Don't Blame Me! - SYNT: Fabric Cult

Episode Date: October 21, 2025

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i wrong the second to last yeah because we have today and by today i mean after this we're going to record the final episode no look at me saying things calm i don't know why i even tried you're right oh okay anyways welcome welcome welcome this is for episode 162 and you are up first you're welcome everybody nobody complimented or like thanked me for they did including oh i missed it it was moises well you're welcome melissa says the outrage over bad bunny is ridiculous two percent said i was wrong 98 said it was not wrong many of the two percent either sent a message that made it very clear that they didn't listen to the episode or said that they voted wrong someone said the description on the episode said bad bunny love

and I went through five stages of grief thinking he was problematic lol my bad someone else said these people are racist another person said I know this wasn't a political statement on the NFL's behalf but I do love that they're not budging on it either the fact that most of these people have to cope with knowing he is in fact an American citizen so they can't use their normal poise it's beautiful i hope he speaks not a lick of english to piss them off more yeah jay-z's done a lot of good for the film someone said i saw a tiktok of someone saying that people are having an issue with benito singing in spanish saying they won't understand when literally last year kendrick performed at the super bowl spoke english and the right still didn't understand

points were made yeah i'm just remembering that like even seeing like like white influencers who were there i saw it like reposted on reddit and stuff of them being like what i didn't even i don't even understand this this doesn't make any sense and i'm like okay first of all you're there at the super bowl you're not the audio is for us on television yeah okay okay i thought so it's coming it'll just sneak up on me um yeah but everyone sure did yell a minor the five percent k chinga to madre also to whoever chose that photo thank you for reminding me to watch that calvin klein ad fire emoji you are welcome and i would love to know how you feel about discovering along with us that there are some people who got the ick from that piss me off

i don't know how i just like i understand i don't know like i just i thought specifically i've only seen women say it so and straight women and like i i guess it's like a reminder that like i thought the difference between me and some other straight women was that they wanted to have sex with jeremy allen white and i was like i don't get that i did not know that this was going to be another point of like well you lost me yeah more for us yep someone else said well they're quoting me legally fundamentally and constitutionally american then the clapping hands emojis we stand bad bunny all right trade ice skating at nathan phillips square for ice cubes in your umbrella drink let porter airlines fly you from toronto pearson non-stop to

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2% said I was wrong and 98% said I was not wrong. and i don't think anybody wrote in for this one i think everybody was just like yep got it all right then writer number one are they wrong for lying to their boyfriend about finishing in bed 80 said the writer is wrong 20 said the writer is not wrong someone said next time he asked you can say no not yet keep going harder faster slower this angle etc then just start slowly communicating more and more if he ever asked why things are not working to get you over the line tell him sometimes preferences change you know someone else said communication in bed is key when you are in a relationship why lie when you could teach him

to give you the best sex another person said i've come to learn that if someone is asking you a direct question there beholds your opportunity to be fully honest and they really can't make it fall back on you mine only gives him false security and confuses him more there are so many ways to do this without embarrassing him the hope is that he's asking because he actually cares another person said if he's made you finish before he can do it again and again it's not like you've lied 100 of the time and he's never gotten you off communicate start the open dialogue that you want your sex life to be you can always use it as an opportunity to introduce fun new things too like toys or new positions or tricks to spice it up and get you there too someone else

said definitely a conversation not while you're having sex to reduce pressure anxiety on the writer another person said this is setting a precedent and it sounds like he wants you to communicate your needs all right you're up can we writer number two is it wrong to buy fabric from a cult i'm a little shocked these percentages 84 said the writer is wrong 16 said the writer is not wrong i want to know like what your follow-up the 16 like what was your follow-up question like what kind of cult or like what kind of fabric like where are you like what is shifting you in one way or the other like what's what's that deciding factor someone said there's definitely ways to go around this who knows where their profits go to i think we do know where their

profits go to and it's the cold yeah they could probably call it offerings there's certain companies like merchant and mills that let you buy samples before purchasing full yardage someone else said you can vote with your money too i don't know what cult this is but yeah no let's leave cults alone it's a bad one not that there's like any good cults but like on the ranking of cults i and like we're not using cults in like a jokey way this isn't just like actual it's like a legitimate cult like it's not we're not using it to talk about like you know just evangelicals in the supreme court you know i mean like we're this is like a legitimate cult this is an organization this is a culty they've had to release statements to say that they're not a cult

which does not admonish you from being no they are a full-blown cult as someone who lives near a yellow deli it is not worth it there isn't anything that is that good that you need to support a cult what's a yellow deli looking it up i'm assuming it's like a sect of a cult like of a specific cult well unfortunately there's a lot of delis named yellow deli in california yeah there's a sandwich shop oh my god it is a sandwich shop cult shut the fuck up oh my god they are a sandwich cult uh-huh yeah i mean we gave this advice also to somebody in our live stream who there was a coffee shop that they're like they have good coffee and it's cheap but it was also a cult and we were like

don't go yeah i'm gonna tell you this right now yellow deli this place that we that this person writing about more of a cult than this yeah like they're not even trying to hide it it's we're talking like when you think of a cult like commune level cult there's yellow deli is pretty bad too No, no, totally. But the website in itself, they're masking it far more as like a menu restaurant, like a restaurant kind of a thing versus this other one was just being-

Cult-forward. They were very cult-forward. You just happened to buy fabric there. Yeah, and that was like pretty much the only thing besides religious texts that you could buy. Now I'm going to be deep diving on this yellow deli, thanks. I've heard of it, but I didn't recognize the name. Someone said,

This account is great for alternative purchasing options, and she does a whole video on fabrics. And the Instagram account is CutOffTheSpigot. Spigot. That's how you say spigot, right? That's spelled with a G? Spigot. Spigot? Mm-hmm.

So that account has it, and they have a whole video on fabric. Thrift stores sometimes have fabrics and other sewing supplies. Also bed sheets, tablecloths, clothes to upcycle, etc. Also, the writer should take note of brands and fiber blends that they prefer that can help with picking fabrics online. Yeah, I think that's a great point. I've seen it at thrift stores. Go to cults, touch fabric, take photos of details, leave secret messages of how to escape in the fabric aisles and rolls. Run away, buy fabric online, be happy.

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Search free until August 31st. Visit Ancestry.ca for details. Terms apply. Wrong of the week. Squirrel of San Rafael. Did I say it right? crushed it quote unquote right yeah uh 41 said the squirrel is wrong 59 said the squirrel is not wrong very divisive very divisive i'm gonna read that's how that squirrel likes it yeah i'm gonna read a statement from our resident animal uh professional at the end perfect but first i'll start with everyone that is victim blaming also where was josie writing in josie where's my where's my marine girls riding in she's probably off on another freaking trip yeah with some acronym of

a place that you and i go what the fuck is that so as i said on to victim blaming okay squirrel is in his home you shouldn't be there leave the nutty squirrel alone he is having fun i've this person is on my side i voted squirrel is wrong but the more i think about it maybe it's changed it up maybe it's the people feeding the squirrels leading to this behavior are wrong it's very it's a very philosophical predicament the people feeding him are wrong leave wildlife alone i'm on the squirrel side not every bitch can be a snow white with animals and they gotta learn how to leave nature alone that's a lesson i do think that this area would be good to know

someone said in a video of this man um taking care of a squirrel off the street and said this is the type of shit y'all were talking about this feels like the horror version of if you give a mouse a cookie can i say i hate that book so much controversial i know i've been in a lot of leadership classes where they are reading this book i don't know why i'm sorry i hate when they try and bring like lessons from children's books into like adult i go we all read the goddamn rainbow fish we can all have feelings on it but i'm like can we try something else i remember in college i was at this conference it was for some club i was in i was made to go to this conference over the weekend which hated i'm in college why do i need to be there let me get drunk on a table

right um and they talked about somebody talked about it for like two hours like that was their presentation when it takes five minutes to read that book and i think i might have thought i think i might have gone out to party the night before and then i was falling asleep in this thing and it was awful it's just like if this is written for a lesson to be taught to a child i i learned that lesson as a child and don't worry it stuck with me after into adulthood and maybe i've changed my stance on it but like i certainly do not need a fucking dissertation on this no no also because there's no pictures in your in your fucking in how you're talking about it at least that way it kept me entertained as a kid right someone else said don't feed local wildlife they

are still wild animals another person said the squirrel feeders are wrong as far as i'm concerned the squirrels are no different than workers attacking yachts oh my god i thought you said workers attacking yachts and i will be honest i was still on that side i'm like whatever you want to do i used to watch below deck like that shit's tough let out your rage how you need to someone else said i don't think the squirrels are wrong they are doing what these people train them to do the people feeding them however are someone said nuts and bolts lol lol melissa that was so funny someone else said since the town as a whole feeds wild wildlife to the point if this squirrel being reliant on humans for all food i think these people had it coming

We don't know that. Y'all are putting words into these people's mouths. It wasn't even these people that got attacked that were feeding it. No, these were people literally just like walking. Yeah. They just got like a stray chomp. Right. Someone else says squirrel is just doing what it do.

LOL. Blame the humans who enabled their behavior. I will say again, I don't know if squirrels in general in their like natural habitat. are like attacking other animals like i don't know if a squirrel is an apex predator the way that some of you are describing squirrels being like this is what a squirrel does and i go i actually am not sure that like this is typical or normal behavior for squirrels towards anyone let alone humans and it's also one squirrel no and by the way does that squirrel have any squirrel friends no probably because that squirrel it is a rogue biter like it that is not what the

other squirrels want like to me you're like oh classic squirrel i'm thinking you know acorns stuffing my cheeks stealing things from people's garden i'm not thinking drawing blood on unsuspecting victims like i don't i don't know what kind of squirrels you guys are used to but like this to me i just still i don't know i guess maybe i'm not sure where squirrels are on the food chain but like i interact with a lot of squirrels i have a big yard and like they are uh most often like being kind of like cute and mischievous i've never seen one like attack like a dog i've never seen one like attack a bird like no i haven't seen them be like bloodthirsty yeah and i wasn't and i don't know where anyone's getting that on when i was in college there were so many squirrels on

campus like so many and people were feeding them never heard of a squirrel attack yeah no and like That's why this squirrel has been tested for rabies, I do think, at least five times. They're like, are we sure it's not rabies? And it's never been rabies. It's still not rabies. But, like, there's something up. This squirrel has behavior problems.

It's this one squirrel. I just want to be specific. It's one squirrel. That's why I only called it squirrel, not squirrels. It wasn't a family. It was a bunch of all the ones. It's one squirrel. and i also like think of all of the places in the world where wild animals are being fed i do wonder

why we are equating this to essentially like a lion being fed and then getting upset and then attacking because they don't get food like people do this with squirrel and other animals all over the world and we're not hearing of this like so so much if it was a goose a swan i would go okay they're known to be quite aggressive i maybe i'm unfamiliar with the kind of squirrels like are canadian squirrels built different like what is what is that so our resident animal person said voted wrong by the way played this segment for my doctors you had the head of veterinary services leaning against the wall laughing excellent work hell yeah they also sent another message that was longer too before the votes are up i have never cackled more to an episode my work group chat

is going nuts pun intended for the record a squirrel's bite force isn't is strong enough to sever nerves oh my god we had to wear raptor gloves when handling adult squirrels at the wildlife rescue i hated handling them imagine them dive jumping onto you that's fucking scary imagine them dive jumping onto you when you go when you go into an enclosure the big issue is we are taking over environments where wildlife used to live these animals are adapting to their new normal their habitats are being destroyed along with their food we don't need further spread of zoonotic diseases but we're getting them because people are fucking stupid i will say in this is the only time you can actually use this as a positive defense against

this argument um marin does not build new places they will not they won't build affordable housing they won't do any any other things so like environmental why like environment wise this squirrel now makes me think that like does this squirrel come from like does this squirrel have like a recessive trait is he channeling one of his ancestors that like there's in this one squirrel family there's been one who's like been the fighter the whole time because like buildings have not new buildings have not been built like he this he i'm calling him he this squirrel has not specifically been you know this would be a generational trauma from the squirrel not in his current lifetime so i do wonder if the squirrel is like carrying out like his ancestors wishes

and like it's like each like they have you know like what is it that that uh uh sleeping beauty where you know the fairy godmothers whatever in the different colors can they like bestow a specific trait or whatever on like they each do that now imagine it's like a family of squirrels and it's like you squirrel you get you get the nutty gene you get that you love collecting nuts you squirrel you get the cutesy gene and then finally like you you are the reincarnation of every ancestor who has been pissed off before you you have the fire in you you have the fire renew the thing use those teeth and maybe they said wisely and maybe the squirrel didn't hear and now it's just chomping at everyone good fairy tale you just brought up but isn't she from your

area yeah yeah but she's dealing with those squirrels i mean more east if i'm not wrong i think they're more in the east bay which has more new developments san rafael probably has like like slightly i mean not even really like i couldn't tell you the last time i saw a new building being built cute trade ice skating at nathan phillips square for ice cubes in your umbrella drink let porter airlines fly you from toronto pearson non-stop to 10 top sun destinations in mexico the caribbean and costa rica enjoy award-winning porter service toronto has loved for 20 years and start your vacation as soon as you're on the plane book your sunny getaway today at flyporter.com and actually enjoy economy at ikea we make things just for college life

like the rose and mandel blackout curtains in gray they say you can't put a price on sleep But we did. For the low, low price of $49.99. Why are you in my room? Shhh. Go back to sleep. You have a big exam tomorrow. Shop back to school at Ikea. Okay. My nomination for wrong of the week was Bagu. 97% said Bagu was wrong. 3% said Bagu was not wrong. I never got bad goo from the start and I've always felt weird vibes

and this is making me feel vindicated. They are so wrong for this. Someone else said, I really like bad goos too. What a damn shame. And that's it. Not much discourse on mine. Because, you know,

I do wonder if there were like some Swifties who were upset about the overarching message. But they should be happy she took down the necklace. That's a good thing. the next best thing to have never been posted it's taking it does she make out does she make a statement so not the next best thing you're right i was thinking about the listing specifically

yeah that's yep anyways by the way i would like to retract what i said about the Miss International competition like it's just about them being being like beautiful and like you don't need to like do all this other stuff like you can just walk around and be pretty they are so beautiful and that's like what I want them for them I don't want them to not be like they're allowed to be beautiful you're allowed to be whatever you want but the realization that I had for another video that came my feed and I said why does this have the same backdrop as miss grand international this can't be that i've been seeing these gorgeous glam the runway whatever the look that whatever that section of the pageant is called i was seeing these looks

and i was like these girls are in their element this is where this is where they belong and also clearly that's where the pageant wants to put more of the money into that and not so much like hey we're gonna give you a single chair and a handheld mic and now read some lyrics off your phone here's the talent portion i saw i i want to say it was ecuador let me double check miss grand international mish grand so they've got the costume competition and you know i'm seeing gowns beautiful gowns and i mean that with sincerity and i was like these girls are in their element they're so stunning they're so beautiful we can i think we can get rid of the talent portion i think we could do something else there because clearly this is what's most important here

and like i don't think we i don't think everything needs to have a talent we can throw something else in but then i see miss ecuador come out and i said hold up i actually think whatever this is i think we need to tap into pretty girls doing this because this is remarkable take in mind we're talking gowns prior people are wearing gowns i will say the gowns are a little bit miscongeniality in the sense that uh they're doing them themed to where they're for obviously they're from it's not just like the gown portion it's like runway so miss america dressed up like like it was like a gown but it's also like it was vegas like it was like she it was a but it's they're primarily like dresses and pretty things that have like nods to it miss ecuador comes the

fuck out melissa incredible i it's entirely bedazzled whoa and i was like okay now i think we need to take this and we need to harness this energy because yeah this is what pretty girls do they throw on that it's gorgeous it is so cool and by the way the dancing skills of some of the like they could do this but like this is epic i love this i'm obsessed so shout out to miss grand ecuador i i loved that and miss grand usa she just showed up like las vegas what's the name of taylor's first album i'm unfamiliar what you're talking about then we've got miss grand

oh okay no i really wanted to know i forgot on the life of a showgirl okay well that's what she's dressed up as an actual showgirl okay then i want to see some high kicks then i want to see that oh okay i lied so these are not just gowns oh my god some of them are amazing some of them are just gowns and they're not great but this is miss grand thailand oh incredible yes i i really think if we're putting all of this time energy effort and money into this i do think we can get rid of the talent portion because the talent portion it just really truly doesn't fit it doesn't fit and also like there's no way they're docking points for you like reading lyrics off of your phone because like that was kind of the vibe of everybody and i'm like so

it's just not up to caliber with the rest of what you are putting out there yeah get rid of the talent portion yeah i don't need you all to be maybe they can talk about like instead of like doing a talent they can talk about just like some crisis their country's facing and how and their thoughts on it well and i wonder if they do something like that like by the way this is the longest pageant of my entire life it feels like it's been going on for weeks you've talked about it for one week but it feels like from what i've seen i started getting clips after we talked about it and it seems like it's been going on for a while because they even had the part where they were like out in the streets yeah i i i think it is like a like a month long and that's why i was

like it might have been some countries were like oh we don't have a representative but you know here's a trip yeah so i i just think what 20 something year wouldn't be down for that oh my yeah i want to go here for just literally a month yeah but like it's i i think that there's other things that they i'm sure they could do oh yeah but they're talking at one point it's like that one olympic person i think it was swimming where they didn't have any representatives from their country so he couldn't swim even to begin with so he just went out and made the team because nobody else showed up and he didn't know how to swim but he just kept practicing and now he can swim but he's still not fast like olympic level fast but he gets to go on do all olympic stuff

see that's fun that's when i'm like oh yeah that's a do it for the plot kind of a thing that's something that i also like normalize not being the best yeah but like good enough but yeah like still fucking going yeah and like being like i have there is no way that i'm going to win or place or like i will likely be last place but like i'm i'm still gonna try and i'm still gonna do it because someone has to be last place yeah and that could be you would you rather have never gone and by the way you get olympic tattoo now i always said that what if i just like got one no no and like i don't know why the idea of like pissing off like the people like they're like well you didn't earn it i'm like well i mean it's like are they gonna say like no that's

illegal you can't have an olympics olympic ring tattoo like i think i think a tattoo artist like would do it but i just think it's funny the idea that like we have created this honor code and system where like olympians get the olympic rings tattooed after they don't get them tattooed before like they don't want to jinx it but then there are like random people who like we all could get that but like we're not doing that because we respect it no totally that's one of the things that our country can come together on truly i i genuinely think if i did that i would get canceled more than anything else i've ever done that's a bipartisan issue they'd be like are you kidding me yeah and i'm not trying to ruin the one time here i'm patriotic

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