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Hey, what's up, jurors? Welcome to holding court sidebar edition. This is your girl, Epini K Williams. What's up?

What's up, everybody? Is your boy Dustin?

Hey, y'all. So we felt it was important, even though we just dropped a new episode and make sure you go listen and subscribe to that.

We wanted to drop this sidebar because I mean, flag on the motherfuckin plate.

This situation with Miss Brittany Spears is really, it just caught my attention. And I picked up the phone and I called you Dustin.

I wanted to get your take and I want to give some context as to why we're talking about Britney Spears on holding court, right?

Yes.

We know that we are unapologetically podcast, a show for Black folks through a Black lens, Black content, Black culture, right?

However, we took an unofficial poll, right? D NSA, Black folks said they wanted to know more about Miss Brittany Spears. Black folks go up for Britney Spears.

We like Brittany. You know, I didn't know Shane in our game. We Brittany is on the list. We like Britney Spears.

Britney is from Kentwood, Louisiana. Y'all know I was born in a me. She's right down the street.

Yes. Yes.

And you know, I'm not going to sit up here and lie and act like, you know, Brittany and other pop sensations were not a part of my adolescence, right?

That's right.

Okay.

And don't give me on the song that started off when she said is Brittany, bitch, you know, that struck a core with me immediately.

As soon as I heard the intro.

Okay. So we decided that we were going to make a cultural exception and discuss Brittany today and specifically.

I want to level set expectations.

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