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MINI SCROLL: Taylor Swift's glitter freckles break TikTok, Kanye West & Bianca Censori divorce, Aspyn Ovard opens up about divorce + JoJo Siwa thanks Beyoncé · Mini Scroll

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  Hi everyone. Welcome to Mini Scroll, the
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  daily Internet culture podcast bringing you the biggest stories
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  from social media, the creator economy and the digital space
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  every Monday 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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  Now, before I start, I know that we have a lot of US based
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  scrollers and I just wanted to say I am thinking of you guys.
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  I am wishing you the best. If you are being impacted by the
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  Hurricanes at all, I cannot believe how hard it must be to
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  be going through two hurricanes back-to-back and obviously
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  hurricane Milton right now is just so scary.
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  So please stay safe and I just wanted to send my well wishes.
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  All right, let's just get straight into stories for today.
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  So the first story that I have for you guys is like such a
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  heart warming one, especially as a small business owner myself.
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  Taylor Swift wore glitter freckles from a small business
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  to the Chiefs game. And the owner has been
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  documenting her experience and her excitement on TikTok and it
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  is just so cute. So the glitter freckles are from
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  a New York City based brand called Faze it Beauty.
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  The product is actually really cool.
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  It's almost like putting a giant pore strip that lays across your
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  nose and onto your cheeks. And when you pull it off,
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  instead of like removing your blackheads, it leaves a pattern
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  of glitter freckles across your face.
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  And I feel like it's really popular for bachelorettes or
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  like, grungy nights out, like brat summer vibes and festivals,
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  things like that. So one day ago, the founder
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  named Elliot posted several Tiktok videos crying in
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  excitement after Taylor Swift wore her product to the Chiefs
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  game. Guys, is Taylor wearing phasic
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  glitter freckles at the Chiefs game right now?
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  Like, is this real? She's been posting these videos
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  between her personal account and the brand's account.
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  But on her personal, she addressed why she knows that
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  they are her brand's freckles. She said, first of all, when
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  you're the founder and the brand is your baby, like you can
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  identify your baby. But second, she said they sent
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  Taylor Swift's makeup artist Laurie Turk the freckles
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  background may. So she basically reached out to
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  Laurie's agency and they provided her Laurie's mailing
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  address for packages and PR. And she she said she didn't
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  expect anything to happen, obviously.
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  And she's still not sure if that's how Taylor found her
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  brand or if it was just, you know, things have been going
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  viral. Like their videos have been
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  going viral on TikTok and Instagram.
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  So she's like someone on her team could have purchased it as
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  well. Like we just actually don't
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  know. But regardless, it is her brand.
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  And literally it within 24 hours of their sales went up 2500%.
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  And Elliot was reached out to by all kinds of media.
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  She went on CBS the very next morning.
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  Like literally this happened that night.
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  The next morning, like 12 hours later was on CBS morning talking
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  about the product and her experience and showing how to
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  place it. Like her life and her business
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  have already changed within 24 hours.
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  And I just, it's just like, so cool to watch and so exciting
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  for her. And yeah, this is just like a
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  small business owner's dream. Literally the dream.
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  OK, the next story that I have is that Kanye West and his wife,
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  Bianca Sensore are reportedly getting a divorce.
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  According to TMZ, Kanye and Bianca are headed for divorce
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  after two years of marriage. They have reportedly been broken
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  up for several weeks, and Bianca is also reportedly back in
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  Australia with her family. But that's essentially like the
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  extent of the information that TMZ has shared so far.
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  So the couple reportedly met when Kanye slid into her DMS in
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  2020, asking her to work for Yeezy and LA.
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  They secretly got married in 20/22 and were spotted together
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  on September 20th, 2024 as like their last public outing as a
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  couple. So, I mean, I do believe this.
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  I don't know. I think TMZ is usually pretty
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  accurate when it comes to celebrity news, especially
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  exclusives and things like this. So I do believe that this is
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  going through and like, are we surprised?
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  I did not expect Kanye and Bianca to stay together forever.
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  I think it is very clear from how they are showing up in
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  public lately that, like, this is a toxic relationship.
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  I feel for both of them. So we'll see.
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  OK. Other divorce news is that Aspen
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  Ovard has changed her tune and is no longer staying quiet about
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  her divorce. So OG Utah YouTube Aspen Ovard
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  filed for divorce from her husband Parker Ferris earlier
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  this year. Aspen and Parker got married in
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  2015 when Aspen was 19 and Parker was 20.
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  So their divorce was huge news for the YouTube girlies because
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  so many fans grew up with them. Plus, Aspen filed for divorce on
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  the same day that she announced that they had their third child.
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  So everyone was it's like, OK, something really major must have
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  happened to make her file, like literally when she is about to
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  give birth or has just given birth, sorry, has just given
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  birth. That was it.
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  At the time, she ignored the Internet and later she said she
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  would not speak on the divorce out of respect for her children.
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  But now Aspen has posted several more videos in recent weeks
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  shading Parker. So for example she made a video
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  which is no longer available and sadly I did not download it.
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  So this is from memory but she posted being like things I'm
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  looking for in my next relationship and she mentioned
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  someone who doesn't keep A10 year lie from her.
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  First one is someone who doesn't lie.
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  I know it seems like an obvious one, but imagine if they lied
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  for like 10 years or something, Like imagine how crazy.
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  Second one, I would love someone who has a job.
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  I think that would be like really nice.
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  And bonus points if they will actually like financially
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  contribute. What else?
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  If they didn't accuse me of cheating on them all the time.
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  Someone who carries their fair share of like the mental load
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  and like life and like raising kids and running a household and
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  stuff like that. And if I didn't have to like
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  pretty much do almost all of that myself, like if they wanted
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  to contribute, I think that if they didn't like gaslight me,
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  anybody who's really like going to better my life.
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  And if they are trying to like improve their life and eat
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  healthy, be active, just like work on themselves and really
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  bringing something to the. Table And then she finally
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  addressed yesterday why she started opening up a little bit
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  about her divorce in a new video, saying that when she said
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  she wasn't going to talk about it, she didn't know what she
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  knows now. And she said that quote,
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  everybody else knew the whole time.
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  And I know that I said I wasn't really going to talk about this
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  a lot, but the other day when I was feeling very cutesy and very
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  demure, I didn't know what I know now, You know, who did?
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  Everybody else. Everybody else knew the whole
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  time. I mean, I don't even know what
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  to say. There is nothing that could have
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  hurt me more. So obviously we don't really
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  know what that means, but it sounds like she was possibly
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  being cheated on her entire relationship or something like
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  really horrible like that. But something notable that she
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  also said was that she was really surprised that her fans
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  have been messaging being like, Oh my God, like we're surprised
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  about your divorce. We thought things seem so happy.
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  And so you know, XYZ. And she was like, I can't
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  believe that that is the impression that I was giving you
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  guys. I love Aspen, but I don't I
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  don't know if I necessarily believe that.
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  Like, I think it's, it's common knowledge knowledge.
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  I think it's common knowledge that, you know, what you're
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  putting out on social media is usually a highlight reel unless
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  you're telling people otherwise. No one had any reason to believe
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  that there were problems between her and Parker.
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  So why would we not think that things were totally fine and
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  positive and good, you know? But regardless, I will keep you
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  guys updated if she ever tells us exactly what happened.
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  I do kind of hate when influencers do things like this
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  where they're like telling she's telling us that like there was
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  this 10 year lie and everybody knew about it, but she's not
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  going to tell us what that lie was like.
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  Please tell us or just don't or just leave it offline.
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  I don't know. But I know she's going through
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  it and like, I'm sure she's just trying to navigate it.
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  And being a public figure in your whole job is like to be
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  yourself online. It would be so hard to find that
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  balance between like still showing up and doing your job
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  and connecting with your audience while also like dealing
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  with something so major behind the scenes that has like changed
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  and evolved since you first announced it.
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  So I have a lot of empathy for her and like, I just, I do just
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  like love her. Like, you know, there's just
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  some of those like influencers where you're just like, you have
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  a special place in my heart. So like, I'm biased, but I just,
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  I do want to know. I'm nosy.
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  I just want to know. OK.
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  And the last thing that I need to mention, this is not a full
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  story, although I will say if you guys want a deep dive into
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  this, I can try and do one. But I needed to mention this is
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  kind of insane. JoJo Siwa last night thanked
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  Beyoncé at these dance awards on stage when she was receiving an
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  award. I also have to.
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  Say thank you to Beyoncé just so that way we keep the dance
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  community safe. Everybody Beyoncé.
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  You've got. Great music.
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  We all love to dance to it. We all love you.
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  Anyways. I am up here.
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  I wanted to mention this because I think it's notable.
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  This is JoJo like a essential. I mean, I don't know, I would
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  call her an A list celebrity. I feel like a lot of people
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  wouldn't. But to me, she's an A list
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  celebrity. She's a very like she is a
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  celebrity, OK? Like somebody who's like a
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  mainstream and Internet celebrity, like feeding into
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  like Internet memes about Diddy's case.
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  Because the whole thanking Beyoncé thing stems from the
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  Diddy stuff, right? And it's like a conspiracy
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  theory, like a pop culture conspiracy theory around the
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  Diddy case. So like I said, I can do a deep
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  dive not into like, Diddy, but like into the Beyoncé conspiracy
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  theory and why there's like a corner of the Internet who,
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  like, genuinely believes this, like Beyoncé conspiracy theory.
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  I can talk about it if you guys want, like, let me know.
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  But yeah, I think this is interesting.
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  Like, I know a lot of people are kind of like laughing at me,
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  Like, Oh my God, I can't believe this.
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  This is like crazy. And like, it is, it is.
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  But I personally see this, like I said last time when I talked
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  about the Diddy stuff, like I see this as like another
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  manifestation, another example of just us kind of like making
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  light of like a really horrible situation where there were like
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  true victims involved who are going to have trauma for the
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  rest of their lives. Let me know what you guys think
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  down below all right guys that is it for mini scroll today.
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  Thank you so much for listening When I talk to you guys next on
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  Monday, it is going to be South by Southwest week.
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  Oh, I need to tell you guys something exciting.
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  So I'm on 2 panels on Wednesday, like I said, I'm going to be so
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  scared. The first one is on the
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  mainstage. I'm going to be so scared.
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  And then later that day at like 4:30-ish, I, I am doing a sit
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  down interview with two of the Real Housewives of Salt Lake
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  City who are coming to Sydney South by Southwest to promote
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  the show and promote the season. And I'm going to try and get
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  permissions to put the audio on the podcast or even the video,
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  because I'm going to film it for TikTok and make little Tik toks
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  out of it. Anyways, I'm going to try and
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  get some permissions to include it on the pod.
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  But I'll let you guys know. But if you have any questions, I
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  don't want to tell you who it is.
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  I also think that it's possible that it might change who it is.
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  I don't want to tell you who it like I just, I don't want to
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  count my chickens before they hatch.
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  You know, like so much can go wrong with like a celebrity
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  interview, like a talent interview, like you just never
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  know. But if you guys have questions
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  about the new season of Real Housewives of Salt Lake City,
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  also leave them down below or like comment them on Spotify or
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  on YouTube or whatever and I will try and incorporate them
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  because I have 20 full minutes with them, which is a long time.
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  All right, guys, well, that's it tomorrow also sorry, like wow is
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  my Q&A. So thank you so much to everyone
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  that sent questions. I there was a lot of questions.
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  I couldn't believe how many questions I got, so I tried to
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  answer as many as I could. Oh yes, that will go up tomorrow
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  and then I will talk to you guys on Monday.
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  OK, bye.