Don't Blame Me! - SYNT: Splitting the Grocery Bill

Episode Date: September 23, 2025

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is it you know everyone you know what they've softened the blow of the word they have softened the blow of the word cunt and as two people who love that word thank you for doing that and i really i really hope uh we can we can follow suit because i still remember the first time i was ever called a cunt i was in sixth grade maybe younger and a boy called me a cunt and it was like at a big like outdoor like family friends and family kind of party at one of my friends houses and all of the moms like gasped and i was like huh and they were like come here what did what did that boy just said it might come i can't they were like and it was like this whole big thing and he had no idea what it meant and from that moment on to see the reactions of all these people not even

figuratively literally clutching their pearls i said and that's my new favorite word i love this word i don't think i've ever been called a cunt yeah well it's like in a derogatory way and technically i'm what tommy didn't didn't know he was calling me in a derogatory way i think i'm like where did you hear that how did we get here shout out to all our cunts and don't worry if you're like i'm not feeling cunt today you can be cunty you can be cuntish cunt adjacent cunt like parentheses positive connotation anyways welcome to cnx tuesday we read the results of last week's episode of but am i wrong and last week's episode was episode 159 am i really getting up there oh i spelled something wrong there's a lot going on with this megan want us so sorry i megan want

justice for raisins 35 said i was wrong 65 said i was not wrong which is rude because 35 seems like kind of a lot for you raisin haters well there's a lot of them and they all wrote in so rude that's why i'm acting i feel like so strongly about this oh my god so i have melissa send me the screenshots because i didn't take them yet and the first one is from jenny and jenny says good to see megan staying consistent i thought today's topic sounded familiar december 1st when i do i already did this and i feel like we probably had the same conversation because as i was talking about the california raisins i was like i feel like i've brought this up before but i don't remember the connotation of it when you repeated yours before like whatever

like last week like i when we did the the see you next tuesday for that i was like i was feeling familiar about what i was saying not necessarily what you were saying but i was like but again we have similar conversations all the time so i'm like sometimes we'll have conversations off the mic i don't remember we've had them on the mic so who knows and we have moments like all the time on like the live stream where we'll say something that we think everybody knows and they're like wait what i'm like we've talked about this so many times we thought we included that at least one time and it's like oh no we haven't so there's always new lore dropping but apparently i have reheated my own nachos oh no welcome to the club oh god someone else said i fear i just hate raisins

and i have tried everything have you tried letting raisins into your heart have you tried tried it with a nut raisins and nuts are delicious together yes yeah have you tried it like in i think in like in a baked good or in something where it's not like you have to you have to prong a raisin along with a bite like have the have the raisin actually have you have you tried chopping them up i think it is such a good cookie that people aren't giving it the credit it deserves and here we are like lusting after banana bread and i go okay so you take it for a lot of people an undesirable fruit not me i love a good fucking banana but like a lot of people are like i would never eat a banana but then you're like now you're paying nine dollars for a slice of banana bread

maybe i think i really think only raisin cookies maybe just need a rebranding yeah it's very like cottagecore maybe we just throw some throw some terms at it'll stick like how uh cottage cheese has rebranding recently yeah even though that's how i used to eat cut when i did eat cottage cheese that's how i would eat it blend it up and then mix things in with it which that makes sense like ingredient wise um the curd part is is baffling to me i'm fine with it on cracker i've never had it i don't like i mean it's gonna mess up your stomach yeah but even like prior when i was still eating dairy like a soft i've never been like that much into like a soft kind of no cream cheese i didn't i liked cream cheese as a kid i really didn't like cream cheese

when i got older like there's just like a the soft part i don't know so good i think i like it now but i can't have it now no you can have i have dairy-free one okay if i need it for something pretty similar yeah because i think would you have the tang like it's not if it doesn't have to melt it doesn't have to like do anything it just has to be the flavor it's a lot easier someone said is a dairy-free girly oatmeal raisin cookies are my safest option i also definitely thought growing up that Hoobastank's song The Reason was saying raisin the whole time. I'm not a

perfect person. What part do you think they were saying raisin in? I found a raisin for me. That doesn't even make sense. Hey, that's fine.

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someone said wink wink nudge nudge the first thing i voted megan is wrong for i hate raisins this is a tough day for me this is also the first time you've written in which i was shocked by i realized that too i was like wait that's why i said someone and then i'm like wait i know that face someone else said they are so good in cookies the people who think differently i question their sanity actually i take it back as being shocked this is the first time that you wrote in because you did wait until you were 18 and she followed those motherfucking rules day what was it right after you turned 18 she said hello patreon i am joining the live stream i just turned 18 i listened to the rules i've been listening the whole time though but now you can't get mad

uh someone else said i will say i don't like eating raisins by themselves but a cinnamon raisin bagel trail mix and oatmeal raisin cookie sign me up and that's fine all of that's delicious i'm an oatmeal raisin cookie defender until i die and can we add craisins to this too because growing up in the state that grows most cranberries parentheses wisconsin i've seen that craisins don't get the love they deserve either craisins are i will say better than raisins i do like them better but they are they're sweeter and tangier but they are also delicious they are they are there's a trader joe's trail mix that has craisins in it and i think it has raisins too but that's like matz's favorite one and that's the one that has

white chocolate though no there's no chocolate in it okay there's one that has white chocolate and disgusting yeah i hate white chocolate that could be one i might have already done it i don't know but i hate i think i have done it already yeah the white chocolate's not chocolate yeah because it fundamentally isn't it's not no we just lost like nasty we just picked a word it was also nasty yeah it coats your mouth and your tongue in a way that like oil do you not like the crunch bars like nestle crunch the chocolate one i do okay i'm thinking of the wrong thing the cookies and cream bar no it gives me white chocolate if it was actually cream you just mash up an oreo and then add more cream i'd tear this shit up that's fucking good right

do do do do do do do do do dried cranberries are raisins with good publicity exactly this is from a separate person exactly exactly exactly also i want to know for the person in wisconsin i could also ask you in our live stream um if you know they stand in the bogs that that company and it's like ocean spray thank you is that like a tourism thing that we could i'm not saying we can go to an ocean spray but i'm saying like if i go to back to wisconsin love wisconsin if i go back to wisconsin like if you guys are exporting and get the farm in the biggest amount of cranberries like can i get in on that is it like napa where you could go like stomp grapes do you you want to stand in the water like that first of all i want to wear the pants uh-huh and i want the big boots

and i want to stand in the bog i would love that photo opportunity i also just think it'd be so fun to like have them all like bouncing around you it's on my bucket list okay well have fun with that oh my god someone double offense the texture is an o for me sorry megan and my name is spelled wrong oh ouch right in the jugular in cookies grabbing on my raisin cookie when you're expecting a chocolate chip cookie is the biggest betrayal i've ever experienced i was willing to listen to your argument until you said cookies um but why would you ever think it's an oatmeal like it's a chocolate chip did you not look at it yeah like they don't look the same no they don't and they don't melt like a chocolate chip is going to be a little melted that's on you oh raisin cookies

will be heavier yeah that's on you yeah don't blame the raisin for that don't blame us and don't blame the raisin i don't like raisins i think it's a combo of texture and taste but i respect that they belong in our society and that's the only opinion being anti-raisin i can handle like that's it raisins are weird dried apricots on the other hand justice for them i uh i'm trying to find like a less intense word than like overdose but i had so many dried apricots as a child that they i can never over consumed i over consumed dried apricots like i went through a hyper fixation phase as a child that like the mere thought of them sends a chill up my spine like i cannot i fucking love dried apricots i think they are some of the most delicious things in the world

but i cannot keep them in the house for the same reason because i will eat the whole package of them and they're expensive too like raisins are cheap thing dried apricots are pretty expensive which i understand why and they're worth it but i can't keep them in the house no it the way that what it does by the way if you eat an entire bag of dried apricots first of all what it does to your body there's a lot of fiber in those apricots it's and the fiber is condensed down because they're smaller you can't eat that many just like whole raw apricots like what it does to you is um something i never want to go through again and like as a child i just kept eating them and it kept happening and it got to a point where it was like you were cutting you off and i also had an

apricot tree as a kid right i think we had an apricot i'm pretty sure we had an apricot tree yes yes yes we did um and the raw ones never i like used to just be like how do i get these to dry out how do i how do i get them to shrivel up and prune up someone else said i'm on i'm on board of this train and i don't think i've ever felt more strongly about something i also love that Only one person clocked that we've done this before. Everyone else is like, yeah, brand new. I've loved raisins my entire life. They're an incredible addition to cakes and granola.

The little change in texture and the nice level of chewiness. I agree with y'all that some dried fruit is not the right level, even if the flavor is perfect. I think raisin slander needs to stop and adults actively hitting on raisins should just grow up. I love that. Well, here's where I'm going to draw the line. Cakes. i'll i'll have it sometimes in a carrot cake but there's two i will this is where my texture thing comes in there's too much softness with the cake yeah like a hummingbird cake a hummingbird cake

has too much going on that's why i won't eat it it's literally just wet the whole thing is wet it's wet and dense and there's so much in it it's shiny like it's like shiny to a point where i go there's condensation on this hummingbird cake is just another fruit cake yeah but the fruit cake they make it get stale because they go well the the wet texture is off-putting and so then we let it dry out it's just off-putting all together the look is off-putting i have to say in cakes i have a harder time with raisins just because they are heavy the suspension of them like it doesn't get evenly distributed throughout in a way that is meaningful to me raisins are the sweet snack from earth adults who don't like raisins give the same vibe as adults who don't like onions

i didn't know there were a lot of adults who didn't like onions neither onions is such a basic thing that you need in food for seasoning like onions is something that people mourn when you have like um like have to do like a low fodmap diet or whatever like being like i have to get rid of onion like that to me is such a and it's hard to get rid of onions yeah i would think more like adults who don't like brussels sprouts yeah because that makes sense to me bacon yeah i'm sorry raisins are disgusting my apologies for disagreeing i'm only saying megan is wrong because as good as good as raisins are when fallen into the wrong hands it becomes a danger not everyone knows how to balance a delicate texture and flavor of a

raisin and that's how it ends up in a potato salad yeah i don't know how i i i can never defend it ending up in a potato salad because to me that defies logic it defies any sort of thought process like there is no unless like it's one of those um stories that they do which i forget what it was but like i don't even know if it's true but like one of those like mass uh company things like a food product of being like how did this happen it's like oh you know one of our workers accidentally tripped and he had the blue raspberry flavoring and the lemon and it fell it like to me there's no way that you intentionally go look in your pantry and go raisins and then you look at your potato salad and you go good idea like it should be like because

there was an earthquake and a raisin factory fell into a potato salad factory like that's the only reason why it should have ever ended up there and it should have been an accident and it should been a recall i was watching one of those coco videos that's part of uh that's part of buzzfeed and they were doing um trying guessing black people's potato salad and white people's potato salad and they were also tasked with making a full plate of food and this one girl who i think had to be a plant because I don't know why anybody would love pumpkin spice this much but she put that in her potato salad and then as she was tasting other people she'd be like yeah this tastes like it should have it should have some pumpkin spice in there and then the white

man on there made as one of his sides with his potato salad and I think it was some chicken he made peas with nuts and raisins but like why would you put that stuff any of that together i feel like you have to be trolling i think you're right like that has to be i don't think that man was he kept saying like everything that was on the plate he was like yes this is a recipe from my grandmother and you know what that's a lie i need people to stop speaking slander on their grandmother just because you never hung out with your grandma and you never went into the kitchen with your grandma and you're just like i'm trying to remember you were watching fucking that fucking like stupid cartoon like i just don't

believe that there are people who are like the cooks of the family and like oh this recipe is like passed down like there are certain things of being like yeah this one family member we don't let fucking cook because like that shit's nasty but like having this like fondness for this thing is pure nostalgia like and i don't think and i think it's mostly a misremembering like and your dead grandma can't defend herself i think she was alive then she did it if she's alive she did it yeah that's just so awful to me and i when i found out that white people put raisins in potato salad it shocking shocking shocking shocking disgusting shocking we need to be stopped yeah can't disagree with you on that one no we we've done too much and

we keep doing more oh and then they ended it with i love a good raisin crazin and other dried good but they all have their time in place that i agree with i can agree with that too i'm really sorry i'm really sorry megan but i'm a raisin hater to my core this is a hill i'm willing to die on as some of the other people would say grow up special shout out to chocolate covered raisins Oh, my God. Yes. That's a great movie theater snack. That's what I eat when I go to the movie theater. All the haters who get mad about oatmeal raisin cookies say they're mad because they expect chocolate. Solution, chocolate-covered raisins. Checkmate, bitches. Great.

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Okay, I voted incorrectly here. Megan is wrong. You spelled my name wrong. And I may be biased, but this is why. Okay, I'm sending this as a voice note because this is just a whole story I have about racism. and why forever i will always be against eating them because in high school um my cafeteria had brownies that you could purchase they were like in a little like i'm worried you know clear little to-go box so you could get um and they were like homemade from our cafeteria and i would get them

like once a week or so and then i remember like a couple months pass and i get one like and i'm on my way to my lunch table i sit down i'm enjoying my nice little lunch and then i'm like okay it's time for my brownies time to wrap things up and on a high note of my little dessert i put my fork in this brownie i get a little good piece out of the corner the best part um second to the center which is also the best part and i put that piece in my mouth and lo and behold what do i find in my brownie raisins they did not ever advertise that these brownies had raisins in them why would i ever want a raisin in my brownie i don't know doesn't make any sense in my head i've never heard anyone put raisins in their brownies maybe in cookies yes do i go for those personally not for

me but you know i love that for other people but for me it's a no but but brownies i have never never been so betrayed in my life and so distraught over the fact that they were surprised raisins in this brownie and i've never gotten over it since and yes i do hold a grudge for that um because yes i am a scorpio and i just will never forget it and therefore i just do not think that raisins need justification so unfortunately i may be biased but that is my opinion i will always be against raisins anyway thank you bye that's valid you have raisin trauma yeah why that's another place that raisins don't belong is in a brownie why would you do that i've never heard anybody putting a raisin in a brownie so i do think that this is one of those um sitcom moments where

someone slipped and actually dropped a box of raisins in there because yeah that doesn't make any sense no i understand your trauma yeah you can have that that's yeah that's you get a pass all right next up is me melissa asked us to have some decorum at sports games five percent said i was wrong 95 said i was not wrong someone said it truly baffles my mind how people lose what little decorum they have when they enter a sports game as much as i love certain player slash celebrities i know where the line is and i don't cross it i felt like i read that with a lot of anger no i loved it it was like there's a lot of conviction in it you know who you are but i don't i love that at some point we accidentally changed your dms to a spider-man

wallpaper and never changed it back it's so funny the only one is like when i've accidentally changed to disappearing and i'm like fuck done that numerous times come back someone else said melissa's not wrong at all as someone who is an avid baseball fan shout out to the wisconsin baseball debacle a lot of people don't know how to be civil at a game even though it's sports etiquette 101 like do we need to bring back the times when people wore business suits to games and also like of all the sporting events that i feel like this happens the most that it feels like baseball games and like you're taking i was like you guys are this is not smart considering the coach still wears a fucking baseball uniform to coach like they're old school like you're gonna

get in trouble there's a manager oh okay but the fact that i'm like so who's that middle-aged older man bald in the uniform who's not playing someone else said people do not know how to act right like did you leave your manners at home people they did yeah if they had them to begin with another person said all of these examples are horrifying also i think someone has cursed melissa to have encounters with slash hear about people getting fingered maybe this curse is meant to spark inspiration for melissa to write a law into action against public fingering it is also still illegal yeah it's already a law it's it's just people aren't abiding by it yeah also the ones that happen in the locker room that's not a public place so i'm yeah yeah then

we have writer number one are they wrong for not wanting to split groceries seven percent of the writer is wrong at 93 so the writer is not wrong if you aren't eating the food you shouldn't have to pay if you've been coordinating grocery trips you probably you can probably coordinate kitchen time use to end this madness and only cook and eat and pay for your own food when i split groceries with roommates we specifically took out items meant for one or two people and left those costs for those people not gonna lie some people suck at math hello so if the writer's having the issue they could just be the one to divvy up the receipt or if you're all going together and that's too much for you get your own stuff and check out separately this is wild don't go with them and

if you aren't eating why are you paying for it it might be time to find a new place well they just moved in so yeah that's the issue that's why we avoided that one writer's not wrong at all i feel like the majority of people including me just take care of their own food during uni the good thing about this grocery splitting thing happening so early on in her time there is that she gets to set those boundaries from the jump and not let it fester as i inevitably would even if it means being seen as fussy bougie or high maintenance by your housemates having the food you want and being clear on what you're spending is worth it imo the idea of splitting anything more than rent and bills if that's even a thing for the writer since they're in school baffles me since they're

in school i wonder if her roommates also have a meal plan and get snacks and junk food on top of that for their personal cravings either way i'm not if i'm not eating i'm not paying for it and neither should the writer i have never split groceries with any flatmate it's weird that they are gaslighting her into thinking she's the weird one you are 100 not in the wrong yeah the only time i've ever like split anything in that way uh would be like alcohol for a party that like we're all we're hosting a party so we're all contributing this and if but i'm not but it's not like we didn't share things like if my roommate my freshman year her mom went to like costco or something and like got a big like thing of something it'd be like oh hey my mom got this

like we can have this we can share this or whatever but like the idea of like getting stuff that's big enough to share was only like if that's the only option in general just because like usually like you can't you're buying then with the intent to split it like the scale of what you're buying and i'm like okay if you're not splitting it then like buy less like i have to assume stuff's not getting eaten because there's no way if you're planning on splitting this between three people and one person's like i'm not actually gonna eat that but if it's like junk food it's not gonna go bad it's true but are they just buying more and like some is still they still have some no they're eating it to rent out and then when they go to the grocery store

they're like okay we're splitting this well it's gotta be like there's not even enough to necessarily split them what do you mean that like if three people are splitting like a regular size bag of chips that's not like oh well come on i thought we were going to split this but if you're eating something to completion knowing that like in a sitting with one other roommate and you're a third roommate hasn't eaten any of it i think it's crazy to them be like we're splitting next one yeah but i just think they're buying stuff for the house and not even thinking about that yeah you're right that they're not they're thinking about it at the grocery store not when they're eating the food at home that makes sense that's it all right writer number two would

they be wrong for telling their friend that their boyfriend is toxic seven percent said the writer is wrong 93 said the writer is not wrong i know we talked about that reaction for cardi b and kelly i didn't even realize i had screenshot it's i screenshot me it's so fucking funny yeah everybody was like the two different types of media training someone said writer is wrong for not saying anything earlier but she would be but she would not be wrong to say something now better late than never agree yep someone says sorry i voted wrong just because she waited this long to say something. Definitely not wrong because it's obvious that their friend needs to hear it, but I would do it gently. People often get defensive, especially when they're this blinded.

Whatever you say, make sure your friend knows that at the end of the day, you want her to be safe and happy in her relationship and that you're here to support her. Someone else said, please, for the love of god tell your friends when the man is being unacceptable you don't have to put up with that shit another person said i voted wrong they need to tell their friend like yesterday it's so annoying when after the breakup you were offloading to your friend and they're like yeah i knew he wasn't good because of all these reasons do you hate your friend is that why you're keeping this info from them another person said writer is only wrong for waiting this long because what the fuck do you even like your friend harsher than i would be a lot of these people i'm like damn guys

damn that's kind of that's kind of a lot someone else said i pressed the wrong one her friends need to be expedited from that man we got the gist overnight chip them i totally i don't even really understand what expedited it's like fast track yeah fast track but you need something after that it's an adjective you're right like out of your life or excited to break up I totally thought

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generally if the boyfriend really is toxic you can do the whole can i give my honest opinion and then promise i'll shut up about it if they say yes then tell them if not you take it to the grave disagree on that one just because it's been years specifically for this one no and it's like can i say something and if they're like no well that was a rhetorical question i'm gonna say something yeah or i'm always of like of like the like i just like have to get this off my chest like i or really like i would hate myself if i didn't say this because like i would expect you as my friend to have said this to me and like you know taking responsibility of like i feel i feel like i have let this go on too long but in general like if a friend is like talking to you about like

the horrible shit that their partner has done they know that that's bad they're looking for like confirmation unless you're being like no that sounds great that was wonderful i'm all for it they know that you're not necessarily like into them and like or you're not like they know that you you don't really like them or you think that they're toxic but if you're not telling your friend like you need to get out of this relationship then it's like oh maybe this is what i deserve like there's just like a level of like you owe your friends what we think is the obvious and the unspoken thing sometimes you have to say it out loud it's like he's fucking with her reality yep someone else said i voted wrong i read it too fast and thought it said for not telling their

friend that their boyfriend has talked to someone else says sometimes people need to hear the hard truth i recently told my friend that her boyfriend is a piece of shit even if she doesn't listen to me it's still in the back of her mind exactly and that's it then we have my nomination for wrong with the weak aura ring 93 23 said aura is wrong seven percent said aura ring is not wrong what i'm scared i'm scared guys i hate how many things steal your data and change their policies all the time how is one ever supposed to keep up you're not that's the point i have the ring con i don't know what that is i have the ring con version and it's not that bad or it's and it's not bad a friend of mine has the ultra human and really likes it too i will say in general this is

kind of like the same thing that people were doing with period tracking apps of being like find the safe one the issue is like in general like the format of this is making it so like these companies are all inevitably going to whether sell or data what anything that has your data stored in that mechanism in that way that is like the issue and i'm sure there's ways there's like okay this one's not you know selling to this now but like pivoting and buying a whole new thing you know i i think that uh oftentimes the companies all end up disappointing us i have friends who have this and i've been interested in getting one but honestly it looks like a poor way to track health none of the features are actually what i need and it's also kind of ugly for it to be so

expensive and selling people's personal data at least throw in some cute little gems or engravings and also you have to pay a monthly fee like that's the part that i think talks about that okay i bought an aura ring in january 2023 and i wore it for about a year i stopped wearing it for exactly the reason megan said i started worrying way too much about my health and exacerbated mental health oh and exacerbated health anxiety that i didn't even know i had also spending three hundred dollars on a ring and also having to pay six dollars a month is crazy i'm glad i stopped wearing it when i did yeah like that for it to have that level of premium like it should be no nothing like i understand needing money to like oh we have to also because it's

like they store your data so they need money to store your data that you have so you can reference back to that already kind of you know a little that to me i'm like i don't necessarily think that you need your data from like years and years and years ago um but that then the upfront have be nothing let me pay for shipping and that's it so what who are the silent voters they probably have aura rings and you can love your aura ring i will say i do think that aura rings for me have been the new um iuds where i'm like is this an mlm are there unpaid spokespeople who are like paid spokespeople who are like infiltrating groups trying to get everybody to get one of these um because like the way that like i literally like did a video talking about

like a wearable health tracker like asking for advice if anyone had one and i explicitly say all the things that like i don't want that are like deal breakers and like the aura ring is all of those things and everybody's like gotta get an aura ring i'm like i quite literally said it I mentioned the aura ring being like that does not do the things that I need and I was like you still gotta get it I'm like why why do I need to get it if it doesn't achieve the goals that I need because it's great you love it like what it's very like get the aura ring but it's great for some people but using it as a health tracker is like not it's about like optimizing your health which is for very healthy people to be like superhuman that's that's it all right next one

uh my wrong of the week was tori branham 100 said that tori is wrong yep oh yeah she's walking it back and saying she didn't do it which is so funny someone said omg i just heard about this yesterday from my korean colleague the absolute saddest part was how absolutely unsurprised i felt that poc were being treated badly again and this is from someone that does not use live in the u.s yeah um i have to say she made it really easy to make sure i was getting pictures of the correct woman because she just keeps wearing shirts with her own name on it and i also wonder when people take a selfie and like you know we talk about how that that age that kids reach where they like forget how to smile and they just like grimace and they just show all their teeth she seemingly

is there and i'm like girl you have to see how uncomfortable you look in this photo you're seeing this on your phone take it again try again but like i just don't think she's capable that is her is this an actual photo or was it a screenshot from her video no it's a photo of her because this is how she's sitting in her car in the video where she's doing all this stuff i think somebody took a screenshot from the video oh no that's how she smiles okay someone else said i love it when people expose themselves and get caught any support she got i hope is long gone another person said a lot of my conservative korean relatives have told me i'm being too dramatic whenever i speak about american politics i wonder if they'll believe

me now they might be too proud to admit it yeah that's like this i think we could accomplish so much if we like figured out a way to like remove that like sunk cost fallacy from people all right That's it for this episode. Thank you for joining us. We'll be back on Thursday for Don't Blame Me. Friday for Fisting Friday. Monday, we've got But Am I Wrong? And then on Tuesday, we will see you next Tuesday.

Bye. Bye-bye. This is a Sister Sign production hosted by me, Megan Rinks. And me, Melissa D. Montz, plus Diamond Imprint Productions. Thank you.