John Jurasek, better known online as Reviewbrah, is an American
YouTube personality,
food critic and
radio host. Jurasek reviews
fast food
Fast food is a type of mass-produced food designed for commercial resale, with a strong priority placed on speed of service. It is a commercial term, limited to food sold in a restaurant or store with frozen, preheated or precooked ingredien ...
,
frozen meal
A frozen meal (also called TV dinner (Canada and US), prepackaged meal, ready-made meal, ready meal (UK), frozen dinner, and microwave meal) is a packaged frozen meal that comes portioned for an individual. A frozen meal in the United States a ...
s, and
energy drinks on his
YouTube channel ''TheReportOfTheWeek'', and hosts a
radio show
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Radio networ ...
on
shortwave radio
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,
Spotify,
TuneIn, and
SoundCloud. He has been featured by several
media outlets, including
CNN Money
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, ''
New York Magazine'', and
Lenta.ru.
Jurasek was also a guest on ''
The Needle Drop Podcast'' in October 2015 and made an appearance on an episode of the
television program ''
Tosh.0'' in March 2016.
YouTube
Establishing his YouTube channel in 2011,
Jurasek's initial focus was on a series of energy drink reviews known as ''Energy Crisis''. He has since diversified to include a food review series, ''Running On Empty'', which focuses on fast food and frozen ready-made meals. A third unnamed series focuses on reviewing specialty drinks.
Jurasek's YouTube channel spiked in popularity when he uploaded a video titled Popeye's Cheddar Biscuit Butter Butterfly Shrimp - Food Review on July 4, 2017. In the video, he states: "My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined," after taking his first bite of Popeye's then-new menu item. The quote became an internet meme and helped give Jurasek's channel more fame.
As of October 2022, Jurasek's YouTube channel, TheReportOfTheWeek, has over 2.7 million subscribers and 262 million views.
Regarding the type of food items featured in his reviews he has stated, "Is every average American going to be eating a steak dinner every night? No. Fast food though, well, there's usually a
McDonald's every half-mile ... I want to be applicable to the largest number of people."
Radio
In addition to his YouTube offerings, Jurasek hosts a weekly
shortwave radio
Shortwave radio is radio transmission using shortwave (SW) radio frequencies. There is no official definition of the band, but the range always includes all of the high frequency band (HF), which extends from 3 to 30 MHz (100 to 10 me ...
program, ''VORW Radio International''. The program has been transmitted primarily by
WBCQ,
WWCR, and
WRMI. The program runs for around one hour and features commentary and listener-requested music. The show also features regular shoutouts, news discussion & correspondence to listener messages.
In Early 2022, ''VORW Radio International'' also expanded with a weekly radio airing for shortwave listeners in Eastern Europe & Russia, due to the ongoing conflict in the region.
As of February 2019, Jurasek has also begun uploading regular
podcasts, recorded shortwave shows, and
live streams
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to
YouTube via his channel ''VORW Podcast,'' which has accumulated over 90,800 subscribers and 2 million views as of October 29, 2022.
References
External links
TheReportOfTheWeekon
YouTube
ThereportOfTheWeekon
Social Blade
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Living people
American YouTubers
American food writers
Radio personalities from Florida
People from New York (state)
People from Florida
Internet memes
Year of birth missing (living people)
American people of Czech descent
YouTube critics and reviewers