Wondery Presents: Diss and Tell

Guru: The Dark Side of Enlightenment

Wondery

Documentary, Society & Culture, Exhibit C, True Crime

3.8 • 7.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 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	Celebrity feuds are high stakes.
0:02.6	You never know if you're just going to end up on page 6 or Dumois, or in court.
0:08.2	Wondery's new podcast, Disintel, is hosted by comedian Sidney Battle and Matt Bellasai,
0:13.6	where they wade into the glorious mess of celebrity beef from sub-tweets to distracts to physical altercations.
0:20.3	Each episode of Disintel will take you through the build-up to the feud, why it happened, and the repercussions.
0:26.5	What do our obsession with these feuds say about us?
0:29.6	The first season is packed with some pretty messy pop culture drama, but none is drawn out in personal as Brittany and Jamie Lynn Spears.
0:37.4	When Brittany's fans formed the free Brittany movement, dedicated to freeing her from the infamous conservatorship,
0:43.5	Jamie Lynn's lack of public support angered fans.
0:46.6	Jamie Lynn claimed that she was going out of her way to help her sister, but it turns out she was using Brittany's conservatorship to gain more control over her own fortune.
0:56.3	Disintel covers everything from their still ongoing social media battle, and their may or may not be a knife involved.
1:03.5	It's a story of two young women who had their choices taken away from them by their controlling parents, but took their anger out on each other,
1:11.6	and it's about a movement to save a superstar, which sets its sights upon anyone who failed to fight for Brittany.
1:18.3	You're about to hear a preview of Disintel, while you're listening follow Disintel wherever you get your podcasts.
1:26.3	Matt, gun to your head. Name three iconic Britney performances.
1:37.7	I would say, okay, the iconic snake performance, VMAs with the snake, that was a big one.
1:45.5	The one where she kissed Madonna, also at the VMAs, if I'm not mistaken.
1:49.8	I'm not going to question you. I know you know more than me.
1:53.1	I don't know all of her Instagram dances. I think those should count collectively as an iconic Britney performance.
1:59.9	I would count those. That was very impressive.
2:03.0	I mean, considering that my memory is now mostly composed of whatever TikToks I saw in the last 24 hours.
2:09.9	Yeah, my brain is a sieve, but I must know, do the 2017 Radio Disney Music Awards mean anything to you?
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