07.49: Season Seven Ends Not With a Bang, but With a Kombucha Girl

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Fated Mates

Society & Culture, Documentary, Books, Arts

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🗓️ 27 August 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

We’re wrapping up season seven by asking ourselves a simple question. Do we like this stuff? Yes? No? Maybe so?

We’ll be back in two weeks for the start of Season Eight of the podcast. Honestly, we remain amazed that y’all are with us on this journey. In a world full of madness, you bring us calm, joy and purpose, and we couldn’t be more grateful for you. Thank you so much for listening.

While you’re waiting for Season Eight, you’re welcome to join our Patreon, which comes with an extremely busy and fun Discord community! Join other magnificent firebirds to hang out, talk romance, and be cool together in a private group full of excellent people. Learn more at patreon.com.

Notes

The Komboucha Girl was sick of seeing her face back in 2019, and yet here we are.
Hozier in concert was great, even if his parents were not stars on the NBC soap, Days of Our Lives. That was John and Marlena. The visuals on Eat Your Young and Nina Cried Power were especially moving and inspiring. Someone made a playlist of the Nina Cried power songs, and now is a great time to listen to protest music.
The impact 50 Shades had on the sales of ties (and other things) was real.
An article from MEL about the wet problem, not just in romance, I guess. (that’s a NSFW link based on the headline and content, okay.) Butts tie these two clips together: Miranda on SATC on “are we doing this now?” and Tom Hanks in Sleepless in Seattle thinking “some lady is going to want to do it her.” But overall, spit is important.
Fucking her ass, saving her life is a quote from a Shayla Black book and this amazing review from Smart Bitches, Trashy Books. Truly a Romancelandia classic.
EM Forester described flat and round characters in Aspects of the Novel (1927).
“The second shift” is a phrase used by author Arlie Russell Hochschild to describe the housework and childrearing responsibilities faced by women after coming home from their day jobs.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Sarah, it's end of season seven. Yeah, you believe people have tolerated us for the, I mean,
0:05.8	not all people. Some people are going to be like, what is this episode? And you know what,
0:10.9	this episode is us? It's vibes. It's Fadame's vibes. You know what I think? I think it's really
0:15.4	important to have like community meetings where we just celebrate the things that make romance great.
0:22.9	This I think will be a really fun episode like once we get into it. Yes. In the meantime, part of
0:28.8	the reason we are actually recording this at the end of July because I'm traveling and Sarah's
0:36.5	traveling and so we had to, like, do a bunch
0:39.0	episodes in advance again. So we don't know what the world is like. Probably not great, but this
0:44.3	will be fun for everyone. Welcome to Fated Mitz, everyone. I'm Sarah McLean. I read romance novels,
0:52.0	and I write them. And I'm Jennifer Procop, a romance reader and editor. And today, we're doing something a little different. Like we said, Fated Mates vibes. We're just going to have a fun time. Hopefully leave you all with a little bit of laughter. Headphones. I'm going to say headphones in. I think so. I feel certain that this is going to turn.
1:12.2	But I know that it's probably not for young ears.
1:16.5	Or the ears of your mechanics.
1:19.0	Or the car wash people, whatever it is.
1:21.7	By far my favorite message on social media is when one of our listeners is like, I delivered my car to
1:29.7	Toyota for an oil change. And as they turned on the car to bring it into the garage, I heard
1:38.6	Sarah talking about an abundance of semen.
1:46.0	You're welcome, mechanics of America.
1:49.0	Sure.
1:50.0	Making things fun for everyone.
1:52.0	I feel like everybody's got to have those work stories where they come home and they're like, listen to what happened to me today.
1:58.0	Especially people like car mechanics because some of you all out there are
2:02.6	really doing weird stuff in your car. And so like I am not the weirdest thing that's happening
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