UA-198543153-1 194: Speed Dating: 1 vs 5 Stars - Review That Review with Chelsey and Trey

Episode 194

194: Speed Dating: 1 vs 5 Stars

The Queens are putting love to the test in this Versus Episode, where they review both a 1 Star and 5 Star take on speed dating. Is NY Minute Dating a scam filled with actors pretending to be singles, or is it a real-life love connection waiting to happen?

In Part 1, Chelsey presents a 1 Star Review that exposes NY Minute Dating’s alleged stand-in speed daters, fake matches, and secret staff participants. Is this reviewer onto something, or is this just the worst date night ever? Plus, Trey and Chelsey face off in a brand-new game: Crush or Crash!

Episode Highlights:

  • (00:01:09) Lodge A Complaint: Chelsey’s label-maker order goes terribly wrong, leading to a bizarre delivery mix-up involving five pounds of hair weave. 🤯
  • (00:07:03) Review Breakdown: Chelsey presents Chris C.’s 1 Star Review, exposing shocking speed dating secrets.
  • (00:22:08) The Verdict: Is NY Minute Dating a scam, or is Chris C. just a salty singleton?
  • (00:24:38) Game Time: Crush or Crash! Chelsey plays a high-stakes dating trivia game with hilarious consequences.
  • (00:35:42) Crowning the Review: Do Chelsey and Trey agree on Chris C.'s fiery review?
  • (00:37:03) Business Response Reaction: The company responds! Does it clear their name or raise even more red flags?

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Transcript
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Everybody's got an opinion, Every Californian and Virginian, It's so

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hard to tell who to trust and who to ignore, Someone's gotta settle the

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score., Trey and Chelsey will help you choose, Whose views win which ones

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lose, Online haters are coming for you, Baby, it's time to Review That Review!,

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Hello.

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Well, hello and welcome to Review That Review.

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We are the podcast that is dedicated to reviewing.

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Reviews.

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That is Chelsey Donn.

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And that is Trey Gerrald.

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And together we are the Review Queens.

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And we just throw pins.

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I just threw a pen at myself.

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But first, you pen throwing diva, is there anything that you would like to?

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Ledge a complaint.

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About today?

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Oh my God, Trey, there totally is.

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It's not throwing pens at myself, though, you know, it happens.

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Um, okay.

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So recently.

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I got an Amazon package in the mail.

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I was ordering the tape for a P Touch.

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Just moved.

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Guys, what do we think of this new studio behind me?

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This is like the new look.

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This is where I am.

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I just moved.

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It was great.

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I bought some tape because I'm trying to be organized in my new home.

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It's like a label maker.

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Label maker.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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I was so excited for it to arrive and all these plans ready and everything

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laid out on the dining room table.

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Like we're going to organize.

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It's going to be a great deal.

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Package comes in the mail.

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I'm so excited.

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I'm like, yes, let's do it.

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Let's organize.

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I'm in the mood.

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Okay.

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The right size.

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I get the package.

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I have a photo of it.

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I don't want to ruin it, but it's very bulky.

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It's, it's large.

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It's like, it feels like a small pillow.

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Okay.

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And I'm like, this seems like a lot of work.

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Like, did they like really bubble wrap this P Touch tape?

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Like this just doesn't seem like the appropriate packaging, but

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I'm still not giving up hope because I have an intention here.

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Okay.

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And so I go and first I look at the outside of the envelope.

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And it's a, my label with my address covering another label.

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So I can literally, I'm like starting to see the evidence.

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Like, I don't think this is my package.

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Like, I think this is this other person's package.

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Okay.

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And so I open it up and it's like five pounds of hair weave.

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Okay,

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what, what color?

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Um, black.

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Okay.

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And it's like this humongous bundle of hair weave.

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And I like, had them to deal with it, like, obviously, first, I had to

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deal with the upset of like, what?

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How did this happen?

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And then I called Amazon, and I was on customer service, and I was like,

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listen, I'm really upset about this for multiple reasons, and that is,

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one, I had an intention for the day, and that intention has been wasted.

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And two, this other person deserves to get their weave!

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Right.

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Like, what is happening?

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And it was just very upsetting.

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And then they made me, like, return it, and then they did,

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like, overnight the P Touch tape.

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I know.

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And I got it like, you know, a day later and it was fine,

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whatever, it deleted the project.

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But what about this other person's weave?

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Don't they deserve it?

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You know, I hear, I hear this complaint because anytime it comes

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to organizing, it requires so much of your full mind, body, and spirit.

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And it really is carving out an entire day of a day's worth of intention.

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Yeah, and it was like, yeah, it was like that day too, you know,

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it like delayed me a full week.

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And so that you guys, so that you guys can see that there were two

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labels that clearly this other person didn't get what they ordered either.

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That's so weird.

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Yeah.

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How did,

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They must have, like, made the package and then somehow your

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sticker got on top of theirs.

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Somehow.

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Which makes no

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sense.

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Like, I guess if it was, like, on an assembly line, like, I don't know,

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maybe it just, like, got stuck in the machine and it scanned twice, but then

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it would really start a chain reaction.

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I don't know, Trey.

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It's pretty crazy.

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Um, I'm sorry to the person that was supposed to receive this.

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We're going to obviously block out your name and address.

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From this video, but I hope that you did get what you ordered.

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I hope you called Amazon and you got what you wanted because, you know,

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we had a real flub here, Amazon.

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I feel like this person, they probably didn't get anything because

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like their label was under yours.

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Like this is the package.

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They just put your label on there.

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I don't know if

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they got the p touch tape.

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Maybe they did.

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I don't know.

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Yeah, I'm very confused.

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It's very

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confusing.

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It's all a saga.

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Maybe one day I'll end up running into this person in LA.

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I'm like, Oh my God, so funny.

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Anyway, that's my complaint.

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It's a real time complaint.

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It was a first for me to receive a wrong product like that.

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To be honest.

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Yeah, I don't, yeah, I don't think I've ever received some, like, I don't

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think I've gotten a wrong item before.

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That's so weird.

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Right?

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I mean, I think I've like, maybe someone's stolen a package.

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Like I've gone out to get a package and it's not there, or maybe they

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dropped it at the wrong address and I've had to call and be like, I actually

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didn't get it, but this was the first.

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Aye.

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Ay, well, I hear the complaint.

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Yes, definitely lodged.

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Thank you.

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Thankfully

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you don't need that weave.

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And I don't, it can go back to rightful owner, although

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maybe I, maybe I should.

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Maybe I should have taken the hint.

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I don't know.

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Could Sasha Colby did?

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That's right.

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Could have.

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Alright, well, Chelsea,

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are you ready to go head to head?

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I a, well, I'm ready to go weave.

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To weave di, weave to

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weave.

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Let's do it.

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But before we do, hey, you right now that's watching and listening.

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If you haven't, will you take a moment, hit that subscribe button, give us a like,

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drop a comment below, to let us know what made you laugh, gasp, or cringe the most.

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We love hearing your thoughts, truthfully, it's so, such a joy every time I get

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one of those little dings and I see a little comment from you guys, it really

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makes my entire day, it's totally free, keeps the reviews coming, so go

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ahead, take a moment, leave a comment,

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All right, well, should we do it?

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Let's

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do it!

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Assess

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that kvetch!

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Today is another Versus episode, which means we are going to be

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covering both a one star and a five star on the same topic.

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That's right.

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For this versus episode, Trey has selected the five star and

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I have selected the one star.

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

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There's the quarter.

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All right.

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You wanna pick?

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Okay, sure.

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Heads.

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Heads.

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Oh my goodness.

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All right, I guess I did it again.

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That means I have to say all this.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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Um, do you want

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me to say it?

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No,

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no, no, it's good.

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Okay.

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So before, what, at what point do I give Taylor credit?

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Just let me know.

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When we get to your review.

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So, Chelsey picked heads and heads it is.

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So, everyone get ready.

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Today, we are venturing deep.

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Into the world of speed dating, specifically focusing on the review

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section of Yelp for NY Minute Dating.

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At the time of this recording, NY Minute Dating has 66 reviews on

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Yelp with an overall score of 3.

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5. So

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that's right there in the middle, right there, either way,

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according to the from the business section on Yelp.

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This is fully copy pasted, so enjoy the ride.

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Okay.

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New York Minute dating was established in 2007.

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Okay, I put that in that order, so that isn't copy pasted.

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Now I'm sure you'll see the graphics.

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Now.

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This is all copy pasted.

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They specialize in speed dating events and singles parties for

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busy New York professionals.

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So if you're not a professional, you cannot come.

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And if you're not busy, you cannot come.

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And if you live in New Jersey, you're uninvited.

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Events include categories such as Speed Dating for Single Professionals, Ethnic

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Events such as Indians Singles Speed Dating, Asian Singles Speed Dating,

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Latino, singles, speed dating, African American, singles, speed dating, and

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we also do categories as cougars and cubs, speed dating, parentheses for

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older women and younger men, sugar daddy, speed dating, parentheses for

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affluent men and women, and events for jit singles, artistic singles and more

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along with speed dating our singles parties are a lot of fun we do singles

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parties for all major occasions such as New Year's 4th of July Memorial Day

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weekend etc and in the summer We have singles boat cruises around Manhattan.

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So with all of that background and, Oh

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my god, this company,

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and Review That Review,

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Review That Review.

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Wow, Trey, that that's quite a company.

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That's quite a bio.

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I think they wanted to hit all the speed, the speed dating buzzwords,

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SEO or something like that.

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I think,

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I think.

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Interesting.

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Okay.

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I just want to take a quick moment to give a shout out to Taylor Loeb,

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my acting coach because she's the one that gave us the idea to do

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speed dating for this versus episode.

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Great idea, Taylor.

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Um, thanks so much, Tay, and you're the best.

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Um, and I'm going to read the one star review today for this company,

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New York Minute Speed Dating.

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Here we go.

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This review, obviously it's one star, was written by Chris Z.

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Not to be confused with Chrissy,

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Chris,

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here we go,

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trust me when I say scam, this

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is a scam,

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I have been meaning to report them to the Better Business Bureau,

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wow,

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there are a number of reasons why, this is not worth time and money,

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Reason one, the dates, the night I attended were mostly stand in actors.

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What?

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I was curious and googled a few folks after.

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Two people were married, stand ins, One seemed to work for the company,

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Two were the odd awkward repeats who were gifted a free pass, and

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two admitted they were Asked to come and were not even interested.

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One of these guys said, I was asked to be here, So if I could, uh, one

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night stand out of this, I'd be happy.

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Oh my god.

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What type of service is this?

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Colon, semi colon, slash, refund, please!

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Reason two, I participated with a group of five beautiful, educated women.

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Each of us received one to four matches each, not one person

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followed up with us via phone or email, such a coincidence, right?

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Well, we also sent emails to our matches and nothing, it just reeks of shaviness.

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Just seems odd that not one person followed up, It only confirmed the

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shady business, actors, and stand in, Reason 3, The company does not have

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any integrity, The bartender blew their cover, And shared some information

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about this business following the event.

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She was sweet, nice, and did not mean any harm.

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So, we started asking more questions and there were red flags everywhere.

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Short answer equals shady.

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Also, there are some bad reviews that talk about Danny.

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I have previously read, and yes, Danny was still working for the company and

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also participating as a speed dater.

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Huh.

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Reason four, no refund available and they do not cancel the event if

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there are not enough participants.

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If I could, I would say ZERO!

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Stars, the events are a joke, and this company deserves to be investigated,

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Following the event, they also send you 5 off coupons, saying, We are

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short women, please join us, it's a lie, this is never the case, trust me.

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Oh, Chrissy, there are so many nuggets in this review, wow.

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Yeah.

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All right.

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Um, wait, first of all, this is like point four or something.

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It is so funny to me that Chris C is like, I got some tea on how

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shady this business is, the shady, shady, shady, the long story short,

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shady, I'm like, give us nothing.

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Great.

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Wonderful.

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You literally said it.

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She said the short answer, shady.

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I'm like, yeah, you told us it was shady.

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Can you tell us the

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opening line?

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Like you've already thrown the bartender under the bus,

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even though you tried to like

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make up for it by being like, she's really nice.

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She

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shouldn't.

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She didn't mean she didn't mean to give us all the secret.

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Obviously, this company is going to know who that bartender is.

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You

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already

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put it out

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there.

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Just give us the

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tea.

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I got so excited to gossip.

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Um, so this is the perfect example of why I thought this topic would be

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interesting because, and they, and Chris picks up on it in many different points

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throughout, but it is sort of like, what does a company do at the end of

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the day if there are not enough bodies?

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Right.

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I'm not saying the answer is higher actors.

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Or people that work in your office to act.

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But I'm saying like, she gets an email saying like here

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for 5 off, like, come back.

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Like, I mean, I hear you,

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I hear you, but I just think, isn't the whole job of the person

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running the speed dating event.

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To meet singles however they can, whether that be networking, you

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know, uh, going to other events or whatever it like, I don't know.

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Did you watch Million Millionaire Matchmaker?

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Not really, but enough to know Patti Stanger.

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Yeah, like, a huge part of that show is they would have, like, open calls, and

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they would meet with people, and they would, like, grill them about dating

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and what they wanted, and they would, they were actively meeting people.

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I feel like that's the whole job of the person running these type of events.

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Yeah, but to me, there is a distinction between, like, a matchmaker and,

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like, a speed dating company.

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But, but I think that that's the proof in the pudding here that we're finding

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in this review section where it's like there weren't any people there.

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And like,

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cause like you're going to a speed dating event to meet people.

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So why would I waste my time?

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Well, I also was thinking there's five women.

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That's like, the odds are pretty good if I'm a lady.

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Right.

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But wait, okay, let's go through some of this.

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Do we think there's any new?

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unique, valuable information in this review.

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I think there's a ton.

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I do too.

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I do too.

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I mean, even if it's truthful or not, I think there is so much.

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But now I'm like my, I'm on high alert.

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Yes.

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And I think like the actors thing, the stand in, like things I wouldn't

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have necessarily thought of before going in, like now I'm even honestly

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going to any speed dating event.

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Now I'm like, oh, this may be a possibility I need to be aware of.

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Yes, I've never thought, I've never thought that the

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people would be pretending.

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Right.

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That's never

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occurred to me.

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Never occurred to me either.

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It also would have never,

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well, it would have never occurred to me to like check in with the bartender.

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Be like, oh, you work these events often?

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Like, what's the story?

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Yeah.

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I mean, do we think that Chrissy and her friends are like really hot pieces?

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I mean, they, she seems to present it like me and all my like tens came in

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here and didn't get a single match.

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Alright, so we were talking about the odds and how there's good odds

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because there are five of them, right?

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So, you would think, like, if, like, out of five people, one

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of them is gonna get a match.

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So I do think that maybe Chrissy is right.

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And maybe she was walking in with a bunch of tens.

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And it's suspicious.

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It's evident.

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Sorry, before I can even answer that, I'm, I'm taking this accusation that they're

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stand in actors, employees as truth.

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Like, I really am believing that that is true, which I don't know if that's fair

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or not, but like, If you are hired to be there and then you just like maybe it's a

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fake email, but like to not even respond when the person emails you is so dark.

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Oh, it's dark.

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Yeah, it's just it's strange.

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The whole thing seems strange.

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It also seems like maybe they didn't follow up with them afterwards.

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Like my shout out to Jenny.

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I hope I'm not putting out blast, but she's gone to a few events like this in

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New York and I've talked to her about it and like, Even if you pick someone and

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they don't pick you, like, Usually there's some sort of interaction, even if it's

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just like, Hey, like, these, this one person picked you and you didn't write

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them down, or Hey, like, wasn't a match this time, but like, If you want in the

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emails for the people that you match to try and see if that could turn into

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something, like, we'll give them to you.

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Like, there's usually some sort of communication.

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Even if, like, it's not, congratulations, you have a match, there's usually some

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sort of communication, and I don't trust, based on this review, that, like, there's

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any communication after the event.

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Other than here's 5 off.

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Other than here's like a generic, like automatic email.

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That's just like 5 off.

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If you come again, like, or you're now on their

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mailing list, you know,

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are there other spelling grammar issues?

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There's

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like little issues throughout, just like little grammatical things throughout.

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I mean, they definitely tried to be organized in this review, but

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it wasn't a hundred percent score.

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I give them like a 90 and then with the reason three, maybe, maybe 85.

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Um, I mean, the truthful shadiness is, is interesting because it's definitely shady.

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I think so too, but

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I don't know.

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I kind of think it might be true too.

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I mean, I kind of think, I think there's like, they're

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presenting a lot of evidence.

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So like, if we're to take them at like any of this evidence, a lot of these

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points are sort of a deal breaker.

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So I think there's truth in that.

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But I also think we're being shady, especially where we started this

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conversation about the review and that I spoke with a bartender and I

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heard some salacious things, but let's just boil it all down to scam, you

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know, like it's like, it's a little bit shady boots in that we're like,

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it was so bad, I can't even say it.

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So I think there's, there's shade.

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And I do wonder, do you think it's

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common?

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I wonder how common it is.

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Well, you and I both just said like we never would've considered there

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would be prop people there, right?

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I don't know.

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I don't know if it's common or fluky because like dating ins itself

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is like such a hit or miss thing.

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It's like you could go one time and meet the love of your life

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or you could go to 29 million of them and like it just doesn't.

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Well,

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what about the fact that they brought up that multiple reviews

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talked about this guy Danny?

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Yeah,

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that seems like a common thread.

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That's a little, yeah, that's

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also another thing to like, to research.

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Like Chrissy is bringing up many things that I need to

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like, do more due diligence on.

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Like, I want to see what other

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people said about Danny.

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Yeah.

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And I want to know like, and that's the other thing that's weird about Chrissy

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is she's giving these grand accusations.

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Like they're a scam.

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They don't have integrity, whatever it is.

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They're really, like, presenting a lot of these grand proclamations, like, oh,

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they're integrity, but they don't give a lot of specifics, which I think it

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makes it a little bit more difficult to assert, other than the Danny thing, if

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this is typical or not, were we humored?

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I mean, I was thoroughly humored and thoroughly entertained.

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Just the screaming,

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this is a scam, and then like, the first sentence with all the exclamation points.

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And the dangling of the like, I have tea.

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Yeah, I was definitely entertained by this review and I think it did have an impact.

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I mean, I'm sorry, but I'm going to wait to see what I hear in

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the five star, but I'm feeling in this moment like it's a pass.

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Yeah, it is a little, it does seem and I think it is a

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little retaliatory, but it is.

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Chrissy is bringing up many things that are concerning to me that I would need to,

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like, you know, compare other things to.

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Definitely.

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All right.

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I think I can crown Chrissy.

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I think so, too.

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But before we do, Chelsey, it's game time.

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I can't wait.

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All right, Chelsey and audience.

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Today, I have created a never.

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Before existed, fresh out of the ethers game, based on today's theme, and I've

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lovingly titled it, Crush or Crash.

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Ooh, okay.

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So it's basically true or false.

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Okay.

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And in honor of your consequences last week that you made me suffer from,

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Oh my goodness.

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Okay.

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I created consequences for you.

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Okay.

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And everyone

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should know that back in 2000 when Chelsey and I had our first conversation

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about this podcast, forcing consequences on each other was something that she

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has been trying to shoehorn into the show since that original conversation.

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And it never, never happened until the first video episode.

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So.

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Okay, well, you reap what you sow, I guess.

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Here we go.

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Okay.

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Okay, crush or crash?

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Okay.

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Question one.

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According to recent dating studies, 15 percent of people admit they have

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brought their pet on a first date with them without telling the date beforehand.

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15, 15%. That's right.

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Sorry.

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Ooh.

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Um,

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pr.

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Oh my goodness.

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Okay.

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I'm right.

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That's correct.

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And no consequences.

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Um, if you,

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if you had gotten it wrong, you would have been asked to give a heartfelt

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speech to your water bottle confessing.

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Why You never leave home without it.

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Oh my God.

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Well, would be that points if you made it

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romantic,

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that would be not true.

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But I should do that.

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I should be more romantic with my water bottle.

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Do you have your water bottle with you?

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Is it It was a triple headed.

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I have this.

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Alright, number two, crush or crash?

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There was a popular speed dating event where people wore paper bags over their

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heads to avoid judging based on looks.

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It became known as the Blind Luck Event Crush, or Crash,

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I'm gonna say crush.

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I sort of hope that this is true.

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Wow.

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So it is correct.

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Um, if you had guessed wrong, you would've been asked to put an

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imaginary paper bag over your head and introduced yourself as if you were

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at a Blind Luck speed dating event.

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Oh, wow.

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Okay.

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Describing yourself

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without using any physical details.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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So you've gotten both right so far.

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Two out

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of two so far.

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Really walking the tightrope though.

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All right, here we go.

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During a speed dating event in 2019, a woman set a world record for speed

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dating 200 men in a single day.

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I'm going to say crash because those would have to be like really fast date.

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Correct.

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Wow.

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If you had gotten

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that wrong.

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Oh, I'm missing out on all these acting opportunities, apparently.

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You would have been asked to speed date the room.

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Oh.

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You have a 10 second mini introduction to everyone in the room about

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your favorite breakfast cereal.

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Alright, this is the last question and then we have a bonus round, okay?

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One speed dating company hosted an event where everyone communicated only using

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emojis written on small whiteboards.

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Crush or crash?

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That's like so random.

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I'm gonna say crash.

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I may

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be wrong on this one though.

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That's

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true?

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Okay.

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Okay.

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So, you got one wrong.

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Yeah, I did.

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Even though I think you might have thrown it.

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I might have.

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Express how you feel about this question with only emojis acting it out instead of

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instead of drawing it on a piece of paper.

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Oh, God.

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Okay.

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Here we go.

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Oh, wait, this is there a question?

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Not that question.

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The question is, how do I feel about speed dating?

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Uh, the previous question about only answering with emoji whiteboards.

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How do you feel about that?

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As an idea?

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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Can you do one of those like, um, orange diamonds or like the white square?

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Yep.

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Pretty white.

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Miss story of getting weave sent to her.

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Okay.

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Oh my God.

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Here's the bonus round.

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Okay.

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Yes.

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No, if you get this right,

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you win

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the game.

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You'll win.

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But if you get it wrong, you're still going to win

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because you only got one wrong.

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So, okay.

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All right.

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At a 2019 gay speed dating event in Miami, participants were grouped

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Based on their favorite divas.

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Cher, Britney, Beyonce, or Madonna, To see if fans of the same icon

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could spark a match, Crush or Crash?

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I'm crushing on this idea, so I'm gonna go, Crush.

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That's very good Trey, you came up with that yourself?

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Yeah, but I thought it was too many details you would know it was fake.

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I kind of love it though, I think that like we should

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do this, let's open this up.

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It would be fun, right?

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We could open this up and.

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Well, I'm really glad that you got this wrong because your consequence

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is reveal which diva you would have chosen to be grouped with.

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And why?

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Okay.

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And then do an impression of the chosen diva.

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Oh no!

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So Cher,

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Britney, Beyonce, or Madonna?

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Ooh, that's so

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hard.

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I gotta say it's between Cher and Madonna.

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Um, like, without question,

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Yeah, I'm sure you've seen both of them in Atlantic City.

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I have.

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I have to get to share.

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I'm sorry.

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I mean, like, I love Madonna.

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I love Madonna.

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Is it because it's an easier impression?

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Be honest.

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I'll do both.

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I'll do both because I can't choose.

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So, um, I'm really, but

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why, why did you, why is it

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between them?

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Okay, I just feel like she's an icon.

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She's a style icon, Sonny and Cher.

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I just feel like she reinvented herself.

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She's a diva.

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She's a diva who literally has had like 30 million farewell tours.

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Like she's like, I'm done.

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I'm never performing again.

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And then she comes back for more.

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And I think what, what's more diva than that?

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So obviously.

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Share because of that.

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And then why Madonna?

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I mean like Madonna is a cultural phenomenon.

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She's Lady Gaga, Britney Spears.

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So many people have pulled from her bravery and her art form and

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her willingness to be sexy and her willingness to be a cougar to sort

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of like fall on her face, own her sexuality, have cones on her tits.

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I mean so many things, so many iconic moments.

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She's, she's like the queen.

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She's the diva.

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She's Madonna, the single name starter.

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Anyway, need I say more?

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So God, I can't do impersonations.

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You guys horrible.

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Um, if I could turn back down

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and, um, cause we are living in a material world and I am a material girl.

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Okay.

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That's it.

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Did I do it?

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Very good.

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I love both of you.

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I'm sorry for the impersonations, but it was met with all the love in my heart.

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Well, I think you did a great job.

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You obviously are better at trivia than I ever will be, as

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evidenced by these versus episodes.

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And I think you did a tremendous job.

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And I think that having sat in this, I think I'm able to, to like tabulate.

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What do you think?

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I

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think, I think I feel.

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Ready to tabulate as well.

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All right, so let's crown.

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Chelsey and I each have our own set of zero to five crown cards.

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In an effort to be fair and not influence one another, we will

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simultaneously reveal our ratings.

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The

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queens are tabulating.

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Total score.

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Okay, I'm holding up four crowns, Trey, you're holding up four and

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a half crowns, Trey, you go first.

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Four and a half crowns for Chris C.

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I forgot about all the spelling and all of that like emotional frenzy,

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but ultimately I don't know how true this is, but it occurs as truthful and

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regardless of if it's truthful or if it's shady or whatever, there are enough

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points that are expertly communicated that would make me do much deeper

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digging than this one review section.

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Um, I, I'm not sure how much of it is just coming with the territory, but I

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think Chris C does a really great job of like stopping you on the review page and

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like drawing your attention and like, you know, I think that's really skillful.

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I can't give you more than, like, I got to take at least half a crown.

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If you dangle a carrot in front of me, I'll dare you, give me that carrot.

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So that's why I said four and a half.

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Why did you say four?

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Okay, I said four for the following reasons.

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Reason one, they presented a lot of key evidence.

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Reason two, they seem to have had really a big case study with the five friends.

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I like that they brought that up.

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Like, okay, this is a lot of people experiencing it.

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Reason three, Um, Danny, reason four, like, really just, I'm

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sorry, I didn't mean that.

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Reason three, Danny, reason three, um, they really seem to be emotional

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about this, which makes me feel like it could be truthful because

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there's a lot of emotion here.

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And finally.

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Reason for like the drop of the shade was kind of like a nice amuse bouge.

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I just wish you would have taken it over the edge and given me the actual

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T. So for that reason, four crowns, I took off the crown for not giving

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me T and also the spelling errors.

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Yeah, no, I mean, it makes sense.

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I might be more in alignment with with the four now.

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Good job.

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Great find.

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Thank you.

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Well, Trey, we have to wait because there is

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a reply.

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There is a

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reply from Jen S., the business owner.

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OK, Okay, this is from Jen S., the business owner.

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She says, Hi, Chris.

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Thank you for your review.

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I wish I had read it back in 2014 when you wrote it.

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I assure you, we do not use stand ins or actors.

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I wish I had an explanation as to why you and your friends got matches

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who didn't follow up with you.

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If you would have written me back directly back then, I would have

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followed up with the men for you to find out why they hadn't reached out yet.

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I love helping people connect and making sure matches follow up with each other.

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While we can't guarantee that you and your matches will have future encounters,

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Our events work for a lot of people.

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I personally know of people who have gotten married for meeting,

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from meeting at our event.

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Results vary.

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Also, I wonder what you saw on Facebook to make you think two of the men who

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attended were married or in relationships.

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I promise you if we were made aware that someone is not single, we would

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ban them from our site immediately.

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Our events are for singles only, which depending on the age group

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of the event can include people who are divorced and are now single.

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If you are still single and looking, I invite you to give

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us a fresh try, on us of course.

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I'm certain that you would like many of the changes we

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have implemented since 2014.

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I don't like how they are like passing the blame.

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Yeah.

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You mean you weren't checking your reviews back in 2014?

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Yeah.

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If I would have read this back then, like maybe they hired

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a friggin crisis consultant.

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Well, it's like, I get the point of like, right to us directly, but it's

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like, also, I'm not coming back to you.

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That's insane.

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And then also the last little bit about all these changes that we've made.

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I'm like, what, what changes have you made?

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Because you're like speaking as if you're speaking about something,

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but you're not saying anything.

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Yeah.

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How do you feel about this reply in general?

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So I, I don't know.

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I agree.

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I think that this is not gaining any favors.

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for the company.

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It seems blamey and weird.

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It's also weird.

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Wedding statistic seems inauthentic.

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And like why would you reply so many years later?

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I don't know.

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Yeah, it just seems odd.

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Would it look worse if they didn't reply?

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I don't know.

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I'm, I'm, I'm having some red flags, though.

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It only encourages more red flags, unfortunately.

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Agree.

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All right.

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Well, now after hearing that reply, which I don't even know that we

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need to necessarily crown it.

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I think we know it's kind of, uh, One crowner.

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I'm even more curious to know what this five star has to say, Trey.

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How are you going to explain?

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How are you going to defend yourself?

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Well, now I have you

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just an actor.

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I have so much pressure now.

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I feel the responsibility here.

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All right.

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Well, I have a five star review from Yelp written by Elizabeth C and

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there is a photograph attached that we're going to need to be looking at.

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So.

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Well, I can't wait for that.

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I mean, I'll

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see.

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Yes.

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Part two of our speed dating coverage where I cover this flip

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side review drops on Friday.

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Oh my goodness.

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Well, I hope I can wait till Friday to hear the flip side.

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But if I couldn't wait till Friday, if I'm like, no, waiting's not

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my thing, then what would I do?

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Try?

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Well, you're in luck because we have a Patreon and part two is

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live right now on our Patreon.

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Right now.

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Go.

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Go over to Patreon.

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You can hear it all now.

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Don't you want to hear it?

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I do.

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Patreon, well, we did a queen.

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That's another round on the R-U-A-R-Q.

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Ferris Wheel of the bartender knows everything.

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, . It

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was the bar, but we dunno it, but we're gonna know what the bartender knows.

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It

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was the bartender with the wrench.

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All along.

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That's right, and I wonder why this was sad.

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Okay, so by cruised, we mean the circle line?

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Is there sing You were waiting for that.

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Is there sing She's dying at herself.

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Hmm, interesting.

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Well, remember,

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ignore the haters.

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You're a queen,

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Wow.

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Wow.

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I mean, I really wish they would've given us the tea.

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I hated dangle.

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I

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mean, that's to assume that the bartender was being honest, but I feel

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like what does the bartender have to

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lose?

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What does the bartender have to lose their job?

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Maybe

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they probably don't care.

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They'll be like, they were drunk.

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I don't know what they thought I told them.

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Well, I deny, deny, deny.

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