Don't Blame Me! - SYNT: Vape Smoke to the Face

Episode Date: August 26, 2025

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hi hello melissa has so much energy i do she's so i'm vibing you know when you hit that rim which is an hour and a half you're good i i feel like i never hit that rim i do and that's how i plan out my sleeping in blocks most and i are like built so fucking differently like i i hope i can sleep but like my god planning to sleep is just i know i can't even plan to poop my i've been on a different schedule with them i've been eating more fiber so i was but then i don't know what's been happening this last week it's been a lot of not megan's not pooping and she's got these or horrific headaches and you'd think i'd be dehydrated i am drinking so much water and then you think maybe it's too much water so that i scale about it just nothing is changing well i'm

sorry that you're having issues with your body that's fine that's fine a body will body body yada yada yada yada yada yada welcome everybody i was thinking get me buddy is that janet no get me bodied is don't tell me hold on i'm no but i can hear it in my head wow oh no no wow i'm sorry wow wow wow no no okay i'm gonna leave now that was yeah maybe in my head i thought it was a cover because like it's so it's like old school old school that's on irreplaceable b-day yes it's on b-day let me put this back on get some better juju no you literally have your catholic it's right there we're so sorry everybody and the craziest part is i i probably listened to this like two days ago well and we're gonna put you in a little high valve yeah i need i need to get

rid of this headache i need to get unconservative because i'm losing crucial ancient texts like i'm losing things that i know to my core i'm forgetting how to spell my own name essentially wow okay that was really scary i i need a moment to circulate some air no i'm like did i have a stroke like i'm like what just happened okay okay everybody wow start this all over everybody welcome see you next tuesday yeah it is and um we are here to read you the results of last week's episode of but am i wrong do you like that voice crack i didn't even notice it my mind is still i'm having to deep breathe 30 seconds ago i think i had a medical event

just that felt like the same thing like when you like go to the hospital they ask you like what year like who's the president or whatever like that felt like a that's an easy question okay well anyways everybody now that we get megan's brain back yeah sorry about that maybe i should i thought like waking up at six was great for me i was like maybe it's not it's fine it's fine that's fine we're back welcome to see you next Tuesday and this is for episode 155 I know it's a lot first up is me Megan thinks at least one person in the dermatology clinic should have acne 15 said I was wrong 85 said I was not wrong I work as a receptionist at skincare spa and I have genetically clear and young skin and people especially older women will

often say how can I make my skin look like yours and I'm pretty blunt with them and say I've always had good skin and it's also my age like you're 40 years older than me i'm sorry i'm not going to sell you something and lie to you i do also say i drink a lot of water and wear spf every day so that is a start i love when people are like yeah it's literally just genetics as someone who struggled with severe acne throughout her teenage years i could not agree more i will never forget the one dermatologist assistant with flawless skin who told me that i just need to stop eating chocolate and all my skin problems would go away that was so big like like 17 magazine like acne tips i also think this applies to influencers with young audiences i spent years falling for

those my secret to clear skin videos where they would preach that a fragrance filled product single-handedly cleared their skin when they had no acne in the first place well i find it really helpful when people post about what works for their skin i think it should be mandatory to also explain your skin concerns so young people can have realistic expectations maybe i'm just protecting because i spent ages 14 to 16 damaging my skin with products because i had nobody else to go for go to for advice i i think like in general too like they're like doing like a yeah and like i'm i'm i'm started making videos when i was like 17 ish i think 17 and so like i'm can come at this from like a i'm older now and i understand it like more now and i like i never

had perfectly clear skin but a lot of those kids like they just see everybody else doing it and they want to do it and they don't know that like when they've had a singular like a singular zit that what they did didn't just clear it up like there's just like a level of naivete and also wanting to fit in and i think people also just like remember like when you're a kid watching something if you're watching someone who is a peer who's also your age they're also trying to fit in so you're trying to fit in with how you're watching they're trying to fit in within their own group of peers whether they're making content or not i take a much bigger issue with uh people who are older preaching that to a younger audience man i just saw this woman's um tiktok where she

was talking about i've been using this serum to make my skin clear blah blah blah this is the best skin i've had she's sitting in a car of course and so the light's directly on her and it looks like she just moisturized but in the comments people were like go back to her videos from a year ago her skin looks the same she's lying and i like when people are calling other people out me me too and like if you see someone in general do like a lot of skincare sponsor stuff with like testimonial you can pretty much know for a fact that like unless it's like lasers or something that is like a direct cause and response or like a like a face mask or something but if it is like clearing my acne x y and z and they constantly are doing all of those new kinds of

things uh they don't have acne because you can't try out that many products and switch it up and like if you do have acne and you finally find something that works like you're not fucking with it yeah yes i'm not changing i'm honestly i've started slowly adding things in but all from pharmacy just to see if it will if it's not messing with my skin yeah i'm like someone who like i am inclined always to mix things up like i i'm just always like oh this like let me just try something else let me try something else and i always regretting it and so like i but i'm someone like if i if someone wants to make a skincare kind of a thing and if it's like if You want, like, a testimonial.

You want, like, a before and after. You have to give it to me months and months and months before I even agree to do it. Like, not even that, like, oh, I'll do it, but just give me some time. I won't even agree until I know that it works. And also, it's probably going to irritate my skin. I need to test this out first. All right. Then Melissa says, F your non-apologies.

someone said having matt rife be the face of a beauty brand is like having the garbage pads be the face of recycling something is not adding up but melissa is not wrong i still don't understand what went through their minds when they hired that man so i saw someone made a point that they think that it was outrage marketing on purpose because the what they were actually announcing was not a new product it was the increase in price and everything their elf is doing is increasingly astronomically in price and so then when people get upset about it later on they can just be like oh we already told you and it's just that you're not paying attention to what they're saying rumor on the street it's the same advertising agency that did the sydney sweeney

and the same one that did that new uh duncan ad with who it was something in the not the one with brandy and monica i was about to say i just saw that duncan donut also had genetics in their ad too yeah new duncan donut ad mentioning genetics with who and he got a little swallowed up and everything um featuring an actor from the summer i turned pretty oh god which one gavin yes leg no uh alt-right conservative got married at like 18 and is you know trying to play from what i've read online is like trying to play this like victim nobody on the cast likes me and will hang out with me like i'm just like a sad boy all i care about is my fans and it's like no you're like a bigot that's why they don't like you yeah so in this one is that he's like sitting in at a

pool with his feetsies in the water and then he stands up and he goes look i didn't ask to be the king of summer it's just it just kind of happened this tan genetics i just got my color analysis back guess what golden summer literally yeah and the funny part is is they could have done it with both of the boys because i don't watch the show but they're brothers and one of them is not a it someone else said all of these baffle me how could any brand do something so stupid even me who has no knowledge or care about market knows how bad it is and i'm sure people these decisions have gone through are all very qualified at least more than me how yeah it went through so many hands so it's not on purpose another person said might as well stay silent no

non-apologies piss me off more than no apologies then we have writer number one are they wrong for thinking about walking away from their racist boyfriend one percent said the writer is wrong 99 said the writer is not wrong someone said writer is wrong if they stay the boyfriend go to jail do not pass go do not collect 200 writer girl run run girl run you deserve so much better writer should have left him so so so so so long ago you need to leave if she feels comfortable with it please feel free to give her my oh okay so writer reach out if you if you're listening to this and we'll connect um if she'd feel comfortable with it please feel free to give her my instagram handle so we can chat i divorce my abusive ex

husband and can relate to the obliterated self-esteem that results from being in such unhealthy relationships as a white woman i obviously can't empathize with the prejudice she has been informed of of her fiance's mother family but i can't support a woman who needs to break up with her trash man that's sweet someone else said get out girl i have so many things i need to say to this writer and the main thing being run i was in a situation like this for many years dating someone with a racist family who refused to acknowledge me trust me when i say you do not want to become a part of his family whatsoever not even adjacently i think think about it like i think about it like this what if you had offspring with him what kind of

shit would they have to deal with hearing from their own family please run girl i'm rooting for you someone said i don't even i don't think anyone has been less wrong ever leave leave dump him girl run dump your racist republican boyfriend writer needs to run away from this man forever like maybe still move just so he doesn't have your address i also need to know how on earth you got engaged how do you propose when did he propose before after in between the two long stints of not talking or do the lack of communication for weeks start happening after you got a ring i'm so curious get out leave right now it's the end of you and him also five years you haven't met the parents pardon but they know you exist and they hate you yeah that's it

and we have writer number two if someone blows vape smoke in my face in my face i should be able to slap them five percent said the writer is wrong 95 said the writer is not wrong someone said you another person said i'm very sensitive to smells and have a contamination fear so whenever someone vapes around me i get paranoid smoking tobacco is not okay either but because vaping has yet to be regulated the way tobacco is we do not know what other additives and fill and filters they have put in the cartridges so i don't care if it smells like strawberries it can still cause secondhand smoke or fireworks so unless you're going to foot the

medical bill don't be surprised of the stink eyes you get when you start smoking away so it smells like being in a like it to me it also smells like hookah which is like such a like i get like where am i like i get confused because i'm like i this is hookah is not portable in that kind of way and like there's a distinct smell to that that like sticks because the flavors you know uh someone else said people and their addictions to vapes piss me the fuck off and i am someone who enjoys a vape i've always known to only vape in places it would be socially acceptable to smoke also grow up and bring back smoking i'm kidding mostly i do enjoy a dirty cigarette from time to time i like know people who like used to vape and they were like you know what like i'm smoking like

three packs of cigarettes a day like i'm just gonna like go back to smoking cigarettes and have like a cigarette a day and it's like that's that is objectively better for you yes you meant in them vaping they're smoking three packs a day yeah someone else said i've almost thrown someone's vape out my car window because they blew it in my face in your car wait sorry you have to tell me that again i can't picture it i've almost thrown someone's vape out my car window because they blew it in my face so this person was driving Oh, they're in their car? Yes.

I was picturing like the Quinta SNL sketch. Like they're just reaching through the other window, like two cars parking next to each other. Okay. I would have done it too if they didn't threaten to crash my car. The fuck? Wait.

I'm sorry. Were they driving? Because how are they crashing the car? They can reach over and go, Well, not if I throw your vape out the window because you're so addicted to that thing you're dive balling right out of that window trying to catch it uh and then they said y'all caught y'all cotton candy usb addicts need help yes you do another person said wholeheartedly agree not just because all those terrible smells

and the smoke trigger my very shitty and very sensitive lungs if you invade my space i'm allowed to invade yours yeah i've gotten in verbal fights with people in lines at theme parks for this because i have asthma and hate how normalized vaping is get it out please someone else said the way my mother-in-law does this to me every time i see her permission to slap yes I like I'm just picturing my mother-in-law vaping like I like that would be so crazy like Mott's parents vaping I that would be so crazy like if anybody's going to vape in that family it would be Mott's and I and we don't but like we have delinquent we have the delinquent energy of the whole family but I'm just like I don't know how I would like

be able to function within that relationship because there are different societal and like relationship expectations with how you treat your in-laws and like i would not be cool with the vape there are lines that cannot be crossed and that's one of them i would hide it i would steal it i would break it i'd lose it i'd like i'd get a dog just to be like the the dog it i'd have a kid just to be like we're concerned about the kid so please don't do Like, I would come up with anything. No, I would just say it. Yeah, that's crazy.

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Here's to WestJetting since 96. Travel back in time with us, and actually travel with us at westjet.com slash 30 years. Someone else said, not wrong at all. I have several times where I have had to tell teenagers to not vape on a packed public bus. Vaping is a real issue for teens in Australia. It's a real issue everywhere.

And I always get smirks. And whilst people will quietly support me, no one else speaks up i have had to email schools several times about their kids smoking in packed non-smoking areas school uniforms make it easy to identify the school i don't know what the school can do when they're off property but no if you're wearing your school you can get if it's school hours even if it's lunch or depending on it i mean like after if they're after school or riding to school there's a whole well i just know this the guy i went to prom with he uh had a he didn't have like a final period of the day so like his school day ended at like whatever so like his school day

was done and he stole shit from the grocery store he stole alcohol and condoms and he got suspended for doing that even though it wasn't during school hours yeah but that's illegal if you're 18 and smoking that's not illegal are they 18 if they're in high school they could be 18 oh yeah they could be but they might not be but you don't know yeah why not report anyway what's the smoking age in australia i feel like y'all do stuff early yeah i actually do i really feel like maybe you don't even have any laws against it someone else said slap the vape out of their hand and step on it if it lands within an adequate distance of your foot megan's whole point of where it gets put and then also going in your mouth is something i never thought of but how but now i'm horrified by it

purse germs back pocket germs tech germs and then the vomit emoji yeah just like imagine just like tonguing your usb port on your computer like that's like fucking crazy another person said 100 agree with the writer people are too casual about vapes i keep seeing people vaping on trains a couple months ago this man opposite of me kept vaping so openly and let's just say i had some violent urges it's so inconsiderate and something about the fluffy fake smells make it worse it's so out of control idk how it can be stopped honestly the same way smoking got stopped you just banned it um but i'm so bitter about this so loved hearing you ladies rant about vaping in public slash private places

someone else said as someone who vapes sorry i blow upward to avoid people at all costs like it's not that hard yes i'm trying to quit yes i hate everything yeah i also just think that like we need to treat vaping like smoke breaks and then you need to like go to like this designated smoking section yep did i tell you that i saw someone smoking a cigarette in their car with the windows rolled up the other day and i was like um 411 i need to do a mental health check like that is like that's wild but also like that's so like you're not going to be able to see out your car if this is something you do all the time i have to think you wanted to end your life because there are so many there are so many ways here that you are risking your

life first of all we have fire inside without any okay no wind we've got fire inside your car um where are you putting the ashes out inside of this the smoke in here and then like you're just you're hotboxing yourself with a cigarette yeah i was like literally looked over and i was like oh god i almost like took a picture of license plate to be like someone do something about uh somebody wrote in and said uh it was before we have put the votes up and said something like forget about smoking in restaurants what about how it used to be legal on planes and i was like yeah but that was before i was born i'm actually deeply unfamiliar with that i don't know about that it didn't affect me but i do distinctly remember walking into restaurants

and them asking smoking or non-smoking. Yeah, all I remember is my grandmother reminiscing about being able to smoke in restaurants. So, like, I never experienced that, but I just remember her being mad. Yeah. Someone else said, as someone who vapes terrible, I know,

if someone slapped me for that, I wouldn't even be mad. It's like, let me, we would just like a Pavlovian response to it. Like, it helps you quit. Mm-hmm. All right, that's it. then we have my nomination for wrong of the week and russell 94 said ann is wrong six percent said

ann is not wrong someone said lmao what the fuck up is what the wcf is up with her science and this person science i had my eyes roll back so hard watching this episode at my work someone else said obviously i'm team water see previous message about skincare wait that's so funny that's the person who said that they when people at the dermatology place or the skin clinic that she works at ask and she goes i just drink a lot of water and i was like hey you know and maybe that could help i thought they said they vaped too and i was like no way they don't okay sorry i was like holy shit what a whiplash god she looks so british that's like the part that i think is like when you come on here and you clown americans you want to clown americans for like eating unhealthy

fast food as well as them for having reusable water bottles and drinking too much water like the the contrast between those things is wild and also when like you have the attitude of someone who's like so deeply dehydrated and you also look parched like maybe wouldn't do that maybe if she drank some water she wouldn't be so dry looking yeah maybe they're also against moisturizing there too i don't know what the british and sunscreen are like our our british correspondent let us know yeah let us know oh our our british correspondent definitely wear sunscreen oh yeah oh yeah beautiful skin beautiful skin she's very fair she wears sunscreen um someone else said what a dumb bitch i don't even know what else to say

this is just infuriating to hear i think that's that's exactly what your thought yeah i said this is so fucking stupid I'm a European and I can confirm it is possible to buy a cooling device of your choosing without spontaneously combusting or hurting national pride bought a fan this summer and

even my very British husband loves it give it a go Ann babes you might become a fan too no pun intended but she says she has air conditioning in her house that's the part that's so fucking crazy that she's like you guys understand how hard it is and I was like well clearly it was so hard you had to get air conditioning

And she's like, well, not everybody has access to that. I'm like, I don't know why you think that everybody in the United States is born and they're gifted, like, an A... Like, you're gifted a Boeing plane, a massive machine gun, and an AC unit. And I'm like, that's actually not how it works here. Someone else said, my flabbers are beyond gasted.

I don't even want to go there. I don't mean to go there. I'm not... I'm no beauty, but I am not wrinkled beyond the prune stage telling people that they don't need water. Yeah. She, like, literally looks, like, parched. Yeah.

Yeah. This reminds me of the people trying to sell those water hydrogenators. Hydrogenators? Like hydrogenated? Or hydrogenerators? I think it's water hydrogenerators. Because they claim that, quote-unquote, water doesn't naturally have hydrogen in it. What do you think the H in H2O stands for, idiots? Anne is an idiot too, and very wrong. Maybe if she drank more water, she wouldn't have to complain about the heat so much.

Someone says, Anne looks intoxic. She agrees with JK Rowling. which in Anne's defense she has done some good videos about how she was like uh and she says basically says the same thing that like it is very common for her demographic to like just naturally agree and she was like and I did until I did more you know research and like listen and learn it was like oh this is not a real issue this is just bigotry so I will give Anne that so I hope she can listen and learn about water uh it sounds like Anne is dehydrated maybe she'll get so dried out that she has to go to a hospital that diagnosed her with dehydration induced insanity i just don't know why you'd willing one to it someone else i think the videos you're

talking about from 2022 but she's still wrong and then you sent the recent ones going oh my god no she's put her phone away like so seemingly she must have done something similar like i think she's brought up the weather thing a lot yeah i've only seen her on my for you page a few times but she's always seemed like a cranky old woman i have no reason besides she's british and rancid I have no idea why people are surprised or disappointed. She seems like she's always this way. I will be honest. I also thought the same thing.

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stricter than the ncaa even when the ncaa was stricter yeah seems like they're getting a lot of pushback that um that this is to rewrite these rules into but like they're not going to reinstate because like he's busy now yeah also i was talking to mots about it turns out mots like loves him he used to play for the broncos he's like one of like mots like mots is like no he's like one of my favorite like in general like he's like just like a great guy great player he had like one bad injury and like has done the best rehab of like anyone he like literally went on and on and i was like Okay. He loves him.

Big fan. Big fan. Someone else said, as a Floridian, Florida is always wrong. Yeah. And that's it. Woo-hoo!

We hope you all enjoyed. Have you seen the guy who does the, like, white girl dancing on the street and, like, people will see him and they'll be like, let me do it with you! And I was like,

this is... And I showed mods and I was like, this is what i do when i dance with my niece and nephew and every time there's another adult in the room they go wow did you grow up dancing you can really dance and i'm like literally like this right here is just called rhythm this is just called dancing to the beat of the song this is not like i did grow up dancing there's no way that me doing this should make you think like wow did you dance but then i see other people dance sometimes i go oh you lack rhythm you know when

i saw you in that youtube rewind video in my unit you were doing the old i mean the new newer version of the running man which by the way that was i was that was very hard for my brain to compute because i was like but that's not what this is yeah um i was like oh she has rhythm and that's the first time i ever thought that thank you because no one else no melissa and i like the whole thing i was like i want to be a unitard and i want to be like funny dancing to the funny and I remember Matt and Stephanie being like, okay, I'm not sure if I can let you be funny when... We need you.

Yeah. I was like, I'm still going to be funny. He goes, I might need it to do a couple of takes. I might need you to not. And I was like, I'm wearing a unitard. I was watching it and I said, wait, does that make... Because we weren't like friends, friends yet when it dropped. And so I was like, oh.

she can she actually has some rhythm and i think i think i asked you after that if you had i think like the conceptually not having rhythm is like so foreign to me like i'm just like that's like baseline and so then when people are like oh my god you then i see other people and i go oh like you you can't you can't hear it like it's like it's like it's it's too they're on the the ones and twos instead of the twos and fours yeah and like i when you try and teach them and i was like oh okay i i guess it is just you have something you have or you don't but uh i i love to see i like i i also do love watching someone who's like like you said they have their own rhythm it is just not the right one

and i'm like oh i love a little lag it's a little bit of lag well thank you for joining us today we will be back on thursday for don't blame me friday for fisting friday monday will be but am i wrong and then on tuesday we will see you next tuesday bye bye bitches this is a sister sign production hosted by me megan rinks and me melissa d montz plus diamond imprint productions