Speaker 1: So I've never been acutely aware of Britney spears, her career,
Speaker 1: what's going on with her, the free Britney stuff, any
Speaker 1: more than just a person who just sees headlines, like
Speaker 1: some of you really are rabbit and know it. And
Speaker 1: it's funny the different stories at different people pick up on.
Speaker 1: It might have to do with the time in their
Speaker 1: lives that that person was famous. I might have to
Speaker 1: do with age or style of music or movies or
Speaker 1: whatever someone does. For example, Gwen Stefani, like, she's not
Speaker 1: on my radar. She's around my age, I think, but
Speaker 1: I've never really clicked with what she's doing or done.
Speaker 1: I she's beautiful and it seems very talented, but it's
Speaker 1: just never been something that's been on my radar. And
Speaker 1: while I think Beyonce is an absolute queen beyond, I
Speaker 1: think I'm more aware of what goes on with Rihanna
Speaker 1: and I. It's not an age thing. I just I
Speaker 1: don't know why. So it's interesting how we just certain
Speaker 1: people just intrigue us. Maria I don't know a lot about,
Speaker 1: but I'm just always thinking about her and find her fascinating.
Speaker 1: I'm not always thinking about her, I don't know why
Speaker 1: I said that. I just mean, like, I'll read something
Speaker 1: about her. I find her interesting and fascinating. Um, okay,
Speaker 1: So Britney Spear has never really been a person that
Speaker 1: knows any more than anyone reading the headlines. But we
Speaker 1: don't know what goes on with someone because we're just
Speaker 1: reading headlines. So she has the incident with the shaved
Speaker 1: head and the drink and the paparazzi, and you know,
Speaker 1: my opinion at the time was like, that must be
Speaker 1: so crazy, the paparazzi and living a life uh in
Speaker 1: front of the cameras, And I mean, it could drive
Speaker 1: anyone crazy. So it either young fame could drive someone crazy.
Speaker 1: Think about Michael Jackson. I think about Justin bieber when
Speaker 1: he had a crazy phase, in a destructive phase. I
Speaker 1: just think that young fame is something that is extremely
Speaker 1: dangerous and impossible for someone to imagine, and for a
Speaker 1: young kid who can't process logic about how to handle it,
Speaker 1: much less an adult who could handle that, which many can't.
Speaker 1: I just think it's a laugh for for young kids.
Speaker 1: So Brittany grew up in the Mickey Mouse Club and
Speaker 1: in a relationship with Justin timber Lake, and she's been
Speaker 1: famous most of her life. So she goes through this
Speaker 1: divorcedness custody battle, and then you know, it becomes very
Speaker 1: public for all of us, this conservatorship, and people are
Speaker 1: listening to messages she's sending and thinking that she's sending
Speaker 1: cries for help and team her and not her father,
Speaker 1: and we're thinking about stage dads and people that steal
Speaker 1: kids money and um. Then she's got a sister who
Speaker 1: was really famous for a time but kind of dissolved
Speaker 1: into the background a little bit, and what does she think?
Speaker 1: And she sometimes seems team parents, and it all seems like,
Speaker 1: how could we possibly know? But everybody got very free Brittany.
Speaker 1: And you know it's funny because if you had said
Speaker 1: something terrible at Harvey Weinstein years ago, you would have
Speaker 1: been slow. And then Harvey Weinstein became a criminal and
Speaker 1: Matt Lower was beloved and then what happened to him,
Speaker 1: And then you know, Ellen went through a ship storm,
Speaker 1: and because Fatiguan went through shipp storm, and everybody has
Speaker 1: ebbs and flows where if you said something about somebody
Speaker 1: that wasn't popular at the wrong time, you know you'd
Speaker 1: get killed. So it's just it's very very trendy and
Speaker 1: fluid when you're allowed to think something and say something.
Speaker 1: And I remember when this whole free Brittany thing was
Speaker 1: coming out, me thinking this sounds very cult like and
Speaker 1: very extreme, that she would be in this conservator ship
Speaker 1: that is so extreme, and that the public is now
Speaker 1: saying free Brittany. She's an adult and someone's controlled her
Speaker 1: money and she's doing all this publicly and talking about it,
Speaker 1: and everyone's feeling compassion, And I actually did, because it
Speaker 1: seems suffocating and debilitating and like she was in some
Speaker 1: sort of a prison and trapped. But I also and
Speaker 1: I also when she yelled at her kids, like who cared?
Speaker 1: And he was trying to leak that, And I've been
Speaker 1: through things like that myself, so I was thinking, big deal,
Speaker 1: she got crazy with her kids. And listen, a lot
Speaker 1: of celebrities are a little bit you know cookie, let's
Speaker 1: just say um. But I do remember thinking, I do
Speaker 1: really really remember thinking like, how many shades of great
Speaker 1: is this? Like? If she was that extreme at she
Speaker 1: had a conservatorship that a judge put on her, there
Speaker 1: must be some pretty compelling evidence to have that happen.
Speaker 1: And by no means do I know or sit in
Speaker 1: any kind of judgment. I just remember thinking that and
Speaker 1: then recently, and it's truthfully, people like Perez Hilton and
Speaker 1: to report on it, you know, just in my periphery
Speaker 1: on social media, I'll see these these these posts that
Speaker 1: she does with these free association of thought, and in
Speaker 1: looking at her wedding and some of those videos with
Speaker 1: Drew Barrymore and Paris and everybody else, it seemed a
Speaker 1: little chaotic, a little messy. It just seems little disorganized
Speaker 1: over there. It seems a little messy, and you never know.
Speaker 1: I mean, there are people that are so you don't
Speaker 1: even know how messy it is privately. I mean I've
Speaker 1: heard so many assistance and publicists and things like say,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's insane what goes on over there, not
Speaker 1: there there, but I mean in general, so who can
Speaker 1: possibly know? But it definitely seems like if you put
Speaker 1: all the ingredients together, something's off overall. Like something's definitely
Speaker 1: very very off overall. And you know, celebrities are beloved
Speaker 1: and famous. Think about Amanda bind She was like America's
Speaker 1: Girl and all those young movies, and then she went
Speaker 1: nuts like and I don't mean that I'm not. I'm
Speaker 1: not making fun of mental illness, or so maybe I
Speaker 1: said that in to cross Away, like she had severe
Speaker 1: mental and emotional problems. And when you're a famous person
Speaker 1: and you have a lot of money and people are
Speaker 1: owing anything you want at you, you can kind of
Speaker 1: act out. And I heard Whitney use Houston on an
Speaker 1: interview recently saying that she wasn't thinking about if she
Speaker 1: was doing too much drugs or if she was saying
Speaker 1: if she was okay. She had everything thrown at her
Speaker 1: and she just had money and there's nothing to worry about.
Speaker 1: You could do whatever you want. There's no there are
Speaker 1: no guardrails, and it seems like Britney doesn't have any
Speaker 1: guard rails and a lot of these people are living
Speaker 1: every thought and emotion through captions and it must be
Speaker 1: maddening because if everybody likes it, then they're happy, and
Speaker 1: if everybody doesn't like it's like another cousin of fame.
Speaker 1: Social media is fame, but in a different vehicle. It's
Speaker 1: a different You're not a concert pianist, you're not on
Speaker 1: you're not you're not in the theater on Broadway, you're
Speaker 1: not in a movie, you're not in a television show.
Speaker 1: You're not a stand up comedian now. Your your stage
Speaker 1: is social media, and so you could say this crazy
Speaker 1: shouldn't get this attention immediately, Like you have to wagh
Speaker 1: for a movie to be edited or a TV show
Speaker 1: to air, and you have to wait live plus three
Speaker 1: et cetera of the DVR and everything to get the ratings.
Speaker 1: With social media, you get the ratings immediately. So you
Speaker 1: could post fifty things a day and get the ratings immediately.
Speaker 1: And that's psychotic and addictive and all kinds of fucking crazy,
Speaker 1: you know. I mean, the case have built the whole
Speaker 1: life and business on it. You know, let's put this
Speaker 1: add up right now, and we know exactly five minutes
Speaker 1: later how much product were we sold or an hour
Speaker 1: later if we sold out. Like, it's just a different
Speaker 1: world now. So Britney Spears was the vehicle through which
Speaker 1: to make me think that, because she posts some crazy
Speaker 1: stuff and then she deletes it and people laugh at it.
Speaker 1: But it's it is it funny? I mean if she
Speaker 1: said that stuff in an interview, it wouldn't be okay.
Speaker 1: So I don't know, it's just a crazy, crazy, crazy world.
Speaker 1: And it's also immediate and it's instant gratification, and there's
Speaker 1: there's no control. Someone can control when the TV show
Speaker 1: goes up and when the movie goes up, and when
Speaker 1: the persons on stage and did they hydrate enough and
Speaker 1: did they put the honey in their throat and all
Speaker 1: of that stuff. But just to be going on stage
Speaker 1: every ten, ten times a day if you want, or
Speaker 1: every day saying something, taking it down, putting it up,
Speaker 1: like do they like me? Did they not answering in
Speaker 1: the comments. It's immediate gratification. It's crazy. Think about it.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about click bait and cloud chasing. These are
Speaker 1: terms that are thrown around, particularly on places like TikTok,
Speaker 1: where people are talking about that you tag someone or
Speaker 1: you do something trendy because you're looking for views. What
Speaker 1: are people doing on TikTok or people on TikTok because
Speaker 1: it's a charitable action, it's it's philanthropy. People are opening
Speaker 1: air as boxes and showing you what they got at
Speaker 1: Zara and and and doing their makeup tutorials and get
Speaker 1: readies with me and dances because there it's for charity.
Speaker 1: It's it's it's a work project. Or they're trying to
Speaker 1: get people to view their videos. So anyone who says
Speaker 1: or accuses somebody else of talking about something in particular
Speaker 1: because they're chasing cloud or click baiting is an insecure loser.
Speaker 1: Is someone who's jealous because they're just annoyed that it
Speaker 1: may be working for you and it's not working for them.
Speaker 1: So if you're not a monk living in a monastery
Speaker 1: that doesn't have social media, uh, then then then really
Speaker 1: you're not in a position to be talking about clickbait
Speaker 1: or cloud chasing. I just find that so funny. Um.
Speaker 1: I love when people sort of jealousy shines right through