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Welcome to Pop Culture History Lesson on the Ringer-Dish Feed. My name is Amelia Wattamire, and today I'm so excited.

I'm joined by Jody Walker. Hi. Hi, Amelia.

Oh, my gosh. Are you so excited to discuss 12 years of Nancy Joe Sales' piece, The Suspects War, Louboutins?

I'm so excited. The moment I heard that Pop Culture History Lesson existed at the Ringer, this was like the very first story that I could think of that made a real historical impact on me at a very impressionable age.

Sure. So I'm very excited.

I am excited too. And for everyone who maybe isn't super familiar with it, it was a piece that Icon, Nancy Joe, wrote in 2010, in the March 2010 issue of Vanity Fair, and it was about a group of five teens from the Valley.

So San Fernando Valley and that essentially cased and broke into numerous celebrity homes from October 2008 to August 2009.

It's wild where they stole around three million in cash and personal belongings like underwear, jeans, tailored to fit Adrina potridge.

And yeah, they stole from Paris Hilton, Lindsey Lohan, Orlando Bloom, and Miranda Kerr, Brian Austin Green, Megan Fox, many more.

So yeah, do you remember reading the profile at the time? Did you like watch the show that was, it was on on Pretty Wild, on E or like the movie?

I think that I was like a little young to be skimming Vanity Fair at the time, although I was already very into the Hollywood issue and checking that out on the Barnes and Noble magazine rack, but I was not yet a subscriber.

So I don't think that I read the Nancy Joe sales piece at the time. I was probably already an e exclamation point network watcher.

And so I remember the ads for Pretty Wild, and now I have a lot of like loose knowledge upstairs about Pretty Wild, but I don't know if I watched it live at the time.

This I remember getting very into the story when the Sophia Coppola, the bling ring movie came out, 23, which was 2013, and really going back and doing my research then and finding out about, no, correct me if I'm wrong, Amelia, did you tell me that you own the DVDs of Pretty Wild?

When you could buy stuff on iTunes still or when people still did that, I definitely bought the first season of Pretty Wild.

Okay, I guess I assumed when you said you owned it that you met you owned hard copies, which was I did find very impressive.

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