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Ep 7 | They All Fall Down: My LEAST Favorite Mystery Book Subgenre
Welcome back to episode 7 of Flip the Page!
In today's episode, I'll be diving into one of my least favorite mystery book genres in Rachel Howzell Hall's, "They All Fall Down".
Miriam Macy sails off with six strangers to a private island off the coast of Mexico, believing she’s about to partake in a reality competition show, in a remote island paradise, with a hefty monetary prize set for the winner to take home. It isn’t long, however, before she realizes she, and the others on the island were played. When people start dropping like flies, Miriam realizes the game she was brought onto this island to play, is a lethal one. With each person harboring dark secrets and suspicion running rampant on the remote island, Miriam can only trust herself as she works to uncover who on the island is behind these murders, before she is the next one to drop.
[Intro Music] Locked room murder mysteries. How I loathe you. The locked room murder mystery is a popular subgenre of the mystery genre where a crime, typically a murder, is committed in an enclosed space or environment where it seems impossible for the perpetrator to commit the crime without evading detection. The creator of this subgenre is up for debate. Some might tell you. Sheridan Le Fanu, who coined the subgenre in his gothic novella A Passage in the Secret History of an Irish Countess. Others might say the locked room subgenre appeared first in Edgar Allan Poe's The Murders in the Room Morgue, or Gaston Leroux's The Mystery of the Yellow Room. Frankly, it don't mean much to me because it does nothing to bate my overall dislike of the subgenre. Look, when I read a mystery book, I want to be GRIPPEDT. I want to be at the edge of my seat, heart beating against my chest, mind scrambling, trying to figure out who the hell is behind the murder. I want to be consumed in the mystery while I'm in those pages. That hard thumping of my heart against my chest only getting faster as we reach the climax and the inevitable reveal of the culprit. And I fear, locked room mysteries, don't give me that rush. Overall, I find this genre a tad to tame a tad too safe a tad too cozy, and frankly, a tad too boring. Also, is it just me? But in contemporary locked room murder mysteries, is the murderer not always obvious as hell? Or am I tripping? Regardless, I decided to pick this book up to see if it could change my mind. And you know what? It just might have. Content warning for racism and racist symbolism. Suicide and bullying. The book for today is They All Fall Down by Rachel Howzell Hall, a murder mystery centered around Miriam Macy, a Black woman who is down on her luck. Miriam sails off with six strangers to a private island off the coast of Mexico, believing she's about to partake in a reality competition show on a remote island paradise with a large monetary prize set for the winner to take home. It isn't long, however, before she realizes she and the others on the island were played. When people start dropping like flies, Miriam realizes the game she was brought onto this island to play is a lethal one. With each person harboring dark secrets and suspicion running rampant on the remote island. Miriam can only trust herself as she works to uncover who on the island is behind these murders, before she is the next one to drop. This book... this book had a lot going on. At the center of the novel are seven people brought onto this island, and the mystery surrounding the motive and culprit of multiple murders. Simultaneously, you have the mysteries surrounding Miriam Macy Recently divorced and in a strained relationship with her daughter, the story gradually unthread the events surrounding Macy and her family back home, which led to her invite onto this island. I'm about to jump right into the plot, so if you want my final thoughts on the book, you can skip right ahead to the Flip or Skip section of this episode marked in the chapters. If you want to stick around and plug into what transpires in the book. Grab a pillow, grab a cup of tea, and get comfortable because we're about to get into it. And yes, that was your spoiler warning. The story kicks off with an epigraph and a quote from Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None, a locked room murder mystery novel the author clearly drew inspiration from. And my first strike against the book.[laughs] Look, I see Agatha Christie and I frown. The author continues with the scene of what appears to be our main character, Miriam, drowning in the ocean, her life flashing before her eyes as she sees visions of her mom, father and her daughter Morgan. Her fate, however, remains unknown. Moving right on to part one. Part One. We have a winner! Part one begins with Miriam receiving an email from A. Nansi. Not suspicious at all, given when read altogether, the name reads Anansi. The email extends congratulations and excitement for Miriam to begin her journey on the show, and outlines a travel itinerary to get her to her destination. Now... it was several things in this email that gave me pause. The email talks about how since it's a television show and they want to entertain their viewers they've purposefully sought out personalities that would clash before emphasizing that this is a private island where cell service and internet connectivity will be unstable, which regardless, doesn't matter much because they're prohibiting the use of cell phones anyway. Due to the nature of the competition. HELL NAW. I love me a little Survivor, and I'm going to be tuned into each new season of Love Island. But these are vetted shows. I'm really sat here wondering why anyone would read this email and be gung ho about going on this journey. Because all I'm seeing is red flags and danger. We're officially introduced to Miriam shortly after, and learn that she suffers from bad anxiety and was diagnosed with PTSD with a prescription for Valium that she takes rather liberally throughout the book. Knowing all this, I can't help but wonder why the hell she'd sign up for a show like this. To me, obviously something serious must have happened to push her to come on to the show. And as the plot progresses, you learn she's recently divorced, has been forced to move out into a much lower income neighborhood than she's used to because she lost her job and her daughter maybe sorta kind of dislikes her. Emails that Miriam receives back from her daughter and her husband's new wife outline what might be at the root of the strained relationship Miriam has with her daughter, Morgan. So basically, an altercation seemed to occur recently between Miriam and someone named Prudence McAlister. Deeper at the crux of the tension between Miriam and her daughter is Miriam's dislike for Ashley, her husband's new wife, who just so happens to also be Morgan's much younger ballet teacher. Not messy at all. The email from Ashley reveals that a girl at her dance studio, Brook, had bullied Morgan, who used to attend the same studio but quit. Ashley downplays the bullying as something small and customary to the ballet world, but it's evident that Miriam didn't see it as such. The altercation that occurred between Prudence and Miriam was directly related to the bullying that occurred between Brook and Morgan. How are you as a father, going to marry somebody who was overlooking your daughter, getting bullied? Whatever. One of Miriam's reasons for coming on to the show is revealed as we learn that she doesn't have money to pay legal bills to her lawyer, Phillip Omeke, for his continued services with legal issues, Miriam has had to deal with. When the invitation to participate in the reality TV competition appeared in her inbox. She had jumped at the opportunity because they had promised to give her $10,000 minimum just for appearing. When she arrives in Mexico and boards the ship to the island, we're introduced to other contestants invited onto the show Wallace Zavernella, a posh white realtor. Eddie Sweeney, a white cop. Desiree Scoggins, a white recent widower. Evelyn Pemstein, a white nurse Franklin Clayton, a Black financial advisor. And Javier Cardoza, a Latino executive chef. While introducing herself to the contestants, Miriam is uber conscious of how she comes across, taking precautions to appear likable and friendly in view of any potential cameras. Her putting on this act, however you realize is her trying to run image rehab. Part Two. Purgatory. Part two of the story continues with the contestants on the ship heading to the island. We get a better understanding of the main cast on the ship as Miriam interacts with them. Desiree, the widower, is your stereotypical bubbly American darling, as Miriam describes her who married into money and recently came into more money when her husband croaked. Interestingly enough, Miriam and Desiree appear to pair off and become friends. Javier, the executive chef is friendly and always consumed with finding ingredients to incorporate into his recipes. Frank, the financial advisor, loves posturing and running his mouth about how much money he has and how freely he can spend said money. Miriam is automatically suspicious of Eddie because she discovers he has brought bare guns with him. Much can't be gauged about Evelyn's character because she's pretty reserved. Lastly, you have Wallace, a man that Miriam automatically dislikes due to his obvious dislike of her. When Miriam discovers that Eddie brought guns with him, she raises the issue to the other contestants. Wallace immediately jumps in and brushes her concerns aside, stating in front of the group that he can never believe a single word that tripped off that forked tongue of hers, clearly insinuating he knows about some of Miriam's personal affairs. Now, if I said, is some anti-Blackness laced in there, would y'all jump me? Shortly following this, Wallace gets up to make a toast where he reveals that the various pretenses each of the contestants believed they were brought here for? Yeah, those were a lie. In truth, one of their dear friends, Phillip Omeke, who had been a lawyer for each of the six other contestants, recently passed away from cancer. Phillip had directed Wallace, who we learn is Phillip's husband. To gather these six people for his memorial service, which will be held on Sunday. Wallace also revealed that Phillip had told all of their problems to him, and had come up with a solution for all of their problems that would be revealed at the end of this weekend. Phillip had also left some money and assets to some of them, which would only be revealed at the reading of the will. Wallace also mentions that there will be other people coming later that day. Red flag number 523 for me. How come nobody's asking why Phillip decided to bring these people here who clearly ain't know him that well, nor seem to care much about him? But I digress. It ain't me going to that island. After docking on the beach. The boat, leaves. The group then starts a long ass trek through the jungle before they arrive at a huge mansion that Phillip, who owns the island, had built. At the house, they’re notified of their sleeping arrangements. They're also given a heads up about a reception that will take place later that night. When they enter the house in the middle of the foyer, inside of it, there's a large brown table with seven figurines on top of it, styled as the Seven Deadly Sins, Seven figurines. Seven people invited to his crib. I know exactly where this is going. The next morning, after eating breakfast, Miriam has a conversation with Frank. He drops the Wall Street banker act around her, making it clear he was code switching because he was in mixed company. During their chat, we learn the bullying Miriam's daughter, Morgan had faced at the hands of Brook was not as minor as Ashley made, it seemed. Who’s shocked. Brook had called her daughter the N-word and had left N-A-Z-I symbols in her daughter's locker, amongst other racialised things. Miriam handled it. Now, how she chose to handle it still remains a mystery, but however she handled it got everybody's panties in a twist, including her ex-husband and her daughter. After her convo with Frank, Miriam's nosey ass decides to snoop around Eddie's room since she still doesn't trust him after seeing him bring all them guns onto the boat. In his room, she finds a bag full of militia. And if you thought sis was paranoid before, she's on a whole other level now. She tells Javier about what she found, and he's tells her to chill out before saying that if things do go down, he's got a little glock of his own in his back pocket and some coke. Alright. In the meantime, we hear from Wallace that the second half of their party that was meant to arrive today have yet to show up. Regardless, they go ahead with the reception. At the reception, Miriam peeps a gun strapped on Eddie and is about to call it out. When Wallace tells her that Eddie was brought here as security, which prompts Miriam to wonder what the hell he's keeping them secure from. Wallace proceeds to kick off the reception, which he does by goading everyone gathered around the table. His dislike for all of them is clear, as he basically spends the majority of the dinner outing a couple of their secrets, starting with Desiree. Desiree, the widow killed her husband, allegedly, during a power outage, by feeding him cookies with nuts, which he was allergic to. Desiree denies these allegations, looking to Miriam, her new bestie, for backup. Miriam quickly backs her up, saying she doesn't believe Desiree killed her husband, Larry. Obviously Miriam is lying, but she's just like me because what, you think I want to be next? Next thing you know, Desiree's sprinkling a little some some into the margaritas Miriam's been throwing back all day. Absolutely not. If I got to be her bestie trust, I'ma be the bestest friend she's ever had. When Javier brings out Japanese pufferfish to serve Wallace outs his secret. Apparently. Javier has a history of killing a customer with the very fish he's serving them on their plates. Quite boldly, actually, as we learn from a newspaper clipping, Javier is seen having said, and I quote, “I didn't make him order it. He's a grown man. I didn't tell him to eat the whole thing. Where does personal responsibility come into it?” Ah yes. Personal responsibility. And I suppose, Javier would never look inwards towards his own personal responsibility as a chef to his customers and as a human in general, to exercise basic human decency. Anyway, when Miriam hears about the customer that had croaked at the hands of the dish prepared by Javier, she says hell nah. She's not eating it. Javier, desperate to prove the fish is fine, Eats the fish from Miriam's plate and drops dead. The irony. Part Three. Twisted. When they all realize Javier is indeed dead. They decide to shove him into the walk in freezer to preserve his body, since the radios on the island aren’t working preventing them from contacting the police. No suspicion arises around Javier's death as they all chalk it up to him, not preparing the fish properly. However, Miriam does clock that Evelyn, the nurse, made absolutely zero moves to help Javier and calls her out on it. Wallace, who's never going to miss out on a moment to hate on somebody on this damn island, pops up and lets everybody know that, oh, Evelyn? She got a history of killing her patients. More specifically, she'd cozy up to them, securing some claim in their will before killing them, by injecting some air bubbles into an IV, or putting a pillow over their face while they're sleeping.[laughs] It's not funny. It's not funny. Wallace had warned Miriam earlier that leaving before the will reading resulted in forfeiting any money, but Miriam thinks things are getting a little ghetto and plans to dip at the first opportunity. With the storm raging outside, however, and no service to call for help, Miriam puts that to bed and retires to her room. When she gets to her room, however, she's about to take some Valium, when she finds that all of her pills are gone. With paranoia creeping in, she takes her ass to sleep. One thing about Miriam that I noticed as this book progressed. One thing about her. She's going to sleep. Look, death could be hanging over her head. She will find a way to get some sleep in. And you know what? I respect it. In the middle of the night, Miriam is woken up by voices outside. Being the nosy person she is, she sneaks out after the voices, finding Frank and Desiree, and follows them into the woods, where they proceed to get freaky. Now another thing about Miriam. She's goal oriented. Now remember, Miriam came here initially for the money that she'd get from the TV show. When that turned out to be a bust, she still had an opportunity to secure some money from the will. If she was in it. However, she plans to dip early, which would result in her forfeiting any money Phillip had left her. But trust. She's leaving this island with something. Catching Frank, who had earlier mentioned that he's married in 4K cheating. Miriam immediately devises a plan to film him cheating on her phone to blackmail him for some money, since she knows he's loaded. Waking up. the next morning, Miriam hears a scream from her room. Nobody else seems to hear to scream, but I'm going to leave that alone. She knocks on both Desiree and Evelyn's doors, but neither of them answer, before heading down to the kitchen, where she finds Wallace. She tells him about hearing a scream, but he dismisses that. She tells Eddie, who's outside, still searching for a signal. Initially, he dismisses her as well, but ultimately relents and goes to try to find the source of the scream While searching around the house, Evelyn pops up and tells them that Desiree's dead. Eddie breaks down the locked door of Desiree's room and they find her on her bed, dead, with the window open. Now I'm going to assume that the shock of the death has them not questioning how the hell Evelyn knew Desiree had croaked when Desiree's room was locked from the inside. With the window open. But whatever. Frank and Wallace soon show up, and Evelyn and Miriam admit they had both last seen Desiree, with Frank Evelyn saying she'd heard them getting down all night. Now, up until this point, I had been wondering why the hell the girlies on Goodreads had rated the book so low. Sure, the book wasn't groundbreaking or anything, but I was going along for the ride. However, my opinion quickly changed and my rating slowly began to tank along with my interest in the book at the events that occurred next. All eyes point to Frank for the murder. Miriam, Wallace, Evelyn and Eddie Start pressing him about what went down with Wallace revealing that Frank? Oh, he's not who he says he is because nobody on this island is. Frank's real name is actually Trey, and he defrauded millions from poor Americans who couldn't afford mortgages. He had done so with a partner in crime that he'd put a hit out on, before putting another hit out on the hit man, that got his partner in crime... Yeah... Eddie, I remind you, a white cop. Starts bucking up to Frank, pressing him on what went down before pulling a gun out on him. And all I can really say is, how the hell did we get here? The rest of the group eventually de-escalate the situation, before Wallace reveals Eddie had killed a Black man earlier that year. Eddie's girlfriend had cheated on him with the man who he killed before allegedly killing his girlfriend, meaning that she's been missing and nobody knows where she is. Again, I ask, how the [redacted] did we get here? Miriam, realizing that she's surrounded by murderers and killers, decides that screw the money, she's getting the [redacted] off this island. While Eddie and Wallace move Desiree's body to the freezer Miriam is tasked with guarding Frank, who has been locked up in Desiree's room. Miriam clearly ain't taking the job seriously because she abandons her post quickly after to use the bathroom. On her way back from the bathroom, She passes by the foyer and peeps two figurines have been removed from the table. Obviously symbolizing Javier and Desiree. She tells Wallace about the missing figurines, and somehow these two end up striking a ceasefire over their similarities and Phillip’s death. Wallace surprisingly shares with her how he had a twin brother who had died when they were 12. This was his first experience with death, and Philip's death is bringing back up the grief from his brother's death. When Miriam is relieved of her door watching duties, she goes to her room to pack up a suitcase before taking the nap. One thing about it... Miriam is going to sleep. When she wakes up, she finally realizes that it made zero sense that Evelyn knew Desiree was dead. Since the door had been locked from the inside. She gets up to let Wallace know, But opens her door to find a noose outside her door with a message reading,“I don't need this anymore. You should try it.” Miriam says, bump that, and the memorial grabs her suitcase and is about to leave to wait at the dock when she hears Wallace yelling on the second floor. Part Four. The Joker. Miriam goes to the second floor to find Wallace, Evelyn, and Eddie, and Desiree's room. Turns out Frank had been murdered by way of drowning. Miriam sneaks Wallace into Evelyn's room, who she's most suspicious of, and finds one of Desiree's missing earrings, one of Eddie's guns, her stolen Valium tablet, and a bottle containing potassium cyanide, which was used to kill Javier most likely. Wallace, for some odd reason, isn't 100% sold on Evelyn committing the murders, but goes with Miriam to confront her. Eddie breaks up the conversation between Miriam, Wallace and Evelyn when he pointed a gun at Wallace. Evelyn uses the interruption to dash into the trees, as Eddie questions Wallace about guns that have gone missing from his room. With how erratic he's acting and the ramblings of his speech, Miriam and Wallace quickly clock, Eddie is not only paranoid, but high as [redacted]. Eddie forces Miriam and Wallace into the jungle at gunpoint. While he leads them to the jungle, they find Evelyn swinging from a tree. She killed herself. At some point on the trek Miriam just says[redacted] it and sprints her way back to the house. Part Five. Torpedo, Away! Miriam, barricades herself inside her room, and sends an email with her phone to her daughter, asking her to call for help. There's still no service for the email to go through, but it's worth trying. Eddie, who chased her from the jungle, is outside her door at this point, calling her everything but a child of God. You quickly realize that he is hallucinating Miriam to be Charlotte, his ex-girlfriend. In the midst of this. Miriam somehow manages to take a nap. Girl, I'm just rolling the plot because I don't know what's going on, truly. While she's taking a nap, we get a flashback to the altercation that occurred between Miriam and Prudence McAlister before she came onto the island. So basically, Brook had bullied Morgan, and I had mentioned before there was a lot of racism, and it had reached a point where Morgan had nearly died. Although an explanation for how is not clear. Miriam had initially spoken with Brook’s parents to intervene, but when it was crickets from them, she took matters into her own hands. Miriam had documented the harassment and had posted pictures and videos of it across all social media platforms. Brook ultimately had committed suicide, which had led her parents to seek charges against Miriam and Morgan. They were acquitted from the charges. Obviously Prudence McAlister, Brook’s sister, had pulled up with her friends to Miriam's apartment, egged her home and physically assaulted her when she confronted them. Her ex-husband, Ashley and her daughter have been essentially gaslighting her about the incident since Miriam has a history of lying. And also because of her anxiety and PTSD. Back in the present, Miriam manages to escape the room by faking that she escaped out the window. When she leaves the room, she grabs Javier's gun and finds another satellite phone. She immediately calls her daughter and the phone connects for a second before disconnecting. Wallace then comes into the room and Miriam shows Wallace the sat phone, and the two decide to go out to find a better signal. Eddie catches them about five seconds after they step out of the house, and we get into a good old Western standoff with Eddie holding a gun to Wallace and Miriam holding a gun to Eddie. Miriam tells Eddie if he doesn't put the gun down, she will shoot and girl. She meant it because the second she senses his finger is about to pull that trigger, she pulls her own and shoots that man down dead. [laughs] Any trust Wallace had with her, which, to be fair, wasn't a lot is out the window as he grabs the gun off of Eddie and takes the sat phone for Miriam before heading back into the house, with Miriam following hot on his heels. Before she can catch up with him, Wallace locks himself in a hidden bunker in the walls that only he and Phillip know about. That doesn't stop a conversation between the two from happening, however. Wallace reveals that he's hiding not from Miriam, but someone else. He also reveals that his twin brother William? The one he mentioned earlier. Yeah, Wallace may or may not have left William to die when William had fallen down a well, And Wallace essentially just watched him starve to death while people were searching for him. I ain't even going to get into the obvious hypocrisy of Wallace demeaning everybody else in the house for their sins. Miriam manages to convince Wallace to open the door by telling him she has the number of one of the locals who brought them on the ship. She just needs the sat phone. Wallace is about to open the door when he sees a note on the panel inside the safe room. On the note is a message from none other than the deceased Phillip Omeke, who reveals he brought Wallace onto this island to pay for his sins. Yes. Sins. Plural. Not only had Wallace left his twin to die in a well on his family's property, but he also stabbed his parents to death when he was 20 and collected their life insurance money from them. How did we get here? How did we get here? Forensics was horrible back in the dark ages, and the knife used for the murder was missing, so they hadn't been able to pin down a culprit. However, the police recently had received the murder weapon in the mail via Phillip. So all they needed was a Q-Tip and some time to eventually pin Wallace's ass for the murder. Don't ask me why Wallace was still holding on to that knife from a crime he committed over three decades ago, because I don't know the answer. Phillip also reveals he brought the rest of his ex clients to the island for making his last year absolutely miserable. He regrets defending them and says they all have a price to pay. I'm crying. He said, If I'm going out, I'm taking y'all out with me. He enlisted the help of Evelyn, weighed down by her own sins, who carried out the murders of Harvey, Desiree and Frank before taking herself out. The ship, coming to pick them up at the end of the weekend? A lie. The will promising some of them money? Oh. Complete and utter fiction. Phillip also made sure to let Wallace know he knew his ass would end up hiding in the safe room, and that the door will not be opening, so he better get comfortable. Miriam falls into a panic as anyone would and flees the house, looking for some way to escape. When she thinks she sees a boat on the water, she climbs to a cliff and tries making a fire signal to catch the boat's attention. Unfortunately, she ends up slipping on the cliff and tumbles down, down, down into the water. In the epilog, we see the locals who guided the guests to the island, retrieving Mariam's deceased body from the water. Well. That was certainly......a book. Let me deal with Brook and her nasty ass family first. When it comes to Brook and her nasty ass family, the fact that the McAllister's wanted Miriam and Morgan to go to jail for their daughter's suicide really shows me how sick and twisted they are, because what the hell do you mean, they're complicit? Y'all should be jailed for raising a racist ass white supremacist whose own actions knock over the dominoes that led her to kill herself. I need y'all to understand. I don't give a damn. My empathy for racists is capped at zero. When it comes to the mystery of the story. I was bored. There was no suspense and no thrill for me. Miriam was funny at times, so that got a chuckle out of me. But other than that, I was just going through the motions, waiting for the reveal. A reveal, mind you, I pieced together about a quarter way into the novel. And I've mentioned this before, but I'm no Sherlock Holmes. So it was underwhelming. Also, my main issue with this damn setup. Why the hell was Miriam on the island? No because, don't piss me off. All the other people on this damn rock had quite literally killed somebody. So now. To then have Miriam posted up on this goddamn rock by a Black man himself to answer for her crimes of “causing” the death of a racist ass white supremacist Baby. I thought the locked room mystery subgenre was bad enough in and of itself, but the author really pushed the envelope with this one and opened myself to a whole new world. No, Ariel. Wait. That's Aladdin. Maybe if this ending was meant to stir readers, to think about the ways with which Black women's actions are heavily scrutinized and punished, eons more than their non-Black counterparts, I could maybe start to take this book seriously. But given the handling of anti-Blackness in other parts of the story, I doubt it. With that rant out of the way. Flip or skip? Skip. A big ass skip for me. And I'm giving it two out of five. Actually.[redacted] that. I'm giving it one star. Because if you're going to subject me to a story inspired by Agatha Christie's nasty ass, at least make a good. Let me get this out of the way by saying I am not an Agatha Christie enjoyer. Racism aside, I find her books snoozeworthy, so when I peeped the title, read the synopsis, and saw the Agatha Christie quote in the opening pages, I should have seen the writing on the wall, and known this was going to be a long read for me. And it’s sick because... I always look at Goodreads ratings before getting into a book. I take those ratings with a grain of salt, especially when it comes to Black authors, because y'all are racist.[laughs] But this book had just under a 2.9 rating. When I started reading it, I was like, okay, it's not great, but Y'all are doing a lot with the rating. And then the murders started happening and the author started pulling shit out of left field and I was sat there like, Aur... that's why the book is rated so low. This book is only further cemented my belief that locked room mysteries are just not for me, and I will not be tuning in to any for the foreseeable future. This episode was a lot longer than it was supposed to be, but if you've made it to the end of the pod, thanks so much for watching! Don't forget to like, comment and subscribe Until next time, buh-byeeee!
