Speaker 1: Hey there, everybody. It is Friday, March sixth. You've probably
Speaker 1: seen the headlines by now Britney Spears has been arrested
Speaker 1: for in suspicion of Dui. With that, we want to
Speaker 1: welcome you to this episode of Amy and TJ that
Speaker 1: frankly we were reluctant to do for a number of reasons,
Speaker 1: but rogue. She's a big star. This is a big deal.
Speaker 1: But man it sucks because, yes, you can argue she
Speaker 1: brought on herself, but this is going to be another
Speaker 1: round of headlines and everybody talking about her, what she
Speaker 1: should do, and so on and so forth.
Speaker 2: Yes, I think, look, we hesitated because we don't want
Speaker 2: to pile on. This is clearly a woman who is
Speaker 2: celebrated and loved. Hell I listened to her music all
Speaker 2: the time, especially when I'm running. She has been a
Speaker 2: part of our lives for as long as most of
Speaker 2: us can remember, and we have watched her decline, spiral,
Speaker 2: have problems, and I feel like most people are rooting
Speaker 2: for her. We want the best for her, We want
Speaker 2: her to make more music, to feel her own strength
Speaker 2: and her own power. She's been through so much, and
Speaker 2: to me, the one thing that really stood out that
Speaker 2: could be a positive note in all of these negative
Speaker 2: headlines she has suffered through for the past two decades.
Speaker 2: I loved this line. We'll read her full statement, but
Speaker 2: I loved this line. Hopefully this can be the first
Speaker 2: step in long overdue change that needs to occur in
Speaker 2: Britney's life. And I do feel like from what I've
Speaker 2: seen online, she has a huge fan base that is
Speaker 2: hoping for the best and rooting her on. But this
Speaker 2: is a tough, tough situation and thankfully no one got hurt.
Speaker 1: You again, if you haven't gone beyond the headlines, we
Speaker 1: will tell you what happened. This is reportedly on Wednesday
Speaker 1: evening out in Los Angeles in southern California, of course,
Speaker 1: not too far from where she has a home in
Speaker 1: Thousand Oaks. It's out there, people are aware of this.
Speaker 1: But the report was of a black BMW driving erradically
Speaker 1: and at high speeds. Police were able to catch up
Speaker 1: with his vehicle. She did pull over. She was given
Speaker 1: a field sobriety test that apparently the officer thought she failed.
Speaker 1: She was taken to jail. She was booked at three am.
Speaker 1: She was out by six am, but that is the story.
Speaker 1: We have not heard directly from her short of at
Speaker 1: least we see a move she has made. And I
Speaker 1: don't keep up with it rogues, but a lot of
Speaker 1: people are familiar with their Instagram account.
Speaker 2: Yes I am among her millions and millions of followers,
Speaker 2: but yes, she has deactivated her Instagram account. She did
Speaker 2: that on Thursday, and look, I think that's also a
Speaker 2: positive sign. A lot of people have only been keeping
Speaker 2: tabs on Britney Spears over these past few years since
Speaker 2: she was when since that conservatorship was removed by a
Speaker 2: judge in twenty twenty one, So for the past five
Speaker 2: years or so, we have been watching her basically through
Speaker 2: her Instagram feed, and frankly, a lot of what we
Speaker 2: see on that Instagram feed has been concerning, deeply concerning,
Speaker 2: not just in the videos she's posted, but even in
Speaker 2: some of the captions where she's gone after family members
Speaker 2: and friends and had kind of a stream of consciousness
Speaker 2: type of caption. She's gone through a messy divorce online,
Speaker 2: so we've only really been able to gauge how she's
Speaker 2: doing based on her Instagram account, and frankly, she's it's
Speaker 2: been tough to watch at times.
Speaker 1: I think. But then I have other people coming to
Speaker 1: me and said, oh my goodness, you've got to follow Brittany,
Speaker 1: and I think robes and again we want to say
Speaker 1: she's an adult, and she's responsible for her action. She's
Speaker 1: a mother, all right, to two boys. We hope so
Speaker 1: many people are point if over the years, pointed to
Speaker 1: you should check it out, not because it's entertaining, not
Speaker 1: because it's fun, but because they think it's so disturbing
Speaker 1: that you'll be entertained by how ridiculous it is. It's
Speaker 1: almost making fun of her, is how I have been
Speaker 1: told to follow her. It's not described as like it's
Speaker 1: our entertainment. We are watching this play out, and I
Speaker 1: think a lot of folks have used it as their entertainment.
Speaker 1: It's over the years, I'm not suggesting you, but you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. Everybody who has suggested I follow her,
Speaker 1: we're not doing it for a positive reason. They oh,
Speaker 1: you got to check this out. It's crazy, it's wild,
Speaker 1: you gotta see it. It wasn't in a positive light,
Speaker 1: is what I'm saying. Exactly.
Speaker 2: I would say I would liken it to people watching
Speaker 2: a train wreck. People would say that that has been
Speaker 2: what they have seen over the past several years. Because
Speaker 2: this is Brittany, it's her, it's her Instagram. She can
Speaker 2: do what she wants. But if you haven't followed her. Basically,
Speaker 2: she has a series or she had because again that
Speaker 2: account has been dia debated, but she's had a series
Speaker 2: of of she is dancing by herself a lot of times.
Speaker 2: She's barely clothed. Sometimes she's rolling around the beach with
Speaker 2: no clothing and she has her nipples exposed, and she
Speaker 2: puts stars or hearts to cover anything so it won't
Speaker 2: be indecent. But she looks out of control, her makeup lodged,
Speaker 2: et cetera. Like she just looks like a wreck.
Speaker 1: Well, I don't know how much. I don't follow it,
Speaker 1: so I can't speak on it. It sounds like a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff I see on social media. It sounds
Speaker 1: performative by some artists. Again, I understand that some people
Speaker 1: are saying this is different, but I don't know. We
Speaker 1: don't hear her explain her actions. We don't hear any
Speaker 1: of that. So all of this stuff and we don't
Speaker 1: hear from Britain. Whend was the memoir two three years
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2: I believe she put out her memoir, so.
Speaker 1: She's I don't remember her doing necessarily rounds of interviews.
Speaker 2: She did not know, she did not no, not at all,
Speaker 2: so we.
Speaker 1: Don't hear from her at all. And then the time
Speaker 1: we hear from her and she's in the headline has
Speaker 1: to do with the DUI. Yes, people are going to
Speaker 1: speak and speculate and try to put things together, but
Speaker 1: Robes this I hate she's going through it again. I
Speaker 1: am a huge Britney Spears fan, and I am just
Speaker 1: I'm devastated at the life. I have seen her live
Speaker 1: from the moment I saw that first video of her
Speaker 1: dancing around bad past high school lockers. Right, That's how
Speaker 1: we got interested. I did it again, and she has that.
Speaker 1: The moments of victory of us celebrating her in the
Speaker 1: past several years have been just few and far between.
Speaker 1: She should be at every Grammy Award. She should be
Speaker 1: at every ward. She is a a an icon an,
Speaker 1: iconic royalty type figure there and she's just forty four.
Speaker 1: I know she.
Speaker 2: I mean, she came up on the Disney Channel with
Speaker 2: Justin Timberlake and Christina Aguilera. She was a part of
Speaker 2: that group and she was wildly talent. My god. I
Speaker 2: mean to the fact that her music still still lands,
Speaker 2: still works, still gets me moving, gets me smiling. How
Speaker 2: you know what her music You can poo poo it
Speaker 2: all you want and say she sounds auto tuned and
Speaker 2: her voice isn't that great whatever. That girl could dance,
Speaker 2: that girl could perform, that girl could entertain, And every
Speaker 2: time I hear her music, I feel joy.
Speaker 1: She's one of the best we've ever seen in our lifetimes.
Speaker 1: She absolutely is like it, love it. She was a
Speaker 1: whole part of that new poppy. I guess that that
Speaker 1: that pop got a little cuter, right, It was the
Speaker 1: whole era of pop, yes, is that yeah?
Speaker 2: I mean that's what I've always heard it referred to.
Speaker 2: And you know what, I am on abashedly a huge
Speaker 2: fan of it.
Speaker 1: The thing is, we all are put on a Britney
Speaker 1: Spears song today, it works, put on a Backstreet Boy song,
Speaker 1: it works today. That was that era, yep, and she
Speaker 1: was the queen of it. Emerald. It just devastating that
Speaker 1: we continue to watch this person who played a role
Speaker 1: in all of our lives with her music. In Romese,
Speaker 1: we want to root We're always rooting for, but we don't.
Speaker 1: We rarely have something to celebrate for. We're always pulling
Speaker 1: for we are, but there's not It doesn't seem to
Speaker 1: be victories. The conservatorship, that of course, was a big deal.
Speaker 1: She got out of what the Free Britney movement.
Speaker 2: The Free Britney movement, she actually yes, I didn't realize
Speaker 2: how long it had lasted, but her father sought that
Speaker 2: out in two thousand and six and it ended in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty one, so thirteen years she was under a conservatorship.
Speaker 2: And look, she has just sold I believe, rights to
Speaker 2: her music. But she has hinted, certainly in her memoir
Speaker 2: that she was going to start creating more music. I
Speaker 2: think there would be nothing better than to see her
Speaker 2: put Look, she is a creative force, and to see
Speaker 2: her be able to put that energy and to put
Speaker 2: some of that genius into new music, into art, that
Speaker 2: would be the best case scenario. But I think a
Speaker 2: lot of folks just realized from the outside looking in, look,
Speaker 2: we don't have any sort of internal knowledge, but from
Speaker 2: the outside looking in, just from what we've been given
Speaker 2: a window into her world that she's put out there
Speaker 2: on social media, it does look deeply concerning, and then
Speaker 2: couple that with the fact that you know she's estranged
Speaker 2: from her father, from her mother, from her sister. You know,
Speaker 2: you wonder when you don't have family, people who are
Speaker 2: supposed to love you no matter what, around you, because
Speaker 2: you don't trust them. And whether they earned that or not,
Speaker 2: that's not for me to say, but that also just
Speaker 2: makes your heart go out to her because who is
Speaker 2: there for her? Who is her safe space? Who is
Speaker 2: her cushion? Everyone needs one?
Speaker 1: Well, we are being told that family is on the way.
Speaker 1: Stay here. We'll let you hear the statement from her
Speaker 1: own people that seems to suggest a change is coming.
Speaker 1: Stay here.
Speaker 2: Welcome back, everyone to this episode of Amy and TJ.
Speaker 2: We're talking about the latest unfortunate headline for pop superstar
Speaker 2: Britney Spears. She has been arrested, booked, and released on
Speaker 2: suspicion of d UI after police pulled her over. They
Speaker 2: say she was erratic in her driving, She was driving
Speaker 2: at a high speed, they pulled her over. They say
Speaker 2: she failed US a field sobriety test and so charges
Speaker 2: are pending. But we did get a statement from her
Speaker 2: people that actually provides a glimmer of hope. I think
Speaker 2: for people, and I do believe more people are rooting
Speaker 2: for her than are celebrating her continued downward spiral.
Speaker 1: Was this the our manager? Was this the manager?
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes, and so we'll read it for you.
Speaker 2: And I got a lot of hope out of the statement.
Speaker 1: You know how, you go ahead and read it. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure how I felt about it.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, This is the official statement from the
Speaker 2: Britney Spears camp. This was an unfortunate incident that is
Speaker 2: completely inexcusable. Britney is going to take the right steps
Speaker 2: and comply with the law, and hopefully this can be
Speaker 2: the first step in long overdue change that needs to
Speaker 2: occur in Britney's life. Hopefully she can get the help
Speaker 2: and support she needs during this difficult time. Her boys
Speaker 2: are going to be spending time with her, Her loved
Speaker 2: ones are going to come up with an overdue needed
Speaker 2: plan to set her up for success for well being.
Speaker 1: Again, it sounds like it's coming from somebody outside of
Speaker 1: her telling her once again what's going to happen, is
Speaker 1: getting on to her about her actions. I understand that
Speaker 1: it didn't seem collaborative, It didn't seem like she was
Speaker 1: a part necessarily of that. You just continue to wonder
Speaker 1: what is going on. Look, all of that sounded good.
Speaker 1: I hope families around. I'm hoping her dear friends are around.
Speaker 1: I hope she's okay. I quite frankly, she hasn't been
Speaker 1: charged with anything. We don't know for sure what this
Speaker 1: was about, what was going on with her at the time,
Speaker 1: so we have to leave room for that at the
Speaker 1: same time. But the headlines are there, and it's just
Speaker 1: I hate her having to go through another round of
Speaker 1: this stuff in her life and roads the part we
Speaker 1: talked about it right, if we were back in our
Speaker 1: own mainstream news, big broadcast network newsrooms, how this story
Speaker 1: would be covered and the way we feel about it
Speaker 1: now is much different. In this coverage, we like, the
Speaker 1: last thing I want to do is go back and
Speaker 1: rehash and say, yeah, she did this and then she
Speaker 1: did this thing bad and remember back then, and to
Speaker 1: stack all this stuff up. I know, I guess robe
Speaker 1: that's a part of the story and you're supposed to do,
Speaker 1: but it something about piling on or reminding people of
Speaker 1: her troubles feels awful, and I don't know want to
Speaker 1: look forward, want to be forward thinking and forward looking
Speaker 1: and future and hope for this young lady. But man,
Speaker 1: I just I hate it forbe.
Speaker 2: That makes a lot of sense, because I think if
Speaker 2: you can't outlive your past, if every time you do
Speaker 2: anything good or bad or neutral, they're always going to
Speaker 2: bring up that thing you did that made the headline,
Speaker 2: so people will click, so people ears will perk up,
Speaker 2: so people will feel like, Hey, at least my life
Speaker 2: isn't as bad as hers, you know. I really do
Speaker 2: think there's some psychology to that, and I do think
Speaker 2: it's important that we do recognize that and remember that
Speaker 2: as we choose not just what to cover, but how
Speaker 2: to cover it, and to cover this with compassion and empathy,
Speaker 2: and not to bring up only I would say only
Speaker 2: in the context of the fact that this woman this
Speaker 2: forty I want to say, young lady. Look, she's forty
Speaker 2: four years old, but in some way she'll always be sixteen.
Speaker 2: It's just how we remember her. But ever since two
Speaker 2: thousand and six, and even probably a little bit before then,
Speaker 2: you're talking twenty years of this of this woman who
Speaker 2: has I feel like, been crying for help and I
Speaker 2: am just hoping look to it brings tears to my
Speaker 2: eyes to hear reports that her sons, who are now
Speaker 2: twenty and nineteen, are going to now be spending time
Speaker 2: with her, because some of what she put on on
Speaker 2: social media was just this eight of not being able
Speaker 2: to see her sons, not having a relationship with her sons,
Speaker 2: being angry about not having a closeness with her sons,
Speaker 2: her mom. You know, there are reports that they're reaching
Speaker 2: out if this could bring Sometimes it does take tough
Speaker 2: times to bring people together, to re center people's agendas
Speaker 2: and to recognize that I I this is my daughter,
Speaker 2: this is my mother's let's figure this.
Speaker 1: Out, okay, And again that's fine, and I hope, I
Speaker 1: just I know it's her responsibility. She is an adult.
Speaker 1: An adult is not supposed to get behind the wheel impaired.
Speaker 1: Somebody could have been hurt, somebody could have been killed. Yes,
Speaker 1: you should be held responsible for those things. I just robes,
Speaker 1: how do you in a situation like this, Well, yes,
Speaker 1: she possibly is the person who did wrong, But Robes,
Speaker 1: there's a way to still look at somebody as a
Speaker 1: human being and not throw them away because of mistakes
Speaker 1: they make or even continue to make. And to I
Speaker 1: think you're right that, yes, there are some so stupid
Speaker 1: headlines that people trying to be cute about some song
Speaker 1: of hers and incorporate that into this DUI. Yep, that
Speaker 1: kind of crap is going to happen. But how do
Speaker 1: you just be a human being to this woman who
Speaker 1: is struggling? Once again? It appears, and I just I
Speaker 1: don't know, I don't She's not on a playlist of mine,
Speaker 1: but I love every single song she's I'm a fan
Speaker 1: of hers, I'm a fan of her music, and I
Speaker 1: just how did we let this treasure of ours, which
Speaker 1: I will say she is and we almost do feel
Speaker 1: like she belongs to all of us. She's just such
Speaker 1: a part of our lives. And I'm only real I'm
Speaker 1: forty eight, she's forty four. Yeah, I feel like she's
Speaker 1: fifteen years younger than I am because she was a
Speaker 1: kid when I first saw her, and I didn't realize,
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I was kind of a kid, Toode you
Speaker 1: were at that time. It just oh, I can't say.
Speaker 1: I don't have the right words ropes for how to
Speaker 1: do and how to handle and how to view and
Speaker 1: how to cover and how to reach out and how
Speaker 1: to be compassionate not just to her, but to other
Speaker 1: people that we are so quick to take their worst
Speaker 1: moment and turn it into our punchline or our opportunity
Speaker 1: to get followers.
Speaker 2: I just hate it, Yeah, because no matter if you're
Speaker 2: Britney Spears or if you're Joe Smith next door, when
Speaker 2: people say negative, horrible, awful things about you, it hurts,
Speaker 2: It matters, it affects you. It impacts you, period. So
Speaker 2: I would say, maybe we take this, we root for her,
Speaker 2: we send her positive energy and love, and if you're
Speaker 2: going to make a comment online, say we're with you,
Speaker 2: we support you.
Speaker 1: We hope you find the help you need.
Speaker 2: That's the spirit in which to look at this story,
Speaker 2: and I hope we can all maybe do that and
Speaker 2: remember that when we see not just this story about
Speaker 2: Britney Spears, but other folks in the headlines who maybe
Speaker 2: are now having their worst moments displayed for the world
Speaker 2: to tear apart, dissect and have a comment on. So anyway,
Speaker 2: we do wish Britney Spears the best and we hope
Speaker 2: that this is a turning point for her. We absolutely
Speaker 2: thank you all for listening to us. As always, we
Speaker 2: appreciate we know we have many updates throughout the day,
Speaker 2: and we appreciate you clicking on our podcast. We will
Speaker 2: have many more throughout the weekend, so stay tuned. In
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Speaker 1: We will talk to you very soon.