Wondery Presents: Diss and Tell

Business Wars

Wondery

History, Business, David Brown, Management

4.6 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Savage subtweets. Scathing diss tracks. Tell-all memoirs. These are the weapons that celebrities use to wage modern social warfare against each other. Feuds between celebrities captivate us like nothing else. Why are there so many fights that play out for everyone to watch? How do public figures tap into the arsenal of weapons at their disposal to come out on top? And why do we have such a hard time looking away?

From Wondery, the makers of the hit series Scamfluencers and Even the Rich, comes Diss and Tell. Hosts Sydney Battle and Matt Bellassai take you deep into pop culture’s most iconic celebrity feuds, from Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan to Hailey Bieber and Selena Gomez. Sydney and Matt unpack who fired the first shot, what happened, and how cultural phenomena and hidden forces influence not only these battles, but also the world we live in.

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0:00.0	Don't lie, celebrity feuds can be fun to follow. There's just something about watching
0:04.5	two famous people go at it on Twitter that lots of folks just can't look away from.
0:09.2	Wondery's new podcast, Dis and Tell, is hosted by comedians Matt Bellasci in Sydney Battle.
0:14.2	In each episode, they unpacked one of Pop Culture's most iconic celebrity feuds, and what the
0:19.1	obsession with them says about, well, the rest of us.
0:22.3	The first seasons packed with some pretty sloppy Pop Culture drama like the bizarre feud between
0:27.0	Ezelia Banks and Grimes and Elon Musk.
0:30.2	Ezelia is no stranger to conflict, but this one brought on an SEC investigation.
0:35.0	Multiple subpoenas, phones were confiscated. It was a mess. Plus they look at the infamous
0:40.2	Oscar slap. That slap represented a lot of things to a lot of different people.
0:45.0	But when you dive into the history of these two individuals involved, you'll find that
0:49.2	they've always sort of been in each other's orbit. How did Chris manage to get so deep
0:53.3	under Will's skin? You've seen the headlines now you get the whole story.
0:57.7	Make sure to follow Dis and Tell wherever you get your podcasts. You can listen ad-free
1:02.1	on the Amazon Music or Wondery app.
1:05.3	Listen or note, this episode contains adult language.
1:14.5	Matt, I'm excited because you seem excited. And so I get happy when I see other people
1:20.8	happy. You feel it. It feels like you're excited to tell me this story.
1:25.0	I am. You're a real empath that you're picking that up from 3,000 miles away. But today
1:31.5	is it's juicy. So I hope you're strapped in and ready.
1:35.3	As I'll ever be.
1:36.9	In 2018, Claire Boucher is very popular, but you may know her more as the musician Grimes.
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