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