SURPRISE! - GIFT GIVING EPISODE!

VOICEOVER: 00:00:01

Everybody's got an opinion, Every Californian and Virginian, It's so hard to tell who to trust and who to ignore, Someone's gotta settle the score., Trey and Chelsey will help you choose, Whose views win which ones lose, Online haters are coming for you, Baby, it's time to Review That Review!

CHELSEY DONN: 00:00:30

Hello,

TREY GERRALD: 00:00:31

Well, hello and welcome once again to Review That Review.

TREY GERRALD: 00:00:36

We are the podcast that is dedicated to reviewing.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:00:41

Reviews!

TREY GERRALD: 00:00:45

That is Chelsey

CHELSEY DONN: 00:00:47

And that is Trey Gerald.

TREY GERRALD: 00:00:49

And when we come together, we are,

VOICEOVER: 00:00:52

The review, Queens

TREY GERRALD: 00:00:56

but first, Chelsey Bobelsy Banana Fana Fofelsy Me My Momelsy, would you like to?

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Lodge a complaint.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:01:04

Yes, I would.

TREY GERRALD: 00:01:05

I thought maybe.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:01:06

I just thought of when you were singing that, which sort of goes with my complaint.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:01:09

Like, do you know that, that little thing we used to do in elementary school?

CHELSEY DONN: 00:01:12

Like, there's someone on the telephone.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:01:15

If it isn't Chelsey, I'm not home.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:01:17

Hey, Chelsey.

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Someone's calling my name.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:01:20

Hey, Chelsey.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:01:21

I think I hear it again.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:01:23

You're wanted on the telephone.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:01:25

If it isn't Trey, I'm not home.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:01:28

Hey, Trey.

TREY GERRALD: 00:01:30

I've never heard this song.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:01:31

You never heard that?

CHELSEY DONN: 00:01:33

Oh

TREY GERRALD: 00:01:34

we do this before?

TREY GERRALD: 00:01:35

Have we talked about this?

CHELSEY DONN: 00:01:36

I don't think so, Trey.

TREY GERRALD: 00:01:38

I don't think I know this song.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:01:40

Okay, it's

TREY GERRALD: 00:01:41

Well, if whoever's calling me on the phone isn't named Chelsey, I'm not him, okay?

CHELSEY DONN: 00:01:45

not home, okay?

CHELSEY DONN: 00:01:46

Okay.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:01:47

So my complaint today, tale as old as modern time, I'll say, it's just like, in general, you guys, how addictive the phones are and how much more addictive they are, seem to be getting by the hour.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:02:02

I lose.

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So much time in these things, like I'll know that I don't have time and I'll go on my phone and I'll just end up on an Instagram story binge.

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Like, I don't know what's happening.

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I feel like I'm no longer in control.

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All I know is that I know that it's a problem because I feel so sucked in when it's happening

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and then I feel immediate relief when I finally find the will to turn it off.

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Like when I'm out of the binge, I'm like, Oh my God, thank God I got out of there, you know, like why, why is this happening?

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And I noticed it with my niece and nephews too, because we recently took them off of the iPads entirely during the week.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:02:48

And they're just such happier, like better kids without them.

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And I feel like they even know that it's bad.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:02:55

So what's happening?

CHELSEY DONN: 00:02:57

What is the evil mind manipulation that's happening behind our cell phones that make them so addictive?

TREY GERRALD: 00:03:05

I mean, if we want to put on, as Joe Kinosian calls it, our tinfoil hats, I definitely feel like if the government was ever trying to mind control us, it was when they created smartphones because we really, like, become numb to the phones, I mean, we just, wait, can we take the opportunity to look at our screen time?

CHELSEY DONN: 00:03:25

Oh my God.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:03:25

I'm scared.

TREY GERRALD: 00:03:26

know, so do you know how to, so you go to settings, everyone listening, if you have an iPhone, go to settings, and then the second little block of options, the very last one is screen time, oh, and make sure you scroll down to refresh, cause mine just jumped up, pfft, why,

CHELSEY DONN: 00:03:45

I'm like, is it going to be really bad?

CHELSEY DONN: 00:03:46

Okay, so my daily average

TREY GERRALD: 00:03:49

yeah,

CHELSEY DONN: 00:03:49

screen time is 4 hours and 57 minutes,

TREY GERRALD: 00:03:54

yeah, but there's 24 hours in a day,

CHELSEY DONN: 00:03:56

That's a lot, though.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:03:57

Four hours?

CHELSEY DONN: 00:03:58

Like, I could have written a novel by now.

TREY GERRALD: 00:04:02

how, does it say if you're up or down from last week?

CHELSEY DONN: 00:04:05

Oh, it actually says I'm down.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:04:06

I'm down.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:04:07

Maybe because I thought about this complaint.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:04:09

So I've been trying.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:04:09

I'm down 24 percent from last week.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:04:13

What about you?

CHELSEY DONN: 00:04:14

What, what's yours?

TREY GERRALD: 00:04:14

My daily average is 3 hours and 7 minutes, but it says I'm down 41 percent from last

CHELSEY DONN: 00:04:20

Wow.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:04:21

Okay.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:04:21

So,

TREY GERRALD: 00:04:21

Wait, so see, do the see all app.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:04:25

okay.

TREY GERRALD: 00:04:26

See all app and website activity.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:04:28

So Instagram, which I know that like I'm the

CHELSEY DONN: 00:04:31

most is the like sucks me in the most.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:04:34

for whatever reason, is 2 hours and 34 minutes, I guess this is a week, let's go to day,

TREY GERRALD: 00:04:41

My week is one hour and 40 minutes, but my day for Instagram, actually, Instagram comes in second when I look at day.

TREY GERRALD: 00:04:48

Oh, this is just actually today.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:04:49

mean this is crazy, so if I'm looking at just days, it says I'm on Instagram for an hour and 24 minutes,

CHELSEY DONN: 00:04:57

today, Jesus Christ, and

CHELSEY DONN: 00:05:00

horrible, and then the second most for me is Fiat Electric, which, which controls all my lights,

TREY GERRALD: 00:05:07

Uh, that makes sense

CHELSEY DONN: 00:05:08

But an hour and 13 minutes, I'm just turning lights on and off?

TREY GERRALD: 00:05:12

Right.

TREY GERRALD: 00:05:12

Do you swipe up to close out of your

CHELSEY DONN: 00:05:14

Maybe not.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:05:15

It must just be running in the background, right?

TREY GERRALD: 00:05:17

Well, it's interesting because Instagram for my week is number one, but for my day, it's logic puzzles.

TREY GERRALD: 00:05:24

I love this, like, puzzle game.

TREY GERRALD: 00:05:27

What about YouTube?

TREY GERRALD: 00:05:28

Where's YouTube for you?

CHELSEY DONN: 00:05:29

I'm not a big YouTube gal, honestly.

TREY GERRALD: 00:05:31

Oh, I'm YouTube all day

CHELSEY DONN: 00:05:32

Oh yeah, no, I'm not really.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:05:34

I

TREY GERRALD: 00:05:36

limits.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:05:38

know, but you know, I also don't want to be limited.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:05:41

Maybe that makes me like a hypocrite, but it's like, I both don't want to be limited because I have friends that are on that and then that's like really annoying because you're just going to override it anyway.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:05:49

It's like the snooze button.

TREY GERRALD: 00:05:51

Oh my god, there's a communication limits feature.

TREY GERRALD: 00:05:54

You can set limits based on contacts.

TREY GERRALD: 00:05:58

So you can say I don't want my brother in law contacting me after 6 p.

TREY GERRALD: 00:06:02

m.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:06:03

wait, you can do that?

TREY GERRALD: 00:06:06

I'm really interested in this!

CHELSEY DONN: 00:06:09

like, it would just go to, like, as if you had your phone off, I guess?

CHELSEY DONN: 00:06:12

That's

CHELSEY DONN: 00:06:14

great.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:06:14

Oh, app limit?

CHELSEY DONN: 00:06:15

Okay.

TREY GERRALD: 00:06:16

Well, here we are.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:06:17

we have a lot to learn.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:06:18

Guys, explore your phones, see the options, see what works for you, but

TREY GERRALD: 00:06:22

Well, isn't it interesting that in your complaint about how addicting the phones are, my response was, Let's,

CHELSEY DONN: 00:06:28

up your

TREY GERRALD: 00:06:29

out our phones.

TREY GERRALD: 00:06:30

Yeah.

TREY GERRALD: 00:06:31

I definitely hear you.

TREY GERRALD: 00:06:32

I am aware of it as well.

TREY GERRALD: 00:06:33

I, I do feel like we actually, this is like an update, but we did just cancel our cable.

TREY GERRALD: 00:06:40

Did I talk about this on the

CHELSEY DONN: 00:06:41

You talked about, I think, that you're going to?

CHELSEY DONN: 00:06:43

Yeah.

TREY GERRALD: 00:06:44

But I go to YouTube all day long, like I am on

CHELSEY DONN: 00:06:47

Are you on like, the YouTube Shorts?

TREY GERRALD: 00:06:51

depends, I just thought about this last night, this distinction, it's so funny you asked me that, I am obsessed with chiropractic shorts, but I don't want to watch a chiropractic video, I want to watch the

CHELSEY DONN: 00:07:02

can understand that, because a chiropractic short will get you a little bit of info, but a

CHELSEY DONN: 00:07:06

chiropractic Although, I don't know what it is, but it's like Brad and Brad tell you how to Have we talked about this before?

TREY GERRALD: 00:07:13

you've talked about the chiropractic brothers,

CHELSEY DONN: 00:07:15

Yes.

TREY GERRALD: 00:07:16

They still don't infiltrate me.

TREY GERRALD: 00:07:17

I don't, I haven't come

CHELSEY DONN: 00:07:18

Oh,

TREY GERRALD: 00:07:18

but mine are always like the very attractive metrosexual ones,

CHELSEY DONN: 00:07:23

Okay, that makes sense for your algorithm.

TREY GERRALD: 00:07:26

anyway, as bad as our phones are, we're so grateful to podcasts.

TREY GERRALD: 00:07:30

So keep listening to us on your phone.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:07:32

Yeah, but you know what?

CHELSEY DONN: 00:07:33

I don't even think of podcasts as being on my phone

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because like, like, if I listen to an audio book, if I listen to a podcast, my face is not in the screen, guys.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:07:42

It's about the face for me.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:07:45

It's not good for us to be in the phone like that.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:07:48

Like a podcast, I actually think is great because it's just like, I'm just listening to

CHELSEY DONN: 00:07:52

this.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:07:54

I have all my faculties, but yeah, no.

TREY GERRALD: 00:07:57

No, I hear it.

TREY GERRALD: 00:07:58

I definitely hear that.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:07:59

All right.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:08:00

Well, I complained.

TREY GERRALD: 00:08:01

Well, why don't we jump from this sucking, terrible feeling of addiction into a topic about being happy in our present surroundings.

TREY GERRALD: 00:08:13

Chelsey, do you wanna go head to head?

CHELSEY DONN: 00:08:16

I would love to go head to head with you, Trey.

TREY GERRALD: 00:08:19

Let's do it.

VOICEOVER: 00:08:20

Assess that Kevech

TREY GERRALD: 00:08:22

Today's another Versus episode!

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Whoop whoop!

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means we are going to cover both a one star and a five star review on the same topic!

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And today's topic, you guys, is an interior designer in New York City called Francis Interiors.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:08:38

this versus episode, I have selected the five star and Trey has selected the one star.

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So to determine who reads first, we got to flip that quarter.

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And I always think it's your turn, but I actually think it is.

TREY GERRALD: 00:08:49

Okay,

CHELSEY DONN: 00:08:50

Let's say it's you.

TREY GERRALD: 00:08:51

which one do you want?

CHELSEY DONN: 00:08:53

You want me to guess?

TREY GERRALD: 00:08:54

Well, I want you to say what you want and then I'll pick what I want.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:08:57

I think I would pick heads.

TREY GERRALD: 00:08:59

So I'll pick Tails.

TREY GERRALD: 00:09:01

It's Tails.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:09:03

Okay, you win.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:09:04

Today, we are collecting data from both ends of the spectrum of Google Reviews for Frances Interiors.

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At the time of this recording, there are 12 reviews on Google with an average score of 4.

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7 out of 5.

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And we did this intentionally, guys,

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because we often bring in Reviews for services and restaurants and products that have tons of reviews, and we're really interested in what is the impact of somebody like Francis Interiors that only has a handful of reviews and maybe has a couple one star reviews that we're about to find out that are really dragging down the average.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:09:42

What does that make you think about the company at large?

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Subs

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So keep that in mind as we move forward with Trey's review.

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According to the about page on Francis Interior's website, long before appearing on HGTV's hit show, Brother vs.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:09:57

Brother, before the Rachel Ray show, before the Nate, holy crap, the Nate Berkus show, and before Francis Interior's, Francis shared his talents as an acclaimed ballet dancer from Athens, Greece.

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Bringing his panache and elegance to the world stages, including New York City's Great White Way.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:10:21

Wow, I'm suddenly very impressed.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:10:24

With a natural eye for design and by successfully leveraging his background in dance and the arts, Francis Interiors has become one of the leading interior design studios in New York City.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:10:37

I gotta get more people writing you reviews, Francis.

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Fluid aesthetics, creative problem solving, and the added benefit of a contracting team under the same roof help Francis Interiors not only stand out, but elevate the company to must have status among the elite addresses of Manhattan.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:10:58

A few specialties that are listed are custom millwork, project management, Architectural Lighting Design, Custom Furniture Design and Production, Custom Window Treatments and Bedding, Broker, Concierge, Service for Project Referrals, Project Management.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:11:18

Yes, listed twice, I thought.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:11:20

With all that background info in mind, I'm super curious to jump into this one star review that seems to be an anomaly.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:11:28

Let's, uh, let's get into it.

VOICEOVER: 00:11:31

review, that review.

TREY GERRALD: 00:11:36

Alrighty, so, I will say up front, since I am the one star, Yelp has 7 reviews, Google has 12, and I'm gonna read to you all the singular one star review

CHELSEY DONN: 00:11:47

Okay.

TREY GERRALD: 00:11:47

on both of those sites, so,

CHELSEY DONN: 00:11:49

it written by the same person?

TREY GERRALD: 00:11:51

yeah, same review, so, with 12 reviews, That's 11 five stars and one one star.

TREY GERRALD: 00:11:58

The Google ratio is 4.

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7 out of 5, which I

CHELSEY DONN: 00:12:01

which is pretty crazy that it was a 0.

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3 ding

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for one review, like that feels like an anomaly, but I will say super curious to hear this review because it has to be so damning for me personally if I'm looking at reviews

CHELSEY DONN: 00:12:16

for it to impact me, so let's see,

TREY GERRALD: 00:12:18

So today I'm going to share with you Mary Ellen Kay's one star Google review for Frances interiors.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:12:26

not to be confused with Mary Kay, I guess,

TREY GERRALD: 00:12:28

or Mary Ellen, was that the woman's?

TREY GERRALD: 00:12:31

No, that was

CHELSEY DONN: 00:12:32

oh, Sue Allen,

TREY GERRALD: 00:12:33

Wait, who's the woman from Desperate Housewives that dies?

TREY GERRALD: 00:12:36

Mary, Mary Alice, oh, Mary Alice, the voiceover every week, whatever, okay, so, this was written four years ago, at the time of this recording.

TREY GERRALD: 00:12:46

We recently engaged Francis Interiors for an interior design project for our new home in Manhasset, New York.

TREY GERRALD: 00:12:54

Francis failed to create a cohesive vision and design.

TREY GERRALD: 00:12:59

Failed to put together color palettes that worked with the existing space and was not able to source appropriate products and fabrics.

TREY GERRALD: 00:13:09

His design aesthetic is next to zero.

TREY GERRALD: 00:13:13

We later found out that he is not a trained professional or expert and has an unsuccessful background in ballet and contracting, but we'll tell you otherwise.

TREY GERRALD: 00:13:28

To be specific.

TREY GERRALD: 00:13:30

We engaged Francis for a consulting project where he would create a design slash shopping list and hand it off to us so we could do the shopping ourselves.

TREY GERRALD: 00:13:43

He initially agreed to this approach, but quickly tried to convince us to expand the scope for a full design project, which, not surprisingly, would increase the fees payable to him by 3.

TREY GERRALD: 00:14:00

5x.

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In addition, Francis was incredibly impatient and condescending throughout the entire process.

TREY GERRALD: 00:14:10

He would become visibly annoyed by questions, slash, suggestions, and did not respect our opinions, slash, interests.

TREY GERRALD: 00:14:22

He continually pushed his tasteless vision and would constantly tell us to get over our fears and give him control over the project.

TREY GERRALD: 00:14:34

Francis missed the mark on every level.

TREY GERRALD: 00:14:37

He is painful to work with and will waste your time and money.

TREY GERRALD: 00:14:42

Mm hmm.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:14:48

Okay, so my first question is the shopping list.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:14:54

Okay, so is this shopping list something that Frances offers or is this something that Mary Ellen is asking for?

CHELSEY DONN: 00:15:03

That's the first question, follow up question being just to clarify what they're saying by the shopping list.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:15:10

Are they saying, like, I want to redesign my living room, come in, look at it, tell me what you would purchase, you would buy, put it on a list, and then we'll do it all ourselves.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:15:21

Is that what they're saying?

TREY GERRALD: 00:15:22

That's my assumption of what is occurring, which is, that is a service that David and I have purchased before,

CHELSEY DONN: 00:15:29

Oh, interesting.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:15:30

I didn't even know that that was a thing.

TREY GERRALD: 00:15:31

yeah, but some designers don't wanna do it because you just charge a fee.

TREY GERRALD: 00:15:37

And then like, you don't actually do the execution, you know?

TREY GERRALD: 00:15:40

So, some designers are willing to and some are not.

TREY GERRALD: 00:15:43

So

CHELSEY DONN: 00:15:44

I mean, I find it interesting that a designer would agree to that.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:15:49

And I wonder like what the stipulations around that are, because like an artist, like any other lane, I would think a designer, if they're going to put their name on something, they really want to be in there to judge, maybe we thought that we could have this credenza in the corner, but now that I'm putting it in there, It's kind of looking a little bit clunky, so why don't we actually return that credenza, change it out for just a little circular side table, you know what I mean?

CHELSEY DONN: 00:16:19

Like, I just think that designing In my mind is more of an evolution where like, yes, like we have this plan and we can have a rendering and all of this stuff, but at the end of the day, once you have all the pieces in, that's like kind of really where the designing happens and where you can move stuff around.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:16:41

So I just think it's weird and curious.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:16:44

That a designer would allow their name to be attached to something that they really aren't taking to completion.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:16:50

But I don't really know that that point plays in here, but I think it, I don't know.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:16:54

What do you think?

TREY GERRALD: 00:16:54

It's a really good point, especially now there are many services that are pretty much identical like Decorilla, Havenly, where you sort of get like, it's kind of like Fiverr or Upwork for designers where you send them measurements and pictures of your space and then they just send you an itemized list of things to buy and it's significantly cheaper, but you're the one that's like.

TREY GERRALD: 00:17:19

Doing the heavy lifting.

TREY GERRALD: 00:17:21

So it does feel to me that there is a distinction, especially with that about me from Frances Interior's website, where they're sort of spelling out that they're a luxury designer.

TREY GERRALD: 00:17:32

They deal with very exclusive properties where you're probably doing like the custom millwork.

TREY GERRALD: 00:17:38

It's not like, buy this can of paint from Sherwin Williams, like they're doing it all.

TREY GERRALD: 00:17:44

Like you're handing it over.

TREY GERRALD: 00:17:45

Like they mentioned project management twice.

TREY GERRALD: 00:17:47

So it does feel to

CHELSEY DONN: 00:17:48

having an in house project management, like it just, to me, it's curious because Based on what Francis is selling,

CHELSEY DONN: 00:17:56

it feels like Mary Ellen is not a right match

TREY GERRALD: 00:18:01

correct.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:18:01

for this service.

TREY GERRALD: 00:18:03

Well, that I think is glaring from the top.

TREY GERRALD: 00:18:06

It sort of seems like Mary Ellen was really wanting a specific service that Francis was pushing back on.

TREY GERRALD: 00:18:13

So who then is at fault for that?

TREY GERRALD: 00:18:15

Because if Francis didn't want to do it that way and change their mind a couple of days later.

TREY GERRALD: 00:18:20

Are there hard feelings?

TREY GERRALD: 00:18:21

Like, is Frances being impatient?

TREY GERRALD: 00:18:23

Are they feeling like if you just hired me to create a list, then I'm not going to be open to questions or suggestions because you didn't retain my

CHELSEY DONN: 00:18:32

pay for that service.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:18:34

Yes, exactly, like that's what I'm wondering about some of these Comments that are being made, like, is that included in this, as they're calling it, shopping list package, which is 3.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:18:47

5 times cheaper than an ordinary design package?

CHELSEY DONN: 00:18:53

I don't know.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:18:54

Then I'm also brought to this interesting point that we talk about a lot whenever we talk about art in general, which I consider design to be an art form.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:19:05

How do we feel about someone staking a claim that there's zero

CHELSEY DONN: 00:19:10

aesthetic?

CHELSEY DONN: 00:19:11

I mean, clearly, there's a lot of shadiness in here.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:19:13

There's the failed cohesive designs, the unsuccessful background in ballet and contracting.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:19:19

I mean, it really feels like we're, we're punching down here in a way that I don't know if it really affects me in terms of walking away and thinking of Frances's skill level or aesthetic because of how it's packaged.

TREY GERRALD: 00:19:33

what I was going to say.

TREY GERRALD: 00:19:34

I feel like Mary Ellen is really hitting below the belt a lot.

TREY GERRALD: 00:19:38

Also, it seems to me like so much of that list of services that they do provide is custom.

TREY GERRALD: 00:19:44

So why would you reach out to someone who's building custom pieces to go tell you what to buy at West Elm?

CHELSEY DONN: 00:19:51

It just seems very weird to

CHELSEY DONN: 00:19:53

me, like, it just seems like Mary Ellen, and again, I could be wrong, I could be, like, drawing into this, I don't know if we have a reply or not, but I wonder if Mary Ellen was just your typical customer who expects to pay a little

TREY GERRALD: 00:20:10

And get a

CHELSEY DONN: 00:20:10

and get the whole kit and caboodle.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:20:13

And I.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:20:13

can understand how it's very frustrating, like, the amount of people that have reached out to me for website stuff or whatever and been like, it's just a little tiny job, and you're like, shut up, like, I.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:20:23

get to tell you what kind of job it is, and I'm probably gonna turn it down if you tell me that, Because I'm going to know that your expectations going in is that this is going to be just something that I'm going to say abracadabra bibbidi boo and it's going to be done and that's just not the way the world works and if you're paying me for a shopping list and I'm providing you list after list after list and you're being like this has no aesthetic and this is not, I can understand how someone would get frustrated and be like, why don't you just let go of the reins?

CHELSEY DONN: 00:20:55

Let me do what I'm gonna do because you're not seeing it based off of a list.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:20:59

So I feel like I need to show you that this works.

TREY GERRALD: 00:21:04

Right, and I, and I don't know about the service that Mary Ellen purchased versus the expectation.

TREY GERRALD: 00:21:10

But because sometimes those operations will offer a limited number of revisions and or multiple options for pieces, etc.

TREY GERRALD: 00:21:18

But something that occurs to me as like making me question if I can trust Mary Ellen is saying he continually pushed his tasteless vision.

TREY GERRALD: 00:21:27

It's like if you think his vision is tasteless, why did you hire him,

CHELSEY DONN: 00:21:30

Right.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:21:30

Well, that's kind of what I keep going back to is like, at what point do we jump off board?

CHELSEY DONN: 00:21:35

Like, I just, like, I wish that Mary Ellen had told us, I met with him the first time, it was a

CHELSEY DONN: 00:21:41

great meeting.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:21:42

I paid him 5, 000 for a list, and then as soon as he got the payment, I realized he's useless and it was too late.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:21:50

And I was already, I'd already was pot committed to this 5, 000 and then he's trying to get me to pay more.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:21:55

Then maybe I could be on your side, but the whole time I'm just thinking, great, There's a million designers out there for a reason, not everybody's aesthetic is everybody's aesthetic, if his is not yours, move on, Why are you wasting everybody's time?

TREY GERRALD: 00:22:10

What are you getting from Mary Ellen here about value, new, or unique information?

CHELSEY DONN: 00:22:14

I mean the only new unique information that I keep pulling to is this whole idea of even a shopping list being a thing,

CHELSEY DONN: 00:22:22

personally, because I didn't

CHELSEY DONN: 00:22:23

really

TREY GERRALD: 00:22:23

definitely a thing.

TREY GERRALD: 00:22:24

I just don't know if high end designers are willing to do it or not.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:22:27

and I guess I'll say like if I'm not being completely biased because for whatever reason I'm sort of Turned off by this person.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:22:35

Maybe it's like good to know that Frances maybe has an attitude.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:22:39

You know, I don't like that, but I don't know what the value is.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:22:42

Do you find value here?

TREY GERRALD: 00:22:44

Well, it's interesting, and I don't want to bury the lead here, but David and I considered using this company,

CHELSEY DONN: 00:22:52

Okay.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:22:53

Did Mary Ellen's review deter you?

TREY GERRALD: 00:22:55

Yeah,

CHELSEY DONN: 00:22:56

Interesting.

TREY GERRALD: 00:22:58

we read this review, and this is long before I was a review queen, and we were like turned off, I wasn't dissecting it the way we are, but I, so even going into this episode today, I think reading it with this critical eye, I feel like Mary Ellen was wanting to manipulate the way Francis works, and saying how Francis was difficult, he kept telling us to get over our fears, give him control, but it's also like, But you're hiring someone for their expertise and to say that they have a failed ballet background and failed like it's sort of like what are you talking about like also like you can't put together color palettes that work like I'm sort of

CHELSEY DONN: 00:23:37

well

CHELSEY DONN: 00:23:37

that's again, of course, we're moving on to our points, but getting into the truthful shady of it all.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:23:43

I mean, the

CHELSEY DONN: 00:23:43

balance

CHELSEY DONN: 00:23:44

there

TREY GERRALD: 00:23:44

just it feels very uh what's the influenced by their anger or their their lack of control?

CHELSEY DONN: 00:23:52

I really stop listening to you.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:23:55

I mean, listen, if you're listening to the show and you're thinking about writing someone a negative review because they deserve it, go ahead and do it.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:24:01

It is a service to do that, right?

CHELSEY DONN: 00:24:03

Like, inform the people, but just know that if you're gonna get shady, I don't trust you You're getting off track.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:24:12

If you're gonna talk about this person's failed ballet career that has nothing to do with their work, I'm I'm no longer listening to you.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:24:21

I no longer believe that the information that you're giving me is truthful.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:24:25

So you're actually doing a disservice by doing this.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:24:27

So

TREY GERRALD: 00:24:27

Unless they're trying to say like that they're a fraud.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:24:30

is that what you guys took from it?

CHELSEY DONN: 00:24:32

Like, what did you?

TREY GERRALD: 00:24:33

No, I don't really remember that conversation.

TREY GERRALD: 00:24:36

I think that we, the last sentence that he's painful to work with and we'll waste your time and money.

TREY GERRALD: 00:24:41

I think that was like the resounding sort of like, well, there's this, it's how, because I remember thinking how unfortunate this is like.

TREY GERRALD: 00:24:46

the review that pops up on google like how do you i it might have been a seedling of me my interest in this podcast years before we got there because it did occur to me like how do you wipe that away like how do you get that's like staining you like But I don't know.

TREY GERRALD: 00:25:00

I just think that it doesn't come off as truthful to me.

TREY GERRALD: 00:25:04

It comes off as shady.

TREY GERRALD: 00:25:05

Mary Ellen has three other

CHELSEY DONN: 00:25:07

shady.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:25:08

I'm sure they're all one star.

TREY GERRALD: 00:25:09

I mean, I didn't look, but the spelling grammar is, is good here.

TREY GERRALD: 00:25:13

Uh, there aren't any errors.

TREY GERRALD: 00:25:15

Do I think it's common or fluky or typical?

CHELSEY DONN: 00:25:18

it's not.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:25:19

I mean, it's in a sea of five star

CHELSEY DONN: 00:25:20

reviews.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:25:21

So I don't think it could be, and I think in a weird way it almost gives more credibility to Francis and their pages that this review wasn't scrubbed, that it's still there, because it makes me feel like the other reviews are more truthful for some reason.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:25:40

I don't know.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:25:40

It could be wrong.

TREY GERRALD: 00:25:41

While I'm also connecting the dots here, how they say Francis failed to create a cohesive vision and design, but then they also say, like, was annoyed about questions and suggestions, and was impatient and condescending throughout the process, constantly telling us to get over our fears and give him control.

TREY GERRALD: 00:25:58

Like, I feel like that's a person saying, like, just trust me, just, like, if you're like, oh, I love the idea of, like, mid century, but I hate those skinny legs on couches, I don't, then it's sort of like, well, how do you be cohesive if you're nitpicking this piece and that piece and this piece?

CHELSEY DONN: 00:26:11

Right.

TREY GERRALD: 00:26:11

You hate brown, and you don't want warm colors.

TREY GERRALD: 00:26:14

But I don't want it to feel cold and sterile.

TREY GERRALD: 00:26:16

Then you're sort of like, well, how, I don't know.

TREY GERRALD: 00:26:18

I wouldn't, I don't, this isn't my world.

TREY GERRALD: 00:26:20

So I wouldn't know how to create within those bounds.

TREY GERRALD: 00:26:23

And maybe that's what a interior designer should be able to do.

TREY GERRALD: 00:26:25

But it sounds to me like Mary Ellen's a little difficult.

TREY GERRALD: 00:26:28

That is what is occurring to me.

TREY GERRALD: 00:26:30

Were you entertained?

TREY GERRALD: 00:26:31

Was it funny?

CHELSEY DONN: 00:26:32

Um, not really.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:26:34

I'm kind of angry but I think that that's what happens when, when you have two artists

CHELSEY DONN: 00:26:40

that are reviewing someone that is an artist.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:26:43

It's, it's really easy for me to feel defensive.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:26:46

I don't like when someone's like their claimed career, like, shut up.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:26:52

I wasn't entertained.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:26:54

I was kind of annoyed.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:26:56

Okay.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:26:56

Should we go into the crowning?

TREY GERRALD: 00:26:57

yeah, alright, so Chelsey and I each have our own set of zero to five crown cards.

TREY GERRALD: 00:27:01

In an effort to be fair and not influence each other, we will simultaneously reveal

VOICEOVER: 00:27:07

The queens are tabulating to to school.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:27:14

Okay, the queens are unanimous, one crown, one crown, I mean, the one crown is, is just because I'm now questioning, do I want to work with this person?

CHELSEY DONN: 00:27:24

Does this person have attitude?

CHELSEY DONN: 00:27:26

Am I going to get locked into something that I don't really want to be in?

CHELSEY DONN: 00:27:29

Is this going to be a difficult process?

CHELSEY DONN: 00:27:31

I am kind of asking those questions.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:27:34

Which may or may not be accurate and that's where it's just one crown worth, right,

CHELSEY DONN: 00:27:39

because the four crown is I don't know that I trust this person as a narrator, I think there would have had to be a little bit more information in terms of the stake in the game and a little less information about the personal vendetta against Francis, which I just didn't really love.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:27:56

So one crown for me.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:27:58

How about you?

TREY GERRALD: 00:27:59

I think that Mary Ellen comes across shady and very controlling and I think they do punch down like you said, I think it is a lot of disses below the belt that don't I mean, I know you're working with someone's personality, but I also just think Mary Ellen probably isn't very good at taking critique.

TREY GERRALD: 00:28:14

I get that from their review, but ultimately in the past, we did, we did feel impacted.

TREY GERRALD: 00:28:21

I don't know.

TREY GERRALD: 00:28:22

It just, it feels to me like the person and the designer wanted different things.

TREY GERRALD: 00:28:29

They just didn't seem to go eye to eye even with the point of writing up a contract to work together.

TREY GERRALD: 00:28:35

So, that just sounds bad to me.

TREY GERRALD: 00:28:37

And I don't know, I even think like, punching down about a unsuccessful ballet, like that's so stupid.

TREY GERRALD: 00:28:44

Ballet dancers peak at 25, like every ballet dancer is going to have to have another career at some point in their older life.

TREY GERRALD: 00:28:50

So I don't, it just all feels irrelevant and stupid.

TREY GERRALD: 00:28:53

So, one crown, because I think I don't know that it would have that much of an impact for me, except I don't want to be in awkward conversations, and maybe Francis has been in that situation in the past, I don't know, but that's really the only reason why I said one crown.

VOICEOVER: 00:29:08

is a reply.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:29:09

my god, thank goodness, I was hoping there was a reply, I don't know if it's going to be a good reply, but okay, I'm glad,

TREY GERRALD: 00:29:14

Well, this is the reply from the owner, also four years ago.

TREY GERRALD: 00:29:18

Dear Mary Ellen and Jeff, Thank you for sharing your feedback.

TREY GERRALD: 00:29:22

We are very sorry to hear that your experience with Francis Interiors did not meet your expectations.

TREY GERRALD: 00:29:29

Our team always strives to make each and every client happy, and it is clear that we did not succeed in this instance.

TREY GERRALD: 00:29:36

We hope that you'll consider reaching out to us directly if there's anything we can do to remedy this or to bring this to a satisfactory closing for you.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:29:47

interesting, so

TREY GERRALD: 00:29:49

do you think?

CHELSEY DONN: 00:29:50

it feels very generic

TREY GERRALD: 00:29:53

I know.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:29:54

feels like this could be a reply to anything.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:29:57

It's, it's an interesting balance because it's very professional.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:30:00

It's very tasteful.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:30:01

It's not going down the route of you're wrong.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:30:05

I'm right.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:30:05

This was, you were terrible from the start.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:30:07

Kind of what I wanted to be

CHELSEY DONN: 00:30:08

honest, which was like a little bit more backstory of what, like peel the onion

TREY GERRALD: 00:30:13

give us a correction, it's not a correction,

CHELSEY DONN: 00:30:16

not a correction.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:30:18

What I'm getting from this reply is that we're professional.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:30:23

But what I'm missing from this reply is the ability to take back the narrative, which I, again, understand is a delicate tightrope walk,

TREY GERRALD: 00:30:35

we've come up against that a lot, right?

CHELSEY DONN: 00:30:37

I mean it's hard to do it right, but gosh, when you do, you can really turn a negative into a positive,

TREY GERRALD: 00:30:44

I mean, this reply to me almost feels like Like a nothing.

TREY GERRALD: 00:30:48

Like, it isn't negative or positive.

TREY GERRALD: 00:30:50

I mean, I do think it is bold to say, it is clear that we did not succeed.

TREY GERRALD: 00:30:55

Like, I think that's a pretty bold statement.

TREY GERRALD: 00:30:56

Like, I appreciate them owning that.

TREY GERRALD: 00:30:59

There's just an opportunity to either offer a correction or really appeal to anyone that would be reading this that's considering you, and they don't really take that opportunity.

TREY GERRALD: 00:31:10

So, it really is almost like a null and void, in my

CHELSEY DONN: 00:31:13

I mean, it feels like they hired someone on Upwork and they were like, can you please write for us a well toned, like, uh, you know, apologetic reply for one star reviews?

CHELSEY DONN: 00:31:25

Like, it just feels very,

TREY GERRALD: 00:31:26

It feels very clinical.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:31:28

Yeah, yeah,

TREY GERRALD: 00:31:29

agree.

TREY GERRALD: 00:31:30

I mean, I don't even really need to rate it because,

CHELSEY DONN: 00:31:32

I don't know if it's worth a crown, but okay.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:31:34

All right.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:31:35

Not the reply I was hoping for, but at least we said something.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:31:40

Sure.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:31:40

Okay.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:31:41

Oh

TREY GERRALD: 00:31:42

out the air and go into a little GAME BREAK?

CHELSEY DONN: 00:31:47

I love a good game break.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:31:48

Let's do it.

TREY GERRALD: 00:31:50

Well Chelsey and listeners, today I have curated a brand new never before existed game just for you Chelsey and for all of you listeners to play along in your heads as you're driving down the busy interstate or as you're on an airplane.

TREY GERRALD: 00:32:05

So today we are going to be inspired by interior design as we play the game.

TREY GERRALD: 00:32:11

Is it paint or is it ain't?

TREY GERRALD: 00:32:17

Paint or ain't?

CHELSEY DONN: 00:32:18

Paint or ain't.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:32:19

Okay.

TREY GERRALD: 00:32:20

So today, I have compiled a list of paint color names, and you're gonna tell me if that's an actual existing paint name, or it ain't a paint name because Trey made it up and he's from the South.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:32:35

Got it.

TREY GERRALD: 00:32:35

Alright, Chelsey, is the paint color Snuggle Puss?

TREY GERRALD: 00:32:41

Paint or ain't?

CHELSEY DONN: 00:32:48

Mean it is so ridiculous.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:32:49

I'm gonna say ain't but also like it might be paint because it's a ridiculous, but I'll stick with ain't Yeah, and how to be real.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:32:58

It's so crazy.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:32:59

Wow.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:33:00

Okay snuggle puss

TREY GERRALD: 00:33:01

What color do you think Snuggle Puss is?

CHELSEY DONN: 00:33:03

like a beige

TREY GERRALD: 00:33:05

No, so it's actually like a purpley gray?

TREY GERRALD: 00:33:08

And it's a color that's made by Benjamin Moore.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:33:11

Okay

TREY GERRALD: 00:33:12

Like I wouldn't take Benjamin Moore to be like a comedy queen, but okay.

TREY GERRALD: 00:33:16

Chelsey, is the color dead salmon, paint or

CHELSEY DONN: 00:33:21

Oh, come on Trey Ain't.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:33:29

You've gotta be effing kidding me.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:33:31

You've gotta be effing kidding.

TREY GERRALD: 00:33:34

What color do you think dead salmon is?

CHELSEY DONN: 00:33:36

I think it's like salmon but burnt, like a little bit darker.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:33:40

You really killed it.

TREY GERRALD: 00:33:44

Yeah, it's like a, um, I would say it's like a warmer pink salmon y color, and this is produced by the company Farrow and Ball?

CHELSEY DONN: 00:33:52

They need to hire me to make up these paint names because I could do better

CHELSEY DONN: 00:33:57

than dead salmon.

TREY GERRALD: 00:33:59

why would you, like, why would you name something

CHELSEY DONN: 00:34:01

ooh, you know

CHELSEY DONN: 00:34:02

what?

CHELSEY DONN: 00:34:02

You know what color I want to paint the walls?

CHELSEY DONN: 00:34:03

Dead salmon looks nice.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:34:06

I don't

TREY GERRALD: 00:34:06

love the color of these

CHELSEY DONN: 00:34:07

Yeah, I was thinking roadkill, but I actually like dead salmon better.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:34:12

Like, what the

CHELSEY DONN: 00:34:12

hell?

TREY GERRALD: 00:34:13

funny.

TREY GERRALD: 00:34:13

I almost did roadkill.

TREY GERRALD: 00:34:14

That's really funny that you just said that.

TREY GERRALD: 00:34:16

Okay, number three.

TREY GERRALD: 00:34:17

Is the color Grandma's refrigerator paint or ain't?

CHELSEY DONN: 00:34:27

I'm probably gonna get this wrong again, but I think maybe paint, because I remember a color from old refrigerators, like a green.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:34:39

Oh my god, thank god I got one right.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:34:41

Is it a green?

CHELSEY DONN: 00:34:42

Ew.

TREY GERRALD: 00:34:45

warm yellow.

TREY GERRALD: 00:34:47

It's like mid century yellow,

CHELSEY DONN: 00:34:49

Okay, I

TREY GERRALD: 00:34:49

but this is actually from a company called My Perfect Color.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:34:53

All right, that's not as offensive as some of the other names, so.

TREY GERRALD: 00:34:57

All right, Chelsey, is the color impulsive purple, paint or ain't?

CHELSEY DONN: 00:35:07

Eight.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:35:09

I thought you were trying to trick me.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:35:12

Okay.

TREY GERRALD: 00:35:13

impulsive purple is what color do you think?

TREY GERRALD: 00:35:17

It's

CHELSEY DONN: 00:35:21

that you're going to like, be like, yeah, I want to put that on my walls.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:35:24

But then later you're going to be like, that was an impulsive decision.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:35:27

Okay.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:35:29

Great.

TREY GERRALD: 00:35:31

kidding, it's purple.

TREY GERRALD: 00:35:32

I'm kidding, I'm kidding, I'm kidding.

TREY GERRALD: 00:35:34

But it felt just like very normal purple.

TREY GERRALD: 00:35:36

Like, it didn't seem, I don't know what impulsive is about.

TREY GERRALD: 00:35:39

But it's by the company Sherwin Williams.

TREY GERRALD: 00:35:42

Okay.

TREY GERRALD: 00:35:43

Chelsey, is the color nacho cheese paint or ain't?

CHELSEY DONN: 00:35:49

think it's all effing paints or something.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:35:52

Are you tricking me?

CHELSEY DONN: 00:35:54

Ain't.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:35:57

These are all paints, little bitch?

CHELSEY DONN: 00:35:59

At some point, are

TREY GERRALD: 00:36:01

All right, so nacho cheese.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:36:02

to an 8th?

CHELSEY DONN: 00:36:03

I thought it was just odds alone.

TREY GERRALD: 00:36:07

What color do you think nacho cheese

CHELSEY DONN: 00:36:08

obviously, it's like the nacho cheese that you get at a baseball game or at like the movie theater, that like very synthetic yellow.

TREY GERRALD: 00:36:17

Yeah, it's like yellow.

TREY GERRALD: 00:36:19

And this is Benjamin Moore.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:36:21

Trey, Trey,

TREY GERRALD: 00:36:21

Okay, Chelsey.

TREY GERRALD: 00:36:23

Is the paint color Silver Lake Daddy?

CHELSEY DONN: 00:36:26

Oh, come

TREY GERRALD: 00:36:27

Paint or

CHELSEY DONN: 00:36:28

on, you little 8th.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:36:34

If that's a paint color, I swear to God, Oh my,

CHELSEY DONN: 00:36:41

that sounded like something that you would

CHELSEY DONN: 00:36:42

do, But, I would think it would be great.

TREY GERRALD: 00:36:44

so it's gray and there is a paint color by the paint company called Backdrop Paint called Silver Lake Dad.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:36:52

Oh, okay.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:36:53

Yeah.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:36:53

It was the daddy that really gave it away.

TREY GERRALD: 00:36:56

Okay, Chelsey, is the color Not Enough Chocolate Syrup, Mom, paint or ain't?

CHELSEY DONN: 00:37:04

Oh my God.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:37:07

I kind of hope that's paint.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:37:08

Ooh.

TREY GERRALD: 00:37:11

and that is by the company My Perfect Color.

TREY GERRALD: 00:37:15

What color do you think it is?

CHELSEY DONN: 00:37:16

I think that it's like, you know, what chocolate milk when you don't put enough, like cocoa powder in it.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:37:21

So it's like a light brown,

TREY GERRALD: 00:37:23

It's like a beige y brown.

TREY GERRALD: 00:37:25

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

TREY GERRALD: 00:37:26

Alright,

CHELSEY DONN: 00:37:26

I like that company.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:37:27

They have good names,

TREY GERRALD: 00:37:29

They have good names, yeah.

TREY GERRALD: 00:37:30

Chelsey, is the paint color Pretty Ugly, paint or ain't?

CHELSEY DONN: 00:37:39

Paint?

CHELSEY DONN: 00:37:41

God, I almost said paint.

TREY GERRALD: 00:37:43

Alright, so this is by Backdrop Paint.

TREY GERRALD: 00:37:47

What color do you think Pretty Ugly is?

CHELSEY DONN: 00:37:49

Like vomit or something.

TREY GERRALD: 00:37:51

Oh, so it's Pea Soup Green, famously from The Exorcist, which you've probably never seen.

TREY GERRALD: 00:37:58

Alright, we have two remaining.

TREY GERRALD: 00:38:00

Chelsey, is West Coast Ghost paint or ain't?

CHELSEY DONN: 00:38:08

Paint.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:38:10

it like a tan ghost?

CHELSEY DONN: 00:38:11

Is it like beige?

TREY GERRALD: 00:38:13

It's white, it's just a white.

TREY GERRALD: 00:38:15

That's also from Backdrop Paint.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:38:17

This backdrop paint company is really getting on my last nerve.

TREY GERRALD: 00:38:21

Noive.

TREY GERRALD: 00:38:22

Okay, here we go, the very last one, Chelsey, is the paint color mole's breath, paint, or ain't?

CHELSEY DONN: 00:38:30

Mole's breath ain't?

CHELSEY DONN: 00:38:32

What the fuck is a mole's breath?

CHELSEY DONN: 00:38:40

Like a mole on your face or like a mole, like a rat mole?

TREY GERRALD: 00:38:46

no idea.

TREY GERRALD: 00:38:47

What color do you think that is?

CHELSEY DONN: 00:38:49

breath.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:38:49

Brown?

TREY GERRALD: 00:38:50

It's like dark gray.

TREY GERRALD: 00:38:51

That's the company Pharaoh and Ball.

TREY GERRALD: 00:38:53

They also have an elephant's breath.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:38:55

What?

CHELSEY DONN: 00:38:56

Is that gray?

TREY GERRALD: 00:38:57

That one was more brown.

TREY GERRALD: 00:38:59

It is interesting you say that.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:39:00

I mean, these names, guys, who, who is doing

TREY GERRALD: 00:39:05

Well, Chelsey, you did get seven wrong, but you got three right!

CHELSEY DONN: 00:39:08

Woo, there was a moment I thought I would have a comeback, I had like that three in a row moment of confidence, But,

TREY GERRALD: 00:39:15

Pretty ugly three, yeah.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:39:16

I think that they should hire us to make their paintings, because clearly they need

TREY GERRALD: 00:39:20

We would have Lillium Pops Purple.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:39:22

Lillian, I think Lillian Pops would be red, for her big, red, beautiful lips,

TREY GERRALD: 00:39:27

Alright, we'll have a consultation off

CHELSEY DONN: 00:39:29

Ha ha ha ha, I'll give you a list,

TREY GERRALD: 00:39:34

Tchoo!

CHELSEY DONN: 00:39:38

All right, we're back from that.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:39:41

I would say rousing, but I'm mad that I didn't do better.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:39:46

Game break, and it's my turn, you guys.

TREY GERRALD: 00:39:48

Yes, Chelsey, I can't wait to hear the flip side.

TREY GERRALD: 00:39:51

Who wrote your review?

TREY GERRALD: 00:39:52

What's the story?

CHELSEY DONN: 00:39:53

Okay, so I have a five star review from five years ago, so not too far off from the time period of our review that we heard here today, by Jonathan R.,

TREY GERRALD: 00:40:04

Hmm.

TREY GERRALD: 00:40:04

Boy, oh boy.

TREY GERRALD: 00:40:05

I can't wait to hear it.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:40:11

I don't know what else to say.

TREY GERRALD: 00:40:12

It's on.

TREY GERRALD: 00:40:13

Do you see the

CHELSEY DONN: 00:40:13

Oh.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:40:14

Okay, boy oh boy.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:40:16

Well, to hear the flip side, you gotta join our Patreon.

TREY GERRALD: 00:40:21

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CHELSEY DONN: 00:40:24

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CHELSEY DONN: 00:40:25

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CHELSEY DONN: 00:40:27

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CHELSEY DONN: 00:40:27

It's really easy.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:40:28

It's only 4.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:40:30

99.

TREY GERRALD: 00:40:31

And with that, Queens, we did it.

TREY GERRALD: 00:40:33

That was another round on the RUARQ unsuccessful background in ballet ferris wheel.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:40:41

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CHELSEY DONN: 00:40:43

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TREY GERRALD: 00:40:49

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TREY GERRALD: 00:41:01

Wow!

TREY GERRALD: 00:41:03

I wonder why this was said.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:41:08

And I just think like, guys, if you're going to review an interior designer, I'm looking at you, Mary Ellen, you got to include photos.

TREY GERRALD: 00:41:17

know, it's really wild to not include

CHELSEY DONN: 00:41:19

You can't go on here and talk smack and then not include the photos of the terrible taste.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:41:25

You have to have visual evidence and I really think that's what takes this over the edge for me.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:41:31

I wonder, I do wonder,

TREY GERRALD: 00:41:34

Boy, oh boy, I'm wondering,

CHELSEY DONN: 00:41:36

oh boy I'm wondering,

TREY GERRALD: 00:41:37

oh they, them, oh them.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:41:40

oh them.

TREY GERRALD: 00:41:41

Now, make sure you remember as you're wondering,

CHELSEY DONN: 00:41:45

Ignore the haters like Mary Ellen.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:41:47

You're a queen.

TREY GERRALD: 00:41:48

Gender non specific, non Mary Ellen Queen,

CHELSEY DONN: 00:41:51

That's right.

TREY GERRALD: 00:41:52

Bye!

TREY GERRALD: 00:41:53

What's that wall color you got there?

TREY GERRALD: 00:41:55

Cause it sure is pretty ugly.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:41:58

Oh, ouch.

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TREY GERRALD: 00:42:29

Hey!

CHELSEY DONN: 00:42:29

I just feel like Mary Ellen, like, kind of had the cards stacked against her from the beginning because it just feels like, of course, Mary Ellen has a problem.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:42:37

What is it, Mary Ellen?

CHELSEY DONN: 00:42:40

What's it this time, Mary Ellen?

CHELSEY DONN: 00:42:42

You know what I mean?

TREY GERRALD: 00:42:44

Ellen Mary really does not have the same ring.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:42:48

Is there names where?

CHELSEY DONN: 00:42:49

I feel like the Mary usually does go first.

TREY GERRALD: 00:42:52

I knew it,

CHELSEY DONN: 00:42:53

Patrick, well,

TREY GERRALD: 00:42:54

I knew it, Mary Elizabeth.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:42:55

I knew, I have a Mary Lizbeth, yeah, I think the Mary usually does go first,

TREY GERRALD: 00:43:01

And I think Sue comes second, and Marie comes second.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:43:05

Yes, yes, that's a good point,

TREY GERRALD: 00:43:07

Sue Peggy.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:43:08

Peggy, Sue Peggy, I don't think so, not unless they're suing her for, uh, something, I don't know,

TREY GERRALD: 00:43:15

Wait, can we make a Sue Peggy purple paint?

CHELSEY DONN: 00:43:19

Yeah, we can make a Sue Peggy, Sue, I was purple, like,

TREY GERRALD: 00:43:24

Why are you not wanting any purple paint?

TREY GERRALD: 00:43:26

This is the second purple paint you've shut down.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:43:29

No, I was just knowing, I'm all for the purple paint, I'm just wondering if it should be like, Sue Peggy's, that's something that's purple,

TREY GERRALD: 00:43:38

Snuggle, please.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:43:39

no, no, Sue Peggy's grape juice purple,

TREY GERRALD: 00:43:45

Oh, alright, well make sure you check that out on ReviewThatReview.

TREY GERRALD: 00:43:49

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CHELSEY DONN: 00:43:53

don't tempt me with a good time, Trey,

TREY GERRALD: 00:43:57

Your usage for Wix is gonna go skyroof next week.

CHELSEY DONN: 00:44:01

goodness, alright,

CHELSEY DONN: 00:44:04

see you on Friday, bye.