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MINI SCROLL: Aspyn Ovard divorce, Kylie Jenner x Timothée Chalamet pregnancy & Austin McBroom RV drama · 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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  All right, welcome back to Mini Scroll, the last mini scroll of
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  the week. It has been such a crazy week.
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  Getting this podcast off the ground.
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  Figuring out my new normal. I think it will feel like that
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  for a little while and I'll feel a bit overwhelmed, but I will
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  hopefully settle into some good like rhythm for the podcast and
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  it will just continue to get better and better.
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  So yes, this is the last mini scroll of the week.
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  Obviously it is Thursday now, but as always, you will have a
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  deep dive tomorrow on Friday. All right, let's get into the
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  Morning News. So the first story that I have
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  for you guys is that Aspen Ovard has filed for divorce the same
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  day that she announced that her third child was born.
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  So Aspen is an OG YouTube and she has since taken to TikTok
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  and really built a big following for herself there.
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  Aspen and her husband, Parker Ferris, got married in 2015.
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  Aspen was 19 and Parker was 20. People magazine was the first to
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  announce that she had filed after they found Utah court
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  documents. OK, so this story is very
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  contentious. It's by far the biggest story on
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  the Internet today. So that's why I wanted to talk
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  about it. Of course I had to cover that,
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  but it is very contentious. It's a very controversial thing
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  to be covering right now because they did just have a baby and it
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  was premature and the baby was in the NICU.
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  I believe there's conflicting reports.
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  Some people are saying that she has backlogged her content.
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  So the content that we're seeing now of her baby being born and
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  all the vlogs and stuff of her in the hospital is from like a
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  month or so ago. So I don't know.
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  I don't know if that's true or not, but either way, like it's a
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  very vulnerable time for her postpartum.
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  Whether the baby was premature or not.
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  It's a very difficult time in a woman's life.
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  So for all of these media outlets to be reporting on it
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  when they haven't announced it themselves and she has turned
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  comments like she's limited her comments on Instagram.
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  I don't know if she's turned them off on TikTok at the
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  moment, but either way she is trying to ignore it.
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  I think she's been deleting some comments on TikTok of people
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  asking questions, which is fair enough.
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  So I did grapple with if I should cover this, and I did
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  make a TikTok on Centennial World's account.
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  Yes, yesterday sharing this news when I saw the People magazine
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  article. But it's definitely an ethical
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  dilemma. Like it?
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  Definitely. I I see everyone's point.
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  I absolutely see both sides to this, of course.
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  So the one thing I really wanted to focus on for this story
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  because that's like all the information we have is that she
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  filed for divorce on the same day that she announced they have
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  their third child, which I do believe was probably a decision
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  like I think that was probably a strategic move.
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  I think that she knew announcing that her baby had been born on
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  the day when she knew that she was going to file, was going to
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  hopefully bury that story. Not strategic in a malicious way
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  at all. Just, you know, a smart PR move
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  essentially. So one of the biggest questions
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  around this whole thing and one of the biggest criticisms is
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  people cannot believe, not People magazine like fans.
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  Fans cannot believe that there are people out there who are
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  digging up these court documents and posting about them.
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  So I wanted to talk about what I think happened with this story
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  and how this typically happens. As far as I know from someone
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  who has worked in media for years now, I have not worked in
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  media in the US and I haven't worked in specifically
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  entertainment media, so I could be completely off.
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  So Reddit was essentially blowing up with rumors before
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  she filed that there was something wrong in their
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  marriage and they were going to get a divorce.
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  I think there is a slight misconception.
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  Typically with how, I don't know, we we did a whole episode
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  on Snark Reddits, and that did change my perspective a little
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  bit in terms of like realizing that some people really are just
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  like that sick and twisted. But I will say I think typically
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  when it comes to Reddit, what happens is it's not that
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  Redditors are going to look for these filings, 'cause that's the
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  biggest narrative around this story is like people are so
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  sick. Like who is just like trolling
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  for divorce filings? Like how are people finding
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  this? I don't think it's Redditors or
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  people going and looking for it. I think when things like this
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  end up on Reddit and then in the mainstream media, it's typically
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  that information has been given to Reddit and that is one of the
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  theories here is that it seems as though it's possible no
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  verification. Again, this is all just rumors
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  that somebody in her camp or somebody that knew she was going
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  to do this, going to file for divorce, took to Reddit and post
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  about it. In this case, I believe one of
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  two things happened for people to have found the documents.
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  Again, I don't know mainstream media outlets like entertainment
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  media. You know, People magazine could
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  have somebody standing at the front of every single courthouse
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  in the US just waiting for tip offs.
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  I have no idea. But my assumption on how this
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  happened was either a somebody tipped people off that the
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  subreddit was blowing up about this, or somebody who works at
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  people, You know, an entertainment journalist,
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  trolls, different Reddits all day, which wouldn't surprise me
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  at all. Like, they have a story quota
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  that they have to pitch and they have to write every day.
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  So I wouldn't be surprised if they knew that this was all
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  going on on Reddit. So they started, you know,
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  keeping tabs on the Utah divorce filings.
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  My other theory is that before she filed and before people
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  wrote this story, spill Sash Christie, who we had on the
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  podcast at the end of last year queen.
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  She's a huge fan of Aspen and she made a TikTok talking about
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  the rumors on Reddit. And she was like, I'm so sad.
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  Aspen is one of my favorite influencers.
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  I really hope this isn't true. And that TIK talk blew up within
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  like less than a day, got over 1,000,000 views.
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  So it's also possible that somebody from people saw that
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  tick tock and then was like, oh, something is going on here and
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  started looking into these filings.
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  Again, this is a really difficult time in her life
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  regardless, like a very vulnerable time.
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  So to be dealing with all of this, and I fully acknowledge I
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  am contributing to that right now for sure.
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  But yeah, she's kind of more of like a niche YouTube.
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  Like she is OG for sure, but she's not that well known.
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  When you think about like the biggest Youtubers, you don't
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  typically think of her in terms of like fame.
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  And so I think it's probably really overwhelming and possibly
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  surprising that so many mainstream outlets have picked
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  this up. All right, the next story that I
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  have for you guys is that comedian Daniel Tosh is claiming
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  that Kylie Jenner is pregnant with Timothy Chalamet's baby.
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  OK, Comedian Daniel Tosh has started a rumor on his podcast,
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  which is called Tosh Show, that Kylie is pregnant with Timothy's
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  baby. He said on his podcast.
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  Quote, here's something crazy. I went to the grocery store in
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  Malibu and I was talking to an employee there.
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  I tried to avoid it, but I was talking to this guy and I said
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  why were you guys close yesterday?
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  He goes, well, I'm not supposed to discuss it, but keeping up
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  with the Kardashians. The show was filming their
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  season finale here yesterday. Spoiler alert, this for the
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  upcoming season of the show. This is the big season finale.
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  This random grocery store person is telling me that they rented
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  out the entire store, shut it down, and then they acted like
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  they were going grocery shopping.
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  This was the scene that apparently happened.
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  Kylie reveals that she's pregnant again with Timothy's
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  kid. What a bombshell.
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  OK, a few things here. First of all, it's not called
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  Keeping Up The Kardashians anymore.
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  It is called the Kardashians. Second of all.
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  You guys know if you listen to the podcast, you know I I'm a
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  Kylie and Timothy Denier. I do not believe that they are
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  together. I believe that every single
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  photo and piece of media that we have seen of them is AII do not
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  fucking believe that this relationship exists.
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  I don't believe that it's real. They could get married, have
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  like 6 kids. They could celebrate their 50th
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  wedding anniversary and I would still not believe it.
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  I will go to my grave denying this relationship.
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  So already I don't fucking believe this at all, but
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  especially this whole situation, the way that he talked about it
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  on his podcast. And you know, like, I wanted to
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  talk about this because it's this is how the rumor started.
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  If you guys are seeing this rumor, this is how it started.
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  It's not legitimate. I do believe that their teams
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  have denied this. The other thing I wanted to say
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  is that the Kardashians have done this, like, fake grocery
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  store scene so many times. I don't believe that that will
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  be the big season finale. And I think if Kylie does
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  announce that she's pregnant, if she does reveal this in the
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  season finale, which again, I don't believe, but if she does,
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  I don't think it's gonna be at a fucking grocery store.
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  That's just my opinion. So I think either this man, this
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  comedian is fucking with his audience or this grocery store
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  employee was fucking with him, all right?
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  And the last story that I have for you guys is some more
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  speculation and also some more divorce news.
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  It's kind of a weird day. So fans are speculating that the
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  Ace family divorce is fake after Catherine joins the RV
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  storyline. So on January 12th, Catherine
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  Mcbroom of the YouTube family channel, the Ace Family,
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  announced that she was divorcing her longtime husband Austin.
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  In her statement, she made it very clear that she was leaving
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  her marriage. OK, so that's something
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  important to note, that his family is known for engaging in
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  really shady practices to get views and to make money, and
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  that always seemed to be spearheaded by Austin.
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  So when she announced that she was leaving her marriage, people
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  really took Catherine's side and they were so happy to kind of
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  support her and follow her journey as a single mother.
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  So she's been receiving tons of support.
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  She's had so many more views and like so much more engagement on
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  her socials Since she announced that she's leaving Austin.
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  However, this kind of reputation that they had, it really started
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  to impact their views and their money.
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  And if you guys remember the whole like Ace family mansion
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  saga, I think it was last year, if you know, you know, there's
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  just been a lot of very obvious money problems that they have
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  had. So Catherine has been getting
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  all of this support from fans and people just saying thank God
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  you left Austin, like get away from him.
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  And Austin has also seemed to have a bit of a career boost
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  since the divorce announced because he essentially has taken
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  to Snapchat to film his downfall.
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  He's basically posting these like erratic videos all over
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  Snapchat about his demise and his experience in the divorce.
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  And he's playing this like really weird character.
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  He's like a really Sookie baby kind of character.
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  Like a dumb, ditzy character. It's very bizarre.
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  It's so freaking weird to watch, but it's getting him tons of
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  views. I think it's really just like
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  people hate watching him and watching him unravel, even
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  though he is, I believe playing a character and most people know
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  that. I think the fact that he's
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  playing this character and posting this as if it's real is
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  still, you know, a version of him unraveling at the end of the
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  day. So part of his downfall bit is
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  that he claims the house that he was supposed to move into fell
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  through and now he lives in an RV in Catherine's backyard.
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  Now Catherine did debunk this whole RV theory over a month ago
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  on Snapchat when she joked about people believing that story and
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  then the H3 podcast amplified that they talked about it.
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  So it has been known, I would say for like almost two full
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  months that he doesn't actually live in this RV, but he has
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  stuck with this fucking storyline.
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  However, now fans are questioning if Catherine might
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  also be in on this as well. Like I said, the Ace family
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  became known for using really deceptive and shady tactics to
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  get views and make money, and their views and money seem to be
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  way up since announcing the divorce.
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  So there has been speculation all year that maybe this divorce
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  is a hoax. And now this week, Catherine
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  seemed to insert herself into the RV storyline.
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  So she posted on Instagram Stories that she went over to
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  Austin's house to get her car washed and that she, like, snuck
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  into the RV that was parked in the backyard while she was
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  waiting for her car to get washed.
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  And she filmed it. OK And then Austin took to
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  Snapchat, and his friend is filming him.
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  And he, like, walks into his RV and he's like, the energy is
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  really off in here. And he keeps talking about how
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  he can sense some, like, spiritual presence.
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  And then his friend, who I, like I said, is filming him, just
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  happens to watch Catherine's Instagram story at this same
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  time where she's showing that she's in the RV And then, you
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  know, he's like, Catherine was in the RV and he's like Cathy
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  was in here. So now fans are questioning if
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  this is like this Segway to Catherine now joining this whole
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  Snapchat narrative. I'm going to say from my
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  opinion, I don't believe that. I think that Catherine posted
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  that Instagram story because she wanted to drive home, that he
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  does have a home when she said like I'm at his house so I'm
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  gonna look in the RV that lives in the backyard basically.
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  So I think that was like the first reason why she did that to
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  show like he doesn't live in this RV and he also doesn't live
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  in my backyard. He has a house where the RV
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  lives in his backyard and this is like a whole bit thing.
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  That is my take on this. I think that Austin and his
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  whole caricature that he is playing right now would give
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  anyone the ick, especially someone who has been with him
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  for this long. I don't think that they are
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  together. I do believe that they are split
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  up. That's just my opinion.
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  All right guys, so that is it for mini Scroll for this week,
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  week one. Done.
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  But like I said at the top of the episode, there will be a
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  deep dive for you guys tomorrow. So thank you so much for
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  listening to Mini Scroll. Please remember to rate, review
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  and subscribe. It helps me so much.
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  I love you guys and I will talk to you next week.
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  Bye.