TROPE TALK with Coco & Janae — Episode 1: Faking It Till We Make It
Sep 25, 2026
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🎙️ **TROPE TALK with Coco & Janae — Episode 1: Faking It Till We Make It**
Fake dating: the trope where two people agree it's not real… and then it is extremely real. Coco and Janae get into why the fake dating contract fails every single time (spoiler: you cannot legislate emotions), plus the funniest doomed contract clauses and which couple they'd actually set up in real life.
📚 **The books:**
- *The Wedding Date* by Jasmine Guillory - stuck in an elevator, fake dates for a wedding weekend, feelings immediately
- *The Spanish Love Deception* by Elena Armas - a little lie about an American boyfriend snowballs into an international incident
- *Written in the Stars* by Alexandria Bellefleur - fake dating with an astrology twist, plus the blanket fort scene (if you know, you know)
And the age-old question: if he offers to fake date you, do you say yes? Coco says yes. Do not take legal advice from Coco.
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