Episode 29: CHRISTMAS SPECIAL!

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Everybody's got

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Hello?

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Hi Santa.

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I just put on a naughty hat, I made it a reveal as I like to do.

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I have headphones and I'm trying to wear the snotty hat.

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Um, anyway.

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Welcome to Review That Review the podcast dedicated to reviewing.

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Reviews!

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Yay.

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We're just like Siskel and Ebert only instead of reviewing cinematic masterpieces, we

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That's Chelsey Donn,

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and that's @TreyGerrald.

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And together we are

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The Review Queens.

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And if you want to support the show while getting bonus and exclusive content,

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Oh, Chelsey girl.

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I don't know if this naughty hat tipped you off, but Merrrrrry Christmas!

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I want a hippopotamous for Christmas!

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Only a hippopotomus will do!

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Have you ever heard that song?

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I haven't...

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was that Liza?!

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I don't know who it was.

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some Child singer,

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first of all, love it.

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Second of all.

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No, never heard that song before they wanted to hippopotamus.

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Yeah.

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It's just like a, some random, like, I guess Christmas song from back when like men went to

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Oh Yes.

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Cleaning in the streams was a big deal back in day.

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Um, oh my gosh, 'Merry Ho Ho' as my mom says it is our Christmas episode!

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It's true!

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Merry Christmas queens!

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Merry Christmas to all who celebrate girl.

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How was your week?

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My week was great.

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I had an audition today that I had not very much time to prepare, so that's always, you

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And I had a good time and they got to work with my coach Taylor, who I love and adore.

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So great, great day.

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So far.

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How about you trey?

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That's nice.

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You know, I've been having a great week.

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We're still working on training hunter and you know, our dog Winnie knows

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Right.

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So, um, we're still working on down with hunter, but it's coming along.

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We just have to remember.

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Work on him.

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Yeah.

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But, um, things are good.

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I'm glad that it's Christmas time, you know, people tend to be a little cheerier.

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It is true.

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I think it's the music.

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Just hearing that hippopotamus song already made me feel better, you know?

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I want a hippopotamous for Christmas!

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Well, aside from all this Christmas joy, should we get

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Would you like to

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Lodge A Complaint?

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I wa as a Christmas gift to myself, I would love to Lodge A Complaint if that's okay.

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I really hate it when I'm eating and I have to sneeze.

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Oh, you know, like just very inconvenient timing.

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What, like, what do I, what am I supposed to do with that?

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Like if I sneeze, it's just going to be terrible.

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And

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it does like kickoff that like rubbing your head and patting your stomach thing.

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Yeah.

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Well also there's food in the mouth, not to be gross.

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You know what I mean?

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Like there's just like a lot to negotiate.

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Correct.

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And, um,

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did this happen to you recently?

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It did.

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It did.

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It happened to me right before we were recording and I was like, I

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I was, yeah.

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I was eating a salad chewing on that lettuce and then I had to sneeze

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I nailed the landing.

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I was able to swallow and then sneeze, but it was stressful.

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Like I was very, very stressed out in the moment.

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There's certain things like, um, sneezing while driving also very bad.

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Apparently when you sneeze, you close your eyes.

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Oh, you're you're driving like with your eyes closed for a second, which is also terrifying.

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So the timing of that, it's just like, I love a good sneeze.

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I, I hate when sneezes get cut off early, you know, like when

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So, so thank you, sneezes.

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Cause I think it serves a purpose, getting the dust out or whatever is this gross?

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I don't know, but like everybody's sneezes is right.

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We got to write that book, but I, I like a good sneeze, but the timing of this knees or,

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It's like bad Juju.

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Then all of a sudden this news doesn't come out.

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So a lot of thoughts around sneezing.

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Yeah.

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I hear you.

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That is a, that's a great complaint.

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I take Zyrtec every day.

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I do my sneezing

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complicated.

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Anyway, Trey, what is your complaint?

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Tell us, so my complaint I thought of, and then as I was like writing

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Okay.

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Well we have gross complaints that I

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both of us, but here's the question.

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How often do you wear your denim jeans before washing them?

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I am a little bit OCD, so I wash them pretty often.

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I'll be honest.

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Well,

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you wear them twice, twice, twice.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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So here's my, here's my complaint.

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I will wear my jeans many times before washing them and I leave my wallet in my jeans.

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And so when I am putting the jeans back on, there is no way to put the jeans back

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I can't put it in without it flipping it.

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Inside out basically.

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Right?

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So then I get my jeans on and then I have to do this weird contortion dance where

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And it's one of those things that I don't even like acknowledge is happening, but I thought

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I don't know why the pocket goes the wrong way.

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Do you think it's wallet specific or you think anything in there would, would flip out?

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Well, like when I have gone to the gym, it happens all the time at the gym as well.

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Or if I leave like my phone or my keys in the pocket, those will flip inside out too.

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It's not flipping out.

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It's like, you know, the fabric of the pocket material.

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It's just two sheets of fabric inside behind the Jean denim.

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So you're pulling it up and instead of laying flat, as it is designed,

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So then your leg goes in.

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Instead of the pocket going towards the fly, the pocket is now going towards your ass.

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Oh, I see what you're saying.

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So then I have to stick my hand into my pocket.

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It's a flip it to position it from going from my butt towards my fly.

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Wow.

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And then, you know, it's like, I am wearing skinnier jeans, so that's really a big

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hassle.

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Three days later, your pants are on thank God

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three days later and I'm late and I still have to get my ice coffee and this traffic,

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it is, it's just anything like that, that you're just like, this feels like it's too

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There are ways to get around it, but it is something I would like to put on the

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Cause it's something I literally don't think of.

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I get it.

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It's like when you mentioned like how many times in a day we are deleting junk mail.

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So like I never registered that until you mentioned that, and this is another

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And that just said, so that's my complaint.

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And I'm so grateful to get all of this negative energy out because we have been

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So as you all know, Chelsey and I each bring in a review from the internet

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We read the review, break it down and rate the impact of the review

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Assess That kvetch.

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And in honor of this holiday called Christmas, Chelsey.

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And I have found reviews that center around the holiday of Christmas and Chelsey, my

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I hope you have some frankincense and myrrh for your journey.

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Review That Review.

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I forgot to tell you that I made a cocktail.

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I never drink, but I have absolute Citroen in here with an sparkling energy drink.

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And I think I'm getting drunk.

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Yay.

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Also, your straw is very festive.

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It's like candy cane.

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Yeah.

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Very cute.

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Try.

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All right.

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You guys today?

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My Review!

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is from TripAdvisor.

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It is a one dot Review!

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written by N Beth S.

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Okay.

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We got that from Fort worth, Texas.

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The Review is of the Moscow ballet, the Nutcracker west cast, and just like quick little anecdote.

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Cause I know I'm Jewish and you're like, oh, well what does that Jew know about Christmas?

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Anyway, I was obsessed with the Nutcracker when I was a kid, I collected nutcrackers.

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I went to the ballet every year with my mom.

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Oh my gosh.

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And every single year on Hanukkah, one of my eight presents would be tickets to the Nutcracker.

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So I love the Nutcracker.

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Was it usually well with my parents?

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What I love that they did was we'd have eight gifts and we could pick.

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Any of them.

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So each day we would just like pick which one we wanted.

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So it was, I usually knew the one in the envelope was probably the Nutcracker

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Yeah.

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So anyway, we're good.

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I'm excited to hear what NBethS has to say.

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Yeah, let's see what NBethS and her one dot Review!

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think of the Moscow ballet's production of the Nutcracker.

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The Moscow ballet, the best, right?

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NOT!

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First off, the music was CANNED!

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NO live orchestra.

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One of the most beautiful pieces of music in history, and we get to listen to a CD.

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Then the usher informed us they were low on program.

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And the three of us would have to share one, not really a problem because the program was pretty

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The 13 principal dancers were very good, not excellent as I would expect a

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The rest of the cast was sad, often unprepared out of sync, just making the moves and often not.

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Well, the Nutcracker was a STUFFED TOY!!!!!

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Seriously draw.

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So Meyer did a poor job of getting hidden characters on and off stage.

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And the entire production was full of local children, probably from area dance studios.

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It was a fiasco.

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If I wanted to see amateur dancers, I'd go to a local dance recital.

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They were poorly rehearsed and made the production seem cheap.

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And second rate, which it really was.

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I paid over a hundred dollars per ticket for three of us after Ticketmaster's ridiculous fees.

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And we would've been overpaying if all three of us had gone for a hundred dollars total.

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This was my first Nutcracker ballet.

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And I had been looking forward to it.

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So very much the Moscow ballet, how could I go wrong?

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Well, it did.

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And it ended up being a complete disappointment.

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It's no wonder half of the seats downstairs were empty.

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Others must have heard about this trip to performances in advance.

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Don't waste your time or money.

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Oh, my God.

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It's a Karen.

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Wow.

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Yeah.

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I, when I really got thrown off there when like three fourths of the way through

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Yeah.

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But I think they, they must, I don't know.

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I'll have a record or something.

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They seem to know the music.

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Tchaikovsky.

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Well, Well, okay.

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Even when you go to, okay.

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I actually, I cannot speak to, like, I know that when you go to the met opera yeah.

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The ensemble are like hired actors, basically.

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They're not like opera people.

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Sure.

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So like, when you go and see the Nutcracker ballet, Like the chances that

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Sure.

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What's it like that when you saw like the Philly ballet?

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I think so, but I think that's because Philadelphia has like a whole ballet

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company, correct?

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Correct.

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Right.

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Cause I don't know about ABT or, you know, I'm sure like the company members are in the back

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sort of similar to an ABT, but like the ABT of Philadelphia, there were, there

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but like, okay.

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I don't know anything about the Moscow ballet, but I do know that like many of the

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Where are they seeing this performance?

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Is it in.

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In

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Texas.

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So it seems like it's a tour of the theater, ballet, Moscow.

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So

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are you expecting this tour from Moscow to have 90 performers?

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You mean touring

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with them, but right.

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Like you think like the guy that's playing, like the dancing frog, like in the third act as a

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Like, I, that seems a little odd to me, but I get that NBethS has never seen this and to

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performing.

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Yeah.

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There was enough that it was distracting.

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I can see, I mean, I think the hard part is that they paid a hundred dollars a ticket.

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I want to talk about that because it's expensive, especially because

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Then there's all the sets.

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Then there's all like the cost to put on this ballet.

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What do you think of the Nutcracker being a stuffed toy?

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Okay.

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I wrote that down too.

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That's very odd to me.

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Why was it not a wooden

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- Chelsey Donn: I know!

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nutcracker?

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I thought that, or like an actor playing the Nutcracker.

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Well, doesn't he come?

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Doesn't the Nutcracker come to life?

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Yeah,

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At some point

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I think so.

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Like, I mean, I don't remember guys.

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I haven't seen it since I was a kid, but

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- Trey Gerrald: Isn't there like a

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- Chelsey Donn: Yeah, like

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into real things?

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Right.

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Yeah!

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So I feel like it usually starts with like a prop.

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Right.

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And ends with a person.

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What, see, was Clara a Russian or what's Clara like a local seven-year-old?

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I don't know.

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I think according to this, they're suggesting that it was.

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It was a local seven-year-old, which does make me wonder if you're right.

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I mean, that makes sense.

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If it's a very large cast, maybe they can't fly everybody in and they do need some locals.

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And that would make me wonder like each city that they go to, they have locals.

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So like if there aren't, the locals in Texas are not that great, but the

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You know, are you getting a different performance or is it just that they're hiring locals?

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Like they're hiring people from the US?

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Yeah, I'm very confused by this because I would imagine, does, so I

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So I'm assuming this is, she saw this in Fort worth.

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I just, I think that if you are a ballet company, Like, if you're a ballet theater,

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So it's con it's interesting to me that you would see a touring production of the

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I would imagine.

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So then are the kids like in a, like, I'm very perplexed by this?

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Yeah.

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Then someone has to train the, the ensembleypeople.

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Like how did

Chelsey Donn: 00:18:05

I don't know, I mean, I guess I, I did appreciate that.

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They said that the 13 principal dancers were very good.

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I thought it was funny.

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I said, they're not excellent as they would expect a Russian ballet troupe

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I mean, at least they, at least they gave a little bit of credit.

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Cause from the rest of the Review!

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you would think that everything was terrible.

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But yeah, I don't know.

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I think that it's possible that NBethS has high expectations and that their assessment

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Like maybe they're, they're sort of a, a glass, half empty kind of person where.

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You know, 50, 60% of the show is great and you know, 40, whatever 50 is bad, then

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But

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I think what's coming up for me here is like, I appreciate that.

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N Beth S really wanted to see the Nutcracker for the material.

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Yeah.

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But it does occur to me.

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if you're going to the Nutcracker ballet, it's not going to be about the music.

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It's going to be about the dancer.

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Right.

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Right.

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So to me seeing that it's like canned orchestra.

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Sure.

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I mean, not the most ideal, but like, you're going to see the Moscow ballet company.

Trey Gerrald: 00:19:33

So to me I'm sort of like, okay, fine, like disappointing, but sure.

Trey Gerrald: 00:19:37

Also it sort of.

Trey Gerrald: 00:19:38

If you are that much of a purist, like, why are you going to the Nutcracker?

Trey Gerrald: 00:19:42

It's like, it's like going to see like The Lion King on Broadway.

Trey Gerrald: 00:19:47

It's like the lowest denominator for like the greatest of that art form.

Trey Gerrald: 00:19:52

Not to say that The Lion King is bad.

Trey Gerrald: 00:19:53

Not to say that the Nutcracker is bad, but like, you know, it is the piece that exists

Trey Gerrald: 00:20:01

So to be snobby about it kind of makes me annoyed.

Trey Gerrald: 00:20:05

I get the price I get that it's expensive.

Trey Gerrald: 00:20:07

And you felt that it was subpar, but

Chelsey Donn: 00:20:09

like, oh, I think that's an interesting point.

Chelsey Donn: 00:20:11

I didn't really think about it that way, but I think there is a certain amount of forgiveness

Chelsey Donn: 00:20:23

That was like that that's like a note, but like, you know, it is supposed to be holiday

Trey Gerrald: 00:20:50

I do want to talk about these ticketmaster fees.

Chelsey Donn: 00:20:52

Yeah.

Chelsey Donn: 00:20:53

Oh my God.

Chelsey Donn: 00:20:53

They're ridiculous.

Trey Gerrald: 00:20:54

What I mean, I understand that Ticketmaster has to make their own money

Trey Gerrald: 00:21:01

How much money just goes to the fees,

Chelsey Donn: 00:21:04

and the fees can be quite pricey.

Trey Gerrald: 00:21:07

Okay.

Trey Gerrald: 00:21:08

So do we think that this is a valuable Review?

Trey Gerrald: 00:21:10

To me, I find value.

Trey Gerrald: 00:21:12

I, I might have a different judgment call then NBethS but it is interesting

Trey Gerrald: 00:21:19

I think that's such a like shady thing to point out, but no, but facts are facts.

Chelsey Donn: 00:21:26

I know there was a lot of caps abuse.

Chelsey Donn: 00:21:29

Uh, I'm assuming you could tell in my reading a lot of punctuation abuse happening

Trey Gerrald: 00:21:39

Interesting.

Chelsey Donn: 00:21:40

Yeah.

Chelsey Donn: 00:21:40

I'm not anti caps.

Chelsey Donn: 00:21:42

I think it can be fun and it sort of makes things pop.

Chelsey Donn: 00:21:45

So I'm not against it.

Chelsey Donn: 00:21:47

But in this case I did feel like it was overused

Trey Gerrald: 00:21:50

Do you think NBethS is like aformer ballet person who wasn't hired at Moscow.

Chelsey Donn: 00:21:55

I don't think so.

Chelsey Donn: 00:21:56

I think similar to other reviews you had, this is a case of, you know, preference.

Chelsey Donn: 00:22:03

And am I a hundred percent confident that everybody else who sees

Chelsey Donn: 00:22:08

No, I'm not.

Chelsey Donn: 00:22:10

But I do think that N Beth S is being honest and I believe them.

Trey Gerrald: 00:22:16

I agree.

Trey Gerrald: 00:22:17

Which then, is this common.

Trey Gerrald: 00:22:20

It was like just going to be a temp, typical experience.

Trey Gerrald: 00:22:22

I mean, I, I would imagine that to me, I don't know if I'm viewing this wrong, but to me, I just

Chelsey Donn: 00:22:38

I hear you there, there are certain elements that they identified for me, like the CD.

Chelsey Donn: 00:22:43

I mean, not so much that they used a prerecording because yeah, we can't necessarily

Chelsey Donn: 00:22:59

So that's a little bit like, Ugh, I don't know if I'd want to deal with that for however many hours.

Chelsey Donn: 00:23:04

And also like the stuffed toy.

Chelsey Donn: 00:23:06

Like, there are things that they're dropping along the way that I feel like,

Chelsey Donn: 00:23:13

It might be indicative that the quality of the show isn't that great.

Trey Gerrald: 00:23:17

Same with like the amateurish children ensemble.

Trey Gerrald: 00:23:21

Like, I think that's sort of difficult to not notice that when people are moving

Chelsey Donn: 00:23:30

Yeah.

Chelsey Donn: 00:23:30

I mean, not that we want to like eliminate the kids, but it almost seems like

Chelsey Donn: 00:23:41

And like truncated the, the size of the ensemble, just to, to maintain the integrity of the show.

Chelsey Donn: 00:23:48

Like I wonder if everybody was at the caliber of these 13 principal dancers, if,

Chelsey Donn: 00:23:58

right.

Chelsey Donn: 00:23:58

Because they are saying they're good, but not excellent.

Chelsey Donn: 00:24:01

Maybe they would have given it like a three-star still, I don't think that

Chelsey Donn: 00:24:07

I'm not confident that end Beth S would have given a high Review!.

Trey Gerrald: 00:24:12

I do really like having a program.

Trey Gerrald: 00:24:14

And I, I really don't like when they're chintzy with that, um,

Chelsey Donn: 00:24:18

chintzy with the programs or chintzy with the info in the program?

Trey Gerrald: 00:24:22

Chintzy with handing them out.

Trey Gerrald: 00:24:23

That bothers me.

Trey Gerrald: 00:24:24

It makes me feel like I'm not a priority.

Chelsey Donn: 00:24:26

Do we feel armed?

Trey Gerrald: 00:24:28

I think so.

Trey Gerrald: 00:24:29

I think I could crown this.

Trey Gerrald: 00:24:30

What are you thinking on this?

Trey Gerrald: 00:24:31

Yeah.

Trey Gerrald: 00:24:32

All right.

Trey Gerrald: 00:24:32

So Chelsey and I each have our own set of one to five crown cards and in an effort to

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The Queens are tabulating!

Trey Gerrald: 00:24:48

Are you ready?

Chelsey Donn: 00:24:49

Yeah.

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Total Score!

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Wow, Trey.

VOICEOVER: 00:24:56

That's that's surprising to me.

VOICEOVER: 00:24:57

Trey's holding up four crowds.

VOICEOVER: 00:24:59

I'm holding up three grounds.

VOICEOVER: 00:25:00

Sorry.

VOICEOVER: 00:25:00

My screen is blurry.

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So try, let us know why you gave NBethS four crowns.

Trey Gerrald: 00:25:08

I gave NBethS four crowns because while I might not agree with their point of view

Trey Gerrald: 00:25:23

Yes, I do think that it's important to note that attendance is low.

Trey Gerrald: 00:25:29

Not that that necessarily means that.

Trey Gerrald: 00:25:33

I don't really know what N Beth S is experience with ballet and the art form is

Trey Gerrald: 00:25:52

So I know that there was a lots of like spelling and grammar stuff, which I didn't actually see.

Trey Gerrald: 00:25:57

So to me, the impact here is like, let me research.

Trey Gerrald: 00:26:02

Is another performance by someone else that has live music.

Trey Gerrald: 00:26:07

If that is that important to me.

Trey Gerrald: 00:26:09

So for that reason I gave it four.

Trey Gerrald: 00:26:10

Cause I think it would make me question purchasing the tickets.

Trey Gerrald: 00:26:14

What about you?

Trey Gerrald: 00:26:15

Why did you do three?

Chelsey Donn: 00:26:16

I did three for all the same reasons that you just mentioned, but I, I think

Chelsey Donn: 00:26:26

Excellent comment.

Chelsey Donn: 00:26:28

There, there was something in that assessment of, they were very good, but not excellent.

Chelsey Donn: 00:26:33

That felt a little bit.

Chelsey Donn: 00:26:35

Let's just give the Moscow ballet, nutcracker west cast a nod without having

Chelsey Donn: 00:26:46

So for that reason, I decided that I needed to give NBethS three crowns.

Trey Gerrald: 00:26:52

I love it.

Trey Gerrald: 00:26:52

I feel like I'm, my chestnuts are roasting on an open fire.

Chelsey Donn: 00:26:57

Mine too.

Chelsey Donn: 00:26:58

I mean, if I had them.

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There's A Reply!

Trey Gerrald: 00:27:00

OMG there's a reply.

Trey Gerrald: 00:27:03

Oh my God.

Trey Gerrald: 00:27:03

Okay.

Trey Gerrald: 00:27:04

Yeah.

Chelsey Donn: 00:27:04

All right.

Chelsey Donn: 00:27:06

Now the reply is from, uh, it's kind of written in Russian, but Ballet Mosque vol, and then

Chelsey Donn: 00:27:19

Um, and.

Chelsey Donn: 00:27:21

Dear NBethS, I'm sorry to tell you that Moscow ballet, the Nutcracker west cast

Chelsey Donn: 00:27:35

And they inserted a link.

Chelsey Donn: 00:27:37

Our company didn't tour in the USA in 2013 and 2012, the art director of the company Nikolay

Chelsey Donn: 00:27:51

And since that time, the theater has changed a lot.

Chelsey Donn: 00:27:55

We do not tour abroad at the moment because we changed the repertoire

Trey Gerrald: 00:28:05

Now I'm confused because.

Trey Gerrald: 00:28:06

So they're stating the Review is for the wrong organization?

Chelsey Donn: 00:28:11

That's what I thought at first.

Chelsey Donn: 00:28:13

And then my like shade Dar started to go off a little bit for a couple reasons.

Chelsey Donn: 00:28:20

So they're saying that they didn't tour in the U S in 2013, which is when, um, this Review!

Chelsey Donn: 00:28:28

was written, but it seems like they did tour.

Chelsey Donn: 00:28:31

Other times, they also talk about somebody that got fired.

Chelsey Donn: 00:28:37

And that to me implies little, is he getting fired because he was doing a bad job and

Trey Gerrald: 00:28:51

That's what I was going to say to you is that it feels like

Trey Gerrald: 00:28:55

They've denied that this was their company.

Trey Gerrald: 00:28:59

And then they're explaining that their company has had a whole change of things going on.

Trey Gerrald: 00:29:05

So that's why I was like, wait,

Chelsey Donn: 00:29:08

and then the other thing that made me go, Hmm, was that NBethS in there, Review!

Chelsey Donn: 00:29:15

mentioned that the program was full of merchandise and they mentioned the pro the like

Chelsey Donn: 00:29:25

So just makes me feel like if there was lots of merchandise, it was probably, I would

Chelsey Donn: 00:29:34

I don't know.

Chelsey Donn: 00:29:34

I don't know that this reply makes me like a hundred percent sure

Chelsey Donn: 00:29:40

This reply makes me think.

Chelsey Donn: 00:29:41

We licensed our name to somebody else for purposes of a tour.

Chelsey Donn: 00:29:47

And then we realized that the caliber didn't meet the caliber of our local Russian ballet.

Chelsey Donn: 00:29:54

And we pulled back.

Chelsey Donn: 00:29:56

That's what I think.

Trey Gerrald: 00:29:57

Can you read the two names that are being spoken off?

Trey Gerrald: 00:30:01

Uh,

Chelsey Donn: 00:30:01

oh yes.

Chelsey Donn: 00:30:02

So the, the way that it's listed in the Review!

Chelsey Donn: 00:30:04

now it is a review of the ballet Moscow.

Chelsey Donn: 00:30:08

So there, there, there might be a world in which Moscow ballet, the Nutcracker west.

Chelsey Donn: 00:30:15

Is sort of a step sibling, like an

Trey Gerrald: 00:30:18

umbrella

Chelsey Donn: 00:30:18

company, correct.

Chelsey Donn: 00:30:20

Of theater, Bali, mosque out.

Chelsey Donn: 00:30:22

And because this review is dragging down the average of theater, ballet,

Chelsey Donn: 00:30:32

I have no doubt about that.

Chelsey Donn: 00:30:34

they wanted to make it clear to anybody that is reading this.

Chelsey Donn: 00:30:38

Review!

Chelsey Donn: 00:30:38

that's thinking about going in Moscow or whatever that this is not, we're not affiliated

Trey Gerrald: 00:30:48

theater.

Trey Gerrald: 00:30:49

I don't know how this makes me feel.

Trey Gerrald: 00:30:51

It makes me feel more confused.

Trey Gerrald: 00:30:53

And it just makes me want to say support your local artists just

Chelsey Donn: 00:30:59

Yeah, I think that's a good point.

Trey Gerrald: 00:31:01

It's interesting.

Trey Gerrald: 00:31:02

It doesn't make me feel swayed.

Trey Gerrald: 00:31:04

It makes me feel more.

Trey Gerrald: 00:31:06

I shouldn't even attempt to see the thing.

Trey Gerrald: 00:31:10

Right.

Chelsey Donn: 00:31:11

I know.

Chelsey Donn: 00:31:12

Well, that's, I, I feel like it's, it's just coded in a way that it's

Chelsey Donn: 00:31:20

We're different now, you know?

Chelsey Donn: 00:31:23

Anyway, I thought that was interesting.

Chelsey Donn: 00:31:25

I was excited to read the reply because usually the replies are, are very

Chelsey Donn: 00:31:35

Or like, please, you know, email us at this address so that we can make it right.

Chelsey Donn: 00:31:40

Or whatever it is.

Chelsey Donn: 00:31:41

But this I've never read a reply like this before.

Chelsey Donn: 00:31:44

Anyway, that's it.

Trey Gerrald: 00:31:46

Good job.

Trey Gerrald: 00:31:47

Very fun.

Chelsey Donn: 00:31:48

Thank you.

Chelsey Donn: 00:31:49

Okay.

Chelsey Donn: 00:31:50

So let's take a quick break.

Chelsey Donn: 00:31:52

And when we come back, we can get into RQ T's Review!.

Trey Gerrald: 00:31:56

Woo.

Trey Gerrald: 00:31:57

Love that.

Trey Gerrald: 00:31:58

All right.

Trey Gerrald: 00:31:58

BRB.

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Hold your crown.

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Trey Gerrald: 00:32:15

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it's game time.

Trey Gerrald: 00:33:25

Chelsey let's play One-Star-Zinger is on the Meryl-Go-Round

Trey Gerrald: 00:33:30

' VOICEOVER: I don't feel like an icon..

Trey Gerrald: 00:33:32

Most of the days, I feel like I can't.

Trey Gerrald: 00:33:36

That's with an A!"

Chelsey Donn: 00:33:39

Trey and I have each picked a rotten scathing, pithy One-Star-Zinger and

Trey Gerrald: 00:33:51

Just the queen Meryl, who does it all

Chelsey Donn: 00:33:53

before the clock runs out.

Chelsey Donn: 00:33:55

Alright Trey.

Chelsey Donn: 00:33:56

Where is your One-Star-Zinger from today?

Trey Gerrald: 00:33:57

Okay today I have a One-Star-Zinger from amazon.com.

Trey Gerrald: 00:34:03

This is written by Tracy L.

Trey Gerrald: 00:34:07

And this is for the children's book, entitled Santa's Husband.

Chelsey Donn: 00:34:13

Oh, kinda like kinda like Hanukkah, mommy and Santa's daddy or whatever.

Trey Gerrald: 00:34:19

Sure.

Trey Gerrald: 00:34:20

Yes.

Trey Gerrald: 00:34:20

I imagine this a companion piece.

Trey Gerrald: 00:34:23

Well, the book is written by Daniel Kibblesmith and it is imagining that Santa

Trey Gerrald: 00:34:33

Oh, okay.

Trey Gerrald: 00:34:34

And I have not read the book, but the cover of the book, Mr.

Trey Gerrald: 00:34:38

Claus is a person of color.

Trey Gerrald: 00:34:42

Okay.

Trey Gerrald: 00:34:43

So Tracy L'ss, one star, Amazon review's, subject is Santa is married to a woman

Trey Gerrald: 00:34:54

Isn't gay or black.

Trey Gerrald: 00:34:59

Oh my God.

Trey Gerrald: 00:35:01

Santa Claus.

Trey Gerrald: 00:35:01

Isn't real.

Trey Gerrald: 00:35:02

Santa Claus is a fake character.

Chelsey Donn: 00:35:04

Why can't Santa Claus be gay and black?.

Trey Gerrald: 00:35:06

And so Tracy L Santa Claus, isn't gay or black.

Chelsey Donn: 00:35:09

All right.

Chelsey Donn: 00:35:10

Sorry, Tracy.

Chelsey Donn: 00:35:11

Trying to diversify.

Chelsey Donn: 00:35:13

Geez, Louise.

Chelsey Donn: 00:35:15

All right.

Chelsey Donn: 00:35:15

Trey.

Chelsey Donn: 00:35:16

I think today you're going to be strapped into Blitzin.

Chelsey Donn: 00:35:20

Why Blitzin?

Chelsey Donn: 00:35:21

Because Rudolph always gets all the attention.

Chelsey Donn: 00:35:24

Got to spread it out a little bit.

Chelsey Donn: 00:35:26

Rudolph is not the only reindeer in Santa's arsenal.

Chelsey Donn: 00:35:31

So you're strapped into blitz in.

Chelsey Donn: 00:35:34

All right.

Chelsey Donn: 00:35:35

I'm going to give blitz and a carrot and I am ready.

Chelsey Donn: 00:35:39

All right, let's do it.

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3 2 1, GO!

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Disaster

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Santa Claus or black Yankee

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Santa Claus.

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Isn't gay or black.

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Melodrama

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lifetime

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Southern calls.

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Ain't

Chelsey Donn: 00:36:15

really good.

Trey Gerrald: 00:36:17

Oh, thank you.

Trey Gerrald: 00:36:17

I must have had a lifetime of ignorance around me in order to really embody that.

Trey Gerrald: 00:36:24

All right.

Trey Gerrald: 00:36:25

How many with that?

Trey Gerrald: 00:36:29

Excellent queen.

Trey Gerrald: 00:36:30

All right, my queen.

Trey Gerrald: 00:36:31

What about you?

Trey Gerrald: 00:36:32

What is your One-Star-Zinger for today?

Trey Gerrald: 00:36:34

Plus his

Chelsey Donn: 00:36:35

for today?

Chelsey Donn: 00:36:36

My One-Star-Zinger is for Christmas lights, I guess I'll say the whole

Chelsey Donn: 00:36:45

This is your view from Amazon for.

Chelsey Donn: 00:36:47

C nine Christmas string lights, outdoor indoor extendable, 50 led 49 feet waterproof green wire

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Its supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!

Chelsey Donn: 00:37:10

I was going to say, should my R sound cutest be like, is this title going to

Chelsey Donn: 00:37:16

infuriate me?

Chelsey Donn: 00:37:18

Well, they got all their bases covered.

Chelsey Donn: 00:37:20

Exactly.

Chelsey Donn: 00:37:21

All right.

Chelsey Donn: 00:37:22

So this, review is written by Patricia.

Chelsey Donn: 00:37:24

It is obviously a one-star review.

Chelsey Donn: 00:37:27

The subject is they are not bright at all, and the Review!

Chelsey Donn: 00:37:32

is returning them.

Chelsey Donn: 00:37:34

They are so dim.

Chelsey Donn: 00:37:35

It's ridiculous.

Trey Gerrald: 00:37:38

That's really funny.

Trey Gerrald: 00:37:40

Alright, so I'm gonna strap you into Donner!

Trey Gerrald: 00:37:43

Yea next to each other

Chelsey Donn: 00:37:46

and also Chelsey Donn.

Chelsey Donn: 00:37:47

Hello?

Trey Gerrald: 00:37:49

Oh my gosh.

Trey Gerrald: 00:37:49

And the Donner party.

Chelsey Donn: 00:37:51

I mean, let's not affiliate my people with those people whom we

Trey Gerrald: 00:37:59

thought.

Trey Gerrald: 00:38:00

Okay.

Trey Gerrald: 00:38:00

I'm glad you cleared that up.

Trey Gerrald: 00:38:01

Okay.

Trey Gerrald: 00:38:02

Yes.

Trey Gerrald: 00:38:02

All right.

Trey Gerrald: 00:38:03

So, oh my God.

Trey Gerrald: 00:38:04

And you talked about sneezing while eating.

Trey Gerrald: 00:38:06

What does that have to

Chelsey Donn: 00:38:06

was that I didn't

Trey Gerrald: 00:38:07

see each other.

Chelsey Donn: 00:38:10

Okay.

Chelsey Donn: 00:38:12

Okay.

Trey Gerrald: 00:38:13

Okay.

Trey Gerrald: 00:38:13

Okay.

Trey Gerrald: 00:38:13

Good.

Trey Gerrald: 00:38:14

All right.

Trey Gerrald: 00:38:14

So you're strapped into Donner and, um, all right, let's go.

Trey Gerrald: 00:38:18

You ready?

Trey Gerrald: 00:38:19

Yes.

Trey Gerrald: 00:38:19

I'm ready.

VOICEOVER: 00:38:20

3, 2, 1, GO!

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Adult film,

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opera

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diva.

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We're hurting them.

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They're so Tim let's retake musical theater, but turn

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them

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game, show

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magic show.

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We're tearing them.

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They're so dead.

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It's ridiculous.

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Disney.

Trey Gerrald: 00:38:56

I love that.

Trey Gerrald: 00:38:57

Your Disney's always like a chipmunk

Chelsey Donn: 00:38:59

yeah.

Chelsey Donn: 00:39:00

It's it's it's Mickey.

Chelsey Donn: 00:39:02

Chipmunk.

Chelsey Donn: 00:39:02

Yeah.

Trey Gerrald: 00:39:03

Okay.

Trey Gerrald: 00:39:04

You got six.

Trey Gerrald: 00:39:05

Very good Queen.

Chelsey Donn: 00:39:09

Thank you.

Chelsey Donn: 00:39:10

That was fun.

VOICEOVER: 00:39:13

Review That Review.

Chelsey Donn: 00:39:17

All right.

Chelsey Donn: 00:39:18

We're back from that rousing game break.

Chelsey Donn: 00:39:23

And it's your turn Trey.

Trey Gerrald: 00:39:24

All right.

Trey Gerrald: 00:39:25

So today I have a one star review from Yelp also written by a Tracy.

Trey Gerrald: 00:39:32

Whoa.

Trey Gerrald: 00:39:32

I didn't realize that.

Trey Gerrald: 00:39:33

Oh, wait.

Trey Gerrald: 00:39:34

It's also Tracy L okay.

Trey Gerrald: 00:39:37

That's weird.

Chelsey Donn: 00:39:38

Was your zinger also TracyL?

Trey Gerrald: 00:39:39

Yes!

Trey Gerrald: 00:39:39

Very weird.

Trey Gerrald: 00:39:40

And I didn't realize that until this very moment.

Trey Gerrald: 00:39:42

Okay.

Trey Gerrald: 00:39:42

Oh my goodness.

Trey Gerrald: 00:39:43

But I think it's, um, I don't think it's the centrist yet.

Trey Gerrald: 00:39:46

Okay.

Trey Gerrald: 00:39:46

Once this is one star review, written by Tracy L on Yelp for that's weird.

Trey Gerrald: 00:39:52

Very weird.

Trey Gerrald: 00:39:53

Yeah.

Trey Gerrald: 00:39:55

The Christmas Tree Shop.

Chelsey Donn: 00:39:58

I really liked the Christmas Tree Shop.

Trey Gerrald: 00:39:59

I've never been.

Chelsey Donn: 00:40:01

I've been many a time.

Trey Gerrald: 00:40:02

So this is specific to I'm S I'm kind of, I kind of don't want to say the city.

Trey Gerrald: 00:40:08

So I'm just going to say in New Jersey.

Chelsey Donn: 00:40:10

Great.

Trey Gerrald: 00:40:12

Horrible place of business!

Trey Gerrald: 00:40:14

Managers do not care at all about employees.

Trey Gerrald: 00:40:18

They talk down to them and treat them like absolute garbage.

Trey Gerrald: 00:40:23

It's disgusting.

Trey Gerrald: 00:40:24

The store manager, Linda, has no idea how to run a business and has absolutely no class!

Trey Gerrald: 00:40:35

During their morning meetings.

Trey Gerrald: 00:40:37

She would constantly yell at employees.

Trey Gerrald: 00:40:40

Very nasty woman.

Trey Gerrald: 00:40:43

There have been men hate H times where I've seen several managers talk to the employees

Trey Gerrald: 00:40:55

The store is almost always a mess.

Trey Gerrald: 00:40:59

Filthy.

Trey Gerrald: 00:41:00

The products are of terrible quality.

Trey Gerrald: 00:41:03

They have sometime called and as is section, which is basically them trying

Trey Gerrald: 00:41:12

The store is disgusting.

Trey Gerrald: 00:41:14

I recently saw not one, but two customers approach, customer service, having cut their hands

Trey Gerrald: 00:41:23

And all the only thing they did for those customers was clean up their cuts and

Trey Gerrald: 00:41:34

What kind of business is this horrible, horrible, horrible will never step foot in that store.

Trey Gerrald: 00:41:40

Again, you can get better quality products for similar prices, anywhere

Trey Gerrald: 00:41:48

Starting with the disgrace of managers they have there.

Chelsey Donn: 00:41:54

Wow, Tracy L not to be confused with Tracy L you know what I mean?

Trey Gerrald: 00:41:59

So I thought this Review!

Trey Gerrald: 00:42:00

was interesting because I think this might be our first example

Chelsey Donn: 00:42:05

of a former employee,

Trey Gerrald: 00:42:06

of a former employee.

Chelsey Donn: 00:42:08

Good job, Trey.

Chelsey Donn: 00:42:09

I haven't come across anything like this.

Chelsey Donn: 00:42:11

Like this is one of those reviews on Yelp, where if anybody went on Yelp and did like

Chelsey Donn: 00:42:23

I think that this would be like gone in a second because there's so much evidence here.

Chelsey Donn: 00:42:29

What's really funny to me is if this is not an employee...

Trey Gerrald: 00:42:36

then they must've been in that store all the time.

Chelsey Donn: 00:42:38

Like how much are you hanging out?

Chelsey Donn: 00:42:40

Like, what are you doing?

Chelsey Donn: 00:42:42

Are you, are you filming a documentary about the Christmas tree shop?

Chelsey Donn: 00:42:46

Like,

Chelsey Donn: 00:42:47

well,

Trey Gerrald: 00:42:47

it ha no, they, they reveal their hand because they say during their morning

Trey Gerrald: 00:42:54

So like, you have to be an employee to be in the morning.

Chelsey Donn: 00:42:57

I guess, unless again, you're like lurking in the corner.

Chelsey Donn: 00:43:00

I, it just doesn't make any sense to me that they would give so, so much blatant, like the meeting

Chelsey Donn: 00:43:15

It's like, were they doing that?

Chelsey Donn: 00:43:17

Because, because they signed some sort of, you know, agreement.

Chelsey Donn: 00:43:23

So they're going by, they stole Tracy L's name and they've written this Review!

Chelsey Donn: 00:43:28

to try to be anonymous?

Trey Gerrald: 00:43:30

Do you think that the Christmas Tree Shop has an NDA for their employees?

Chelsey Donn: 00:43:35

I just I'm, I'm questioning Tracy L here, because honestly, with

Chelsey Donn: 00:43:43

I would have preferred that they say, listen, I used to work at the store.

Chelsey Donn: 00:43:49

Right.

Chelsey Donn: 00:43:50

And I know firsthand how terrible it is.

Chelsey Donn: 00:43:55

You can say I'm a disgruntled employee or whatever it is.

Chelsey Donn: 00:43:58

But here are the things that I personally saw while spending time in the store

Trey Gerrald: 00:44:05

It is interesting.

Trey Gerrald: 00:44:06

They don't self identify.

Trey Gerrald: 00:44:08

Otherwise I would think that this would go on like Glassdoor or like, because

Trey Gerrald: 00:44:19

It's dangerous.

Chelsey Donn: 00:44:20

They know about the band-aid incident.

Chelsey Donn: 00:44:22

They, they just know too much.

Trey Gerrald: 00:44:25

Right.

Trey Gerrald: 00:44:26

So then, okay, so then is it valuable because you want to patronize a store

Trey Gerrald: 00:44:32

I mean, Chick-fil-A cares about their employees.

Trey Gerrald: 00:44:35

I'll never step foot in there.

Chelsey Donn: 00:44:37

Right?

Chelsey Donn: 00:44:39

I'm going to say no, I just, I don't trust Tracy L.

Chelsey Donn: 00:44:44

I don't know what their agenda is.

Chelsey Donn: 00:44:46

I don't know.

Chelsey Donn: 00:44:47

the circumstance under which they were fired or left working this store.

Chelsey Donn: 00:44:52

I do know that they, they just feel a little bit shady and a little bit almost unhinged,

Chelsey Donn: 00:45:05

What what's happening here.

Chelsey Donn: 00:45:06

It feel it's, it's almost an episode.

Trey Gerrald: 00:45:08

It's interesting that they say they will never step foot in the store.

Trey Gerrald: 00:45:12

Again.

Trey Gerrald: 00:45:12

I wonder if they were fired.

Trey Gerrald: 00:45:13

Do you think Linda fired them?

Chelsey Donn: 00:45:15

You know what I think, I think there was a really bad morning meeting and Linda just

Chelsey Donn: 00:45:25

And she took off her Christmas Tree Shops, smock and walked out the door.

Chelsey Donn: 00:45:30

That's what I think.

Trey Gerrald: 00:45:31

I bet someone cut their hand and they went to Tracy for coupons

Trey Gerrald: 00:45:39

And then Tracy brought it up in the meeting and Tracy fired her.

Chelsey Donn: 00:45:43

I mean, the grammar!

Trey Gerrald: 00:45:44

I was just going to say, I, I.

Trey Gerrald: 00:45:47

It is...

Chelsey Donn: 00:45:49

we could hardly get through it.

Trey Gerrald: 00:45:50

They, they say shelve S H E L V E.

Trey Gerrald: 00:45:55

So it's not shelf or shelves also.

Trey Gerrald: 00:45:58

Like there's multiple run-on sentences.

Trey Gerrald: 00:46:00

It was very confusing.

Trey Gerrald: 00:46:03

Do you, so do we, I don't know.

Trey Gerrald: 00:46:04

Do we think that tracy is being truthful?

Trey Gerrald: 00:46:06

I think that Tracy is, I don't know.

Trey Gerrald: 00:46:09

I do believe that it probably is dirty and I do believe that like maybe the quality

Trey Gerrald: 00:46:18

It's like, I've never been in a store, so you like it.

Chelsey Donn: 00:46:23

I like Christmas tree shop.

Chelsey Donn: 00:46:25

It's sort of a misleading name for what it is.

Chelsey Donn: 00:46:28

It does have a Christmas vibe to it, but it's an all year round store and it's a discount store.

Chelsey Donn: 00:46:35

Like they have a ton of, it's sort of like a Ross or a TJ Maxx except it's new products.

Trey Gerrald: 00:46:41

Interesting.

Chelsey Donn: 00:46:43

Not that they're not new products at those stores, but I'm just saying it's,

Chelsey Donn: 00:46:49

And it is, you know, kind of cheaper stuff.

Chelsey Donn: 00:46:52

Let's say you were going to throw a party or something like that.

Chelsey Donn: 00:46:55

And you wanted to get like a Punchbowl, but also like cute napkins for your thing.

Chelsey Donn: 00:47:00

And maybe a cheeseboard, like if you wanted sort of a variety and then also maybe a cozy blanket.

Chelsey Donn: 00:47:05

Sure.

Chelsey Donn: 00:47:05

Why not a variety of items you could go to the Christmas, Christmas tree shop.

Chelsey Donn: 00:47:11

And the reason I think in my mind, I compare it to a TJ Maxx or Ross.

Chelsey Donn: 00:47:14

It's almost like an outing, you know, like when you're just like, I need something to do,

Chelsey Donn: 00:47:20

I bet I'll find something that I could use.

Chelsey Donn: 00:47:23

And it's cheap enough where it's like good retail therapy, if that makes sense.

Trey Gerrald: 00:47:28

Yeah.

Trey Gerrald: 00:47:29

So do we think that if Tracy, I was a former employee, do you think

Trey Gerrald: 00:47:34

I mean, none of it matters to me.

Trey Gerrald: 00:47:36

I'm not going to apply there.

Chelsey Donn: 00:47:39

Yeah.

Chelsey Donn: 00:47:39

But, but, but that being said, Trey, beyond the apply there.

Chelsey Donn: 00:47:43

I mean, which I guess is implied because they're saying management is terrible.

Chelsey Donn: 00:47:46

They're not telling us they worked here.

Chelsey Donn: 00:47:48

They're presenting this Review!

Chelsey Donn: 00:47:50

as if, I mean, though, of course they're giving it all away, but they're giving

Trey Gerrald: 00:47:57

That is true.

Trey Gerrald: 00:47:57

Why do they not just say that they have a preface?

Trey Gerrald: 00:48:01

Yeah.

Trey Gerrald: 00:48:02

All right.

Trey Gerrald: 00:48:03

Well, was it humorous?

Chelsey Donn: 00:48:05

No.

Trey Gerrald: 00:48:05

No.

Chelsey Donn: 00:48:06

It wasn't humorous.

Trey Gerrald: 00:48:08

Would you hang us on your fridge?

Chelsey Donn: 00:48:10

I wouldn't, I wouldn't hang in on my fridge.

Chelsey Donn: 00:48:13

With a pretty

Trey Gerrald: 00:48:13

bow and like magnet from the Christmas tree shop,

Chelsey Donn: 00:48:16

I would buy the pretty bow magnet, but I don't think I would use it to hang up.

Chelsey Donn: 00:48:22

Tracy l's review.

Trey Gerrald: 00:48:24

So before we crown, you should know that two people have found this useful.

Trey Gerrald: 00:48:28

Also I can see Tracey L has only written two Review!

Trey Gerrald: 00:48:33

Tracy, Tracy just made this account, but that's not their name.

Chelsey Donn: 00:48:37

You don't need to be a detective to figure this one out.

Chelsey Donn: 00:48:40

You know what I mean?

Trey Gerrald: 00:48:41

I bet her name is Lacey and her last name starts with a T.

Chelsey Donn: 00:48:46

Yeah.

Chelsey Donn: 00:48:46

So this is really Lacey T writing under the pseudonym.

Chelsey Donn: 00:48:51

Tracy L they're

Trey Gerrald: 00:48:53

obviously not very good at cloaking the truth.

Trey Gerrald: 00:48:57

All right.

Trey Gerrald: 00:48:57

I could crown this.

Trey Gerrald: 00:48:58

What do you think?

Chelsey Donn: 00:48:59

I can crown this.

Trey Gerrald: 00:49:00

All right.

Trey Gerrald: 00:49:00

Let's crown it

VOICEOVER: 00:49:03

The Queens are Tabulating.

Trey Gerrald: 00:49:05

[laughing]

Chelsey Donn: 00:49:06

What?

Trey Gerrald: 00:49:07

Are you ready?

Chelsey Donn: 00:49:07

I'm ready.

VOICEOVER: 00:49:12

Total score!

Chelsey Donn: 00:49:13

I'm holding a one crown and Trey is holding up a half crown.

Chelsey Donn: 00:49:17

I gave the one crown because all right, maybe it, maybe it's dusty.

Chelsey Donn: 00:49:22

I don't love the idea of a place abusing their staff.

Chelsey Donn: 00:49:27

And for that, I'll give it the one crown.

Chelsey Donn: 00:49:30

But my one crown is very suspicious because I don't trust Tracy L

Chelsey Donn: 00:49:38

I know if I were online and I were looking at reviews, I would immediately think

Chelsey Donn: 00:49:46

There's no way I could have a full stop after this Review!

Chelsey Donn: 00:49:50

and say, no, I'm not going to the Christmas tree shop.

Chelsey Donn: 00:49:53

So for that reason, I didn't think that Tracy L deserved more than a crown.

Chelsey Donn: 00:49:58

Why did you cut your crown in half, Trey?

Trey Gerrald: 00:50:01

Everything that you just said, ultimately, I'm not coming to Yelp

Trey Gerrald: 00:50:08

Yeah.

Trey Gerrald: 00:50:09

It colors my opinion, but other than it might be dirty and low quality products, which I

Trey Gerrald: 00:50:19

There's nothing to learn here because.

Trey Gerrald: 00:50:22

I don't trust the narrator.

Trey Gerrald: 00:50:24

And so that's why I gave half a crown and the spelling, good Lord.

Chelsey Donn: 00:50:28

Oh yeah, you're right.

Chelsey Donn: 00:50:30

Should have taken another half crown off for that spelling.

Chelsey Donn: 00:50:33

Anyway.

Trey Gerrald: 00:50:34

Sorry Lacey.

Chelsey Donn: 00:50:35

Sorry, Lacey T!

Chelsey Donn: 00:50:38

Good review, Trey.

Chelsey Donn: 00:50:39

I really, I enjoyed that.

Trey Gerrald: 00:50:41

Um, all right.

Trey Gerrald: 00:50:42

My Queen.

Trey Gerrald: 00:50:42

So I think that we have reached the most Regal portion of the show.

Trey Gerrald: 00:50:46

Who are you inducting today for

VOICEOVER: 00:50:50

My Royal highness.

Chelsey Donn: 00:50:51

Thank you so much for asking.

Chelsey Donn: 00:50:53

Trey.

Trey Gerrald: 00:50:54

You're welcome.

Chelsey Donn: 00:50:55

All right.

Chelsey Donn: 00:50:55

My Royal Highness today, I think is very important and I I'm, I'm not going to get full clamped.

Chelsey Donn: 00:51:00

I'm going to, I'm going to try not to get for the cleanse.

Chelsey Donn: 00:51:02

When I do this, I'm going to give My Royal Highness.

Chelsey Donn: 00:51:06

To Jonathan Larson.

Chelsey Donn: 00:51:08

And if you're listening and you don't know who Jonathan Larson is, Jonathan

Chelsey Donn: 00:51:17

It's obviously incredible.

Chelsey Donn: 00:51:19

It's been running for years and there's tons of people that are the biggest fans of the show.

Chelsey Donn: 00:51:24

And Jonathan Larson is an epic artist and he passed away at 35 way way before his prime.

Chelsey Donn: 00:51:34

And perhaps the most tragic element of his passing was that he actually passed away the night of

Chelsey Donn: 00:51:43

So he never got to see the success that Rent became.

Chelsey Donn: 00:51:48

And

Trey Gerrald: 00:51:49

I just want to interject.

Chelsey Donn: 00:51:50

Yeah,

Trey Gerrald: 00:51:50

it would be as if Lin-Manuel Miranda died.

Trey Gerrald: 00:51:53

The day of the first preview of the off-Broadway run of Hamilton, correct.

Trey Gerrald: 00:51:58

Never getting to see the phenomenon and ultimately the course change that Rent

Trey Gerrald: 00:52:06

It has never been the same since Rent.

Chelsey Donn: 00:52:09

Never.

Chelsey Donn: 00:52:10

And that's a really good analogy.

Chelsey Donn: 00:52:12

I think for people who don't understand and who, who weren't so involved with, like

Chelsey Donn: 00:52:19

Very young age and you know, this past week I watched Tick Tick Boom on Netflix,

Chelsey Donn: 00:52:29

It's so good.

Chelsey Donn: 00:52:30

If you have even like a shred of empathy, please bring a pack of tissues with you because I was

Chelsey Donn: 00:52:41

And first of all, he, uh, Jonathan Larson, I should point out also wrote tick, tick, boom.

Chelsey Donn: 00:52:46

And besides the fact that it's such an epic show, it really Chronicles Jonathan's life and beyond

Chelsey Donn: 00:52:58

We want to do something that is bigger than, than us.

Chelsey Donn: 00:53:02

We feel we're meant to express ourselves in a certain way, and we don't always get to do that.

Chelsey Donn: 00:53:06

And we don't always get to make the money that we want to, that we want to

Chelsey Donn: 00:53:13

Knowingness that this is what we're meant to do with our lives.

Chelsey Donn: 00:53:16

And watching Jonathan go through this experience and live his whole life as if he's running

Chelsey Donn: 00:53:31

But what was so beautiful is that he managed to do it.

Chelsey Donn: 00:53:34

He did get it in.

Chelsey Donn: 00:53:35

He got in right under the wire and he has his work that he shared with all

Chelsey Donn: 00:53:40

So, uh, I'm so full clamped.

Chelsey Donn: 00:53:43

I love you, Jonathan Larson.

Chelsey Donn: 00:53:45

I wish I got to know you personally, and I'm so sorry that the world was deprived of you,

Chelsey Donn: 00:53:58

Thank you, Jonathan Larson.

Trey Gerrald: 00:54:01

It's very interesting.

Trey Gerrald: 00:54:02

I just have to like interject here I am someone who never saw Rent on Broadway.

Trey Gerrald: 00:54:11

I saw like the recorded final performance, but I never sat at the Nederlander theater and saw it.

Trey Gerrald: 00:54:17

And it wasn't my thing.

Trey Gerrald: 00:54:18

I was in love with miss Saigon.

Trey Gerrald: 00:54:20

I was in love with Les Miz, but my friend from preschool, Rachel Broadwell, who's a listener.

Trey Gerrald: 00:54:26

She gave me the cast recording to tick tick, boom.

Trey Gerrald: 00:54:30

And I was, obsessed.

Trey Gerrald: 00:54:32

I may be a unique person in the fact that like, I could sing you the entire

Trey Gerrald: 00:54:37

And I can, I only know the highlights of Rent and I have, when I saw Rent Live, when they did

Trey Gerrald: 00:54:58

Because he died before he died in the preview.

Trey Gerrald: 00:55:01

Like that's like the heartbeat of the most amount of work and tweaking and changing that happens.

Trey Gerrald: 00:55:08

So that's just a random consideration.

Trey Gerrald: 00:55:10

And then also it is interesting to note that tick tick boom was based

Trey Gerrald: 00:55:17

So the numbers and some of the banter and patter, when he passed away, I believe it was

Trey Gerrald: 00:55:32

And, and, and there are videos on YouTube where he was literally doing

Chelsey Donn: 00:55:39

And that was how the movie made it seem.

Chelsey Donn: 00:55:42

They really did a good job.

Chelsey Donn: 00:55:43

Have you not seen it?

Chelsey Donn: 00:55:46

It's epic and they did really make it seem like that.

Chelsey Donn: 00:55:49

So that, that is interesting to know.

Chelsey Donn: 00:55:50

Come to your senses, which is a song from tick tick boom used to be one of my, like

Trey Gerrald: 00:55:58

I'm embarrassed to tell you that it was one of mine.

Chelsey Donn: 00:56:00

Stop!

Chelsey Donn: 00:56:02

Are you kidding?!

Trey Gerrald: 00:56:04

I had it in my book.

Trey Gerrald: 00:56:09

So embarrassing.

Chelsey Donn: 00:56:11

What a connection.

Chelsey Donn: 00:56:11

That's amazing.

Chelsey Donn: 00:56:13

Ooh.

Chelsey Donn: 00:56:13

I feel heavy.

Chelsey Donn: 00:56:14

Like Nita, get a breath out.

Chelsey Donn: 00:56:16

I really do feel the clumped.

Chelsey Donn: 00:56:17

All right.

Chelsey Donn: 00:56:18

Tell us, trey.

Chelsey Donn: 00:56:19

Who are you inducting for your Royal Highness.

Trey Gerrald: 00:56:22

I'm going to induct the Bad Christmas Movie Bingo Game.

Trey Gerrald: 00:56:28

Okay.

Trey Gerrald: 00:56:29

All right.

Trey Gerrald: 00:56:29

So let me tell you about that.

Trey Gerrald: 00:56:30

So my husband has a coworker colleague named Kiwi Callahan and Kiwi, and her

Trey Gerrald: 00:56:43

Wow.

Trey Gerrald: 00:56:43

So it's, it's bad Christmas movie, bingo.

Trey Gerrald: 00:56:47

And what it is while like lifetime, or hallmark movies are going and

Trey Gerrald: 00:56:54

And so you're watching like a honky-tonk Christmas in Nashville, and everyone has

Trey Gerrald: 00:57:03

So just for example, so then you're trying to get bingo.

Trey Gerrald: 00:57:06

So some of them are, this is one of the random cards.

Trey Gerrald: 00:57:11

They all have different things.

Trey Gerrald: 00:57:11

This one is clearly filmed in summer, picking out a Christmas tree together, holding a

Trey Gerrald: 00:57:24

Oh, look a small town, a widow or widower.

Chelsey Donn: 00:57:29

Oh my God.

Chelsey Donn: 00:57:30

That's so true.

Trey Gerrald: 00:57:32

The wacky older character.

Trey Gerrald: 00:57:34

Yeah.

Trey Gerrald: 00:57:35

Quirky Inn or bed and breakfast.

Trey Gerrald: 00:57:37

Anyway, it's so hilarious.

Trey Gerrald: 00:57:40

They created this a couple of years ago, you can go to badchristmasmoviebingo.com to buy it.

Chelsey Donn: 00:57:45

I'm gonna buy it.

Chelsey Donn: 00:57:46

I have a friend that I know will love this.

Trey Gerrald: 00:57:49

It's so good.

Trey Gerrald: 00:57:50

It's so funny.

Trey Gerrald: 00:57:51

You should get it because this really has helped with like the Christmas, what are we going to do?

Trey Gerrald: 00:57:56

And we've already eaten, like, it's like where we've opened the presents and it's like,

Trey Gerrald: 00:58:02

And just like the activity of trying to beat everyone, um, with the cliches of those

Trey Gerrald: 00:58:10

So that's why I'm inducting Bad Christmas Movie Bingo by Kiwi and Matt Callahan.

Trey Gerrald: 00:58:17

You are My Royal Highness.

Chelsey Donn: 00:58:21

Love that can't wait to buy it also like thank you.

Chelsey Donn: 00:58:24

Cause there was someone my Christmas list that I didn't know what to get

Chelsey Donn: 00:58:29

So yay for that.

Trey Gerrald: 00:58:31

And I've never met Kiwi.

Trey Gerrald: 00:58:33

I don't know Matt.

Trey Gerrald: 00:58:34

I'm not inducting them because I know them.

Trey Gerrald: 00:58:36

David knows them, which is why he got it to support them.

Trey Gerrald: 00:58:39

And it's like a lifesaver with family drama in my family.

Trey Gerrald: 00:58:41

So.

Trey Gerrald: 00:58:43

All right.

Trey Gerrald: 00:58:44

That's it.

Trey Gerrald: 00:58:45

Merry Christmas, Chelsey.

Chelsey Donn: 00:58:46

Merry Christmas, Trey!

Trey Gerrald: 00:58:48

That's it.

Trey Gerrald: 00:58:49

That's our Christmas round on the Ferris wheel.

Trey Gerrald: 00:58:52

Q life of reviews and truth.

Trey Gerrald: 00:58:55

And um, any air holes.

Chelsey Donn: 00:58:59

Thank you for joining us today.

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Obviously, bye!

Trey Gerrald: 01:00:03

Bye everyone.

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Merry Christmas.

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Merry ho-ho.

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Ho, Ho Ho!

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Review that Review is an independent podcast, certain names have been redacted

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Executive Produced by Trey Gerrald and Chelsey Donn, with editing and sound design by Trey

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God, Chelsey.

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I think I might be a little tipsy!

Chelsey Donn: 01:00:27

Oh yeah.

Chelsey Donn: 01:00:27

You never drink!

Trey Gerrald: 01:00:29

I never drink.

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So like this one little shot of Absolute Citron is making me feel bubbly.