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MINI SCROLL: Brianna Chickenfry podcast backlash + Aspyn Ovard update · Mini Scroll

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  Hi everyone, welcome to Mini Scroll, the daily Internet
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  culture podcast bringing you the biggest stories from social
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  media, the creator economy and the digital space every Monday
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  through Thursday. I'm your host, Lauren Meisner,
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  the founder of the youth digital media brand Centennial World.
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  Welcome back to Mini Scroll, everyone.
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  Tomorrow is the biggest day of my whole career.
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  I have had one day at South by Southwest.
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  Yesterday we went with MailChimp and it was amazing.
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  We created a bunch of content for them.
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  Today is like a regular day, regular quote UN quote because I
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  am getting ready for tomorrow, which like I said is I think the
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  biggest day of my whole career. I am starting with my makeup
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  artist coming to my house at 5:30 AM and we are doing a
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  obviously a full face of glam. I'm doing 2 panels at South by
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  Southwest. The first one in the morning is
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  on the mainstage, so I'm doing those two panels, 10:15 and then
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  12:30. And then I have a lunch with the
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  panelists, which will be nice, hopefully, like a good way to
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  decompress. And then at 4:20, I am
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  interviewing Heather Gay and Whitney Rose of The Real
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  Housewives of Salt Lake City in real life.
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  And I did get approvals that it can go on the podcast.
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  So hopefully the interview is good enough that I feel like it
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  deserves a spot, you know, on the pod.
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  But I'm so excited for that because you guys know I am like
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  the world's biggest Housewives fan.
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  I am like bravos #1 fan down under.
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  I swear to God, I live in Australia.
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  That's why I said don't under, if anyone doesn't know.
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  So yes, I am so excited. And then after that, I'm going
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  to a film premiere with my brother at South by Southwest.
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  So look, it's going to be a freaking crazy day.
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  I'm really excited, but it's like a big whirlwind.
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  I've had some really huge moments before, you know, in my
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  career. But like, I have never had a day
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  that had this many like really intense, exciting moments packed
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  into one and all of them. I've done all these things
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  before. I've spoken on panels, I've
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  interviewed celebrities, I've interviewed, I interviewed Andy
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  Cohen, but like it's this is just the step above all of that.
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  Like this is like South by Southwest mainstage.
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  This is the Real Housewives of Salt Lake City in real life for
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  20 minutes for the podcast. Like it's all just like a level
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  up from all the different things I've done.
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  It's going to be a lot. It's going to be a lot, but I'm
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  excited. All right, let's just get into
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  the stories for today. I feel like it was a little bit
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  light on news today. I don't know about you guys, but
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  again, tomorrow there will be no episode because obviously I have
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  the day of my lifetime. So Thursday, hopefully there
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  will be a lot of news to bring you guys.
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  OK. The first word that I have is
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  that Brianna Chicken Fry is facing backlash for how she
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  covered the Menendez brothers and also for diminishing her Co
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  host Grace O'malley's experience with alleged sexual assault.
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  So Brianna Chicken Fry is facing backlash for her opinion on the
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  Menendez brothers in a recent episode of Plan Bree.
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  The Menendez Brothers is a new true crime documentary on
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  Netflix about brothers Lyle and Eric Menendez, who were
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  convicted of murdering their parents in 1989.
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  Now I don't want to get too much into it because I don't want it
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  to be too triggering, but basically the Menendez brothers
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  were abused by their parents and Brianna on her podcast said
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  basically that they should have just run away or gone to college
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  or something to escape from the abuse and that they had other
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  options. I meditated.
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  Shoot your mommy in the face, your daddy in the face while
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  they're on the couch and you think, woo Hoo.
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  Oh, that's because they were mean to us.
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  They did bad stuff to us. You run away.
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  You run away. Run away.
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  You don't need to kill people. I think you should be in prison
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  forever because you murder people.
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  I think that's how the life works.
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  You murder people, you stay in prison.
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  If you think that's wrong, maybe we need to read.
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  We need to talk because murderers go to jail.
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  I just, I just your father, your father raping you.
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  It's just a whole different thing that you just don't.
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  You wouldn't understand. We both would understand.
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  I don't know. It's just it's wild.
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  You run. Away OK and then the second
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  thing that she is facing backlash for is again on an
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  episode of planned Bree with grace Grace is her Co host Grace
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  O'Malley, who I mentioned in the intro.
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  So she talked about an experience that she had in
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  Atlantic City where she was core.
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  She said coerced or forced into something at 16.
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  And then Brianna went on this like rant about how 16 year old
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  girls don't know any better but they shouldn't be hanging out
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  with like divorced men at bars. And it was just, it just went on
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  and on and on. So listen to this.
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  What happened last time I was there?
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  That shape, it was a woman. It was really bad, so.
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  Do without what you will. But that's not going to happen
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  again. Because now I am a strong,
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  independent woman who knows what she wants and will not be
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  settling for anything less or being coerced or forced into
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  anything else. Yeah, well, you know, when
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  you're 16, you just don't really know anything.
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  And when you're 16, girls, if you're 16 listening to this or
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  play this for your daughter, if you have a 16 year old daughter
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  when you're 16 and maybe your mom brings you to Atlantic City,
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  maybe you girls shouldn't hang out with the divorced men at the
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  bar. Maybe you should go find other
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  16 year olds. Maybe you shouldn't hang around
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  older men because that's really scary and wrong and they will
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  always take advantage of you because that's just what life is
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  and men are scary. So let's stay away because you
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  know, it sounds so fun and cool in the moment, but then when you
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  grow up you look back on those experiences, scary and horrific.
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  So stay away from older men and hang out with people your age.
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  That's how life should be. Be a good 16 year old, not do
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  what we did. You can still have fun.
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  Stick with your age group. It's not your fault.
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  So, yeah, the way that Brianna is diminishing Grace's
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  experiences, almost like putting it back on her and saying, like,
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  we we shouldn't have made these decisions at 16.
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  And because we made these decisions, this thing happened
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  to you is so fucked up and so toxic and just so not true at
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  all. I'm sure she meant well.
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  I'm sure she was genuinely trying to warn young women.
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  And it does remind me, like, it's reminiscent of how women,
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  you know, my mom, like the a different generation spoke to
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  us. I'm a young millennial.
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  Like growing up about protecting ourselves as women.
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  It reminds me of that. It was like coming from a good
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  place. And it was trying to say, like,
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  the world out there is really bad and men are really bad and
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  like, you need to protect yourself.
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  But the way that it is presented is so often putting the onus and
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  the blame on you as a woman. And you know, it's literally
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  just never your fault if you are the victim of a sexual assault
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  or anything like that. Like, it is not your fault.
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  So Brianna, she stays problematic.
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  She is our problematic podcast queen, that's for sure.
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  OK, the next word that I have, you guys were like frothing for
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  the Aspen of our divorce update that I gave yesterday.
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  I've been giving updates this whole time.
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  But that one probably because it was talking about the
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  mother-in-law stuff, that one popped off.
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  So she is still posting, you know, insane content.
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  She is still going nuts. I actually think so.
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  Someone on my team said this, and I thought, you know what?
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  That's actually valid. I hadn't considered from that
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  angle. But like, she got engaged at 19.
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  She has always been an adult, even when she was supposed to be
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  young and having fun and in her 20s and like, you know, just
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  making those mistakes and kind of going insane.
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  And maybe that's just like the manifestation like that.
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  That's just like what we're seeing right now from her is her
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  living out her like young 20s, like getting that like energy
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  and chaos out. But like, she's doing it on
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  TikTok for us amid her divorce and like about the topic of her
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  divorce, I don't know. I kind of love it though.
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  I hope she's OK, though. So she addressed actually her
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  divorce timeline on the Cheers podcast with Avery Woods.
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  And I wanted to just like kind of go through what she said.
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  So she said she gave birth to her third baby weeks before
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  filing for divorce, which I think we knew.
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  She said the day her divorce leaked to the press was also the
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  day she filed. So she thinks it was probably
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  someone at the law firm who leaked it, which would be such a
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  breach of like, I assume some type of client and lawyer
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  confidentiality. Like that would just be so
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  fucked up. I'm sure it happens all the time
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  with famous people, but like, I can't even imagine.
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  She said she hadn't spoken to, you know, she hadn't told like a
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  lot of her friends and family and stuff.
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  And they obviously just had to read it in the press.
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  She reiterated that Parker is not gay, nor did he cheat on her
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  as far as she knows. And she said she's still
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  conflicted about if she should be open, you know, about why
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  she's getting divorced or if it will kind of harm her kids.
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  Like, she's still trying to kind of navigate that.
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  It seems like it's possible we might find out what happened.
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  I think she really upholds her boundaries well.
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  And I do believe if she decided to tell us, it's been a very
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  considered decision. And she knows that it will not
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  hurt her children in the future, or at least that's what she
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  believes. Anyways, guys, thank you.
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  to you tomorrow and wish me luck.
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  I can't wait. I can't wait that like Thursday.
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  I can't wait to sit in this chair on Thursday and be like
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  it's done. The day is done and we are
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  moving on. I want to enjoy it.
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  While this is just me going on a tangent because I'm anxious.
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  I want to enjoy it and I will. I'm going to try and soak up
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  every minute, but I'm also ready for it to be done.
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  OK, goodbye.