Review That Review with Chelsey & Trey
Episode 172: "RE-VIEW: Wedding DJ - 1 vs 5 (from Ep 4)"
Transcription
*Please pardon any and all spelling errors!
[00:00:00] TREY GERRALD: Oh, wiki, wiki, wiki, Slim Shady, Babies, it's time to Review, Review That Review, Episode 4, which originally aired on June 30th, 2021. So what's fun about this is that this episode obviously was our very first versus episode, which was a random idea Chelsey just thought of. And this episode has such vibrant characters. On both sides of the scale. It really did lay the template for what we've continued to do for the every fourth episode. So go ahead. Enjoy. Get those dance and shoes on. And why don't you go ahead and leave us a five star rating and review. Do that on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, wherever you get your podcasts, share the show with your friends. We love ya.
[00:00:47] THEME SONG: Everybody's got an opinion.
Every Californian and Virginian.
It's so hard to tell who to trust and who to ignore.
Someone's gotta settle the score.
Trey and Chelsey will help you choose!
Whose views win, which ones lose.
Online haters are comin' for you!
Baby, it's time to Review That Review!
[00:01:17] CHELSEY DONN: Hi! Welcome, everybody, who's listening.
[00:01:20] CHELSEY DONN: Welcome,
[00:01:21] TREY GERRALD: Hi listeners, here we are, episode four, welcome to Review That Review, the podcast dedicated to reviewing.
[00:01:27] CHELSEY DONN: Reviews, we're just like Siskel and Ebert, only instead of reviewing cinematic masterpieces, we rate and review those hilarious, scathing, and sometimes suspicious online reviews.
[00:01:38] TREY GERRALD: That's Chelsey Donn, and that's Trey Gerrald, and when we come together, we form
[00:01:45] CHELSEY DONN: The Review Queens.
[00:01:49] CHELSEY DONN: Ah, these crowns are heavy, you know, but somebody's gotta wear them.
[00:01:53] TREY GERRALD: We don't have to wear them. It's a podcast.
[00:01:56] CHELSEY DONN: I don't want to be logical all the time. All right. How's your week been Trey? How are you doing?
[00:02:01] TREY GERRALD: I'm really good. Oh, I was waiting to make a reveal for you. Please do reveal. So this is an old hat from my favorite coffee shop in Key West called the Cuban Coffee Queen.
[00:02:14] CHELSEY DONN: How cute is that?
[00:02:17] TREY GERRALD: For the listeners, it has a crown on it. I was going for a walk around the neighborhood with Winnie and I, Put the hat on and I was like, Oh my God, it's a crown.
[00:02:25] CHELSEY DONN: Perfect.
[00:02:27] TREY GERRALD: Oh, you got your sticker on.
[00:02:29] CHELSEY DONN: I'm going virtual of my crown today.
[00:02:31] TREY GERRALD: Um, you did that really fast. Okay. Anyway, so you asked me how my week's going.
[00:02:35] TREY GERRALD: My week is going great. Um, it's been a very good week. I, um, have been activated and motivated and things are really good. That, that doesn't mean that I don't have, um, a complaint that I need to lodge. Of course. Lodge a complaint. Chelsey?
[00:02:50] CHELSEY DONN: Yes.
[00:02:51] TREY GERRALD: I really want to lodge a complaint. against parallel parking. Yes, let's hear it.
[00:02:57] TREY GERRALD: I'm not sure if actually the complaint is against the idea of parallel parking, which needs, there's a complaint there, or if it's actually against the instructor that my parents hired to teach me how to drive at age 14 or 15, because that instructor was very crafty and put a little square of white masking tape on the back rear view window, okay?
[00:03:23] TREY GERRALD: And he knew that at the DMV, at this South Carolina location, there was a far off stop sign in the far distance, and he calculated, all you had to do was line that little square of white masking tape up to far off stop sign in the distance, And that was how sharp or steep to turn the wheel to perfectly pull in to the one test parallel parking spot and ace the parallel parking test.
[00:03:56] CHELSEY DONN: He helped you cheat on the parallel parking portion.
[00:03:58] TREY GERRALD: Yes.
[00:03:59] CHELSEY DONN: Cheaters never win.
[00:04:00] TREY GERRALD: Cheaters never win. Anytime I have to parallel park, I'm reminded of this instance, but I will also share that I'm actually a good parallel parker, but I get incredibly serious, very stressed out. It becomes like a math equation to me because I don't have that sticker.
[00:04:18] TREY GERRALD: Anyway, so I'm lodging a complaint against that instructor who taught a 14 year old me that cheating is a successful option to take in life. Also, I just do want to logic complain against the idea of parallel parking. Whose idea was that? Who, who had like a 19 whatever Ford where you had to wind the thing in the front, like on I Love Lucy, and was like, you know what, I think that we should start parking these in a parallel fashion.
[00:04:42] CHELSEY DONN: Yeah, I'd be interested in looking up the history of parallel parking. I mean, I feel like it's space efficient. I think that that's probably,
[00:04:50] TREY GERRALD: Yes,
[00:04:51] CHELSEY DONN: how it came to be, but I hear you. I'm a pretty good parallel parker. I was taught by my dad's office manager's ex husband who used to fix greyhound buses. And so he had to parallel park a greyhound bus.
[00:05:07] TREY GERRALD: What?
[00:05:07] CHELSEY DONN: When you,
[00:05:08] TREY GERRALD: I've never considered.
[00:05:10] CHELSEY DONN: Yeah. When you learn how to parallel park from someone who parks like greyhound buses professionally, you have a good trainer. He also used his body instead of a cone. Like, he stood as if he were the car, which was, has said something about him having a death wish, but you know what, it worked, and I don't personally get anxious,
[00:05:31] TREY GERRALD: I get anxious because those spots are usually like on a heavy traffic street, or in Manhattan, it's like a one way And so everyone's, yeah, they're honking, you're in their way, everyone's busy, you're taking time to not knock your side view mirror off,
[00:05:47] CHELSEY DONN: Oh, God forbid you'd knock your side view mirror off,
[00:05:51] TREY GERRALD: Anyway, okay, so that's my complaint, Let's all have a little more compassion for people trying to successfully parallel, parallel park,
[00:05:58] CHELSEY DONN: I agree,
[00:05:58] TREY GERRALD: Chelsey, how are you?
[00:06:00] TREY GERRALD: How's your week?
[00:06:02] CHELSEY DONN: My week is good. I still like have a bit of an issue with Murphy and apparently like retrograde and all that. My air conditioning is still not working. It's like a huge heat wave here right now. Thank God for fans. I got a fan. So life has been better. If you hear the fan in the background, I apologize.
[00:06:20] CHELSEY DONN: It's not going off. Disclaimer,
[00:06:22] TREY GERRALD: fair.
[00:06:23] CHELSEY DONN: I'm going to lodge a complaint today against paper receipts. Legi complaint, It needs, It's done. We need to be done with paper receipts. I don't know anyone who's successfully saved a paper receipts. You know, I do my taxes, but like, I can't be responsible for holding on to all these paper receipts.
[00:06:46] CHELSEY DONN: I mean, I've, I've done taxes for clients before who keep all of their, their receipts. In like boxes and then by the time I look at it to help them file, the ink is smudged off. Mm-Hmm. deteriorated to near nothing. The fact that we are wasting trees for this purpose of paper receipts and the biggest offender.
[00:07:10] CHELSEY DONN: Not reinventing the wheel by saying this is obviously CVS.
[00:07:14] TREY GERRALD: CVS. Yeah.
[00:07:15] CHELSEY DONN: I mean, I was there this morning. It's absolutely ridiculous. Like you go and I went by title and all my receipt could line the parking lot. Like it was just out of control. How big this receipt is. They're giving me coupons that they know I'm not going to use.
[00:07:31] CHELSEY DONN: It's wasteful. I'm over it. We need a new way. It's 2021. It's 2021. Enough.
[00:07:37] TREY GERRALD: Those, um, receipt, coupon receipts, they are even thicker. Have you ever noticed that the paper's a little bit thicker?
[00:07:43] CHELSEY DONN: More trees.
[00:07:44] TREY GERRALD: Even more wasteful.
[00:07:45] CHELSEY DONN: More wasteful.
[00:07:46] TREY GERRALD: I just saw a meme actually this week, hilariously, of, you know, those, like, um, I think of them as being in, like, beach condos, you know, those, like, vinyl window shades?
[00:07:56] TREY GERRALD: Yes. The meme is like, one of them is a CVS receipt. Like, fixed my broken blinds. Like, it's so funny to me.
[00:08:05] CHELSEY DONN: I know. I just think we got to do something about this. Let's create a mandate. I'm watching a complaint.
[00:08:11] TREY GERRALD: Good job. That's a really good, really good complaint.
[00:08:14] CHELSEY DONN: Thank
[00:08:14] TREY GERRALD: you. I think that we can move forward now.
[00:08:17] TREY GERRALD: With our heads lifted high.
[00:08:19] CHELSEY DONN: I agree.
[00:08:20] TREY GERRALD: And our chest cavities a little higher and lighter.
[00:08:23] CHELSEY DONN: I'm just so glad I got to get that off my chest and say that. And now I would love to hear what some other people have to say. What about you?
[00:08:32] TREY GERRALD: Me too. I think that we should do that.
[00:08:34] CHELSEY DONN: Alright, as you know, we are your trusty Review Queens.
[00:08:37] CHELSEY DONN: We each bring in a review from the internet that we feel needs to be inspected. We review the review, we break it down, and then we rate the impact of the review on a scale from one to five crowns. It's a very regal process that we call Assess That Kvatch!
[00:08:55] TREY GERRALD: But Chelsey, for those people who don't speak Yiddish, what does that word mean?
[00:08:58] CHELSEY DONN: Kvatch, it means complain, like, oh, stop kvatching, you're complaining so much. I give out. Exactly. It rolls right off the tongue, really. All right, Trey. Guess what? We don't have to ask who goes first today, because we have a special edition episode today! Wow, episode four!
[00:09:21] TREY GERRALD: That's right! Every now and then, Chelsey and I will bring in a one star review, as well as a five star review, on the same subject.
[00:09:32] TREY GERRALD: And then the final say goes to us. The Review Queens.
[00:09:36] CHELSEY DONN: And that's exactly what we have in store for you today. When we have these special edition episodes, we will flip a coin to determine who gets the Queenly Five Star Review.
[00:09:49] TREY GERRALD: We're just so sporty that way. Okay, Chelsey, I have a handy dandy quarter.
[00:09:54] CHELSEY DONN: Okay.
[00:09:55] TREY GERRALD: I'll flip it and then you call it in the air. Yes. Okay. Ready? I'm ready. Yes. Heads. It's heads. Okay, so that means you get to read the five star review.
[00:10:10] CHELSEY DONN: Yes, and that means that you are going to be going first, right? Because you're going to be reading the one star review.
[00:10:15] TREY GERRALD: Exactly. This week, we're both doing, uh, reviews from the very, very expansive website, theknot.
[00:10:25] TREY GERRALD: com. Huge. And we're going to each read a one star and a five star review of a wedding DJ, And the company is called Spinfo and Mr. Matrioni. Just for reference, Spinfo is spelled S P Y N F O. I looked him up, he's very attractive, but that's neither here nor there. Okay, um, alright. I'll try not to
[00:10:50] CHELSEY DONN: incorporate that into my bias.
[00:10:52] TREY GERRALD: Yes, please take attractiveness away. Yes,
[00:10:54] CHELSEY DONN: I will.
[00:10:55] TREY GERRALD: Okay, I'm gonna start with the One Star Review.
[00:10:58] CHELSEY DONN: Let's hear it. Review That Review.
[00:11:04] TREY GERRALD: This review is by Celeste W. One Star. I reached out to DJ Spinfo and decided to caps NOT to Utilize his services. Since it became apparent his schedule was too busy. Once I declined his services, he reduced himself to calling me quote unquote ignorant.
[00:11:26] TREY GERRALD: Now what mature man argues with a woman over declining services? I never once attacked him first, I never gave him a reason to call me ignorant, Then he continued and called me a clown. Clearly, he has reached a point where he believes he can be rude and disrespectful. All caps, SHAME on you for your foul language.
[00:11:51] TREY GERRALD: I think he should invest in a class for people skills. The direction he decided to take was very unprofessional. I saved Caps ALL the corresponding Caps emails as proof. I reported him to Caps NOT KNOT, this website, and forwarded the emails. Then, when the name calling wasn't enough for him, he predicted I would not have a great wedding because he wasn't the DJ.
[00:12:18] TREY GERRALD: The only person you need to make your wedding great is your spouse. Furthermore, NYC has plenty of talented, skilled DJs, and with the assistance of a computer, You can get music anywhere.
[00:12:37] CHELSEY DONN: Wow, Celeste W. sounds like she was traumatized a little bit. She was fed up. I was getting a little bit of Karen vibes, I'm not gonna lie. However, what I was intrigued by was we're declaring that we have evidence. We have emails and we forwarded these emails. So if that's true, according to the language, you know, that, that she was called ignorant, that she was called a clown, there would be evidence of that.
[00:13:06] CHELSEY DONN: So I would want to call her into question and say, maybe she's being a little bit hyperbolic, but if she has evidence, she has evidence. And I think that that is pretty unacceptable.
[00:13:17] TREY GERRALD: Yeah. And I'm not sure if you can upload. images to reviews on the knot. I don't know if you can or not, but there is no photographic evidence.
[00:13:26] TREY GERRALD: I think if that had been attached, then case shut. Do you think this is a valuable review? Do you think this information is pertinent?
[00:13:34] CHELSEY DONN: I think so. I mean, you know me, I like vibes. I need good vibes. I need good energy. So like the fact that he was like, I'm going to predict that you have a bad wedding.
[00:13:45] CHELSEY DONN: That's a no no with me. I would not want to go with anybody that had even the smallest percentage chance that they could bring some bad juju, some bad energy to my day. So if I were to read this review, yeah, I think there'd be a very large part of me that would be like off the list.
[00:14:06] TREY GERRALD: It is a real, um, that's a real dig.
[00:14:08] TREY GERRALD: You know, I do think it's interesting to note that Celeste didn't receive services from this vendor. True. They inquired and then left a review because in Celeste's experience, allegedly, it was that poor. They didn't even hire them and then decided to even leave a review. To alert other brides and grooms, et cetera.
[00:14:30] CHELSEY DONN: In some cases, like I'll knock off a couple crowns for that because yeah, we're not really talking about the actual experience. However, in the wedding industry specifically, let's say I'm going to the knot. It's a service. Industry, and it is a competitive industry. Mm-Hmm. . I wanna know, I'm getting into bed with this person for several months leading up to the wedding.
[00:14:53] CHELSEY DONN: What is that interaction gonna be with? And if I'm gonna sense that this is gonna be trouble, that I'm gonna get pushback, that I'm gonna possibly turn this person off and they're gonna turn on me, that's something that I would wanna know. So I, I am curious about the. Pre wedding process and I think a lot of people going to the knot would be equally curious.
[00:15:15] TREY GERRALD: I was gonna say that as well like when you were planning a wedding it is
[00:15:18] CHELSEY DONN: yeah
[00:15:19] TREY GERRALD: outrageously all involving and stressful to me I think on a wedding Websites specifically like The Knot, I think someone leaving a review, even if they haven't used the services is actually very telling because there's so much planning and planning
[00:15:36] CHELSEY DONN: is the thing, you know, like it is all, it's a year of planning for a day that is Is over like that,
[00:15:46] TREY GERRALD: that you'll remember the rest of your life,
[00:15:47] CHELSEY DONN: and please have a wonderful wedding.
[00:15:49] TREY GERRALD: There are a couple of, um, spelling and spelling issues here. Okay. One, one right off the bat is my largest pet peeve with misspelling, is when the word to, is spelled incorrectly. Yeah. When it became apparent his schedule was too busy, the less spelled it T O. And that really is a pet peeve of mine. There was another one I thought of when I was reading and oh, there she's missing Celeste is missing a space here between spouse and furthermore, you can read.
[00:16:18] TREY GERRALD: Oh, there's a bunch of capitalizations that are missing. Oh, there's a bunch of capitalizations that are missing. You can, you can read and get the point, but I don't think that Celeste did a spell check pass on this.
[00:16:28] CHELSEY DONN: This is likely a first draft from Celeste. Along those lines, in the negative column for me with Celeste, the fact that she was like, anybody can play music from the internet, right?
[00:16:40] CHELSEY DONN: No, that's not true. There are professional DJs. They're professional for a reason. They keep the energy going and it is nowhere near the same as having a professional DJ who's like really able to just take in the energy of the crowd and work with people. And I think that was a bit of an
[00:17:00] TREY GERRALD: I'm very excited for this episode because I'm ready for the five star and because I did a lot of research on spinfo and spinfo is actually an emcee and a dj so that's exactly what you're saying there yeah we're focusing on the negative one star review right now but um if you were just wanting to push play on your ipod pod.
[00:17:23] TREY GERRALD: Do they make iPods anymore? Um,
[00:17:26] CHELSEY DONN: maybe,
[00:17:26] TREY GERRALD: then, then you're not looking for the services of DJ Spinfo because they are emceeing the entire 12 hour event. It was a dig back perhaps that saying, I imagine you're gonna have a bad wedding because you didn't hire me.
[00:17:39] CHELSEY DONN: Yeah, and then the Karen vibes came a little bit because she was like, I forwarded the emails to the not, which again, not trying to discount anyone, especially as we know.
[00:17:49] CHELSEY DONN: I mean, there are a lot of emotions surrounding planning this. So I'm not going to negate Celeste's emotion here and her passion and just write her off as a Karen because it's a big day. And I think she probably was Throne. If in fact she was called, you know, a clown. That's so
[00:18:11] TREY GERRALD: funny to call someone a clown.
[00:18:13] CHELSEY DONN: It does seem like a, like an insult from a DJ for some reason.
[00:18:18] TREY GERRALD: Do you think? Yes, I agree. Do you think that? Uh, Celeste is being like truthful or shady?
[00:18:25] CHELSEY DONN: I think she's being truthful, especially like I started to say with the fact that she's bringing up evidence. I mean, I guess she could be lying, but I don't know why she would, unless she's like a competitor that's completely gone rogue and she's undercover.
[00:18:40] CHELSEY DONN: I think to say like, I have email, like this person said this, I have emails, I've forwarded along to the not, I think she is being honest. About her experience. I don't know that this is a typical experience, though.
[00:18:51] TREY GERRALD: I'm trying to decipher what exactly happened. Because Celeste is saying they reached out and then decided not to pursue it when they realized They were busy.
[00:19:02] TREY GERRALD: And then it turned into name calling. Yes. I imagine that if DJ Spinfo was not available, then there's no reason to like, A, call you a clown, but also to like, diss the fact that your wedding is gonna be bad because I'm not available. Like, I don't understand where, I don't know how we got to that point, if it did in fact occur.
[00:19:21] CHELSEY DONN: Yeah, I'm glad that you brought that up because I, I meant to ask that and then I forgot. So it felt like we very quickly got from like, I reached out to him to like, all of a sudden I'm being called a clown. Maybe I missed something in there. But like, so, so she reached out and he said he was not available.
[00:19:41] TREY GERRALD: Celeste sort of says both things here.
[00:19:43] CHELSEY DONN: Okay.
[00:19:44] TREY GERRALD: Well, the first sentence is, I decided not to utilize the service since it became apparent his schedule was too busy. So that's not, not available, just too busy. Okay. Once I declined his services, he reduced me himself to calling me ignorant. Okay. So that's different.
[00:20:01] TREY GERRALD: So it's not that they weren't available. They are very busy. Got it. And that alarmed Celeste. Celeste decided not to hire.
[00:20:11] CHELSEY DONN: So they were very busy. So they didn't like respond right away.
[00:20:15] TREY GERRALD: Maybe. I don't know. Maybe, maybe that is Celeste. How we led down this train.
[00:20:20] CHELSEY DONN: That's interesting. Is it that Celeste was like, we want, like we're really interested in you.
[00:20:25] CHELSEY DONN: Like we are ready to like pull the trigger. These are the dates that we want. And they were all in for spin info. And then spin info just didn't respond right away. So they found somebody else. I
[00:20:38] TREY GERRALD: don't know, if there's no contract, like, who cares? Yeah,
[00:20:41] CHELSEY DONN: you're right. It shouldn't really be a factor. Okay. I
[00:20:44] TREY GERRALD: mean, okay, humor, entertaining.
[00:20:47] TREY GERRALD: I mean, the clown made me laugh.
[00:20:50] CHELSEY DONN: I wasn't like, I wasn't bored to death, but I wouldn't say that I was like thrilled. If we were in previews for this show, I would think this isn't gonna make it.
[00:21:01] TREY GERRALD: They need a joke writer.
[00:21:02] CHELSEY DONN: Yeah, they need it. They need it punched up.
[00:21:04] TREY GERRALD: Script doctor. So do we care? If you were Celeste's grandma, would you hang this on the fridge?
[00:21:10] TREY GERRALD: No. No. Is it? What's the impact? Do you think this is a deal breaker?
[00:21:14] CHELSEY DONN: I do think it's a deal breaker, which I think makes it impactful. Like I said, it's really the energy, the vibes thing that's super important to me. I'm very gun shy about that stuff. So if I heard that there was somebody in what I consider to be very much a service industry, That was saying that I was disrespectful, saying that I was a clown.
[00:21:32] CHELSEY DONN: It's like, take the higher road. If she's not interested in you, thank you, next.
[00:21:37] TREY GERRALD: That's really interesting because I don't find it to be a deal breaker. To me, I think there's some miscommunication here. They didn't even get the services. So to me, I would be like, Okay, I'm going to, if I'm really into this DJ, then I will allow myself to expect that they might take a little time to get back to me.
[00:21:58] CHELSEY DONN: We just don't know the context, I guess, exactly. I think that that's maybe where Celeste failed us a little bit. I wonder if, if we've omitted some of the information to make ourselves Look better and look more victimized in this situation.
[00:22:13] TREY GERRALD: That comes up for me too, because there is a lot of she doth protest too much going on.
[00:22:17] TREY GERRALD: Like I never once attacked him first. I don't know. I hear you. It feels a little, I don't know.
[00:22:24] CHELSEY DONN: I do think there might be a factor here where Celeste is burying a bit of the lead.
[00:22:30] TREY GERRALD: Possibly.
[00:22:31] CHELSEY DONN: Okay, I feel like I have enough information.
[00:22:34] TREY GERRALD: All right, Chelsey and I each have our own set of one to five crown cards.
[00:22:38] TREY GERRALD: In an effort to be fair and not influenced by each other's decisions, we will simultaneously reveal our rating.
[00:22:46] CHELSEY DONN: The queens are tabulating. All right, Trey, are you ready?
[00:22:50] TREY GERRALD: Um, yeah, I'm ready. Okay, I'm ready too.
[00:22:53] VOICEOVER: Total
[00:22:58] CHELSEY DONN: score? Oh. Interesting, Trey is holding up two crowns.
[00:23:03] TREY GERRALD: And Chelsey's holding up three crowns.
[00:23:05] CHELSEY DONN: I gave Celeste three crowns.
[00:23:08] CHELSEY DONN: I took away some points for the grammar, for the bias, for the potential bias, I shall say. I also, I gave her points because personally, energy and vibe is super important to me. So I do think this would impact. My, I'm just super sensitive, especially with events like this, I want to make sure that the person is perfect.
[00:23:29] CHELSEY DONN: So I'm not going to lie. If I read a review like this, I might be like, oof, that's, that's a bit of a turnoff. I don't want to move forward. I would need a personal reference for Spinfo to supersede this review. So because she's influenced me personally to that degree, I felt like I had to give her at least three crowns.
[00:23:44] CHELSEY DONN: Why did you do two?
[00:23:46] TREY GERRALD: I just did two because it feels a little, um, individual to me.
[00:23:50] VOICEOVER: Okay.
[00:23:50] TREY GERRALD: I feel like even with the vibe conversation, perhaps Spinfo was very busy that week and it was a fluke. I don't know why I feel that way. I think because it's his profile was littered with five star reviews. And so this does sort of look like an anomaly, which is a little bit of bias outside of what Celeste has written.
[00:24:09] TREY GERRALD: I just said two because it wasn't entertaining really. And, uh, there were some spelling and grammar errors and it felt a little doth protest too much. And, um, it wouldn't stop me from reaching out.
[00:24:21] CHELSEY DONN: I think that that's a good point. I didn't know that it was littered amongst five star reviews. That being said, because we are doing a one in five, I'm super curious to hear what the next review has to say, because maybe I'm going to want to make a, make a change here to my review of Celeste, but in this very moment, I'm, I'm sticking with three.
[00:24:41] TREY GERRALD: Yeah,
[00:24:42] CHELSEY DONN: but I think maybe before we just, there's a reply, there's a reply,
[00:24:48] TREY GERRALD: all right, so first time, first time, Chelsey, okay, I buried the lead here and there's actually a reply from the vendor that you, are gonna read it's in your google drive
[00:25:03] CHELSEY DONN: oh my god hold on let me get that
[00:25:05] TREY GERRALD: so now here we are we have a reply from the vendor so dj spinfo replied to celeste's one star review and chelsea's gonna cold read it
[00:25:14] CHELSEY DONN: oh my goodness wow okay this this really does change the game a little bit all right i'm gonna try to do spinfo some justice here all right you This is completely inaccurate.
[00:25:25] CHELSEY DONN: My reviews and years of work speak for itself. For someone to take this much time out of their day to harass me on my profile is disturbing. People that respond to potential vendors like this have no business inquiring prices and scheduling meetings. The that I called didn't work and this is her response from Celeste W.
[00:25:51] CHELSEY DONN: Did you read the email at 1110 where I provided you with my number to call me? Why are you giving me your number to call you? I see you're too busy for me and my special event. Never mind, I will go back on knots and get another DJ. This is too much back and forth for me, and I have to do as it is. Thank you, but no thanks.
[00:26:18] CHELSEY DONN: We will look elsewhere. I asked you to stop emailing after I realized you weren't serious and you began to send messages about God punishing me and how you plan on getting at me like the Hulk. I wish you the best. For those interested in booking DJ Spinfo, aka Mr. Matrimony, please refer to www. djspinfo.
[00:26:43] CHELSEY DONN: net. Oh my God, I have a whole new opinion of Celeste.
[00:26:51] TREY GERRALD: Isn't that crazy?
[00:26:53] CHELSEY DONN: I gotta say for the listeners who are not seeing what I'm seeing, Trey mentioned, again, not that this is the majority of what we're grading things on, but Trey mentioned there were a few spelling errors in Celeste W's comment, and there were a plethora of spelling errors in Celeste email.
[00:27:11] CHELSEY DONN: Mm-Hmm. . And if she in fact, did say the whole thing about God punishing him. Wow. I just, this is why it's important that we have a reply.
[00:27:22] TREY GERRALD: It's really savage of, um, DJ Spinfo to literally copy paste the email with all of the errors
[00:27:30] CHELSEY DONN: involved. It's amazing though, because DJ Spinfo's, you know, grammar is actually pretty solid.
[00:27:38] CHELSEY DONN: So you can definitely tell that he's, You know, he's doing it to be a little shady, but like this is his business. And if that's true, and like we were saying before, it did seem like Celeste was omitting a little bit of the story. So if this in fact is the rest of the story and she was harassing him via email after like giving him the wrong phone number, which based on the spelling errors, I believe is totally possible that Celeste W gave him the wrong number.
[00:28:08] CHELSEY DONN: I really gave Celeste W too much credit.
[00:28:11] TREY GERRALD: So you really feel completely swayed by this reply.
[00:28:15] CHELSEY DONN: I felt pretty swayed. I don't know, but like there wouldn't be drama because I wouldn't come at somebody like that. So I don't like the fact, I still don't like the fact that he was like, your wedding is going to be horrible.
[00:28:25] CHELSEY DONN: If in fact he did say that, he didn't negate it. He didn't say, I didn't say that. He didn't say, I didn't call her a clown. He didn't redact. Any of the things that she accused him of saying and I still think it's wrong and I don't, I, I wouldn't want a DJ who is going to clap back like that, but we're clearly seeing now that DJ Spinfo was provoked.
[00:28:49] TREY GERRALD: Yeah, I also, I think that what shifts everything for me are the first four words of the reply. This is completely inaccurate.
[00:28:58] CHELSEY DONN: Yeah.
[00:28:59] TREY GERRALD: For, I don't know why. Just saying these facts are inaccurate is kind of like a trump card in a way of like, okay, emotion. It's not like literally the vocabulary word inaccurate just sounds a very intelligent leveling of the emotion.
[00:29:19] TREY GERRALD: It's not like you're whack. Right. What is wrong? Like he mentions that later.
[00:29:23] CHELSEY DONN: Yeah.
[00:29:25] TREY GERRALD: Look, the profession of being a DJ MC is charisma oozing out of every pore of you, being a leader and taking charge. I feel taken care of. And his reply, for some reason, like I feel like there was something weird going on.
[00:29:40] TREY GERRALD: Yeah. He acknowledges the inaccuracies, doesn't really cop up to any of the necessary accusations, but points out their point of view of the situation, and then ends with. If you're interested in booking, here's the info, which is just like, I appreciate that. It's personality. It's not just a canned. So sorry for your experience.
[00:30:03] TREY GERRALD: Please email
[00:30:04] CHELSEY DONN: me. Yeah,
[00:30:05] TREY GERRALD: right. It literally is like, why are you putting so much energy into this?
[00:30:09] CHELSEY DONN: I feel even more intrigued to read that five star review now. I feel like maybe I did DJ Spinfo a little bit wrong, but I'm not like a hundred percent feeling him because I still don't like the clown thing.
[00:30:21] CHELSEY DONN: However, I wonder if If clown was said first or the Hulk was said first, cause that to me is hilarious as well. The fact that, that she said that God was going to punish him and that she planned on getting him like the Hulk, and that's in quotes.
[00:30:39] TREY GERRALD: That's scary to me.
[00:30:41] CHELSEY DONN: Who says that?
[00:30:42] TREY GERRALD: If someone threatens me with that, I would, I would be scared.
[00:30:44] CHELSEY DONN: Yeah, I would be disturbed as he says. All right, DJ Spinfo, you might have gotten me back with your reply. More to come after I hear the five star review, but presently, I'm going to do it officially. I'm knocking Celeste down to two crowns for sure. Wow. With the possibility of even giving one crown, depending on what I hear in this five star review.
[00:31:09] TREY GERRALD: I hear you. All right, so why don't we take a quick little break?
[00:31:13] CHELSEY DONN: Yeah, I need a break after that.
[00:31:14] TREY GERRALD: We'll come back and we'll hear a five star side. Can't wait. All right. We'll take a break. We'll be right back.
[00:31:24] CHELSEY DONN: Hold your crown.
[00:31:25] TREY GERRALD: We'll be right back.
[00:31:35] TREY GERRALD: Oh, wow. Hey, Queens. Look, we know that it can get super annoying to constantly be asked to rate and review. Look, aside from the fact that our podcast is literally all about reviews, the reason we are asking is because it's important for us to know what you, the listener, are thinking of the show so far.
[00:31:52] TREY GERRALD: All right. What do you love? What do you want less of? We have made it easier to rate and review us with a super cute hyperlink, Hanni, lovethepodcast. com, slash, The Review Queens. It's also just one little click away in the show description below. We honestly really do appreciate it.
[00:32:10] VOICEOVER: Now back to the show!
[00:32:24] TREY GERRALD: Yay! All right, we're back from the break and now it's time, Chelse, Yes. For you to strap in on that pony as we jump on the Meryl Go Round.
[00:32:36] CHELSEY DONN: I don't feel like an icon. Most of the days I feel like I can't. That's with an A. Wow. I am secure on this pony. Um, thank you for making sure that I had my seatbelt on.
[00:32:53] CHELSEY DONN: You're always looking out for me. What animal am I on? I think you're, let's say, I think maybe you're on like, like a horse, but like with wings. What is that called? Pegasus?
[00:33:05] TREY GERRALD: A horse with wings. I want to think of things like that and other things. Wait, this is controversial, but sometimes as a kid, when I would get on a carousel, I would sit on like the stupid little bench that didn't move at all.
[00:33:17] CHELSEY DONN: I get it. I do that now as an adult.
[00:33:21] TREY GERRALD: You get on car you get on carousels? Sometimes I
[00:33:23] CHELSEY DONN: have to get on carousels with like my niece and nephews and you know, they're too little to that's what the bench is really for. They're too little to be on the horse.
[00:33:32] TREY GERRALD: Yeah.
[00:33:33] CHELSEY DONN: So then you have to sit with them on the bench and like watch everybody else having fun going up and down on their little horsey ride.
[00:33:40] TREY GERRALD: Well, I feel very secure on my Pegasus today. Yeah. Alright, so here we go.
[00:33:45] CHELSEY DONN: Alright, here's the deal, Trey and I are each gonna pick, or we already picked, a rotten, scathing, pithy, one star zinger with 30 seconds on the clock, we will take turns trying to recite the zinger in as many genres as possible,
[00:34:01] TREY GERRALD: just like Queen Meryl who does it all,
[00:34:03] CHELSEY DONN: before the clock runs out.
[00:34:05] TREY GERRALD: Okay, so you'll go first, or should I go first because you did the reply? Alright, It's up to
[00:34:09] CHELSEY DONN: you.
[00:34:09] TREY GERRALD: Let me go first because I feel like you're so good at this game.
[00:34:12] CHELSEY DONN: Okay. Trey is going to go first. Take it away, Trey.
[00:34:17] TREY GERRALD: All right. Today I have a One Star Zinger from Amazon. com. This is for the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird.
[00:34:27] TREY GERRALD: The subject is liked the movie better. And the review is, Wasn't that excited. Liked the movie better.
[00:34:35] CHELSEY DONN: Okay. All right. Trey, are you ready?
[00:34:41] TREY GERRALD: I am. I'm ready. Yes.
[00:34:44] CHELSEY DONN: Okay. Take it away.
[00:34:45] VOICEOVER: 3, 2, 1,
[00:34:47] CHELSEY DONN: Go!
[00:34:48] VOICEOVER: Lifetime.
[00:34:50] TREY GERRALD: Wasn't that excited. I liked the movie Better.
[00:34:54] VOICEOVER: Televangelist wasn't that excited. Boy liked the movie better. Jesus saw musical theater.
[00:35:03] TREY GERRALD: Wasn't that excited? Oh, like the movie? Better Horror. Oh, I wasn't that excited. Oh, I like the movie better. Oh.
[00:35:15] VOICEOVER: Mime! Mime! Mime! Go!
[00:35:20] CHELSEY DONN: Okay, I will give you credit for mime. First of all, Trey, I don't know why you're always so hard on yourself with this game. You're excellent at this game. You did very well. You got 1,
[00:35:30] VOICEOVER: 2, 3, 4,
[00:35:32] CHELSEY DONN: you got 5 in, and that was a pretty lengthy One Star Zinger.
[00:35:37] CHELSEY DONN: So, I'm proud of you.
[00:35:39] TREY GERRALD: Thank you. I really wanted to, like, honor trying to act it. And I wasn't going speedy, which I fall into the trap of a lot. So I'm proud of myself. I got five. Okay, so now, Chelsea, it's your turn.
[00:35:51] CHELSEY DONN: Okay, this is a ZocDoc review of a primary care physician. Worst spirits I ever had coming into the doc doctor's office.
[00:36:04] CHELSEY DONN: So I think, and it just says verified patient Tim D. So I think what Tim D meant to say is that it was the worst experience he ever had coming into a doctor's office, but in honor of honoring Tim D, I will be reading, Worst spirits I ever had coming into the doc doctor's office. office.
[00:36:25] TREY GERRALD: Good luck.
[00:36:26] CHELSEY DONN: Thank you.
[00:36:27] CHELSEY DONN: This is, this is going to be a tough one, but all right, let's do it.
[00:36:33] VOICEOVER: Three, two,
[00:36:34] TREY GERRALD: one. Film Noir.
[00:36:36] CHELSEY DONN: Worst spirits I ever had coming into the dark doctor's office.
[00:36:42] TREY GERRALD: Opera Diva
[00:36:46] VOICEOVER: coming into the doc doctor's office
[00:36:49] TREY GERRALD: Yankee,
[00:36:51] CHELSEY DONN: where worst I ever had coming into the doc doctor's office Southern, oh this is home Me. How did do Southern and Yankee
[00:37:01] VOICEOVER: worst Pierce I ever had my worst spirit.
[00:37:04] VOICEOVER: Can't do Southern on Frankie. That's not fair.
[00:37:09] TREY GERRALD: One, two, three, four. You got four. That's good. That was a long one, too.
[00:37:14] CHELSEY DONN: I can't, you cannot do a Southern accent after you do a New York accent right away, or maybe you can.
[00:37:19] TREY GERRALD: I feel like my televangelist was a little bit Southern, so, which they're kind of are, but I said boy.
[00:37:25] TREY GERRALD: I don't, I don't know that a preacher would say boy, but I did. So we, it's okay. Trey,
[00:37:28] CHELSEY DONN: accept your win.
[00:37:30] TREY GERRALD: Thank you. I'm Curt Seeing.
[00:37:33] CHELSEY DONN: You earned it. You did excellent. I can't, I always can do a southern accent. We're sparing Sabra Hag coming into the doc doctor's office. I just want to confirm that I can do it.
[00:37:43] TREY GERRALD: It's the pressure. It's the time. I'm sorry Meryl. It's okay. We are measured. By our greatness, not by one moment in time.
[00:37:53] CHELSEY DONN: You're right. And most days I do feel like an icon and I'm working on that.
[00:37:57] TREY GERRALD: Same.
[00:38:00] CHELSEY DONN: Review That Review.
[00:38:03] TREY GERRALD: All right, so now we're back from that really fun game break and uh, it's time for the flip side of the coin.
[00:38:10] CHELSEY DONN: This five star review of DJ Spinfo was written by Laquan L. Before my wife and I arrived to the reception, we can hear the party was already jumping and getting jealous, so we couldn't wait to get out there. My guests were like, we were literally on the dance floor as soon as we arrived at the reception.
[00:38:34] CHELSEY DONN: The music was just that good. Our crowd was diverse. I mean we had everyone from the West Indies to Africa to Europe to Asia at our wedding and everyone enjoyed the night DJ Spinfo gave us. We got so many, that was the best wedding I've ever been to comments and are still getting them two months after.
[00:38:56] CHELSEY DONN: DJ Spinfo kept the crowd engaged, played everything from the good to the hood, and somehow had my Japanese mother in her kimono swag surfing and dancing. Palancing. He has an amazing ability to read the crowd and knew exactly what to do. Keep the party going from the beginning to the end. Man, he was even in the crowd dancing at some point.
[00:39:27] CHELSEY DONN: Thanks for the amazing memories. He's a dope DJ and MC. Book him. Don't think twice. You, your family, and your friends. And friends will have an amazing time to remember.
[00:39:44] CHELSEY DONN: Okay, Luquan, I'm hearing this.
[00:39:47] TREY GERRALD: I want to just point out that this review was posted March 13th, 2020.
[00:39:51] CHELSEY DONN: Oh. So
[00:39:52] TREY GERRALD: that was right when we were being locked down in America. So, but the wedding was two months prior.
[00:39:58] CHELSEY DONN: Okay. Okay, fair, fair.
[00:40:00] TREY GERRALD: I love the visual of the Japanese mother and her kimono swag. Yes. Yes. And, you know, I appreciate that they point out that it's a diverse crowd, that he played a diverse amount of music and really had like a party going.
[00:40:17] CHELSEY DONN: Yeah, and he touched on what I said before when I got a little bit peeved with Celeste when she made the dig about you can just play something from the internet like the real job of the dj is to keep the crowd going like is the crowd not digging this then we got to pivot and it sounds like dj spinfo really did deliver
[00:40:37] TREY GERRALD: correct
[00:40:38] CHELSEY DONN: There were quite a few spelling and just copy editing errors in this, I will say.
[00:40:43] CHELSEY DONN: There were a few times when I was like, am I reading that, you know, accurately? So wasn't, you know, this was written very, very quickly and sort of haphazardly. I would say, I don't think we had a proofread. I don't think that was super important to look on.
[00:40:58] TREY GERRALD: I agree. Yeah, it seems like exactly like a perfect five star review.
[00:41:03] TREY GERRALD: Like that's exactly like they were really, really happy. Is it, is it entertaining or humorous? I mean, I think the visual of the mom, I think,
[00:41:11] CHELSEY DONN: I think they gave us like some visual, like the phrasing wasn't exactly right, but even the idea of like, maybe you just took some pictures and now like we're kind of arriving after our guests are there and like, I'm kind of jealous.
[00:41:23] CHELSEY DONN: It sounds like a good time in there. Like they definitely painted some good pictures for us. I'll say that. And they had a lot of, Things that I think would be important to people like the fact that it was a diverse crowd is like we were able to please everybody which I think is a hard thing to do with a DJ like you're gonna have some people that don't resonate with certain music so it seems like DJ Spinfo at least gave Everybody a taste of of what they like.
[00:41:51] TREY GERRALD: Yeah, I like the phrase from the good to the hood and also like it's a real strong visual that he was in the crowd dancing at some point because you have to be like thoroughly the head of the party for that to a occur and for it to be a hit and to be a highlight in this like what 30 sentence review if that vibe is not happening.
[00:42:14] TREY GERRALD: You can't just jump into the middle as the DJ. You know what I mean? Like that's a real bolsterous life of the party, kick ass host, you know?
[00:42:22] CHELSEY DONN: And that's like not sleeping at the wheel. That is like doing your job and being fully present the entire time. And as you mentioned before, it does say that DJ Spinfo is also like an M, more of an MC DJ.
[00:42:36] TREY GERRALD: Yeah.
[00:42:36] CHELSEY DONN: So it sounds like he's delivering on both fronts.
[00:42:41] TREY GERRALD: I guess for some reason. And I think that I'm totally leaning team DJ Spenfo, Mr. Matrimony, but yes, could this be a planted review? Because it's so hard to trust It hits every feel good button and that it leads with how diverse the crowd was, which I know that we thankfully are in this culture of like being aware.
[00:43:10] TREY GERRALD: Um, so maybe leading with that is like, maybe we are all more aware of that, but it occurs to me that it's more of an observation from the person being hired potentially than someone that's in the experience of their own life. If that makes any sense, unless maybe in the, I mean, your wedding, it is suddenly everyone important in your life is in one room.
[00:43:33] TREY GERRALD: So it really is an overwhelming sense that maybe you would start to really reflect like, wow, I have a huge diverse group of loved ones. So maybe not, but I don't know there. It's just such a rave that it makes me question. If it's even valid, which is so odd. I mean, it like makes me, but then again, I do feel like the impact here for me is like, I want, I mean, I do have a bias that I hate dancing.
[00:43:59] TREY GERRALD: Sorry. I hate wedding dancing. I hate it. I hate it. So my bias is like the fact that like, oh, there's a jamming dance party at my wedding. Like I would not be jealous. I would not want to enter the room. So, you know, but that being said,
[00:44:15] CHELSEY DONN: That's a taste thing, right? Not every DJ is for everyone. I think that that's okay.
[00:44:22] CHELSEY DONN: Like, I think even if you read this five star review and you're like, Ooh, I don't really feel like the flavor of DJ Spinfo is my flavor. Like, I don't think I'm going to buy it.
[00:44:32] TREY GERRALD: Are you not a dancer either at weddings?
[00:44:34] CHELSEY DONN: I really vary, you know, you get a couple good drinks in me and it's possible I could be like leading that dance floor or, or I could be not and just like sitting down cause my feet hurt really bad, which usually also happens.
[00:44:49] CHELSEY DONN: So I, I tend to flip flop, but I will say like, I don't know. I haven't met my husband yet, so who knows? But on the day of my wedding, I already have anxiety. about needing to be the lead dancer at the affair. Cause I think that there's pressure on the bride and groom to be like, bring the party guys, like pull out those dance moves.
[00:45:08] TREY GERRALD: Especially if it's a Jewish wedding and you have to do the Hora.
[00:45:12] CHELSEY DONN: And the Hora, the Hora, the Hora, the Hora, the Hora, Hora. We all know what we're talking about. The Hora. Oh yeah. I don't say it right.
[00:45:20] TREY GERRALD: Cause I'm Southern. Sorry.
[00:45:21] CHELSEY DONN: No, it's okay. No, the Hora can.
[00:45:23] TREY GERRALD: Did you know that at my wedding, we had a Mazinka dance?
[00:45:26] TREY GERRALD: You know what that is?
[00:45:29] CHELSEY DONN: I think is it something with claw?
[00:45:31] TREY GERRALD: No, it's when the youngest child of parents is finally married off. It's an honorary procession for the parents. I love when Jews don't know what that is. And I do.
[00:45:45] CHELSEY DONN: Well, I think that David's more, comes from a more religious family than I do, but that being said, like, yeah, the horror can last for five hours, but the horror can be the, I went to a wedding one time and it was like, we ate dinner, they were serving the cake and they were still doing the horror, so.
[00:46:01] CHELSEY DONN: Did you know that
[00:46:01] TREY GERRALD: my mother in law broke her nose? During a whole
[00:46:05] CHELSEY DONN: At your wedding?
[00:46:06] TREY GERRALD: Not at my wedding.
[00:46:08] CHELSEY DONN: Oh, okay. I get how it can happen. Those elbows are high.
[00:46:10] TREY GERRALD: Wait, hold on. I wanna make sure that that's right. David . David. Oh, maybe he's downstairs. I don't know if she broke her nose or if she cut her face or, or she broke her leg.
[00:46:21] TREY GERRALD: I feel like for
[00:46:22] CHELSEY DONN: the story,
[00:46:23] TREY GERRALD: I think she broke her nose. 'cause I know that it was when they were broke
[00:46:26] CHELSEY DONN: a leg that's.
[00:46:27] TREY GERRALD: No, I think it was her nose because she like got hit in the face.
[00:46:30] CHELSEY DONN: Yeah, because it's like you're always you're locking arms with people and I could see very easily. It's like I go to lock arms with you and then
[00:46:36] TREY GERRALD: maybe you shouldn't break the nose.
[00:46:38] TREY GERRALD: Maybe she got a bloody nose, whatever. It's violent and horrifying. She wouldn't
[00:46:43] CHELSEY DONN: be the first person that got a bloody nose during a horror. All right. Point is, I think we have to eliminate our own taste from the assessment of the review itself. I will say it's interesting that you said, is this. Is this a relative of DJ Spinfo?
[00:46:59] CHELSEY DONN: Is this DJ Spinfo in disguise? Is this somebody that is writing a fake review?
[00:47:05] TREY GERRALD: Did that come up for you?
[00:47:07] CHELSEY DONN: It did a little bit. Maybe Laquan L. took it seriously and before he wrote this review was like, let me hit all the points that somebody would want in a DJ because I want to be a review queen. So I'm going to hit the point about them being, you know, energetic, about them being diverse, about them, you know, keeping the crowd going, about Just like everybody saying that it was the best wedding ever, like all those things I think are what you want when you're looking for a DJ.
[00:47:34] CHELSEY DONN: So only because I really feel like in almost a calculated way, we hit every single one of those points. Maybe it's a cynical side of me, but there is part of me that's like, is this real, you know, or is it not? So I have that feeling as well.
[00:47:49] TREY GERRALD: I do think it's important for the listener. The one star review was written in 2016, and this five star review was in 2020.
[00:47:57] TREY GERRALD: So I don't think that this five star is padding in response to the one star. That's many years apart. And there's many reviews between.
[00:48:05] CHELSEY DONN: You mentioned that there were a lot of five star reviews, like all of them,
[00:48:10] TREY GERRALD: basically,
[00:48:11] CHELSEY DONN: so all of them, except for this. One Star Review that we read from Celeste W.
[00:48:16] CHELSEY DONN: Everything else was five stars. To me, that's sometimes suspect too, I'm going to be honest.
[00:48:23] TREY GERRALD: Yeah.
[00:48:23] CHELSEY DONN: We could have some fake ones in there, but.
[00:48:25] TREY GERRALD: But going off of Laquan. Going
[00:48:28] CHELSEY DONN: off of just Laquan.
[00:48:29] TREY GERRALD: I'm ready to crown it.
[00:48:30] CHELSEY DONN: I'm ready to crown too.
[00:48:31] TREY GERRALD: Okay, let's do it.
[00:48:34] CHELSEY DONN: The queens are tabulating.
[00:48:37] TREY GERRALD: You got your cards?
[00:48:38] CHELSEY DONN: Okay, I have my card, so, yes, I'm ready.
[00:48:47] CHELSEY DONN: Total Score, unanimous, we both have four crowns, Trey, why did you get four crowns?
[00:48:55] TREY GERRALD: Honestly, because it's such a slam dunk review, it makes me a little suspect. That's why. There are the spelling errors, so that's part of it too. I wish they had done a pass with spellcheck, but I would need to look around and see, like, what everyone else is saying, because it feels a little extremely one sided, which, it was a five star experience for Laquan, and that's what they gave.
[00:49:17] TREY GERRALD: I don't know why I'm being cynical. But that's why I gave it four.
[00:49:20] CHELSEY DONN: I think four is a very respectable score. And that's personally why I gave Lupon my four crowns. I thought it was entertaining. I thought it was dynamic. I thought we had a lot of visuals. I knew who was there. I knew I loved the detail about the mom and the kimono.
[00:49:38] CHELSEY DONN: Those kinds of details did make me feel like this was an authentic review. This was an experience that was happening to more people. Other than just Laquan. And I appreciate what they had to say. So for me, I'm giving Laquan, no questions, four crowns.
[00:49:55] TREY GERRALD: Excellent.
[00:49:56] CHELSEY DONN: Wow.
[00:49:57] TREY GERRALD: I'm curious, now that we've done the five star, the one star and the reply from the vendor.
[00:50:01] CHELSEY DONN: Yeah.
[00:50:02] TREY GERRALD: What is your Chelsey Donn Review Queen? What do you think?
[00:50:06] CHELSEY DONN: I think Celeste is shady, a little bit. I think that Celeste, um, lied by, by omission. She sort of was poking the bear, it sounds like. You know, DJ Spinfo was responding to being poked. So I'm gonna say, contrary to what I said earlier, and again, willing to admit when I'm wrong, I would discount Celeste.
[00:50:28] CHELSEY DONN: Celeste Review, and I would say that most people can expect to have a jam in time and be fully entertained and up off the floor doing things that are way more exciting than the electric slide and DJ Spinfo would give them a good experience is my thought.
[00:50:45] TREY GERRALD: I do want to just say that I have no idea who DJ Spinfo is.
[00:50:50] TREY GERRALD: Neither does Chelsey. It's totally a random. Yes. We are not an ad. We don't know them. I looked up their website and he has a video reel. I mean, he, it looks like a great hire. I mean, to me, I was like, Oh, I would totally want to hire this person. And he's also very attractive. As I said before, I wonder if that's sort of in the mix here with Celeste.
[00:51:14] TREY GERRALD: I don't know. I'm making that up. I'm putting it into the mix, but we, I'll never know exactly what happened between the two of them. And that just is really highlighting why reviews can be really tricky. And why you need a review queen to sort of tell you what, where you should fall. And to me, and I agree with Chelsea here.
[00:51:29] TREY GERRALD: I think that because Celeste stands out, that one star review seems really to be an anomaly and it's so specific. I don't know. You know, it just feels, I think, um, I, I, I feel badly that that exists on DJ Spinfo's, The Knot. com page, because it doesn't seem to be a good representation of their services.
[00:51:51] CHELSEY DONN: I completely agree.
[00:51:52] CHELSEY DONN: And I think that that's why this segment is so important to do the one in the five, because so often on our show, you're going to hear us read one star reviews that really don't deserve that, you know, that have several customers that are happy. And the reality is we can't please everyone. And I love this segment.
[00:52:12] CHELSEY DONN: Because it shows us that.
[00:52:13] TREY GERRALD: And if you listeners like this idea of doing one and a five, leave us a review and share that, uh, get in touch with us. You can leave us a voicemail so we know if we should move forward with more of these one and fives. Awesome. So as we reach the end of today's episode, Chelsey, have you got any personal reviews for your week?
[00:52:32] TREY GERRALD: Who are you inducting for this week's
[00:52:37] CHELSEY DONN: My Royal Highness? I am inducting a very special woman named Terry Cole, who is extremely influential to me. She is a life coach guru. She was my personal therapist when I was living in New York and I cry at least once a week that she doesn't practice one on one anymore.
[00:52:56] CHELSEY DONN: But that being said, she's not practicing on a one on one because she is changing the world and she just released a book called Boundary Boss and she's a boss. And if you have trouble having boundaries with people, I recommend looking up Terry Cole, beyond the fact that she has so many programs and things that you can sign up for.
[00:53:15] CHELSEY DONN: The thing that I love the best about Terry is that she has so much free content out there, a ton of free meditations and lots of stuff that you can access and Spend a dime and she is committed to providing value for so many people. And she does that for me and she does that for thousands of other people.
[00:53:35] CHELSEY DONN: I am just so excited to induct Terry Cole by her book, Boundary Boss. I love you, Ter, you're awesome. And thank God for people like you.
[00:53:48] TREY GERRALD: Wow, that's amazing.
[00:53:49] CHELSEY DONN: Do you have someone?
[00:53:50] TREY GERRALD: Okay, so my inductee for My Royal Highness this week is a relatively new friend. His name is Eric Williams, and he is a podcaster, and his podcast is called That's a Gay Ass Podcast, where he interviews comedians, And they discussed the thing that made them gay. It's really funny, but I called him because I wanted to ask him a few questions about his audio quality.
[00:54:16] TREY GERRALD: Cause it's so superb. And he was like, yes, here's my phone number. Get on a call. And, uh, we made a schedule and then I, I was available later that day. And I was like, Hey, can you chat now? And he totally got on a call and shared a lot of top secrets that a lot of top podcasters utilize. And yes, he is a man.
[00:54:39] TREY GERRALD: She's a very wonderful, handsome Jewish boy. with also a beautiful husband. And anyway, I just wanted to acknowledge people helping each other, other podcasters, there's room and space for everyone. And I'm looking forward to having him as a guest on our podcast in the future when we start introducing Queens with Questions.
[00:55:00] TREY GERRALD: So Eric Williams, That's a Gay Ass Podcast is my inductee for My Royal Highness.
[00:55:11] CHELSEY DONN: Ah, I love that.
[00:55:12] TREY GERRALD: We did it, Chelsey. Another round in the books, can you believe?
[00:55:16] CHELSEY DONN: Ah, I cannot even believe it. We are four episodes in. Guys, thank you so much for joining us today. If you like what you heard, please tell a friend.
[00:55:26] TREY GERRALD: If you didn't like what you heard, please tell an enemy. If you want to lodge your own complaint, submit your own review, or share with the world who you would induct for My Royal Highness, leave us a voicemail at 850 825 4222.
[00:55:38] TREY GERRALD: Review Zero.
[00:55:40] CHELSEY DONN: Yes, I can't wait to hear them. Also, you can follow us on all of the socials at The Review Queens. I'm at ChelseyBD.
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[00:56:02] CHELSEY DONN: And remember, ignore the haters, you're a queen,
[00:56:06] TREY GERRALD: gender nonspecific queen,
[00:56:08] CHELSEY DONN: bye,
[00:56:08] TREY GERRALD: bye, toodle oo, toodle pip, ta ta.
[00:56:12] CHELSEY DONN: For now,
[00:56:12] TREY GERRALD: Auf Wiedersehen, is that hello or goodbye?
[00:56:15] CHELSEY DONN: Goodbye.
[00:56:16] TREY GERRALD: Um, Guten bye, and that's gross. Okay. Bye.
[00:56:20] CHELSEY DONN: Bye. Thank you so much for listening to that review. We hope you enjoyed it. And as we've mentioned at the top of the show, it really helps us if you could please share the podcast, leave a review.
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