1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:04,240 Hi everyone, welcome to Mini Scroll, the daily Internet 2 00:00:04,240 --> 00:00:07,480 culture podcast bringing you the biggest stories from social 3 00:00:07,480 --> 00:00:11,080 media, the creator economy and the digital space every Monday 4 00:00:11,080 --> 00:00:14,400 through Thursday. I'm your host, Lauren Meisner, 5 00:00:14,400 --> 00:00:19,000 the founder of the youth digital media brand Centennial World. 6 00:00:19,400 --> 00:00:21,520 Welcome back to Mini Scroll, everyone. 7 00:00:22,120 --> 00:00:26,040 Tomorrow is the biggest day of my whole career. 8 00:00:27,200 --> 00:00:30,440 I have had one day at South by Southwest. 9 00:00:30,440 --> 00:00:33,280 Yesterday we went with MailChimp and it was amazing. 10 00:00:33,280 --> 00:00:35,200 We created a bunch of content for them. 11 00:00:35,600 --> 00:00:38,760 Today is like a regular day, regular quote UN quote because I 12 00:00:38,760 --> 00:00:42,160 am getting ready for tomorrow, which like I said is I think the 13 00:00:42,160 --> 00:00:46,160 biggest day of my whole career. I am starting with my makeup 14 00:00:46,160 --> 00:00:49,800 artist coming to my house at 5:30 AM and we are doing a 15 00:00:49,880 --> 00:00:53,520 obviously a full face of glam. I'm doing 2 panels at South by 16 00:00:53,520 --> 00:00:56,360 Southwest. The first one in the morning is 17 00:00:56,360 --> 00:01:01,200 on the mainstage, so I'm doing those two panels, 10:15 and then 18 00:01:01,200 --> 00:01:05,680 12:30. And then I have a lunch with the 19 00:01:05,680 --> 00:01:08,280 panelists, which will be nice, hopefully, like a good way to 20 00:01:08,280 --> 00:01:11,280 decompress. And then at 4:20, I am 21 00:01:11,280 --> 00:01:14,280 interviewing Heather Gay and Whitney Rose of The Real 22 00:01:14,280 --> 00:01:16,640 Housewives of Salt Lake City in real life. 23 00:01:16,640 --> 00:01:21,080 And I did get approvals that it can go on the podcast. 24 00:01:21,160 --> 00:01:24,600 So hopefully the interview is good enough that I feel like it 25 00:01:24,600 --> 00:01:27,120 deserves a spot, you know, on the pod. 26 00:01:27,560 --> 00:01:29,760 But I'm so excited for that because you guys know I am like 27 00:01:29,880 --> 00:01:32,000 the world's biggest Housewives fan. 28 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:35,560 I am like bravos #1 fan down under. 29 00:01:35,560 --> 00:01:37,200 I swear to God, I live in Australia. 30 00:01:37,640 --> 00:01:39,480 That's why I said don't under, if anyone doesn't know. 31 00:01:40,200 --> 00:01:44,360 So yes, I am so excited. And then after that, I'm going 32 00:01:44,360 --> 00:01:47,840 to a film premiere with my brother at South by Southwest. 33 00:01:47,840 --> 00:01:51,080 So look, it's going to be a freaking crazy day. 34 00:01:51,360 --> 00:01:54,120 I'm really excited, but it's like a big whirlwind. 35 00:01:54,120 --> 00:01:57,120 I've had some really huge moments before, you know, in my 36 00:01:57,120 --> 00:02:00,640 career. But like, I have never had a day 37 00:02:00,640 --> 00:02:04,080 that had this many like really intense, exciting moments packed 38 00:02:04,080 --> 00:02:06,560 into one and all of them. I've done all these things 39 00:02:06,560 --> 00:02:08,320 before. I've spoken on panels, I've 40 00:02:08,320 --> 00:02:10,880 interviewed celebrities, I've interviewed, I interviewed Andy 41 00:02:10,880 --> 00:02:14,840 Cohen, but like it's this is just the step above all of that. 42 00:02:14,840 --> 00:02:17,760 Like this is like South by Southwest mainstage. 43 00:02:18,120 --> 00:02:21,760 This is the Real Housewives of Salt Lake City in real life for 44 00:02:21,760 --> 00:02:25,400 20 minutes for the podcast. Like it's all just like a level 45 00:02:25,400 --> 00:02:27,160 up from all the different things I've done. 46 00:02:27,480 --> 00:02:30,440 It's going to be a lot. It's going to be a lot, but I'm 47 00:02:30,440 --> 00:02:33,080 excited. All right, let's just get into 48 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:36,760 the stories for today. I feel like it was a little bit 49 00:02:36,760 --> 00:02:39,720 light on news today. I don't know about you guys, but 50 00:02:39,720 --> 00:02:42,320 again, tomorrow there will be no episode because obviously I have 51 00:02:42,720 --> 00:02:46,040 the day of my lifetime. So Thursday, hopefully there 52 00:02:46,040 --> 00:02:48,720 will be a lot of news to bring you guys. 53 00:02:48,720 --> 00:02:50,000 OK. The first word that I have is 54 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:52,920 that Brianna Chicken Fry is facing backlash for how she 55 00:02:52,920 --> 00:02:57,500 covered the Menendez brothers and also for diminishing her Co 56 00:02:57,500 --> 00:03:01,720 host Grace O'malley's experience with alleged sexual assault. 57 00:03:01,720 --> 00:03:04,960 So Brianna Chicken Fry is facing backlash for her opinion on the 58 00:03:04,960 --> 00:03:07,640 Menendez brothers in a recent episode of Plan Bree. 59 00:03:08,280 --> 00:03:11,000 The Menendez Brothers is a new true crime documentary on 60 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:14,240 Netflix about brothers Lyle and Eric Menendez, who were 61 00:03:14,240 --> 00:03:17,640 convicted of murdering their parents in 1989. 62 00:03:17,760 --> 00:03:20,160 Now I don't want to get too much into it because I don't want it 63 00:03:20,160 --> 00:03:22,480 to be too triggering, but basically the Menendez brothers 64 00:03:22,480 --> 00:03:27,280 were abused by their parents and Brianna on her podcast said 65 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:30,080 basically that they should have just run away or gone to college 66 00:03:30,080 --> 00:03:34,000 or something to escape from the abuse and that they had other 67 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:35,760 options. I meditated. 68 00:03:35,880 --> 00:03:39,800 Shoot your mommy in the face, your daddy in the face while 69 00:03:39,800 --> 00:03:42,200 they're on the couch and you think, woo Hoo. 70 00:03:42,880 --> 00:03:44,200 Oh, that's because they were mean to us. 71 00:03:44,200 --> 00:03:45,920 They did bad stuff to us. You run away. 72 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:47,840 You run away. Run away. 73 00:03:48,080 --> 00:03:50,400 You don't need to kill people. I think you should be in prison 74 00:03:50,400 --> 00:03:51,880 forever because you murder people. 75 00:03:52,080 --> 00:03:53,240 I think that's how the life works. 76 00:03:53,240 --> 00:03:54,760 You murder people, you stay in prison. 77 00:03:55,200 --> 00:03:57,560 If you think that's wrong, maybe we need to read. 78 00:03:57,560 --> 00:04:00,240 We need to talk because murderers go to jail. 79 00:04:01,320 --> 00:04:05,800 I just, I just your father, your father raping you. 80 00:04:05,800 --> 00:04:08,280 It's just a whole different thing that you just don't. 81 00:04:09,040 --> 00:04:12,440 You wouldn't understand. We both would understand. 82 00:04:12,640 --> 00:04:14,480 I don't know. It's just it's wild. 83 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:17,600 You run. Away OK and then the second 84 00:04:17,720 --> 00:04:21,079 thing that she is facing backlash for is again on an 85 00:04:21,079 --> 00:04:24,320 episode of planned Bree with grace Grace is her Co host Grace 86 00:04:24,320 --> 00:04:25,880 O'Malley, who I mentioned in the intro. 87 00:04:26,120 --> 00:04:28,280 So she talked about an experience that she had in 88 00:04:28,280 --> 00:04:30,400 Atlantic City where she was core. 89 00:04:30,400 --> 00:04:34,520 She said coerced or forced into something at 16. 90 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:37,680 And then Brianna went on this like rant about how 16 year old 91 00:04:37,680 --> 00:04:40,160 girls don't know any better but they shouldn't be hanging out 92 00:04:40,160 --> 00:04:44,960 with like divorced men at bars. And it was just, it just went on 93 00:04:44,960 --> 00:04:46,600 and on and on. So listen to this. 94 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:49,240 What happened last time I was there? 95 00:04:49,520 --> 00:04:52,560 That shape, it was a woman. It was really bad, so. 96 00:04:53,400 --> 00:04:56,640 Do without what you will. But that's not going to happen 97 00:04:56,640 --> 00:04:59,240 again. Because now I am a strong, 98 00:04:59,240 --> 00:05:02,760 independent woman who knows what she wants and will not be 99 00:05:02,760 --> 00:05:06,280 settling for anything less or being coerced or forced into 100 00:05:06,280 --> 00:05:09,000 anything else. Yeah, well, you know, when 101 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:11,360 you're 16, you just don't really know anything. 102 00:05:12,880 --> 00:05:17,400 And when you're 16, girls, if you're 16 listening to this or 103 00:05:17,400 --> 00:05:19,520 play this for your daughter, if you have a 16 year old daughter 104 00:05:19,680 --> 00:05:22,600 when you're 16 and maybe your mom brings you to Atlantic City, 105 00:05:22,760 --> 00:05:26,360 maybe you girls shouldn't hang out with the divorced men at the 106 00:05:26,360 --> 00:05:28,960 bar. Maybe you should go find other 107 00:05:28,960 --> 00:05:31,360 16 year olds. Maybe you shouldn't hang around 108 00:05:31,360 --> 00:05:34,120 older men because that's really scary and wrong and they will 109 00:05:34,120 --> 00:05:37,840 always take advantage of you because that's just what life is 110 00:05:38,080 --> 00:05:40,920 and men are scary. So let's stay away because you 111 00:05:40,920 --> 00:05:43,280 know, it sounds so fun and cool in the moment, but then when you 112 00:05:43,280 --> 00:05:47,200 grow up you look back on those experiences, scary and horrific. 113 00:05:47,320 --> 00:05:50,400 So stay away from older men and hang out with people your age. 114 00:05:50,560 --> 00:05:53,840 That's how life should be. Be a good 16 year old, not do 115 00:05:53,840 --> 00:05:55,640 what we did. You can still have fun. 116 00:05:55,760 --> 00:05:58,160 Stick with your age group. It's not your fault. 117 00:05:58,480 --> 00:06:01,880 So, yeah, the way that Brianna is diminishing Grace's 118 00:06:01,880 --> 00:06:07,320 experiences, almost like putting it back on her and saying, like, 119 00:06:07,600 --> 00:06:09,840 we we shouldn't have made these decisions at 16. 120 00:06:09,840 --> 00:06:12,200 And because we made these decisions, this thing happened 121 00:06:12,200 --> 00:06:18,080 to you is so fucked up and so toxic and just so not true at 122 00:06:18,080 --> 00:06:19,560 all. I'm sure she meant well. 123 00:06:19,560 --> 00:06:22,760 I'm sure she was genuinely trying to warn young women. 124 00:06:22,760 --> 00:06:26,280 And it does remind me, like, it's reminiscent of how women, 125 00:06:26,280 --> 00:06:30,440 you know, my mom, like the a different generation spoke to 126 00:06:30,440 --> 00:06:32,120 us. I'm a young millennial. 127 00:06:32,120 --> 00:06:35,920 Like growing up about protecting ourselves as women. 128 00:06:36,200 --> 00:06:39,520 It reminds me of that. It was like coming from a good 129 00:06:39,520 --> 00:06:41,120 place. And it was trying to say, like, 130 00:06:41,120 --> 00:06:43,360 the world out there is really bad and men are really bad and 131 00:06:43,360 --> 00:06:44,880 like, you need to protect yourself. 132 00:06:45,160 --> 00:06:49,840 But the way that it is presented is so often putting the onus and 133 00:06:49,840 --> 00:06:53,200 the blame on you as a woman. And you know, it's literally 134 00:06:53,200 --> 00:06:56,840 just never your fault if you are the victim of a sexual assault 135 00:06:56,840 --> 00:06:59,160 or anything like that. Like, it is not your fault. 136 00:06:59,160 --> 00:07:01,600 So Brianna, she stays problematic. 137 00:07:02,400 --> 00:07:06,200 She is our problematic podcast queen, that's for sure. 138 00:07:06,280 --> 00:07:10,920 OK, the next word that I have, you guys were like frothing for 139 00:07:10,920 --> 00:07:14,560 the Aspen of our divorce update that I gave yesterday. 140 00:07:14,840 --> 00:07:16,960 I've been giving updates this whole time. 141 00:07:16,960 --> 00:07:19,000 But that one probably because it was talking about the 142 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:21,000 mother-in-law stuff, that one popped off. 143 00:07:21,240 --> 00:07:24,600 So she is still posting, you know, insane content. 144 00:07:24,920 --> 00:07:28,160 She is still going nuts. I actually think so. 145 00:07:28,440 --> 00:07:31,080 Someone on my team said this, and I thought, you know what? 146 00:07:31,080 --> 00:07:32,880 That's actually valid. I hadn't considered from that 147 00:07:32,880 --> 00:07:35,320 angle. But like, she got engaged at 19. 148 00:07:35,320 --> 00:07:38,240 She has always been an adult, even when she was supposed to be 149 00:07:38,240 --> 00:07:40,800 young and having fun and in her 20s and like, you know, just 150 00:07:40,800 --> 00:07:42,920 making those mistakes and kind of going insane. 151 00:07:43,400 --> 00:07:45,960 And maybe that's just like the manifestation like that. 152 00:07:45,960 --> 00:07:48,920 That's just like what we're seeing right now from her is her 153 00:07:48,920 --> 00:07:52,800 living out her like young 20s, like getting that like energy 154 00:07:52,800 --> 00:07:54,960 and chaos out. But like, she's doing it on 155 00:07:54,960 --> 00:07:58,240 TikTok for us amid her divorce and like about the topic of her 156 00:07:58,240 --> 00:08:01,000 divorce, I don't know. I kind of love it though. 157 00:08:01,160 --> 00:08:04,760 I hope she's OK, though. So she addressed actually her 158 00:08:04,760 --> 00:08:08,840 divorce timeline on the Cheers podcast with Avery Woods. 159 00:08:08,880 --> 00:08:11,840 And I wanted to just like kind of go through what she said. 160 00:08:11,840 --> 00:08:15,160 So she said she gave birth to her third baby weeks before 161 00:08:15,160 --> 00:08:16,840 filing for divorce, which I think we knew. 162 00:08:16,920 --> 00:08:19,600 She said the day her divorce leaked to the press was also the 163 00:08:19,600 --> 00:08:22,800 day she filed. So she thinks it was probably 164 00:08:22,800 --> 00:08:26,600 someone at the law firm who leaked it, which would be such a 165 00:08:26,600 --> 00:08:31,880 breach of like, I assume some type of client and lawyer 166 00:08:31,880 --> 00:08:34,919 confidentiality. Like that would just be so 167 00:08:34,919 --> 00:08:36,320 fucked up. I'm sure it happens all the time 168 00:08:36,320 --> 00:08:39,159 with famous people, but like, I can't even imagine. 169 00:08:39,200 --> 00:08:42,039 She said she hadn't spoken to, you know, she hadn't told like a 170 00:08:42,039 --> 00:08:43,720 lot of her friends and family and stuff. 171 00:08:43,720 --> 00:08:46,120 And they obviously just had to read it in the press. 172 00:08:46,720 --> 00:08:50,320 She reiterated that Parker is not gay, nor did he cheat on her 173 00:08:50,320 --> 00:08:52,360 as far as she knows. And she said she's still 174 00:08:52,360 --> 00:08:56,400 conflicted about if she should be open, you know, about why 175 00:08:56,400 --> 00:08:59,360 she's getting divorced or if it will kind of harm her kids. 176 00:08:59,360 --> 00:09:01,440 Like, she's still trying to kind of navigate that. 177 00:09:01,520 --> 00:09:04,040 It seems like it's possible we might find out what happened. 178 00:09:04,440 --> 00:09:06,560 I think she really upholds her boundaries well. 179 00:09:06,560 --> 00:09:09,400 And I do believe if she decided to tell us, it's been a very 180 00:09:09,400 --> 00:09:12,560 considered decision. And she knows that it will not 181 00:09:12,560 --> 00:09:14,680 hurt her children in the future, or at least that's what she 182 00:09:14,680 --> 00:09:16,440 believes. Anyways, guys, thank you. 183 00:09:16,440 --> 00:09:18,400 So much for listening to mini scroll. 184 00:09:18,400 --> 00:09:19,920 Please rate review and subscribe. 185 00:09:19,920 --> 00:09:22,760 Please star rate US on Spotify. We're trying to get our reviews 186 00:09:22,760 --> 00:09:26,120 up on Spotify. I love you guys and I will talk 187 00:09:26,120 --> 00:09:27,720 to you tomorrow and wish me luck. 188 00:09:28,360 --> 00:09:31,360 I can't wait. I can't wait that like Thursday. 189 00:09:31,360 --> 00:09:34,280 I can't wait to sit in this chair on Thursday and be like 190 00:09:34,280 --> 00:09:37,800 it's done. The day is done and we are 191 00:09:37,800 --> 00:09:39,200 moving on. I want to enjoy it. 192 00:09:39,200 --> 00:09:41,480 While this is just me going on a tangent because I'm anxious. 193 00:09:41,720 --> 00:09:44,200 I want to enjoy it and I will. I'm going to try and soak up 194 00:09:44,200 --> 00:09:48,080 every minute, but I'm also ready for it to be done. 195 00:09:48,280 --> 00:09:49,000 OK, goodbye.