Don't Blame Me! - SYNT: Like Kissing Crypto-Obsessed Cousin

Episode Date: September 16, 2025

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save and invest conditions apply visit scotiabank.com slash hisa to learn more scotia bank you're richer than you think hello everybody it is wow baritone up in the house thanks great job i was really trying to get into that uh pirate song like the actual pirates the really scary one that they always do over videos of the ocean yeah spooky ooky i don't like when people do it over cruise ships because i go yet you bitches still get on them and you should recognize that it is spooky when they go through that area i don't know what it's called because it scares me to look into it

but when they go into that area where they know that the waves are like 200 feet it scares me like you know that you're going into this area why are we even pushing it how that we just not go we there's a lot of ocean like can you not take a deep take another exit like that's what i'm saying there just go around i feel the same way when people are like let's go into mariana's trench and i'm like i don't think she invited you there and also all we know about it is it's really scary and the more we learn it's not going to get less scary it's going to get more spooky yuki times well welcome to see you next tuesday where we read the results from last week's episode of but am i wrong and last week was episode 158 and you had one of one of

the best soliloquies uh um monologues one of the best statement whatever it was it was i was thinking about it all day i told mods like i was like i was like it was just it was poetic it was truly poetic Thank you so much. She is a writer. Thank you. So I said, well, I just wrote a letter to racist whites. Southern whites was the specific thing. But 2% said I was wrong. 98% said I was not wrong. someone said the swerve of a century 10 out of 10 no notes perfection thank you someone else said now who the fuck is the one percent and can i hex them you know you have free will you can do what you want to do someone else said melissa is forever correct and i truly wish we could move all the races to a little island so they can happily be in breeding forever cute chin recessing recessing and recessing someone else said third answer megan is wrong why has she never been

and why has she never even seen pictures yeah and everyone's gonna hate to hear this i did ask months months has also never been i was surprised by that yeah uh someone else said saw a tweet yesterday they're canceling the changes to cracker barrel idk if it was true but fingers crossed it is true they are they've changed the logo back to the og guy and they're also walking back the decor the change in decorations in the inside so you know power to the people yeah i think you made you made change i would feel like evangelized if i heard that statement yeah i'd be like yeah no i she's changed my heart and my mind well you know i'm I'm just I'm just the voice of the people voice of a generation thank you uh someone else said

Melissa I can tell you are very much enjoying your weekly writing assignments lol these have been so well written for the past like month I'm glad you're having fun with it thank you another person said to be honest I've never loved Cracker Barrel but it was a nice place to get some classics neither have i never loved it either although as a child principle yeah it's the principle of it although as a child it felt like a wonder a wonderland of things as an adult it feels extremely overstimulating with that said that's the charm of it if i don't have a twinge of racism and also white people being a little too friendly it's not a true cb experience all to be topped off with a rocking chair game of checkers literally chef's kids and someone else said melissa

is a fucking master of her craft what craft you may ask well this is twofold first never being wrong second her writing her but am i wrong this week gave me chills and then to segue into cracker barrel absolutely genius thank you so much that was a message i saw this morning i was like beautifully put y'all can't wait for you to read that y'all they're i would say too kind but keep it coming no that's i i think this is like a very accurate level of praise that you should be receiving again i thought about it all day like it was it was so wonderfully written thank you you've you know you know your skills and you have a calling yeah and i can't wait for you to watch the studio specifically because like i was telling monster last night too i was like and then i was

telling melissa about the episode and before i could even get into it she just starts essentially telling me what happened in the episode and he was like yeah spot on spot on yeah I've got like two episodes left to hack so this weekend that was impressive yeah there's only like eight episodes and it's a half hour

oh oh yeah okay well I guess we can finish it quite quickly then too get your tickets now for the dog stars it's no surprise how fast civilization can disappear out there kill or be killed jacob elordi there are people out there they need our help josh brolin shoot first and inquire afterwards margaret

qualley okay tough guy and guy pierce arm up the dog stars directed by ridley scott in theaters friday get tickets now then we have megan versus burning man three percent said i was wrong 97 said i was not wrong i haven't heard any updates about person who died though i literally heard nothing about this oh that's yeah they like let everybody go obvious like because they were like i don't even know if they questioned like or they had people of interest it was just like man found in pool of own blood and then it was like okay everybody left burning man after like when it was because they're good start it's done now they didn't like cancel it or like end it early but i also haven't heard anything else since then this also isn't the first person

that's died at burning man and they never ended no yeah that's why i'm surprised i haven't heard anything this year because i'm usually abreast of what's going on burning man sounds awful i do want a photo with the giant ogre slash monkey though it looks cute some of these like art things like i think are cool but like when i think about like the actual like safety and security measures that are for like large install art at like museums that like you can't get that close and there's like ropes and there's all of that kind of stuff like i do feel a little like sure the art is cool but like i the fact that some of them are on wheels and moving and then they light them on fire and there's just like no barricade you mean like

anybody can like go up and touch it's just like oh and if they can be destroyed that easy i'm like i don't know how well they're built to start then i think that they are built to be destroyed though they are but i mean like in the sense of like if someone like they're not indestructible in the sense of like oh if someone like walks into it where the whole thing collapses on them probably happen but maybe that's how some people die there like it just sounds about right and then they'd be like yeah they became one with the art yes gears fought on that's exactly what they would say they had a experience as they transitioned to the next world they stayed on the playa forever my worst nightmare the more i learn about burning man the more i wonder how it's still

a thing money yeah it's a lot of very rich people that go yeah a lot of very rich people that go in a company that makes a lot of money from those rich people that's it no burning and defenders i wasn't prepared for it to be that short i know people are like yeah i have zero zero qualms then we have writer number one are they wrong for wanting their boyfriend to unfollow the ex 27 said the writer is wrong 73 said the writer is not wrong someone said unfortunately i don't think her boyfriend unfollowing his ex will stop her from comparing herself to the ex yeah someone said not wrong for wanting it to happen because i would also want to imagine that my partner found all their exes vile and disgusting but if he's not giving you any other reason to not trust

him with love this is something you have to work on yourself i mean it is only right that he finds every other person violent disgusting yeah but you can also tell yourself any story that you want that's like my favorite thing about life like you can you can like whatever perspective you want to have on it like it doesn't have to be based in reality it can be like totally delusional if you need to like think something else like make yourself feel better it is just as easy to do that as to think something that's not real that makes yourself feel worse like you can just do the opposite easier said than done yeah easier said than done but i feel like a lot of people do live in their own realities yeah but you know pick a good one yeah uh someone else said agree with

eminem writer be the main character and that's it then we have writer number two are they wrong for not being into a guide that is a walking green flag you guys i'm quite disappointed in this ratio because 19 to the writer is wrong i need you to stop settling that's how we get the guys from the last episode of don't blame me you know i mean like that's how we end up when we tolerate it then we start tolerating other shit and the tolerating that the one that's coming up on yes yes so 81 to the writer's not wrong someone said i voted wrong so okay you're spared girl leave him if he can't get over if you can't get over the ick cut your losses there's got to be someone just as good that doesn't give you the ick i think that some people forget that

someone being great on paper means nothing in real life if you don't click or you're not attracted to them that matters and being things with someone doesn't always mean they're a bad person just not for you it's true on paper it means nothing because we're not on paper if you got the ick that quick they're not for you and that's okay it doesn't mean that there won't be another walking green flag in your future yeah when you're attracted and one that you like yeah one that doesn't feel like kissing your cousin your crypto cousin someone else said just like queen meg said if it can't bang then it can't hang and you don't want to bang your cousin yeah or you i don't want you to bang your cousin they don't want to because if they did they'd be into this and i have to say

though i do question that 19 cousin fuckers all right then my wrong of the week is matthew master nardi 94 said 94 said matthew is wrong six percent said matthew is not wrong yeah there's a through line it's really ironic to have one of them be like a youth pastor i have to also wonder like maybe i should have looked into this did he get like profiled by like the local news about this because like why are there photos of him of standing in front of a classroom reading yeah he's on several news stations from like his pov being like yeah let me act this out also but like the thing is in all the interviews the interviewers are not no he's a journalist yeah the journalists are like trying to push back and he's like i have

no regret he looks like my spanish teacher i was telling you about i'm not he looks exactly like he should look yeah and i was like i'm not again i'm not gonna say it out loud but like radio radio dj name that my spanish teacher went by i was like that you do you move i um when i first saw it i thought that it was a joke like it wasn't real it was a skit or something because because it looks like it and he looks exactly how I would cast the person and so I had to do more digging to see if this was

real someone said and that's what you missed on I always loved that as like a a button on the end of just like memes and jokes that Brian Murphy

hey he he's bold yeah and he makes choices and he brought us scrum quants hopefully he'll bring us more that will enrich our lives i hope so too and then someone said uh as a fellow bay area kid who was in secondary school in the period of 2011 to 2017 my school when it came to slurs and books was talking about the potential word and explaining the history and then we were told to either pause when it came up in the reader or say inward to replace it but one teacher allowed

students to switch to ninja which i thought was wild and too easy to cause a slip up is because people black people use it but you know as a way to say it without getting dinged on some platforms yes and so it's the same as you saying it yeah that's what i'm saying like and like in the unless you're explaining that context then it's they shouldn't be saying it then you're saying it that's what i'm saying like if you're explaining the context otherwise then it's like you're just putting a random and a word with an n there like how but i think most kids know what that means you think in 2011 yeah yeah i think most kids knew what that meant and so they used it as like a free pass yeah like what was the um there was like a whole trend of people being

like me talking about forget what it was but it was like hypothetical in the future like you know us versus robots or whatever and it was like me talking about robots and people were like this you know it was uh i'm not gonna say it because the specific things that she was using is not in my community either so like but it was something that has been used derogatory towards mexicans and um yeah so and i i during the pandemic i followed that girl and i liked her but then she started saying some things that i was like i feel like you're using this as an excuse to be racist because you are witty but it it was not giving me a good feeling in my stomach and so i had unfollowed her i'd say two or three years ago

yeah it was a weird a weird seeing that on my for you page i was like whoa okay things are odd things are very weird right now going on vacation we're here for it with kids who turned the backseat into a courtroom drama over whose tablet is louder, whose charger is faster, and why watching the same cartoon for the hundredth time is a human right? Yep, we totally have vehicles to handle that. Because whether it's a road trip or a business trip, where your flight's delayed, your phone's at 2%,

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Visit scotiabank.com slash H-I-S-A to learn more. Scotia Bank. You're richer than you think. Someone else said those kids do hate him for baiting him like that. But also, no. Know your place and stick to your subject. yeah the fact that he fell for it someone else said i definitely was a victim of being the one to say n-word when we read anything in my freshman english class and back then i never

thought much of it but there's so many other ways to work around this this feels like that boondocks episode where the teacher quotes the students and says can a n-word borrow a fry just for clarification this person is black if you didn't pick that up thank you yeah she also wrote it out because she knew i was going to be the one reading this but i'm not i know the majority of our audience yeah okay then we have my nomination for wrong of the week sansome health 97 percent they're wrong said they were wrong three percent said they were not wrong have to hope those were accidental clicks this is so gross people are already scared to go to the doctor and especially if it's gynecological is that how you pronounce that okay these people need to find a new career

they clearly don't care about others yay that all involved got fired these people are fucked up what's more gross than our bodies doing what they naturally do is putting your bare face i'm sorry i didn't read this ahead of time so this is a cold read and i got caught up in the giggles what's more gross than our bodies doing what they naturally do is putting your bare face and wide-ass open mouth next to someone else's bodily fluids wow great point great fucking point i didn't even think about that part yeah i i think i think that it was staged to be funny i don't think it was actual body fluids i think they just smeared some ky jelly on the thing and they thought it was funny and it was stupid it probably does happen and then

she was like let's let's make a funny out of this oh yeah she probably thought that like it not actually being the body fluid would be like the like there so like that's my thinking don't worry it wasn't actually that and it's like it doesn't fucking matter it doesn't matter or wasn't but you're right it probably was that that was like the like get out of jail free card or the uh excuse that was gonna make this like somehow okay but wowza and i'm like you shouldn't have i think of like urgent cares and that shit i'm like i'm waiting with strep throat in the lob like just being like taking what is taking so long this this is what you're doing instead yeah i also saw that like some people who are defending this and like it's kind of like the

ongoing defense that people have of this of um is it like what caretaker fatigue like something you're just so used to something that it doesn't seem like that issue yeah and that like they're so burnt out and like you know getting treated shitty by patients and all this kind of stuff and like you know you see and go through like a lot of like hard things and your job is like really taxing and draining and like people will use it like you know you got to let them like burn off steam and do whatever and everyone's like that's totally fine but like you can't do that on a public platform like that's like you you are like more than welcome to like if you need to talk shit about a patient like yeah i'm not a nurse like i can't understand

like the stress and everything that you've gone through and like if that's like really what you need to do is like talk mad shit on someone that you're caring for and you you say that that will have no impact on your level of care then like don't do that at work go do that with your significant other at home or with like a therapist but like you don't get to like make content of it to like you know be like you know we deal with all this hard shit like this is what we have to do to get through the day and i'm like it's not though you don't have to make monetized like content or even just viral content about it yeah it's it's weird just don't do it don't do it not everything needs to be online nope nope nope nope nope all right uh reagan clearly said

and this is uh from but am i wrong like kissing crypto obsessed cousin episode and this is in response to the new ceo of cracker barrel she was the president of taco bell in 2020 so she's who took away fiesta potatoes yeah that checks out and then rossley apologies if i'm not pronouncing that correctly r-o-s-w-i uh this is from my therapist's friends with my ex and this is in regards to the live update once the update started to go into dead birds i was like it's the we use the two eye emojis and then just the lips in the middle so i'll do my best to to do it right now it's a good one all right uh and then from fisting friday gird your loins reagan coming in again saying uh mark walberg isn't even the

worst part of the transformers movies and then uh amina said as a power wheelchair user who grew up on the live-action Transformer movies, I truly believe that one day I would get an Autobot companion. I hope that for you, too. I believe that wholeheartedly. Yeah. Like, and this is why I say

we have to be nice to our technology. Mm-hmm. But, like, Transformers are fucking cool. And then, don't blame me, old dad, new baby. Wow, these names. You know, I'm a creep. You got jokes.

I do, I do. I try sometimes I can't quite get it how I want it to be but uh that one was that one came to me pretty pretty fast yeah Megyn Kelly not that Megyn Kelly said the fake the fake name is the fake name is Mark and Sam are sending me my boyfriend's name is Sam and my dad's name is Mark I'm screaming i think that was the one where the best the girlfriend couldn't get along with the best friend of her boyfriend and her boyfriend was like that's just him and then on but am i wrong scissors should be cat woman megan kelly again said what was that you last year i couldn't hear it scissors should be cat woman oh yeah uh megan kelly said are we talking about court elaine at

The border of Idaho and Washington, because that is like white supremacist epicenter. The border of Oregon and Idaho that I've been to just was weed. I think that was, you're talking about Sydney Sweeney. Yeah. And then Fisting Friday, Megan's B-Day, and Melissa's trip to Vegas. Diana said, I'm drooling listening to this Sapphire talk. marquise cuts are so stunning but also maybe long oval or like squoval i need to go i need to go to the jewelry the jewelry district i did see people on etsy who

like learned how to cut their own stones are you thinking about doing that no and that's how i know that like i think i'm like improving as as a person because like usually for me i'm like i have the mentality of my favorite character from the holes i can fix that like i can do that myself if i see one other person doing something then i go immediately i can do it and i saw that and i said no no not so much it also did give me the same level of danger of um one of the tiktoks i sent no the reddit post i sent you yesterday or last night um someone who said like newest hobby unlocked and they they bought a fucking deli slicer and i sent it to musa and i was like this feels like your brand of chaos yes i have those i've missed that i have those saved i

watched the videos but it takes so long for them to even cook the meat i don't have the patience for that oh i never thought about yeah they're like big fucking like thick chunks that you have to do it at a very low heat and just let it cook so it'll be like it won't be tough so i never thought about the mechanism of like yeah you don't ever just like eat a slice of like what you see at the grocery store of like deli meat the the part that they cut you don't ever see that like whole just like sold or served in places right it's a good point i guess you do cheese yeah i'm not that excited no that's not enough but yes that is very much up my alley and i was thinking about it until i saw how long you have to cut the meat i mean cook the meat yeah

no thanks i feel like there's like those sous vide people i feel like they sous vide but the sous vide gets too sous vide gets too soft it has to be in between this is too much for me so i know you don't watch trailers would you be open to you but you'll watch trailers of movies you won't see well i guess we'll just watch the movie and then we'll i'll have you watch the trailer afterwards but there's a trailer that like i can't stop thinking about which is um a big bold beautiful journey starring margot robbie and i saw someone a clip of it like a real quick cool clip and i said what even is this shit so that's what everybody's asking because like the closest thing that i am finding it too is

a wrinkle in time but i i think allegedly it's nothing like that so i'm like well then i'm at a loss i have no idea um but i will say i do think it is coming out like relatively soon and i can't wait i i feel like this is like a edibles and watch it because i'm like what the fuck is it going to be about and i do wonder if someone from the studio reassured them that the name was not a bad idea and like don't worry no one is going to correlate it with the big beautiful bill that's not even going to get passed

and now they're regretting the decision is it an American film because neither one of them are American I forgot who the man is yeah let's see what the studio yeah Columbia

distributed by Sony u.s is released in u.s and canada so i wonder because it was supposed to be released on may 9th i wonder if they pushed it because yeah i think they were like it'll blow over and then it was like shit shit um it was announced uh but deadline reported that sony had tied up at european film market for 50 million one of the hottest scripts it was filmed in california okay oh jody's in it she's a lot of shit that's coming out oh yeah like in the next couple months i just i just i just know that someone assured them it would be fine and now every meeting

they walk into they just give a long look at that person who's like i'm sure it'll we still got time i'm even the wikipedia has no information about what this movie is about nobody knows and and the tree and like here's the thing i love a trailer that tells you virtually nothing i hate when a trailer tells you like the entire fucking movie so like that's why i don't watch trailers no and that's very fair like there's a new as soon as you when you were talking about it i like now notice it even more that i'm like you're fucking right like they just they spoil everything and there's this new jennifer lawrence robert pattinson movie and the trailer perfect what it is she's crawling on the ground they're screaming they're dancing there's no speaking and then it's done

and it's like short and so i'm like perfect like i think teasers are all we need this i feel like i've seen like nine different versions of a trailer for this and i don't understand what it is at any point in time i'm like is it a musical like she's wearing a costume that you'd wear in a music like you know what i mean like yeah it's very colorful exactly and i'm like okay so but then i'm also like is it maybe just like 2013 like is this like the twee zoe de chanel era like what's going on is she big on tumblr i i have no idea and then they just keep walking through these doors and in different universes and i was like so i do think it's like a wrinkle in time and it's like no it's not it's not i'm like okay it's a blacklist script i can't wait

to see this movie about something a funny fantastical sweeping adventure together as they live out important moments what does that mean okay and that also doesn't tell me that it's not a musical i don't think if it well i was gonna say i think it's a musical they say but they're not saying the musicals are musicals i'm trying to be more like you know sharp and attuned to like those musical cues that i missed with which i take i i missed with the greatest showman it was advertised musical that was my bad i missed that entirely um but like you know mean girls recent years they haven't been does colin farrell sing i think he sings in a mama mia away okay well we'll see we will it comes out this week i think yep all right thank you for

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