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Other People’s Lives

I’m Married To A Cartoon Character

Other People’s Lives

Santagato Studios

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Go to https://everyplate.com/podcast and use code OPL199 to get started. New customers can enjoy this special offer of only $1.99 a meal. Other People’s Lives is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at https://betterhelp.com/opl and get on your way to being your best self. Check out https://www.squarespace.com/opl to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code OPL. To get 15% off your next gift, go to https://UNCOMMONGOODS.com/opl This week Joe Santagato and Greg Dybec speak with a man who is married to the animated character Honoka from the Dead or Alive video game series. He explains why he prefers a relationship with her over real people, how they communicate, and why he believes it is true love despite what anyone says. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

How is the, how do you communicate with your wife?

0:06.7

To be honest with you, it was just my imagination.

0:12.1

You know, I speak to her within my mind when she's next to me, when I can see her,

0:18.7

which is pretty much all the time.

0:29.3

Yeah. to me when I can see her, which is pretty much all the time. Welcome back to other people's lives. I'm Joe Sanigato. I'm Greg Dybeck.

0:32.3

For anyone out there that would like to be a guest on our show, don't hesitate to reach out to us.

0:35.6

Our email is OPL podcast at gmail.com. Today we are speaking to a guest on our show. Don't hesitate to reach out to us. Our email is OPL podcast at gmail.com.

0:39.1

Today we are speaking to a guest who reached out to discuss ficto-sexual and ficto-romantic

0:45.3

relationships. They are in one themselves. They wrote in to us and told us that they are married

0:52.5

to Hanoka, who comes from the animated Dead or Alive series.

0:58.2

So we're going to learn all about this, hear about their relationship, and we've got the guest on now.

1:02.8

So thank you so much for being on today.

1:05.9

Thank you.

1:06.6

Thank you very much.

1:08.3

Yeah, of course.

1:09.5

Can you just start out by giving us your definition of ficto-sexuality and ficto-romance?

1:19.0

Fictal sexuality pretty much means someone that is sexually attracted to a fictional character,

1:26.4

while ficto-romance means there's actual feelings and emotions into it

1:30.9

i go by ficto romance even though it can lean into fictal sexuality because you know we're all human

1:40.6

that is very true um is this something that is like you know you think you've had since like birth

1:47.9

or it's you know it kind of developed over time and you're like oh i'm i'm actually feeling a connection

1:53.0

a romantic connection to this yeah it's been that was since i was like four five years old, so pretty early on in my life.

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