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Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal

Binge This...Toxic: The Britney Spears Story

Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal

Jason Horton & Rebecca Leib

True Crime, Unknown, Paranormal, Weird History, Social Sciences, History, Science

3.7928 Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2021

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Comedians Tess Barker and Babs Gray, who you might know from Lady to Lady or the now legendary Britney’s Gram podcast, are here to bring you a brand new investigative series about Britney Spears' conservatorship and the court system that's allowed it to persist. You can binge all 10 episodes of Toxic: The Britney Spears Story RIGHT NOW on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Pandora, or wherever you find your podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

We're bringing you something really special this week from some incredible women I've known for a long time.

0:04.7

So Jason and I met doing comedy in LA and now we've been doing Ghost Town for three years. Wow.

0:10.0

Well, while we were doing in pro shows and open mics, etc. we met comedians Tess Barker and Babs Gray,

0:15.9

who you might know from Lady to Lady, a show that I guessed it on about two years ago,

0:19.6

or the now legendary Britney's Grand Podcast. I'm so excited to say that they're bringing you

0:24.4

a brand new investigative series about Britney Spears' conservatorship and the court system

0:29.2

that allowed it to persist. After launching the hashtag free Britney movement, they started to dig,

0:34.0

and what they found out you won't want to miss. Join Tess and Babs as they talk to exclusive

0:38.9

sources, examine new sides of the story, and uncover disturbing truths about our legal system

0:44.2

that go way beyond Britney. And you know what's the best part? You don't even have to wait

0:48.6

to hear the whole story. You can binge all 10 episodes right now. I've known Babs and Tess

0:54.0

for years as comedians and I knew they'd be hilarious to listen to, but I am so impressed with how

0:58.8

they've investigated this case with empathy and levity interviewing people that you cannot

1:03.7

believe they got to sit down and talk to. I don't want to spoil anything. I'll just leave

1:07.6

three words right here and they are Britney's Vegas Wedding. You're welcome. It was also super

1:13.0

fascinating to learn about conservatorships as a whole. I mean, you have to listen to believe it.

1:17.3

Taxic is produced by Witness Docs, a stitcher network who makes documentary style podcasts

1:21.7

with the purpose. Other shows you might know from Witness Docs include The Dream, Heaven's Gate,

1:26.1

and both seasons of unfinished Deep South and Short Creek. We have a clip from one of the first

1:30.4

episodes of Toxic. Tess and Babs bring us back to the moment that helped to launch a global movement,

1:35.6

hashtag free Britney. But now I want the show to speak for itself. Get ready to hear Toxic,

1:41.2

the Britney Spears story, and don't forget you can binge the whole series right now wherever you

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