i needed to transcribe this for posterity:
Murph: We’ve actually had conversations about how Emily thinks that maybe me and her aren’t soulmates, but her and Bowie, and also her and our stray cat, Stevie, are soul mates? [laughter]
Emily: Stevie is a soulmate.
Jake: Are those painful conversations? [laughter] Where Emily feels more cosmically connected to the stray cat--?
Emily: I just don’t think that humans are necessarily soulmates. Because we talk to each other and our personalities are so--
Emily: But like, animals are so instinctual.
Murph: I think Emily’s like, we kind of chose to be together, but like--
Murph: Her and the cats are star-crossed.
Emily: But these cats just came into my life and chose me in a way--and their personalities aren’t as complex as humans. So they can’t be mitigating their own destinies all the time.
Murph: It’s less of like, being devastating and more of like, I do a verbal doubletake. [laughter] Where Emily will say something like that, and I’ll say, “Wait. Did you just say that I am not your soulmate, but several cats are?”