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Everybody's got an opinion.
Every Californian and Virginian.
It's so hard to tell whoto trust and who to ignore.
Someone's gotta settle.
The Score.
Trey, and Chelsey will help youchoose who's win, which one.
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Hello.
Well, hello and welcome for the200th time to Review That Review.
We, for the 200th time are thepodcast that is dedicated to reviewing
reviews.
Oh my goodness.
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That's Chelsey Donn, andthat is Trey Gerrald.
But together you can callus the review queens.
Wow.
Here at Review That Review.
We believe in balance thegood, the bad, and the kvetchy.
So it's only fair, right.
Trey, that we take a moment it out.
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Okay.
Release it.
Would you like to Lodge A Complaint?
Why?
Yes, I would.
Okay.
In honor of the 200th episode,Chelsey and I decided to dress nicely.
We haven't done this since Ithink our very first, um, new
Year's episode when we dress Nice.
Um, yes, but in honor of dressing up,I, you know, I feel like dressing up
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is something that has sort of goneaway in culture, which Sure, whatever.
But, um, because I live in closeproximity to Broadway, I love
going to Broadway and people.
Straight up be wearingsweatpants to Broadway.
Now, I understand that thiscan go into two ways now.
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Maybe the arts shouldn't be soexpensive and maybe there is something
to be said about access for all.
That's a different conversation.
I'm not even talking about dress codes.
But we now are at a place wherelike if you're wearing sweatpants
or you're wearing like those blackAdidas like workout pants that
have the two white stripes on theside, no one's gonna blink at you.
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They're gonna let you in.
Like it's fine.
No.
Okay.
That's something completely different.
My complaint today, especially whenit's wintry time and everyone has
coats and scarves and accoutrement,and they drape them over the back.
Of their chair.
Now we all know, we've talked about this.
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Broadway theaters were built hundredsof years ago when the average size
of a human was 60% what it is today.
Alright, so everyone's already crammedand, and smushed your kneecaps or
touching the seat that's in front of you.
It's worse than being in theback of a Honda Civic like.
People then drape their big puffymother down coats over the back, and
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then I have a hood that's literallytickling my nose the entire show.
It's like I don't understand the lack ofawareness that when you drape your coat
over the chair, you are then infringing onmy personal space that I've paid $300 for.
Mm-hmm.
To sit and watch a show.
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And then when you're like.
When you get the gall to say, I'm sorry,um, can you put your coat like under your
seat or can you like do something else?
Can you pay the $2 to coat check it?
Can you just put it in your lap?
Can you do anything other than draping itso that it is literally tickling my face?
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They get mad at you.
I, I, I don't understand.
I understand not wanting to put yourcoat on the ground, but like I don't
put my winter coat in my bed with me.
I know that that is gross and dirty.
So when I go to a show, I ball it up outof consideration and I put it in the seat
under me 'cause I don't want it in my lap.
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Mm-hmm.
And then I don't do delicatethings with my coat.
I don't wear my coat when I'm in my car.
So my complaint is.
The lack of spatial awareness in theaters.
They could be a movie theatertoo, 'cause those seats now are
like lazboy and they're giant.
If you put your coat over thatchair, I can't see the screen.
Like no one has any awareness oftheir neighbors in close proximity.
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That is my complaint.
The next time you were in ENC, closedquarters in a place where you paid
upwards of 150, let's be real, upto $400 to see a Broadway show.
Don't put your coat overthe back of your chair.
It's insane.
You're an insane person.
That's my complaint.
I hear you try.
Wow.
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That's a good complaint.
I think people only understandthis rule on airplanes 'cause
of that seat back table.
Yes.
You know, we
get it.
That area.
My area, my area.
But people do it, it still,
people will still, still doit on airplanes, old ladies.
They will drape theircoat over their chair.
Oh.
I'm like, are you, are you out?
If you're,
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no, you've lost it at that point.
No.
You've lost the plot.
You've lost the plot.
YII have no defense for you.
I have no defense.
It's, it's not defensible.
Anyway, thank you
for letting me fetch that out.
Thank you.
Good
fetch tray.
Very good.
Very relatable.
I feel you on all the counts.
All right.
I think I need a drink.
I feel like a littlebit like, I don't know.
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Re we gotta lighten the mood here.
I think we, we gotta, wegotta pop some bottles.
What do you think?
Well, it's good.
You have real, I mean, I didn't
even open my bottle yet becauseyou know why I tried to do it
subtly off camera.
I have Canada dry.
I'm
Oh, you, oh, you're not doing champagne.
But now I wish I actually had real
champagne.
'cause we have a long day recording today.
I,
yeah, this is, this waspart of the arrangement.
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I need you drunk.
Well, here we go.
I want you all to hearthe beautiful bubbles.
Oh.
Oh no.
I thought I would
pray.
Don't hurt, don't hurt yourself.
Okay, I'm going right for the source.
Okay.
I just put a straw.
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Uh, she clearly didn't practice that.
She's spilling out.
Do you need to pause?
Just clean it or you'll deal with it?
I brought paper towels.
Oh, she's prepared.
Cheers.
Tray.
Beautiful.
Cheers.
200 years.
200 years.
200 episodes.
Feels like 200 years.
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That first year of episodes, I thinkare our episodes Felt like a year long.
That day.
Those hour long
episodes.
Hour and a half.
That's right.
We've come a long way my friend.
Toast.
It's so
amazing to be here with you.
I love you.
Love you toast.
Cheers to as many more episodes as we,we got in us, and we love you, Queens.
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Thank you for being here with us.
Thank you for being apart of this celebration.
Thank you for continuing to listenand watch after 200 episodes.
I, I love you so much.
I'm so grateful for you.
Yes, this has been a wonderful adventure.
If you're listening orwatching, raise a Glass.
Yes.
Here's to those we love,here's to those we hate.
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Here's to sitting around andnever procrast to painting.
Painting.
I don't know.
I was gonna try to be clever.
Yes, Chelsey, I like you andI, yes, have done something
consistently for 200 episodes.
That's right.
200
times.
We've co consistently more than that.
'cause we, we have bonus episodes.
We had a whole separateseries of Christmas e extras.
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We've done an entireseries of the after show.
That's another 179 episodes we've done.
It's insane.
I am acknowledging you for showingup and doing, I'm acknowledging us
for stick, stick with itness nessand, um, and that as you pointed
out also to the audience that's, uh.
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Shared in the journey with us.
We love you all.
Cheers.
We love you so much, Queens.
Cheers to the Royal squad.
Cheers to you.
Thank you.
Love you.
I'm drinking right outta the bottle.
That one was better.
I'm gonna get so drunk.
I'm gonna be wasted.
I, I committed to drinkingthis entire spliff.
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This doesn't taste good.
I think it's like airplane size.
I feel like this is whatthey give you on an airplane.
You also drink Canada dry in an airplane.
I'm not leading the witness.
I'm just saying
is Ginger ale usually caffeine-free?
Is that like a thing?
I don't know this, is that a thing?
I think so.
I bought these when I had strap, uh,and I didn't realize they were I And now
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you're addicted to them mini bottles?
No, I think they're disgusting.
I only had one.
Oh, I'm obsessed
with them.
I love the mini ginger bottles.
It's, I like the mini cans stepaway, but I don't like mini can like
the taste of this.
Maybe I like schlep Schwepps better.
Oh, could
be.
All right.
Should we jump into an onlinereview now that we've Cheers?
Oh my God.
Let's do it.
Okay.
But wait.
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Before we put the cart before the horse?
Yes.
If you are loving the show, I. Do notforget to hit that subscribe button.
It is for free and it helps us.
Don't you wanna help us?
And it keeps all of these200 plus reviews coming.
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Okay?
Thank you, Queens.
Now speaking of.
Let's Review That.
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Review.
Alright.
As your trustee review Queens, webring in reviews for the 200th time
that we feel need to be inspected.
We're gonna read you that review.
We're gonna break it down and thenrate the impact of said review on
a scale from zero to five crowns.
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It's a very regal process that we call
Assess That Kvetch
and Chelsey.
Mm-hmm.
You are a 200th episode.
What have you got?
Okay.
Trey, I knew for thisone, our 200th episode.
I needed to go big.
I needed to do somethingthat was truly iconic.
Okay.
A review.
So legendary, so viral.
That's been, that it has been shared.
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Okay, debated and mentionedfor over a decade.
I almost wanted to give you theopportunity to guess what it is.
Maybe, I don't know.
There's a product that reigns Supremein the Hall of Fame of Amazon reviews.
It's a very simpleproduct, but it's powerful.
It's inspired Epic tales, fakelawsuits, and government level intrigue.
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Any ideas?
Trey, you only spent 200 episodes.
Reading Amazon reviews and we've neverdone this, which is kind of shocking and
has been brought to my attention before.
Any guesses?
Leave a comment if youhave a guess right now.
Actually, you'll probablysee this, but no guesses.
Try.
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Is it the milk?
I know milk went viral.
Lawsuits.
I don't know what.
It's
not milk.
It is the 5 7 1 Banana slicer.
The banana slicer.
The banana slicer really like poppedoff the entire world of like Buzzfeed
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looking at reviews like this banana slice.
I haven't even gone in there, you guys,'cause it's too much of a minefield.
Okay?
It's 11.25 inches.
It's a piece of plastic that's captivatedthe internet somehow for over a decade
with its ability to perfectly cut.
Bananas.
The product has an averagerating of 4.4 stars.
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There are over 71,000 reviews, okay?
Oh, and it's currently listed as $6and 51 cents on Amazon, so I had to
scour hundreds of unhinged reviews.
I landed on this one.
I thought it was interesting.
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Okay, so buckle up Royal Squadbecause today we're diving into
a five star review titled much,much more than it seems by wham,
wham.
By Wham, like the band isn't there?
Band, wham.
Yeah, I
was gonna say that, but Idon't know what they sing.
Yeah, but this is by wham damn
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it all started innocentlyenough in high school.
Oh no.
Some people thought littleBilly Epstein and I were gay.
But we really took home ed class becausethat was where all the chicks were.
We learned a lot in that classabout life, our sexuality,
pubescent females, and food prep.
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Our teacher ed ban appealwas very competitive.
What we sliced.
And we diced into all hours ofthe night practicing and hoping
that we could all get full ridescholarships onto culinary schools.
Ban appeal was certain that would elevatehis program higher than the football
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and basketball programs combined.
He needed to find a competitiveedge and one day founded on Amazon,
the Hustler 5 7 1 Banana Slicer.
It was faster than anything we hadseen before and cleanup was a breeze.
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However, the hustler 5 7 1 is somuch more being adolescent males.
We decided to snook a hustler5 7, 1 out of the school.
To spend more time with it andrealize its full potential.
We found ourselves in the home ec room atthe precise moment when BAP peel's morning
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coffee kicked in and he made a beelineto the bathroom to lighten his load.
Oh my god.
Little Billy grabbed the hustler 5 7 1and jammed it down his pants in a flash.
We tried to make our way to the doorwaywithout anybody noticing us, but.
Little Billy caught theattention of every girl in the
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class, if you know what I mean.
As soon as we hit the hallway,we were off and running.
We knew we would get in trouble forskipping school, but we didn't care.
We had the Hustler 5 7 1, and it was ours.
We made it all the wayto little Billy's house.
We knew we were safe there because hisparents both worked during the day.
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His mom was a a slinky tester and his dadlicked envelopes for publisher's clearing
house sweepstakes and all the excitement.
After we arrived at his house,little Billy pulled the hustler.
5 7 1. Out of his pants and littletoo quickly, he's now a eunuch,
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but our story doesn't
end there.
We buried the LER 5 7 1 in littleBilly's backyard to avoid suspicion to.
However, we had to keep bearing it becauseseveral dogs and a raccoon kept digging
it back up with all the blood on it.
After little Billy had finallyhealed, we decided to see what
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the Hustler 5 7 1 could do.
After all.
We never got the chance beforedue to little Billy's misfortune.
As little Billy waslifting it from the ground.
The dogs were all over it, so Igrabbed it and threw it just like
a boomerang with amazing accuracy.
It went out about a hundred yards.
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And it made a perfect turn andtrajectory right back to my hand.
Oh my God.
I had to move.
It was just there.
Little Billy was awestruck.
He, he tried to do the samething but failed miserably.
Like most paper airplanes he made in hislifetime not wanting him to feel bad.
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I told him that maybe we couldplay catch with it and use it like
a Frisbee instead of a boomerang.
Poor little Billy losttwo fingers that day.
Oh, come on.
He was a good sport about it, butnever picked up another hustler.
5, 7 1. So I finally had thehustler, 5 71, all to myself.
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I took it out and continued usingit like a boomerang, and found my
accuracy improving exponentially.
I started.
Taking out pigeons in mid-flightand progressed to bats a dusk.
I was getting the attention ofeveryone on the neighborhood
and crowds started forming towatch me use my new honed skills.
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The crowds grew and grew even larger.
At first, I was surprised to see theCollege Scouts, but I was more impressed
to learn that the hustler was afterme to found its very own hustler.
5 7 1 Boomerang Leak.
It was when the Secret Service showedup that I started to get scared.
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I was afraid that old.
Fan appeal was finally onto me and hadfigured out I had pinched the hustler.
5 7 1. This wasn't it at all.
They wanted to go skeetshooting with Barack Obama.
Don't tell the potus, but he neverhit a clay pigeon to save his life.
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It was really me and my hustler.
5 7 1 hiding off in the woods.
Wham.
Why did, why did they start this bysaying people thought they were gay?
I knew that we were gonna talk about that.
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It was because they were takinghome ec with ban, with ban
appeal, which sounds a lot.
Banana Peel.
Did you take home?
We, everybody had to take it.
We had to build a pillow.
Which I think Bertha, shout out to Bertha,my housekeeper helped me make that pillow.
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Okay.
Well we did not have totake it in the South.
It was an elective and they changed thename to Consumer Science Careers to try to
get more males to sign up for the class.
Really?
So that what it was like, you know, in theearly two thousands in South Carolina, um.
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Obviously this is, this review was writtenby the way, in 2013, April 7th, 2013.
'cause Obama,
that's a whole nother conversation.
Um, yeah, yeah.
Obviously this is a joke reviewand like this is insane 'cause I
can't imagine anyone being a goodsport about losing two fingers.
(19:30):
Right.
Yeah.
No, I mean
the, the entire, the entirereview section of this product
has just become a pissing war.
Yeah.
For who can have themore ridiculous story.
Well, and I think it's, you
have to think about thisas like fan fiction almost.
Anytime you bring up the Secret Service,you know, it's a fake review, right?
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Because like.
If the secret service comesfor you, it's a secret.
Um, okay.
Right, sure.
But the most ridiculous part of thisreview is when they say that they
put the banana peeler in their pantsand then caught the attention of
every girl, if you know what I mean.
Okay.
Can we stop this weird.
Made up story that women ale men theway that men ale women, like women.
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Don't give a bleep about your bulge.
They don't give a crap about penis size.
Sure.
Everyone like I would
look if there was like avery big bulge happening.
Okay.
Well, all right, so you're a woman,so you, you just dismantled my
thing, but it's like it real, I hear
you.
Like, it's like the, thepolite presumption of it all.
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People like men care about thatstuff, so they assume that women
assign value to a giant bulge.
Right, right.
I don't know.
Wham, I feel like thiswas really lengthy girl.
Yeah.
Um.
This was
not even close to the longest
I believe it.
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Like
I, I knew it was long, but guys,there were some other reviews
that were just like, they, theybeyond exceeded the word count.
I.
I mean, as far as valuable, new, uniqueinformation here, I would've never
considered using it as a boomerang.
I am not sure that aerodynamicallyit would actually function.
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I don't know.
I have never purchasedthis actual product.
I wonder if it is sharp enough toactually like slice off your fingers.
It's, it's definitely, this is likelonger than a novella spelling, grammar.
It's a novel.
It's pretty on point, right?
Yeah, it's fine.
It's good.
Truthful, shady.
I mean, this wholeproduct has become, like
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this whole product has become ajoke, which is why I am like, it's a
landing page.
Like, all right, so this is like,let's just say this is way I'm
coming to an open mic night.
Since it's hard to go through the restof our like points about them because
like do we think that he's funny?
Like are, or they're funny?
Do we think that we're happy that theybrought this story to the narrative?
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I mean, I. Little Billy, youknow, the weird gay comments
licking envelopes for publishers',greenhouse making envelopes.
I mean, that was an interesting detail.
I mean like, like, okay, sure.
You know, that, um, growing up there waslike a local newspaper and they would
do mailers and every now and then mymom would go and get tons of envelope
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envelopes and, and like labels and wewould label them and it was really fun.
Um.
As like a
job.
She did that.
Yeah.
It was like we would do it like together.
Um, yeah, but you wet a sponge.
'cause otherwise if you asponge hundred, you, I mean, I
did fan mail for a little bit.
I know that's You wet a sponge.
That's right.
Um, you
don't want those paper cuts.
None.
Um, I didn't think it was very funny.
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Like I, I feel like it's
a specific, it did much, much
more than it seems.
It's like a specific humor.
Like after his cup of Joe,he had to lighten his load.
You know, it's like broy humor.
It's broy.
Yeah, I agree.
Um, which you and I are not the audience.
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We're not the right
audience for the bro.
But do I think it's a creative take?
Sure.
If I was a creativewriting teacher, great.
You have, you took us on a journey.
Am I putting it on the fridge?
I don't think a grandma is gonna like, I
don't think grandmawants this on the fridge.
I don't think that, I thinkit's a little bit scary.
It's like a horror story.
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We have someone like becoming a eunuch.
What's a
eunuch one ball?
Oh, oh.
I mean,
yeah, there's a lot of that kindof humor happening in this review.
What, um, but this is a good exampleof what's out there and it's sort of
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why, like, I haven't done it beforebecause Trey and I like to really
review reviewers that are like super.
Valuable.
Not valuable.
That sounds wrong, but you know whatI mean, like super, like informative.
Yeah.
And these are definitely morejokes, but I thought it was
interesting to bring one of these in.
But that's my questionis like no harm, no foul.
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Like it's a banana peeler that'sa jokey kind of like product.
Like we can all just cut a, youcan cut a banana by your hands,
like you can just bend it in half.
Um, and it's like $6.
So like is there any like.
Anything wrong with this becominglike a joke landing page?
Like,
I mean, I'm sure that banana Peelslice slicer benefited from the
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fact that they went so viral.
So let's think about that when we go intothe crowning and consider all of that.
I think I'm ready to crown.
Are you.
So Chelsey and I each have our ownset of zero to five crown cards.
And in an effort to be fair and notbanana influenced by one another, we
will simultaneously reveal our ratings.
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The
Queens are Tabulating,
so to school.
Okay, Trey's holding up two crowns.
I'm holding up three crowns.
Trey, you go first.
Why?
Two crowns for wha.
I just found it to be a little meandering.
I said two because like, at leastit was like an original take.
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Um, wham does mention skipping school.
Yeah.
And there was nothing moretitillating than like skipping school.
Oh,
yeah.
Um,
not that I ever did it.
I never did it.
I never, I never did.
The idea
yeah's.
Not as bad.
The
idea of it felt really intimidating.
Oh my God.
One time I skipped classand I waved at my teacher.
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Idiot.
Oh God.
Um, so I said two crowns.
'cause it's like, is thisan earth shaking review?
Not necessarily, but it was clean humor.
It went there, it was broey, whatever.
So no harm to foul.
Two crowns.
Why'd you say three crowns?
I.
I guess I said three becausewe made the effort to like
really create a narrative here.
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Mm-hmm.
And we threw our hat in the ringfor like wanting to be most liked on
this form of reviews, which I don'tthink that I would vote for this
review as like the best review ever.
But also I think it didget eyes on the product.
So like we were saying, noharm, no foul, three crowns.
Nice.
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Yeah, aren't you glad I didn't
say banana?
Oh, I am glad, but I did.
Alright, queen, we'veaired our grievances.
We've inspected a review, so nowlet's shed a light on something
truly deserving of a crown.
We have reached the mostregal portion of our show.
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Who are you inducting for?
My royal line is
All right, well call back to youunintentionally mentioning the sparkles,
but today very simply, I must induct.
These obnoxious rhinestones.
Oh my god.
Water tumblers just so fitting fortoday that we're so shiny, but oh,
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we are so shiny.
So these have taken over on TikTok, likewhere I'm a little late to the theme.
So much so that you canbuy this for $20 at CVS.
But um, these are, butlike these are cheap.
I know, 'cause I understand drag, butthese are like very cheap rhinestones.
But you can buy on Etsy like.
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$700. Oh my God.
Like Stanley hand rhinestone tumblers.
But I saw this at CVS and I was like.
You are like, that'll do.
I'm like, I'm gonna get, and theyonly had the green one, but I was
like, I'm gonna get this just to blindChelsey and all of our viewers because
I think it's so funny and I, wow.
I didn't even actually drink it,but I had a prop, regular water
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glass so that I wouldn't revealmy, uh, Royal Highness too early.
Oh wow.
Try.
But now I'm inducting.
Here we go on our 200thepisode, my brand new.
Rhinestone Water Tumblr.
That's gonna live at my desk and I'm onlygonna use it when I'm recording the show.
So for that reason, obnoxious Rhinestone,water tumblers are My Royal Highness.
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Get into it.
Woo.
Well, after 200 episodes, if there'sanything that's important to us at
Review That Review, it's hydration.
That's very true.
Well, we did it, queen.
The Good, the bad, and the Kvetchy.
It's another round on the,are you a RQ Ferris Wheel of.
Doing something, committing to it,sticking the landing, not giving up,
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pivoting, and doing it with a friend.
That's right.
And slice of bananas along the way.
Thank you for joining us today.
If you like what youheard, please tell a friend
and if you did not like whatyou heard, please tell an enemy.
On this week's after show podChelsey and I are going to be rating
and reviewing a three star Amazon.
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We're sticking to Amazon Reviewfor a portable hand steamer.
Things are gonna get spicy.
Wow.
And I wonder why this was said.
Okay, so bananas technicallycontain radiation you guys, but it's
totally harmless unless you somehoweat 10 million bananas at once.
How do they know this?
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At that point, radiationisn't the problem.
It's everything else that's gonnahappen to your body from eating
that many and paying you bananas.
I wonder that as well.
But please, Queens remember.
Ignore the haters.
You're a queen
gendered on specific Sparkle.
200 Queens.
That's right.
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Love y'all.
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