Nude Protesting, Work⧸Life Balance, AND Say Yes To The Dress？ ｜｜ Welcome to Episode 1 of The Scoop!
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Summary
In the first episode of The Scoop, I talk about Taylor Swift's new music video, a controversial photo of a naked woman in front of a group of police officers, and the controversy surrounding a woman flashing police officers.
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Hello beautiful ladies and welcome to the first episode of The Scoop.
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I have been thinking about creating a series on my channel called The Scoop. When I was in high
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school we used to have morning announcements and I used to get up in the mornings and I was in
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charge of announcing the school play which I was in and I would get up and I would make a small
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announcement. Well over time that turned into me giving small performances each morning to get
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people to attend the performances and then it turned into something else entirely. My best
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friend at the time and I made something called The Scoop. We asked the administration, got
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permission and each morning we would get up and we would give a fact and a tidbit and we would call it
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here's the scoop we're giving you guys the info for the day and it would usually just be something
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random and funny and it was our way of bringing a little bit of joy to our fellow classmates every
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morning. Well now I'm bringing The Scoop to you guys. I'm really excited to do something similar
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to The Scoop with you because I'm not going to be doing just the fact and the tidbit sort of thing
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but I am planning on bringing you a little bit of joy each week where we can talk a little bit
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more casually than the other videos on my channel where I can give you a few updates of things that
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I've seen, things I've been doing and we can just kind of catch up in the comments. I'm really excited
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about this because it's nice for me to just kind of catch up and talk with you guys. It's sort of like
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a chatty coffee talk if we were all at a coffee shop together. This is kind of what that would be like
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and so I'm really excited to just share this time with you guys in a little bit more laid back of a way.
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First I want to talk about a pop culture thing I saw this week. So Taylor Swift released an album
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just kind of out of the blue. She decided to announce that her album was releasing at midnight
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and it was going to be a big event and she was also going to release one music video. So here's
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the thing with me and Taylor Swift, you guys probably know I used to be a big fan of hers. She kind of fell
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out of favor with me when she started becoming more and more of an SJW. I wasn't a huge fan of her music
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as it changed from country to pop anyways but then when she started talking very openly about
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her politics and really alienating a big part of her fan base I was just not interested in listening
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to her music anymore. So when I saw this was coming out I was a little bit interested just because
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oh it kind of came out of the blue and how did she get all of this done during quarantine? But she did
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film this music video which I watched. All I'm going to say about the music video is that it was very
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pretty. I thought it was very beautiful to look at and the music was fine. It was okay and it felt very
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cottagecore to me. That's kind of a term I see floating around on the internet a lot so it was
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kind of warm and inviting until you get to the middle part of the music video where she's uh in
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the water and it seems like she might drown. Besides that it was very pretty and I'm curious to know
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what you guys think about Taylor Swift if you were excited to see that she dropped a new album. Again
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I'm not super excited about it. I might check it out and see if there are any tracks that I like but
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the fact of the matter is she kind of alienated me a while back when I saw her documentary for Netflix
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called Miss Americana. I was not a big fan of that and so I wasn't super interested in her new
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release but it is something that's in the zeitgeist so I am curious to know your guys' thoughts on that.
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Next up let's talk about a news item. So there was a photo that went pretty viral of a naked woman
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sitting on the street showing off her body and uh her nakedness to a group of police officers as a
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protest and it was deemed iconic by many people so I do have some thoughts on that. I don't know what
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nudity has to do with any of this I mean you can create a story about that but honestly it doesn't
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have to do with this it's not useful it's just kind of like oh look at me look at what I did and it'll
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make a great photo op. And my first thought when I looked at that photo was that I would think of
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that as sexual harassment. If a man were to do the same thing sit on the ground and flash a group of
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police officers it would be harassment. Of course police officers know what they signed up for so
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it's not necessarily a legal issue but a man flashing people should be the same as a woman flashing
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people and for the media to call this a really newsworthy item and it was incredibly iconic and
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she's making such a great statement to me was not accurate. I looked at that and I thought I don't know
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what you're protesting. I don't know what your point is here and it doesn't seem to me like you're
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actually making a difference this way. This isn't really an argument it's just you posing nude. So the
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idea that this would be iconic is silly to me and I'm not a huge proponent of going out nude on the
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street as a form of protest. Maybe that's just me but let me know in the comments what you guys think.
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So I also wanted to share some things I've been thinking about this week just things that I've been
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learning and kind of sorting through and I made this video about classic not being perfect and I
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kind of wanted to share a little bit more about that story. So when I came to my husband it was
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really because I felt like the housework had gotten away from me and the reason that my housework has
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gotten away from me is because I have been putting in a lot more time with my work. I've been making
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four videos a week, I have been producing a ton of content and it's just a big undertaking and I've just
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been finding that my time for housework and just even spending time with my husband has gotten a
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lot less and it is something that we're constantly talking about right this work-life balance thing
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that feels so difficult and I've had this issue before so it's not like it's a big surprise but
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it is something that I feel like is going to just constantly be coming up and it's something that
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I think as a community of women we can talk about because I know that I would love to have that
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really good work-life balance. It's really important to me and it's something that I also said in a video
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about success for women is that work-life balance is finding out what does work and making time for
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the things that you care about so it's an interesting thing that I'm starting to experience that now
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because I know I want to spend time with my husband I know I want to get the housework done. I'm one of
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those people let me know in the comments if you're like this I have a hard time having mental brain space
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if my house is cluttered. If the house is cluttered it feels like my mind is cluttered and so I really
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like keeping the house clean so when the housework gets away from me it actually really does bother me
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it's something that kind of gets in my way and I feel like I've let myself down and then I'm just
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not as productive and so it is something that I've been trying to work on this balance of the
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things that I am working on and then the lifestyle that I want to have and I know it's only going to
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get more intense at the time that my husband and I do decide to have children so I'm sure this is only
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a tiny little sliver of what it's going to look like in the future but I guess that's just part of
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life because I know that my husband has the same struggle he has work and he needs to make time
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for his life too so that he has that good balance and he can help me with the chores or he can take
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over dinner some nights but the fact of the matter is I don't really love when he cooks dinner because
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I feel like that is something I love to do so when he does that I always feel like ah that's something
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that matters to me and I didn't want him to have to do that so that's that's what I've been feeling
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lately and so I'm sure that this is something that I'll just keep working on and I know that I waste a little
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bit of time in little pieces all day so I think I could probably get better about that but if you
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guys have any ideas tips and tricks for when you're working from home having that work-life balance I'd
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really love to hear your guys's thoughts I'll of course keep sharing how I think I can grow and be
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better about that but I'd love to hear your guys's opinions too so leave it in the comments lastly I just
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want to talk about some things I've been reading and some things I've been watching so as far as what
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I've been reading I've actually been reading the dummy's guide to buying a puppy so don't get ahead
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of yourselves here I am not buying a puppy as of yet but at some point in the future Jacob and I would
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like to get a dog and I know that I feel really stressed about it and I think it's because I never
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grew up with animals at all so I really don't have any experience with it and I'm somebody who's like
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okay I want to know what each stage is going to look like I want to know how I can best prepare and not having any idea of the
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and not having any idea of how it works and how much time I would need to spend with the puppy and
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if it's okay if the puppy's whining all of that kind of stuff that is stuff I'm trying to learn before
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we do get a dog in the future and so I've been reading this book it's just the dummy's book on
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getting a puppy and it is really helpful so far it's been giving good tips and advice I also was looking
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up some things online because sorry I do tend to do this when it's something I'm interested in I tend to
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kind of do a lot of research but I did find this really good piece of advice for the future so you
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guys tell me if this makes sense the idea is that when you're crate training a puppy the puppy will
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cry at night if it can't see you so even if it's in the bedroom if the puppy can't see you it's still
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going to cry so I saw somewhere online that someone recommended putting the crate on a chair next to
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the head of your bed so that the puppy can really see your face and if you want to put your fingers
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through the crate they can see you and feel you and touch you and I thought that was a great idea
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because if the puppy can't be in bed with you because you want to train it to be in the crate
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at least it can still see you and so you won't have it whining all night so I thought that was a
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really good idea if you have a dog if you've crate trained I'd love to hear your thoughts but then as
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well it's been talking about kind of like the daily schedule of having a puppy what it would look like
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and it does seem like a lot of work I'm not gonna lie to you guys it seems like having a baby or at least a
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toddler so it is a a big investment of time and that is something that I am looking forward to
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but it's also something I'm nervous about so it's interesting to read this and kind of get an idea
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of what it would be like for when we get a dog and then also have an idea of what I should be doing so
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we have the best behaved dog on the block because I find that a lot of people's dogs are not super
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well behaved now as far as what I've been watching I've been watching say yes to the dress so I used to
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watch this show when I was growing up with my mom I would watch like every episode that was on TLC they
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would do these big marathons and I'd watch all of them and I loved that show so it's really funny to
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watch it now as an adult and see how they manufacture the drama and all of that and the way I'm watching
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it is that they have about three or four seasons on Hulu so I'm watching some of them on there and it's
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just so funny to see some of this manufactured drama that they put in as well as the price and cost of
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these gowns people come in and they say that they have no budget and they're trying on twenty five
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thousand dollar gowns you're gonna wear it once buy a house put the money towards a car use it wisely
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now I'm not judging if you want to spend a certain amount that's like reasonable but a lot of these
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women come in with a twenty five hundred dollar budget and Randy and the consultants look at them
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like they're crazy like how are you gonna get a dress for twenty five thousand dollars the way you get
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a dress for twenty five thousand dollars is you don't go to Kleinfeld that's the solution
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so I got my dress for eight hundred dollars and then I had some alterations on top of that but I
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bought a sample because we got married pretty quickly and I didn't have time to order a dress
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in time but there are a lot of places that you can get dresses for under twenty five hundred dollars
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but on say yes to the dress that doesn't exist if your budget is twenty five hundred dollars
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they're gonna bring you a twenty eight hundred dollar dress and you just have to accept it
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and it's just so ridiculous the way that they create these budgets it makes me laugh and then
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of course you have the stories with the brides I'm not gonna lie some of them I get really emotional
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at the end when they do the little like that little song at the end while they show the wedding
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I like those I think they're really sweet and some of the dresses that these women choose are
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gorgeous but some of them are not and I'm very surprised I look at some of those dresses and I think to myself
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no no no I would never ever choose that and some of it is because I just don't like the style of the dress
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I have kind of a specific taste when it comes to wedding dresses but a lot of it is also that these wedding dresses
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are really immodest it's like your wedding day everyone you know and love and respect is gonna be there
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and you're wearing a dress that's showing everything on your wedding day it's not supposed to be about
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how sexy you look it's supposed to be how beautiful you look for your husband for the person you're
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about to marry and it's just always funny that these women come in and they're like I want to look
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like a sex bomb and then they choose something that works with that description and it's very funny
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but it is a ton of fun to watch I'm gonna be completely honest but getting to look at that many
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beautiful dresses just from the comfort of your home is so much fun and it's something that I really
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like doing it's something I would do with girlfriends where I would invite them over and we would watch
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say I stood the dress together and kind of be like boo that dress is ugly or choose that one it's
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gorgeous you know another thing that I have watched this past week was Braveheart I watched the movie
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Braveheart with my husband I'd never seen it before and I'm not gonna lie to you the thing that upset me
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about Braveheart is how historically inaccurate it is like at every turn it drove me crazy but the movie
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itself is good and worth watching I would say if you've seen either say as to the dress or Braveheart
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totally different sides of the spectrum let me know in the comments below and maybe we'll talk
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about it a little bit I'd love to hear your guys's thoughts so that's the first episode of the scoop
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I hope you guys enjoyed it and I'm really excited to keep bringing this to you each week where we can
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just have like a casual conversation about different things I've been seeing different things I've been
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reading different things I've been thinking about and we can just kind of have a girl chat let me
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know in the comments what you guys have been thinking about this week I'd love to hear thank
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