Episode 44: Wedding Dresses 1 vs 5 Stars

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Hello

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hi there, Chelsey and Hello listeners.

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Chelsey.

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How are ya?

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I am good.

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I'm burning the candle on all of the ends and you know, but it's good.

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I'm so happy.

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I'm always happy to be here with you.

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Try.

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This is like the cherry on top of every day.

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I mean that

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San Tino's cherries.

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not cherries of fire.

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Cherry is like a delicious sundae with a cherry on top.

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Yes.

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I enjoy being here as well.

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And we enjoy all of you for joining us.

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Chelsey, is there any, um, anything that is like ruffling your feathers at

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Tell us, is there something that you would like to.

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Lodge A Complaint.

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About,

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Yeah.

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Listen, I don't know who my beef is with here.

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Okay.

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And like it's nature probably and trees you know, when you're walking on the sidewalk

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And you trip.

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I don't know why it's like, you know, some people like.

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I think like unlucky where if there's gum on the floor, like they're going

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Or if there's poop, there's going to be the one that steps in it.

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Like if, if there is a rise in the sidewalk, when I'm, I am going to be the one that

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I think I might be an earthquake tree root thing, but sometimes it's

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Why is nobody intervened?

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I think that is like a taxpayer thing.

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Right?

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I do know that my actually, I talked about them, uh, on like two episodes ago, my friends

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works for the city and they like repave potholes and stuff like that.

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That's like the division of like what your city taxes are going to, but yes, it is

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They literally can break up cement.

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I know, like we need the trees.

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I love the tree.

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It's like, listen, I don't think it's the tree's fault.

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I think it's our fault.

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You know, like somebody should take care of the trees.

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The trees are just there being trees, providing oxygen, doing their thing.

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You know, we're the ones that have to take care of them and take care of the streets so that

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That is like a funny thing, especially in Manhattan, like the constant

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yeah, what's your complaint?

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Try lay it on us.

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Well, I had one written down and then literally minutes before we started recording

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And it spills out.

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humiliating and embarrassing.

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When you knock over a cup at a restaurant and then like everyone turns and looks

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But it's very humiliating.

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It's like being dumb.

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Like suddenly everyone looks at you and like gives you that little look like, oh, you idiot.

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Like.

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But it just happened to me on my desk because I have this very expensive

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This is from my favorite apothecary and cold spring, New York.

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I just opened it yesterday throughout the week.

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I store my microphone behind my monitor.

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So I was wheeling it around and I have knocked over my cup of water multiple times.

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So I knew to hold my water.

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So my water wouldn't spill, but what didn't, you know.

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this new Reed diffuser literally fell over.

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Ah,

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That's probably was $40

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Oh, no.

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wasted literally one quarter of that.

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Oh no.

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Oh, that's the worst.

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and it's really the worst.

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because there's no one to blame, but me, but oh, I just hate

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I'm sure we can find someone else to blame, um,

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I need to know for my mental health.

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Oh, I hate you gravity.

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yeah.

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It's gravity's fault.

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I think it's Murphy again.

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It could be Murphy.

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Murphy's law.

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How dare you?

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So does the room smell nice at least, you know, because of whatever spilled out.

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Yeah, I mean, that's my hope is that it's going to saturate the wood

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So has a harder stench than it when it just diffuses through the reeds.

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So it

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Right.

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It's not as

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little metallic right now, like,

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Uh,

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yeah, but

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I hate that that sucks.

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That's so upsetting.

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I hate whenever I smell anything over at all, I was watching an episode of curb and it sort of

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Everybody's looking at you, like you're like senile or something,

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Cause they knocked everything over and it is interesting.

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Cause it's like, if you're young and you knock something over your slim muscle,

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you know what?

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I'm referencing

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she'll meal.

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She'll

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It's all to that

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Yeah.

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Like, yeah, like you're senile.

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Right.

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And if you're our age, it's just, I dunno.

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Well, similar to your complaint now, if an old person falls, we

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Right.

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That's the first thought that comes to mind?

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Yeah.

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If I fall, they're just like, oh no, I don't know.

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Like, I just feel like when I fall it's it's like scarier because I'm a fat person

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I don't know.

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That's just like people.

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Yeah, for sure.

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It's like, I have this thing.

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I know this is a little bit of a tangent, but every time I go to a

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Like I like wiggle the chair a little bit because I'm like, if I sit on the chair,

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And at

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And I break the chair.

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It looks a lot different.

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That is, that is like a wild, deep trauma response.

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you chair in your life or something?

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my God.

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Yes, I

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So there we go.

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well, I had a moment when I was taking a stand up comedy class of all

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This is so embarrassing.

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I sat on one of those like white plastic lawn chairs, because it was one of those,

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So I happened to be left with this lawn chair and I sat on it and I could feel

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I just sort of like jumped up, like right away so that I wouldn't fall.

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But like everybody in the class sort of knew.

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What was going on.

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And then every other class, after that, there was one chair that was like a beautiful,

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And so every single time I would arrive at class, even if I was late, that chair was waiting for me.

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Yeah.

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I know.

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Ah, perks, you know, what can I say?

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Everyone was looking out for you.

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Everyone was like, you know what?

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Let's let's give her the nice chair.

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But those lawn chair, things, those that happens all the time, that.

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isn't

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Okay, good.

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the structural integrity of those plastic chairs commonly wore, especially

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Yes.

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I've experienced that as

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Oh, good.

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Okay.

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That makes me feel better.

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Thank you.

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All right.

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Well,

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at that.

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That was like a bonus.

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That was like a bonus.

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Exhale.

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feel like that, felt like one of our after-show chats.

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Well, there you go.

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If you're wondering

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All right,

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of that in

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let's go forward and Chelsey.

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Are you ready to go head?

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Oh my God.

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I'm so ready.

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Let's go

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Whew.

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Yes, queen less.

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Assess That Kvetch.

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All right.

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So today is another vs episode.

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And today Chelsey and I are going to cover both a one-star review and a five star

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That's right for this versus episode, Trey is reading the

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So to determine who reads first, we got to flip that quota.

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I think it's my turn to guess.

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Yes,

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Okay.

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Heads.

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it's tails.

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Okay.

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I was on a little bit of a streak.

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Okay, great.

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So that means that we are going to hear the five star review first.

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All right.

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So today we're covering the bridal salon: Pronovias.

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Pronovias is a wedding dress boutique situated in New York city.

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Originally it opened in 1922 as a Barcelona boutique.

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The store evolved into an international franchise with over 4,000 points

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It has earned a reputation for providing customers with a seamless and

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We know nothing about that.

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So at the time of recording, there are 117 reviews for Pronovias on TheKnot

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They were a 2014 pick for TheKnots best of wedding award.

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So with all of that background info, let's get into this versus a battle on wedding gowns.

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Review That Review.

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All right.

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So today I am reading the five star from TheKnot.com and this is a Review

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Canopius in Barcelona.

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Oh, wait, wait, wait.

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Pronovias Novia is Novia, like has a wife, wife in Spanish Novia.

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it's like probably like for the wives or whatever.

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Yeah, like for the wives.

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Wow.

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so happy that we just figure that

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I be saying no,

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Novia means wife.

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Okay.

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I don't know, whatever.

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Pronovias

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All right.

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Okay.

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and here's the Review!.

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I said yes to the dress and it was the best experience ever.

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I have to say I chose my dress and bridal salon before reading any reviews because I fell in love

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After reading the reviews for Pronovias, I was definitely a little nervous that this was the

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Well, it taught me not to believe everything you read because they couldn't have been more wrong.

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I was at their flagship store in New York, four separate times for my initial try-on

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Each time I was in and out, they took me on time for all of my appointments, and

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Mu dress arrived on time, even in the middle of a worldwide Pandemic.

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My seamstress Mauritz was the sweetest lady and did a fantastic job altering my dress.

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She even made me a matching face mask from the extra fabric.

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Clara, the manager was amazing and very knowledgeable about all things bridal!

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Overall.

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It was an excellent experience and I would highly recommend getting your dress here.

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And this was written October 21st, 2020.

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So that was right at a scary time.

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Yeah.

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That was a scary time.

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I'm happy for Michelle, that she was still able to get married, you know?

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Yeah,

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All right.

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So I, I like this.

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Review!

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what I find, what I find interesting about it is, you know, how they went there without

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So that's interesting to me.

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It is an interesting point to take when you're leaving a five star

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My experience is not indicative from all of the stories online.

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And I'm going reference that I see a sea of bad reviews.

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Like I, I think there's value there.

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It also sort of instantly makes me suspicious that it's a planted Review!

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because there's like leaning in so hard that like there were, there are

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If this is truthful, which we'll discuss, I appreciate that.

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They're like luck that wasn't my experience.

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And I would wholeheartedly recommend

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Yeah.

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I don't know why, because, you know, usually I'm very sus, but like I do believe

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Like, oh, you're just sort of looking through wedding dresses.

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You happen to find it.

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This is the location of it.

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You call them up, you make an appointment.

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And then later on, you know, you're kind of Googling to follow up and you're like, oh shoot.

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Like, I can believe that narrative.

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And because I can believe the narrative.

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I like that Michelle is taking us through this process because maybe somebody else

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that's a good point.

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I mean, Michelle's not alone.

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There are other five-star reviews here.

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It is a three point.

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What was it?

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3.6.

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So.

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You know, it is a hard thing.

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We, we deal with this all the time.

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That's why we do the one and five, because it's like, some people are going to have

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And I think with weddings, it's just so hard because it's like the

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stakes are the highest.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Actually, I think that does sway me on the truthful versus shady scale here because.

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I believe that you would be just like looking through wedding dresses online or just like

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A'.

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like if I were working for Pronovias and I wanted to flush out some of the negatives, I

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Cause it isn't saying that you're brand loyal.

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You're just like obsessed with the stress and then you hunt it down.

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You know?

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I actually appreciate that.

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Yeah, I appreciated that too.

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And again, like I've, I've helped several friends pick out wedding dresses at this point.

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And I know between all the Pinterest boards and stuff like that, like it's very

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Well, I do think that most people aren't like aware of bridal designers,

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Right.

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It's not as identifiable.

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if you're not somebody that's getting a

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the world.

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or an Oscar de LA Renta dress,

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Because hypothetically you're getting married once, hopefully.

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So it's not like something you're keeping tabs on constantly.

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So you are sort of coming at it blind in many ways,

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yeah.

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I also liked that they gave specific names, so they give us more than just Mauritz.

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I feel like there was another name in there as

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Clara

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Clara.

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Okay.

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Clara.

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Yeah.

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Who's

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Oh, the one spelling grammar is M U instead of M Y my address arrived.

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But other than that, it's gorgeous and no other issues.

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I liked the fact that they told us about the mask additions,

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That's something that I guess, you know, as part of the consideration,

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Yeah, I think that's a really cute actually, I don't know if there's enough

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Right.

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Exactly.

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That's what I'm sort of looking for.

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Like, can I, how can I ascertained whether or not, you know, other people are going to

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I would imagine it might be common to look up reviews and feel nervous

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Definitely.

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like that might actually be pretty common.

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So I appreciate Michelle mentioned it.

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Yeah.

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And she hit on a few points that were interesting.

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I, I, I wonder if she was teeing up anything about the negative reviews, because she talked about,

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So like hitting those points is interesting and a little bit.

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Maybe defensive of the store?

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Yeah, I agree.

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But I don't think there's much humor here, but I like the Review!

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it feels level, head.

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I agree.

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All right.

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I think I could crown this.

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What do you think?

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I think I can cry Michelle C last than.

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All right.

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

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The Queens are Tabulating.

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All right.

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I'm holding up three and a half.

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Crowns.

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Trey is holding up four crowns.

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I gave Michelle three and a half crowns, cause I thought it was a little

Chelsey Donn: 00:19:25

I really liked that she addressed the concerns of the other reviews, because I

Chelsey Donn: 00:19:36

And I think she gave nice general strokes of the experience.

Chelsey Donn: 00:19:41

I just wish maybe there was like a tiny bit more specificity.

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not funny, we had a little bit of a spelling error, uh, but nothing wrong with the Review!.

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So a solid three and a half for me.

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Why?

Chelsey Donn: 00:19:51

For.

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I mean, I do feel very similar to you, but I went up to four.

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Because I do think the ultimate impact here, it might have a deal breaking situation For.

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me, where it's like, okay, it's possible to have a very great experience here, even though

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Can I make sure Mauritz is my seamstress?

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Like, you know, I could really sort of navigate power.

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I like that it's level headed, especially in the bridal wedding industry.

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It's like, everything is so high emotion.

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So for that reason I gave it four crowns.

Chelsey Donn: 00:20:30

that makes sense.

Chelsey Donn: 00:20:31

You and I tend to differ in that regard.

Chelsey Donn: 00:20:33

I really like a good novella.

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You like you like when they're more straightforward?

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I think so.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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I love that.

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All right.

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Well, good.

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Solid.

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Review!

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trey.

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I guess to see if our opinion is swayed.

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Once we hear the other side of the argument.

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All right, so we'll take a quick break.

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And when we come back, we're going to hear Chelsey's I guess, novella version BRB.

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BRB.

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We'll be right back.

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It's time to take a quick spin on the Meryl-Go-Round for our game.

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Brady.

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Here's the deal.

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

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And with 30 seconds on the clock, we'll take turns, trying to recite the

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Just like queen Meryl Streep, who does it all.

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before the clock runs out.

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All right, Chels.

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Whats your Zinger for today.

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So you guys know my favorite is to do the crazy gag gift moments.

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And this is from Amazon.

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It is a one-star review written by Mychal with a very unique spelling.

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M Y C H a L.

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Hm.

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This is a one-star review by Michael for a beer belly Fanny pack.

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And it's kind of gross.

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You guys was an,, I'm a fan.

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I, I wouldn't mind marrying someone with a little beer belly.

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I'm not even going to lie, like actually probably preferable in my case.

Chelsey Donn: 00:22:37

Um, but I don't think I would like it if they were wearing a beer belly Fanny pack, just

Chelsey Donn: 00:22:44

It is a Fanny pack with a photo of a beer belly.

Trey Gerrald: 00:22:49

Is it Harry.

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it's, it's actually a little less hairy than you probably think, but

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Yeah.

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So the subject is this isn't funny.

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No.

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And the Review!

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is God.

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Why does beer have calories?

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That's it?

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All right, Mike cow,

Chelsey Donn: 00:23:10

I know.

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Right.

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I'm going to strap you into a disgusting can of Natty light.

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Ooh, such college memories.

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Let's

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you ready?

Chelsey Donn: 00:23:21

I'm ready.

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Let's do it.

VOICEOVER: 00:23:23

Three, Two, One, GO!.

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Why does beer have calories?

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disaster.

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show

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God.

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Why does beer I've calorie?

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magic show

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God.

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Why does bear have galleries?

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Southern

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God.

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does bear have calories?

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drama.

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God.

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Why bureau of calories?

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That's all.

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job.

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That was six diva.

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Yay.

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All right.

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Trey.

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Where is your zinger from today?

Trey Gerrald: 00:24:04

I have a One-Star-Zinger from Good ol ratemyprofessors.com.

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Love that.

Trey Gerrald: 00:24:10

This is for an anthropology professor at UC Davis

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Okay.

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and the Review!

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is an absolutely mind numbingly, horrible lecturer.

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Oh my God.

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those.

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wordy.

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I'm going to stumble.

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I have I'm for sure.

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I'm positive.

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All right.

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I'm going to strap you into a marble composition notebook.

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Ooh, that's my iPad cover.

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Oh my God.

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Amazing.

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All right, so don't get any paper cards.

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Okay.

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Strap yourself into that cardboard exterior.

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let's get this.

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Meryl-Go-Round spin shallowly.

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Let's do it.

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Here we go.

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All right.

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Let's do it.

VOICEOVER: 00:24:48

Three, Two, One, GO!.

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Absolutely horrible.

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lifetime.

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Absolutely my numbingly horrible lecturer,

Chelsey Donn: 00:25:03

Magic show

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absolutely mind horrible.

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Disney film into our

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absolutely my numbingly horrible lecturer by boy.

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all right.

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Good job.

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Trey.

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Thank you.

Chelsey Donn: 00:25:25

I loved the readings there.

Chelsey Donn: 00:25:26

I really, I mean, book debt, what can I say?

Trey Gerrald: 00:25:29

Thank you,

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Five trey.

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but to make sure you are big winner.

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Yay.

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mazal Tov, Chelsey,

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you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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I caught the bouquet.

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I'm always a bridesmaid, never the bride.

VOICEOVER: 00:25:48

Review That Review.

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All right.

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We are back from that rousing game break.

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And now Chelsey Donn.

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It's time for your one star review.

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Let's do it.

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Okay.

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So this is a one-star review for Pronovias.

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As we've mentioned, it is written by Laura T.

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Okay.

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All right, here we go.

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SEAMSTRESS STREAKED BLOOD ON MY GOWN.

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READ ON!

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Please, please, please.

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Ah,

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Order a Pronovias dress, but avoid the flagship location in Midtown Manhattan.

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oh,

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I was not one of the small pushy, bridal boutiques kind of bride.

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So I found the huge glamorous flagship store, very attractive because they do tons of

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I liked the big setting.

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But what happens with a big setting is that you get lost.

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And this is what happened to me.

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Last fitting.

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I scheduled a month in advance and brought my whole family with me to learn, to

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All appointments scheduled way in advance.

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NO WORK HAD BEEN DONE ON THE DRESS!.

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Oh, no.

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Nothing!

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I was forced to come back one week later, right before my wedding extremely

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Oh.

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Sat in waiting room for 45 minutes while manager falsely chatted me up.

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Seamstress, arrived, sweating, and thanking me for giving her more time.

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After taking dress home, opened the bag.

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Seamstress had pricked her finger and streaked BLOOD DOWN THE FRONT OF MY GOWN!

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Oh

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four days before my wedding

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God.

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forced to find out of town dry cleaners and pay $300 bill.

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Then noticed Garnett was SNAGGED on the lower part of the dress.

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Didn't bother fixing it because blood was main concern.

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Total mess con contacted store.

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All they did was apologize and pay for the dry cleaning.

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Contacted corporate after wedding asked for a full refund on dress because they

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They absolutely refused to refund me.

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It was 1700 and said they did enough paying the dry cleaning bill.

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So get your Pronovias dress at one of the many NYC shops, not the flagship.

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TOTAL NIGHTMARE.

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I should be suing them to be honest.

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Whew, Laura T Laura T spill the tea on

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Pronovias.

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whoa.

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Okay.

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Wait, what is a Garnet?

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Is it a fab?

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something that was wrapped, whatever.

Chelsey Donn: 00:29:25

Something was wrapped.

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I think my favorite part of the survey view is when Laura T says sat for 45

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I know I was like, what does that even mean?

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I mean,

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I get a clear picture, even though I don't know what it

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Same, obviously there was some sort of major flub up

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multiple times with the schedule.

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with the scheduling, I don't know what was happening behind the scenes,

Chelsey Donn: 00:29:58

It actually kind of reminded me a little bit of the wedding cake Review!

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moment where it's like throw in the girl that doesn't know anything about the wedding cake

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Like that's how I see the situation where the owner was probably like, you know,

Chelsey Donn: 00:30:24

Tell me about it.

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Like, it's clear that they were.

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You know, trying to, I understand.

Chelsey Donn: 00:30:30

Yeah.

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Say face exactly.

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I wonder what the reverse here is.

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Like, if you are the bride and you miss one of these appointments, I wonder if there's a fee,

Chelsey Donn: 00:30:38

probably, there's always some sort of double standard.

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I mean, the blood on the dress.

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can't you just imagine?

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Do you think that this is Murray it's from the other one?

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Or do you think they have multiple seamstresses?

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I think they have more, I don't think is Murray it's.

Chelsey Donn: 00:30:54

I don't think Marines would do that.

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I just wonder, like, what was the lead up?

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Was it like, she showed up and the manager had to go to the back and be

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Her wedding is like in a day.

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Do we still didn't do the changes?

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Do them really fast.

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And then the woman was trying to do them really fast and hurt herself in the middle of it.

Trey Gerrald: 00:31:11

I think that's sort of the narrative that Laura might be thinking,

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And that just makes me go into like panic mode as the same stress.

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Cause you know, you know that your manager has told you, like, somehow this ball was dropped.

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have to get here as soon as you can and like make this work and then you accidentally cut yourself.

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It's sort of like, then you go into panic

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think that the seam stress didn't tell the manager?

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Because I feel like even though this is really bad and I'm sure either way Laura would have

Chelsey Donn: 00:31:49

We had this accident, like, you know, obviously accidents happen.

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We want to take care of it.

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We're going to get a dry clean, we're going to do whatever we're going to take 20% off the dress.

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Like if they had addressed it at that point, you know, I'm sure Laura would have

Chelsey Donn: 00:32:08

Like what if Laura didn't open the dress until the day of her wedding,

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until the

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that would have been

Trey Gerrald: 00:32:13

well, that's the other too, is like, I wonder, I wonder if I do, for whatever

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So if going off of that assumption that either either the seamstress didn't notice or the same

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you are going to have to refund fully.

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I would imagine at that point, so it's possible that the manager was

Trey Gerrald: 00:32:47

And then an issue arises, we're gonna say no refunds.

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I mean, I'm

Chelsey Donn: 00:32:52

if you would have to, like, I mean, this is a terrible situation, but I wonder if.

Chelsey Donn: 00:32:57

First of all.

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I do think I agree with Laura.

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I think they should have done more.

Trey Gerrald: 00:33:02

I do too, actually.

Chelsey Donn: 00:33:03

just paying for the dry cleaning is not enough.

Chelsey Donn: 00:33:05

Like I always get upset whenever somebody like really messes something up and they

Chelsey Donn: 00:33:15

Like.

Trey Gerrald: 00:33:15

Emotional distress.

Chelsey Donn: 00:33:17

There's like so much that goes into this and, and just paying for the

Chelsey Donn: 00:33:24

It's just like, oh yeah, we're going to pay for fixing our error.

Chelsey Donn: 00:33:28

Well, duh,

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Right, right.

Trey Gerrald: 00:33:31

I mean, I appreciate that.

Trey Gerrald: 00:33:32

They covered the dry cleaning.

Trey Gerrald: 00:33:34

I appreciate that.

Trey Gerrald: 00:33:35

That, that didn't seem to be an issue.

Trey Gerrald: 00:33:37

It is interesting to me.

Trey Gerrald: 00:33:38

I, I recognize that it's like, just get through the wedding and then we'll deal with it.

Trey Gerrald: 00:33:42

But there is something that then feels a little, like you've lost some power in

Trey Gerrald: 00:33:51

Rather than like in the moment, be

Chelsey Donn: 00:33:53

Yeah.

Trey Gerrald: 00:33:54

is outrageously unacceptable,

Chelsey Donn: 00:33:56

I guess, but at the same time, it's like, if you're that close to your wedding, you

Chelsey Donn: 00:34:06

I will bring this to a dry cleaner.

Chelsey Donn: 00:34:08

We will figure it out.

Chelsey Donn: 00:34:09

We will get the money back later.

Chelsey Donn: 00:34:11

I don't, we don't have to think like that, addressing it after the wedding is done.

Chelsey Donn: 00:34:16

It makes sense to me, I'm

Trey Gerrald: 00:34:17

It does make sense

Chelsey Donn: 00:34:18

I'm sure they took photos.

Chelsey Donn: 00:34:20

I'm sure like they, which is interesting.

Chelsey Donn: 00:34:22

Can you do photos on TheKnot?

Trey Gerrald: 00:34:25

I don't know.

Trey Gerrald: 00:34:25

I don't think so.

Chelsey Donn: 00:34:26

okay.

Chelsey Donn: 00:34:27

Cause that would have been really powerful if there photos, of course, but this is unacceptable.

Chelsey Donn: 00:34:34

This is a very useful Review!.

Chelsey Donn: 00:34:36

I mean, besides the fact that like it's gross, I think like, If I was going to go to Pronovias,

Trey Gerrald: 00:34:49

keep

Chelsey Donn: 00:34:49

that like this does not happen to me otherwise, bye!

Trey Gerrald: 00:34:54

I agree.

Trey Gerrald: 00:34:55

I think that it has like outrageously valuable.

Trey Gerrald: 00:34:58

I, I just want to point out it's interesting that they start through Review!

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with, please, please, please, buy here, but not at this one.

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And then they end with please by the stress at a different, like, that is So, wild to me

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Pinpoint They be like in RegEd

Chelsey Donn: 00:35:29

Yes.

Trey Gerrald: 00:35:30

God.

Trey Gerrald: 00:35:31

I imagined that seems just freaking

Chelsey Donn: 00:35:33

God, me too.

Chelsey Donn: 00:35:34

Me too.

Chelsey Donn: 00:35:35

I was just going to address that.

Chelsey Donn: 00:35:36

I'm so glad you brought it up because that first line is like everything.

Chelsey Donn: 00:35:39

But I think that that leads into the trustworthy factor here, right?

Chelsey Donn: 00:35:45

Because it's like, we've read plenty of reviews where they just like throw in sort

Chelsey Donn: 00:35:54

And it feels like.

Trey Gerrald: 00:35:55

piling

Chelsey Donn: 00:35:55

Piling on, like, you're just like trying, like you have this issue and I would

Trey Gerrald: 00:36:07

I think you're right.

Trey Gerrald: 00:36:08

I think that's why it feels so truthful.

Chelsey Donn: 00:36:10

It really, really does.

Chelsey Donn: 00:36:11

Like, I, I believe, I believe that my belief that this is their experience.

Chelsey Donn: 00:36:15

I see the passion.

Chelsey Donn: 00:36:16

I mean, clearly we had a lot of all caps moments, but It's funny because if you

Chelsey Donn: 00:36:26

It's like a, it's like an internal thing.

Chelsey Donn: 00:36:30

Like no work was done on the dress to work was done.

Chelsey Donn: 00:36:32

Again, there was blood on the front of my gown.

Chelsey Donn: 00:36:34

It was snagged was a total nightmare.

Chelsey Donn: 00:36:36

Like if you're just reading the bullet points, you know, you get the full narrative,

Trey Gerrald: 00:36:44

So then do we think that narrative is common or a fluke?

Trey Gerrald: 00:36:46

I mean, I imagine the blood as a fluke, but I kind of, at first I really wanted

Trey Gerrald: 00:36:57

You're going to get lost in the fray.

Trey Gerrald: 00:36:58

I think that's like not factual.

Trey Gerrald: 00:37:02

Uh, but.

Trey Gerrald: 00:37:04

I do feel like it could be common.

Trey Gerrald: 00:37:06

It could be common.

Trey Gerrald: 00:37:07

I mean, they forgot to alter it

Chelsey Donn: 00:37:09

That's bad twice,

Trey Gerrald: 00:37:13

That is so that is so beyond the pale to

Chelsey Donn: 00:37:16

Not as that's bad.

Chelsey Donn: 00:37:18

I mean, once is one thing twice.

Chelsey Donn: 00:37:20

I mean, I do.

Chelsey Donn: 00:37:21

I think it's common.

Chelsey Donn: 00:37:23

Yeah.

Chelsey Donn: 00:37:23

I think that it's probably common amongst honestly like the wedding dress industry

Trey Gerrald: 00:37:33

Really

Chelsey Donn: 00:37:34

I have, I mean, not this situation, but just like other situations, thankfully,

Chelsey Donn: 00:37:49

Like I think it is presumptive to say that it's just because it's the flagship store.

Chelsey Donn: 00:37:55

I think we're grasping for an explanation here because so.

Chelsey Donn: 00:37:59

Bizarre and these sort of smaller boutiques while interestingly enough,

Chelsey Donn: 00:38:07

I do think that they, in my mind, at least the way this is all being described,

Chelsey Donn: 00:38:13

And like, you're the only one that has the appointment that day.

Chelsey Donn: 00:38:16

And it's all about you and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Chelsey Donn: 00:38:19

You know,

Trey Gerrald: 00:38:20

definitely an air of that.

Chelsey Donn: 00:38:21

There's definitely an air of that, which I guess maybe could be missing in

Chelsey Donn: 00:38:32

I wonder how many other people go to this location?

Chelsey Donn: 00:38:36

I guess that's something that I'm feeling a little bit confused about.

Trey Gerrald: 00:38:40

Yeah.

Trey Gerrald: 00:38:41

I'm unsure.

Trey Gerrald: 00:38:42

What do you th this is neither here or there, but struck me.

Trey Gerrald: 00:38:46

What do you think about Laura inviting their entire.

Trey Gerrald: 00:38:49

Family for the final fitting.

Chelsey Donn: 00:38:52

Not

Trey Gerrald: 00:38:53

that seems like such, but it feels like such a giveaway.

Trey Gerrald: 00:38:55

I mean, I recognize it's like to learn how to tie the bustle and stuff, but the

Chelsey Donn: 00:39:03

I don't know.

Chelsey Donn: 00:39:04

I mean,

Trey Gerrald: 00:39:05

it just feels like the big reveal, like to invite the whole family to come for

Trey Gerrald: 00:39:14

But maybe that maybe I'm I'm unaware because I don't do.

Chelsey Donn: 00:39:18

Yeah.

Chelsey Donn: 00:39:18

I mean, that didn't, that didn't raise any flags for me.

Chelsey Donn: 00:39:22

I think that, that, that makes sense.

Chelsey Donn: 00:39:23

Especially if you have a dress with a difficult bustle, my sister had a dress with a D

Chelsey Donn: 00:39:33

And it still took us a long time.

Chelsey Donn: 00:39:35

So.

Trey Gerrald: 00:39:36

when was this written?

Chelsey Donn: 00:39:38

This was written in 2018.

Chelsey Donn: 00:39:39

So pre pandemic,

Trey Gerrald: 00:39:42

I wonder, because to me, I feel like $1,700 for a wedding dress isn't that crazy?

Trey Gerrald: 00:39:47

Obviously that's a lot of money that's a privileged statement, but I feel like

Trey Gerrald: 00:39:54

And when you look at the budget of a wedding, 1700 doesn't seem that outrageous to me.

Trey Gerrald: 00:40:00

I mean like wedding rings, like at Tiffany's are a thousand dollars.

Trey Gerrald: 00:40:03

So this is like,

Chelsey Donn: 00:40:04

No is low for a dress, but I don't know.

Chelsey Donn: 00:40:07

funny when I first read that part, I was like, are they talking about the full refund or are

Chelsey Donn: 00:40:14

Like did they have to have a few sessions with their life coach

Trey Gerrald: 00:40:17

well, they said though dry cleaning was 300, so that's like a large

Chelsey Donn: 00:40:20

and then $1,400?

Chelsey Donn: 00:40:22

That is emotional.

Trey Gerrald: 00:40:23

I took that as the price of the gout, which in my mind, if

Trey Gerrald: 00:40:32

It's not even that much.

Chelsey Donn: 00:40:33

Right.

Chelsey Donn: 00:40:33

Well, that's why I think they were saying it was only $1,700.

Chelsey Donn: 00:40:36

I don't know.

Chelsey Donn: 00:40:37

I definitely think they could have done more.

Chelsey Donn: 00:40:38

They should have done more.

Chelsey Donn: 00:40:39

I'm I'm on Lord he's side, you

Trey Gerrald: 00:40:42

Wait devil's advocate at the beginning of the Review!

Trey Gerrald: 00:40:45

to does Laura mention how early in the process they bought the dress, because we

Chelsey Donn: 00:40:58

They don't, but they said that they scheduled the last fitting for a month in advance.

Chelsey Donn: 00:41:03

And you know, if they're scheduling it in advance, they must've gone several months prior.

Trey Gerrald: 00:41:08

that was my only sort of devil's advocate is like, was Laura

Chelsey Donn: 00:41:13

then it says, well, no, because the next sign, after that, you know, they

Chelsey Donn: 00:41:18

They say all appointments scheduled way in advance.

Trey Gerrald: 00:41:21

what does that even mean though?

Chelsey Donn: 00:41:23

Well, I mean, I feel like way in advance me and if they're saying it was

Trey Gerrald: 00:41:30

know, I think I'm on Laura T side

Chelsey Donn: 00:41:32

I think we have to be on Lord he's side.

Trey Gerrald: 00:41:34

We never really addressed humor or entertainment.

Chelsey Donn: 00:41:37

right.

Chelsey Donn: 00:41:38

Not humorous, really.

Trey Gerrald: 00:41:40

cause

Chelsey Donn: 00:41:41

Um, not a funny matter, really, almost like a horror movie.

Trey Gerrald: 00:41:45

But I thought it was funny, especially under the context of a horror movie.

Trey Gerrald: 00:41:49

the death.

Trey Gerrald: 00:41:50

The funny part to me is that Laura assumes that they pricked the finger, like the explanation

Trey Gerrald: 00:41:57

I just think prick seems very dainty and delicate,

Chelsey Donn: 00:42:00

right.

Chelsey Donn: 00:42:00

Actually, that is interesting because sometimes it's like a prick and then they're saying they

Chelsey Donn: 00:42:06

So it's like if I think of a prick, I think of like a little dot of blood,

Trey Gerrald: 00:42:12

But different than streaked.

Chelsey Donn: 00:42:14

streak across the front of the gowns.

Chelsey Donn: 00:42:16

Seems like there's no way that the seamstress could have missed that.

Trey Gerrald: 00:42:20

I think a street blood as like Carrie's face and carry.

Trey Gerrald: 00:42:25

I think Carrie's gown is devoured, but I think their face a straight to the blood, what.

Chelsey Donn: 00:42:31

I'm like the garden, it was snagged on the lower part of the dress.

Chelsey Donn: 00:42:35

So that's, I guess that's like a second issue, right?

Chelsey Donn: 00:42:39

So it's like the first issue is that the blood and the second issue is that

Chelsey Donn: 00:42:47

This is not looking good for Pronovias in my opinion.

Trey Gerrald: 00:42:51

Yeah.

Trey Gerrald: 00:42:52

I think I could crown west.

Trey Gerrald: 00:42:56

All right.

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The Queens are Tabulating.

Chelsey Donn: 00:43:04

All right.

Chelsey Donn: 00:43:05

I'm only up four crowns treys holding up four and a half crowns.

Chelsey Donn: 00:43:07

Trey, let us know why four and a half crowns or Laura T

Trey Gerrald: 00:43:10

I only took a half crown off because of this final hour discrepancy

Trey Gerrald: 00:43:19

I trust Laura.

Trey Gerrald: 00:43:21

I don't think this is humorous.

Trey Gerrald: 00:43:22

I, I think that this could be common to fear that you're being lost in the fray.

Trey Gerrald: 00:43:28

If it's a huge flagship, the spelling was great.

Trey Gerrald: 00:43:32

I liked the synopsis of the cap caps.

Trey Gerrald: 00:43:34

Like you could just get the bullet points.

Trey Gerrald: 00:43:36

think it's incredibly unique information, very valuable.

Trey Gerrald: 00:43:41

I think they should have got a refund and I don't think I ever really feel that.

Trey Gerrald: 00:43:46

But I am curious now, was it like a little bit of blood or was it like very noticeable blood I wish

Trey Gerrald: 00:44:01

If I fell in love with a gallon from this company and I was.

Trey Gerrald: 00:44:06

Called the day before every fitting to make sure that everything is good to go.

Trey Gerrald: 00:44:09

And I would say, don't just say yes.

Trey Gerrald: 00:44:11

Can you please put me on hold, go back, look at the gown.

Trey Gerrald: 00:44:15

Confirm it's been altered.

Trey Gerrald: 00:44:17

Come back to the phone, take me off hold and say yes.

Trey Gerrald: 00:44:19

Before I trot my little ass down there.

Trey Gerrald: 00:44:22

dieting.

Trey Gerrald: 00:44:23

I'm trying to get fitted for the stress.

Trey Gerrald: 00:44:25

Like this is very serious.

Trey Gerrald: 00:44:27

So four and a half for me.

Trey Gerrald: 00:44:28

I'm really sore.

Trey Gerrald: 00:44:30

Sorry.

Chelsey Donn: 00:44:30

I'm really sorry.

Trey Gerrald: 00:44:31

I'm really sorry.

Trey Gerrald: 00:44:32

Laura T I'm from Canada and I F feel for you and thank you for sharing your

Trey Gerrald: 00:44:39

So that's why Chelsey, why did you say four?

Chelsey Donn: 00:44:43

Really like good arguments, try it.

Chelsey Donn: 00:44:45

Almost making me feel like I should reconsider an, Aplara two to a four and a half.

Chelsey Donn: 00:44:49

I agree with everything.

Chelsey Donn: 00:44:50

You said so many great things about those.

Chelsey Donn: 00:44:52

Review!

Chelsey Donn: 00:44:53

love the like cap synopsis, like really interesting technique.

Chelsey Donn: 00:44:58

Really good cautionary tale here.

Chelsey Donn: 00:45:00

I guess I gave it four because I thought this isn't going to be everybody's experience.

Chelsey Donn: 00:45:06

And I know that that's like, you know, crappy because.

Chelsey Donn: 00:45:09

This was Laura T's experience, but I still don't think everyone is going to have this experience.

Chelsey Donn: 00:45:15

And I am trusting Michelle where, you know, I think if I went in armed with Michelle's Review!

Chelsey Donn: 00:45:21

and made sure that I had the same stress that, that she had, I think I would be okay.

Chelsey Donn: 00:45:26

And because of that, I gave Laura T4 crowns, but I so feel for you Lord Lortie and I

Chelsey Donn: 00:45:37

And.

Chelsey Donn: 00:45:38

That you had to go through this.

Chelsey Donn: 00:45:39

And I hope that Pronovias learned a lesson after this experience at very least.

Trey Gerrald: 00:45:46

Yeah.

Trey Gerrald: 00:45:46

I have.

Trey Gerrald: 00:45:46

So, oh, that's tough.

Trey Gerrald: 00:45:48

It's an example of just give the refund because this Review!, it's going to be on the internet for

Chelsey Donn: 00:45:54

Right.

Chelsey Donn: 00:45:55

It's like what mark two Minnelli was saying, like, you know, like sometimes you

Chelsey Donn: 00:46:07

like this.

Chelsey Donn: 00:46:08

On your page, you know, it is.

Chelsey Donn: 00:46:11

And, and the other thing, I'm not sure, I'm not, sorry.

Chelsey Donn: 00:46:14

I'm not as familiar with, with Knot, can you have a reply or no?

Trey Gerrald: 00:46:19

you can.

Trey Gerrald: 00:46:20

DJ spend foul

Chelsey Donn: 00:46:21

Oh, that's right.

Chelsey Donn: 00:46:22

What am I saying?

Chelsey Donn: 00:46:22

Yes.

Chelsey Donn: 00:46:23

So like, that's another thing I guess I could, I could say against Pronovias here is that if

Trey Gerrald: 00:46:39

I don't know.

Trey Gerrald: 00:46:40

It's tough.

Chelsey Donn: 00:46:42

Even just to respond to Laura and say, you know what, we, re-read your review.

Chelsey Donn: 00:46:45

We thought about the situation.

Chelsey Donn: 00:46:46

Again.

Chelsey Donn: 00:46:46

We want to refund you if you would be, if you would consider.

Chelsey Donn: 00:46:50

Taking the Review!

Chelsey Donn: 00:46:51

down.

Chelsey Donn: 00:46:51

We'd appreciate it.

Chelsey Donn: 00:46:52

We just, you know, like they, I just feel like it's an, it's an interesting

Chelsey Donn: 00:46:58

is another opportunity for the company to step up, you know, and we've seen it happen

Chelsey Donn: 00:47:15

and say, you know, after speaking to management, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Chelsey Donn: 00:47:18

Right.

Trey Gerrald: 00:47:19

can get points back.

Trey Gerrald: 00:47:20

Yeah.

Chelsey Donn: 00:47:20

Yeah, you can get points back.

Chelsey Donn: 00:47:22

And so I think that if Pronovias is not looking at that Knot page, they ought to be,

Trey Gerrald: 00:47:28

Yeah.

Chelsey Donn: 00:47:29

you know, and that's sort of my final thoughts on Pronovias.

Chelsey Donn: 00:47:32

I think that the dresses must be really nice because we're hearing that consistently

Trey Gerrald: 00:47:44

Yeah definitely.

Trey Gerrald: 00:47:44

I think the fault lies at Pronovias because it's awful circumstance, but that's again, at

Trey Gerrald: 00:47:55

true.

Trey Gerrald: 00:47:56

It's possible that that could be fabricated, but and then if there's

Chelsey Donn: 00:48:06

it's not Laura T's fault, but Laura T has to deal with it, you know?

Trey Gerrald: 00:48:12

All right.

Trey Gerrald: 00:48:12

Chelsey definite journey.

Trey Gerrald: 00:48:15

All right.

Trey Gerrald: 00:48:16

My queen, we have reached the most Regal portion of our show Chelsey.

Trey Gerrald: 00:48:20

Who are you inducting this week for?

VOICEOVER: 00:48:25

My Royal Highness.

Chelsey Donn: 00:48:26

thanks for asking.

Chelsey Donn: 00:48:27

Try.

Chelsey Donn: 00:48:28

So sometimes My Royal Highness sees come out of real life circumstances.

Chelsey Donn: 00:48:35

I was changing my sheets in my bed recently and I gave my comforter a nice, good shimmy shake.

Chelsey Donn: 00:48:42

Um, and in the process, I guess I had the remote control in the bed.

Chelsey Donn: 00:48:48

And so it, it got lost behind the bed.

Chelsey Donn: 00:48:51

Okay.

Chelsey Donn: 00:48:52

Then I wanted to watch TV and they could not find the remote for a very long time.

Trey Gerrald: 00:48:57

Oh, my God.

Chelsey Donn: 00:48:59

And then I thought, God, you know, like what first world problems, not everybody.

Chelsey Donn: 00:49:06

Has a TV.

Chelsey Donn: 00:49:07

Okay.

Chelsey Donn: 00:49:08

Let alone a remote control.

Chelsey Donn: 00:49:10

And then also what did we do before the remote control?

Chelsey Donn: 00:49:16

You know,

Trey Gerrald: 00:49:16

got up on our,

Chelsey Donn: 00:49:18

got

Trey Gerrald: 00:49:19

and we.

Trey Gerrald: 00:49:19

turned dial.

Chelsey Donn: 00:49:20

Exactly, exactly.

Chelsey Donn: 00:49:22

And it's just so funny to me.

Chelsey Donn: 00:49:23

These modern day conveniences that we just totally take for granted

Chelsey Donn: 00:49:31

I think we ought to take a moment to thank the remote control and

Chelsey Donn: 00:49:36

So I don't know, but whoever you are thank you because you've made our

Chelsey Donn: 00:49:43

You know, appreciate things like you, remote control until we don't have you for an hour.

Chelsey Donn: 00:49:50

So with all that in mind, I would love to take this moment to acknowledge you remote control

Trey Gerrald: 00:50:04

That's a good one.

Chelsey Donn: 00:50:05

Oh, wait.

Chelsey Donn: 00:50:05

Is it good?

Trey Gerrald: 00:50:07

Also like those universal remotes that are like, we'll do like

Chelsey Donn: 00:50:13

Oh, yeah, those setting those up sometimes can be, you know, Trey, Trey witnessed

Chelsey Donn: 00:50:21

So you can only imagine

Trey Gerrald: 00:50:24

So Kelsey's microphone, cradle has like bands like, uh, like rubber bands basically

Trey Gerrald: 00:50:33

You know, it's a common thing.

Trey Gerrald: 00:50:34

And I sent one to Chelsey and she started opening up before calling me and she undid all of the

Trey Gerrald: 00:50:43

It's like to keep it like gravity, but she just undid all of the rubber bands.

Trey Gerrald: 00:50:49

We never got it back.

Chelsey Donn: 00:50:50

No, it's never

Trey Gerrald: 00:50:51

was like a possible, oh hilarious.

Trey Gerrald: 00:50:54

No, I concur with the remote control.

Trey Gerrald: 00:50:56

Really do love it.

Trey Gerrald: 00:50:57

I love that app for the remote on the iPhones you can like it as a

Chelsey Donn: 00:51:02

Yeah.

Chelsey Donn: 00:51:02

If you're in trouble.

Trey Gerrald: 00:51:03

Amazing.

Trey Gerrald: 00:51:04

All right.

Trey Gerrald: 00:51:05

Well, that's it.

Trey Gerrald: 00:51:06

We did a queen that is another round on the R you lay our cue fair.

Trey Gerrald: 00:51:12

This wheel.

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So glad one of your favorite things about the podcast is not me...

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Okay.

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Uh we'll know, like you're

Trey Gerrald: 00:52:10

Let it Go.

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Elsa.

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You've already said it.

Chelsey Donn: 00:52:13

You're my work podcast husband.

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Is that not good enough for you?

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We are rating.

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I'm really proud of today's.

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Um, we are going to rate and review a one star review from chewy.com.

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Yes.

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a formal dog and cat tuxedo.

Chelsey Donn: 00:52:42

Oh my God.

Trey Gerrald: 00:52:43

So to find out what made Chelsey say

Chelsey Donn: 00:52:45

Unless I marry someone that's a billionaire, which I'm very open to Patrion.

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Um, and to find out what made Trey say.

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I am an ordained minister.

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I wasn't kidding.

Chelsey Donn: 00:53:45

I mean, how hard is it?

Chelsey Donn: 00:53:46

You just go on the website and sorry...

Trey Gerrald: 00:53:48

HOW DARE YOU!

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And yes, you're right.

Chelsey Donn: 00:53:53

it's like a true, their fault, like true or false, like you

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you didn't even take a beat to be impressed.

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Do you ever take a millisecond to be impressed by that!