Episode 194
194: PART TWO - 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 2, Trey presents a 5 Star Review from Elizabeth C., who swears she met her fiancé at one of these speed dating events. 💍 But is this a true modern romance—or just a suspiciously perfect success story? The Queens dissect whether this is a real love story or a PR stunt. PLUS: They react to the official business response to the 1 Star Review—does it clear the company’s name or make things way more suspicious?
Episode Highlights
- (00:00:35) Recap of Part 1 & Speed Dating Scandal
- (00:01:00) Meryl-Go-Round: The Queens take on dramatic 1 Star review zingers—Hairspray edition!
- (00:05:00) Review Breakdown: Trey presents Elizabeth C.'s 5 Star Review, claiming she met her fiancé through speed dating! Romance or marketing scheme? 🤔
- (00:10:00) The Verdict: Do Chelsey and Trey buy this love story, or is something fishy going on?
- (00:18:00) Official Business Response: NY Minute Dating responds to the 1 Star Review—does their reply clear their name or raise even more red flags?
- (00:22:00) Crowning the Review: The Queens officially rate and crown the 5 Star review.
- (00:25:00) Final Thoughts: Is speed dating a hit or a total miss?
Timestamps
- (00:00:35) Recap of Part 1
- (00:01:00) Meryl-Go-Round: 1 Star Review Zingers
- (00:05:12) Review Breakdown (5 Star)
- (00:16:40) The Verdict
- (00:18:00) There's A Reply
- (00:22:00) Comparing the Reviews
- (00:25:00) Final Thoughts
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Transcript
Everybody's got an opinion.
Speaker:Every Californian and Virginian.
Speaker:It's so hard to tell who to trust and who to ignore.
Speaker:Someone's gotta settle the score.
Speaker:Trey and Chelsea will help you choose.
Speaker:Whose views win?
Speaker:Which ones lose?
Speaker:Online haters are coming for you.
Speaker:Baby, it's time to review the reviews!
Speaker:All right.
Speaker:Welcome back to our coverage of the Yelp reviews for Speed
Speaker:Dating for New York Minute.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:In part one, we heard the one star review.
Speaker:And now as we've been teasing, we are going to hear the
Speaker:other side of the coin here.
Speaker:Try.
Speaker:Now we're going to hear the five star.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:But before we do, Chelsea, I think it's time that we take a quick little spin.
Speaker:On the Meryl go round.
Speaker:Let's do it.
Speaker:I don't feel like an icon as I feel like icon.
Speaker:That's with an A.
Speaker:Alright, here's the deal.
Speaker:Trey and I have each picked a rotten, scathing, pithy one star zinger and
Speaker:with 30 seconds on the clock we'll take turns trying to recite the
Speaker:zinger in as many genres as possible.
Speaker:Just like Queen Meryl Streep, who does it all.
Speaker:Before the clock runs out,
Speaker:all right, I try you go first.
Speaker:You want me to go first?
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:All right.
Speaker:So in honor of the love theme, I found this one star walmart.
Speaker:com review for a Jessica Simpson perfume called fancy love.
Speaker:Fancy love.
Speaker:No idea.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:Um, and this is not, um, Amazon customer.
Speaker:This is Walmart customer.
Speaker:They don't want to self identify.
Speaker:Now their, their, um, subject is, it's a no for me, doesn't smell right.
Speaker:But their review is, it smells like hairspray.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:That was so funny.
Speaker:Um, I'm going to strap you into that giant can of hairspray from like
Speaker:Hairspray the Musical where they like bring them in like a Trojan horse.
Speaker:Mm hmm.
Speaker:You know what I'm talking about?
Speaker:Of course I do.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:So that's what you're strapped in on.
Speaker:Here we go.
Speaker:Are you ready?
Speaker:I'm ready.
Speaker:Let's do it.
Speaker:Three, two, one.
Speaker:Shakespeare.
Speaker:It smells like a hairspray.
Speaker:Adult film.
Speaker:Smells like hairspray.
Speaker:TLC reality.
Speaker:Smells like hairspray.
Speaker:Disaster.
Speaker:It smells like hairspray.
Speaker:Devil Evangelist.
Speaker:It smells like a hairspray, Jesus Christ.
Speaker:Disney.
Speaker:Oh, she's got a secure spoon!
Speaker:Magic show!
Speaker:Secure spoon!
Speaker:Okay, I'll give it to you.
Speaker:You gave us a visual.
Speaker:Thank you.
Speaker:That was really good.
Speaker:All right, you got one, two,
Speaker:seven!
Speaker:D. Va, very good!
Speaker:Thank you.
Speaker:Amazing job.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:My one star zinger, I decided to explore the LA side of speed dating and my
Speaker:one star zinger and I found a company called The three day rule matchmaking.
Speaker:This is a one star Yelp review that is written by Cynthia S And
Speaker:the review is quite succinct.
Speaker:Terrible.
Speaker:Oh, wow.
Speaker:They don't hold back.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:All right.
Speaker:Are you ready?
Speaker:Melodrama.
Speaker:Disc jockey.
Speaker:This is a terrible.
Speaker:Opera diva.
Speaker:True crime doc.
Speaker:Terrible.
Speaker:Magic show.
Speaker:Terrible!
Speaker:Yankee.
Speaker:Terrible!
Speaker:Lifetime.
Speaker:Terrible!
Speaker:Spy.
Speaker:Terrible.
Speaker:Lime.
Speaker:WWE.
Speaker:Terrible!
Speaker:2, 4, 6, 8. Ten!
Speaker:Woo!
Speaker:I'm terrible.
Speaker:I only had one word.
Speaker:But still, you had the clarity of mind.
Speaker:Aw, thank you.
Speaker:Good job!
Speaker:Thank you.
Speaker:You really did it.
Speaker:Oh my goodness.
Speaker:I can't believe it.
Speaker:Well, I am so excited to hear this five star review because I obviously have
Speaker:my opinions about New York Minute, and I want to see if you can sway them.
Speaker:So, to start us off.
Speaker:Yeah, let's, let's take a little gander over here.
Speaker:So.
Speaker:Today, I have this five star written by Elizabeth C, who
Speaker:lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Speaker:Brooklyn in the house.
Speaker:And here we go.
Speaker:I won't use NY Minute dating services anymore because I already found my
Speaker:Mr. Right through one of their events.
Speaker:I recommend their speed dating events and their singles cruises
Speaker:to all of my friends all the time.
Speaker:Some of my friends have met their significant others
Speaker:through these events, too.
Speaker:They really do work.
Speaker:I had attended three past events.
Speaker:One was a speed dating event on Valentine's Day in 2012 at a venue called
Speaker:Slate on 21st Street and 5th Avenue.
Speaker:The second speed dating event was at the DL. on Delancey Street.
Speaker:My final event was not a speed dating event.
Speaker:It was one of their singles cruise around Manhattan on March 26th, 2013.
Speaker:Great drinks.
Speaker:Great music.
Speaker:Great people.
Speaker:Parentheses.
Speaker:I made lots of new friends that night.
Speaker:And I met my B. F. that night there.
Speaker:Highly recommend.
Speaker:OK, so by cruise, do we mean the Circle Line?
Speaker:You were waiting on that.
Speaker:It's their single.
Speaker:She's dying at herself.
Speaker:I
Speaker:mean, it's gotta be the Circle Line.
Speaker:Oh my God.
Speaker:Sorry.
Speaker:I
Speaker:used to live right near the Circle Line, so.
Speaker:So
Speaker:that is the review.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:I thought you had something else to say.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:So this feels a little saccharine to me, Trey.
Speaker:Um, I have my thoughts on this.
Speaker:I don't know that this is an authentic review.
Speaker:I shouldn't be so accusatory right out of the gate because maybe there is a
Speaker:world in which this is Elizabeth C's truthful experience, but something just
Speaker:smells fishy because I feel like the whole review was like, uh, Just an ad.
Speaker:It was like, I met my husband and started my friends.
Speaker:You know what?
Speaker:I gave it three times.
Speaker:One said Slate, which I love, by the way.
Speaker:On 21st he used to go to acting school right next door.
Speaker:Love Slate.
Speaker:It's great.
Speaker:Once was that sling, one was downtown, and the third was the big
Speaker:one, the cruise around Manhattan.
Speaker:Um, it just felt very sales pitchy to me.
Speaker:I, I see that read on it.
Speaker:Like, it's interesting to me because all of the specifics
Speaker:feel a little unnecessary.
Speaker:Like, I don't need to know that it was at the DL or whatever, like, that's weird.
Speaker:But I actually appreciated, like, it was actually the singles cruise.
Speaker:That's not the circle line that like profitable for me, but right now that
Speaker:you mentioned that I am sort of like, Oh,
Speaker:I'm sure that's like the most expensive event, you know?
Speaker:So I don't know.
Speaker:It feels a little odd.
Speaker:I agree with you.
Speaker:I also think the specifics that they gave, I wish they had spoken
Speaker:more about their significant other.
Speaker:I wish they had been like, I met them and like, this was, I don't
Speaker:know, just like gotten more into.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:What they were both doing there and how they met and why they were such a good
Speaker:match and just like something to make me feel like this relationship is real.
Speaker:So that was written April 22nd, 2015.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:On December 2nd, 2018.
Speaker:So three years later.
Speaker:We get an updated review.
Speaker:Oh God,
Speaker:okay.
Speaker:I got engaged over the summer!
Speaker:My fiancé and I met at an minute dating event.
Speaker:I couldn't be happier.
Speaker:I wrote an email directly to Jen at the company and she wrote me such
Speaker:a nice email congratulating us.
Speaker:I didn't know if she would remember me since it's been a few years since I last
Speaker:attended one of their events, but she did.
Speaker:They offered to pay for our wedding pictures slash video as a gift.
Speaker:How sweet is that?
Speaker:They're really amazing people.
Speaker:Okay, now I'm even more convinced that this is fake.
Speaker:Or, and, or, and, or, coerced, like, extremely coerced.
Speaker:Really?
Speaker:Yes, Trey.
Speaker:They're paying for their photo, like, it's just like, okay, so, if I meet my
Speaker:significant other on your thing, then you're gonna pay for my wedding photos.
Speaker:Like, it just feels so I don't believe it.
Speaker:You sent me a picture of the engagement ring.
Speaker:I mean, it, it, it could be Elizabeth
Speaker:has also attached a photo, so you'll see it up on the screen now.
Speaker:Am I just like a total cynic because I'm single and I just like.
Speaker:Don't want to believe that this is true.
Speaker:Maybe I don't know but I also feel like it.
Speaker:It's just like
Speaker:too Complimentary,
Speaker:but maybe that's just
Speaker:the verbose way that Elizabeth speaks
Speaker:It could be it could be um, all right the spelling and grammar Was fine,
Speaker:right?
Speaker:Like is there is there any unique valuable information?
Speaker:I would say if you see a photo of an engagement ring in a review of this thing,
Speaker:then that's probably going to be valuable.
Speaker:If we look a little deeper, are we starting to question?
Speaker:But if this
Speaker:is the same company that has actors and stand ins, I feel like it's pretty easy
Speaker:to find, like Literally, you can just Google a picture of an engagement ring.
Speaker:Touche.
Speaker:Thank you.
Speaker:I have several for drag.
Speaker:Uh, that's right.
Speaker:That could
Speaker:be your hand.
Speaker:This looks like, how dare you, I have much prettier fingers.
Speaker:No offense, Elizabeth, that was a joke.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:Um, okay.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Spelling
Speaker:grammar is fine.
Speaker:Like, there's not really anything to talk about.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:And then obviously been going back and
Speaker:forth on the truthful shady.
Speaker:The shady scale is high for me, but maybe I'm a cynic.
Speaker:Well, it's funny because I didn't get that read on the first
Speaker:one,
Speaker:like at all, except I was like, why is she saying like the restaurant?
Speaker:Like this is so weird.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:But when you started putting out, I was like, Oh, but then it is sort
Speaker:of like, Oh, I totally buy that.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:And then I'm also like, it's so valuable.
Speaker:I know how valuable it would be to have a engagement ring.
Speaker:Totally.
Speaker:Review.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:You mean like it's valuable for the company.
Speaker:Mm hmm.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:I mean, there must be, at very least, there's like, a big incentive, like,
Speaker:if you write us a review, and like, you've met here, we will pay for
Speaker:your, you know, like, there's gotta be We'll pick your wedding pictures.
Speaker:Exactly.
Speaker:I was like, I thought she was gonna say they paid for the frickin wedding.
Speaker:I know, I thought I was gonna say that at first, too.
Speaker:Like what?
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:So do we think that this is common?
Speaker:I mean, you were in the five star world.
Speaker:Did you come across other engagements?
Speaker:To be fair, there weren't that many to pick from.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:Just full disclosure.
Speaker:Sure.
Speaker:And um, the ones that were, were sort of like, you know, they
Speaker:were like cynically, you know,
Speaker:Realistic that it's like a crapshoot.
Speaker:I mean, no matter how you go about dating, no matter what the
Speaker:convention is that you put around it.
Speaker:It's like, you know,
Speaker:yeah, I think that's it.
Speaker:I think I wish there was a little bit more of that in like that
Speaker:groundedness in the reviewer.
Speaker:It was like I had the hardest time dating.
Speaker:I had the hardest time.
Speaker:Like, give me something.
Speaker:Give me something.
Speaker:Give me story.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:All right.
Speaker:So I feel
Speaker:that to like something.
Speaker:I don't know why, but something doesn't.
Speaker:I don't like Elizabeth.
Speaker:Like, if it was that easy,
Speaker:you, like, you wouldn't even need the speed dating.
Speaker:Like, I don't know.
Speaker:It's like, give me a little drama, Elizabeth.
Speaker:I want more.
Speaker:But sometimes people don't have any drama in their life.
Speaker:How is that possible, Trey?
Speaker:I don't know, but sometimes people just f ing go to a singles
Speaker:cruise and they f ing get engaged.
Speaker:I guess.
Speaker:But then I, even more so.
Speaker:Think that Elizabeth is the anomaly.
Speaker:Were we humored?
Speaker:I was humored by the circle line.
Speaker:I thought
Speaker:you were going to say Elizabeth is the devil.
Speaker:I don't know why I thought that's what you were going
Speaker:to say.
Speaker:No, I don't think that they're the devil.
Speaker:I think they might be Jen.
Speaker:Oh, really?
Speaker:Maybe.
Speaker:Well, Jen, let us know.
Speaker:Was it
Speaker:you?
Speaker:Defend yourself.
Speaker:Humor, entertained.
Speaker:I told you I was entertained by the circle line, but I'm entertained by the idea
Speaker:of calling something a cruise that is just like a little like dip rum and hat.
Speaker:Oh, but like so many companies do that.
Speaker:I know.
Speaker:I know.
Speaker:I don't know how entertained I am.
Speaker:My whole perspective has been shifted from this conversation.
Speaker:So that is entertaining.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:Interesting.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:So the impact, do you feel like if you are just looking at Chrissy and
Speaker:Elizabeth C comparing their reviews?
Speaker:Do you think it's worth it to go to this company?
Speaker:You know, maybe this is the proof of concept on this, these versus
Speaker:episodes because I literally came into today being like, there's no denying
Speaker:the, it's like a engagement ring.
Speaker:Like that's what you want.
Speaker:But I feel so influenced by Chris sees on star that I'm like, let me go back
Speaker:and look at these other 64 reviews.
Speaker:Because I don't, I don't know.
Speaker:I feel like the truth always lands a little in the middle, but I, where
Speaker:Chris C had so many meticulous points about X, Y, and Z could be fact
Speaker:checked or exaggerate, whatever.
Speaker:We don't get much of anything from our five star, which may
Speaker:be like the proof, you know, a picture's worth a thousand words.
Speaker:But even the fact that the hand isn't like with the man or like
Speaker:maybe you don't want to put his face on but it's like, I don't know.
Speaker:I really feel completely different than how I thought I would at
Speaker:this coming into this episode.
Speaker:Alright,
Speaker:well I think you should think about that while we crown.
Speaker:Should we do it?
Speaker:Yeah, let's do it.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:The queens
Speaker:are tabulating.
Speaker:Time
Speaker:for school.
Speaker:Okay, I'm holding up two crowns.
Speaker:Trey's holding up three and a half crowns.
Speaker:I'll go first.
Speaker:I just don't believe them.
Speaker:I think that maybe I'm a total cynic and that's where the two crowns came from
Speaker:because I could be totally wrong and Elizabeth C maybe really did, you're the
Speaker:one in a million and you met your person.
Speaker:It's totally possible that it could have happened, but because I didn't have any
Speaker:gravitas there, I didn't have anything else to really balance out the review.
Speaker:It felt really saccharine to me and because of that, I could only give you
Speaker:two crowns, but Trey gave you three and a half, so why'd you do that?
Speaker:Just because.
Speaker:In the details, Elizabeth points out they took the cruise in March
Speaker:of 2013, they leave a review in April of 2015, and then they show
Speaker:the engagement of December of 2018.
Speaker:So there's a long enough, I mean, I don't know, the whole timeline of this
Speaker:Yelp review section is confusing to me.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:With when Jen chooses to reply.
Speaker:It's like.
Speaker:Also, it's worth nothing, but there is a reply from the owner that's literally, Hi
Speaker:Elizabeth, thank you very much for sharing your experience with the Yelp community.
Speaker:Like that's your reply to someone who has an engagement ring photo?
Speaker:Weird, weird.
Speaker:Especially considering how passionate we were about our last reply
Speaker:and when you like offered to pay for their pictures and videos
Speaker:Like you just wrote one sentence,
Speaker:right?
Speaker:Something's odd Yeah,
Speaker:I don't know I don't think I'm gonna use this company,
Speaker:sorry I don't know guys if you have been to any of these events Let us know in the
Speaker:comments Are there any like speed dating organizations that you do recommend?
Speaker:Let us know in the comments because I feel like
Speaker:what makes a good speed dating event.
Speaker:Oh,
Speaker:asking our audience.
Speaker:I think being clumped into groups based on your favorite diva.
Speaker:I think so.
Speaker:I think that was a great idea.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:Someone should take note of that.
Speaker:Watch that's going to become like the next million dollar idea.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:Better be patented by us.
Speaker:We have so many patents here on Review That Review.
Speaker:All right.
Speaker:Well, that was super fun.
Speaker:I'm glad that we did that.
Speaker:I feel thank you again, Taylor, for the suggestion.
Speaker:I feel like it was a good one.
Speaker:I think this was fertile soil, and I'm really glad we did this.
Speaker:Love you, Queens.
Speaker:Keep your crowns up.
Speaker:We'll see you on Wednesday for an entirely new topic.
Speaker:I wonder what it will be.
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Speaker:Ah, so fun.
Speaker:Honestly, I'm so glad I don't have to do a speed dating event
Speaker:' cause you're married.
Speaker:Some of us might need to actually go on speed date.
Speaker:I just think that even if I was single, that is not the
Speaker:environment for me to thrive in.
Speaker:It seems like very stressful, like it's just too, but also maybe it's good
Speaker:because if it's speed dating and I'm like, this is awkward, it's thank you next.
Speaker:I don't know.
Speaker:I don't know.
Speaker:Something about that.
Speaker:Just how does anyone, what if we did a
Speaker:review, like a review queen's speed dating?
Speaker:What would that
Speaker:be?
Speaker:Okay, so it'd be like, you'd be looped together by your favorite review platform.
Speaker:Oh, yes.
Speaker:That sounds good.
Speaker:And you would talk about, maybe you would share like a favorite review
Speaker:and see if you like get along based on your decided humor about reviews.
Speaker:The Kleenex review.
Speaker:The Kleenex review.
Speaker:That we both brought
Speaker:in.
Speaker:We did.
Speaker:We did.
Speaker:I re listened to that episode recently.
Speaker:If you haven't listened to it, it's a winner.
Speaker:It's from the first Thanksgiving episode.
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