1 00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:13,800 Speaker 1: Disgraceland as a production of Double Elvis. The stories about 2 00:00:13,840 --> 00:00:18,279 Speaker 1: Justin Bieber are insane. He mixed drag racing with a 3 00:00:18,360 --> 00:00:22,080 Speaker 1: dui when he was just nineteen years old. He once 4 00:00:22,200 --> 00:00:24,720 Speaker 1: smoked so much grass on a private jet that the 5 00:00:24,760 --> 00:00:28,800 Speaker 1: pilots had to wear oxygen masks. He went from heart 6 00:00:28,840 --> 00:00:32,800 Speaker 1: throb to hedonist seemingly overnight, with a taste for pills 7 00:00:32,840 --> 00:00:36,519 Speaker 1: and for partying with his fratbrow of a father. His 8 00:00:36,600 --> 00:00:39,360 Speaker 1: partying was so out of control that his bodyguards had 9 00:00:39,360 --> 00:00:41,640 Speaker 1: to check his pulse throughout the night to make sure 10 00:00:41,720 --> 00:00:46,120 Speaker 1: he was still alive. His behavior compelled over a quarter 11 00:00:46,200 --> 00:00:51,360 Speaker 1: million Americans to petition for his deportation, and one deranged 12 00:00:51,400 --> 00:00:55,720 Speaker 1: super fan even plotted his murder. But in between his 13 00:00:55,880 --> 00:01:01,880 Speaker 1: laundry list of reckless, shameful, and often downright stone in fractions, Yeah, 14 00:01:01,920 --> 00:01:05,959 Speaker 1: I'll say it, Justin Bieber has made some great music. 15 00:01:06,920 --> 00:01:09,000 Speaker 1: Unlike that music I played for you at the top 16 00:01:09,040 --> 00:01:12,720 Speaker 1: of the show. That wasn't great music. That was a 17 00:01:12,760 --> 00:01:18,640 Speaker 1: preset loop from my melotron called Cyndi lauper Iz MK one. 18 00:01:19,600 --> 00:01:21,960 Speaker 1: I played you that loop because I can't afford the 19 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:26,360 Speaker 1: rights to Timber by Pitbull featuring Kesha, and why would 20 00:01:26,360 --> 00:01:30,800 Speaker 1: I play you that specific slice of sleazy square dance cheese? 21 00:01:30,800 --> 00:01:34,680 Speaker 1: Could I afford it? Because that was the number one 22 00:01:34,760 --> 00:01:39,600 Speaker 1: song in America on January twenty tewod twenty fourteen, and 23 00:01:39,760 --> 00:01:43,120 Speaker 1: that was the day Justin Bieber woke up in Miami 24 00:01:43,319 --> 00:01:50,160 Speaker 1: jail cell on this episode drag race, DUI's deportation, threats, 25 00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:55,360 Speaker 1: murder plots, and Justin Bieber, I'm Jake Brennan in this 26 00:01:56,240 --> 00:02:25,880 Speaker 1: is Disgraceland. Tie it really really tight, not it in 27 00:02:25,919 --> 00:02:28,640 Speaker 1: the front once, really tight, and then put it in 28 00:02:28,639 --> 00:02:33,200 Speaker 1: a knot, and that cuts off all the oxygen. Dana 29 00:02:33,240 --> 00:02:36,280 Speaker 1: Martin should have been whispering someone here in the joint 30 00:02:36,400 --> 00:02:39,120 Speaker 1: was no doubt listening to his phone call, noting his 31 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:42,880 Speaker 1: oddly specific instructions, but he was too eager to give 32 00:02:42,880 --> 00:02:46,320 Speaker 1: a shit and then tie it back again, really tight, 33 00:02:46,560 --> 00:02:51,280 Speaker 1: and that seals the deal. He kept repeating that really tight. 34 00:02:51,840 --> 00:02:54,760 Speaker 1: This whole operation had to be really tight if it 35 00:02:54,800 --> 00:02:59,720 Speaker 1: was going to work. Dana needed a few people to disappear. 36 00:03:00,360 --> 00:03:03,080 Speaker 1: He'd do it himself if he could. Dana was no 37 00:03:03,160 --> 00:03:07,560 Speaker 1: shrinking Violet. He'd killed before. That wasn't the problem. The 38 00:03:07,639 --> 00:03:10,760 Speaker 1: problem was the time he was doing a life sentence 39 00:03:10,840 --> 00:03:13,200 Speaker 1: for the rape and murder of a fifteen year old 40 00:03:13,240 --> 00:03:16,520 Speaker 1: girl for the rest of his days. However many days 41 00:03:16,520 --> 00:03:19,440 Speaker 1: that would be. Diana wasn't going to go anywhere besides 42 00:03:19,480 --> 00:03:23,799 Speaker 1: the Southern New Mexico Correctional Facility. But his old prison buddy, 43 00:03:23,800 --> 00:03:28,320 Speaker 1: Mark Mark was already free, living blissfully on the other 44 00:03:28,360 --> 00:03:31,440 Speaker 1: side of the barbed wire fence, and probation wasn't going 45 00:03:31,480 --> 00:03:34,880 Speaker 1: to stop Mark from breaking the law again, especially if 46 00:03:34,920 --> 00:03:39,000 Speaker 1: Mark's nephew, Tanner lent the hand. Tanner was the one 47 00:03:39,040 --> 00:03:41,200 Speaker 1: on the other end of the phone. He listened to 48 00:03:41,280 --> 00:03:46,520 Speaker 1: Dana's really tight instructions as well as his demands, demands 49 00:03:46,520 --> 00:03:51,800 Speaker 1: that required specific tools. Tool number one a Paisley necktie 50 00:03:52,120 --> 00:03:56,240 Speaker 1: aka Dana's murder weapon of choice, the same calling card 51 00:03:56,320 --> 00:03:59,560 Speaker 1: he used twelve years earlier in two thousand when He's 52 00:03:59,560 --> 00:04:04,680 Speaker 1: savage ended that teenage girl's life. Tool number two hedge 53 00:04:04,680 --> 00:04:09,440 Speaker 1: clippers sharp enough to slice off the victims testicles. A 54 00:04:09,480 --> 00:04:12,520 Speaker 1: few castrations would earn Mark and Tanner in extra twenty 55 00:04:12,560 --> 00:04:16,839 Speaker 1: five hundred dollars a pop. That's five thousand dollars per victim. 56 00:04:17,640 --> 00:04:21,960 Speaker 1: Sometimes Dana spoke in code called his victims, pipules who 57 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:27,560 Speaker 1: needed to be castrated or adopted aka whacked or aka killed. 58 00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:31,240 Speaker 1: But there was one name Dana didn't hesitate to speak of. 59 00:04:31,320 --> 00:04:34,320 Speaker 1: In code, he asked Tanner, if Mark went over the 60 00:04:34,400 --> 00:04:40,680 Speaker 1: Justin Bieber thing, Yes, that Justin Bieber. Dana was going 61 00:04:40,760 --> 00:04:44,240 Speaker 1: to make sure Justin Bieber never sang again, and for 62 00:04:44,320 --> 00:04:48,440 Speaker 1: good measure, take out the prick's bodyguard too. A muscle 63 00:04:48,480 --> 00:04:52,120 Speaker 1: on Dana's leg, one directly beneath his Justin Bieber tattoo, 64 00:04:52,400 --> 00:04:55,880 Speaker 1: twitched as he spoke. His criminal record said he was 65 00:04:55,920 --> 00:04:59,920 Speaker 1: a tough guy, a literal murderer. The ink on Dan 66 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:02,880 Speaker 1: and his leg told a different story, a story about 67 00:05:02,920 --> 00:05:05,400 Speaker 1: a grown man with a soft spot for a pop 68 00:05:05,400 --> 00:05:10,279 Speaker 1: star from Ontario. But Justin Bieber wasn't a cute pop 69 00:05:10,320 --> 00:05:14,919 Speaker 1: prodigy anymore. This overconfident, overrated brad who claimed to be 70 00:05:15,080 --> 00:05:18,200 Speaker 1: Justin Bieber in twenty twelve was nothing but an impostor. 71 00:05:18,720 --> 00:05:21,760 Speaker 1: Dana couldn't look at his tattoo anymore without becoming overwhelmed 72 00:05:21,760 --> 00:05:25,919 Speaker 1: with regret and rage. Justin Bieber had become too big 73 00:05:25,920 --> 00:05:28,679 Speaker 1: for his bridges. Someone needed to give him a permanent 74 00:05:28,720 --> 00:05:31,960 Speaker 1: attitude adjustment. And if Dana couldn't do it due to 75 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:36,039 Speaker 1: his present incarcerated circumstances. Well, then his buddy Mark and 76 00:05:36,120 --> 00:05:41,480 Speaker 1: Mark's nephew Tanner would for a price. Of course, Dana 77 00:05:41,520 --> 00:05:44,280 Speaker 1: made Mark a sweet deal if he could complete the 78 00:05:44,360 --> 00:05:48,600 Speaker 1: murders and mutilations. Dana promised him a ferrari on top 79 00:05:48,640 --> 00:05:51,760 Speaker 1: of the fifty grand, plus the deed to a farm 80 00:05:51,839 --> 00:05:55,440 Speaker 1: previously owned by Michael J. Fox Don't ask oh, and 81 00:05:55,480 --> 00:05:57,840 Speaker 1: the good graces of a Chinese heroin dang in New York. 82 00:05:58,320 --> 00:06:01,040 Speaker 1: Then factor in the extra cash for all the severed balls, 83 00:06:01,080 --> 00:06:03,520 Speaker 1: and Mark was greedy enough not to care about how 84 00:06:03,600 --> 00:06:07,440 Speaker 1: random and fabricated the rewards sounded, and Dana was deranged 85 00:06:07,520 --> 00:06:11,240 Speaker 1: enough to say he'd deliver it all. Dana wouldn't be doing 86 00:06:11,279 --> 00:06:14,400 Speaker 1: the killing, true, but he organized it, and that was 87 00:06:14,520 --> 00:06:17,240 Speaker 1: enough for him. He'd go down in history as the 88 00:06:17,279 --> 00:06:20,560 Speaker 1: man responsible for taking down one of America's most prominent 89 00:06:20,600 --> 00:06:24,240 Speaker 1: pop stars. Like the madman who shot Beatle John or 90 00:06:24,279 --> 00:06:28,720 Speaker 1: the assistant who put a bullet in Selena. Headlines would explode, 91 00:06:29,080 --> 00:06:31,960 Speaker 1: legions of young girls would weep, and there'd be one 92 00:06:32,040 --> 00:06:34,880 Speaker 1: less snotty boy strutting around on red carpets with that 93 00:06:35,040 --> 00:06:39,839 Speaker 1: smug look on his face. Dana craved the notoriety to 94 00:06:39,920 --> 00:06:42,720 Speaker 1: be a legend in prison, to be a piece of 95 00:06:42,839 --> 00:06:47,200 Speaker 1: music history. Everyone would know that he Dana Martin executed 96 00:06:47,440 --> 00:06:51,520 Speaker 1: Justin Bieber because everyone knew everything about Justin Bieber, whether 97 00:06:51,520 --> 00:06:57,560 Speaker 1: they wanted to or not. In twenty twelve, no one 98 00:06:57,600 --> 00:07:01,040 Speaker 1: dominated pop culture the way that Justin Bieber did, especially 99 00:07:01,080 --> 00:07:04,000 Speaker 1: not another man. The Top forty game was all about 100 00:07:04,080 --> 00:07:08,000 Speaker 1: Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Rihanna. The Weekend's big break was 101 00:07:08,040 --> 00:07:10,600 Speaker 1: still on the horizon, and Chris Brown was still on 102 00:07:10,640 --> 00:07:13,360 Speaker 1: the outs with the public, and that left the two 103 00:07:13,560 --> 00:07:16,800 Speaker 1: Justins to shoulder the weight of the pop world, Timberlake 104 00:07:17,120 --> 00:07:19,880 Speaker 1: and Bieber. But even j T couldn't keep up with 105 00:07:19,920 --> 00:07:26,760 Speaker 1: Bieber's unbreakable stride. Justin Bieber's latest album, Believe, debuted at 106 00:07:26,840 --> 00:07:29,800 Speaker 1: number one on the Billboard two hundred. The same album 107 00:07:29,880 --> 00:07:32,920 Speaker 1: the feature of the four times platinum Making Minaj collaboration 108 00:07:33,080 --> 00:07:36,480 Speaker 1: Beauty in a Beat. The song's music video shattered what 109 00:07:36,600 --> 00:07:38,600 Speaker 1: was then the YouTube record for the most views in 110 00:07:38,680 --> 00:07:42,000 Speaker 1: twenty four hours. It was almost poetic. The boy who 111 00:07:42,040 --> 00:07:45,360 Speaker 1: started his career on YouTube was now ruling it. The 112 00:07:45,440 --> 00:07:48,760 Speaker 1: viral Rags to Rich's story of Justin Bieber's career boosted 113 00:07:48,760 --> 00:07:51,560 Speaker 1: his likability. It was hard to look down on a 114 00:07:51,600 --> 00:07:54,720 Speaker 1: twelve year old kid chasing his dreams online with uploaded 115 00:07:54,760 --> 00:07:58,640 Speaker 1: covers of Alicia Keys and Neo. His goal wasn't just 116 00:07:58,680 --> 00:08:01,720 Speaker 1: to become famous andreak out of the mouse infested home 117 00:08:01,760 --> 00:08:04,720 Speaker 1: he shared with a single mother. The goal was also 118 00:08:04,880 --> 00:08:08,520 Speaker 1: to just sing, to share what Justin and his mother 119 00:08:08,640 --> 00:08:11,640 Speaker 1: viewed as a god given gift. And there was another 120 00:08:11,680 --> 00:08:14,640 Speaker 1: person who thought Justin's voice was a blessing that needed 121 00:08:14,680 --> 00:08:19,240 Speaker 1: to be shared, Scooter Braun. In two thousand and eight, 122 00:08:19,400 --> 00:08:23,360 Speaker 1: the music manager hooked Justin up with Island Records. Justin 123 00:08:23,440 --> 00:08:26,520 Speaker 1: recorded his first single, one Time, which the radio played 124 00:08:26,560 --> 00:08:31,560 Speaker 1: approximately a million times. America instantly fixated on this new 125 00:08:31,640 --> 00:08:34,400 Speaker 1: kid on the block, the prepebescent wonder kid with the 126 00:08:34,480 --> 00:08:37,600 Speaker 1: angelic voice and a mob of floppy brown hair. The 127 00:08:37,640 --> 00:08:40,760 Speaker 1: young girls worshiped him, mobs approved of him, and his 128 00:08:40,840 --> 00:08:43,600 Speaker 1: songs wormed their way into the heads of the unsuspecting 129 00:08:43,679 --> 00:08:48,600 Speaker 1: and the believers alike, heads like Dana Martin's head. But 130 00:08:48,679 --> 00:08:51,240 Speaker 1: that was then, back when Justin Bieber was just a 131 00:08:51,320 --> 00:08:55,560 Speaker 1: kid turning eighteen. Though changed him. In Dana Martin's mind, 132 00:08:56,360 --> 00:09:00,360 Speaker 1: Justin was reckless, cocky, a phony. He was smoking and 133 00:09:00,400 --> 00:09:03,199 Speaker 1: standing around trying to look like a tough guy. Dana 134 00:09:03,240 --> 00:09:05,839 Speaker 1: Martin knew better. The boy who once sang the hit 135 00:09:05,880 --> 00:09:09,880 Speaker 1: single Baby was now an unbearable man. But he was 136 00:09:09,920 --> 00:09:14,640 Speaker 1: also indestructible, and Dana Martin's friends Mark and Tanner were 137 00:09:14,679 --> 00:09:21,240 Speaker 1: about to find that out the hard way. They didn't 138 00:09:21,280 --> 00:09:23,760 Speaker 1: know how to read a map, they had no idea 139 00:09:23,840 --> 00:09:25,959 Speaker 1: where they were, and they never made it to Justin 140 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:29,080 Speaker 1: Bieber Show at Madison Square Garden, the planned scene of 141 00:09:29,120 --> 00:09:32,160 Speaker 1: the crime. By the time Mark figured out where the 142 00:09:32,160 --> 00:09:35,520 Speaker 1: car was headed, it was too late. His eighty three 143 00:09:35,559 --> 00:09:39,040 Speaker 1: BMW came to a crawl. He watched as the building 144 00:09:39,040 --> 00:09:45,280 Speaker 1: in the distance came into focus. Border patrol. Border patrol. No, No, 145 00:09:45,480 --> 00:09:47,840 Speaker 1: this was all wrong. They were supposed to be at 146 00:09:47,880 --> 00:09:50,959 Speaker 1: Madison Square Garden, not in bumfuck Vermont, on the other 147 00:09:50,960 --> 00:09:54,680 Speaker 1: side of another country. Border patrol meant forking over your id, 148 00:09:55,120 --> 00:09:57,800 Speaker 1: and that meant questions from the cops, and that meant 149 00:09:57,880 --> 00:10:00,360 Speaker 1: whoever was in the booth that afternoon would find Mark's 150 00:10:00,400 --> 00:10:04,840 Speaker 1: outstanding warrens from back in New Mexico. Mark threw the 151 00:10:04,880 --> 00:10:07,080 Speaker 1: car into reverse and started the back pedal, but it 152 00:10:07,120 --> 00:10:10,360 Speaker 1: was too late. Officer zeroed in on the old Beamer 153 00:10:10,400 --> 00:10:13,000 Speaker 1: trying to make a run for it. Mark was tossed 154 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:16,360 Speaker 1: into the clink first, then Tanner for that phone call 155 00:10:16,440 --> 00:10:19,360 Speaker 1: with Dana. Their murder pop was dead in the water, 156 00:10:19,440 --> 00:10:22,160 Speaker 1: and they didn't have a single synotistical to show for it, 157 00:10:24,200 --> 00:10:26,640 Speaker 1: not to mention that someone beat them to the punch, 158 00:10:27,600 --> 00:10:32,240 Speaker 1: because Justin Bieber was dead, the old Justin Bieber that 159 00:10:32,320 --> 00:10:35,559 Speaker 1: Dana loved so much at least, and this impostor who 160 00:10:35,600 --> 00:10:38,240 Speaker 1: called himself Justin Bieber was a shadow of the innocent 161 00:10:38,320 --> 00:10:42,480 Speaker 1: songbird the world catapulted to superstardom, and there was no 162 00:10:42,559 --> 00:11:10,600 Speaker 1: telling if he would ever come back. Justin Bieber was 163 00:11:10,640 --> 00:11:13,679 Speaker 1: already a little messed up. Behind the wheel of the Lamborghini. 164 00:11:14,320 --> 00:11:16,920 Speaker 1: He stared at the makeshift racetrack and at the route 165 00:11:16,960 --> 00:11:20,080 Speaker 1: in front of him. One straight shot down the street, 166 00:11:20,400 --> 00:11:24,120 Speaker 1: two lanes, two sports cars, Justin in the yellow Lambeau, 167 00:11:24,480 --> 00:11:28,240 Speaker 1: his pal, and a red Ferrari. The signs along Pine 168 00:11:28,240 --> 00:11:31,880 Speaker 1: Street Drive said thirty miles an hour speed limits were 169 00:11:31,920 --> 00:11:35,080 Speaker 1: for squares. Justin liked to think that he lived in 170 00:11:35,120 --> 00:11:37,160 Speaker 1: the fast lane and that no one was going to 171 00:11:37,240 --> 00:11:40,760 Speaker 1: slow him down. He made sure of that. His crew 172 00:11:40,800 --> 00:11:44,080 Speaker 1: had parked two SUVs down the street perpendicular to the road, 173 00:11:44,400 --> 00:11:49,040 Speaker 1: makeshift roadblock. Tonight's Bieber Grand Prix would go off without 174 00:11:49,040 --> 00:11:53,520 Speaker 1: a hitch. Justin rebbed the Lamborghini's engine and park just 175 00:11:53,559 --> 00:11:55,880 Speaker 1: to hear it per and then he locked eyes with 176 00:11:55,960 --> 00:11:58,560 Speaker 1: his friend in the lane beside him. He was on. 177 00:12:00,320 --> 00:12:02,680 Speaker 1: Justin threw the car to drive and let that motherfucker fly. 178 00:12:03,440 --> 00:12:05,440 Speaker 1: The beer on his lips, the weed and his lungs, 179 00:12:05,480 --> 00:12:08,439 Speaker 1: the prescription pills in his bloodstream, none of it mattered. 180 00:12:08,520 --> 00:12:11,720 Speaker 1: Right now. Justin was chasing a different thrill, not a 181 00:12:11,760 --> 00:12:16,120 Speaker 1: chemical one. Danger, the greatest high, the high at doing 182 00:12:16,160 --> 00:12:19,480 Speaker 1: something just because you can, and doing it in a 183 00:12:19,520 --> 00:12:23,480 Speaker 1: car that's not even yours. Tonight, this rental would get 184 00:12:23,520 --> 00:12:26,240 Speaker 1: pushed to the max. There were no rules when you 185 00:12:26,240 --> 00:12:29,079 Speaker 1: were Justin Peeber. The world bent to your will, and 186 00:12:29,240 --> 00:12:34,360 Speaker 1: it always would. The Lambeaus engine roared, the Ferrari gained 187 00:12:34,400 --> 00:12:37,000 Speaker 1: on him in the next lane. Justin didn't sweat it. 188 00:12:37,360 --> 00:12:39,800 Speaker 1: He was a born winner. He won on the charts, 189 00:12:40,120 --> 00:12:42,920 Speaker 1: one on the radio, one at the awards shows, and 190 00:12:42,960 --> 00:12:45,679 Speaker 1: he'd win again. Tonight. Even if there weren't many people 191 00:12:45,679 --> 00:12:48,520 Speaker 1: cruising around Miami Beach at four am to see it happen, 192 00:12:49,640 --> 00:12:52,240 Speaker 1: there were a few passing cars that took notice that night, 193 00:12:52,679 --> 00:12:57,840 Speaker 1: January twenty second, twenty fourteen. One in particular took more 194 00:12:57,880 --> 00:13:01,880 Speaker 1: than a passing interests. A trolling officer recognized the scene 195 00:13:01,880 --> 00:13:05,480 Speaker 1: from a mile away. Drag racing, big kids and their 196 00:13:05,520 --> 00:13:10,240 Speaker 1: big toys being big assholes. The cop banged a yuwie 197 00:13:10,280 --> 00:13:12,160 Speaker 1: and tore down Pine Street until he was right on 198 00:13:12,160 --> 00:13:15,720 Speaker 1: the Wayborghini's ass. The race may have ended, but that thrill, 199 00:13:15,800 --> 00:13:19,720 Speaker 1: that high, that danger was still there. Justin didn't want 200 00:13:19,720 --> 00:13:23,560 Speaker 1: it to end. What the fuck did I do? Why 201 00:13:23,559 --> 00:13:26,960 Speaker 1: did you stop me? Justin wanted answers from the officer 202 00:13:27,080 --> 00:13:30,720 Speaker 1: who now stood outside the Lambeau driver's side door. Justin 203 00:13:30,800 --> 00:13:34,280 Speaker 1: reeked a booze, his cheeks flushed red. He refused to 204 00:13:34,320 --> 00:13:37,360 Speaker 1: believe he was in the wrong. Winners were never wrong, 205 00:13:37,720 --> 00:13:41,520 Speaker 1: That's what made them winners. I ain't got no fucking weapons. 206 00:13:41,880 --> 00:13:45,320 Speaker 1: The cop didn't need weapons. Just he expired driver's license 207 00:13:45,360 --> 00:13:50,160 Speaker 1: from Georgia down at the station. Justin Bieber wouldn't own 208 00:13:50,240 --> 00:13:52,360 Speaker 1: up to the drag racing, but he did own up 209 00:13:52,360 --> 00:13:55,840 Speaker 1: about the cocktail chemicals in his system. Yeah he smoked 210 00:13:55,840 --> 00:13:57,720 Speaker 1: a little weed that night, and yeah he took some 211 00:13:57,800 --> 00:14:00,600 Speaker 1: pills prescription once though, And yeah he had a drink 212 00:14:00,840 --> 00:14:05,080 Speaker 1: one beer. Big fucking deal. Was that a crime? Not 213 00:14:05,160 --> 00:14:07,400 Speaker 1: at home in Canada where the drinking age was eighteen, 214 00:14:07,520 --> 00:14:11,199 Speaker 1: but this was in Ontario, this was the United States, 215 00:14:11,200 --> 00:14:12,840 Speaker 1: and he was a couple of years shy of the 216 00:14:12,880 --> 00:14:18,400 Speaker 1: drinking age. Mccobs hit him with three charges DUI, driving 217 00:14:18,440 --> 00:14:23,040 Speaker 1: with an expired license, and resisting arrest without violence. Three 218 00:14:23,080 --> 00:14:27,560 Speaker 1: strikes in one night. The thing was Justin Bieber didn't 219 00:14:27,600 --> 00:14:33,960 Speaker 1: have any strikes to spare to begin with. Twenty fourteen 220 00:14:34,120 --> 00:14:38,040 Speaker 1: was a mess from the start. January ninth, Justin Bieber 221 00:14:38,080 --> 00:14:41,960 Speaker 1: eggs his neighbor's home and causes twenty thousand dollars in damages, Yes, 222 00:14:42,400 --> 00:14:46,200 Speaker 1: twenty grand from eggs. Any damages over nine hundred and 223 00:14:46,240 --> 00:14:51,120 Speaker 1: fifty dollars push vandalism charges beyond a misdemeanor. January fourteenth, 224 00:14:51,440 --> 00:14:55,480 Speaker 1: a dozen deputies raided Justin's Calabasis mansion over the egging incident, 225 00:14:55,840 --> 00:14:58,760 Speaker 1: tore the place apart like he was Tony, Montana, and 226 00:14:58,840 --> 00:15:02,640 Speaker 1: they found nothing. They even seized the security system's hard drives. 227 00:15:02,920 --> 00:15:07,400 Speaker 1: Zero Justin was clean. His guest lili Za, wasn't so lucky. 228 00:15:07,800 --> 00:15:10,720 Speaker 1: The cops uncovered the rapper's cokestash during the raid. Or 229 00:15:10,760 --> 00:15:13,440 Speaker 1: was that ecstasy? The cops didn't know, and they didn't care. 230 00:15:13,920 --> 00:15:17,280 Speaker 1: They saw tancuffs on Leliza while the papers paraded around 231 00:15:17,320 --> 00:15:20,840 Speaker 1: with photos from the raid. Neither incident was a jaw 232 00:15:20,920 --> 00:15:25,760 Speaker 1: dropping scandal. Individual infractions weren't the problem. The problem was 233 00:15:25,800 --> 00:15:28,840 Speaker 1: how fast Justin could stack up this bullshit without even 234 00:15:28,880 --> 00:15:32,400 Speaker 1: breaking a sweat. The entire world watched and pissed into 235 00:15:32,440 --> 00:15:35,600 Speaker 1: restaurant's mop bucket as he drunkenly cussed out Bill Clinton. 236 00:15:36,160 --> 00:15:38,480 Speaker 1: They judged him when he covered himself in bed sheets 237 00:15:38,480 --> 00:15:41,640 Speaker 1: to leave a world renowned brothel in Brazil. He claimed 238 00:15:41,640 --> 00:15:45,600 Speaker 1: he was merely at the famed Centauris to party. He 239 00:15:45,640 --> 00:15:48,200 Speaker 1: outcringed himself when he wrote a note in the Anne 240 00:15:48,280 --> 00:15:51,200 Speaker 1: frank House guest book saying he hoped Anne would have 241 00:15:51,240 --> 00:15:55,760 Speaker 1: been a believer, which is another word for a diehard fan. Still, 242 00:15:55,800 --> 00:15:59,240 Speaker 1: these were all just dumb teenage missteps. He could do 243 00:15:59,320 --> 00:16:03,120 Speaker 1: much worse, like a dui. Three little letters that could 244 00:16:03,160 --> 00:16:07,040 Speaker 1: ruin your reputation forever as a boy, Justin Bieber said, 245 00:16:07,040 --> 00:16:10,680 Speaker 1: he never becomes some scandalous celebrity has been, But boy 246 00:16:10,880 --> 00:16:13,920 Speaker 1: Justin wasn't here anymore. No matter how hard his fans 247 00:16:13,960 --> 00:16:16,240 Speaker 1: clung to the early hits in his baby face chm 248 00:16:16,680 --> 00:16:19,760 Speaker 1: that version of Justin Bieber was dead and buried. An 249 00:16:19,800 --> 00:16:24,280 Speaker 1: adult Justin was proudly thinking his grave. Every controversy pushed 250 00:16:24,360 --> 00:16:27,200 Speaker 1: him another foot forward into the ground, and the media 251 00:16:27,240 --> 00:16:31,000 Speaker 1: frenzies surrounding his troubled transition into adulthood practically worked in 252 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:33,520 Speaker 1: his favor when it came to leaving the boy Bieber behind. 253 00:16:34,280 --> 00:16:37,480 Speaker 1: The viral images, the fuzzy videos on blogs, the social 254 00:16:37,520 --> 00:16:40,640 Speaker 1: media commentary, it all helped the mass to see Justin 255 00:16:40,680 --> 00:16:43,880 Speaker 1: for what he really was, an adult capable of making 256 00:16:43,880 --> 00:16:49,120 Speaker 1: his own decisions, especially making the wrong decisions over and 257 00:16:49,240 --> 00:16:56,280 Speaker 1: over again. The Miami authorities only made Justin Bieber suffer 258 00:16:56,280 --> 00:16:59,920 Speaker 1: in jail for ten hours after his dui. Making bad 259 00:17:00,320 --> 00:17:03,320 Speaker 1: was the easy part. Twenty five hundred dollars was penis 260 00:17:03,400 --> 00:17:06,400 Speaker 1: to Justin. The real challenge was giving the public an 261 00:17:06,400 --> 00:17:09,800 Speaker 1: image that would make them forget his fresh mugshot. Dashing 262 00:17:09,840 --> 00:17:13,720 Speaker 1: as it was, Justin had a vision. He strutted out 263 00:17:13,720 --> 00:17:16,800 Speaker 1: of the Turner Guildford Night Correctional Center and brushed past 264 00:17:16,920 --> 00:17:19,520 Speaker 1: the swarm of reporters and hopped onto the roof of 265 00:17:19,560 --> 00:17:22,760 Speaker 1: the first suv in sight. He kicked back and gave 266 00:17:22,800 --> 00:17:26,560 Speaker 1: the sea of smartphones a cordial wave. Another man posed 267 00:17:26,640 --> 00:17:28,880 Speaker 1: just like this over ten years ago as he left 268 00:17:28,880 --> 00:17:32,199 Speaker 1: a courtroom, a fellow pop icon enjoying a lifetime of 269 00:17:32,280 --> 00:17:35,800 Speaker 1: royalty from childhood until the day he did his last moonwalk, 270 00:17:36,359 --> 00:17:41,280 Speaker 1: Michael Jackson. Michael offered nearly the same pose when he 271 00:17:41,359 --> 00:17:43,880 Speaker 1: left the Santa Barbara Courthouse in two thousand and four 272 00:17:43,960 --> 00:17:47,320 Speaker 1: after pleading not guilty to seven counts of child molestation. 273 00:17:48,160 --> 00:17:50,680 Speaker 1: Justin even posted the two photos side by side on 274 00:17:50,720 --> 00:17:54,560 Speaker 1: Instagram in case people missed the reference. But who dared 275 00:17:54,560 --> 00:17:57,720 Speaker 1: to compare themselves to the king of pop. Who dared 276 00:17:57,720 --> 00:18:00,000 Speaker 1: to compare themselves to a man who left a courthouse 277 00:18:00,080 --> 00:18:03,560 Speaker 1: or were allegedly molesting kids? The same guy who hoped 278 00:18:03,600 --> 00:18:07,639 Speaker 1: Anne Frank would be a believer? That's who The tacky 279 00:18:07,680 --> 00:18:11,680 Speaker 1: comparison Wasn't Justin's problem right now? Right now he was free. 280 00:18:12,160 --> 00:18:13,600 Speaker 1: I mean, he was only in jail for ten hours, 281 00:18:13,600 --> 00:18:15,080 Speaker 1: But that's a long time when you're trying to tune 282 00:18:15,119 --> 00:18:17,239 Speaker 1: up the sound of horny violin inmates hollering at you. 283 00:18:17,280 --> 00:18:20,480 Speaker 1: Just because he had a pretty face, Justin needed to 284 00:18:20,480 --> 00:18:24,119 Speaker 1: take the edge off asat. After his photo walk, he 285 00:18:24,240 --> 00:18:26,440 Speaker 1: and his crew went straight from the correctional center to 286 00:18:26,480 --> 00:18:29,840 Speaker 1: the South Beach clubs. Justin didn't bring his drag racing 287 00:18:29,880 --> 00:18:32,040 Speaker 1: friend along this time, though. He wanted to blow off 288 00:18:32,080 --> 00:18:35,439 Speaker 1: steam with someone else, someone who could cut loose like 289 00:18:35,480 --> 00:18:39,879 Speaker 1: a pro, a good pal named Jeremy. Jeremy had been 290 00:18:39,920 --> 00:18:42,240 Speaker 1: at the scene of the crime last night. Some people 291 00:18:42,280 --> 00:18:44,600 Speaker 1: even claimed he was the one who blocked off the street, 292 00:18:44,880 --> 00:18:48,919 Speaker 1: although Justin denied it. Now Jeremy was here tonight at 293 00:18:48,960 --> 00:18:51,720 Speaker 1: a table flush with bottles at five point thirty pm, 294 00:18:51,920 --> 00:18:56,119 Speaker 1: barely twelve hours after he watched Justin walk away in handcuffs. 295 00:18:56,520 --> 00:18:59,760 Speaker 1: The media called him a bad influence, but Justin just 296 00:18:59,800 --> 00:19:07,240 Speaker 1: called the dad. We'll be right back after this word 297 00:19:07,280 --> 00:19:18,520 Speaker 1: word word. In twenty fourteen, Justin Bieber's father, Jeremy wasn't 298 00:19:18,560 --> 00:19:23,880 Speaker 1: just in the picture. He was in every picture paparazzi 299 00:19:23,920 --> 00:19:26,240 Speaker 1: photos shot at the club, at the beach, at the game, 300 00:19:26,600 --> 00:19:29,280 Speaker 1: climbing in and out of luxury cars and private jets 301 00:19:29,359 --> 00:19:31,959 Speaker 1: next to Justin and his entourage, as if he were 302 00:19:31,960 --> 00:19:33,960 Speaker 1: one of the Bros, and not twice the age of 303 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:38,040 Speaker 1: everyone around him. Justin and Jeremy weren't always so tight. 304 00:19:38,880 --> 00:19:42,919 Speaker 1: Justin's father missed plenty in his firstborn son's life, Like 305 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:48,400 Speaker 1: the day he was born. On March first, nineteen ninety four, 306 00:19:48,800 --> 00:19:51,679 Speaker 1: Jeremy Bieber was behind barrows in a county prison in 307 00:19:51,720 --> 00:19:55,240 Speaker 1: Ontario after a nasty fight with God knows who about 308 00:19:55,359 --> 00:19:58,280 Speaker 1: God knows what. But even if Jeremy were a free 309 00:19:58,320 --> 00:20:01,119 Speaker 1: man that day, he probably wouldn't have been beside his 310 00:20:01,200 --> 00:20:04,680 Speaker 1: own again off again girlfriend Patty at Saint Joseph's Hospital. 311 00:20:05,880 --> 00:20:11,080 Speaker 1: Hospitals for sterile depressing. Not a good time, and Jeremy 312 00:20:11,119 --> 00:20:15,840 Speaker 1: Bieber was all about chasing good times with or without Patty. 313 00:20:16,760 --> 00:20:19,879 Speaker 1: In the beginning, Jeremy and Patty made sense as a couple. 314 00:20:20,359 --> 00:20:22,920 Speaker 1: They were both high schoolers from broken homes with enough 315 00:20:22,920 --> 00:20:26,960 Speaker 1: baggage for a year long vacation. Patty was sexually abused 316 00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:29,600 Speaker 1: as a girl and turned to pedaling weed as a teenager. 317 00:20:30,200 --> 00:20:32,760 Speaker 1: Jeremy was a young drinker who had already inherited some 318 00:20:32,800 --> 00:20:36,879 Speaker 1: belligerent traits from his alcoholic father. They got fucked up together, 319 00:20:37,160 --> 00:20:39,879 Speaker 1: and they fought, made up, and then got fucked up again. 320 00:20:40,600 --> 00:20:42,879 Speaker 1: Patty and Jeremy played a vicious game of cat and 321 00:20:42,960 --> 00:20:48,240 Speaker 1: mouse until it wasn't a game anymore. Patty was pregnant 322 00:20:48,560 --> 00:20:51,480 Speaker 1: and she was keeping the baby. She laid down the 323 00:20:51,560 --> 00:20:54,080 Speaker 1: rules when she broke the news to Jeremy. If he 324 00:20:54,119 --> 00:20:56,040 Speaker 1: wanted to stay in the picture, that meant he had 325 00:20:56,080 --> 00:20:59,200 Speaker 1: to be pregnant too. No more fighting, no more drinking 326 00:20:59,200 --> 00:21:02,480 Speaker 1: and partying. Jeremy didn't have to think too long about it. 327 00:21:02,760 --> 00:21:06,119 Speaker 1: He went out and got trash that same night. Patty 328 00:21:06,160 --> 00:21:09,320 Speaker 1: powered through her pregnancy without Jeremy. She cut the drinking, 329 00:21:09,600 --> 00:21:14,879 Speaker 1: quit the drugs, took parenting classes, attended counseling. Eventually, Patty 330 00:21:14,920 --> 00:21:18,080 Speaker 1: invited Jeremy to join her for a single Amma's class. 331 00:21:18,400 --> 00:21:21,639 Speaker 1: He walked out on her, immediately locked up in jail 332 00:21:21,720 --> 00:21:24,240 Speaker 1: or not, it was clear Jeremy was never going to 333 00:21:24,280 --> 00:21:27,560 Speaker 1: be by Patty's side in the maternity ward. She gave 334 00:21:27,600 --> 00:21:30,280 Speaker 1: birth to Justin without it, when she was just seventeen 335 00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:33,560 Speaker 1: years old. It would be a month before Jeremy would 336 00:21:33,560 --> 00:21:36,600 Speaker 1: meet his firstborn son. In years before he committed to 337 00:21:36,720 --> 00:21:40,639 Speaker 1: actually being a parent. He scheduled visits with Justin and 338 00:21:40,640 --> 00:21:43,600 Speaker 1: then blew him off, claimed he found Jesus and wanted 339 00:21:43,640 --> 00:21:46,720 Speaker 1: to recover, and then got loaded, committed himself to Patty 340 00:21:46,760 --> 00:21:49,879 Speaker 1: as a family man, and then cheated on her. He 341 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:52,879 Speaker 1: ran hot and cold until Justin was four years old, 342 00:21:53,080 --> 00:21:55,240 Speaker 1: when Jeremy stepped up to the plate enough to take 343 00:21:55,440 --> 00:21:58,960 Speaker 1: Justin every Wednesday and every weekend. He focused on a 344 00:21:59,040 --> 00:22:01,800 Speaker 1: kind of good time times that was more family friendly. 345 00:22:02,480 --> 00:22:07,000 Speaker 1: Jeremy focused on music. He taught Justin how to play 346 00:22:07,040 --> 00:22:11,480 Speaker 1: his favorite songs on a guitar, EASYGDC chord, classics like 347 00:22:11,600 --> 00:22:14,720 Speaker 1: Bob Dylan's Knocking on Heaven's Door. He'd tell eight year 348 00:22:14,760 --> 00:22:17,680 Speaker 1: old Justin to wrap that tupac verse, and Justin would 349 00:22:17,680 --> 00:22:21,440 Speaker 1: just start spitting thugs mansion like a pro. While Justin 350 00:22:21,520 --> 00:22:24,200 Speaker 1: learned about music, Jeremy learned what it meant to share 351 00:22:24,240 --> 00:22:29,160 Speaker 1: good times without some kind of substance. Then came the fame, 352 00:22:30,760 --> 00:22:33,239 Speaker 1: the riches, the status, the luxuries that would have been 353 00:22:33,320 --> 00:22:35,600 Speaker 1: unheard of for the Beavers just a few years ago. 354 00:22:36,400 --> 00:22:39,560 Speaker 1: Justin's tour revenue in royalty snowballed into a heap of 355 00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:43,560 Speaker 1: wealth that he happily shared with Jeremy. Justin treated his 356 00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:45,920 Speaker 1: dad to a monthly allowance rumored to be as high 357 00:22:45,920 --> 00:22:49,159 Speaker 1: as fifty thousand dollars. He even paid Jeremy's rent in 358 00:22:49,200 --> 00:22:52,760 Speaker 1: Canada and forked over extra cash when Jeremy's pets damaged 359 00:22:52,840 --> 00:22:57,520 Speaker 1: the house. And when Justin turned eighteen, Jeremy turned eighteen 360 00:22:57,600 --> 00:23:01,480 Speaker 1: again too. Justin's knew a caldhood hit the reset button 361 00:23:01,520 --> 00:23:05,080 Speaker 1: on Jeremy's behavior. Suddenly he could share more than just 362 00:23:05,200 --> 00:23:09,800 Speaker 1: music with the sun. They could share bottles, cars, lavish parties, 363 00:23:10,080 --> 00:23:14,000 Speaker 1: get matching tattoos. Jeremy's good times were back, and they 364 00:23:14,040 --> 00:23:17,080 Speaker 1: were great times now because he and his affluent son 365 00:23:17,119 --> 00:23:19,600 Speaker 1: could grow out like the world was their frat house. 366 00:23:20,359 --> 00:23:24,280 Speaker 1: Their relationship fascinated the media. News sites painted Jeremy as 367 00:23:24,320 --> 00:23:26,520 Speaker 1: a deadbeat dad who crept out of the woodwork once 368 00:23:26,560 --> 00:23:29,399 Speaker 1: the sun went platinum, no matter how much Justin denied it. 369 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:32,359 Speaker 1: Who was the parent in this relationship and who is 370 00:23:32,440 --> 00:23:35,040 Speaker 1: the child? Maybe they were a little bit of both, 371 00:23:35,440 --> 00:23:37,480 Speaker 1: Maybe they were a little bit of each other, A 372 00:23:37,480 --> 00:23:45,640 Speaker 1: little bit of history repeating January nineteen ninety seven, Jeremy 373 00:23:45,640 --> 00:23:48,560 Speaker 1: Bieber is charged with one count of assault or causing 374 00:23:48,600 --> 00:23:53,800 Speaker 1: bodily harm ninety days in jail, two years probation. March 375 00:23:54,040 --> 00:23:57,640 Speaker 1: nineteen ninety nine, Jeremy Bieber fails to comply with probation, 376 00:23:58,040 --> 00:24:02,359 Speaker 1: twenty one more days in jail, years of probation. November 377 00:24:02,560 --> 00:24:06,640 Speaker 1: two thousand and two, Jeremy Bieber another assault charge, this 378 00:24:06,760 --> 00:24:09,680 Speaker 1: time with a weapon. The case was dismissed in two 379 00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:12,919 Speaker 1: thousand and four. Jeremy Bieber got off easy that time, 380 00:24:13,800 --> 00:24:19,360 Speaker 1: but his son might not get so lucky. He knew 381 00:24:19,400 --> 00:24:22,040 Speaker 1: what he had to do. He would be easier this way, 382 00:24:22,720 --> 00:24:27,080 Speaker 1: simpler and less dramatic. Well, if the goddamn paparazzi would 383 00:24:27,080 --> 00:24:30,040 Speaker 1: get off his back for a few minutes. Justin Bieber 384 00:24:30,119 --> 00:24:32,560 Speaker 1: elbowed his way through the crowd and into a police station. 385 00:24:33,160 --> 00:24:36,040 Speaker 1: He had to give the cops what they wanted himself. 386 00:24:37,480 --> 00:24:40,639 Speaker 1: He wasn't in Florida anymore. He was back home in Toronto, 387 00:24:41,040 --> 00:24:43,040 Speaker 1: turning himself in so the police could hit him with 388 00:24:43,040 --> 00:24:45,200 Speaker 1: one charge of assault over a scuffle with a Limo 389 00:24:45,240 --> 00:24:48,639 Speaker 1: driver the year prior. And it was still fucking January 390 00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:52,760 Speaker 1: twenty fourteen, another mishap in the month that would not 391 00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:56,720 Speaker 1: end if Justin Bieber didn't cut this out on his own, 392 00:24:56,960 --> 00:24:59,320 Speaker 1: maybe the US government would nudge him in the right direction. 393 00:25:00,960 --> 00:25:05,160 Speaker 1: While Justin posted bail in January twenty fourteen, a handful 394 00:25:05,200 --> 00:25:07,840 Speaker 1: of pissed off Americans posted a petition to the White 395 00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:12,160 Speaker 1: House website asking the Obama administration to revoke Justin's green card. 396 00:25:12,800 --> 00:25:17,080 Speaker 1: First of all, get fucking lives people. This petition that 397 00:25:17,119 --> 00:25:20,480 Speaker 1: they created it painted Justin as a drugged out, washed 398 00:25:20,560 --> 00:25:23,080 Speaker 1: up danger to the nation's young people who needed to 399 00:25:23,080 --> 00:25:27,000 Speaker 1: be removed immediately. One hundred thousand people signed the petition 400 00:25:27,040 --> 00:25:29,000 Speaker 1: in less than a week. In a few months, that 401 00:25:29,119 --> 00:25:32,640 Speaker 1: number grew to over a quarter million. This new Justin 402 00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:36,720 Speaker 1: Bieber was officially unrecognizable to the public. His new criminal 403 00:25:36,720 --> 00:25:41,600 Speaker 1: record escalated his behavior from obnoxious to immoral. Justin buried 404 00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:44,640 Speaker 1: baby Beaver so deep into the ground, so deep into 405 00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:48,280 Speaker 1: his own mind, that he was becoming someone else, someone 406 00:25:48,480 --> 00:25:53,320 Speaker 1: just like Jeremy. Their tattoos and over indulgent lifestyles were 407 00:25:53,359 --> 00:25:58,159 Speaker 1: already identical. Now they had matching criminal charges too, and 408 00:25:58,400 --> 00:26:05,880 Speaker 1: Justin's reputation was going up and smoke. The pilots fumbled 409 00:26:05,920 --> 00:26:09,000 Speaker 1: for their oxygen masks, pull the mass down from the ceiling, 410 00:26:09,160 --> 00:26:11,439 Speaker 1: fasten it to your head with the elastic straps and 411 00:26:11,520 --> 00:26:15,320 Speaker 1: pull them tight, nice and snug. The pilots heard those 412 00:26:15,359 --> 00:26:17,840 Speaker 1: instructions so many times that they knew them inside and 413 00:26:17,880 --> 00:26:20,399 Speaker 1: out and backwards, but they never thought they'd ever have 414 00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:24,800 Speaker 1: to actually use them. Today, they didn't have a choice. 415 00:26:25,560 --> 00:26:28,919 Speaker 1: Justin Bieber's least Gulf Stream four private jet didn't just 416 00:26:28,960 --> 00:26:32,560 Speaker 1: reek of smoke. It's succumbed to it. It didn't matter 417 00:26:32,560 --> 00:26:35,119 Speaker 1: how many times the pilots told Justin, Jeremy and their 418 00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:37,320 Speaker 1: crew to stuff out the joints and save them for later. 419 00:26:37,720 --> 00:26:40,440 Speaker 1: They smoked all the way from Toronto to New Jersey. 420 00:26:41,200 --> 00:26:43,320 Speaker 1: So called rules in the air were just like so 421 00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:46,720 Speaker 1: called rules of the road. They couldn't bring two biaber 422 00:26:46,720 --> 00:26:51,879 Speaker 1: men down. As for the officials waiting for them at 423 00:26:51,880 --> 00:26:56,639 Speaker 1: the airport, that was a different story. Someone on board 424 00:26:56,680 --> 00:27:00,280 Speaker 1: must have snitched. An entire squad of government officials were 425 00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:04,320 Speaker 1: waiting at the gate, DEA REPS, men, from Customs, Border 426 00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:07,919 Speaker 1: Protection agents, and just regular ass cops. They all witnessed 427 00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:10,520 Speaker 1: a wave of marijuana smoke wash over them when Justin 428 00:27:10,560 --> 00:27:14,640 Speaker 1: and Jeremy deplaned. Ironically, for the crew, the smoke didn't 429 00:27:14,680 --> 00:27:18,000 Speaker 1: matter to the authorities. What did matter was whether or 430 00:27:18,040 --> 00:27:20,920 Speaker 1: not Justin and Jeremy were smart enough to make sure 431 00:27:20,960 --> 00:27:24,840 Speaker 1: there weren't any leftovers from their sky high party. The 432 00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:27,920 Speaker 1: two well trained drug dogs at the gate could sniff 433 00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:31,240 Speaker 1: out any last seed or stem like truffle picks, but 434 00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:34,200 Speaker 1: as they nosed their way through the jet in Justin's luggage, 435 00:27:34,359 --> 00:27:37,840 Speaker 1: there wasn't a nug in sight. Without anything to seize, 436 00:27:38,040 --> 00:27:42,440 Speaker 1: the authorities were forced to let both Biebermen go. America's 437 00:27:42,480 --> 00:28:12,480 Speaker 1: so called enemy had landed. The security guard loomed over 438 00:28:12,640 --> 00:28:15,840 Speaker 1: Justin Bieber's bed. He knew the drill, but that didn't 439 00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:18,879 Speaker 1: mean he enjoyed it. He fumbled in the darkness to 440 00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:21,800 Speaker 1: find an arm and then placed his thumb over Justin's wrist. 441 00:28:22,280 --> 00:28:25,880 Speaker 1: And then he waited and waited and waited some more, 442 00:28:27,480 --> 00:28:32,520 Speaker 1: still alive, thank god. On the inside, however, Justin felt 443 00:28:32,600 --> 00:28:35,640 Speaker 1: like he was dying. His team had more to worry 444 00:28:35,640 --> 00:28:44,000 Speaker 1: about than pot on planes. Pot couldn't kill you. Pills good. 445 00:28:44,080 --> 00:28:47,080 Speaker 1: Justin forced himself into a rut with his own habits. 446 00:28:47,520 --> 00:28:50,360 Speaker 1: Wake up and light up, grab some pills and whatever's 447 00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:53,520 Speaker 1: in your glass, and drink up. That unique breakfast gave 448 00:28:53,600 --> 00:28:55,320 Speaker 1: him the drive to get up and get out of bed. 449 00:28:56,080 --> 00:28:58,080 Speaker 1: That meant his team had to make their own routine 450 00:28:58,160 --> 00:29:01,280 Speaker 1: to monitor Justin's drug use. They had to check Justin's 451 00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:04,760 Speaker 1: pulse every so often at night, just in case. You know. 452 00:29:05,280 --> 00:29:09,000 Speaker 1: No one dared finish that sentence. The guards were careful 453 00:29:09,040 --> 00:29:12,200 Speaker 1: to never disturb Justin while he slept, but the check 454 00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:15,800 Speaker 1: ins were an alarming wake up call. The name Justin 455 00:29:15,840 --> 00:29:19,400 Speaker 1: Bieber used to make people light up. Now it made 456 00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:22,200 Speaker 1: more than a quarter million people fear for an entire 457 00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:26,080 Speaker 1: nation's children. When he was a boy, Justin believed he 458 00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:29,400 Speaker 1: was here to sing and bring other people joy. Instead, 459 00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:34,200 Speaker 1: he brought them shame, anxiety, and disappointment. There was nothing 460 00:29:34,240 --> 00:29:38,160 Speaker 1: manly or mature about that. It was time for a change. 461 00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:40,560 Speaker 1: To take the next exit out of the fast lane 462 00:29:40,600 --> 00:29:43,920 Speaker 1: and slow down enough to enjoy the view. An old 463 00:29:43,920 --> 00:29:46,240 Speaker 1: friend was calling Justin to camp out at his place 464 00:29:46,280 --> 00:29:50,600 Speaker 1: for a proper detox, not just from the drugs, from everything. 465 00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:54,520 Speaker 1: Justin needed to go back to where he began, back 466 00:29:54,560 --> 00:29:57,760 Speaker 1: to the simplicity of singing for the sake of making music. 467 00:29:58,720 --> 00:30:01,840 Speaker 1: He packed his bags for your Jersey again solo. This 468 00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:05,640 Speaker 1: time he wasn't hanging out the Jeremy beeper way. For 469 00:30:05,680 --> 00:30:08,120 Speaker 1: the next six weeks, he'd have a different role model, 470 00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:12,000 Speaker 1: a pastor friend from a church in Manhattan, the same 471 00:30:12,080 --> 00:30:15,440 Speaker 1: friend who baptized him back in twenty ten, back when 472 00:30:15,480 --> 00:30:20,080 Speaker 1: most of the world still found Justin wholesome. Justin hunkered 473 00:30:20,120 --> 00:30:22,360 Speaker 1: down in the privacy of his friend's home and got 474 00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:27,400 Speaker 1: sober the old fashioned way, cold turkey, no coaches, no aa, 475 00:30:27,760 --> 00:30:31,520 Speaker 1: no classes. Justin never told the press much more about 476 00:30:31,560 --> 00:30:34,280 Speaker 1: those few weeks in New Jersey. He didn't have to. 477 00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:43,440 Speaker 1: What came next explained everything. Sobriety cleared the smoke that 478 00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:47,040 Speaker 1: had been clouding Justin's mind. It made him musical again 479 00:30:47,120 --> 00:30:51,040 Speaker 1: instead of over umacho. He went back into the studio 480 00:30:51,120 --> 00:30:54,040 Speaker 1: as a reformed man, eager to make people smile again, 481 00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:56,920 Speaker 1: and the title of his next album set at All. 482 00:30:57,520 --> 00:31:02,320 Speaker 1: He called it purpose. Purpose isn't something you're born with, 483 00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:06,600 Speaker 1: It's something you search for and fight to protect. Boy 484 00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:09,440 Speaker 1: bieber knew his voice was his purpose, and then he 485 00:31:09,520 --> 00:31:11,520 Speaker 1: squandered it for the chance to prove how much of 486 00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:15,520 Speaker 1: a man he was. When Justin dropped his twenty fifteen 487 00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:18,240 Speaker 1: singles Sorry, he said it was an apology for his 488 00:31:18,320 --> 00:31:22,600 Speaker 1: former girlfriend Selena Gomez. Maybe that was the truth, but 489 00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:24,840 Speaker 1: the public knew he had plenty of other crimes to 490 00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:28,840 Speaker 1: atone for Sorry was only the first part of his penance. 491 00:31:29,640 --> 00:31:32,680 Speaker 1: In twenty fifteen, Justin Bieber took his foot off the 492 00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:35,000 Speaker 1: gas and shifted out of the fast lane for real. 493 00:31:35,680 --> 00:31:38,520 Speaker 1: He turned away from not just drag racing in the street, 494 00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:42,000 Speaker 1: but from drugs, and although these days he's not shy 495 00:31:42,080 --> 00:31:47,400 Speaker 1: about smoking weed, his change behavior was the actual true apology. 496 00:31:48,120 --> 00:31:50,720 Speaker 1: Well that in a fifty thousand dollars donation to a 497 00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:53,360 Speaker 1: charity called Our Kids, is part of a plea bargin 498 00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:58,000 Speaker 1: for his duy. Fast cars don't make you a real man. 499 00:31:58,560 --> 00:32:01,600 Speaker 1: Neither does assault or torture during a flight crew. Being 500 00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:04,280 Speaker 1: an adult means you have the power to make shitty choices, 501 00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:07,480 Speaker 1: choices like speeding toward in early demise at four in 502 00:32:07,520 --> 00:32:11,520 Speaker 1: the morning. But you can make other choices too. You 503 00:32:11,560 --> 00:32:15,720 Speaker 1: can turn the car around. No more crashes, no more scandal, 504 00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:23,920 Speaker 1: and no more disgrace. I'm Jake Brennan, and this is Disgraceland. 505 00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:35,680 Speaker 1: Disgraceland was created by Yours Truly and is produced in 506 00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:39,120 Speaker 1: partnership with Double Elvis. 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