Stateless people still live in a country. They just don't have citizenship. It's a city. That's true. so so you would say the pope the pope lives in a city and i live in a country yeah um would you rather this doesn't work as well on you Sorry. Would you... Okay. Would you rather everyone turn straight or...
The only thing I can think of is everyone turns the same gender. What does that mean? I have one that I think is like impossible answers. Would you rather everyone turns straight or everyone turns aloe? If everyone turns straight, everyone turns aloe, because with straight, aloe is implied. You could be hetero, A-spec.
You could, but if you just say the word straight with no other qualifiers, the allo is implied. Okay, but you understand what I'm saying. Yeah. Basically, would you rather a world with... How do you word this? The only type of non-A-spec attraction you can have is hetero. Versus... There is no A-specs.
There's no aspects everyone is Aloe. Does that mean I have to be Aloe too? Uh, yes. Or is it just like, I'm the only one? No, no, everyone. Ugh, that's worse. I would rather be the only one. I don't know how to answer that.
I think I would rather everyone be Aloe because I think being A-spec is so... the the queer experience generally is so ingrained in what it is to be a spec and i don't i don't think you can really separate those things So I would rather lose the A-specness but be able to keep the queerness than...
have ace-backness somehow exist outside of outside of the boundaries of other queer identities yeah i think i agree because like if ace-backness exists outside of the other boundaries of queer like what even is it what does that mean Yeah, that's true. I gave you that one, so you have to do another one. Would you rather... Uh-oh, she's looking around the room. That's not a good sign. Oh, God. I'm trying to keep us, like, on topic. I have one. Okay, go.
Would you rather give up BTS or give up your A-spec identity? I feel like that's unbalanced, but there it is. I feel like that's unbalanced? Unbalanced. Oh, unbalanced. I was like, what? What are you talking about? So, like, I wouldn't be A-spec, but A-specness would exist, but I would just be a fucking Aloe? Yes, you would be Aloe, A-specness would exist, or...
BTS still exists and there are fans, but you are not one of them. I would take the A-Spec one because I don't want to not be a BTS fan, but if BTS still exists and other people get to be BTS fans... Uh-huh. And also, I could still be fans of other things. Yes. And other K-pop groups. Okay, yeah, that's true. So, take care of that.
That one was a real thinker. Not really. Well, you thought about it longer than I thought you would, so. I thought about how to phrase it. All right. Let's take that. Fine. Would. You'd rather do a little jig. Okay. Or dig a hole. I'd probably rather do a little jig. Yeah, it seems easier.
yeah it does it does would you rather everyone on the planet including you becomes straight okay and we just the queerness does not exist never has existed okay or all of the homophobic transphobic people on the ballot in the united states the 2024 election win their elections oh wow uh that's really that's fucking hard so either queerness does not exist and has never ceases to exist yeah
Do I know that it once existed? Or we just live in a world where it's never existed? I think we just live in a world where it's never existed. I have to take that. I have to take the ignorance. Because if I don't know it ever existed, maybe I won't know what I'm missing. Right. Maybe I'll have no concept that that could even be possible and that it's missing. Yeah.
Part of me is like, well, we could keep the queerness and we could just undo. But like, first of all, I don't trust us to be able to undo the shit that these people do. And also, even in the time it would take us to undo it. the damage would be, like, people would still die and get hurt and have irreparable damage. And I have to take, because then we just won't know. Then, yeah.
Ignorance is blessed. And you never said it could never develop. Maybe we're just a late developing queer planet. You know what I mean? Late bloomer. We're as a planet late bloomers. Yeah. That was a good one. Thank you. I have a non-A spec one to ask you. It's like not on sexuality topic at all. Would I rather do a little jig or dig a hole? I would rather do a little jig. Okay, great. But that wasn't it.
Okay, I don't know how to quite word this as a would you rather, but basically, would you rather be able to like go back in time or just say it never happened that you never did gymnastics? So you now have a functioning physical body or keep things how they are now where you did do gymnastics, but now your back is broken.
I thought you were going to make me choose between functional physical body and functional brain. Oh, I would never make you do that. I think I still would have done gymnastics because, first of all. Several of the things that are wrong with my body are not just because of gymnastics. Fair. For example, my mother, two fake knees and a fake hip. My grandmother, two fake knees, two fake hips and a fake shoulder.
You know that TikTok trend that's like, like they're doing outfits. I think your mom should be like, two knees in a fake, you know? Yeah, that's right. If you don't know this trend, none of that made any sense to you. That made no sense to you. That was nothing. We didn't even use words. No. But we got it.
Sorry to our poor transcriber. Yeah, sorry about that. There would still be things wrong with my body. And also I feel like it was good for me. And also I feel like if I hadn't done gymnastics as a child. I would have had more issues with my brain when I was young. Yeah, that's fair. And it kept me from having as many brain issues. I have them now. I got them both now. Woohoo! Yay. Would you rather the only type of birth control that is available is the one that really fucked you up? Okay.
Or cows don't exist. Okay, hold on. So my options are the only birth control possible. So we're not, no condoms even. Yep, correct. Okay. The only birth control that exists is the pill, which famously made me so ill to take. Or cows don't exist. And they have never existed. Anything that is a cow product, leather, has never existed. You don't have milk? Not cow's milk? Okay, that actually helps a lot.
Because I was worried that if we suddenly disappeared cows, we would fuck up the food chain in the circle of life. But if they've never existed, then clearly everything has worked out fine. yeah which means anything that is a milk a cow's milk product a cow's milk dairy product we do not have it does you do not get to eat it you don't get to consume it you don't have leather global warming is probably not as bad
Yeah, I'm going to say, I hate to say this, but I think we have to get rid of the cows. Because the thing about- Kayla is not taking good care of her cows right now. No, but what I am taking good care of is- the sexual health of the nation. Because the thing about getting rid of all birth control, including condoms, is now everyone has chlamydia. Yeah.
That's real bad from a sexually transmitted disease standpoint. Yeah. Yeah. And also, like, vegan technology is getting great. So, like, I could still have cheese and chocolate. We wouldn't have that imitation technology because there would be nothing to imitate. There's other, yeah, there's like goat's milk and shit. I mean, yeah, we could imitate other things, but I don't think it would exist on the same scale that it does now.
Well, it's fine. Okay. Because, again, I wouldn't know what I'm missing, and that's okay. Okay. Okay. Would you rather... Would you rather Umbrellas... And like any rain protective gear that goes on your individual person, so like raincoats, that sort of thing, don't exist or windshield wipers don't exist. So we're talking like boots, coats, umbrella.
Anything that protects your person from rain. Okay, so now talk to me about the windshield wipers. The windshield wipers don't exist, but can we create alternative... technology that gets the water off my windshield. No. If it's raining, you either drive extremely dangerously or you can't drive. But if I want to go outside, I'm just wet. These are both really bad options. Yeah. I guess I'll take the no windshield wipers because...
I think it would force us to innovate on like public transportation. We would have more public transportation in the United States. Well, I'm also thinking, like, for thousands of years we had no windshield wipers, but we've had rain protective gear for millennia for a while. I feel like we could maybe...
Yeah, we can deal with it. In the grand scheme of things, we've only had windshield wipers for like a second, you know? Yeah. Yeah. Like a century, maybe. Yeah. Barely. What year were windshield wipers invented? It's a great question. Wow. 1902. They were patented in 1903. I thought it would be... Later? Like, later. More after cars became... More common? No. First of all, invented by a woman. Slay. She was from Alabama and she was stuck in New York City traffic. I love that.
She was riding a street car and it was snowing. The driver had to get out and continually clean off the windshield. See, they did it. Could clean it off. I mean, yeah, but like if it's pouring rain, you would have to get out of a car every five seconds. Like you wouldn't be able to. Okay. Would you rather queerness goes extinct or no.
animals have ever gone extinct. So all of the animals that we've extincted come back. All of the animals that we've extincted or all of the animals that have extincted? I'm going to say all of the ones that... we have extincted. Bring them back. Bring them back. All right. Now, but notably, queerness going extinct, it did once exist, and then we've lost it. So you know it's gone.
Yeah, I don't want that. Bring back the animals. All right, great. Bring them back. I don't want that. Even if it was all the animals that had ever extincted, like if we're going to bring dinos back, first of all. I think that'd be so interesting. We could see what kind of weird feathers they had. That's true. Second of all, whatever they did to us, we'd probably deserve it. Yeah. Yeah, that's true. Like mammoths? Yeah.
Yeah. I don't know what to tell you there. Would you rather, assuming aliens are real, which they are. Intelligent. Life forms? Yes, intelligent life forms. Would you rather that they look like the stereotypical green Martian man or they look just like us? I feel like you're asking me to choose between Star Trek races.
No, I just, in my mind, I don't want them to look like us. That freaks me out more, I think. If they look just like a human, I'm like, what are you doing here? I think it's boring if they look like us. I think that's scary.
from our understanding is the creation of life of living things is so difficult and so coincidental and like it it relies on coincidence after coincidence after coincidence after good luck after you know and so if they looked exactly like us first of all some people would be like well that's proof there's god and i don't want to get into that that's a good point that's a good point it would definitely spark a discussion on that front yeah
But also, just from a scientific interest standpoint, I would rather they be different from us. I would rather they have different systems so that we could study them and figure out how they came to be versus how we came to be. Like, I just think that would be interesting. I also don't want, I don't know that I want us to be able to have sex with them. Because I know that the second aliens show up here.
gonna try and fuck it's gonna be one of the first thing that yeah people are gonna be all over them i know it's gonna happen i don't know if i can handle that what about um i just confused who's the actress that plays gamora Zoe. Zoe. Salada? Saldana. Saldana. That was close. Because she's also in Star Trek. Yes. And. There's a scene in the Star Trek movie, like the 2009 one or whatever. The best movie on Earth. Yes. Continue. Where Kirk, our guy, Chris Pine. I love her. Yes. Continue.
fucking some non-human woman creature. Yes, she's green. Yes, exactly. And she? Zoe Saldana's character comes in? Someone comes in. Yes, she's... It's her roommate. Okay. It's her roommate. The green woman is her roommate. Yeah. Okay. See, but then in my head, then I was also picturing Zoe Saldana. Saldana? Saldana? I don't know. I don't know. As Gamora, who was also green.
And I got confused. Oh, yeah. She is green. Yeah. Different. I don't know. That just messed up my brain a little. I'm so sorry to hear that. Would you rather. Oh, here's a question for you. Would you rather. Alien intelligent life forms are exactly like us. I don't like it. And we can fuck them. Okay. Or the form of communication they use.
is not compatible with the form of communication we use. At all? Like we can't figure it out? Yeah. Have you ever seen the movie Arrival with Amy Adams? I haven't, but... I'm vaguely familiar. That's like the premise of that movie is that they like aliens come and they're trying to figure out how to communicate with them. But then it turns out that.
They figure it out, but it's confusing because the aliens live in the past and the future and the present at the same time. Space time. And so then when you start thinking like them, then you go to the future a little bit. Oh. wow okay crazy it's a good movie sorry just spoiled the whole thing kind of but um uh jeremy renner's in it too anyway um do you think he recovered okay from that
snowplow incident I think he did I feel like I saw a video of him after he like did an interview or something I think I saw him anyway sorry keep going him and Zac Efron man Zac Efron got fucked up too that threw some shit Now his job is weird. I was like, you know who else got fucked up? Fucking the guy who plays Chekhov in Star Trek who fucking died for that freak accident with his car. Oh, that was forever ago, wasn't it? Anton Yelchin. Yeah, like at least 10 years ago. Yeah.
Imagine having a freak accident with your own car in your own driveway and dying trapped between your own car and your own fence in your driveway at three in the morning. No thanks. Don't like it. Um, and you're sure we can't figure it out? Yeah, we, like, really can't fucking figure it out. And they can't figure out us. Like, we're trying. I guess I'd rather them look like us.
It seems like a waste for them to come all this way and then we can't work it out. Right. Would you rather become a part of a hive mind? Oh. That's like maybe a little evil. Mm-hmm. Or be the only person who is not a part of an evil hive mind. Oh. The only one. on earth how lonely yeah they'd probably be hunting me and like they're evil and like you want to fight back but they're a fucking hive mind like what are you gonna do i think i'd rather just be part of it rather just be evil
Well, the thing is, if I'm the only one that's not part of it, like they're definitely coming for me. Like I'm their target for sure. Right. Like at that point, is there an option to just kill myself? I mean, if you are not a part of the evil hive mind, yeah, I guess. Yeah, maybe I'll just kill myself. Or, like, hide. Because, like, also, like...
You're like, oh, let's overthrow them. It's just me. What are you going to do? What am I going to do? Even if somehow you succeed, how do you proceed from there? Yeah. There's still a hive mind. And then it's just you? Are they dead? Are you now the only living creature? Yeah, because I kill them all. Unless there's some way to detach them from being a hive mind and rehabilitate everyone. But I can't do that by myself. Let's be realistic. You don't have the time for that.
There are only so many hours in a day. Yeah, I think I'll take this secret third option. Killing myself. Killing yourself. Oh my god. So. Do we have any more? Nope, I think that's it. That's where we're gonna end it. Well, would you rather... Would you rather exist in the Doctor Who universe? Okay. Where you're aware of things. Okay. You're like that one woman who works in the government. Sure. Who knows everything. But you're not a companion. Unless you want to be a companion.
that seems kind of stressful seems dangerous um also like you also have to keep living your normal life when you're like it's crazy um or live in the star wars universe like while shit's going down oh and like the shit is going down in your vicinity in my city in your vicinity not your city
It could be like a planet over. Those can be the same thing. Okay. I'd rather be in the Doctor Who universe, especially if I don't have to be involved. What about Daleks? Just stay away from them, I suppose. What about Cybermen? I'll just, I mean, if I'm kicking it on Earth, certainly I'm fine, right? But, like, they're still fucking things up. Well, it's the doctor's job, not mine. Yeah, but, like, you still have to deal with, like...
It's not like, you know how like in Percy Jackson, there's like the mist, which like it shields mortals from like understanding what's actually going on. There isn't, there is no mist for you. You know exactly what's going, you see. a Dalek going down the street screaming exterminate with his little plunger and you know exactly what's going on but there's nothing you can fucking do about it. But other people don't know what's going on? Yeah. How? They have the mist.
You don't. We're really combining a lot of fandoms here. In the Star Wars one, I still think I'm going to take the Doctor Who one because the Star Wars one is like... We are on the cusp of just the whole universe. It's like my planet might get exploded. Right. Whereas, like, Doctor Who, I don't think the stakes ever feel quite that high. I mean, in Doctor Who, you're...
planet could get exploded, but it's less likely. That's what I'm saying. Yeah. Yeah. That's fair. Feels less dire. Well, because it's been going on for 600 seasons. Exactly. That's what I'm saying.
i feel like you know at the end of the day it's like the doctor's gonna figure it out you know we have to keep it going right you got a sonic screwdriver sonic sunglasses whatever whatever that iteration of the doctor has exactly great it'll be fine is that where we're ending yep if people don't know doctor who i'm sorry i barely know doctor who so look up i've watched like One and a half seasons. Moisturize me. I've seen it. I've watched that. No, I'm talking to the listeners. Oh, okay.
Just look up the words, moisturize me. I think we talked about this on a podcast somewhat recently. We talked about our girl, Cassandra. Yeah, like three weeks ago. It was not that long ago. Kayla, what's our poll for this week? Oh, okay, what's a good word? Which one's our, what was our best one? Everyone hetero? Or... That one, no, the word on that one is way too hard. Homophobic. Okay.
I was trying to say the word homophobic, but I could not think of phobic. And so I was like homographic. Like I was just coming up with really. wild wild words in my mind instead of homophobic i'm the one i was going to suggest is okay everyone everyone straight queerness does not exist versus
All of the homophobic and transphobic people win the election in your country, wherever you live. In your country. In your country, and so do I. In your country, and so do I. Okay. That is it. That's the question. We will judge you. No, we won't. No, I won't. I think it also depends on how it depends on how right wing your country is right now, which, yeah, I mean, we're pretty much all swinging that way. But yeah, did you hear about.
What happened in Austria? Not good. Great. Just what I needed. More bad news. Anyway. But it also depends on, like, how... big your country is how much power your country has because the thing about living in the united states is like our laws and our shit has a pretty significant ripple effect Unfortunately. Whereas if you live in Liechtenstein, that may not be the case. Yeah.
And there would be fewer people comparatively impacted. Not to mean that they won't still be seriously impacted and that people won't still die or people won't still whatever. But there could be different stakes depending on where you're from. That's true. Or if you live in a perfect universe, it's called Schitt's Creek where homophobia doesn't exist and those political candidates just don't exist.
Wouldn't that be something? Or you live in a dictatorship and there are no political candidates. Yeah, I guess. Anyway, what? Kayla, what's your beef and your juice for this week? My beef is fruit flies. Okay. We went two different directions. Fruit flies. I am in an all-out war with the fruit flies.
in my i bought one of those things oh you'll have to tell me how it goes yeah i'll just tell you if it works i haven't plugged it in these two there are so many of them in my house i think i maybe killed 10 yesterday It was a lot. I killed two before I even left for work this morning. Not long before this pod. It wasn't a fruit fly. It was a little bit bigger than a fruit fly. A fly just on my wall. And I just whacked it with my fist. And I just...
Smashed it. Did you get it? I did. Yeah. The bugs I have in my house are not that big and they're not that fast. So it's definitely could be a lot worse. Yeah. I'm usually. decently able to just kind of like snag them out of the air or get them with something sometimes they evade me but yeah
The thing about the fruit flies is they're just so small. They're hard to see. Yeah, fruit flies are so little. When I was looking up this thing, this thing that traps bugs with light, people kept talking about gnats, and I realized I don't understand what gnats are. In the park that I live near, there is one specific sidewalk area where there's a swarm of gnats always. It's the fucking worst. Gnats are smaller than I think.
Very small, yes. In my head, gnats are like roly-poly size. No, they're smaller than fruit flies. Yeah. So I think some of the bugs in my house might be gnats. But for some reason, for some reason in my head, gnats are like, they're not like fleas. They're like, like a, like bigger. No. They're like more, more of like a mosquito size. It's just not true. Yeah, weird. Anyways, that's my beef. I compared it to both a mosquito and a roly-poly, which are not really the same size or the same. Yeah.
construction at all but that's fine keep going my juice is um recently i've gotten into brewing my own like fruit tea oh so free i'll like boil some fruits in water to get their juices. With the butts on them? Well, okay. Which fruits? Like berries. Okay. I was thinking of oranges. I was like, with the butts on? No. I put the berries in the water and then boil it. And then you take out the...
Well, then you put tea bags in and steep them, and then you take out the tea bags and sift out the fruit chunks. Wait, you add tea to the fruit? So I get water.
So it's both, it's both, it's fruit flavored tea. Yeah. Okay. See, for a second, I thought you meant that you were making the tea and you were somehow taking... tea bags that had no flavor and then putting the fruit flavor in them and i was like i don't think that's how tea bags work i'm essentially i'm flavoring the water first and then putting the tea in it
And steeping it. Okay, I understand. Yeah. I just got war flashbacks to a game that involved steeping tea. It was a computer game. That's all I remember. I don't know that one. I can... Sort of picture one thing and that's it. Wow. That's not enough info for anyone to even help me. Anyway, that's my juice. It's fun and it makes me feel like a little witch.
Don't look it up. Computer game. I'm never going to go to bed. It's none of these things. It's absolutely none of these things. Okay. My beef. is i ripped too much of my fingernail off my juice is frosting i haven't eaten any but i will You can tell us about your beef and your juice. What? Do you have a problem with my beef and my juice? Never. Never. They're both true.
yeah the frosting is in my house good i haven't eaten it yet but you will it's closed but i will i can't eat it yet if it were up to me i would have eaten it yet but i can't But it's busy. It's steeping. Oh, I see. Steeping in the air. My other beef is that there's a weird smell coming from my sink. And I don't know what it is. And I can't.
vinegar in it? I don't own vinegar. Get some vinegar and some baking soda. I have baking soda. Get some vinegar and then you powder the sink and then pour the vinegar and it'll clean it right out. but it's i can't like it's under the sink but it isn't i don't know you can well patreon we have social media we have Social media where you can follow us. We don't usually do anything on them. Not much.
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