Don't Blame Me! - SYNT: Timely Bridgerton Season 1 Spoilers

Episode Date: May 28, 2024

This week on the show, Melisa needs your help! She's facing a computer crisis and worries she might be getting scammed for repairs. Can we untangle the tech jargon and find a solution? Meanwhile, Meghan ditches the epic saga and dives into the world of Bridgerton. We'll dish on the latest season and all the Regency romance drama. Tune in for laughs, tech tips, and a dose of pop culture obsession! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

happy tuesday happy to see you on this tuesday so excited so thrilled well i've been on the edge of my seat since you texted me right before we started recording saying i've got this shit i'm dealing with my computer i'm just gonna get into it on see you next tuesday um and i need to know what's going on because our our lives are parallel but our computers are also parallel so um if yours is dying mine's gonna die too it's not that is dying it like i said on fisting friday it's the stupidest reason ever so my um space bar was sticking and so i took it and i was like hey can y'all like i don't know what you need to do clean under whatever and they're like yeah okay then i get a message this morning saying because i had to leave it there yesterday i get a message

this morning saying hello melissa i have finished the diagnosis on your device it looks like you need a new top case which includes a new keyboard and battery because this is an out of warranty device i've had since 2019 the cost for this repair would be 687.86 after tax if you would like to go forward with this repair i will send you a payment request via email text and then he went on keep in mind last year in june so it hasn't even been a full year yet my space bar popped off and i took it to this place and they replaced all of that that they just said because it was a mouth i was a um what's it called when the company messes up um recall there was a recall on that keyboard and so like they replaced all that for free because it was part of the recall

it hasn't been a full year later and you're saying that I'm having the exact same problem with the battery you replaced last year and like this is an issue and so I said all that and then he said so the top case is three parts in one the top case includes the battery keyboard and tracking pad sadly you only need the keyboard but there is no way to order just the keyboard since that comes part of the battery i said no thank you that makes no sense no it makes no sense can you take it to melrose mac and pop a new space bar on that's what i'm gonna go because unfortunately melrose max isn't everywhere anymore that's what i used to like but like half the stores shut down yeah and so um the closest one isn't that close to me so i'm gonna

i'm gonna actually call them and just ask them can they do that if they can't do it either way i'm just gonna i'm gonna 600 basically 700 for a 2019 computer when i just need a fucking space bar when i can just use an external keyboard yeah as it is that makes no fucking sense no also because like as somebody who um has a really bad habit of eating almond butter while on my computer the amount of times i have gotten food stuck under one of the keys and i've just taken like a little pointy thing and gotten it out and then they're like it's a jar or a skew and i go uh-oh and then i finagle it and i snap it back on myself like you can't tell me that that's attached to the fucking battery and therefore those things cannot be done separate

yes and so i that's what i initially tried to do is trying to snap it back on but apparently there's something broken the space bar is harder than yes and so um yeah i also saw that you can buy them on amazon for like 20 bucks but so i'm gonna do that but i'm also just like i need a new computer anyway so um i was just pissed because it's like that makes no sense especially when it was something that they fixed last year and it hasn't been a full year so it feels like it's a them problem well then it should be there wasn't anything there wasn't anything under the thing so it wasn't even that yeah no you're not like me every time i bring my computer my phone in they're like so we found something and i go really where was it and they're like like a full

bottle of diet coke and i was like that's so crazy that did i leave my phone in my bag and then my my soda exploded yes like i had no idea or like my phone's not working they're like oh do you have any water damage because we did find bubbles in it and i'm like oh so weird you're not like that so they and like if they if they fucked it up it's like cool so you actually repaired this within your recall like a year ago less than a year ago yeah what's the warranty on match they don't have one it had to be within 90 days that's insane that is insane and this is like a mac authorized place it's not like i just went to some rinky dink place but honestly if i probably went to rinky dink place they probably would just pop a thing on there that's why i always go to so

um yeah i'm mad i'd be mad so stupid that's it's really stupid and yeah it's i don't believe them i don't either like it's stupid and it's a bad lie they're like well we have your computer so you actually can't google to find out that this was a lie baby i have a phone i got your phone too desktop yeah liars liars that's really frustrating yeah i'm sorry that's what i have dealing with are you picking it up today yeah i finally got my first writing assignment for the thing i won't give details yet for the people but you'll see something eventually the thing that's the thing that we're the thing uh-huh oh i can't wait me too i want to let the record say i have given up on lord of the rings so we watched the second one the second one wasn't

it was it was fine um there's still like next to no legolas in it so again i am i am asking i'm asking everybody everywhere where did orlando bloom the sex symbol come from from these movies because it makes no fucking sense to me because this man doesn't speak he just prances around with his fucking like i gotta say 40 inch wig after we had this discussion i googled him i googled this character and i was like those look kind of hot to me no no no no no you have to watch a video of him walking because the way he just he just bounces and like doesn't speak and I'm like, so you're beautiful, but like, I'm, I don't want to fuck you. And like, so what was this whole, like, are you going to be, uh, I forget Vigo Morgan's more, I can't say it cause

I always want to say the other name. Um, it's like, which one are you? I go, well, one of these is a rugged man. That's going to take me in the back of a barn sexually. And the other one is just going to do a little jaunty dance with me in a circle. I'm like, what do you mean? Where you're, which, which kind of girly are you? And I'm like, well, I, I'd like the sex one. so um but yeah I gave up because I asked Mott's I was like so is the third one like do we have like is it happy and he was like no and I was like is there like any point where like things work out well or is it just like this fire and brimstone just like devastating because then we like it got Gollum's backstory and I was like this is all so fucking sad so I'm out and my

thought process is like I will hop back in when you give me like a cottagecore cute little day at the shire um and it just really pissed me off because they're like so clearly in love and we're not doing anything about it and we know how i feel about captain marvel and when you tease a great love story in front of us and then you don't give it to us i think it's really fucked up so um i'm out on that uh but uh jenny who i think i had mentioned in the episode being like jenny i feel like you saw this and said I'm not mad at your takes honestly books are great but you definitely don't have the attention span to read them I barely got through them your takes are more entertaining than the movies which are mid at best um which I agree with and Matt said the

same thing he was like I think the books would be great but like you know it might take a while to kind of get through them so I then started watching Bridgerton because Nicole Coughlin like i i love that fucking girl and so i was like i have to watch season three and so by the instructions of you whenever on our patreon i have to start from the beginning so i started from the beginning and the first thing i wrote down was there are far too many siblings for them to all be straight where is the gay and then we the first time we got a close-up of that brother i went there he is and melissa went i mean not melissa mods was like what i go he's he he's gonna be gay and he was like what and then he like knocks on the door and i go man's gonna answer man answers and i was like

i am owning this like i knew it and i was so happy because i was like are we just supposed like to just no one's gonna be gay because also eloise is giving very much joe like little women there and i'm like i was gonna say there's there might be two not just one yeah yeah yeah but i was like she's very much giving like um don't come near me any sort of sexual i don't want anyone interested in me and i was like well she's giving joe from little women and we know what that means um and i was just like what the fuck so i also have to say that um lady whistle down is that no which is the one who's his his aunt or his like auntie who's staying he's staying with oh uh lady danberry lady danberry she's my favorite character and so like everyone just

being like oh lady danberry's coming i go first of all she's the only thing keeping this interesting like stop being so upset about her you know who i think also would have played a very good her is eartha kitt yes i was like and i'm also like who's that and i was like what are you talking i showed the picture and he was like oh i know who that is and i was like there you go but like so like just kooky little chaotic campy but like i want to be like you i know that i hated mutton chops but my god i've never hated mutton chops so much in my life like and i will say not not spoiler but um i mean it's not but they all get before because it she shaves them before every time you have your your hero season she goes there we go

shave the face they're all gone now i will say oh thank god yeah they're all gone now because i was like when i was watching the first few episodes i was like i do not want to see any of these dudes fuck except for benedict the the uh bisexual and i was like he he's he doesn't really need a glow up but these other dudes do they get gone they're all gone now i was like this is the equivalent of like the justin bieber haircut on boys who do not have the justin bieber either hairline or hair i was just like it is giving like it was tragic to the point where i was like i have to save you like i this is so painful to watch so i was like could not fucking stand that um but then i looked up the guy like once the following seasons and i was like oh everybody's getting shaved before

They're shaving you, smacking you on the bum, being like, welcome to the world. You're going to be hot now. So I also just like hate Simon. Like I hate Simon so fucking much. This man is so annoying. And I was like Googling because I was like, the way I was reacting to their sex scene,

I was just going, oh, oh, like so uncomfortable. And I Googled, why do sex scenes make me so uncomfortable? Because like, not like a sexually repressed person or whatever. And I like looked it up. And it's a division of, like, between what relationships were modeled to you when you were, like, a kid, like, of affection or whatever, PDA, all of those things. If those were, like, modeled in front of you as, like, good, healthy things. And then, like, how sex was, like, talked about in front of you or whatever.

And I don't have, like, religious trauma. I kind of have the opposite of people who are, like, far too open when I was way too young. And then it made me, like, super sicked out. so i still kind of have that like kid reaction in tv shows like not with like my friends or like people i know or like seeing people like hold hands or like hug in person or whatever and then the other thing is is like when it's not earned in tv we've talked about that before so like there are things like nick and jess from new girl i'm like oh my god kiss kiss kiss oh my god if we got a sex scene from that i go yes finally but for this he pissed me off so much that i was like i

want her to get railed also she knows nothing about sex to the point where i go this is actually so fucking irresponsible like what does she think how does she this is a seemingly 17 18 year old girl who doesn't even she thinks a stork drops a baby off no i can't most i actually can't process that she thinks does she think a stork drops a baby off like she has no idea well one you got to think about the time like they didn't have books she's heard her mom give birth and so So, two, I'm glad that somebody else finds Simon annoying because I felt like I was alone and I have been waiting for you to watch because I knew you would be on my same page. I find him so annoying. And also, he looks just like my cousin, so I can't find him sexually attractive in any type of way because, like, no.

And when, like, Bridgerton, because this came out during the pandemic. And so my cousin, when, during the pandemic, he, this is the one that lives in L.A. Yeah. So he, when he was like, go to the store, like with his mask on and stuff, people legit thought he was him. So it was just like, I can't get into this at all. But, but I'm, I just, I, of the sex stuff, those two are the only two that I'm just like, I don't want to see them have sex because she just seems so fragile and brittle.

And I don't want to see that. Um, and also I had a conversation with Melanie, my sister about, this was just like two days ago about how it's so irresponsible for all these mothers not to be telling their children who are getting married about sex until after it's happened. You'll like season three, we're fine. Season two, season three. I'm just like, it's not between Nicola and Colin. It's not Penelope and Colin.

it's like her sisters that are in it and i'm just like this is so it's fun like it's played for humor it's funny but i'm just like why is no one telling these girls women they're women what sex is and then we also know that the men are going to the sex clubs and they're all just they're learning how to have sex and like why isn't the same information because women are so delicate at this time i know it's in whatever time it is but still it should be a discussion that the mothers are having with their daughters and like if the mothers are even their maids yeah someone needs to have a conversation and like if the men are having sex then i and they know that like the point that like daphne doesn't even know what sex is like she doesn't fucking know when it's

like oh you know whatever when he like strips down and she like looks excited I go she's not excited she goes what are you gonna do with that thing she like has no idea he's like oh this is gonna be uncomfortable for a minute how about we actually don't have sex on your wedding night then and then be like okay so your mom failed you the people in your life failed you no one talked about this so I'm actually gonna teach you what sex is before I assume that you want to have sex like this is and then she's like enjoying herself and she's like has an or and I'm like okay this is such a fucking lie and like the fact that she could be like chastised for like kissing somebody like but they're like okay so as long as you you you've stayed pure you haven't kissed anyone now

you're about to get railed and you're not even gonna know what's happening like that's like for me if someone came up to me and i had no idea what sex was and like their their penis is just out and they're like i'm gonna stick this in the hole in your body i would go oh my god without any what like you have to mentally prepare me and like the way that they speak i would i would have failed in this shit so hard because i'm like i need people to be so goddamn fucking literal and like spell it out and the way they're like dancing around the subject all the fucking time to be like demure and delicate i'm like you bitches are confused you bitches are like perpetually fucking confused so be straightforward and i was really happy with

um the maids who are just like not cut the shit we're gonna and like trying to get shit done they're actually just just being honest and straight up everyone else is like well maybe oh perchance and i'm like shut the fuck up and it just made me so mad and like i know we're supposed to think it's hot but i genuinely do think it's irresponsible to have sex with somebody who doesn't know what sex is even if she wants you she doesn't know what sex is yep and and then i was like i can't tell him i was like i said to mom so he's actually gotten into it too i was like so if he can't have kids and i was like how do you know at that day and age that you're shooting blanks like how would you know i was like was he castrated like is that gonna come out from this i

was like but his dad has said that like you know wants him to have like to to sigh or an air or whatever and um how are you they just had sex okay you'll get answers soon yeah and so then he like and then i was like what is going and then he like strips naked and she's just like has his face on her and i was like so does he have a penis does he have balls like she doesn't like i was like i can't trust her facial reaction to like tell me what's going on and then like we were watching so he's watching so he goes he pulled out he pulled out he pulled out it's that's what he's doing and i was like oh okay so like because that was like his what his idea was um so we've had a couple of wins where i said i knew that the one bridgerton brother was gay and um then mont said

i think the featheringtons are broke they can't pay the dowry um and i have to say i don't know why that in this instance i thought and it's not like i thought that's what dowries meant in general but i thought for some reason it was set up to be like the men were having to pay a dowry for the women and i was like oh no it's the opposite so like these girls don't get to learn about sex they can't do anything they can't they these men can they can go hook up with sex workers they can go to sex parties they can do whatever the fuck they want these girls cannot even have a kiss or a handhold in the garden be alone no they can't be alone they can't do anything they can't know what sex is and then they have to pay money like you mean to tell me that the the the pregnant girl

it would have to pay money to be with that creepy old man who looks like he should be on mount rushmore or a dollar bill she would have to pay money she should be compensated for the time she spent talking to him let alone if she had sex with him and i literally i said i was like oh my god if she marries him the girl just kill him just give him a little little knock over he won't make it like he is old so horrible so gross um i love the queen yeah and i think she becomes such because she wasn't it was supposed to be to be a small part but she's a star she becomes very much more of the show and then also queen charlotte gets her own show too and again i showed fantastic casting because she has such a unique look to her and the girl they cast to play

young her i was like are you guys sure you're not fucking related the casting for younger because lady danbury is also cast oh so you get both of them and also violet the mom from bergerton she's a little girl but like yeah they're they're both in it so you get young versions of them it's very good i'm gonna watch it it's just heavier so i'm gonna wait it's not i it's just that one fucking scene i saw that made me really sad the thing is is there's there's one theme that's a little heavier but i would say the show as a whole isn't heavier okay well now that i know that like she's okay and like they're like dealing with it how they are because the first the only fucking clip i ever saw virgin before walk before starting this was the clip from queen charlotte of like

her trying to like them wanting to have sex river and then him having like a episode and her being like terrified and then them being like well this is what it is and like her being like isolated and alone and now that i'm like oh she's like still queening like she's fine she's got lots of pomeranians like okay i think it's a it shows a way of um if your spouse has a mental illness how like it's not something where they need to be locked especially in that time where they need to be locked away and it's like this is how you this is like you can still love this person they can still love you yeah and i we we got to the point just in this where like he was there like for dinner and it was like she was so ready to meet him wherever he was at and like i thought that

was really nice so i'm way more open to watching it now um but back then like i didn't even know i thought she was the main girl in brit like i didn't realize that she was the queen or it was a prequel or anything and i was like this shit is sad like i don't want to watch them fuck they're having sex it's miserable yeah it's it's not yeah no so um i am i will say though i kept being like where the fuck is the sex like where is where's the sex and i do think i will be less uncomfortable with the penelope collin hooking up because they're already like planting those seeds and like laying out there and i already like collin more like simon is fucking infuriating and you know really who i think is like the hottie of the season is his boxing coach oh yeah

and i gotta look him up because i go you are not an actor by trade man you are built like you have done something before this yeah so i think they were supposed to be like having a bigger storyline with them when simon left it like left out the i wonder so it messes up the storyline but they have for season three they have good because i really like him and his wife and the kid adorable kids but like i liked her like it was so nice to see finally having a woman on there yeah yeah and like a woman who's like oh uh no no i i controlled the fucking strings and by the strings i mean my husband not my kids which is like the only time we're seeing in the on the uppity side is like these moms who are telling their daughters what to do and then the son's

telling the moms what to do yeah i was like yeah fuck off yeah okay well i'm i'm enjoying it uh i am deeply uncomfortable with like so many things and i will say that like it does piss me off like and it goes so fucking slowly like how long is this season it's only eight episodes but i don't know the courting season or whatever oh i don't know if you've gotten to it yet but there's a full episode where they're just having sex the whole episode and this isn't a spoiler for you so i will tell you when you get to that episode just skip it daphne yeah granted why'd you have sex with a girl who doesn't know what sex is like it's just so messy and that's why i can never invest in them because i was just like and i like enemies to lovers as a trope but like

there needs to be some sexual tension and there is no fucking sexual tension and like they're trying and they tried too late to do the pride and prejudice like little hand squeeze like you can build fucking sexual tension in a time where like men and women if they're not married are not supposed to touch like that is hot you can without a doubt do that unfortunately you didn't do that like i feel like you'll love season two no i think i will first of all first of all those actors they can act their fucking asses off and they both just ooze sex appeal in general simone ashley is just like she has a perfect face first of all she's like he also has a perfect face even with mutton chops I went I would actually look past your fucking mutton

chops but like Simone Ashley she looks like she just like emerged out of the water and was like looking just like being like oh you're not from here like you are a you are built by gods like gorgeous and then like her little like flirty eyes and everything I was like oh yeah this is perfect like because Daphne to me is like this is a 14 year old little flower uh I can't remember her name the but um simone ashley's character is like a girl that we would want to hang out with so you you you were gonna you're gonna love that season i i without a doubt by that and like i just think that if you're gonna do enemies to like lovers or whatever you can't do the whole like oh we hate each other now we're suddenly making out because that doesn't match the fucking time

period like it doesn't match how this would have gone so like it's not leading it's not leading up to it in that way and like it just pissed me the fuck off and i like i can't i i can't stand simon yeah sorry to that man i cannot stand him i can't stand him either i can't believe people lust it not even saying i thought you thought like he was like and i was like it was before the show started and i met simon as a character and i was like this man sucks it was also the pandemic and people were starving for touch they were just like i am daphne bridgerton i don't even know what sex is anymore yeah that's exactly you're right that's exactly what it was um i will say matz matz was like i feel bad for the like the the prince of pressure or whatever he was like get

that guy back um you know who that is that actor i can't i don't even remember who you're talking about he's the blonde kid the blonde guy who's the queen's nephew um he's he doesn't come back so i have no idea what you're talking about he's from unreal and he's the guy from unreal who was like the bachelor and i think he might have even played a prince on that season and he ended up marrying and having a baby with like the girl who won quote unquote that season and i was like oh cute so like every time i see him i'm like i remember you um but yeah i i also have to say that um maybe i'm just in my lord of the rings era because the lighting really fucking pissed off in this because where are the lights because all i'm seeing is just such bright lights that

are not on camera so you mean to tell me that this is all recessed lighting in the regency era why is everything fluorescently bright lights like and then we go into like when they're at the inn and it's like oh everything's lit by candlelight then i'm like okay so what's the electricity bill at your fucking palace where i don't even see lights on the walls i'm only seeing overhead lights explain that to me and why are we having balls in the middle of the day because they're rich and they don't have anything to do yeah i do love the homestead yeah i'm i'm i'm in i'm in on it but i need to like record a video of me watching it because what episode are you on you i feel like you're like on six maybe no i think we finished five and then i was like

what the fuck are they gonna do for the next four episodes they're just gonna fuck the whole time and apparently they do like it's just so it's just so fucking weird to me like i just and you're right it has to be that it was like sexually repressed during the pandemic because i was like what is going on like and it's just also like not the formula you usually do so like i would think that like i don't know like when i found out that they're like not having sex before they get married but also at the same time i'm like okay so like if you fucked the guy and it's like bad and like you've been tainted like then just marry him and say whatever like the whole thing where it's like this is so dramatic that her and simon have to marry

and i was like okay i would i would just be like okay cool so i am like tainted goods if i hook up with someone before like we're married or engaged so but i want to know that it's good so i'm just gonna do it and then we're gonna get married like it's just so weird to me that like we're supposed to wait wait until like i don't know i guess i'm just like not horny for like consummating a marriage i'm like come on it's like i'm like you can't be horny for something that you don't know what it is though no i'm saying but that's why i am enjoying the boys stories more where they're like it's not so uptight and like the courting of that like the courting isn't sexy in itself and so then when it's like when we dive into like hardcore i'm like where is this coming from like

if it was like sweeter and cuter i think it would have made a little more sense to me but like i don't think you can take it like to be like the like ravenously horny thing the same way that they met like the guys like the sex party because i'm like those are two people who know what sex is like you're horny for it daphne is just like she might just be hungry like she doesn't know what's going on yeah um i also uh i loved queen charlotte i love season two the first and by the time you catch up we should i feel like at the pace you're going because they split season three and oh yeah two separate ones i'm not should be waiting for that yeah i'm gonna only watch it when i can watch the whole thing yeah so um that first half of season three is so fucking good to me um they did

the lighting is different uh thank god um and how they left the it's like it's a cliffhanger but it's a satisfying cliffhanger and we're just like okay okay okay and i can't wait to share all these memes with you that i've been saving i'm excited for when you get there but i'm i'm excited and i've heard people are saying that it's going like this season's like going too fast and i was like great because i found season one going so painstakingly slow so like i don't think it's too fast because we already know them like yeah and to me that's more satisfying i like that more and like i already like colin more than i like simon yeah and i was waiting for like the i burn for you moment and then it happened and i was like so this is what those bitches made that

whole musical about and then got sued from netflix like it was this moment okay yeah we were really it was the thick of the pandemic just horny and creatively depleted being like i'm actually gonna make a whole musical based on this yeah i mean i did burn through the first season but like i didn't like them like i don't buy them together i don't buy their chemistry but other people did so cool i buy her chemistry with him i don't buy his i just don't think that he that either them are into each other yeah i feel bad for whatever the phoebe diana was that her name her like because she's i was like oh yeah she would be cute and like to keep doing this it was that was nice um she comes back though so she's fine she just comes back by herself with yeah

she's like he's off at the castle oh yeah i'm here with the kid playing around in the yard like it's nothing like okay you know like you could go visit your family without your yeah yeah fair fair fair fair yeah um so yeah uh that's my bridgerton thoughts i have to say it is a welcome change after lord of the rings great i'm glad you watched lord of the rings and then pivoted yeah i i really want to get some wisteria at my home that's what i kept thinking about thinking looking at theirs i had it growing up it's beautiful it's very messy though yeah so um yay i'm excited i'm excited because like you don't watch it and avia also doesn't watch it and i'm like y'all both oh that's difficult for you yeah so like can y'all

please watch it well here i am and then like melanie watches it but then she doesn't she's not on tiktok and i'm like you're missing half the show by not being on tiktok yeah like i'll send her stuff and she's like i don't get it and i was like there was something very specific in this episode that you didn't pick up on and i feel like if you're on tiktok you would have picked up on it well but i mean we can also thank tiktok for the reason why i'm even fucking watching this season because i'm not on bridgerton tiktok i've like never seen bridgerton stuff except for that one queen charlotte thing but what i do see is nicola cockland edits and like her interviews and stuff and i was like i love this bitch so like i'm actually unfortunately gonna have to watch

yes so thank you tiktok yeah don't take it away from us government well we hope you enjoyed uh see you next tuesday and guess what we will see you next tuesday