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TREY GERRALD (00:00):
Chelsey's tickle box
has been literally kicked over.
CHELSEY DONN (00:03):
Okay, I'm sorry,
VOICEOVER (00:11):
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 coming for
you, Baby, it's time to Review That Review!,
CHELSEY DONN (00:40):
Hello,
TREY GERRALD (00:42):
Well, hello and
welcome to Review That Review.
We are the podcast that is dedicated to reviewing.
CHELSEY DONN (00:50):
Reviews, my boy,
TREY GERRALD (00:54):
That's my dog, Chelsey Donn.
CHELSEY DONN (00:57):
and there's my
patriotic dog, Trey Gerrald,
TREY GERRALD (01:00):
But just call
us the patriots that are.
VOICEOVER (01:02):
The Review Queens, You
TREY GERRALD (01:08):
of July episode.
CHELSEY DONN (01:10):
It is the 4th of July episode,
We have officially reached, I think, the
pinnacle of the summer, right, like the
4th of July, that's when it all starts,
Happy July 3rd, Happy Arab July 4th,
TREY GERRALD (01:23):
all I have to
say on the 4th of July is
cuz I'm a patriotic boy,
CHELSEY DONN (01:31):
Wow, Trey, you're
giving such macho vibes right now.
It's making me a little, okayso Trey really delivered today.
He is wearing like a blonde long wig andthen he has a backwards like a camo military
TREY GERRALD (01:47):
I love guns, gimme guns,
CHELSEY DONN (01:50):
very emo and then like sort
of contrasted by like an off the shoulder
flowy American flag tunic y top.
TREY GERRALD (02:02):
well, this is a
female top, it has two openings,
CHELSEY DONN (02:06):
Oh wow, that's
a whole different look.
Wow, you could be sleeveless orsleeve with a little peek a boo,
TREY GERRALD (02:13):
peek a boo,
CHELSEY DONN (02:14):
which, who doesn't love a peek a
boo, that's a very nice top, Trey, I realized
before we started recording, I've had such
a crazy busy week that I didn't even order
anything 4th of July, I was like, oh, surely I
have something, and then I didn't, so I really
had to put together this ensemble for you,
TREY GERRALD (02:30):
Chelsey has a cute red ribbon that's
sort of tied like a little, what do you call that?
CHELSEY DONN (02:35):
I don't even
know, I'm ass caught, I don't
TREY GERRALD (02:36):
like,
an ascot, with a white shirtand blue denim jacket, it's very
4th of July as well.
CHELSEY DONN (02:42):
feel like they wouldn't
kick me out of the party for this.
I'd hope.
VOICEOVER (02:45):
look like the 4th of July,
Makes me want a hot dog real bad,
TREY GERRALD (02:53):
Happy 4th of
July, are you gonna eat a hot
dog?
CHELSEY DONN (02:55):
course, I'm gonna eat a hot dog.
Wouldn't be a 4th of July without hot dogs.
Am I right?
TREY GERRALD (03:00):
Hebrew National,
CHELSEY DONN (03:01):
Get yourself a few
drinks and let it all out, Queen.
Would you like to?
VOICEOVER (03:07):
Lodge a complaint,
TREY GERRALD (03:08):
why yes I would.
You know, uh, I have to drop the deep voicebecause it's just not natural for me, and I'm
not in my teens anymore, I don't have to pretend.
CHELSEY DONN (03:16):
Oh,
TREY GERRALD (03:16):
Today, it's very
fitting that you're wearing
denim because when I think of America,I do think of Levi jeans, I think
of denim.
I don't know if we inventedit, but I think we did.
I don't know, is Levi German?
I don't
know.
Who knows?
Anyway.
CHELSEY DONN (03:34):
Feels American.
TREY GERRALD (03:35):
I think it's American.
right?
Yeah, I think
CHELSEY DONN (03:37):
Levi
TREY GERRALD (03:37):
Well,
CHELSEY DONN (03:39):
Sounds German.
TREY GERRALD (03:39):
sound American.
Well, regardless, it's not necessarily about Levi.
Today, I need to lodge a complaintagainst something that, once again,
this is going to be a little vulnerable,
because I don't think this happens
to everyone.
But, um, as someone who is chewky andstill wears tight fitting jeans, I'm going
CHELSEY DONN (03:57):
was founded in
San Francisco, California.
Sorry, Levi Strauss Co., America.
Okay, logical.
TREY GERRALD (04:03):
I'm going to lodge a
complaint against ripped belt loops.
CHELSEY DONN (04:09):
I mean, I don't
even wear belts, but I hear ya.
TREY GERRALD (04:11):
Okay, so, it generally only
happens to me in my tight fitting jeans, and
that's from trying to yank them up, because
they're so form fitting, and then, you know, I
do purchase a lot of, I don't even buy Levi's
anymore, there was a period of time when I did,
but, I buy denim that has enough spandex in
them, so, um, I'm yanking up, and then, denim
is, is, is tight, it's taut, it's like hard, the
spandex is a little less so, so then when you
yank too hard, the stitch comes out, and what's
really annoying, cause I do wear belts always,
CHELSEY DONN (04:41):
work or in
TREY GERRALD (04:42):
you have a broke, and
always, even when I wear denim shorts
in the summer, I always wear a belt.
CHELSEY DONN (04:48):
You're, you're
that much of a belt guy?
TREY GERRALD (04:50):
Well, yeah, because I
don't want to be yanking my pants up all
CHELSEY DONN (04:53):
Wow, Trey.
I'm still learning new things about you.
It's amazing to me.
All right, continue.
TREY GERRALD (04:58):
It's amazing
to me that you don't wear
CHELSEY DONN (04:59):
Never wear a belt.
TREY GERRALD (05:00):
I thought everyone wore belts.
CHELSEY DONN (05:02):
can't be bothered
with a belt personally.
TREY GERRALD (05:04):
Well, okay.
What happens is when you are missing a belt loopbecause it's been ripped off, either you have to
cut the other part of the loop that didn't rip
so that you
CHELSEY DONN (05:16):
so you're just
like surpassing that loop.
TREY GERRALD (05:19):
Well, you have to
because you've, you've ripped it off.
So the belt then when you wear it,it's like going over and then you
have this like weird space between
CHELSEY DONN (05:29):
One.
TREY GERRALD (05:29):
the sagging jeans and like
the belt that's continuing on the path from
the other loops.
And then it like is so awful.
And inevitably it happens to me.
I've probably done this three times in my life.
And then those jeans, I just can't wear themanymore because it's always going to like
gape.
It's always going to gape in that mathematicalequation of only putting six loops on pants when
(05:52):
you lose one.
CHELSEY DONN (05:53):
lack of pants
loops, Belts losing every time,
TREY GERRALD (05:57):
Yeah, it's like anything that
has casters, anything that has casters,
like a table or a filing cabinet, once
you lose one of the four,
CHELSEY DONN (06:05):
you're screwed,
TREY GERRALD (06:06):
that's exactly what happens to
your pants when you miss, when you have a broken
belt loop, so I have to, I have to complain
about it, it's very frustrating, in honor
of San Francisco, Levi Strauss, I just have
to lodge this complaint aboutripping belt loops on denim.
Could be dress pants too, I've never done it, butfor this 4th of July, so that is my complaint.
(06:26):
Chelsey, what's there for you?
CHELSEY DONN (06:27):
very fair.
I like that complaint a lot.
My question for you, I guess, is Now thatI know you to be kind of like a master
seamstress, Could you not sew it back on?
TREY GERRALD (06:38):
No, I've tried it
once before, it just didn't last
very long, because in order to like, because it'sso thin, the belt loop, that you have to sort
of go horizontal, and then it's just like you
see this like line of stitching, which is like
really weird, because you can't goup and down, because that's the belt
loop, and I'm not going to doit by hand, now that I have a
CHELSEY DONN (06:56):
I was gonna say
you used to do it all by hand,
TREY GERRALD (06:58):
I can't imagine doing that anymore.
CHELSEY DONN (07:01):
I hear you, I mean anything
like that, like you said, I like how you
made it universal at the end, like if you
have a cabinet or something and it has those
little like ping things in it and then you
lose one of the pings and then the cabinet,
if it's not like weighted, if like it's too
heavy on one side, then all of a sudden that
side, other side's coming up and it's like a
balancing act, I hear you, it's a nightmare.
TREY GERRALD (07:21):
And like, where do
you buy one of those replacement
CHELSEY DONN (07:23):
then, yeah, and even if
you say you're gonna buy a replacement or
TREY GERRALD (07:26):
You're
CHELSEY DONN (07:27):
you like use a screw instead because
you're like, well this fits, like it's never, it's
always a temporary solution and then that's it,
that's when you know things have really gotten
away from you, so I hear you, so let's pull up
our pants, okay, because we're gonna have to
hold on tight, But carefully, don't rip them.
We need our belts working because we are aboutto hop right in to a 4th of July online review.
TREY GERRALD (07:54):
Let's do it.
VOICEOVER (07:57):
Review That Review,
CHELSEY DONN (08:01):
As you know, we
are your trusty Review Queens.
We bring in reviews from the internetthat we think need to be inspected.
TREY GERRALD (08:07):
We read you a review, we break
it down together and rate the impact of that
review on a scale from 0 to 5 patriotic crowns.
It's a really regal process that we call
VOICEOVER (08:18):
Assess That Kvetch,
TREY GERRALD (08:19):
And, Chelsey, you have
the honor of the 4th of July one.
So what did you get for us, Diva?
CHELSEY DONN (08:25):
Well, as you've been teasing,
VOICEOVER (08:28):
me want a hot dog real bad,
CHELSEY DONN (08:31):
so when I think of like
the most iconic hot dog that I could
possibly think of, Trey, I don't know.
Actually, I'm gonna ask you, what's the mosticonic hot dog in the world, in my opinion?
What would you say?
TREY GERRALD (08:45):
I was gonna say it just
occurred to me that This isn't my
answer, but I don't know the name.
I think it's like saber,
but it's like yellow with black.
That's like a hot dog.
But obviously what occursto me is Oscar Mayer Wiener.
CHELSEY DONN (08:58):
Interesting.
See, this is the difference between growingup in the South and growing up in the North.
I'm curious to know what you listenerswould think if I asked you that question.
You can slide into our DMsand let us know or call us.
TREY GERRALD (09:11):
Why?
What?
Wait, let me think.
CHELSEY DONN (09:13):
I'm gonna say, like,
TREY GERRALD (09:14):
Island?
CHELSEY DONN (09:15):
ding, ding, ding, ding, ding,
TREY GERRALD (09:17):
Oh, okay, good.
CHELSEY DONN (09:19):
uh, Spacifics plays on Coney Island.
TREY GERRALD (09:21):
Oh, shoot.
Um, I think I know this.
CHELSEY DONN (09:24):
They do a hot dog contest,
TREY GERRALD (09:27):
I don't know.
Wait,
CHELSEY DONN (09:28):
with an N,
TREY GERRALD (09:30):
national
hot dog?
Oh, Nathan's
CHELSEY DONN (09:34):
Famous Hot Dogs,
TREY GERRALD (09:36):
never had.
CHELSEY DONN (09:37):
you've never gone?
TREY GERRALD (09:38):
No, but can't you get them anywhere?
Like, it's
not
CHELSEY DONN (09:41):
now you can get them at, yeah, so
okay, so it started in Coney Island, I'll read you
a little bit of the back story, because I have the
information from the business, so Nathan's Famous
is an iconic American fast food institution,
renowned for its delicious hot dogs and rich
history, it was established by Nathan Handwerker.
Interesting new product,handworker, handworker products,
TREY GERRALD (10:06):
Hand Worker
Hot Dogs has a nice ring.
CHELSEY DONN (10:09):
oh god, okay, established by
Nathan Handworker in 1916 in Coney Island,
Brooklyn, the original Nathan's Famous Sand
has become a landmark symbolizing The flavor
of New York and it's memorable, craveable, and
because it's 2024, Instagrammable offerings.
(10:30):
The menu has evolved over the years.
It now features a variety of items, includingburgers, chicken heroes, onion rings,
and shakes with a commitment to quality.
And a nod to tradition, Nathan's continuesto serve up a taste of nostalgia alongside
its modern offerings, inviting patrons
to make their own history every bite.
TREY GERRALD (10:53):
Now, am I correct that Nathan's
Hot Dogs colors are green and yellow?
CHELSEY DONN (10:58):
Yeah.
So it's like a green and yeah, exactly.
TREY GERRALD (11:01):
it does, it does make me think of
like, of course, I frequent these all the time.
But like, when you go to a sportsgame, like there's going to be
Nathan's Hot Dogs.
Now that you say that.
Yeah.
CHELSEY DONN (11:10):
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, definitely in New York, I would think.
It's just an institution, like, for me, atleast, my mom, my parents, my grandparents,
my great grandparents all lived in Brooklyn.
So, for them, this was, like, a really big deal.
Like, my mom has so many, I mean, mom, call in1 850 REVIEW ZERO and tell us a Nathan story.
(11:31):
She has so many stories about going to Nathan's.
As a kid, and even like to this day, everyonce in a while, like every decade, her and my
dad will like go out of their way, just to go,
TREY GERRALD (11:43):
That's so
CHELSEY DONN (11:43):
so it definitely means a lot to
a lot of people, and it has for a long time,
TREY GERRALD (11:48):
your parents don't go out of
their way every decade to go to McDonald's
so she can burn him with coffee again?
CHELSEY DONN (11:53):
Oh, good memory, Trey, No, they
TREY GERRALD (11:56):
That's probably fine.
CHELSEY DONN (11:58):
Yeah, I think that that part of the
relationship is over, Um, if you're interested
in that story, you can join the Patreon, So,
yeah, Nathan's is an institution for everyone
except for Rachel H., but, getting ahead of
myself, so, the overall on Yelp is, any guesses?
TREY GERRALD (12:18):
I mean, I'm going to
say it's probably four something, 4.
2.
CHELSEY DONN (12:21):
You would think, right,
TREY GERRALD (12:23):
Oh,
CHELSEY DONN (12:23):
actually 2.
9,
TREY GERRALD (12:26):
Wait.
So this is for the original stand in
Coney
CHELSEY DONN (12:29):
is the original San Antonio,
which, you've been to Coney Island or no?
TREY GERRALD (12:33):
I've been once before.
CHELSEY DONN (12:34):
Yeah, it's fun, I used to go like
a couple times when I was going to NYU, it's fun,
it's like a good thing, to do over the summer.
TREY GERRALD (12:41):
the only time I've ever
been, we went on the 4th of July.
CHELSEY DONN (12:45):
Look at that, Trey!
Full circle moment.
Okay, so this is Nathan's Famous inits original Coney Island location.
Rachel H.
is an elite reviewer.
TREY GERRALD (12:57):
Uh oh.
CHELSEY DONN (12:57):
I say sort of under
my breath and y'all, you'll see why
in a second, but this is Rachel H.
's One Star.
Review of Nathan's Coney Island,
TREY GERRALD (13:08):
On you up.
CHELSEY DONN (13:09):
Anyo,
TREY GERRALD (13:10):
All right.
CHELSEY DONN (13:11):
Forgotten about with clam chowder
flung at you might be a little bit easy to
look past seeing they were accidents but adding
cold food on top of that is just not right
TREY GERRALD (13:25):
What?
Clam chowder?
Ew.
So
CHELSEY DONN (13:31):
so we ordered they weren't that
busy then we waited about 45 minutes or so
for our order watching others Come and go, It
became apparent that we were forgotten about,
So once we got their attention, They asked
why we haven't gotten our food, My answer was,
Why don't you tell me?, Oh, well, we already
gave this out, Yeah, that might have happened,
But you didn't give it to me, The one who
paid for it, Oh, okay, I'll get it for you,
TREY GERRALD (14:05):
confused.
CHELSEY DONN (14:07):
During the whole first wait
session, one of the associates went over
to get some clam chowder, he then over
poured it, getting it on his hand, so I'm
assuming it was burning, so he then flung the
excess into the air, it went right my way,
with some getting on my clothes, the counter,and even more on the floor, this didn't really
bother me all that much considering, this
TREY GERRALD (14:34):
I'm glad you
included it then, Rachel.
CHELSEY DONN (14:40):
This didn't really bother me all
that much considering I hate clams, I get it was
hot and what he did was instinct tells you to do,
okay, then forgetting about our order, thenquestioning it didn't bother me that much either,
TREY GERRALD (15:02):
Oh, God.
CHELSEY DONN (15:08):
okay, then forgetting, then
forgetting about our order, then questioning
it didn't bother me that much either
as I wasn't in a hurry to go anywhere.
The part that was over the top was ourcold food, like I didn't expect much from
a fast food concept ever, as I hardly
ever eat it, and even fewer reviews, it, I
can't get through it with one breath, okay,
TREY GERRALD (15:35):
and I
CHELSEY DONN (15:41):
I didn't expect that much from
a fast food concept ever, as I hardly eat it,
it, And even fewer review it, as I'd rather
spend my money elsewhere, But you can't go
to Coney Island and not try Nathan's, Or yes,
you can, because this was bad, like bad, bad.
TREY GERRALD (16:00):
video!
CHELSEY DONN (16:12):
So our food, the onion
rings we ordered were cold, soggy, And
just pathetically bad, clearly they
were sitting for a very long time.
The Hell's Kitchen burger wasn't spicy,it was cold and mediocre, and definitely
the second worst thing we ordered,
as it just needed more sauce, jalapenos,and to be hot, the chili cheese dog
was also cold and underwhelming,
TREY GERRALD (16:38):
Wow.
CHELSEY DONN (16:39):
the only good part of it, the
TREY GERRALD (16:45):
Chelsea's tickle box
has been literally kicked over.
Hot dog
CHELSEY DONN (16:53):
only good part of it was
the hot dog had that snap to it, That
I always look for when getting what?
Okay.
Overall, this was a terrible experience.
TREY GERRALD (17:14):
end.
CHELSEY DONN (17:17):
Overall, this was a terrible
experience at a place that I've heard of
for many years and finally got to try.
Like, I didn't come in with high expectations,but the expectations I did have weren't this
by any means, by B U I, by any means, as
this was beyond bad and I've spent a good
amount of years working in the food industry.
(17:40):
Okay, then we also, I'm gonna send this toyou, Trey, because we also have some pictures.
I want you to just describe what you're seeing.
Oh my, I really got tickled by that one.
I'm not gonna lie.
I'm crying over here.
TREY GERRALD (17:52):
okay, let's see, I'm scrolling
down, wow, it's a lot of fucking pictures,
CHELSEY DONN (17:56):
Right, okay,
start with the first one.
Describe what you see in thepicture and then read the
TREY GERRALD (18:00):
The first one is fucking hilarious.
So the first one is documenting thatepic story of not really caring that
much about the clam chowder spillage.
But I just want to say, the spillage literallylooks like if you took like an eyedropper
and did a tiny drop of clam chowder.
There's maybe, maybe I, there's one that'sthe largest, it's smaller than a penny.
(18:23):
Then, just above that, there's one that'sliterally like a spittle, and then there is
one that's like on the edge that like literally
looks like what your mind thinks of when you
do like an eyedropper of like food coloring.
Some of the flung clam chowder is thecaption, and clam chowder is capitalized.
CHELSEY DONN (18:40):
Oh, God.
TREY GERRALD (18:42):
I mean, that is so minimal
that I am like infuriated that it's
in the review, but we'll get to that.
Okay, the second picture.
CHELSEY DONN (18:50):
maybe most of it ended up on her.
TREY GERRALD (18:53):
Oh, good point.
Then there's a picture.
CHELSEY DONN (18:55):
a piece of it for evidence, I guess.
TREY GERRALD (18:57):
So the picture is
like at the register where you see
the menu and it says inside the
next picture.
It's a picture.
of a really messy cheesy hot dog in a containerwith like what looks to be like chili spilled
like uh on the top and on the lip where the box
connects and this caption is chili cheese dog
(19:19):
it does look
CHELSEY DONN (19:20):
it's like,
it's like the cheese whiz,
TREY GERRALD (19:22):
it does Right, it does
look like it would be good, but looking
at it, it, like, it looks unpleasing.
CHELSEY DONN (19:28):
I think it's like typical, like,
you know, when you look at a McDonald's sandwich
in an ad, it's like, Ooh, that looks good.
And then you get it and you'relike, gross, but also good.
TREY GERRALD (19:37):
And then the next picture is
captioned, soggy onion rings, but I'll tell you,
the photo looks like exceedingly crisp onion rings
inside
CHELSEY DONN (19:47):
at least they look like really good.
It looks like funnel cake around an onion.
It looks like delicious.
TREY GERRALD (19:52):
And then, this next photo is like,
probably a few steps away from where their photo
of the inside was, it's to the side a little
bit, and it says, Where We Waited for 45 Men.
Ew, and I can see above the menus, theyhave the giant lettering that says,
Seafood, and that makes me want to vomit.
CHELSEY DONN (20:09):
Oh, well, it's not
that gross because it's actually
like, um, like a lobster roll.
Does that make you feel better?
TREY GERRALD (20:16):
Yeah.
Alright, and then our last photo, is also of likea container and it has looks like a burger with
some jalapenos popping out it looks really good
to me and the caption is hell's kitchen burger
CHELSEY DONN (20:30):
Okay.
TREY GERRALD (20:31):
rachel
CHELSEY DONN (20:32):
Should we talk about Rachel H.?
TREY GERRALD (20:34):
i really gotta say this
clam chowder photo is absurd i can see
why it wasn't really that big of a deal
didn't really bother me
CHELSEY DONN (20:42):
Did really bother me.
She said that a few times,but she still mentioned it.
TREY GERRALD (20:46):
Okay, so obviously,
Rachel doesn't like punctuation.
It's like, very hard to get thenarrative if you're not reading it.
Because it's, it's as if this is Jessie Spano onspeed singing, I'm so excited, because she can't
CHELSEY DONN (21:03):
I Know
TREY GERRALD (21:04):
here.
It just seems that they, like, feltthat they were forgotten about.
and then they waited for 45 minutes insteadof like at any point in the 45 minutes
being like hey did you forget about my order
and then where i'm really confused oh and
then it's like all of the food was like a
little less hot than they wanted it to be
and how that's surprising since this is afamous place but what i get really confused at
CHELSEY DONN (21:26):
yeah,
TREY GERRALD (21:27):
was
CHELSEY DONN (21:28):
there's a confusing section.
I don't know if this is what you're talkingabout I think what happened was they called
for their food and someone else took it maybe
TREY GERRALD (21:38):
that makes
CHELSEY DONN (21:38):
And then they were
like, you took it or whatever.
And she was like, no, I didn't take it.
I'm the one who bought it.
I think I should know if I took it or not.
And then I think they had to remake it.
TREY GERRALD (21:47):
see all of that could have been
CHELSEY DONN (21:49):
Like, it's like, and it's
like, it's annoying because there's no, like,
these are different characters speaking.
That's what's so confusing about this review.
Cause it's like, okay, like, it'slike the person that works here.
Okay.
Well, we already gave it out.
And then you saying, yeah, that might'vehappened, but you didn't give it to me.
The one who paid for it.
And then they said, oh, okay, I'll get it for you.
TREY GERRALD (22:09):
right, with three
CHELSEY DONN (22:10):
like everything that exists
within that two and a half line area, like
if they had put quotes, like this, it's not
just a situation of them forgetting periods.
TREY GERRALD (22:21):
right, there's no punctuation.
CHELSEY DONN (22:23):
no punctuation like there's like
no quote marks where there should be quote
That's why I was kind of reading it robotic
as I'm like did you do this speak to text?
Because that's the only thingthat makes any sense to me.
TREY GERRALD (22:33):
I am also just looking over
this, their whole complaint about the Hell's
Kitchen Burger, they want it to be spicier,
and it said it needed more sauce and jalapenos,
but the photo they provide, I can see four
jalapenos spilling out the side, so I'm not
really sure what that's about, and I can see
a puddle of sauce on the bottom bun, so I, I
don't know, Rachel's losing me a little bit
with their disrespect for writing a narrative.
CHELSEY DONN (22:55):
Disrespect.
Utter disrespect.
TREY GERRALD (22:58):
because I'm wondering if they were
CHELSEY DONN (22:59):
Honestly, like nearly
a crime against humanity as an elite
TREY GERRALD (23:03):
Yeah, I don't like whoever's in
charge of elites Like this gives them a bad
name that this is from someone who's elite.
CHELSEY DONN (23:09):
And this is exactly playing to
my point that I've made a few times when we
brought in elite reviewers that were subpar
Which is that I think there's a formula
for To becoming an elite reviewer, and the
formula is writing lengthy reviews, possibly
ones that have lots of paragraphs, maybe not,
lengthy reviews, so a certain amount of words,
and then adding photos, and if you do that
over and over and over again, you'll become
an elite reviewer, regardless of whether or
not your reviews are full of trash or not,
TREY GERRALD (23:38):
Well, it's interesting
because if you're a Yelp reviewer So
let's say so if this is truthful and
Rachel was that upset about it all
I can understand being so annoyed That you're likeI can't even process like I'm just rage reviewing
but You If you care enough to be anelite, if you've put in enough time and
effort, then I think there's a loyalty,
and almost like an oath you take, to like,
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give value, even if you hate the experience,like, you have the integrity enough
to maintain the level of an elite, to
CHELSEY DONN (24:12):
Mm hmm.
TREY GERRALD (24:12):
at least put a comma, or at
least, if you don't want to do quotation
marks for the different characters,
then at
CHELSEY DONN (24:19):
Do a line break.
There's a story to be told here, but it'slost in just this like very strange way of
formatting and writing without any, you know,
proper line breaks or punctuation or anything.
TREY GERRALD (24:33):
Alright, so, we could talk about the
spelling grammar here forever, but it's clearly
like, If I could give it less than zero, I would.
Never thought I would say that sincerely.
CHELSEY DONN (24:44):
right, right, right, right.
TREY GERRALD (24:45):
The value, new and unique info.
CHELSEY DONN (24:48):
Yeah.
TREY GERRALD (24:50):
I mean, you're getting a
hot dog and like a burger on Coney Island.
Like, this is not going to bea Michelin star hot dog cart.
CHELSEY DONN (24:57):
Mm hmm.
TREY GERRALD (24:58):
So, but what I'm hearing is
perhaps The workers might be a little messy and
like they might fling things around by accident
or like they're working at such a high volume
that if you aren't paying an acute level of
attention, someone could just snatch your order.
I mean, I've never thought of that, butthat doesn't feel location specific.
That feels like any place where they'regoing to, like, call out that your order is
ready, but I would say half of that is on you
because if you're not fully paying attention,
CHELSEY DONN (25:25):
right.
Like maybe you just got used to waiting there.
So you were like playing, joking aroundwith your friends and you didn't hear it.
TREY GERRALD (25:31):
but the photo of like the
menu and like obviously we've discussed
the difference between professionally
shot food staging versus like the
hot dog you're holding, this looksright up my fucking goddamn alley.
America, fuck
yes.
This is like low class, nasty,fried, disgusting, like awful food.
Like I want to eat all of these burgers.
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Maybe I'm just hungry, but likeit looks fucking gorgeous to me.
CHELSEY DONN (25:57):
I mean, I do think that,
if I'm trying to give them credit,
like, I think that the photos are good.
TREY GERRALD (26:02):
Yeah, I also have
another question here about if all the
food was under warm, Are they making
a point that someone stole their food or are theymaking a point that their food sat for 45 minutes?
I don't know.
I don't necessarily trust Rachel'struthful shaniness necessarily.
I think they're so angry because they're hungry.
CHELSEY DONN (26:19):
hangry, yeah.
TREY GERRALD (26:20):
But if your food is cold,
I mean, can we guarantee that's typical?
Like, is your food always going to be cold?
I would doubt it.
Like they must be
CHELSEY DONN (26:27):
Or was it like sitting in the,
I don't know, was it just sitting in the wings
and they never put it in the, in the window?
I don't know.
TREY GERRALD (26:34):
but I will say the hot dog
container is paper, but you can see the
onion ring container is one of those.
Pretty, like, more expensive, thick plastic
containers, which, it does seemto me like those would sog up,
CHELSEY DONN (26:50):
Yeah,
TREY GERRALD (26:51):
cause it's gonna, the plastic's
gonna keep that heat in there more than the paper.
CHELSEY DONN (26:55):
yeah, I agree.
So, I mean, I trust, like, that's thething is, like, I trust certain things
about this review, but the way that it's
written is making me question things.
Is there anything else we need toconsider before we go into the crowning?
Or have we, I mean, clearly,I found it hysterical.
I
TREY GERRALD (27:10):
No, I think it's funny too, but
I'm more angry at her than I am humored by her.
CHELSEY DONN (27:16):
Yeah.
And the impact, well, let's talk about
TREY GERRALD (27:19):
Yeah, let's just crown it Okay,
so Chelsey and I each have our own set of zero
to five crown cards and in an effort to be fair
and patriotic by not influencing one another,
we're gonna simultaneously reveal our ratings.
VOICEOVER (27:31):
The Queens are tabulating,
Total
Score
CHELSEY DONN (27:39):
Okay.
Trey's holding up one and a half crowns.
I'm holding up two crowns.
Trey, you go first.
Why one and a half crowns?
TREY GERRALD (27:45):
almost did, too, and I
just flipped it at the last minute.
Because it's so egregious, like, you didn'teven do one singular pass to make sure that
Your typing was understandable.
Like the whole point is to be helpful.
That's what reviews are.
And if you are hurting your owncause, then what the are you doing?
Like, I'm so mad.
And I also, just the pictures, like there'sno reason to talk about the flinging clam
chowder and include that photo because it's
literally a spittle and then to include the
story and then be like, but it didn't really
(28:15):
bother me.
It's like, what?
Like you're obviously going for likea character count or a word count or
something.
It was entertaining.
But there's not much impact for me, like, itsounds like they even express that this is not
their go to sort of dining experience or review
per se, but to me, I love this kind of food,
so, I don't know, I think it's not a match
for Rachel, I appreciate that they wanted to
contribute, but they didn't do a good job, so, I
can't give more than one and a half for Rachel,
you know, maybe they do better elsewhere, but not
at Nathan's, Chelsey, why did you do two crowns?
CHELSEY DONN (28:50):
I did too.
I'll start with the good.
I think the photos were informative like nomatter what even even like ignoring the captions
or the captions were pretty brief anyway, and
I obviously like got a chuckle out of this.
I thought this was very entertaining.
So that was where my two crowns camefrom, but I really I think there's
nothing worse than a faux elite.
It's like elites are bad enough, buta faux elite is It's just annoying.
(29:13):
If you're pulling the focus because people aregoing to see your reviews more because Yelp
gives preferential treatment to elite reviewers.
So if you click on like what, Oh,I want to read the one star, you're
going to see this review first.
And I think that's doing adisservice to the reader.
And.
That was why I only gave the two crowns, butI did find this to be very funny, and I read a
lot of Nathan's reviews, ultimately I thought
this was the most entertaining, but it was so
curious to me, it's like so many other things
like this that we've reviewed that are popular,
the opinions were so vast, it was like, if you
were an easygoing person, you were like, the
line was long, but I kind of expected it, so
I prepared myself to wait along the line, and
I just like, You know, had a good chat with my
girlfriend and then we got the food and it was
great and it was nostalgic and I enjoyed it and
it was like what I thought it was going to be.
(30:08):
You have those people and they're giving likefive stars, four stars, maybe a three star, you
know, but then you have people on the other side
and I will say to Nathan's credit, it didn't
seem like most people were attacking the food.
It was just like they'reannoyed like the service is bad.
That's like something that every service is bad.
It's super slow.
That was really the the main complaint.
(30:30):
So I feel like Nathan's in the end comes out okay.
For me, it's like as long as you're notattacking the food, I think people will still
TREY GERRALD (30:39):
Right, especially
because it's an institution, after
CHELSEY DONN (30:41):
Right.
We've done it, Queens.
We have reached the most regalportion of our show, Trey.
Who are you inducting for this patriotic?
VOICEOVER (30:52):
My Royal Highness.
TREY GERRALD (30:53):
Thank you so
much for asking, Chelsey.
Alright, this isn't necessarily relatedto the Fourth of July, but I do feel
like my induction today is something that
Nathan's Hot Dogs probably knows very well.
And I want to induct, I don't know howwe've never done it, extension cords.
CHELSEY DONN (31:09):
Yes, Queen.
TREY GERRALD (31:11):
do without extension cords.
So many things need power.
Every outlet in my office has an extension,like, hub thing, you know, and then I have
actual strips, and then I also have, like,
classic extension cords, like, extension
cords into extension cords, into surge
protectors, into these, like, hub things.
Now everything needs a USB C, so now I have,like, the extension cord with the USB C.
(31:35):
Like, all of that, I need so much power, and Iappreciate that I can move my desk around, it
is on wheels, and I can utilize as much power
as possible, and I'm not beholden to, like, the
little two prong outlet, which also made me start
to think, why is the standard outlet only two?
But whatever, we have all these amazing things,which I am inducting, which are extension
cords, and I don't give it enough of a shout
out, so I wanna do that today, we've been
freed from Britain as Americans, and we also
have extension cords, so for that reason,
(32:07):
Extension cords, you are myRoyal Highness this week.
CHELSEY DONN (32:11):
I think that
makes perfect sense to me.
That connection.
TREY GERRALD (32:16):
Why, thank you.
Well, alright, we've done it, Queen.
That is another round on theR U A R Q Ferris Wheel of
VOICEOVER (32:24):
look like the 4th of July.
That makes me want a hot dog real bad.
TREY GERRALD (32:29):
that from Illegally Blonde 2?
CHELSEY DONN (32:31):
think it is two.
Or is it one?
TREY GERRALD (32:34):
White, and Blonde.
CHELSEY DONN (32:36):
Oh, maybe.
Either way, they're both excellent movies.
I love it.
Iconic.
TREY GERRALD (32:42):
she says is pretty iconic.
CHELSEY DONN (32:43):
Agree.
Thank you for joining us today.
If you like what you heard, please tell a friend.
TREY GERRALD (32:49):
If you did not like
what you heard, please tell an enemy.
On this week's After Show Pod, Chelseyand I are going to be rating and reviewing
a one star Google review for a little
store called Backyard Heroes Fireworks.
Fuck yeah, America!
CHELSEY DONN (33:10):
All right.
I wonder why this was said.
TREY GERRALD (33:14):
And no one ever tries
to write new Christmas songs, they
always record like old Bing Crosby
bullshit, but Kelly Clarkson is the new ChristmasQueen, because she has two Christmas albums,
and she has brand new pop contemporary Christmas
songs, and they are always good, andwe're celebrating Christmas in July,
alright,
CHELSEY DONN (33:29):
right.
TREY GERRALD (33:32):
Yeah, I wonder that too, bitch, I'm
an American man, I don't respect women, You're
all bitches and whores, Too much, too far?,
CHELSEY DONN (33:42):
No, I love it.
TREY GERRALD (33:43):
TOO FAR!,
CHELSEY DONN (33:44):
I'm enjoying this cosplay.
TREY GERRALD (33:46):
and my um, drapey flag blouse,
Well, please remember all you,patriotic bitches and hoes,
CHELSEY DONN (33:54):
Ignore the haters, you're a queen.
TREY GERRALD (33:57):
Gender non specific
queen, We love you, America,
CHELSEY DONN (34:00):
love you, America.
Have a hot dog on me.
TREY GERRALD (34:04):
Oh my god, we didn't
even talk about the hot dog snap.
CHELSEY DONN (34:08):
Oh, we didn't
even talk about the snap.
TREY GERRALD (34:10):
We'll talk about it we'll talk
about it after the show, yeah, okay, Okay.
bye.
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TREY GERRALD (34:39):
That guy sounds like a faggot!
CHELSEY DONN (34:41):
Trey, I hate when you
do that, but also, like, do what you
want, because it's you, like, your own
identity, but also, like, I don't like it.
TREY GERRALD (34:49):
Wait, what is the hot dog snap?
Like when you bite into
CHELSEY DONN (34:52):
Yeah, like it's like a, like a,
like snap, like if you were to like break it in
half, it would give you like a nice snap, Trey,
TREY GERRALD (34:59):
Yeah, but why would
you break a hot dog in half?
Wouldn't you bite it?
CHELSEY DONN (35:02):
or when you bite it, yeah,
when you crunch, when you bite into it, it's
like, ooh, snap, like it like bounces back,
like it's like, it's kind of a snap to it,
TREY GERRALD (35:11):
Ew, hot dogs are so foul when you
CHELSEY DONN (35:12):
I know, they kind of are, but
I'm still probably gonna have one tomorrow,
TREY GERRALD (35:16):
Alright, bye.
CHELSEY DONN (35:17):
bye.