UA-198543153-1 205: Protein Brownies - TikTok Review - Review That Review with Chelsey and Trey

Episode 205

205: Protein Brownies - TikTok Review

The Queens are getting their protein on... or are they? Chelsey brings in a TikTok review that single-handedly changed her purchase decision on a trending box of Prime Bites Protein Brownies. But it’s not just any review—it’s a dramatic, windy, zero-out-of-ten takedown by the now-iconic Mrs_Tink, complete with gagging, PR shoutouts, and beet juice comparisons. 💨🍫

Before that, Trey lodges a fiery complaint against greeters who don’t greet—especially at the gym. Then it’s time for the showdown: Are these viral protein-packed desserts actually a health food dream come true, or are influencers lying to us all?

PLUS: The Queens go full-blown cinematic with a double Review Queen coronation, cookies get crowned, and a 2 Star rodeo toy review looms on the After Show horizon.

⏰ Timestamps:

(00:00:29) Introduction

(00:01:33) Lodge A Complaint

(00:10:26) Review Breakdown – TikTok Review of Prime Bites Protein Brownies

(00:30:09) The Verdict

(00:33:18) My Royal Highness

(00:36:07) On This Week’s After Show Pod

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Transcript
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Everybody's got an opinion.

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Every Californian, Virginian in Virginia, it's so hard to tell

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who to cho and who to ignore.

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Someone's gotta settle The Score.

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Trey and Chelsey will help you choose who's win, which.

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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 reviews.

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That is Chelsey Donn,

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and that is Trey Gerrald.

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But together

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we are the Review Queen.

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Here at Review.

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That Review, we believe in balance, the good, the bad, and the kvetchy.

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So it's only fair that we take a moment to fetch it out.

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Trey, would you like to

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Lodge A

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Complaint?

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I'm already mad.

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I'm already mad.

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You

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already know.

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The exhale starts

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because I noted this on okay.

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Three days ago, and I was like, oh.

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My God, this is a zero to 1000 for me.

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Mm. Okay.

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I don't know how in the 205 episodes, this has not been lodged yet.

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Okay.

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I'm gonna try to not, um, be concerned with how I'm gonna be received with this.

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Mm, got it.

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Okay.

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I moonlight in customer service, so I feel like I have a right

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to, to complain about this today.

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I need to Lodge A Complaint against.

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Not doing your job title.

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Okay.

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I'm getting get more specific.

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Hold on.

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My prime example is when I walk into my gym,

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there

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are people whose job description is greeter.

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You know what?

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They don't ever do greet you.

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Wait.

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I'm like, I am.

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I'm not playing this up.

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I am so angry.

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I need to chill out.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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It makes me so angry because today in our electronic world,

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they're not signing you in.

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Mm. They're not looking at the computer monitor.

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It's not even like a key chain anymore.

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It's an app.

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It just, I scan myself.

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Sometimes they're typing on the computer, so I don't even, I

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think the whole scanning is like.

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A conspiracy anyway.

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I don't think anyone's being,

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when you are hired to work a front desk to greet people and you never say hello, what

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are you doing with your life, your job?

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I'm, I'm sorry.

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I need to chill.

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I'm, it makes me so angry because I'm not gonna say hi first.

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I'm not doing your job for you.

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I'm employed and I do things that I don't like.

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I make money from things I didn't dream of as an 8-year-old.

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So I can have sympathy for you that you probably did not dream as an 8-year-old

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of working at the front desk at a gym, working as a concierge at a hotel,

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working as a greeter at a restaurant.

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Maybe that wasn't your dream, right?

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But your job is.

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Screening.

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Why do you not say hello?

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I'm not doing your job for you.

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I'm not saying hello first.

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The, if I were to make a tabulation of the amount of times I've said hello, when

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I enter the gym that I've been going to for four and a half years, I've probably

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said hello 20 times in the four years that I've gone because they don't say hello.

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They are talking to themselves.

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They're on their phone.

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They're.

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Hibbing over here with like the one Broy guy that is there every

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day and they're friends with.

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I recognize I am not a warm person at the gym.

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I have a lot of trauma from being raised gay in the south, so I am

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not trying to engage with anyone who presents as straight male.

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Um, so I keep my head down.

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I recognize I may not be putting off an energy of wanting to be

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said hello to, but it's your job.

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Your job is to say hello.

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And my response is supposed to be, hi.

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And then that's it.

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That's all I Why are you a greeter and you don't greet?

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That's my complaint.

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It's your job description.

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I'm not saying hi first.

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It's your job.

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You shouldn't be on your phone if you're being paid.

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Period.

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That's its own.

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Yes.

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Sorry you guys.

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I don't know why I'm so angry.

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It makes me so angry.

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I, I get it.

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'cause it's like, what are you hired to like observe me walking

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in the door and not say hello?

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Like, why are you even there either?

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Either we're gonna do this as a robot thing and I'm just gonna scan

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myself in and there's not gonna be anybody looking at me in this moment.

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Or if you're there looking at me in this moment, at least do your

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job and say hello and make this a pleasant experience otherwise.

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Go like Kibbitz in the back with your coworker, because I don't

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need to be here looking at this.

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I have a mission.

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I have something to do.

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Either help me stay on track with that mission or GTFO

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and I will.

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'cause I did inquire specifically, I'm like envisioning, but this

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happens in other examples.

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Yeah.

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But I am envisioning my gem.

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These people are paid a salary.

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Like it's not like they're working the front desk to get a free membership.

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Get a free

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membership.

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It is actually, but even if

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they were, that's still like a barter.

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Correct.

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That's still what

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you're signing up for.

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But that's not the situation.

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They're being paid to greet.

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So,

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and they don't have other jobs.

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Like, not that I'm, it's maybe they, like if, if they're.

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You know, signing up other people at the desk and they

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have like a ton of things to do.

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No, they're

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not even the membership people.

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Okay.

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There are explicit membership people,

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like their job, job is front desk reception, reading.

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Yes.

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Yeah.

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Get it together.

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My dad obviously might, it's a dentist.

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He has like receptionists.

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If they didn't say something to the patients when they like walked into

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the door like, Hey, so good to see you.

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Okay, because what's really underneath this?

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How old are your dad's receptionists?

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Well, my dad's receptionists have been with him.

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That's the end of the conversation for so many years.

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Okay.

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So they're older.

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That's the point.

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I mean, even some younger ones, but he always complains about them.

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But I think this culture,

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yeah,

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look, I'm not trying to have this Gen Z conversation.

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Sure.

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But I'm just saying when you have grown up like this.

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Right.

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Right, right.

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You don't know how you don't engage with people.

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That's

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right.

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And I think you're right.

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I think that makes me very sad.

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Yeah, that is sad.

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And I'm someone, full disclosure, it's not just the gym.

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Don't talk to me.

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I don't want to talk to people.

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I am a loner.

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I'm an introvert.

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I, well, that's

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what I'm saying.

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I think it's like the either or for you, like you'd be totally

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fine if there was nobody there.

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Yes.

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But the fact that there is somebody there, it's like, well, at least

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do what you're supposed to do.

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If I need to interact with you in some, if I need to pick up on your

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energy, at least give me something.

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And I recognize it's a little, like just say hello, but I am sticking on this hill.

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I'm not gonna do your job for you.

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You have to say hello to me first.

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That's what you're being paid to do, right?

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Sure.

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I'm not being paid to say hi.

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You are.

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I'm paying to say hi.

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How does that work?

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And

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I pay a lot of money.

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Yeah.

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I shouldn't be paying to say hi.

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Okay,

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I get it.

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I hear you.

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Thank,

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thank you for being with me with that.

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It really bothers me.

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I understand.

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I think anytime anyone is, seems to be there for a specific purpose that

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they're, that they're not fulfilling.

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It's extremely frustrating.

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A long time ago I complained about those people that stand

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next to the parking things.

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While I'm like trying to get my credit card in, there's literally someone

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that's standing in like a booth whose only job it is to help me put my credit

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card in if my arm is too short and can't reach, and sometimes they just

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stand there and watch me struggle.

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Yes.

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Frustrating.

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You know, that's

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your, that's your job.

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So I hear you.

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Add it to the ledger Trey.

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Thank you.

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I mean, just say hi.

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Just do it.

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If your job description is, if your title is greeter, is greeter.

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And you're not greeting.

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What you doing babe?

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What

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are you doing?

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What are you doing?

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Good.

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Good complaint.

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All right.

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Well, should we jump into an online review,

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Chelsey?

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Should we crystal it out?

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I mean, I feel like let's clear the energy for somebody else to take the floor.

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Should we?

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Well, I don't have a crystal at the moment, but I do have this.

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Oh, beautiful ring.

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Ooh, that.

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That counts.

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Alright, well should we jump in

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before we do?

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This is my favorite part of the show.

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Yes.

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Please just take a quick moment.

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What have you got for us?

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All right, so full disclosure, I've been trying to get like more protein in.

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This is my favorite protein shake.

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It's core power.

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Um, and I really enjoy it.

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I'm, I'm doing my best.

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I can't get enough protein in with just eating, so I'm trying to do

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the protein shakes, and I'm always on the hunt for a new product.

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Maybe I want a little dessert or something that also has protein,

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like I love a dual function item.

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And so I've been looking and I came across a lot these brownies

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that are protein brownies, okay?

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And they're kind of like all over the internet.

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As soon as you start Googling that, you like proteins, you start seeing this,

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this company called Prime Bites, okay?

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And they make protein brownies.

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And they have 19 grams of protein, which is like for a brownie, pretty excellent.

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And they also have five grams of collagen and literally all over YouTube,

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shorts, TikTok, Instagram, there's all these people of all ages being

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like, oh my God, this is delicious.

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So I was like, maybe I'm gonna order these.

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But then I came across one review that had a different opinion, and

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it was enough of a different opinion to make me decide not to order.

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So I think it's worth bringing in today.

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This is a TikTok review that was written by Mrs.

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Which I think is not to be confused with Mr. Stink.

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So it's definitely Misses Tank, and this is a one out of 10.

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Review, so not very good.

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This is to every influencer that said, these brownies were the best thing ever.

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You owe me $50.

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I have seen these hyped up on TikTok for so freaking long.

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I finally caved in and bought them.

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I paid like $43 for this box of like 12 brownies.

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This was the one I was hyped up for, was the birthday cake.

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I wanted to try it with my coworker.

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We were both so excited to finally try it, broke it in half, took a bite,

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immediately spit it in the trash can.

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Disgusting, absolutely disgusting.

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Telling my husband about it, he was like, no, you're being dramatic.

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Came home again.

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We tried this cookie dough.

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You ever have stinky, stinky trash and it just smells when you go in the house.

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Take one of these brownies, set it in there for about five minutes.

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That's what they taste like.

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They literally taste like stinky trash.

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I don't know who's in charge of the marketing and the PR for this company,

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but you're doing a fantastic job.

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'cause you played me probably thousands of other people as well.

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I don't know how much money y'all are paying these influencers,

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but you ain't paying me nothing.

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Did I expect like a sweet brownie out of the oven?

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No.

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I mean I've lost like a hundred pounds over the last like a year.

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Okay.

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I know a little bit about protein.

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I'm gagging, just ugh.

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They're not good.

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Do not waste your money on this stick to like protein powder or something.

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These are not it, dude.

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I'm telling you.

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They're absolutely horrendous.

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If you're local to me and you wanna try one, meet me at Bucky's.

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We'll have a taste test.

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I have not swallowed any of this.

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Like I took two bites of two different flavors.

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Spit it out.

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I tried y'all.

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I really, really tried.

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I mean, I drink like beet juice in the morning.

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Like I can handle it.

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This is not it.

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Absolutely zero out of 10 from me.

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All right.

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That was actually a zero outta 10 review.

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I misspoke.

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I said one out of 10.

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It's actually zero out of 10 for Mrs.

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Tank for these brownies.

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So what do you think, Ry?

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Well, that's the valuable part of it being a TikTok review, because

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you can say zero, whereas you can't say that on Amazon or Google.

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Uh, all right.

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Well, I, first of all, I, first of all, the TW Mrs. Is clearly part of my kinfolk.

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I. I, I'm not gonna venture to say it might be South Carolina, it

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might be Louisiana, I'm not sure, but it's definitely my, my kinfolk.

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I first of all want to acknowledge here.

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Um, Mrs. Tink says that they spent $50 and then like a few

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minutes later they say it was $43.

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It.

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Do you think the $7 difference is like an interest charge?

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I mean, I think it might be like shipping.

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Maybe we're just like rounding up because we just, we think we

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deserve like a $7 trauma fee.

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I don't know, but I feel like 43 50, I did notice it, but it didn't super bother me.

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Also.

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Yes.

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Go for it.

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Well, question.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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So Mrs. Tink makes the distinction that they didn't swallow.

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Mm. Do you think that that changes anything?

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Not in my opinion.

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'cause I feel like once, it's like, once it's in the mouth, like if it's that

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repulsive, like you can't even swallow it,

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stinky trash, and

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it, it tastes like it's been sitting in stinky trash.

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That's enough.

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I don't need you to swallow it for my account.

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I mean, Mrs. Tank tried three different varieties of this.

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The husband didn't believe her

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question there.

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Yeah.

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The husband's like, no, you're being dramatic.

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Yeah.

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I grabbed my pearls.

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Excuse me, husband.

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Yeah.

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But then I like how they were like, okay, husband, try it and

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then, then two of them are, I like that they invited us to Bucky's.

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If we don't wanna spend the $50 on our own box, we can

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have some of theirs at Bucky's,

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help them complete the box.

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Exactly.

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Um, also I think the packaging is really cute, which like, Mrs. Tank circles

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back about like, who is the marketing?

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'cause you've got Miguel.

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Like yeah, brownies do look cute, which is unfortunate.

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I

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mean, I do love that in a one star review when we have a little compliment

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sandwich, I mean even if it was meant with a little bit of shade, they're

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like, damn, like their marketing team is a plus plus because sold me.

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Also, I want to acknowledge Mrs. I almost said Mrs. Bucky's.

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Mrs. Tink talks about how they've lost a hundred pounds over the years.

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Yes.

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Inspiring.

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Congratulations.

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I think that's adding to the value here for me, because they

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end by saying, look, everyone I drink beet juice in the morning.

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Mm-hmm.

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Like I can handle disgusting and this, I'm not

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a baby.

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This is a whole nother level.

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I wish I had written down all of the adjectives.

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'cause Mrs.

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Tink goes off in describing throughout this entire minute and a half review,

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disgusting, horrendous, like nonverbal.

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We've reached nonverbal to describe this.

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Um, and I

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kind the we tra or the stinky trash really.

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And I've have you tasted things that, that taste like trash.

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I know exactly what she's talking about.

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I've experienced that.

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Okay, well that brings, okay, so that is interesting to me because being

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married to a vegan, I recognize that like anytime you're trying to make something,

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emulate something that it clearly is not.

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Mm-hmm.

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It's gonna be a challenge.

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So I value that Ms. Tin comes in hot by saying like, look, like maybe

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you should stick to protein powder.

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Like maybe this just, isn't it?

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They have experience, they've lost weight, they're like getting on this journey.

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So.

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But they say like, I'm not expecting a warm brownie outta the oven.

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So like, what are you like, it's hard for me because

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is the protein gain worth the disgustingness?

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Clearly not.

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No, because that's the whole point of like why I went down this road to begin with.

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Because I was like, I want.

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To have, I am already drinking this protein shake that I like.

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I wanna have something else that's a little bit of a sweet treat,

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and I wanna get my protein too.

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And this kind of company, these type of companies are advertising themselves

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as have your cake and eat it too.

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Have your cake and get a little protein.

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And many people like me and Mrs. Tink are on the market looking for these things.

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And like I said, there were so many reviews talking about how great this was.

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Clearly it was all just influencer fluff and they taste like crap.

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I don't need a crappy brownie.

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No, thank you.

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I'll have a regular brownie and a protein shake.

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I don't need like a, I, I'll have less of the brownie, but I'll eat a good brownie.

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I don't need to eat this like disgusting trash brownie for protein.

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There are other ways of getting protein,

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but like, should we, is there, is there a distinction here?

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Like, is Mrs. Tinks taste palette going to be the same as mine?

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Because like is this common?

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Do you think people are like lying that it tastes good?

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I don't know.

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I think it's one of those hard things where it's like you were saying with

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David being a vegan, it's like if you just haven't had cheese in a really long

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time and then you have some vegan cheese and you're like, oh my God, this is deli.

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This happens with my boss all the time.

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'cause she's vegan.

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She's like, oh my God, this is so good.

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Try this.

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And then I try it and I'm like, this is disgusting.

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You go.

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So it's like, it could be that effect where it's just like, I

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haven't had a brownie in so long.

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But also I just, I feel like I trust Mrs. T's palette.

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I trust the comment about the beet juice.

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I trust that they've clearly been on this journey for a long time.

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So I don't think this is the first protein product that they've tried, you know?

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Maybe it is because they're talking about protein powder, but either way,

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I, I trust them that they know how these kind of products are supposed to taste.

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And I don't think that this is up to, up to snuff or whatever you wanna

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say.

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I mean, I think it's going into the truthful, shady for me, like I think it's

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more truthful than it is shady because agree, like they're espousing so many

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times that they're not an influencer and that they were duped by influencers.

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Like, how much are you paying these influencers, dudes?

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That, that I do feel like it's probably more common than not, because what

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does Mrs. Tink have to gain by lying?

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Like, it seems like it's so repulsive.

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Um,

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and they're already out.

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They're like, you owe me $50.

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Like being sort of like funny and shady.

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But the reality is like they're already out this money.

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They're just trying to be a good Samaritan and help us out and help me from wasting

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$50, which I'm very happy that I didn't,

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I. I also have to just mention the wind.

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Yes.

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In this review is very, very loud.

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Yes.

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I'm on Mrs. T's side.

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I really like them.

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But you are on a visual platform, TikTok.

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Um, if, if the wind is louder than your voice, maybe we need a retake.

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I do hear you.

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I wanna play devil's advocate for a second only because I recently

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had a conversation with a friend.

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I was telling them that like sometimes Goldie will bark and we'll have to

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stop recording and it's a whole thing.

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And they were saying when they watch videos, they actually like it when they

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hear like a dog bark or something that lets them know this is real life and

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not produce like is comforting for them.

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And I thought that was interesting.

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That was something I hadn't thought of before.

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So leave a comment and let us know your opinion on that situation.

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But it definitely does highlight that Mrs. Tink is not an influencer.

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They're just standing in their backyard recording their real life experience.

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And I hear you like if you're sensitive to sound, maybe it will bother you.

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But I wanna point out, I think it, in a weird way, it added to the

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authenticity of the whole review.

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All right, well that's interesting, right?

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Because there's a distinction between like.

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Well, but this isn't a video on an Amazon review.

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This is actually a TikTok review,

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I guess.

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But I do feel like the world of TikTok reviews is casual for people that,

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yeah, is this like casual, like I wanna connect with someone who is real.

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I don't wanna connect with someone who is hyper produced.

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The reason I'm so captivated by what I'm watching is because I

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know that it's slice of life.

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Fair.

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I mean, I agree.

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I think that's adding to the authenticity.

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Yeah.

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But like, but

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I hear you.

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It's still like annoying.

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It's, it's worth mentioning,

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girl, you're, you're recording a video for people to consume.

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Yes.

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I can't hear you because of the wind.

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But at the same time, I, I can also understand and relate to the fact

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that if Mrs. Tank didn't realize the wind was an issue and then they got

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to the end of the entire recording where, where they record again.

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Or,

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or would they, where's the curtain?

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That's a little peek behind the curtain, everyone.

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Um, or would they just say, screw it?

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Um, I'm just gonna post it.

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Um, you know what I mean?

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I know what you mean.

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I don't know if the audience doesn't mean Chelsey and I are having a conversation

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beat by beat based on memory from maybe having done this already before.

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Oh my goodness.

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I feel.

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Impacted.

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Yeah.

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And I imagine that since we're here, you probably found this product because

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you were looking for protein, bing.

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Oh, a

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hundred percent.

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I think I said that at the top when I was introing the product,

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like I, I was looking for protein products and I came across so many

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reviews for this product that were.

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Great.

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And that we're really glowing and that we're saying like,

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oh my God, this is so good.

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I mean, I will say in hindsight, I felt like a lot of people were eating

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the brownie and then doing this.

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Like they would like take a bite of the brownie and then they would go,

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Hmm, that's good.

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So maybe they were like acting fak it, acting and acting and washing it down.

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I didn't, it's interesting.

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Um, because I get why they didn't do it, but Mrs. Tank didn't eat this live on the

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air, so all we got was the recreation.

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Whereas the other reviews that I saw that were positive, they

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were actually eating them.

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But now that I'm like thinking back in the recesses, in my mind I do think

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that it was like, you know when you eat something and then you're like, Hmm, hmm.

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Oh, that's good.

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Hmm.

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Like it was like a, maybe it was, there was a little bit of a delay and

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it was really about the production.

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Like this video stood out to me because it was less like, oh, here's the product.

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Ooh.

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So pretty, like we were saying the packaging, all the things.

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So this was.

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An anomaly in my search, but it was a strong enough

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conviction to really sway me.

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I feel weighed as well.

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I feel like I don't need to try these brownies.

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Right?

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No.

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I even though need though, I've never

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met Mrs. Tank until this moment,

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and just to point out like, that's a lot of money for brownies.

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This is not cheap.

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Right?

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This is a big investment and so I do think that Mrs. Tank is.

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Is very impactful.

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I think I can crown.

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Okay, so 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 braiding.

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The Queens are Tabulating,

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so

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to school.

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Okay, so I'm holding up five crowns and Trey's holding up five crowns.

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Mrs. Tink, you are a double Review Queen Trey, you go first, let us know

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why you made Mrs. Tink a Review Queen.

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Okay?

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So there's part of me that wants to take half a crown off because you

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are, regardless of authenticity, your hair is blowing in the wind.

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Like not.

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You must have down, I didn't mean to call you a branch stink.

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I'm actually on your side here.

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I'm just saying.

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It's a, it's a video that's being recorded.

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Be aware that the wind is in your face and it's in the audio.

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It doesn't, it doesn't matter.

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It's not the big of a deal.

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Everything else is very queenly to me because Mrs.

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Tink doesn't have to share this opinion with us.

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They do it in a way that is incredibly hilarious, informative,

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funny, engaging, and impactful.

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I mean, I am not gonna buy the brownies now, you know?

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And I believe them.

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And it's humorous and it's not super long.

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Like they tick off all the boxes and yes, they're not Steven Spielberg.

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They're not with Dreamworks.

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Like they're doing it all with their hand.

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So like if you don't catch the wind, whatever, um, Review Queen Chelsey.

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Why did you say Review Queen?

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I

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mean, how can I not make Mrs. Tanker Review Queen?

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They personally influenced me.

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I know they say they're not an influencer, but Mrs.

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Tank, you are an influencer.

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I agree.

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You influenced me.

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So thank you for spending your hard earned $50 43 on 43 to $50 on with

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shipping on this product because you saved me from spending that money.

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You totally convinced me.

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I totally believe you.

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I love the compliment sandwich you stuck in there with, with giving

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your, tipping your hat, so to speak, to the PR person and the team while

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still letting us know it's a horrible product and I drink bee juice.

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So I now, so everything that you demonstrated in this video made me

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trust and believe your opinion, which I think is Queen Lay, and I had to make

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you a Review Queen for that reason.

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So thank you, Mrs. Tank,

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and I will not be buying these brownies.

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All right, well, queen, we've aired our grievances.

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We've inspected a review thoroughly, so now.

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Let's shine a light on something truly deserving of a crown.

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We have reached the most regal portion of our show.

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Trey, who are you inducting for?

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My Royal Highness.

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All right, so I'm gonna just show you, this is actually written down.

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I have it here on my notes.

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My Royal Highness.

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Oh my goodness.

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So fresh,

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fresh baked cookies.

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And Mrs. Tink was talking about the brownie outta the oven.

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Okay.

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Irony all.

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I want us to all go back to that time.

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Well, this is what, this is what's, when I think of freshly baked cookies,

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it's like a whole immersive 3D memory.

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I think of myself being younger as a kid.

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It's like Friday or Saturday night.

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I don't have school tomorrow.

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It's like we're watching SNCC or TGIF and it's like an event

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and the aroma of the cookies.

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Fills the kitchen.

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Mm. You like check to see if it's done with a toothpick because it can't

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be too burnt, but it can't be too.

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I like them crispier.

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Um, and then like scraping them off the cookie Trey and you have to

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wait a few minutes so that you're not like breaking the cookie.

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It has to like get a little solid.

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And I love the, the, like the idea of like a small glass of like ice

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cold milk and you like dip the.

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Not super gooey, but it's like gooey 'cause it's out of the oven and

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like the chocolate is s dripping.

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Like it takes me back to like being a kid and being like, it's just like so like

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pleasant and I don't know how, I don't know what other experiences there are.

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It's like an event.

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Its like, it's like doesn't require that much time or work,

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but it's like fulfilling and fun.

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It's like a warm, gooey cookie that you made from like the Pillsbury.

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It's like, no one's making cookie dough.

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At least not me.

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Um, and I don't, I don't really do this anymore as an adult.

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Like I don't make fresh baked cookies really anymore.

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And there's something so lovely and charming about that.

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So I want us all to be in that moment, even if we're currently

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vegan and we don't eat egg, just the joy of like, we're baking cookies.

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We are enjoying the cookies, the excitement, checking the, the

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oven, like through the glass, like turning the light on.

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It's like, oh my gosh, the cookies smells so good and then you eat

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them and you're having a sleepover.

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You're in your pajamas.

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That whole energy, that whole experience of fresh baked cookies,

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yes, is My Royal Highness.

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I love that.

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I love cookies.

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I'm obsessed with cookies.

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It's the perfect dessert.

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It's the perfect.

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Love it.

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Love fresh baked cookies.

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Great induction Trey.

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Ooh, thank you.

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Alright, well we did a queen.

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The good, the bad, the repeat, the vecchi.

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That's another round.

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The windy on the R ru.

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A RQ, Ferris whale love.

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Steven, where are you?

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Spielberg baby.

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That's right.

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Thank you for joining us today.

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If you like what you heard, even the wind, please call a friend

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and if you did not like what you heard, especially the wind tell an enemy.

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Okay, this is funny.

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Today, on this week's after show podcast, Chelsey and I are going

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to be rating and reviewing this two star Amazon review four.

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Schl farm world.

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Two barrel rodeo racing play set, rodeo racing toy set with cowgirl

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and horse realistic Western rodeo.

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Farm animal toys and accessories.

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Six piece kids toy for boys and girls.

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Wow.

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So with that mouthful of a title, I wonder why this was said because

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at first I was like, oh grandma, you just bought the wrong one.

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But now I'm like, maybe grandma really influenced them and they, or maybe

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they got more complaints like, oh no, everybody knows it's three barrels.

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Where

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are you getting grandma from?

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Didn't she say she bought it for her granddaughter?

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The reviewer's name is Jason.

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I wonder as well.

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Well, as we are all wondering, please remember,

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ignore the haters.

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You are queen.

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Gender nonspecific brownie eating queen.

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That's right, but not these brownies, because these brownies are gross.

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Okay.

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Well, hello.

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Oh, wow.

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Okay.

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In reality, you guys, we recorded this entire episode and then realized that my

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video stopped literally halfway through.

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Chelsey's was double the length of mine.

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Can't figure out why.

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So we rerecorded from reviewing on and then it happened again.

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Yeah.

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So then when Boo got to the Royal Highness.

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Peek behind the curtain.

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That was our third take of this episode.

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Something is up.

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Is Mercury in retrograde?

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What's happening?

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I think it is.

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Isn't it something?

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I think it's a full moon.

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I don't know.

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There's something.

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Well, we'll see you on Friday, Queens for this.

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See Friday.

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Epic.

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Epic after show.

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