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Everybody's got an opinion.

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Every Californian in Virginia, it's so hard to tell who to cho and who to ignore.

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Someone's gotta settle the score.

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Hello.

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Well, hello and welcome once again to review that review.

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That's Chelsey Donn, and that's Trey Gerrald.

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That Review, we believe in balance, the good, the bad, the vecchi.

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So it is only fair that we take a quick little moment up top to vetch it out.

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Chelsey, would you like to

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lodge a complaint?

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I would try.

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I would like to lodge a complaint, actually.

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Mm-hmm.

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I need to lodge a complaint, but I think first I'm gonna need to

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transfer you to another department.

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Before you can lodge the Wait.

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No, no, no.

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Actually, let's transfer you back to that initial department and

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then you can lodge the, no, no, no.

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Actually there's a third department that you should have been.

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I don't know why they transferred you to that other department before,

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because they should have actually transferred you to this third department.

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I'm so sorry about that.

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I don't know why they would've done that to begin with.

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Let me transfer you to the third department.

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Oh, you know what, actually, you know what you need.

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You need that first department that you originally ta.

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No, no.

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Get it together.

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I cannot stand a never ending customer service loop.

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Who is it that I'm supposed to talk to?

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I literally was doing this the other day with like my doctor and the pharmacy and

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like I was, I was coordinating things and they kept like transferring me all over

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and then I'm like, no, no, no, no, no.

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This is where I'm supposed to be.

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And I had to like insist that they not transfer me out.

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Stay on the phone with them, give them like a whole list of information as

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to why this was the proper department.

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Mm-hmm.

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Before they actually looked it up, looked up my information, and then

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they were like, oh, yeah, you're right.

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Actually, that person does work here.

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Let me transfer you over there.

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What the f?

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Mm-hmm.

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Angry.

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Angry.

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So angry.

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Why?

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Why does this keep happening?

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It's a very good complaint.

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I feel like.

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Incompetence.

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I have a very low threshold for,

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yeah, same.

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And there, it just feel, anytime you have to call customer service,

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it always feels like you're just like the ball in a tennis match.

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Like you're just being batted around, oh my God, no one

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actually wants to deal with you.

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I, I try to avoid customer service as much as possible.

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I know, especially when there is that whole like.

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Oh, I don't know why you were sent here.

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It's like, oh my God.

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I don't either.

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I'd rather you not even say it.

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Don't even say it.

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Right.

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Don't even say it because then what?

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I'm supposed to think you're my hero, right?

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Like, what are you, Mariah Carey?

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All of a sudden you're my hero and I'm supposed to be like thanking you for

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being the one person with a brain when it turns out Nope, not you either.

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Not you either.

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I don't know her.

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I don't know her.

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Good complaint.

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Oh my God.

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Thank you.

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Chelsey, I'm very curious when you think about New York City.

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Okay.

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And you think about television shows.

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Yes.

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Are there any television shows where it felt like New York City was

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like a main character of the show?

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Seinfeld.

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Yes.

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Sex in the city.

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Ding, ding, ding, ding.

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Friends.

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Okay.

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Now, uniquely Seinfeld and friends were both filmed, not in New York,

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you're right.

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But Sex

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in the City was.

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Sex in the city

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was,

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yes.

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Now, when you think about sex in the city, let's say you're a sweet gal who

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lives in Minneapolis and you are, feel like you are Carrie and Samantha, and.

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And you.

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Is this the

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Sex and the City tour?

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No.

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No, no, no.

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Okay.

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I got really excited for a second.

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If you were planning a trip to New York

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Yeah.

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And as part of the Sex and the City tour.

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Yeah.

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If you didn't do that, but you were gonna create your own, what

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are some institutions from Sex and the City that have become infamous

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and famous from Sex in the City?

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I feel like Magnolia Bakery.

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Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.

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Today you and I are gonna be rating and reviewing a one star Yelp review.

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Four.

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Okay.

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Magnolia Bakery.

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Ooh, very good.

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I I do like Magnolia.

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Well, certain things about it.

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Okay.

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We'll get to it.

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Yeah.

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There was actually a spinoff of Sex in the City.

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It was called just like that before that.

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It was called the Carrie

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Diaries

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and yours, and you were on

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that.

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Yours truly was on the Carrie Diaries.

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That's right.

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Where I had to tell a teenage Carrie that her friend was dying of aids.

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Thank you.

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Oh, Martin.

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Hey, that out.

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If anyone wants an autograph, I'm here.

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I was gonna

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say, and the Golden Globe goes to

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me, Trey

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Gerald.

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For the Carrie Diaries.

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Um, okay, here we go.

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So, okay.

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If anyone like doesn't know, like, I don't, if you don't know Magnolia Bakery

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Fair, but if you don't know Sex in the City, I don't know how you are in

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the review, that review at Atmosphere.

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To be fair,

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I don't know how you found yourself here.

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Correct.

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But, um, let us

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know in the comments.

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But yeah, so Magnolia Bakery existed but totally popped off because the

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girls would go there on the show.

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So.

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There are like four or five locations actually in the city,

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which I didn't even realize.

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My like, favorite, hilarious one is there's actually one

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in the Grand Central terminal.

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Um, and um, that's actually where this one is coming from.

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So

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I feel like there's so many things at Grand Central.

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Every time I come into Grand Central, I'm like, and there's a Z Bars here.

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Yes.

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Right.

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You know,

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like there's just like so many things down there.

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There's that

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like famous oyster bar that's down there too.

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Yeah.

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Which is so weird way.

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I think they're

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just like, people come to New York and they're like, you know

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what, you could just stay here.

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We got it all.

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Let's do it all.

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Yeah,

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yeah.

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Okay, so here we go.

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So, Magnolia Bakery, one star Yelp review.

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This is actually written by Chef Earth

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and um, they have 397 reviews on Yelp.

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Wow.

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Okay.

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And they've

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included 563 images.

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Okay.

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Do we have an image here?

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We do not.

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Oh.

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Well, I know this was written over four years ago when I screenshotted

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this, which was probably two years ago.

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Okay.

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Here we are, chef Earth's one star Yelp pur for Magnolia.

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I would give zero stars if I could.

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Mm-hmm.

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I have been eating Magnolia Banana pudding for over 10 years,

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Los Angeles, and mostly ny.

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Today I was at Grand Central Terminal.

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And got a medium banana pudding.

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Basically it was whipped cream with a lot puff air, maybe a half vanilla

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wafer and whole container and a few bits, and I mean, tiny bits of banana.

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Mm-hmm.

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Rip off.

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What a joke.

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$7 whipped cream and not even organic.

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Barely tasted the banana

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so upset.

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The cupcakes shrunk years ago.

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And the recipe changed years ago, so I stopped eating them as they

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are not the same as years ago.

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And they taste like chemicals now, so don't bother with bad cupcakes.

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I would say to friends, get the banana pudding.

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It's the best.

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Well, today you ruined the last good thing you have on menu.

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Sadly, I am sure you don't care.

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Magnolia Bakery is a corporation and not a good bakery.

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In New York,

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there are a zillion really good cupcake shops and bakeries that still

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take pride in what they make so long.

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Magnolia Bakery.

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I will make my own pudding now.

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I will go elsewhere for cupcakes with a whole box of vanilla wafers and

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make it organic, as well as organic whipped cream and organic bananas.

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It's easy and you will have the magic that long ago existed with

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the old Magnolia once upon a time.

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DIY, banana Pudding Recipe online.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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So everyone watching on YouTube, you can see how this is formatted, but just so

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you can see why I read it the way that I read it, I think chef, chef earthy really,

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really is into hitting that inter button.

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Oh, wow.

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Yeah.

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So it's, it's, it's, uh, it's a lot of, it's like, um, an Ee Cummings

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poem or something like that.

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Which now that I look at it because this is a chef, like when I first

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found this review, I didn't clock that the name is chef, but like to be like

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I'm making my own now is so funny.

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But like if you're a chef, you're not a baker.

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It's different.

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But like you, it looks visually like a recipe to me with all

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these spaces and these enters.

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I mean, and Okay, interesting.

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'cause I was gonna say recipe online, was it like linked to

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their website or something?

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But like, am I just supposed to search for Chef Earth E. Banana pudding recipe.

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I mean recipe online.

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Where are they?

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Just saying Google.

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Google making your own banana pudding.

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I think it could be either of those scenarios.

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Either they're trying to pimp themselves out or I think they're

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saying you can just, there are DIY Banana pudding recipes online.

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I'm gonna look, but why is there an enter in between?

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I don't know.

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Also like it's like a menu maybe.

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Like off of like just going through like the spelling grammar on this is wild.

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Like it's legible but it's just a very specific style and I don't know if that's

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like, I don't know if Chef Earthy is like an older person or, or I don't understand

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how, like if you look at today I was at Grand Central Terminal, no Caps Anywhere

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and got a medium enter banana, enter.

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Capital P pudding, like, I don't understand.

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And then it's like basically enter it was search cream.

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Like what?

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But maybe it's because they wanna like, like you've read it, they want to tell

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you like how to, like I got a medium

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right.

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Banana pudding.

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Well, it makes sense.

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Not

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a, not vanilla pudding.

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I got a medium banana.

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Pudding.

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Like, it's just like, it's really, well, it

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reads that way later where it says ripoff.

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What a joke.

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$7 whip cream.

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Yeah.

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Not even arga.

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Like I get that.

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I like, yeah, like,

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it's like, it's like a, it's like a Jan Brady.

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Like, I don't know.

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Everyone like,

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yes.

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She like

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goes crazy.

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Yes.

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Wasn't RuPaul in the Brady Bunch movie?

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It was in both of them.

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Moha, Moha, Moha.

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Yeah, exactly.

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Um.

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Um, so anyway, I, sorry for that.

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Digress.

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I digress.

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So,

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at the beginning you said only certain things.

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So what are your things about Mag Magnolia?

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Yes.

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So a hundred percent the

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bread pudding, like I banana always found the magnolia cupcakes to be way too sweet.

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Mm-hmm.

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Like, it's not even that there was so much frosting, there was like a lot

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of frosting on the cupcake, but the frosting itself, I remember being like.

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Wow, this is like a cavity in a frosting.

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Like it was like sacrant horrible, too sweet for me.

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But the bread pudding was delicious.

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Bread ping.

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I'm sorry, but

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you, you said that twice,

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did I?

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Yeah.

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I like bread pudding too, but I meant, but the banana pudding.

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The banana pudding, it was delicious.

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That's like so upsetting to me because.

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I was in college, you know, we were in college on the same time, so like

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around 2009, 2008, I was going and getting this banana pudding for my

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birthday and stuff, and it was like a decadent treat, like, oh my God.

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The Magnolia?

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Mm-hmm.

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Yeah.

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In fact, I actually bought the Magnolia Cookbook.

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Mm-hmm.

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Just because I wanted to have the recipe of this banana pudding, like.

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Well, I'll tell you as a southern person, banana pudding is like when you go to

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a Chinese buffet in South Carolina, they have six little things of dessert

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and it's always banana pudding, like that's how serious banana pudding is.

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In the south, you will always find n wafer banana pudding.

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It is like a thing.

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So Magnolia like took it up.

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To like the stratosphere?

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Yes.

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So much so that when my sister had her first baby shower, I was actually

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living in la It was when Chelsey and I met each other and there is a

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Magnolia bakery in West Hollywood.

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Is it West Hollywood?

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No,

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I think it's Beverly Hill.

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It's something

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near that breakfast place.

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It doesn't matter.

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Um, and I organized it being delivered to Charlotte, North

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Carolina for her baby shower.

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Yeah.

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And it was such a hit because.

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Obviously that's the right demographic is like these girls Southern that are having

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babies that like are in their thirties, like baby shower is gonna be Magnolia.

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Um, but I'll tell you, this is some realty.

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Anyone that's listening, if you ever go to New York, go to Magnolia,

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like for the nostalgia and whatever, but there is a rival company.

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I wouldn't even call them Rival.

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There's another bakery.

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It's called Billy's Bakery.

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There's about four of Billy.

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Billy.

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Billy, like the killer and scream One Billy?

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Yeah, Billy

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Billy's bakery.

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There's three or four of them.

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Their banana pudding is so much better.

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Really,

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I can't even describe it.

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Also, their cupcakes are not disgusting.

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They also are.

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Vegan friendly.

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Magnolia doesn't do anything.

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They don't accommodate any allergies at all.

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They don't do anything at all.

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Which part of me is like, that's kind of badass.

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But it's also like what?

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Like we're in a culture of like, like they don't even do a nut

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allergy version, so like Right.

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They don't accommodate, um, which we're gonna circle back

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to, but um, check out Billy's.

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Okay.

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Um, but yeah, the banana pudding.

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Is I live and die.

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If I'm gonna go to Magnolia, I'm gonna get banana pudding.

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I'm not trifling with any of those cupcakes.

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It's not

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vegan.

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The pudding, the banana pudding is not vegan.

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Nothing at Bill.

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Nothing at Magnolia is vegan.

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No, no.

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You're saying the bills.

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The bills is banana pudding is,

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I don't know why you keep cutting up.

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Why

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Billy's Banana pudding is not vegan.

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No, I'm sure that it's not.

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No.

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'cause there's egg.

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Yeah.

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But they have vegan options.

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Sorry.

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Magnolia doesn't accommodate any specialty.

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They don't have any non options.

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Nothing on the menu, anything.

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Right.

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They don't do anything at all to accommodate anyone who has any issue.

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Right.

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Whereas Billy's has options.

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Right, right, right.

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Okay.

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So

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I mean, this is personally upset, like I'm getting riled up because what this was,

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when did you say this review was written?

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Years

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ago.

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Over four years ago Ago.

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This couple years ago ago.

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But

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still.

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I'm trying to think of the last time that I had like banana pudding

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for Magnolia and it was probably like pe, like pre pandemic.

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So that has gotta be over five years ago.

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And if this is what has become of Magnolia Bread pudding,

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uh, why do we keep doing that?

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I dunno if what has become a magnolia banana pudding, I am very upset.

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And I will say that a lot of the reviews talk about a decline,

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which I don't know, that's just something I wonder, say, do they

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sell?

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They sell to like a corporation?

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They must have,

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I don't know.

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Because they're calling, the chef is calling it out as being,

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but how don't, do we know?

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Who knows?

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Is that true?

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Who knows?

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Oh, they, they're a chef.

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What did you think about overly hitting a, well, first of all, we have to point out

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before anything else that we started with, like the most cliched line of course.

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Right.

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Um, if I could give it zero star, I would.

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And then what do we think about the organic banana organic

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pudding or like, I mean, obviously this is, you know, chef earthy.

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Yeah.

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Chef Earth.

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So clearly they care about, what did you think about them hitting us with that?

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Oh, that's so funny.

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Earth.

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Um, I don't know.

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I mean, it's, it, it seems to me, taking this at face value, if we are assuming

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that Chef Earth is only telling truths.

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For it to not be organic.

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Also seems weird to me.

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I mean, we're in a culture where people are consumed with allergies

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and we're consumed with health.

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So like to be a bakery operating in 2025 and to not be organic and to not

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have other options seems odd to me.

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And the fact that like, we're charging a pretty penny.

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It's not like we're charging, you know, this is like cheap

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street food or something.

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No offense to.

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Straight food, which is great, but when you're going to an establishment

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like this and you're paying a lot of money, I think, yeah, you do probably

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expect organic or local ingredients.

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Certainly Chef Earth does,

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and to this point, like there was maybe half of a vanilla wafer

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and then tiny bits of banana.

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I have personally.

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Been affected by Regina George.

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I have felt that where it's like, and I don't know if that's an issue

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with scooping out in the vat, right?

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Because you're just getting a little container, but like you gotta have

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multiple wafers on the top and you have to have a lot of banana.

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It's banana.

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Figure it out.

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Yeah, figure it out.

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That's just unacceptable.

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I would be so upset also because it's.

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First of all, a few things.

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One, because it's such a decadent thing and it's such a distinct flavor

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that when you're going for magnolia banana pudding, there's nothing worse

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than like being like, I'm gonna do it.

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I'm gonna like do a little like treat for myself.

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And you dig on in there and you are expecting it to taste a certain way,

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and then it tastes like whipped cream.

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I would be so upset.

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So I wanna totally validate that.

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And then I wanna also give a nod to the, there's a zillion places,

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there's a zillion places in New York.

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I mean, obviously trees bring up s but it's true when you're in

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New York City, like, come on babe.

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Yeah, there's like a dime a dozen you could find, I'm sure a million places that

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have banana pudding, that have cupcakes.

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Keep up with the times.

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Okay.

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Like people are gonna give up on you, Magnolia, if you keep.

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It's the sex in the city of it all is only gonna last so long.

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Even with, and that's, you know, and just like that.

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Well, that's what I'm thinking too.

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It's like, that's why I only mention that they don't accommodate allergies

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and stuff because it is sort of like you're just pushing business away.

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Like at least have one gluten-free.

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Brownie or something.

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Like do something, I don't know.

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Right.

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It's your prerogative or like

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rest on your laurels and that like, no, that's just not who we are,

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but have the most amazing products.

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That's right.

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Because it is to the point you, you look really like we

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both know.

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There's certain restaurants that are like no substitutions, babe.

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Like that's not happening.

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But if that's gonna be your stance, then it better be damn good.

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And there better be a reason for the fact that, you know, certain people

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in the population can't go there.

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'cause that's just not your thing.

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You know?

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I can find a respect for that somewhere.

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Correct.

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But,

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well that okay.

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But that's okay.

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You still have to

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have good product.

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But do we, it seems like we're being triggered.

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So do we think that.

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Chef Earth is like telling the truth.

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Are they being shady?

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I think that they're, I believe them.

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I don't know why I believe them.

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I don't know if it's the fact that they have chef in their name.

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I think not, because I think that made me sort of like turned off like,

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Ugh, am I gonna be like proselytized to by a quote unquote chef?

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So I don't know, but I.

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But I, 'cause I considered not saying chef and just saying, see earthy.

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Yeah.

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Because I think it is influencing us.

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'cause it's right, they may not be a chef like this may not be Paula Dean.

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This might be someone who is like a home chef, but

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they're talking about cooking and recipes.

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I know.

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You know, I guess this is the forum with which to complain about this.

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Like if you feel like the quality is declining constantly, that that,

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then you're like, okay, I can't even go here for cupcakes anymore.

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I tell all my friends, you can't even do that.

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The only thing left is this pudding.

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Then you get the pudding and it's like there's two bananas in here.

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Like,

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yeah, this is like, for me, this is valuable information because like I said,

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haven't been there in a while and I've completely been that person when Magnolia

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comes up that I'm like, you know what?

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I'm not even into the cupcakes, but I love the banana pudding and I said

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that even when you started this review, like, oh, I love, but not everything,

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so I can see myself in Chef Earth.

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Yeah, so

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that's valuable.

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It also makes, I understand that maybe you could see this as shady 'cause we're

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really talking down about Magnolia.

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But I do think that it's truthful and I gotta be honest,

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I think it's probably common.

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I know, and I'm, I'm entertained.

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I think the grammatical setup is a little not spectacular.

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Yes.

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I mean, I think

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we pointed out that this is like a interesting way of structuring.

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Um, but it drives it home to me

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in a way.

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It

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does sort of drive it home and maybe it is a stylistic choice, and I am

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entertained in the fact that clearly I'm like, heated up about this.

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You wanna crown it?

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Let's do it.

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Chelsey and I each have our own set of zero to five crown cards.

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In an effort to be fair and not banana influence one another, we will

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simultaneously reveal our ratings.

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The queens are tabulating

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total school.

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Okay?

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I am holding up four and a half crowns trays, holding up four crowns.

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I literally was just holding up four crowns, and then I

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bumped it up to four and a half

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was holding four and a half, and I bumped it down.

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Yeah,

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because you know what?

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I'm super influenced by this.

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Like this has changed me.

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I think if I go to New York, I'm not gonna be having Magnolia's banana.

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I mean, I don't need it.

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I live in la, but like I'm not ordering magnolia's banana pudding anymore.

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That's it.

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It's the end of an era for me, based on this review.

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I don't, it's such a decadent treat to me, and it has such a. Like specific

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memory for me that I don't wanna ruin it.

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And that is really impactful.

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And so I had to go with nearly a review queen here.

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I took off half Crown because, uh, I wasn't really sure if we were

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a little bit pretentious with the chef, which is maybe not fair.

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But other than that, I thought this was a pretty queenly review and definitely

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left me feeling a certain kind of way.

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So four and a half crowns, Trey went with four.

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Why four?

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Everything you just said.

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I feel like since we know they've attached 563 images Mm. Will you attach

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a couple images of like no wafers and like literally no chunks of banana?

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Um, I four.

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I mean, I agree.

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Like I'm very influenced.

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It does make, like, I feel like Chef is pointing out like once

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upon a time, y'all, it's over.

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This

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was the move and it's not, now it's not even organic

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and it's not good for you.

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Like just go make your own.

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Yeah,

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totally.

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There's a reply.

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Okay.

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All

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right, so we have a quick reply here now.

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Okay.

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To speak to a question you had before, I don't know if the business owner

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is different, but this is Bobby L, but there were some re responses

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from someone with a different name.

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Okay.

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Um, that were labeled business owner, so Got it.

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Bobby l, business owner.

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Good afternoon.

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Thank you for your feedback.

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We're sorry to know that you were so disappointed with the

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pudding on your recent visit.

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The ratio of components is definitely important in creating

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the best banana pudding.

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If you have a moment, please email us at feedback@magnoliabakery.com

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with your receipt information and mention your review.

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We do still take pride in the quality and freshness of our products and

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to clarify, we have never claimed that our ingredients are organic.

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All the best mb

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the fricking receipt.

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Do you think that somebody's gonna save the receipt?

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Like gimme a fricking break, but

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maybe you

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could

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show in your credit

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card I could show my credit card, but I don't have a receipt.

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Like I can proof a purchase.

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To

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me, I think that is so enraging.

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And your reply on a negative review to say, send us an email with your receipt

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and we'll see what we can do for you.

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Like, I mean, come on,

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whatcha are you like target number, like, I like it's, it's so crazy.

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If your point is like, we stand behind it and you wanna have them email you,

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which is like eye roll, then like, just be like, send us your email because we'd

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love to, you know, get you a proper.

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Putting in the future.

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I mean, they don't even say

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why.

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They just say, if you have a moment, email us and mention your review.

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They don't even say what they're gonna do.

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I mean, mention

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your review, why, so that we can bribe you into taking it down.

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Right.

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Or we can Google search you and then kill you when you're sleeping.

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Yeah, I don't get it.

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Yeah.

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No, I mean I, not a very effective reply.

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I don't think it's

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a good reply.

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It feels very like formulaic, like this is like, we just always copy paste this.

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And then at the end, it's kind of like baller to be like, we'd

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never claimed to be organic.

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So I don't know why you're bringing it up, but it's also, also in conjunction,

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it feels shady as fuck to be like, okay, like you obviously, I don't know, it

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feels below the belt to me in a way.

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Yeah, it does.

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Because it's like, but it's, but conversely, but it's also,

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yeah, I don't know.

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And it

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also goes along with their whole.

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Mentality of like, we don't abide by allergies.

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We don't say we're organic, we don't, we do what we want and how

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we want, when we want, whatever.

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But it is funny to me, like when I was reading it and my lips made

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the consonants, but to be like, we're so sorry to know you were

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disappointed with the pudding.

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Like we're talking about pudding.

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You guys we're talking

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about pudding.

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You're right, you're right.

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That's funny.

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I don't,

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I don't really need to crown this.

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I think it, I don't need to crown it.

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It's not a very strong, I think it's not

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in a. It doesn't, it doesn't, uh, tip the scales in the direction of the business.

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No.

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It's like whatever.

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Yeah.

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Well, chef earthy, if you open up your own bakery, let us know.

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Okay?

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Totally.

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Please.

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Well, we have done it.

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We have aired our grievances.

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We've inspected a review.

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So Chelsey, now I'd love for you to shine a light on something truly deserving

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of a crown 'cause we have reached the most regal portion of today's show.

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Who are you inducting today for?

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My royal line is, thanks for asking, Trey.

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I am inducting that moment when you are, maybe you're running a little bit

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late, maybe you're meeting a friend for dinner, whatever it is, you're driving

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over there and you get to the location where you're supposed to be, and just

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as you pull up to wherever it is that you're going, somebody else is pulling

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outta the parking spot right in front.

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The timing of the universe just works out perfectly.

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They're not slow.

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They're not jiggling their keys, they're not looking at their phone.

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They just happen to be pulling out at the exact same mo

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moment that you're pulling in.

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Maybe they even left a little money for you on the meter.

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It's still flashing green.

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That is like winning the lottery.

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That is such a good feeling when that happens.

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I just thought, I happened to me the other day and I was like, I

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gotta induct this cosmic beautiful moment as my royal highness.

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I love getting a good parking space,

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especially when you feel like you're getting one over on the

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universe when there's like $6.

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I

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know you're like, yes.

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Perfect.

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All right.

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Oh my goodness.

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Now I want bananas.

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I, I want banana pudding now, but not Magnolia.

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Where am I gonna get it?

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Get it from Magnolia, order it from Hollywood.

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I'm not gonna get Magnolia.

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Now that I've read Chef Earth, these, I'm out.

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I think I'm out.

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No,

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I, I've been out for a while.

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Billy's way better.

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I'm, yeah, there's gotta be somewhere else that has good banana pudding.

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I need to get some banana pudding now.

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I want some

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the ratio, or maybe I'll make

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some with organic

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ingredients.

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The ratio of the bananas though.

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Also banana splits.

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I love a banana

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split.

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You love a banana?

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My mom likes a banana split.

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I'm not like, I like a banana pudding.

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I'm not such a banana split gal,

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girl.

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Nothing is better to me than banana with ice cream and whipped cream.

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Mm. I can, I can get, I can get behind it.

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I love

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it.

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But when you get those GenY Diner ones and they like do like, oh, like they cut

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the banana in half, right down the middle, but they don't give you all four parts.

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I'm like, are you fucking kidding me?

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You're giving me three of the four.

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What are the, because you sliced it in the middle, the, and then

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you slice it down the other way.

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So it's like you're making Oh,

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you're like opening

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it up, like across or something.

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I dunno.

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I just,

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so it's four quadrants?

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Yes, four quadrants.

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But they only give you three.

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I'm, are you fucking kidding me?

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It's a banana.

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My God.

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Anyway, we'll see you guys on Friday.

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