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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.
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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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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.
VOICEOVER: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.
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Trey Gerrald:It's called Lovelock.
Chelsey Donn:It is called love, lock and love
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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,
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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.