Episode 204
204: Gay Erotica - 1 Star Review
“His Nuts Were HOWLING!” – Gay Erotica Goodreads Review Breakdown 😳
The Queens get hot under the collar in this steamy and hilarious breakdown of a 1 Star Goodreads Review for the gay BDSM erotica novella Loser Takes All by Cora Knight. Chelsey airs a relatable kvetch about last-minute cancellations before Trey drops a genre bombshell and unveils the most dramatic cold read of the season.
From Free Tad’s Nads to wonton ass confusion, this episode zips, howls, and winks its way through cringe-worthy excerpts, questionable metaphors, and a wildly expressive review that blends GIFs, formatting flair, and just enough grammar to leave an impact. It’s bold. It’s ridiculous. And it might just be Review Queen-worthy. 👑
PLUS: An ode to wanton vs wonton, the pitfalls of poorly written smut, and a Royal Highness dedicated to unexpected upgrades.
⏰ Timestamps:
- (00:00:00) Introduction
- (00:01:25) Lodge A Complaint – Last-Minute Cancellations
- (00:04:49) Review Breakdown – Loser Takes All by Cora Knight
- (00:26:18) The Verdict
- (00:29:16) My Royal Highness
- (00:31:45) On This Week’s After Show Pod – Beige Palazzo Pants
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Transcript
Everybody's got an opinion.
Speaker:Every Californian, Virginian in Virginia, it's so hard to tell
Speaker:who to cho and who to ignore.
Speaker:Someone's gotta settle The Score.
Speaker:Trey and Chelsey will help you choose who's win, which.
Speaker:Hello.
Speaker:Well, hello and welcome to Review That.
Speaker:Review the steamy podcast that is dedicated to reviewing
Speaker:reviews Chelsey.
Speaker:Dawn doesn't know why we're doing this, but that is Chelsey Donn,
Speaker:and that is Trey Gerrald.
Speaker:But together.
Speaker:Just call us the Review Queen
Speaker:you watching on YouTube or listening on your podcast app.
Speaker:Know why I am using this tone of voice.
Speaker:Chelsey still in the dark, but here at Review That Review, we believe in
Speaker:balance, the good, the bad, and the covet.
Speaker:So it's only fair that we take a quick little moment to fetch it out.
Speaker:Chelsey, is there anything that you would like to
Speaker:Lodge A Complaint
Speaker:about today?
Speaker:Ah, don't you know it?
Speaker:All right.
Speaker:I mean, let's go with a real time complaint, because why not?
Speaker:I hate last minute cancellations, last minute change of plans.
Speaker:I just, it really bothers me.
Speaker:I have an intention when I set up my schedule, especially like if I'm
Speaker:setting it up a week in advance, two weeks in advance, and I'm
Speaker:anticipating this one thing happening.
Speaker:And then all of a sudden the 11th hour gets canceled.
Speaker:That sucks.
Speaker:It's so disappointing.
Speaker:Mm-hmm.
Speaker:It ruins the whole mojo.
Speaker:It ruins the flow.
Speaker:I gotta recalibrate, I gotta start over again.
Speaker:It's jarring to me.
Speaker:I get it.
Speaker:Like sometimes people are like, I love when people last when it cancel on plans.
Speaker:I'm in my thirties, I just wanna stay home in my bed and snuggle.
Speaker:I kind of get that too sometimes.
Speaker:I like do want the friend to cancel last minute.
Speaker:But most of the time I make plans with intention.
Speaker:And so if I've intentionally made that plan, if I've intentionally revved up
Speaker:the energy to accommodate that event or that happening, I expect it to happen.
Speaker:And when it gets canceled last minute, it really just throws me.
Speaker:Can you relate?
Speaker:Oh my.
Speaker:Look, plans are plans for a reason.
Speaker:Yes, there are moments when you're like so thrilled that there's a change of
Speaker:plans, but no, a last minute cancellation.
Speaker:If you're supposed to come and clean my house at four and
Speaker:at one 30, you cancel on me.
Speaker:Which Chelsey is experiencing.
Speaker:That's right.
Speaker:That is inappropriate.
Speaker:I hate that that goes in the ledger.
Speaker:All right, well,
Speaker:should we hear other people complain about things?
Speaker:Should we let someone else get something off their chest perhaps.
Speaker:They're large chest, small chest.
Speaker:I don't know.
Speaker:I feel like this is gonna be involving something sensual.
Speaker:Hmm.
Speaker:I wonder why you're picking up on that.
Speaker:Yeah, let's do it.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:Before we do, Hey.
Speaker:Hi.
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Speaker:Comment away, review away.
Speaker:Leave us a five star review.
Speaker:While you're at it, do all the things you could possibly do to
Speaker:help keep the show in the air.
Speaker:We appreciate you.
Speaker:We do.
Speaker:Speaking of, why don't we
Speaker:Review That?
Speaker:Review.
Speaker:As you know, you're your trustee.
Speaker:Review Queens.
Speaker:We bring in internet reviews that we feel need to be inspected.
Speaker:We read you a review.
Speaker:We break it down.
Speaker:We rate the impact of that review on a scale from zero to five crowns.
Speaker:It's a very regal process, but we call
Speaker:Assess That Kvetch.
Speaker:That's right, and Trey.
Speaker:It is your turn and you've been hinting at some things with me, so I'm very curious
Speaker:to know what are we reviewing today?
Speaker:All right.
Speaker:Today we're gonna do something completely brand new.
Speaker:Oh my goodness.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:It's a new topic and oh, I'm gonna present the review in a way we've
Speaker:never done it before, so, okay.
Speaker:Today, Chelsey, you and I. Oh, okay.
Speaker:Also, disclaimer, our incredible editor, doc Sheena, is gonna be helping us today
Speaker:because we are gonna work really hard.
Speaker:Uh, to navigate through the YouTube sensors.
Speaker:Okay, so we are gonna be rating and reviewing.
Speaker:This is a one star Good reads review written by someone named Claudia
Speaker:C or does that say Claudia Claud
Speaker:Claud Dick.
Speaker:Actually, you know what, it's claudie and they have a little crescent moon emoji.
Speaker:Ah, so it's Claudie.
Speaker:Sorry, Claudie Claudie.
Speaker:But it looks like it could be Claudia or CLA C, but it's Claudie.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:Claudia's, one star.
Speaker:Good reads of you four.
Speaker:This is where we're doing some censorship, so, okay.
Speaker:This is listed as the genre on Good Reads.
Speaker:MM Romance.
Speaker:This is a phrase you cannot say on YouTube, but it's four letters
Speaker:that represent a genre of, um.
Speaker:Um, how do I say this?
Speaker:The first letter is B, the last letter is M. There's also like a, a letter
Speaker:D in there, and there's also s and there's also an S somewhere in there.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:And then this is a phrase you cannot say on YouTube, um, but it's not
Speaker:exotic, but it's similar to exotic.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:Um, contemporary romance.
Speaker:Gay for you?
Speaker:Novella.
Speaker:Those are the genres.
Speaker:Those,
Speaker:mm Like male.
Speaker:Male.
Speaker:Male.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:This is a male.
Speaker:Male romance.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:Novel.
Speaker:Got
Speaker:it.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:This is, um, actually a series, so it's the up ending TAD Romance series
Speaker:ending tad.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:Volume one.
Speaker:All right.
Speaker:Is a journey of erotic discovery.
Speaker:And the title of this book is Loser Takes All The novelist's name is Cora Knight.
Speaker:Okay, so this is CLA one star.
Speaker:Good Reads, review for Loser Takes All.
Speaker:I just want you all to know that at the time of recording, loser
Speaker:Takes All, which is part one in the series, has a 4.05 overall out of.
Speaker:3,387 ratings, and I just want to give you this brief description
Speaker:before we read the review.
Speaker:So, okay.
Speaker:This is on Good Reads.
Speaker:Tad's Weekend started out like any other, hitting a college frat
Speaker:party with a handful of buddies, but just as the evening hits its
Speaker:peak, things get upended fast.
Speaker:Pitched by his drunken trolling friends, tad.
Speaker:Winds up getting hustled by three jocks playing poker.
Speaker:Now he's forced to pay his dues in the most outlandish of ways, accepting a
Speaker:couple broken bones, or spending an hour with his victor's favorite flogger.
Speaker:Scott, but the tantalizing torture quickly proves to be the least of Tad's
Speaker:worries da da dot, and the kickoff of a night of raw shocking lust experience.
Speaker:The graphic minute by minute account of that hour spent at the hands of Tad's.
Speaker:Insatiable Tormentor addicting chemistry lights the stage as Scott
Speaker:Ignites Tad's reluctant desires into a frenzy, a forbidden need.
Speaker:Scott and Tad, those are quite the names.
Speaker:Scott and Tad.
Speaker:The author's name is Cora Knight.
Speaker:Yeah, that seems very lusty.
Speaker:So also, I don't think I've heard the name Tad since like
Speaker:win a date with Tad Hamilton.
Speaker:Oh yeah.
Speaker:Remember that one?
Speaker:Mm-hmm.
Speaker:Topher Grace.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:Also a weird name.
Speaker:Topher.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:Topher.
Speaker:Also, keep in mind this is a 63 page novella.
Speaker:Okay?
Speaker:Um, I believe it's only available on Kindle, so background, okay.
Speaker:Not saying that that means anything.
Speaker:So Chelsey, I'm gonna point to you when it's your time to hit the slide.
Speaker:Okay?
Speaker:And then I'm gonna read what's on the slide, which I don't know what it is.
Speaker:This is a cold read.
Speaker:I've sent Chelsey, A PDF.
Speaker:This will make sense as we read through.
Speaker:So I'm gonna give you the little clue to hit.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:You're gonna read what's on the slide.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:And then you're gonna zip it.
Speaker:I'm gonna keep, keep reading.
Speaker:I've just extracted moments from Claudia's review that Chelsey gonna read.
Speaker:Got it.
Speaker:And then I'll continue reading.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:Is there a style you'd like me to read it in?
Speaker:No nos, I think.
Speaker:I think you're gonna understand.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:You know what kind of novel this is?
Speaker:Yep.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:This was written November of 2022.
Speaker:One star, the longest 60 pages I have ever read.
Speaker:Uh, emoji of a face, like, ah, it was basically one long, drawn out sex scene,
Speaker:which wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing if it hadn't been so horribly written.
Speaker:Boring and repetitive, the exact opposite of what I wanted,
Speaker:which was quick and dirty.
Speaker:Sexy smut.
Speaker:I started highlighting after the first 15 or so.
Speaker:Because this was just ridiculous.
Speaker:A handful of pants was Tad's only reply.
Speaker:Every time I read the sentence, I see someone literally
Speaker:holding out a handful of pants.
Speaker:His nuts were howling to get free.
Speaker:You mean Scott didn't gag them?
Speaker:Hashtag free Tads nads.
Speaker:Free just Tad was irrevocably floored.
Speaker:Few things in his life had felt this good.
Speaker:Honestly, he could barely think of one most likely, something pertaining to his.
Speaker:Yep, that would be my guess as well.
Speaker:He plunged his tongue deep.
Speaker:It darted inside Tad's recesses
Speaker:skull.
Speaker:Skull emoji.
Speaker:The sound of a zipper descending tantalized, Tad's ears.
Speaker:Scott just found the infamous.
Speaker:Prostate
Speaker:sounds like a game achievement.
Speaker:Unleashing a fiery, it's,
Speaker:it's super effective.
Speaker:Oh.
Speaker:Wait,
Speaker:he didn't have a problem with gaze or the activities they engaged in.
Speaker:How one said gay standing right behind him
Speaker:was presently blowing his
Speaker:mind.
Speaker:You don't say
Speaker:what?
Speaker:Making his engorged roar with need.
Speaker:More gags needed.
Speaker:Your pink little snatch is just so damn accommodating
Speaker:skull emoji.
Speaker:Make your wink at my
Speaker:skull emoji.
Speaker:Aw Tad, you should see your shy little anus begging for
Speaker:my fuck Tad Cringed mortified.
Speaker:Believe me, tad, you're not the only one emoji of a girl holding her head.
Speaker:The guy was clearly into Tad.
Speaker:Not just his wonton.
Speaker:I think it's
Speaker:wanton.
Speaker:I think it's pronounced
Speaker:wanton.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:Okay, okay.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:Not just his
Speaker:wanton.
Speaker:Maybe he just wanted some Chinese tad.
Speaker:Alright, we're all the same bitch
Speaker:making his all, but how
Speaker:his genitals are particularly vocal, aren't they?
Speaker:Ditching the idea to liberate his eyes.
Speaker:Hashtag free Tads dash
Speaker:Richter.
Speaker:Five earthquakes, upended.
Speaker:Did they move to the kitchen?
Speaker:I had a good laugh or two, I won't lie.
Speaker:But other than that, this was, oh my god.
Speaker:Awful.
Speaker:It was Ws, Ws.
Speaker:And you were that.
Speaker:You got the joke.
Speaker:I got the joke aquatic.
Speaker:Is that how you spell
Speaker:wanton And, uh.
Speaker:Or did he misspell it?
Speaker:Well, let's get into that because are, are they the
Speaker:same spelling?
Speaker:I don't know.
Speaker:Do you
Speaker:think that, do you think that,
Speaker:oh my God, that was funny.
Speaker:Try,
Speaker:I don't know what key words we can say, but is, is this the kind of literature you
Speaker:go to for correct spelling and grammar?
Speaker:I don't know this.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:I went back and forth about if, if this could even be attempted to be
Speaker:discussed on, on YouTube with all of the like, you know, whatevers, um, but.
Speaker:Oh my gosh.
Speaker:There's nothing more delicious to me than these romance novels
Speaker:'cause they're just so absurd.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:What's there for you?
Speaker:I know, I know it was hard for you 'cause you were being active and and engaging.
Speaker:So like I can send you the review as well if you wanna like read it.
Speaker:I thought it was, it was really funny in a way that it was like,
Speaker:let's just let the evidence
Speaker:speak for itself,
Speaker:speak for itself.
Speaker:You know,
Speaker:so funny.
Speaker:I
Speaker:could give you a review or I could just let you read some
Speaker:excerpts, some highlights, some highlights of what I experienced.
Speaker:Save you 60 pages and find your smut.
Speaker:Elsewhere,
Speaker:so, okay.
Speaker:But that's a big, um, discrepancy I find here because the reason I wanted to read
Speaker:the actual description on Good, on Good Reads is because they say that it's a,
Speaker:an a graphic minute by minute account, and then Claudie starts by saying it,
Speaker:it's one long drawn out sex scene.
Speaker:Well, that's what they describe it as, minute by minute graphic.
Speaker:But then they do circle back by saying, but.
Speaker:Like I wanted to be quick and dirty.
Speaker:As long as it was like good and not horribly written.
Speaker:This was horribly written.
Speaker:Sure,
Speaker:right.
Speaker:I mean, we were looking for what we were looking for, but it was
Speaker:just, it was not well written.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:So I just wanna point out, just both to clear my own name, make the joke
Speaker:land harder, and also just clarify for our listeners and viewers.
Speaker:Wanton as in extravagant, lustful, outrageous is spelled.
Speaker:W-A-N-T-O-N,
Speaker:and this is spelled W-O-N-T-O-N.
Speaker:So this is wonton
Speaker:Fair.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:Good job.
Speaker:Well, okay.
Speaker:But I cannot distinguish if that is Cora Knight's misspelling, or if
Speaker:that's Claudia's misspelling word.
Speaker:Did Cora
Speaker:Knight mean wonton?
Speaker:So there are a couple of highlights in here that are so out of
Speaker:context that I don't understand.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Like I don't understand the whole thing about gags unless that has
Speaker:something to do with the culture of
Speaker:Definitely.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:And then also the free tabs Nads, like, that's just funny, I think.
Speaker:I think the point of the gags is that.
Speaker:This is not just any romance novel.
Speaker:This romance novel is specifically in the category that we can't say.
Speaker:So be like, because that's what, like, don't just give me like, he's a howling.
Speaker:Give me jack, give me whips.
Speaker:Give me chains.
Speaker:50 shades.
Speaker:Gimme 50 shades.
Speaker:Give me a room, give me a swing, give me a. Something.
Speaker:Well, that I do think Claudia is good at because they, one of their points
Speaker:at the top is that it's repetitive.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:And I love that in this like 13 captions.
Speaker:It's like early on we talk about the Howling.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:And then later there's another one of the Howl, the Howling, the howl.
Speaker:So it is funny 'cause I'm like, right, we've already used this.
Speaker:We've already used this description.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:It's definitely like when you look at it on the paper, I
Speaker:appreciate it even more because.
Speaker:It's like the highlights from the text are bolded and they're italicized.
Speaker:So it's really clear when you're reading the review, like what is
Speaker:Claudia's voice and what is the book?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Which is just like pleasing to the I and they even like.dot dotted
Speaker:before each one of the Yeah.
Speaker:Quotes to make it clear like, okay, this is a partial quote, this is a full quote.
Speaker:So I think that Claud.
Speaker:Just like maybe in the spelling and grammar section really like went out of
Speaker:their way to format this well and to kind of let us know like they're a good writer
Speaker:maybe.
Speaker:Well, that's why you and I love on the show Good Reads reviews, right?
Speaker:Because it is a community where they get very creative.
Speaker:It's one of the only review platforms where you can do bold italics, you
Speaker:can do gifs, you can include images, like you can really write, um.
Speaker:Which is why I love Good Reads.
Speaker:I, I find this to be truthful because they're literally copy pasting quotes.
Speaker:So I, right.
Speaker:I believe Claudie, is it shady to like present the evidence?
Speaker:I don't.
Speaker:Is it sha I don't, I don't know.
Speaker:Because romance novels are so cheesy.
Speaker:It's like a lifetime movie.
Speaker:It's like a very specific genre where like, this is also
Speaker:where I'm confused because.
Speaker:You have to be creative.
Speaker:Right?
Speaker:So upending of tad, like we know what that means, but then you could
Speaker:also in the same breath say Make your wink at my you pink little snatch.
Speaker:Right?
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:You can say, but Right.
Speaker:I don't know.
Speaker:It's such a conundrum.
Speaker:This is such a funny topic to me.
Speaker:This, yeah.
Speaker:I mean, it is so interesting, this entire genre.
Speaker:I mean, Trey and I, um, years ago mm-hmm.
Speaker:We went to a podcast convention and we met someone that told
Speaker:us that we won't put on blast.
Speaker:That they are a romance novel writer.
Speaker:They have a pen name and they write these novels in their free time.
Speaker:So really like this could, this writer could be anyone.
Speaker:Which is like, what's so interesting about it having so many reviews and
Speaker:obviously so many sales, is there's like the romance novel sector has
Speaker:been really democratized seems.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And like you, like
Speaker:anybody on the street could write a great romance novel.
Speaker:You don't have to be a recognizable name necessarily to be somebody that
Speaker:could be successful in this world.
Speaker:And I feel like it's a niche world.
Speaker:So my impression is that Claudie probably reads a lot.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:Of of books in this genre.
Speaker:And so I feel they're somewhat of an authority, so I don't
Speaker:think that they're being shady.
Speaker:I sort of trust them innately.
Speaker:I do too, honestly,
Speaker:I don't know why, but I just, it feels like they're well studied and they're just
Speaker:like, oh my God, I'm dead at this line.
Speaker:Like, I can't even believe they're saying this.
Speaker:Like, yep, that's what they said.
Speaker:And I feel like they know don't.
Speaker:Don't think that this is normal or what you should be
Speaker:expecting for this kind of novel.
Speaker:'cause it's, it's not hitting the mark.
Speaker:Well see that's what's interesting and that's what's tough when we do good reads
Speaker:or we do, it's why we don't do movies.
Speaker:It's like, it's art, so it's subjective.
Speaker:Like it's hard to say if it's good or bad, but I, typical fluke, I don't know because
Speaker:maybe like upending is really like.
Speaker:Evocative for certain people.
Speaker:And then for people like Claudia and perhaps me, it's ridiculous.
Speaker:Um, so I find value in the review that they just literally copy paste.
Speaker:'cause it's like, here's a highlight and it's also not, um, spoiling.
Speaker:It's not, it's not keeping someone from needing to buy the book.
Speaker:You know what I mean?
Speaker:Like, they're not, what's the, what am I trying to say?
Speaker:It's like.
Speaker:They're not giving away so much that, that it's like, okay, if you,
Speaker:you really now after reading these previews, still wanna read 60 pages
Speaker:of this, by all means, go for it.
Speaker:They're, it's like they're giving you the same amount that you would
Speaker:get if you were looking at a book and it was like, look inside.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:They're not giving you any more than that.
Speaker:Correct.
Speaker:So I don't think they're crossing a line in terms of disrespecting a copyright.
Speaker:Correct.
Speaker:There you go.
Speaker:That's what I.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:Well, I mean I think it was really funny.
Speaker:I liked the use of emojis was like really like just like dead, like af, you know?
Speaker:Like, I don't know.
Speaker:That was really funny to me.
Speaker:And the style was really interesting and ultimate impact.
Speaker:I think.
Speaker:I agree with what you were getting at just before, which is
Speaker:that choose your own adventure.
Speaker:You wanna go down this road, go for it.
Speaker:This is your cup of tea when you're reading this one star review, being like,
Speaker:oh, I actually love when my men howl.
Speaker:If it's not, then I really feel like you're getting a fair
Speaker:assessment of what's to come.
Speaker:So I think that's high and.
Speaker:I think I could maybe crown,
Speaker:I think Yeah, let's crown, let's, let's crown Claudie.
Speaker:All right.
Speaker:So Chelsey and I each have our own set of zero to five crown cards.
Speaker:In an effort to be fair and not influence one another, we will
Speaker:simultaneously reveal our rating.
Speaker:The Queens are Tabulating,
Speaker:total school.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:Trey's holding up four and a half crowns.
Speaker:I'm holding up five crowns.
Speaker:I went all the way.
Speaker:I almost did four and a half.
Speaker:But I just thought, you know what, Eva?
Speaker:If I'm just giving five crowns, 'cause I loved this new take on a
Speaker:way to read a review with you, Trey and I had so much fun doing it.
Speaker:And the wand to Swanton Pass really just threw me over the edge with this one.
Speaker:I thought this was really good.
Speaker:I think it's a difficult balance like we were discussing to give a
Speaker:preview without giving anything away.
Speaker:And also we so often talk in good read review, like, okay,
Speaker:well at the end of the day.
Speaker:It's an opinion, right?
Speaker:And so I think that this was a really great way of writing a
Speaker:review to be like, it is an opinion.
Speaker:You're right.
Speaker:Here's my opinion.
Speaker:I think that this line is effing hilarious and not sexy.
Speaker:If you disagree, feel free to disagree.
Speaker:And for that space, which is really unusual, I think in a Good reads review.
Speaker:I thought this was a Review Queen for Good reads.
Speaker:Um, so I went with five crowns, but you won four and a let us know why.
Speaker:I concur.
Speaker:I just felt a little bit like when you actually look visually at the
Speaker:review, there is so much, uh, space dedicated to like the pull quotes.
Speaker:And, and I want a little more context.
Speaker:I don't need more context because I think Claudia is succinct and clear
Speaker:at the beginning, but I, I would love a little more real estate about.
Speaker:What would make it less, quote unquote, horribly written, boring and repetitive?
Speaker:Um, I, I, you know.
Speaker:I want to read more reviews from Claudie.
Speaker:I also kind really do trust them and I, I would like to see which other sort of
Speaker:romance novels they find to be better.
Speaker:Mm. Um, yeah, 'cause I was really tickled and I think that the,
Speaker:a lot of the comedy here, like.
Speaker:Skull face, um, like is in, in Claudia Succinctness.
Speaker:Mm-hmm.
Speaker:But it's not exactly five crowns for me.
Speaker:I, I'm leaving a little bit of wiggle room.
Speaker:Um, it does have 16 likes and they did hashtag um, kill it with
Speaker:fire, which I think is funny.
Speaker:Um.
Speaker:There we go.
Speaker:All right.
Speaker:It's funny, I wonder how, um, this final product is gonna turn out here
Speaker:on, on the YouTubes, but um, if you have any experience reading romance
Speaker:novels and you have any recommendations, leave them in the comments.
Speaker:'cause Chelsey and I are gonna get into the genre.
Speaker:Yeah, I love it.
Speaker:All right.
Speaker:This was so fun.
Speaker:Alright, queen.
Speaker:Well, we have aired our grievances.
Speaker:We've inspected this hilarious review.
Speaker:So now let's shine a little light on something that's
Speaker:truly deserving of a crown.
Speaker:We have reached the most regal portion of our show.
Speaker:Chelsey, who are you inducting today for?
Speaker:My Royal Highness.
Speaker:Um, okay, so My Royal Highness.
Speaker:I just wanna kind of go like the opposite of what I did in my complaint.
Speaker:And I wanna say when people pleasantly surprise you, or when
Speaker:situations end up working out better than you had anticipated.
Speaker:Mm. So for example, Trey kind of hinted at the fact that in the beginning
Speaker:of this episode, I had somebody that was gonna come clean my house.
Speaker:I was really looking forward to this, and they canceled last minute.
Speaker:By the end of this episode, I actually have somebody else
Speaker:coming to clean my house.
Speaker:Who is an even better match and is a direct referral from a friend.
Speaker:So in life, I think sometimes when they say, when one door closes,
Speaker:you open a window, another door opens, whatever that expression is.
Speaker:And I think sometimes it's for the betterment of us.
Speaker:And obviously this is like a microcosm example of that, but
Speaker:I do think it applies globally.
Speaker:So My Royal Highness is that feeling of, oh no, it didn't work
Speaker:out only to be replaced with.
Speaker:Oh, but this other thing worked out even better.
Speaker:Exceeding expectations.
Speaker:Nothing is better.
Speaker:I agree.
Speaker:Yes, agree.
Speaker:I'm glad that in the span of this episode, all that drama has worked out.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:Well, we did it, queen, the Good, the Bad tci, the Pink Anus.
Speaker:That was another round on the R ru and RQ Ferris Wheel of Romance.
Speaker:I love that.
Speaker:Thank you for joining us today, Queens.
Speaker:If you like what you heard, please tell a friend.
Speaker:If you did not like what you heard, please tell an enemy
Speaker:on this week's after show, Trey, we are rating and reviewing.
Speaker:We're going back to good old Amazon, a five star review for Tron Jori,
Speaker:women high waist casual, wide leg long palazzo pants trousers.
Speaker:Regular size in black, actually, sorry, in beige.
Speaker:I wanted them in black.
Speaker:And it makes sense because both Trey and I are wearing beige day and I
Speaker:don't know how I feel about this.
Speaker:I feel a little naked.
Speaker:It's crazy, but um, it is crazy.
Speaker:Well, I wonder why
Speaker:this was said.
Speaker:I could see that.
Speaker:You idiot.
Speaker:You said the entire 12 person cast, and then you just remembered and you
Speaker:said, I could see that you clearly couldn't see it the entire time.
Speaker:I do wonder.
Speaker:Well, in the meantime, please remember,
Speaker:ignore the haters.
Speaker:You're a queen.
Speaker:Gender nonspecific queen.
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Speaker:You never visit, you never write.
Speaker:Give us a koal now.
Speaker:Oh my gosh.
Speaker:I'm really curious to see.
Speaker:How we're gonna get through the YouTube rigamarole.
Speaker:Oh, we're gonna get through the rigamarole, baby.
Speaker:I, I think it's gonna be more entertaining.
Speaker:We're not
Speaker:the first people to get through the rigmarole.
Speaker:Do, but like book talk and like book YouTube.
Speaker:Do they not do romance novels?
Speaker:Like there has to be a whole show out there.
Speaker:I think that the way we can
Speaker:get around this is, uh, charisma, uniqueness, nerve and talent.
Speaker:Let's serve it.
Speaker:Hunt.
Speaker:That's right.
Speaker:All right, Queens, we love you so much.
Speaker:We'll see you on Friday.
Speaker:Join with Patreon.
Speaker:Don't be
Speaker:Don't be a charisma, uniqueness, nerve and talent hater.
Speaker:Be the tad in the world and get upended,
Speaker:wantons, wantons.
Speaker:Love you Queens.
Speaker:Bye bye.
Speaker:I do.
Speaker:I do love wanton soup though.
Speaker:I do too.
Speaker:I love a fried wonton too.
Speaker:Me too.
Speaker:Mm yummy.
Speaker:Okay, bye.
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