Page 27 of Isn't It Obvious?
It’s a gray day, and as Yael is leaving work, it’s raininginstead of rainy, so she decides to take the bus rather than walk the nineteen blocks to her apartment. She has to swipe away aJust listened!!message from Sanaa to tap her Hop pass when she boards, and a few more come in quick succession.
LOML <3 <3 <3 <3 <3
The flow is so much better now
Obviously it was a great podcast before and you are smart and fucking hilarious so of course it was but like this is the je ne sais quoi it was missing!!
Not to be all “I told you so” but I TOLD YOU SO. Asking for help is okay and good!!
I love your Fall Out Boy ass episode titles. Unnecessarily long but very funny aka your brand but I really still can’t get over your Podcaster Voice. You sound so different, it’s weird. Like it’s you, but it’s not YOU you
Also lol “Kevin Kissoon.” So formal
Yael recorded a new outro and added it to the audio file last night. Instead ofThis has been Elle Rex. Thank you for letting me talk your ear off, she upgraded toI’m Elle Rex. Kevin Kissoon is on audio editing and graphic design. The links to our socials and Patreon for early and exclusive content are in the show notes.And then, unable to resist, rerecorded to add thetalk your ear offline to the end again.
Maybe she could’ve just used his first name, but plenty of people don’t read the show notes (judging by the number of emails she still gets asking if she has a Patreon), and leaving them to google “Kevin graphic designer” isn’t exactly going to throw more clients his way.
Yael
I would’ve said you were right unprompted if you hadn’t done the I told you so but now I never will
And yeah I guess it is but I want to credit appropriately
LOML <3 <3 <3 <3 <3
All I read was “you were right”
<3
Yael types outI hope you can feel my eyes rollingand drops her phone back in her tote before she makes herself motion sick.
She lets herself check the SEA Instagram once more before she goes to sleep. Five hundred new followers, which feels like a lot for one day. But what does she know? Maybe it would’ve been like this after every episode dropped if she’d had an account from the outset.
Except, when she wakes up, there arefifteen hundredmore than the night before.
Charlie, as usual, is barely waking up as Yael leaves for work. He’s wearing only boxers and a threadbare Kennedy High School Lacrosse T-shirt, his form illuminated by the fridge light as he searches for the cold brew. “Hey, Yael. Nice episode”—he yawns—“but we shared an edible before going to that terrible Michael B. Jordan movie, and I remember you giggling through the whole thing.”
Yael shrugs, grinning. “I came to my senses later. And thank you. I think people really like it.”
“Yeah?”
She nods. “The podcast account has almost five thousand followers on Instagram. Half of them just since yesterday.”
Charlie gives her a sleepy smile. “That’s awesome. Has Sanaa called you to gloat yet?”
“She was gloating over text just listening to it,” Yael says.
“Of course,” he replies. “I’m, uh, gonna be home late tonight.”
The pink staining his cheeks tells her it’s a date. “Oh?” Yael prompts.
“Getting a drink with Shane.”
Yael gapes at him. “Shane… your coworker Shane?”
Charlie turns, reaching to pull his favorite cereal bowl down from the highest shelf. “He’s applying to studios in San Francisco, so he won’t be my coworker much longer.”
“I thought he had a partner.”
