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Celebrity feuds are high stakes.

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You never know if you're just going to end up on

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page six or do moi

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or in court. Wondery's new podcast,

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DisIntel, is hosted by comedians Sidney

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Battle and Matt Bellassai, where they

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wade into the glorious mess of celebrity

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beef, from sub-tweets to diss tracks

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to physical altercations. Each episode

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of DisIntel will take you through the buildup

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to the feud, why it happened, and the

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repercussions. What do our obsession

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with these feuds say about us? The first

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season is

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packed with some pretty messy pop culture

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drama, but none as drawn out

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and personal as Britney and Jamie Lynn Spears.

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When Britney's fans formed the Free Britney

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movement, dedicated to freeing her from

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the infamous conservatorship, Jamie

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Lynn's lack of public support angered

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fans. Jamie Lynn claimed that she

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was going out of her way to help her sister,

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but it turns out she was using Britney's

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conservatorship to gain more control

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over her own fortune. DisIntel

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covers everything from their still ongoing

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social media battle, and there may or may

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not be a knife involved. It's a story

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of two young women who had their choices

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taken away from them by their controlling

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parents, but took their anger out on

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each other. And it's about a movement to save

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a superstar, which sets its sights

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upon anyone who failed to fight

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for Britney. You're about to hear a preview

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of DisIntel. While you're listening, follow

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DisIntel wherever you get your podcasts.

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Matt, gun to your head, name

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three iconic Britney performances.

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I would say, okay, the

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iconic snake performance,

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VMAs with the snake, that was a big one. The

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one where she kissed Madonna, also at the

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VMAs, if I'm not mistaken.

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I'm not gonna question you. I know

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you know more than me. I don't know,

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all of her Instagram dances, I

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think those should count collectively as an iconic

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Britney performance.

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I would count those. That was very impressive.

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I mean, considering that my memory is

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now mostly composed of whatever TikToks

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I saw in the last 24 hours.

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Yeah, my brain is a sieve, but

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I must know, do the 2017 Radio

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Disney Music Awards mean anything

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to you? Honestly, 2017 sounds

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like way too recent of a year for

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there to be a televised Radio

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Disney award show.

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It is shocking, but let

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me set the scene for you.

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Brittany's there, and she's in a tight

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black cutout dress. She's sitting

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in the audience with her two sons and her mom,

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and it might be hard to believe, but at this point,

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she's been in her conservatorship for nearly

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a decade. And it will be another

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four years before she regains any

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control of her life. So because

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of that, even though she'd like to be performing,

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she's not. Instead, she's watching

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this new crop of pop stars sing renditions

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of her songs.

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Kelsey Ballerini belting out a country

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version of Oops I Did It Again. Okay.

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Hailee Steinfeld wearing a ringleader

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outfit doing a cover of Circus. Interesting.

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And then lastly, Sophia

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Carson with her hair and pigtails

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singing Baby One More Time.

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Yeah, I'm

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gonna be honest, I don't even know who Sophia Carson

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is. A lot of these people. During

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the whole thing, Brittany's in the audience

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sort of like bobbing her head and

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clapping along, but she doesn't look

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thrilled. Here's a picture.

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Yeah, she looks like she's trying to

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get a waiter's attention to tell

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him that her order is wrong. And

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not just that it's wrong, it's like there's

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a giant shard of glass sticking out of

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the food. She just looks unsettled.

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Like, yeah, something's wrong. Disturbed. And

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rounding out this personal horror show of

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a performance is a surprise. prize

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guest. It's

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Jamie Lynn Spears, Britney's

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younger sister, and she finishes

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singing till the world ends and

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then presents her big sister with the first

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ever Icon

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Award. The Radio Disney Award.

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She

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is my friend, my hero, my favorite

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pop star of all time and everyone

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else's. And the best sister a girl

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could ever have. I'm so excited to

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present her with this well-deserved

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recognition. But

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when Britney gets to the stage, she only

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gives her sister this kind of like half-hearted

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side hug. The same kind you'd give a

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friend of a friend of a friend, you're meeting at

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a gathering and you're like, I'm not a hugger,

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but okay, I guess. That's

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the energy she's bringing to this hug. And

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she's hissed at Jamie Lynn for

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doing that performance. Matt, will

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you read the tweet she sends out about it later?

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She says, I don't like that

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my sister showed up at an award show and

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performed my songs to remixes.

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My so-called support system hurt

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me deeply. This conservatorship

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killed my dreams. So

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like every sentence has four exclamations

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after it. She really does love punctuation.

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That's relatable to me. Britney's

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tired of her family capitalizing

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on her success, especially her

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little sister. But pretty

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soon, she's going to let the whole world

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know exactly what she thinks

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about Jamie Lynn.

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From

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Wondery, I'm Sydney Battle. And I'm

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Matt Felicye. And this is

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Dis and Tell. We

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dive into the world of celebrity feuds.

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We're talking brutal. sub tweets, scathing

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diss tracks and tell-all memoirs,

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and all the juicy drama that keeps us hooked.

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We are going to uncover why

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these feuds happen and dig into the arsenal

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of weapons that celebrities use to come out

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on top.

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And let's not forget the big question. Why

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can't we look away? What does our obsession

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with celebrity feuds say about us?

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We're confronting our own fixations.

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We're brave and we're ready for it.

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