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Episode 71

Episode 71: Romeo & Juliet

SPOILER ALERT!!!!!! The Queens rate and review a 1 Star GoodReads Review for William Shakespeare's classic Romeo and Juliet. Trey is at the end of his drawstring, Chelsey demands support from items designed for such things, and the Queens struggle to remember Paris. Put on your dramaturgical hats and prepare yourself for some scholarly discussions about.... West Side Story. And please call in and let us know if you think the Friar was a Romantic: 1-850-REVIEW-0!

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Transcript
VOICEOVER:

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It's so hard to tell who to trust and who to ignore.

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Someone's gotta settle the score.

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Trey and Chelsey will help you choose.

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Who's views win, which ones lose.

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Online haters are coming for you.

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Baby it's time to Review That Review.

Chelsey Donn:

Hello,

Trey Gerrald:

Hi, are you frozen over there?

Chelsey Donn:

you were frozen in like a really funny position.

Chelsey Donn:

So I screenshotted it and

Trey Gerrald:

Oh my God.

Trey Gerrald:

I see.

Trey Gerrald:

You're frozen over here.

Trey Gerrald:

Holding up your water bottle,

Chelsey Donn:

oh, great.

Trey Gerrald:

who my face looks so weird in this picture.

Chelsey Donn:

I know.

Chelsey Donn:

That's it was so like, That's what?

Chelsey Donn:

That was funny anyway.

Trey Gerrald:

oh, I see you now.

Trey Gerrald:

Okay.

Trey Gerrald:

Hello and welcome listeners to Review That Review.

Trey Gerrald:

We are the podcast dedicated to reviewing

Chelsey Donn:

Review were just like Siskel and Ebert only instead of reviewing cinematic

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And that is Trey Gerrald

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Those was it kicks.

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That was like a cereal, right?

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That didn't have any

Chelsey Donn:

Oh, kicks like, gotta get, gotta, gotta have my kicks.

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Or you could just go to Patreon dot com slash Review That Review Chelsey.

Chelsey Donn:

Yay.

Trey Gerrald:

has your week been?

Trey Gerrald:

How are you?

Trey Gerrald:

What is new?

Trey Gerrald:

Give us the T delicious

Chelsey Donn:

Everything is good.

Chelsey Donn:

I attended a bot mitzvah over the weekend.

Chelsey Donn:

Um, so just bouncing back.

Chelsey Donn:

Thank, thank you.

Chelsey Donn:

Thank you.

Chelsey Donn:

Bouncing back from that.

Chelsey Donn:

Yeah, we did a little Shabbat dinner.

Chelsey Donn:

It was a whole weekend affair.

Chelsey Donn:

I, you know, being an adult and experiencing this bot mitzvah thing.

Chelsey Donn:

It's really like a wedding.

Chelsey Donn:

I mean, I didn't realize it at the time when I was a kid, but there's

Chelsey Donn:

There's the, you know, the brunch afterwards and I'm like exhausted also.

Chelsey Donn:

It's just bizarre kind of being the adult at the bat mitzvah.

Chelsey Donn:

I gotta say,

Trey Gerrald:

Oh, yeah, the very first bot Mitzva ever attended.

Trey Gerrald:

I was a cater waiter,

Chelsey Donn:

oh, wow.

Trey Gerrald:

I had no idea what was happening.

Chelsey Donn:

It's funny.

Chelsey Donn:

They, they did a pajama theme, which I thought was like pretty interesting, cuz by bat

Chelsey Donn:

So it was pajama themed and it turned out being because it was like a.

Chelsey Donn:

Moonlight kingdom or something.

Chelsey Donn:

I don't know.

Chelsey Donn:

There was like a theme and everyone looked really cute in their pajamas, but there were all these

Chelsey Donn:

And I was like, this is so weird.

Chelsey Donn:

Like everything's, everything's changed and nothing has changed, you know?

Trey Gerrald:

Absolutely.

Trey Gerrald:

Yeah.

Chelsey Donn:

So funny love it.

Chelsey Donn:

So how was your week?

Chelsey Donn:

I've missed you?

Chelsey Donn:

I've been so busy with all the bat mitzvah stuff.

Trey Gerrald:

I know you really have it.

Trey Gerrald:

It does require a lot.

Trey Gerrald:

I, I know that from also personal experience.

Trey Gerrald:

Uh, my wake is good, you know, we've just been chugging along.

Trey Gerrald:

I, um, I gotta do an oil change for my car, but I just haven't done it yet.

Trey Gerrald:

I keep getting emails that it's time, and I know I need to stay on top of

Chelsey Donn:

yeah, same.

Chelsey Donn:

That's so funny.

Trey Gerrald:

And other stuff that I'm not gonna talk about on the pod, but I'm

Trey Gerrald:

I don't know, just, you know, life is, life is always interesting and, um,

Chelsey Donn:

I am so grateful to be here.

Chelsey Donn:

This is definitely the highlight of my week.

Chelsey Donn:

And then, you know, another reason why it's the highlight of our week is cuz we get to

Chelsey Donn:

So do you wanna Lodge a Complaint?

Trey Gerrald:

Yeah, I think I do want to,

VOICEOVER:

Lodge Complaint.

Chelsey Donn:

hear it.

Trey Gerrald:

okay.

Trey Gerrald:

I really, I.

Trey Gerrald:

I Donn don't know if you've ever experienced this.

Trey Gerrald:

And I know that there are tricks to get over this, but have you ever put on a cute

Chelsey Donn:

Oh my God.

Chelsey Donn:

I hate that.

Trey Gerrald:

I hate it.

Trey Gerrald:

So severely, especially with like gym pants or gym shorts, where I'm

Trey Gerrald:

It's like, for some reason, anytime it's in the wash or the dryer, it just wants to

Trey Gerrald:

And I know that there are like hacks where you, I know that like seam stress.

Trey Gerrald:

Yes you do with safety pen.

Trey Gerrald:

Have we talked about this?

Chelsey Donn:

I don't think so, but maybe I Donn, I can't remember if we've talked

Trey Gerrald:

Oh, I hate it so much.

Chelsey Donn:

irritating.

Chelsey Donn:

And then sometimes I just like in a sweatshirt that has one that I don't

Chelsey Donn:

I'll just take it out cuz I'm like, I don't wanna deal with you.

Chelsey Donn:

I'm just gonna remove you from the equation because

Trey Gerrald:

I'm gonna remove you before you remove

Chelsey Donn:

Exactly.

Chelsey Donn:

Cause like, I gotta get ahead of this because if I get too and I develop too much of a,

Chelsey Donn:

So I might as well just sever ties now.

Chelsey Donn:

I don't know what that says about me, but I definitely feel you.

Trey Gerrald:

Well, I also will like preemptively the other way.

Trey Gerrald:

I will tie like two or three knots on the end of each.

Trey Gerrald:

So that like, it can't get through the little slit or the little hole or whatever, but like,

Trey Gerrald:

I'm like, You know, if I was trying to untie this knot, I would not

Chelsey Donn:

Right.

Chelsey Donn:

Exactly.

Chelsey Donn:

Where have all the socks gone?

Chelsey Donn:

Where have all of the like strings gone?

Chelsey Donn:

What is happening?

Trey Gerrald:

Oh, I hate it.

Trey Gerrald:

It's so frustrating.

Trey Gerrald:

It actually happened to me recently in one of my really cute American apparel hoodies.

Trey Gerrald:

And like, I just like, can't wear it because like, I can't get the string back through and it's like,

Trey Gerrald:

And it's like over.

Chelsey Donn:

It is I'm sorry.

Chelsey Donn:

That is upsetting.

Chelsey Donn:

Whenever you have a garment and something, I was just, you know, I watched Seinfeld a lot.

Chelsey Donn:

And was it on Seinfeld that this happened?

Chelsey Donn:

I think it was before Elaine lost the, the button, but anyway, somebody loses

Chelsey Donn:

I'm never gonna sew this button back on.

Chelsey Donn:

I hate that feeling when it's like this thing happened to this garment that I was really

Chelsey Donn:

So I feel you, I feel you.

Chelsey Donn:

I feel you.

Trey Gerrald:

baby with bath water.

Trey Gerrald:

Anyway, that was my Complaint.

Trey Gerrald:

Chelsey.

Trey Gerrald:

What do you wanna Complaint about today?

Chelsey Donn:

I wanna complain about like just chairs and couches with bad back support or just

Chelsey Donn:

I know that like I've talked about, I had like an incident where I was in one

Chelsey Donn:

And every time I just going back to the bat mitzvah, any time I go to a wedding or bat

Chelsey Donn:

So I feel very nervous the entire time I'm sitting on it.

Chelsey Donn:

My entire body is like cleansed up.

Chelsey Donn:

I'm like hunched forward, cuz I'm trying to like squat a little bit so that I'm taking

Chelsey Donn:

I wish we could do better.

Chelsey Donn:

Like I understand.

Chelsey Donn:

When you have the affairs and you're bringing in all these chairs, like they're lightweight.

Chelsey Donn:

Like I, I get like why we use these banquet type chairs or whatever they're called, but

Trey Gerrald:

Yeah, I have a similar relation to these folding banquet chairs.

Trey Gerrald:

Anytime they come out at like family gatherings.

Trey Gerrald:

I'm always the one that has to sit on them because I'm a boy and I'm usually

Trey Gerrald:

And so it's like the nice padded chairs that actually go with the dining room

Trey Gerrald:

But now I'm getting to an age where I'm

Chelsey Donn:

aging in

Trey Gerrald:

yes, but like I have a similar feeling, not, not, not of, not of the same fear.

Trey Gerrald:

Out of the comfortability

Chelsey Donn:

They're so uncomfortable.

Chelsey Donn:

Yeah.

Trey Gerrald:

you wanna sit in one of those folding chairs for a Passover

Chelsey Donn:

I Donn don't no, thank you.

Chelsey Donn:

I don't know.

Chelsey Donn:

I mean, again with the inventions, but like, can we do better?

Trey Gerrald:

Yeah.

Chelsey Donn:

Right.

Chelsey Donn:

Like, can we invent a chair that is both like super compact and like easy to store away when

Chelsey Donn:

And like also doesn't feel like it's gonna break in two seconds.

Trey Gerrald:

Wait, this is really funny, but I just thought about this.

Trey Gerrald:

This is connecting two things here, but I remember when David and I went

Trey Gerrald:

And so we were like, yeah, this is awesome.

Trey Gerrald:

And we went and it's literally, they like put out banquet chairs and, and it's like,

Trey Gerrald:

So it's like, there's, every leg is touching because they push.

Trey Gerrald:

So that they're smooshed up against each other and then you're sitting through an opener

Trey Gerrald:

I'm like, these tickets are hundreds of dollars.

Trey Gerrald:

I want like, I want like nice stadium seats.

Trey Gerrald:

And this is the Bogata

Chelsey Donn:

thank you.

Chelsey Donn:

That's

Trey Gerrald:

we're not at planned Hollywood.

Chelsey Donn:

They do have a venue, but I guess maybe Jerry Seinfeld needed

Chelsey Donn:

So they probably like used the ballroom or something like that and put a whole

Chelsey Donn:

But like, it's just been years of this with these chairs.

Chelsey Donn:

I mean, how I I've did any research, but I don't know how long they've been around.

Chelsey Donn:

They've been around a long time.

Chelsey Donn:

I just think we should do better.

Trey Gerrald:

I hear you, they serve the need, but I think we could up our

Chelsey Donn:

We have robot vacuums.

Chelsey Donn:

We can have better chairs

Trey Gerrald:

Mm-hmm did you see the promo for Hoka focus too?

Chelsey Donn:

not yet, but I, I do wanna watch it.

Chelsey Donn:

Are they, is there something with a robot vacuum?

Trey Gerrald:

Yeah, cuz you know how she rides the vacuum in the first

Chelsey Donn:

Yeah.

Trey Gerrald:

she's like on two robo vacuums.

Chelsey Donn:

Oh

Trey Gerrald:

Le each foot.

Chelsey Donn:

that's funny.

Chelsey Donn:

Except Kathy and Jamie.

Trey Gerrald:

Yeah.

Chelsey Donn:

Yeah, that's funny.

Chelsey Donn:

All right.

Chelsey Donn:

So do you feel like a little relief now?

Trey Gerrald:

no, I kind of feel angry now, but it's

Chelsey Donn:

Okay.

Chelsey Donn:

That's all right.

Chelsey Donn:

Well maybe somebody else is gonna be angry and then we can like commiserate.

Chelsey Donn:

Do you think we should jump into some online reviews?

Trey Gerrald:

Yeah, let's do it.

Chelsey Donn:

All right, let's do it.

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Review That Review

Chelsey Donn:

As you know, we are your trustee review Queens.

Chelsey Donn:

We bring in reviews from the internet that we feel need to be inspected.

Trey Gerrald:

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

Trey Gerrald:

It's a very Regal process that we call.

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that Kvetch.

Chelsey Donn:

Very Regal.

Chelsey Donn:

All right, Trey, what do you have for us today?

Trey Gerrald:

All right, I'm going back to basics.

Trey Gerrald:

And today my review is a One-Star-Zinger good reads review.

Chelsey Donn:

yeah.

Chelsey Donn:

Oh my goodness.

Chelsey Donn:

Okay.

Trey Gerrald:

This is written by Sarah and it is for, I don't know, Chelsey, if you've ever heard

Chelsey Donn:

oh, I believe I have heard of that.

Chelsey Donn:

Okay.

Trey Gerrald:

All right.

Trey Gerrald:

So this is Sarah's One-Star-Zinger review for William Shakespeare's romance

Chelsey Donn:

Shakespeare guy is pretty talented.

Trey Gerrald:

I don't know who he is.

Trey Gerrald:

Never heard of him.

Chelsey Donn:

Okay.

Trey Gerrald:

This is from September of 2011,

Chelsey Donn:

Okay.

Trey Gerrald:

and it says, recommends it for, and Sarah wrote no one who is sane.

Chelsey Donn:

Oh, okay.

Chelsey Donn:

Oh,

Trey Gerrald:

And that is above the review.

Trey Gerrald:

So here is the review.

Trey Gerrald:

This play was absolutely awful.

Trey Gerrald:

I had to read it for school and boy did.

Trey Gerrald:

I wish I didn't have to.

Trey Gerrald:

All the characters act like idiots.

Trey Gerrald:

Romeo is a fickle cry, baby Tibu is a hotheaded moron.

Trey Gerrald:

Juliet is an irresponsible naive romantic fool.

Trey Gerrald:

Paris is a desperate pussy nurse is just some woman going Cile dot, dot, dot

Trey Gerrald:

this story just gives teenagers all over the world.

Trey Gerrald:

A bad name.

Trey Gerrald:

I Donn don't think there is a single responsible teenager in the whole thing.

Trey Gerrald:

You wanna know something we actually exist.

Trey Gerrald:

There are plenty of responsible teenagers in the actual world, but apparently they

Trey Gerrald:

Plus all the adults are clueless as well, especially fryer Lawrence.

Trey Gerrald:

What made the man think marrying two teenagers against their parents' wills was a good idea.

Trey Gerrald:

That makes no sense exactly how will it help their families with their fighting problem.

Trey Gerrald:

It just sounds like a huge headache waiting to happen.

Trey Gerrald:

Then it blows up right in their faces right after.

Trey Gerrald:

And they're all surprised really?

Trey Gerrald:

You couldn't see it screwing up in the beginning

Chelsey Donn:

Mm-hmm

Trey Gerrald:

and really what the heck made them think.

Trey Gerrald:

Getting married right after meeting was a good idea.

Trey Gerrald:

Who's teaching these kids about love.

Trey Gerrald:

Because they are obviously missing out on the most important chapter, common sense, all caps do,

Trey Gerrald:

That is so unrealistic.

Chelsey Donn:

my God.

Chelsey Donn:

Well, I'm glad that in the end, Sarah put like, even for this time, cuz I thought this was very

Chelsey Donn:

So 2011 knowledge to a 16th century piece.

Chelsey Donn:

Of art or, you know, written, written piece of art.

Chelsey Donn:

I mean, this is the problem that I have with the good reads is I think that this

Chelsey Donn:

I actually think it's interesting.

Chelsey Donn:

I like that Sarah broke down all the characters and had such a perspective on this.

Chelsey Donn:

I think that that's kind of cool, but because I'm an artist.

Chelsey Donn:

I feel like why can't we have flawed characters?

Chelsey Donn:

Like why can't we have flawed story?

Chelsey Donn:

Why, why does every single story need to be about the responsible girl with

Chelsey Donn:

I don't think that Shakespeare is saying that every teenager that exists today or in 1596

Chelsey Donn:

Is this irresponsible, fickle, all of these things, but this is a story about teenagers

Chelsey Donn:

I mean, I hope that like we have grown and we have become more, you know, like adults

Trey Gerrald:

Yeah,

Chelsey Donn:

But I do like the breakdown.

Trey Gerrald:

I think it's funny to me.

Trey Gerrald:

I never really considered why does fryer Lawrence help them?

Chelsey Donn:

I Donn know, I guess, because fryer Lawrence is like a romantic.

Trey Gerrald:

But he's a, he's a monk, right?

Trey Gerrald:

Doesn't you like have a vow of chastity.

Chelsey Donn:

Maybe he's a secret romantic.

Chelsey Donn:

I mean, you could have a vow of chastity and still be like

Trey Gerrald:

No, you have to be in love with God.

Trey Gerrald:

No, you can only love God.

Chelsey Donn:

but they're not monks.

Chelsey Donn:

So they're allowed why?

Chelsey Donn:

I mean, if I'm lactose intolerant, I'm not gonna be like, you can't!' have the ice cream.

Trey Gerrald:

I'm sorry.

Trey Gerrald:

I guess you, as a Jewish person have never met a Christian Chelsey.

Chelsey Donn:

never.

Trey Gerrald:

oh my God.

Trey Gerrald:

Well, I also think it's funny.

Trey Gerrald:

Like, I kind of think that isn't Paris kind of like by all accounts in the story.

Trey Gerrald:

I don't remember.

Trey Gerrald:

Isn't he like upstanding and good.

Chelsey Donn:

I honestly don't remember.

Chelsey Donn:

I can't

Trey Gerrald:

he the one that kills Romeo

Chelsey Donn:

I thought,

Trey Gerrald:

who kill?

Chelsey Donn:

I thought they killed themselves.

Chelsey Donn:

They like with the poison and then

Trey Gerrald:

Oh.

Trey Gerrald:

He Romeo kills Paris.

Chelsey Donn:

Yeah, maybe.

Chelsey Donn:

I don't know.

Chelsey Donn:

I honestly don't remember the story.

Chelsey Donn:

Well enough.

Chelsey Donn:

I like read the history plays in high school.

Chelsey Donn:

We didn't, we didn't go for the Romeo and Juliet and I'm sure I saw the movie with Leo,

Chelsey Donn:

So I can't really like, I.

Chelsey Donn:

Speak to the accuracy of the character breakdown.

Chelsey Donn:

And I don't really care about that because I do think that art is subjective.

Chelsey Donn:

And I think it's super interesting that Sarah has this perspec, this like strong

Chelsey Donn:

I imagine if Sarah was in class and they were talking about it, maybe she would have to use

Chelsey Donn:

But I think that the teacher would be impressed that she has, like, she obviously got such a.

Chelsey Donn:

Like visceral reaction and has such an opinion of all of these characters.

Chelsey Donn:

I think that's really good.

Trey Gerrald:

I do too.

Trey Gerrald:

That's what really strikes me is like, I am getting a very strong.

Trey Gerrald:

Impression of Sarah being fed up with no representation of responsible teenagers,

Chelsey Donn:

Right, right.

Chelsey Donn:

Which is funny, cuz it's just like, well, we can't change it now, Sarah, like this is

Chelsey Donn:

There's there's nothing we could do now.

Chelsey Donn:

But I do think it's an interesting take Sarah.

Chelsey Donn:

Doesn't say, which I appreciate anywhere in the review.

Chelsey Donn:

Like don't read it.

Chelsey Donn:

It's a waste of time.

Chelsey Donn:

Does she?

Trey Gerrald:

No actually.

Chelsey Donn:

So I do appreciate that.

Chelsey Donn:

And I think that that's cool for like a good reads community, because I think if

Chelsey Donn:

And I think that Sarah exercised that.

Chelsey Donn:

Right.

Chelsey Donn:

And I appreciate that, but I do appreciate that.

Chelsey Donn:

She's not putting words in other people's mouths.

Chelsey Donn:

She's sort of presenting an argument.

Trey Gerrald:

Yeah, it's interesting to me because when I think of Ramo and Juliet, I don't really

Trey Gerrald:

And like, it is interesting how Sarah's just pointing out.

Trey Gerrald:

Like the parents were clueless and like didn't.

Trey Gerrald:

Like, they're not taking responsibility.

Trey Gerrald:

Like why aren't they taking, like, I think that's such an interesting takeaway from yeah.

Chelsey Donn:

totally.

Chelsey Donn:

And like, regardless, I mean maybe in the 15 hundreds there be an answer for that.

Chelsey Donn:

Like maybe they were working or taking care of other children or, you know, like whatever.

Trey Gerrald:

And also if we are looking back historically, if you were a teenager,

Chelsey Donn:

I was gonna say, I was gonna say, like, I think the whole thing about,

Chelsey Donn:

Like wasn't the life expectancy, like way down.

Chelsey Donn:

So like, technically as a teen, I mean,

Trey Gerrald:

Weren't you like an old maid?

Chelsey Donn:

Jesus died of 33, cuz that he didn't exactly die of natural causes, but you know,

Chelsey Donn:

I agree with Sarah or not in the context of good reads.

Chelsey Donn:

I think in other forums, it can be like, that's your opinion?

Chelsey Donn:

Why are you giving it a One-Star-Zinger?

Chelsey Donn:

But I don't know.

Chelsey Donn:

Who's like getting the money for the Shakespeare state at this point.

Chelsey Donn:

So I don't know.

Chelsey Donn:

Who's like profiting off of this good reads page.

Chelsey Donn:

And I think for that reason, it was funny.

Chelsey Donn:

It was entertaining.

Chelsey Donn:

How was the spelling and grammar?

Trey Gerrald:

pretty perfect.

Chelsey Donn:

yeah, like pretty good.

Chelsey Donn:

Like, I don't know if some of the same rules of like, let's go against Sarah's

Chelsey Donn:

Like this is Sarah's impression of the book or the play, and I think that's fair game.

Trey Gerrald:

Do we think she's being shady

Chelsey Donn:

Yeah, but I feel like in a fun teenager way, like, it feels like Sarah,

Chelsey Donn:

Right.

Chelsey Donn:

So it's like, Sarah's probably.

Chelsey Donn:

Like, I don't know, a freshman in high school or something like that, you know?

Chelsey Donn:

And so for a freshman in high school to like take to good reads and write this

Trey Gerrald:

Well, that's also why I was first intrigued by this obvious teenager

Trey Gerrald:

So it is kind of interesting to think.

Trey Gerrald:

We're making teenagers read the story about teenagers killing themselves.

Trey Gerrald:

Although RO Juliet doesn't really kill her artist.

Trey Gerrald:

She does at the end when she wakes up.

Trey Gerrald:

So I Donn don't I just spoil alert.

Trey Gerrald:

Oh, um,

Chelsey Donn:

It's you've had time.

Chelsey Donn:

Okay.

Chelsey Donn:

You've had time.

Trey Gerrald:

I mean, I don't know.

Trey Gerrald:

I guess I think like, is this, is there value in this review?

Trey Gerrald:

Not necessarily for the text itself, but I think it is unique.

Trey Gerrald:

I mean, it's a unique perspective.

Trey Gerrald:

If you were going to like revisit the material, I'm trying to think, like, if you've

Chelsey Donn:

Yeah.

Chelsey Donn:

If you've never read it and you're going to good reads to say, should I spend time then

Chelsey Donn:

Read it and, well, I don't know, who's reading the reviews on good reads.

Chelsey Donn:

That's that's really ultimately the question, because I think it's

Chelsey Donn:

I think it's an interesting interpretation point of view.

Chelsey Donn:

I could see this being written as like a paper, like a high school paper.

Chelsey Donn:

This is my, and I'm very intrigued by all of those elements, but.

Trey Gerrald:

another example where I'm like, I wanna know more about this reviewer.

Chelsey Donn:

right.

Chelsey Donn:

Totally.

Chelsey Donn:

And I, I guess, because like, I look at good reads so much to try to like find reviews and stuff.

Chelsey Donn:

I don't know.

Chelsey Donn:

I must have signed up for something at one point now I get these emails.

Chelsey Donn:

Like I Donn Donn, Donn, DT, know if you get them.

Chelsey Donn:

But like anytime my friends leave reviews for.

Chelsey Donn:

I get like a ding or whatever.

Chelsey Donn:

And so in reading my friends reviews this, it does seem like good reads is more of like a community

Chelsey Donn:

So it is interesting cuz I don't think it falls by the same rubric as some of the other platforms.

Trey Gerrald:

Yeah.

Trey Gerrald:

I also love the fact that like Sarah was assigned this as an assignment

Trey Gerrald:

Sure.

Trey Gerrald:

You know, like there's something very endearing about that, but it is interesting cuz it feels to

Chelsey Donn:

for sure.

Chelsey Donn:

It's funny.

Chelsey Donn:

It is funny.

Chelsey Donn:

I laughed a lot.

Trey Gerrald:

yeah, it's more POV I think, than it is a review.

Chelsey Donn:

Right.

Chelsey Donn:

Exactly.

Chelsey Donn:

Which I love POV in her review.

Chelsey Donn:

I really do.

Chelsey Donn:

I would just ordinarily I think, knock her for like, is she giving, she's giving a lot

Chelsey Donn:

I don't think that Sarah's opinion is everybody's opinion.

Chelsey Donn:

I think I have to say that just for the few people that might be going to good read.

Chelsey Donn:

To look for, you know, an accurate interpretation while Sarah didn't say, nobody should read

Chelsey Donn:

I don't think that Sarah had any perspective other than it sucks.

Trey Gerrald:

Yeah.

Chelsey Donn:

Right.

Trey Gerrald:

And if they did, they Donn don't share it.

Trey Gerrald:

I mean, they don't, they Donn don't talk about any of the virtues of.

Chelsey Donn:

Right.

Chelsey Donn:

They're not like I understand that this is Romeo and Juliet, and I understand that it's

Chelsey Donn:

Like, no, but was it remarkable for the time period that it was written in?

Chelsey Donn:

Yes, it was.

Chelsey Donn:

So we're not really.

Chelsey Donn:

Putting any of that into the review.

Chelsey Donn:

So if I had any criticism for Sarah, I would say, it's that

Trey Gerrald:

But I do think that that's part of the value here, because I feel like every review

Trey Gerrald:

I mean, I've never considered this.

Trey Gerrald:

And I had to read rim and Juliet when I was in high school.

Chelsey Donn:

Yeah, I don't, we didn't have to Rome, Romeo and Juliet, but I, I don't think

Chelsey Donn:

That I've heard regularly, but there is a lot of debate about Romeo and Juliet out there.

Chelsey Donn:

So I'm sure I'm sure there are other people that support Sarah's

Trey Gerrald:

I just don't think I personalized it the way Sarah is

Chelsey Donn:

Which I do sort of exactly.

Chelsey Donn:

It's like, I wanna like criticize it, but I also love it cuz I think that's what we should

Chelsey Donn:

And I think that really the issue is, you know, assigning this in school.

Chelsey Donn:

That's why I think that my high school was like, let's go straight to the history plays.

Chelsey Donn:

Let's read Henry the fifth because like what is the inherent lesson in Romeo

Chelsey Donn:

End up killing themselves.

Chelsey Donn:

Right.

Chelsey Donn:

So what is the like lesson there in terms of a teachable

Trey Gerrald:

yeah, but isn't the point, but I actually think isn't the point, like

Chelsey Donn:

maybe.

Trey Gerrald:

like in a grander scheme is that the word scheme, like in a grander scale, like

Chelsey Donn:

It just makes me like, think about like, if in Sarah's classroom, what are

Chelsey Donn:

Are they like, now this is the way you should be?

Chelsey Donn:

Like, what, like, what are they saying?

Chelsey Donn:

That's making Sarah personalize this so much.

Chelsey Donn:

And I have to be like, hold up.

Chelsey Donn:

My teach is wrong.

Chelsey Donn:

You know, like what.

Trey Gerrald:

Although I will say I do agree that I think the parent parental characters

Trey Gerrald:

They're so caught up in shit that has nothing to do with the

Chelsey Donn:

totally.

Trey Gerrald:

which does seem to be a trope honestly.

Trey Gerrald:

And young adult storytelling

Chelsey Donn:

Well, because you need to get yeah, but you need to get 'em out of the way.

Trey Gerrald:

Correct?

Chelsey Donn:

Otherwise you couldn't have euphoria, whatever.

Chelsey Donn:

I Donn don't watch that show,

Trey Gerrald:

I mean Donn either.

Trey Gerrald:

Well, alright, so I Donn know, do you think you can crown this I'm feeling

Chelsey Donn:

I know that's what I'm feeling as well.

Chelsey Donn:

But I think we, we crown this honoring that this is a literary space and that the reviews

Trey Gerrald:

Yeah, I think I can crown it.

Chelsey Donn:

I'm I'm ready to crown.

Chelsey Donn:

Yes.

Trey Gerrald:

Okay.

Trey Gerrald:

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

Trey Gerrald:

We will simultaneously reveal our rating.

VOICEOVER:

Queens are Tabulating

VOICEOVER:

to.

Chelsey Donn:

Okay, I'm holding up four crowns.

Chelsey Donn:

Trey is holding up three and a half crowns.

Chelsey Donn:

I'll go first.

Chelsey Donn:

I went with four crowns cuz you know, I love a strong POV.

Chelsey Donn:

I love a strong POV that I believe, I believe Sarah's like conviction about this piece.

Chelsey Donn:

And I think that she brought an interesting.

Chelsey Donn:

Perspective to this historic literary text that other people in the good

Chelsey Donn:

Something a little bit different.

Chelsey Donn:

So for the environment that this review lives in, and the fact that I got a pretty good laugh out

Chelsey Donn:

Why did you go with three and a half?

Chelsey Donn:

Trey?

Trey Gerrald:

Well, I'm still very conflicted, cuz I do think that this

Chelsey Donn:

Yeah,

Trey Gerrald:

And I think this might be the first time on the show where.

Trey Gerrald:

Is this typical, is this atypical that it swings in the opposite way as a positive to

Chelsey Donn:

Right.

Trey Gerrald:

But, but it is also interesting just to say like Sarah is reviewing Romeo

Trey Gerrald:

Like none of like this doesn't make sense, but isn't telling you.

Trey Gerrald:

That it's not good.

Trey Gerrald:

Don't read it.

Trey Gerrald:

It's bad.

Trey Gerrald:

Like they don't really go into that.

Trey Gerrald:

It's sort of reviewing the circumstances within the, like the plot basically.

Trey Gerrald:

So I said three and a half, because I'm not sure how this is as an actual review

Chelsey Donn:

Mm-hmm

Trey Gerrald:

of the text of like what it actually is, but I'm obsessed with Sarah

Chelsey Donn:

Well, since this is written in 2011, we can rest assured

Chelsey Donn:

So maybe Sarah has new perspectives on this as an adult.

Chelsey Donn:

All right, Sarah, if you're listening 1 8 5 0 review zero.

Trey Gerrald:

Yeah.

Trey Gerrald:

I wanna know, please, if you know, Sarah, please have them call in.

Trey Gerrald:

I'm so curious.

Trey Gerrald:

Does anyone have their own memories of having to read Shakespeare?

Trey Gerrald:

Did anyone actually read it?

Trey Gerrald:

Did anyone like pretend yeah.

Trey Gerrald:

Spark notes?

Chelsey Donn:

spark notes.

Chelsey Donn:

Some.

Chelsey Donn:

I mean that I thought when you brought in the One-Star-Zinger, cuz I would think like most

Chelsey Donn:

Like I can't!' the, I am a contam and like the reversal of words and just the way

Trey Gerrald:

this really went left field.

Chelsey Donn:

Yeah, it wasn't.

Chelsey Donn:

I mean, Sarah really had a better understanding of the text as a teenager

Chelsey Donn:

Apparently

Trey Gerrald:

well, like now that we're on this topic and we're outside of the review,

Chelsey Donn:

right.

Chelsey Donn:

Same.

Trey Gerrald:

So like, what is the point of west side story?

Trey Gerrald:

Will they sort of make it about race right.

Chelsey Donn:

Yeah.

Chelsey Donn:

I think it is a.

Chelsey Donn:

It is about like, how far are we willing to go?

Chelsey Donn:

I think for hate, like, can we experience love?

Chelsey Donn:

Can we like side with love in the landscape of hate?

Chelsey Donn:

I guess, I

Trey Gerrald:

there a place for us?

Chelsey Donn:

where there's a place for us somewhere, a place for us, but not

Trey Gerrald:

I guess I'm just curious, like I would have to actually look at

Trey Gerrald:

Like, I don't think the point is that they're star CCRS lovers.

Trey Gerrald:

I think the point is the culture they're inside of makes them star CCRS lovers.

Trey Gerrald:

And so they're victim to their circumstance.

Chelsey Donn:

hundred percent.

Chelsey Donn:

Yes.

Trey Gerrald:

So I

Chelsey Donn:

Yeah.

Chelsey Donn:

It's like, they're choosing love, but like their environment that they come from is

Trey Gerrald:

maybe Sarah didn't get.

Chelsey Donn:

Maybe maybe there are plot holes.

Chelsey Donn:

Maybe it's just like, it sounds like Sarah started to read the book and then was so

Chelsey Donn:

Adjectives that she used that she couldn't even ascertain the story, cuz she was just like,

Chelsey Donn:

You expect me to like enter into this contract where I'm supposed to acknowledge

Trey Gerrald:

I mean, it is hilarious to me reading what made this fryer think

Trey Gerrald:

I mean, that's hilarious as a hilarious thesis

Chelsey Donn:

Right.

Trey Gerrald:

cause like why, why did he.

Chelsey Donn:

But like we said, probably because the like marital age was like very low.

Chelsey Donn:

I don't know like how unusual it was,

Trey Gerrald:

But even back then, that's what a dowry is.

Trey Gerrald:

Like, you're paying cuz you're buying the daughter, like that's the whole point, right?

Trey Gerrald:

Like that's why they were all inbred and buy cuz it's like, you're buying the castle.

Trey Gerrald:

So like why would you do that against the parents will like don't you need them for the marital

Chelsey Donn:

why I think that the fryer believed in love.

Trey Gerrald:

I mean, this is all, none of this is real.

Trey Gerrald:

So like who cares?

Trey Gerrald:

But like, God, I think it's so funny.

Trey Gerrald:

This was much more entertaining to me than someone actually doing a literary review of

Chelsey Donn:

Right.

Chelsey Donn:

Exactly.

Chelsey Donn:

And that's why I feel like it's successful as a review cuz it's like, I just, I had something

Chelsey Donn:

And it was definitely not this

Trey Gerrald:

do.

Chelsey Donn:

I like being surprised.

Trey Gerrald:

Agreed.

Trey Gerrald:

All right.

Trey Gerrald:

Well maybe you and I can read some saunas on the after show.

Chelsey Donn:

Sure.

Chelsey Donn:

I compare the two, a summer's day that were more lovely and more

Trey Gerrald:

Temperate

Chelsey Donn:

Thank you.

Chelsey Donn:

Okay.

Chelsey Donn:

Somewhere in there.

Chelsey Donn:

Sure.

Chelsey Donn:

Why

Trey Gerrald:

leather, yellow leather.

Chelsey Donn:

Yeah.

Chelsey Donn:

Get those, uh, vocal exercises going.

Chelsey Donn:

All right.

Chelsey Donn:

My Queen

Trey Gerrald:

Yes.

Chelsey Donn:

it's time.

Trey Gerrald:

All right.

Trey Gerrald:

Diva Queen.

Trey Gerrald:

We have reached the most Regal portion of our show Chelsey.

Trey Gerrald:

Who are you inducting today?

VOICEOVER:

My Royal line.

Chelsey Donn:

All right, try.

Chelsey Donn:

So I Donn don't know if you've been noticing as we've been recording,

Trey Gerrald:

That

Chelsey Donn:

water and that's what I wanna induct today.

Chelsey Donn:

Thank you.

Chelsey Donn:

I wanna adopt water, clean water, drinking water at thank you as my

Chelsey Donn:

Here's the thing, listeners.

Chelsey Donn:

I think there's a lot of you out there who can relate to me.

Trey Gerrald:

okay.

Chelsey Donn:

there are a lot of us who do not drink a lot enough water.

Chelsey Donn:

Trey Gerrald is not one of those people.

Chelsey Donn:

He doesn't understand.

Chelsey Donn:

Okay.

Chelsey Donn:

Trey Gerrald drinks a lot of water, but for those of us who don't drink a lot

Chelsey Donn:

I, you know, I've been running around, I was, you know, helping with the bat mitzvah.

Chelsey Donn:

I wasn't drinking enough water.

Chelsey Donn:

And I was like having headaches.

Chelsey Donn:

I was having all like little like depression, all these like symptoms

Chelsey Donn:

And then when I realize that and I start drinking water, I actually feel so much better.

Chelsey Donn:

And it's just one of those things that I think.

Chelsey Donn:

Because I'm not someone that drinks a lot of water.

Chelsey Donn:

I didn't really think about it in that context.

Chelsey Donn:

I'm like, I know I gotta be drinking more water, but the reality is drinking.

Chelsey Donn:

Water has so many benefits for our lives, for our mental health, for our physical health in so many

Chelsey Donn:

There's, there's a lot to be grateful for in terms of having access to clean water.

Chelsey Donn:

And the fact that, you know, We can be better and we can feel better just by

Chelsey Donn:

So I thought, what better, what better nomination than water for my Royal Highness,

Chelsey Donn:

So here I go, I'm gonna drink some now.

Chelsey Donn:

Delicious.

Trey Gerrald:

Yes water.

Trey Gerrald:

I'm surprised we haven't inducted water, honestly, at this point,

Chelsey Donn:

all the times that we've spoken about by hydration issues and water.

Chelsey Donn:

I just felt like, wait, have we not inducted water?

Chelsey Donn:

And also people are so into the different kind of water bottles.

Chelsey Donn:

You know what I mean?

Chelsey Donn:

It always feels like you can never have enough water bottles.

Trey Gerrald:

mean, there's two ways to go about this.

Trey Gerrald:

The funny response here for me is like, I love water.

Trey Gerrald:

There, there, there is nothing more high, like quenching than cold water

Trey Gerrald:

And then also like the like serious reaction is like, you know, not everyone has access

Trey Gerrald:

You, you like have to like what's happening in Flint still today is horrifying.

Trey Gerrald:

Um, but yeah, no, I totally agree.

Trey Gerrald:

Water.

Trey Gerrald:

You are a.

Chelsey Donn:

You are a Queen like the ultimate Queen, the OG Queen.

Trey Gerrald:

Water is the base of everything.

Chelsey Donn:

exactly like she,

Trey Gerrald:

ho

Chelsey Donn:

she ho was here way before we were, is all Masai.

Chelsey Donn:

Okay.

Chelsey Donn:

So we gotta do the H two ho the honor of recognition and also.

Chelsey Donn:

I wanted to find a way to bring cuz you know, we love hydration and

Chelsey Donn:

So I thought, how could we honor water?

Chelsey Donn:

How could we, how could we bring this even further?

Chelsey Donn:

And I thought I Donn if it's okay with you, Trey, maybe for the rest of the month, anyone who wants

Chelsey Donn:

If you write a review for the rest of the month and we pick you, I'm gonna send you

Trey Gerrald:

I love the giveaway time.

Chelsey Donn:

it's a giveaway time water.

Chelsey Donn:

Makes the world go round and I wanna do my part in helping our listeners stay hydrated, cuz I

Chelsey Donn:

So if you wanna take time out of your day to write a lovely review for our show, I wanna take time

Chelsey Donn:

So please leave us a review on apple podcast.

Chelsey Donn:

All seriousness.

Chelsey Donn:

It means so much to us.

Chelsey Donn:

It really helps the ranking of our show.

Chelsey Donn:

It helps other people listen to our show.

Chelsey Donn:

Uh, and if you get levity, enjoyment, laughs anything out of this podcast and

Trey Gerrald:

Concur.

Chelsey Donn:

Conk.

Trey Gerrald:

Well, that's it.

Trey Gerrald:

My Queen, we did it.

Trey Gerrald:

That is another round on the R a RQ Ferris wheel of Romeo and Julie wet,

Chelsey Donn:

yes.

Chelsey Donn:

I mean, not like in that way.

Trey Gerrald:

wet water.

Chelsey Donn:

felt really gross, but I

Trey Gerrald:

Didn't Ophelia die in a stream of water.

Trey Gerrald:

Don't be Ophelia.

Chelsey Donn:

don't be Ophelia.

Chelsey Donn:

And don't be Juliet for that matter.

Trey Gerrald:

Just be you

Chelsey Donn:

Just be you.

Chelsey Donn:

I hydrated you.

Chelsey Donn:

Thank you.

Chelsey Donn:

Hydrated.

Chelsey Donn:

You just be a hydrated.

Chelsey Donn:

You thank you for joining us today.

Chelsey Donn:

If you like what you heard, please tell a friend.

Trey Gerrald:

If you didn't like what you heard, please tell an enemy.

Trey Gerrald:

If you don't have an enemy and you don't have any friends, then you wanna be featured

Trey Gerrald:

Help us out by writing us a review.

Trey Gerrald:

You can do that on apple podcasts.

Trey Gerrald:

If you wanna win this water bottle, we've made it super easy with a super cute hyperlink.

Trey Gerrald:

Love the podcast.com/the review Queens.

Trey Gerrald:

It's in our show notes still below.

Trey Gerrald:

So you don't have to remember it.

Trey Gerrald:

Go do it.

Trey Gerrald:

Win the water bottle.

Trey Gerrald:

Pump us up

Chelsey Donn:

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Chelsey Donn:

You could also support our show by visiting Review That Review dot com

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Chelsey Donn:

You can follow us on all the socials at the review Queens and I'm at ChelseyBD.

Trey Gerrald:

And I am at Trey Gerrald

Chelsey Donn:

On today's after show podcast, we are reviewing a One-Star-Zinger

Chelsey Donn:

It is called love.

Chelsey Donn:

It is called lock and love.

Chelsey Donn:

Women's soft, basic, lightweight, long sleeve turtleneck, top size,

Chelsey Donn:

I don't know if that's a super call.

Trey Gerrald:

It's called Lovelock.

Chelsey Donn:

It is called love, lock and love

Trey Gerrald:

Hmm.

Trey Gerrald:

Interesting.

Trey Gerrald:

All right.

Trey Gerrald:

Well,

Chelsey Donn:

to find out what made Trey say.

Trey Gerrald:

Shakespeare was never my thing, honey, this ain't for me.

Trey Gerrald:

And to find out what made Chelsey say,

Chelsey Donn:

They to think a psychic told me that I was Shakespeare in a past life.

Chelsey Donn:

I really must have, uh, repressed a lot of memories.

Trey Gerrald:

you gotta become a member of our Patreon over at Patreon dot com slash Review That

Trey Gerrald:

Doth vast.

Trey Gerrald:

Remember

Chelsey Donn:

Ignore the haters you're Queen

Trey Gerrald:

gender nonspecific Queen.

Chelsey Donn:

of course.

Trey Gerrald:

Bye.

VOICEOVER:

Review That Review.

VOICEOVER:

Dependent podcast, certain names have been redacted or changed to protect the guilty

VOICEOVER:

Our cover art was designed by LogoVora and a theme song was written by Joe

Chelsey Donn:

So it was, it was Leo and Kate Winslet, right in the Lerman

Trey Gerrald:

No that's

Chelsey Donn:

and Julie.

Chelsey Donn:

No.

Chelsey Donn:

Oh, Claire Dan.

Chelsey Donn:

Oh, sorry.

Chelsey Donn:

But it was Leo.

Chelsey Donn:

It was Leo.

Chelsey Donn:

It was Leo.

Chelsey Donn:

It was Leo and Claire.

Chelsey Donn:

Dan that's right.

Chelsey Donn:

That's right.

Chelsey Donn:

Gotta give that a revisit.

Trey Gerrald:

but I thought the old lady dropped it into the ocean in the end.

Chelsey Donn:

oh my God.

Chelsey Donn:

Do you think I'll find an Emerald heart?

Chelsey Donn:

Not Emerald

Trey Gerrald:

What's wrong with you?

Chelsey Donn:

I Donn know what's wrong with me.

Trey Gerrald:

I love Troy less than Cordes.

Chelsey Donn:

I gotta keep drinking water.

Chelsey Donn:

My brain's not working right.

Trey Gerrald:

Girl, you know, that water bottle

Chelsey Donn:

Mm, delicious.

Trey Gerrald:

icy.

Chelsey Donn:

I did get the ice Yu.

Chelsey Donn:

Okay.

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Trey Gerrald

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Chelsey Donn

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