Sounds Fake But Okay

Sounds Fake But Okay

A podcast where an aromantic asexual girl and a biromantic demisexual girl talk about all things to do with love, relationships, sexuality, and pretty much anything else that they just don't understand.

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October 12, 2025 57 mins

Hey what's up hello! This week we discuss the mythos of "true love's first kiss," why it's a lazy plot device, and why humans like kissing so dang much in the first place.

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Hey what's up hello! We're back with Reddit stories about hair bears, vegan drama, and picking up the check. Plus, a passionate rant about Magic 8 Balls.

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September 28, 2025 47 mins

Hey what's up hello! This week we explore the modern-day influx (or is it?) of sexualized music. Somehow that also turns into a discussion of how some helicopter parents these days aren’t even helicopter parenting right, and also the world’s most pressing question: was Jesus a guitar guy? 

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September 21, 2025 51 mins

Hey what's up hello! This week we explore why acespecs are so good at writing smut and why arospecs are so good at writing romance.

Episode Transcript: www.soundsfakepod.com/transcripts/aspec-smut-writers   

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September 14, 2025 48 mins

Hey what's up hello! Today we're sharing our hot takes and yours! Feel the burn of the hottest takes about evolution, lesbianism, historical friendships, and more.

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Hey what's up hello! This week we talk about how people who are in relationships are treated differently than single people. It's like couple privledge but for the individual. We hate it!

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August 31, 2025 51 mins

Hey what's up hello! This week we are back on our Reddit Rabbithole BS. 

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August 24, 2025 51 mins

Hey what's up hello! This week we discuss people having AI partners.

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August 10, 2025 57 mins

Hey what's up hello! We're back telling YOUR wild stories from high school relationship drama to pigeon rescues.

Episode Transcript: www.soundsfakepod.com/transcripts/listener-lore-pt-5   

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August 3, 2025 58 mins

Hey what's up hello! We are back and it is time for a Q&A for SFBO's 8th birthday! 

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June 29, 2025 62 mins

Hey what's up hello! As June wraps up, we reflect on Pride 2025 - the lack of corporate pride, aspecs at pride events, and rampant biphobia. And do we get a little bit off topic sometimes? Of course we do.

See you in August!

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Hey what's up hello! This week we look at examples of times when changing your interests or look for the sake of a crush actually turned out to be a good thing. We know it's shocking and gross, but could changing yourself for a crush actually be good??

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June 15, 2025 58 mins

Hey what's up hello! This week we play romance and dating choose your own adventure stories on chooseyourstory.com! Spoiler alert: it goes about as well as you think it will.

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Hey what's up hello! This week we discuss how society's current conception of womanhood clashes with asexual and aromantic identities. Can gender and sexuality be separated? What does it mean to be a woman when you don't desire or want to be desired? All that and more (after 10 minutes of girlhood and yapping at the top of the episode of course).

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Hey what's up hello! We are back and so are the people who make so many bad decisions and then post about them on Reddit.

Episode Transcript: www.soundsfakepod.com/transcripts/reddit-rabbit-hole-aita-pt-17   

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Hey what's up hello! This week we're talking about a new study that found that having a cat or a dog to keep you company could boost your wellbeing as much as being married. The only problem is the study makes absolutely no sense and we don't understand math. Either way, pets are important!!!

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Hey what's up hello! This week we're joined by Debbie Urbanski to talk about her excellent collection of short stories, Portalmania. Portalmania dives bravely into the shadowy depths of betrayal, parenthood, revenge, murder, coercive sex, open marriages, asexuality, neurodiversity, and second chances.

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Hey what's up hello! This week we discuss the phenomenon of queer women loving boy bands and yell from the mountaintops about how you can be a boy band fan without finding any of the band members attractive!!!

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April 27, 2025 54 mins

Hey what's up hello! This week we're reading some more lore submitted by our listeners.

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April 20, 2025 50 mins

Hey what's up hello! This week we discuss the overlap between transphobia and aphobia and the importance of trans aspec solidarity.

TW: transphobia

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