Don't Blame Me! - SYNT: Locking Down Your Situationship

Episode Date: May 20, 2025

Meghan and Melisa share the results from Don't Blame Me: Locking Down Your Situationship Listen to Full Episodes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dont-blame-me-but-am-i-wrong/id1223800566 Jo...in our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/dontblameme Buy Our Merch https://crowdmade.com/collections/sister-sign Call In for DBM - 310-694-0976 (3 minutes or less) Write In for DBM - meghanpodcast@gmail.com (300 words or less) Write in for BAIW - butamiwrongpod@gmail.com DBM Submission Form BAIW Submission Form Follow Us! instagram.com/meghanandmelisa @meghanrienks instagram.com/meghanrienks https://twitter.com/meghanrienks @sheisnotmelissa instagram.com/sheisnotmelissa instagram.com/diamondmprint.productions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:01:19 now as i was like rewording this for the votes i was like i wonder if i'm gonna get like properly schooled in this because as i gave the disclaimer i don't watch the show i know nothing about these people i was going really based off of vibes vibes and so i'm like maybe i got the whole thing wrong no i actually it's worse than it's worse than than i had i had a picked up on how so so someone said and we can we can testify this is this is one of our patrons who is as they say an avid trash reality tv watcher they said i actually saw the whole season of the show and let me tell you that not only is he weird as fuck for tattooing his sister's name and refusing to get her name that actually isn't the issue because he already has a tattoo to honor her
Starting point is 00:02:07 he has an s on his finger which he which is all but faded the real issue is his relationship with his sister because he seems to prioritize their relationship over the one with his wife as well as cater more to his sister's feelings than his wife's as well fun fact this that this entire thing plays out on her actual birthday made it even fucking worse yikes yikes because like yeah the fact that like the tattoo part not as big of a like that oh no no it's it's not just a tattoo it's that he quite literally prioritizes his sister he met later in life over his wife yeah that's worse that's objectively worse i could see why you'd be crashing out over a tattoo because that becomes an inked permanent reminder of that feeling and you find out about on your
Starting point is 00:02:50 birthday i don't know if she found out about it on her birthday but the fight i think about it was on the birth her birthday okay someone else said not gonna lie this is so cringe i tried so hard to find a photo of his tattoo of his sister's name but i i wasn't kidding when i said this man has like he's a scrapbook of bad tattoos so i didn't want to include one that like that i wasn't positive was that and they're hard to decipher did you get on reddit yeah it was hard he shows it on the show but like it's a wide shot and he's got lots of bad ones got it so i didn't want to point to the wrong one someone else said my exception is if they passed away otherwise heck no sincerely a girl with estranged siblings yeah we both agree with that if passed
Starting point is 00:03:39 away totally someone else said i get matching sibling tattoos but having each other's names is kind of creepy it's giving siblings are dating in sweet home alabama also who's still getting people's names tattooed on their bodies the only exception is if they're dead that's exactly how i feel like i don't think you should get names in if you want your kids names okay but also like what if your kid changes their name like what names are like tattoo yes i'm saying like names aren't permanent unless that person is dead and so i just think that and do you want to explain to every person someone else said i have four siblings and i can see where this person's coming from i would do matching or dedicated tattoos for my siblings never just their name but that is due
Starting point is 00:04:19 to my personal tattoo style preference but a lot of people tattoo style and preferences can be very simple and basic think like classic infinity with the date knit lion rose watch combo very millennial tattoo vibes because the sibling relationship cannot change like whatever happens they're still your sibling while getting a tattoo of your partner's name is riskier because there's always a risk of breaking up no matter how solid the relationship may be at the time i disagree with it yeah but sibling i don't think any relationship is permanent like no regardless of well if your sibling turns up to be a trumpy you still or ted bundy right like that's you yeah no and like as someone who like i think this whole like oh you know like they'll always be your family it's not
Starting point is 00:05:01 true because like family is like an active role and like if they're not part playing that active role then they are not your family and there are people who play that active role in your life who you're not blood related to who i think are family like that so i think that growing up with a sibling and like wanting to get a tattoo for them totally i think in general late in life names tattoos of siblings that you again meet later in life it's it's objectively weird someone else said in general i think getting someone's name on you is a little weird it's not even my favorite when people get their kids names or faces tattooed on them oh never do the face i understand the sentiment but i feel like it could have been a bit more creative also to have your sibling who you literally just
Starting point is 00:05:46 met versus your wife who you sleep in the same bed with tattooed is really crazy this gives sister fucker energy and i hate it yeah because i think his the tattoo he says he has for his wife is like a rose representative something or even like the other person said like an s like yeah but we're getting like oh it's an interpretation couldn't be an interpretation of your sister or you don't know her well enough at this point to to get that i will say though as from what i've seen if i'm not wrong his sister looks like the exact opposite of her and if there is any sort of like weird closeness there that's like a is she your type do you what i mean like it's that kind of vibe where it's being like okay she's got dark eyes dark hair i've got light eyes light hair like
Starting point is 00:06:33 it just feels and they don't look alike hurting him like i said i contributed all i needed to contribute to this when we originally recorded it and i have nothing else to say but now she's like doing a press tour being like our relationship is good and i was like girl it's okay if it's not because like that was really fucking weird and also maybe don't be on a reality show if you're going to be upset that people are now criticizing your relationship she should be used to it by now yeah she was an og vanderpump rule person i don't really like name tattoos in general but to get one of your sister's name and then refuse to get one for your wife or kids is wild behavior something fishy is going on and i do not like it all right next one melissa says stop letting ai ruin your
Starting point is 00:07:21 business two percent said i was wrong 98 said i was not wrong someone did ask for a recommendation for another app and i noticed that in our email uh-huh and so i just did a little reach out yeah we're working on it melissa said help me help you uh-huh i literally as soon as i found our email i said i see what she's doing i know they're they're sponsoring a lot of podcasts yeah we got to connect very quick and also they're not it's it's just like a generic code so it doesn't even matter how well it's performing someone said they're using ai for job applications now and i hate it every job i've applied at that uses ai i never end up getting hired or even a response yeah ai i after this i did see some legitimate people that were on
Starting point is 00:08:20 ai interviews and sometimes there would be two ai bots in the room the zoom room and they would start talking to each other and this guy moved forward in an interview where he barely said anything am i interrupting because they that they thought that the other bot was the actual person the way that like this is all happening in the time where everybody's like i love black mirror so much so you want to cosplay being in the middle of like it's just so fucking weird i'll give tips for jobs always get up first of all have a great linkedin profile i've gotten so many jobs and connections in the last year since this i am going to be a guest speaker in a couple weeks for a class that i'm getting paid for i um and what else i got a couple like people
Starting point is 00:09:18 random people asking about audiobooks i have got like a couple writing jobs and my secret is other than like the, the random asking of things from people. My secret for applying for things is apply for it, but then find somebody that works at that company, hopefully an HR person and connect with them. And I don't even really say, I don't say anything. I just connect with them. But then now my, they have a real face. And then when it comes across their desk, they're like, Oh, that's that person I connected with. And then they'll say something. They'll usually say something they'll send me a message after that good call someone else said regarding the google search ai if you add dash ai at the end of your search it doesn't show you the ai summary and it
Starting point is 00:10:07 also does its best to filter out ai images i need to start doing that the minus ai because i get so annoyed and also the way i'm like you people are how are you going to look up criminal records of the people that you and your friends are dating if you don't know how to use google yeah another person said i'm pretty sure fable the reading app had an issue with ai reader profiles being racist last year and companies are still doing this i don't know what that is but i'll look into it fable yeah they're i think they're like goodreads ish and i think what had happened was they did uh like a wrap-up similar to spotify oh i did hear about this yeah and they i i do want to say i'm pretty sure they made a statement like very quickly afterwards of being
Starting point is 00:11:03 like yeah this is we're so sorry this was not like a person who import who did this like this was the ai model and like we agree that like this is alarming that this ai model like focused on race and specifically focused on race when like took people's race but they i guess i don't know if they entered it in or they just assumed based on like the books that they were reading and then made like comments about inferences uh-huh yeah yeah exactly like they made it be as if like we're all in it like like written from that pov to people being like what the fuck and it's not what's up shoddy yeah like it was not right and it was like okay but the defense was like okay we'll work on the ai and then a lot of people were like oh they what do you mean you've
Starting point is 00:11:52 a community and it's a community driven book account spotify also did this with the spotify rap there were racist things that were popping in that doesn't surprise me as much mostly because spotify is in general things that are like algorithm based like that but like when you're trying to build it and i might be wrong but i'm pretty sure fable is supposed to be like building a book community i think when you talk about like community forward like we really want a community or you can't say that you want a community when you're an army of robots saying humans interact like that part to me i'm like okay yeah i don't think there's a way to successfully like get a robot or get ai to do what you want to you have to be human forward yeah uh somebody
Starting point is 00:12:33 Dale said deleted Duolingo after they announced being AI first. So sad. Literally have been using it since 2017. They tanked themselves. They sure did. Someone said, to be honest, I was looking for a reason to end my Duolingo streak because I was tired of that little green bird telling me what to do with every fucking day. I'm so sick and tired of companies using human labor to get them famous and then switching to dumb ass computers who don't know what they're doing. I didn't realize how overused AI is to the point where people are too lazy to do a simple math calculation or Google search.
Starting point is 00:13:08 It's actually more work to be using the AI than to just do it yourself. Correct. Yep. Another person said, as someone who studied translating and interpreting, I could not agree more. AI assistants can be valued in language learning, yes, but at the core of every language are people and their culture. You cannot get that from a computer. Never. You lose connotation and nuances and actual language in use. Without those things, you can never be fully proficient in a language, let alone truly connect to it. Someone else said the Duolingo one makes me so mad. I have a 1347 day streak and the group chat has all friended each other and even have friends streak.
Starting point is 00:13:54 so it's suffice to say I've used the app for a while. I also have premium paid through December, but the overrun of their AI marketing is so terrible. You have to pay more to use the AI feature on the app past premium, which is ad-free to pro. It makes me so irate that my money that I've already paid is going directly to funding the active replacement of real employees with AI. you can't learn language with ai you need real people who know the language they are so wrong and melissa is so right another perk of uh joining our our community of uh live streamers because they are learning languages together and we're learning the metric system
Starting point is 00:14:39 that's an inside joke you'll get it if you're on the patreon but if you're a new member you won't because the discussion has been banned yeah but then we tell as soon as they're everyone's like wait what everyone's like we'll write it in the chat we'll write it in the chat we'll tell you why it's banned this episode is brought to you by Accenture when your advertising operations fall out of sync everything else follows Spotify and Accenture are working together to reinvent the rhythm of ad sales using automation analytics and smarter workflows to simplify campaign delivery and access better data across the business. The result? Less time spent on operations, more time connecting brands with the moments and fandoms that matter
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Starting point is 00:16:08 business. then we have writer number one the big egg rant 12 said the writer is wrong 88 said the writer is not wrong someone said i don't know what an egg flight is and i've decided that i am okay with that i wish i didn't someone else said why is eggs the default savory breakfast also i may or may not have been recruited to make oh to make ugc for big potato big potato so definitely wouldn't be surprised if big egg is a real thing huh i mean big egg has been around for a while i don't know if you probably don't remember this in the 90s but they used to have commercials that came on and it'd be like i love eggs from my head down to my legs the incredible edible egg like
Starting point is 00:17:06 there is a big egg it exists i bet you that right now i don't have cable so i wouldn't know but i bet you we are lacking one of the greatest commercials that we usually have avocados from mexico i bet they don't do that one anymore so i just looked it up the incredible edible egg is a marketing slogan from the american egg board which was created in 1974 by the advertising agency campbell mythum so yes big egg does exist i don't like that they're talking about edible eggs because it makes me think of inedible eggs and i don't think that i really like i don't like that like just say eggs if you're trying to get more people to eat eggs don't be like don't worry you can eat these eggs well what eggs can't you eat like no don't be fucking gross about it don't
Starting point is 00:17:48 make me think about the egg no one wants to think about the egg someone else said writer is not wrong i have never heard of egg flights before this episode i had to look up what it was in the middle of the episode you are you are with community this had me dying because i'm canadian and I never realized before, but ever since I can remember, I've been seeing egg ads. We get egg commercials on TV, billboard ads, just eggs everywhere. This obviously isn't totally in line with what the writer was talking about, but it's what reminded me of it. It's not ads for a specific brand of eggs or anything. It's simply Canadian Big Egg, aka egg farmers, being like, eggs are so cool. Eat eggs, please. They've had an ad campaign called Eggs Anytime for the past few
Starting point is 00:18:26 years that's like, eggs for dinner isn't weird. You're weird for thinking it's weird. I have always thought it was kind of wholesome so made me wonder if america has an equivalent the website yes canadian big egg is eggs.ca and every province has their own big eggs such as get cracking.ca in ontario and egg spei.ca in prince edward island my friend did marketing internship for our province big egg when we were in university and the canadian big eggs instagram account is eggs o-e-u-f-s eggs incredible egg.org exists and it actually is a beautiful website if you go right now you think it was just a cooking website but they've got different egg recipes up the layout is impeccable they even have how to grow things in egg cartons
Starting point is 00:19:19 baked avocado eggs they've got a key lime pie up they've got spinach and egg omelet the nutcrackers a classic deviled egg desserts honestly this website looks incredible i think you would like it but then when you scroll down then they have like the professionals the egg board ENC whatever that stands for but they bring in with recipes and then the propaganda is at the bottom
Starting point is 00:19:50 there you go someone else said peanut butter and jelly with eggs rotted yeah I do like eggs but I normally eat one egg two max I don't want to eat six eggs in one sitting surely that can't be good for cholesterol and peanut butter and jelly on an egg is a crime
Starting point is 00:20:07 I hate it here i will always be here for big egg propaganda slander even though i do love the occasional boiled egg and i make a delicious deviled egg every year that my family loves there's only a small window of time where eggs are acceptable in my vicinity and all other times i need them to be non-existent if not in a baked good that's the part that i think is like it's a universal feeling and that's why i think big egg big egg needed to rebrand someone said deviled eggs are the only eggs that don't give me the ick until you mentioned adding something like peanut butter so sorry to ruin that for you writer number two would it be wrong to ask the guy you're dating to be exclusive
Starting point is 00:20:39 now that he's gotten busy at work the way that gotten busy at work it sounds like he's fucking at work yeah now that you read that in that voice i was like oh not what i meant 22 said the writer is wrong 78 said the writer is not wrong someone said update us after you have dated other people aka diversify your love life writer someone else said i voted writer is wrong because i think she wants to lock him down for the wrong reasons i was boyfriend slash girlfriend with my partner after three months but we'd spent every waking minute together because of lockdown if this was the same case i say go for it but it sounds like the writer is doing is just doing it out of anxiety or something felt deja vu listening to this mini update from my
Starting point is 00:21:30 don't blame me call basically right when i had the conversation he had to start a job hunt to stay in the country because his student visa extension is expiring in july and his current job can't sponsor him so i am rightly so on the back burner for now and i feel the writer's pain sorry person we don't remember the exact thing that you wrote in about so please give us a little update we we love it we have hundreds of things on our minds and hundreds of episodes of these shows it's hard for us to keep track so always give us a little update if you're giving an update recap what you did before also if you at a certain point we'll we'll remember like if you have like if we have your instagram attached to it repeatedly like we'll we'll remember but
Starting point is 00:22:21 especially for the first update or like if it's been a minute this episode is brought to you by accenture when your advertising operations fall out of sync everything else follows spotify and accenture are working together to reinvent the rhythm of ad sales using automation analytics and smarter workflows to simplify campaign delivery and access better data across the business the result less time spent on operations more time connecting brands with the moments and fandoms that matter most learn more at accenture.com spotify at dejardin insurance we know that when you own a nail salon everything needs to be perfect from tip to toe that's why our agents go the extra mile to understand your business and provide
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Starting point is 00:23:48 and a stunning ultra-wide 30-inch diagonal screen. Don't miss Buick's Employee Pricing for You event. Visit Buick.ca for more details. Then we have my nomination for Wrong of the Week, the Sid Towell Snark members. 81 the snark is wrong 19 of the snark is not wrong now some people wrote in being like wait why the fuck is this so high um there are like at least five people who wrote in who are like shit i'm so sorry i voted wrong and i believe them there's some people from our patreon who
Starting point is 00:24:22 like i know did not mean to vote this way um i don't know about the rest i wonder if people are like they think this specific kind of snark was wrong but they don't think the idea of snark is wrong i'm talking about this specific that's what this is about this isn't about like you're not gonna get us holier than thou saying you shouldn't gossip this is our fault like come on like we love gossip this is like a different thing someone said hope these snarkers never get cancer themselves god forbid their loved ones get cancer this is just low trash behavior i don't know if i mentioned this but i saw someone who like on the on the subreddit who was not um who was on like the like the subreddit they made after the first one got taken down and they were they were very much
Starting point is 00:25:10 doing like i'm not you know i'm not i'm not saying anything mean i'm just like i'm just asking questions like i'm just and like it was very much like the like this is and i looked at their profile and like they have cancer and like they are going through that themselves and And it seemed that they were taking a lot of their, the free time that they had to question why someone might be seemingly from their POV either handling their medication better or whatever was that it couldn't be real. It couldn't be that this person had it. They were just asking questions. And it was like, yeah, this also makes sense to me that you are, if you are not dealing. and everybody handles medication differently and like even if you have like i don't think this
Starting point is 00:26:00 person i think the cancer that they had mentioned having if they were if they were being honest was not nearly as aggressive as hers but like wasn't handling the medication and the treatment as well as someone who has a much like more severe treatment plan and someone who has like a much more aggressive form of cancer where it's this but the idea of like rationalizing of being like they have to be then lying is pretty fucked to me yeah like at this point everybody knows somebody that has has cancer like or has had cancer so we've all been touched by it in some way where's the sympathy yeah i mean a lot of the people their defense of this was like
Starting point is 00:26:51 i as somebody who like whose parent had cancer i just know that she's lying this is not something to lie about no all cancers are different they all even the same type of cancer can attack a person in a very different way you can't judge one person by another yeah and i think if you you if you want to take your anger out on somebody in regards to how they portray take it out on people who are putting out medical misinformation and telling people to not go to doctors telling people that if they get if they go out in the sunlight they shouldn't wear sunscreen like take that like mentality of like i have a lot of pent-up rage and anger about losing someone that i love and take that to people who are increasing the risk for other people taking people who are
Starting point is 00:27:45 saying hey don't get chemo you can actually just cure your cancer by eating salad like take it to those people and i understand that like as somebody who has like lost people in my life to like you know drug epidemic i'm not going after people who are doing drugs no my issue is with the people who over prescribe my issues with the criminal my issue is with like the system that makes these things happen not the people who are either a victim to said system or are just participating in said system like there's a huge difference there so i think it can be that energy can be much better used someone else said cheers to research and cheers to journalism yeah it's a really incredibly well written article if you type in the name of the article that i
Starting point is 00:28:30 referenced which is um i said it in the first episode and you look up reddit someone did post a gifted article because now it is behind a paywall but you can see the link that is a free one to read someone else said what do they actually gain by proving whether or not she has cancer if she's not crowdfunding money or manipulating people then who is being hurt as much as i love how real and vulnerable people can be on social media i also hate it because shit like this happens i truly hope she's able to find peace from all of this i can't imagine going through something that life-altering and then having people accuse something so hard to go through to be fake yeah i also think that like i don't know that anybody else is ever going to get
Starting point is 00:29:06 like this the comeuppance of this like that very rarely like people accuse people of lying and then like they get off the internet or whatever or they it happened to someone and then they like someone i saw on that subreddit they were referencing another girl who's like talking about her boyfriend's like journey with cancer and everyone's like she's lying she's lying and then like she was gone on the internet and then she came back and he died and she like announced that and yeah you talked about that yeah there's very rarely any sort of like like justice or like the proof and the fact that like she was able and these journalism like these journalists were like wanted to do this story and they proved this and they called these people out that so many people
Starting point is 00:29:47 don't get that like level of like hey these people were wrong and like this was fucked up for what you did and i think like the whole reason why i'm sure she agreed to do this story is because she just doesn't want it to happen to anybody else and i and i have to say like this is the only thing that's ever happened that i has given me any sort of hope that people would not speculate about health of people like speculating about health i think chadwick boseman was like a very like people reference all the time now being like hey let's not do that because like people did that and like look what happened and i think for this i think this will set a precedent that i actually think will that will make like propel this forward hopefully or at least maybe help reddit get these
Starting point is 00:30:30 kind of communities under control so i also put you mean 19 but i'm not wrong am i missing something i thought it was pretty clear that subreddit is full of terrible people doing a terrible thing yeah yep yep yep that's it this episode is brought to you by accenture when your advertising operations fall out of sync everything else follows spotify and accenture are working together to reinvent the rhythm of ad sales using automation analytics and smarter workflows to simplify campaign delivery and access better data across the business the result less time spent on operations more time connecting brands with the moments and fandoms that matter most learn more at accenture.com slash spotify right now for a limited time everyone's part of the buick team
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Starting point is 00:32:02 for any size business. All right, then my wrong of the week was Liberty Hotel. 94% said the hotel is wrong six percent said the hotel is not wrong remind me to say something about the hotel when you're done okay someone said this happened insanely close to my university and people keep acting shocked that it's in boston as someone from here there are many transphobic people especially the wealthy elite of that area yeah boston is very racist yeah did people not i thought i did with love i did think we knew that yeah i think people are just so insular to where they are and they're like us no yeah you you someone else said i literally have no words this is not only heartbreaking but also terrifying god knows how many women
Starting point is 00:33:00 this has happened to and it is just being swept under the rug no no no no no same person said this is also why i personally advocate for all bathrooms to be single stall in my head if you can just make a bunch of single stall bathrooms and then have public sinks together or something for people to wash their hands that way the ratio between the men's bathroom always being open in the women's stalls always being full could be balanced and no one has to share a bathroom with anyone i love clubs that do this there are a lot of clubs that do that and there's never lines because people aren't just like hanging around okay so i learned while pulling images for this um hotel i was like this looks like it's interesting like architecturally uh and then i saw the inside and
Starting point is 00:33:54 i said this is a lot and then one of my google suggestions was before and after um this used to be a jail and they have like the bars that like on the racks that like roll through for like dip the whole thing the the lobby of the hotel seemingly is like the main floor where you've got like the exposed railings and all of that stuff and then they have a either a a bar or a coffee shop that is in there now called the clink how long ago was it the jill black and white photos okay but that could be the 60s or the 1820s they can just put it in black and white as well yeah know that they do that what's it called the liberty hotel but looking at pictures i was like everyone's like it's super haunted and i was like yeah like i'm like all for like oh let's you
Starting point is 00:34:51 know taking things changing things up like that um i do think having a bar slash coffee shop that's called the clink is deeply insensitive but also calling it the liberty hotel is also insensitive oh my god i thought it was based on a location yeah because it's one of the 13 original colonies charles street i assumed it was called like liberty jet like it they kept the name no it's called charles street jail and they're like it has a rich history what do you mean rich history i don't know i'm maybe that's like a crazy thing i'm like not into repurposing jails like that banks sure yeah i love a bank house i love it i love a bank event space i love the old school school that has been changed stunning i didn't mean to say old school
Starting point is 00:35:45 when i started it but then i had to actually say it but like or even like um train stations like that kind of stuff jail no no no so it was built in 1851 oh my god these captions secret boston from infamy to luxury this is disgusting when was it it wasn't even in a renovated until 2007 like in 1973 the u.s district court ruled that because of overcrowding the jail violated the constitutional rights of the prisoners there melissa malcolm x was there as well as henry david throw whitey bulger the boston strangler there are people a lot like this is yeah this like this is no it's now owned by the massachusetts general hospital oh we're double dipping in the corruption right yeah and yeah like this is the old charles street jail stopped operating
Starting point is 00:36:51 as a prison due to deteriorating conditions and concerns over inmate welfare yeah now do you want to stay there as a hotel grab a drink that's gross it's really gross like this is recent yeah this is really gross and like i from the second i saw the in the picture of the outside i was like this looks a little odd for like a hotel it doesn't look like a hotel and it looks a little bit more like an old college campus and i was like okay and then i looked at the inside and it i could just didn't it something was off like it just feels here like i something feels off i can't really see it but i'm on the website if you look at the liberty hotel interior immediately i was i'm on the lobby on wikipedia i thought at first i see the different levels of
Starting point is 00:37:45 where it was a jail and i've been to different hotels that have like somewhat of a similar structure and they are they used to be libraries but i'm really like this didn't used to be a library i can tell this didn't used to be a library what did this used to be and then cool okay okay this like in luxury like people died here like this is just like really and i think people view this as like well yeah but like they're bad people so do you think we only recently started accusing innocent people and like having all of our like horrific practices of the justice system now or do you do you think maybe we've always done that you know and also like even like the victims of people who like actually did commit heinous
Starting point is 00:38:25 crimes and do horrible things and it's like oh yeah we actually couldn't keep this and like what happened to those people who are there yeah i just like this is crazy to me would never ever sit here ever now that i know i'm looking at an old picture of the lobby and it's not that different no it's exactly the same it's exactly the same and everyone's like look how cool the side by side is and i go what are we calling cool like this is i don't find this fun fact like this felt this feels deeply unsettling from the start and like even like these like come look at like how luxury and i was like this is not because like no thank you do you see what the outside looks like yeah can you tell where i was like this doesn't look like hotel yeah this looks
Starting point is 00:39:15 something else it's fucked so all right well thanks for sharing that little tidbit yeah it was really crazy so i would love to hear from anyone in boston um if you like you knew if this is like a well-known kind of a thing or if it was like you know if they've done such a good job rebranding that like you because we've got some people who are younger too like if you like didn't like didn't even know but 2007 like that's this is recent no but like they didn't even know that they that they're the there's a hotel there now right like if it's like gotten popular enough or if it's like do people talk about it i'd love to know like within the community what's the response to that because i'm gonna tell you right now if they decided that they were gonna make alcatraz
Starting point is 00:39:59 like a hub for like wakeboarding like no no no fucking weird fucking weird all right well thank you all for listening on that note we're gonna wrap this bitch up we will see you on thursday for don't blame me friday for fisting friday monday for but am i wrong and then we'll be back here because we will see you next tuesday bye this is a sister sign production hosted by me megan rinks and me melissa d montz plus diamond imprint productions

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