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- 0:00♪ Entertain me, entertain me right now ♪
- 0:03- Hey, you found us.
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- 0:07My name is Shauna.
- 0:09- And I'm Olivia.
- 0:10- Hi-eeeeee.
- 0:12- What an intro.
- 0:13Okay, I feel like it's been a while since we have just
- 0:18like had a little key key, talked a little bit about,
- 0:22you know, random pop culture things,
- 0:25random things in our lives.
- 0:26There's so much going on as we are yearning
- 0:29for summer, I feel like celebrities are too.
- 0:32So there's just some, something in the water right now
- 0:35with these celebrities.
- 0:36So I'm excited because I've been wanting to just like,
- 0:39gav about, did you see the Katy Perry Orlando Bloom?
- 0:44- Yes, it broke up.
- 0:47- I wonder if they really did it.
- 0:49So everyone's saying that they broke up
- 0:53because I guess Orlando got the ick
- 0:55after Katy going to space essentially
- 0:59and the crash out that followed.
- 1:01But then, so Jeff Bezos got married recently too
- 1:05and some extravagant disgusting display of wealth.
- 1:10- It was like ghost though.
- 1:12It wasn't even like, oh, like I wish I could afford that.
- 1:15Like they had the millennial gray carpet.
- 1:18- It was not even like a pretty wedding
- 1:20and Orlando Bloom was there along
- 1:22with a lot of other shitty celebrities.
- 1:24Did you see the invitation to the wedding?
- 1:27- Oh, it's, all of it is tacky.
- 1:29Like this poor wedding planner,
- 1:32I hope they probably signed like an NDA, right?
- 1:35So they probably don't ever have to reveal themselves
- 1:38but like professionally, they should do everything
- 1:41to distance themselves from it
- 1:42because like they got made fun of so much.
- 1:46I also just think that they're both super tacky people.
- 1:49- Mm, 100%.
- 1:51So it kind of works for them.
- 1:53That invitation with all the butterflies
- 1:55look like Clip Art, looks like someone made it in MS Paint
- 1:58and just dragged and dropped little images of butterflies
- 2:01into it.
- 2:02It's so bad.
- 2:03- We didn't even go Canva Pro for this one.
- 2:07At least do Canva Pro.
- 2:09They have so many templates sponsored as Canva.
- 2:12- We have been known to love a Canva Temple.
- 2:16- Oh, we love a Canva Temple.
- 2:18- We're millennial women, what can we say?
- 2:21- Graphic design is my passion.
- 2:24I had a MySpace.
- 2:25- I say that to my coworker who is like our creative director
- 2:31and I always go, I had a MySpace and she loves me for it.
- 2:36- I'm sure she loves you so much.
- 2:39- She does.
- 2:40- Sometimes.
- 2:41- Let's see, but other celebrity BS has been going down
- 2:47and the other breakups or crash-outs.
- 2:50- So I did wanna say this.
- 2:51Orlando Bloom at the beginning of his relationship
- 2:54with Katie Perry also had a little secret trick
- 2:58with Selena Gomez.
- 3:00- What?
- 3:01- It has been a very rare--
- 3:01- I like not know this.
- 3:03- Oh, Google, Selena and Orlando.
- 3:06- Yeah, Selena and Orlando smoking SIG together.
- 3:10Yeah, this was when she was in her party girl era.
- 3:13- Okay, but if smoking is SIG with a man makes it,
- 3:16means that you're in a relationship
- 3:17that I am in a lot of relationships with drunk minute bars.
- 3:21Maybe.
- 3:22- No, they're like off to the side and like pop rotsy catch them
- 3:25and they have like a kind of like three or four week
- 3:28like moments where they were photographed together.
- 3:32- It was a good flip.
- 3:33- And then he started more like officially dating.
- 3:36- Katie Perry.
- 3:37- And so I always just think of that,
- 3:40but right now they're all room-erring Sydney Sweeney.
- 3:43- Who is also at that disgusting wedding?
- 3:47- Yes, but they were saying that he was caught
- 3:50like with her alone and I'm like, he has a type of so.
- 3:54He likes the large chest.
- 3:57- The jugulars.
- 3:59- Yeah.
- 4:00- Who can blame him?
- 4:01- Who is the manga?
- 4:01- He's a mommy milker.
- 4:03- Milkies.
- 4:04- Milkies.
- 4:04- I've explained that to one of my coworkers
- 4:08and she by Kate's before it.
- 4:09- I love it.
- 4:10You were talking about milkies at work.
- 4:12- Yeah, we'll explain to the whole milkies saga to her.
- 4:17And you know, if you subscribe to the Patreon,
- 4:19maybe we'll tell you the milkies saga.
- 4:21- There you go.
- 4:22- But now Olivia has to go through a trading with HR.
- 4:25- Yeah.
- 4:26- She's technically in HR.
- 4:28- She's technically in HR.
- 4:31- And she's like, that's a little bit of a deal.
- 4:32- I love milkies too.
- 4:34- Speaking of milkies, Sydney Sweeney is definitely
- 4:38a little mega adjacent though.
- 4:40Didn't she have like a whole mega family?
- 4:42They have like a mega birthday party
- 4:44where they were all wearing like
- 4:45country boots and red hats.
- 4:48And it was like the theme of the party.
- 4:51- That feels very on brand.
- 4:53- For her.
- 4:54- Yeah, but yeah, I don't know.
- 4:56- Gross.
- 4:57- Gross, gross, gross, gross.
- 4:58- So Orlando, you and your giant penis.
- 5:02- Oh, you, oh my god.
- 5:04We did talk about his giant penis.
- 5:06- Not for the podcast.
- 5:07- Yeah, so we had to circle it back to that.
- 5:10It all comes back to Orlando's giant penis.
- 5:13Everything.
- 5:14- I wish I'm well.
- 5:15- I wish I'm well.
- 5:16(laughing)
- 5:19- I wish that thing well too.
- 5:21- Speaking of giant penises,
- 5:23did you see 28 years later yet?
- 5:26- No, I've been traveling.
- 5:29I've been in Napa for like a week for work.
- 5:32- Oh, that's right.
- 5:33- Forst things.
- 5:34- That worst things could happen to me.
- 5:35- Oh, done.
- 5:37But I think I'm gonna try to go either tomorrow or Thursday night.
- 5:42Unfortunately, my friend bailed on Kesha.
- 5:46And I know I wouldn't bail.
- 5:48- I wouldn't.
- 5:49- I'm quite upset.
- 5:50- No, I'm quite upset.
- 5:51And so it's kind of far away.
- 5:54And I'm like, well, I'm not gonna go by myself
- 5:56to Kesha all the way to San Jose.
- 5:58So now I have to find plans for this weekend last minute.
- 6:01Probably end up just going to a closer show.
- 6:04- My goal for the summer is to see as much live music as possible.
- 6:08- Yes, and you're doing a great job already.
- 6:10It feels like you're always at like shows
- 6:12at the Goth Bar, Punk Bar,
- 6:14some stuff, Jellys stuff.
- 6:16- Yeah.
- 6:16- I do like it.
- 6:17I do like it.
- 6:18- That's awesome.
- 6:19I have three planned this year for sure.
- 6:23So Kesha, this coming weekend,
- 6:25and then I have Ghost in August,
- 6:28and Nineage Nails in September.
- 6:30So I got some good stuff lined up.
- 6:33My big penis segue for 28 years later.
- 6:38Going back to the big penis.
- 6:40Not as spoiler, there is a zombie with a huge dog.
- 6:43- Oh, yeah.
- 6:45- What a gift.
- 6:46- Yeah, it's like you feel kind of wrong, like being into it.
- 6:51- There's still some hope in the end of times.
- 6:53Look at this giant, giant dog.
- 6:55Like he might be ready to rip your head off
- 6:58with his bare hands and eat you,
- 7:00but at least you get to look at a swinging dick
- 7:02before it happens to you.
- 7:04(laughing)
- 7:05- You'd rather be killed by a zombie with a big dick, right?
- 7:08- No, I don't wanna be killed by some tiny dick zombie.
- 7:11- Yeah, that makes it worse.
- 7:13- No. - You just gotta
- 7:14- Just go a little,
- 7:15little chowed down there.
- 7:16- No, chowed with zombie.
- 7:18- Yeah.
- 7:19- No, it's, sorry producers.
- 7:23- Yeah.
- 7:24- But yes, you should watch it.
- 7:25It was very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very,
- 7:26- I'm trying to.
- 7:27- I almost went on Saturday, but I, okay.
- 7:31On Friday, I went to,
- 7:33and this was not paid for by me.
- 7:36I just have to say this.
- 7:37I went to a Michelin store restaurant
- 7:40and did a wine tasting that was like paired with the food.
- 7:45Oh my God, it was so amazing.
- 7:49The meal was amazing.
- 7:51It was like all those little bites
- 7:52and it was like seven courses.
- 7:54- Like they make in the bear.
- 7:56- Yeah, I literally felt like I was in the bear.
- 7:58The kitchen was so intense.
- 7:59It was like a glass open kitchen,
- 8:01so we could see everything.
- 8:02- Yes, I feel like the Michelin store restaurant
- 8:04I went to in New York.
- 8:05They had like an open kitchen where you can watch
- 8:08and you just hear them screaming at each other.
- 8:10- And like one person is placing the leaf on the little tweezers.
- 8:14- But it was like seven courses.
- 8:16So there were seven big wine pours
- 8:20and they were all different types of wine.
- 8:22And oh my God, I was so drunk by the end of it.
- 8:27(laughing)
- 8:28I was also hitting my pen.
- 8:30And then I had just worked.
- 8:32I did like all of the AV setup.
- 8:34Like we did it internally
- 8:36and then I had two days of an event from nine to seven,
- 8:40like each day I was like 13 hours.
- 8:42And I go to this place that we were talking about.
- 8:44- I just did drunk in a hot and full of delicious food.
- 8:49- Yeah, yeah.
- 8:50So that's what I did Saturday.
- 8:52We had like Narabee and B with a pool.
- 8:55And you know, I used to be like,
- 8:57why are people in like the East Coast or the Midwest
- 9:00like so obsessed with pools?
- 9:03Because we, I was spoiled.
- 9:04Like I lived in Texas and I lived in--
- 9:06- Yeah, Phoenix.
- 9:07- There's pools everywhere.
- 9:08- It's just pools all the time.
- 9:10And now that I don't have access to a pool,
- 9:13it's quite literally like 55 degrees today and no sun.
- 9:16I'm like, oh, 55 degrees.
- 9:19- It's like 116 in Phoenix today.
- 9:22- I know.
- 9:23- It's a restructuring.
- 9:24- Just like, oh my god,
- 9:25Andrew and I got back from California this weekend.
- 9:28And we had to, we took a rental car
- 9:31and then we were like dragging our baggage
- 9:33across the street to get to the Waymo.
- 9:35And the minute we got home,
- 9:37we both like jumped into the pool,
- 9:40like stripped off when Narabee thinks it's just so hot and sweaty.
- 9:45- Yeah.
- 9:46- Speaking of jumping in the pool,
- 9:48people think that they don't do on the next show
- 9:50I've been obsessed with.
- 9:51Do you watch Love Island?
- 9:53- No, I do not.
- 9:55You know my feelings about reality dating,
- 9:58but I know enough.
- 9:59- I know enough.
- 10:00- It's so, this show has so many episodes.
- 10:03It's insane.
- 10:04Like I am, I'm on episode like 15 and I am so far behind
- 10:09and they're each like an hour long.
- 10:13I think last season have 36 episodes.
- 10:17That is 36 hours of two-
- 10:20- Really?
- 10:21- Date, I think it comes out like three or four days a week.
- 10:25I can't keep up.
- 10:27It's so good and so terrible.
- 10:30And I really enjoy it when I can just,
- 10:33it's so stupid, but you know,
- 10:35it's that like you need something
- 10:36and just turn your brain off and just,
- 10:39I don't wanna think about the horrors.
- 10:40I just wanna watch Jackie television
- 10:43and really good looking people in bathing suits.
- 10:46Break each other's eyes.
- 10:47- I'm a mummy, mama see that.
- 10:49- Yeah, 'cause I'm a mummy.
- 10:51- A mummy?
- 10:52- Mummy see that.
- 10:53- I'm a see that.
- 10:55I kept doing that every time one of my coworkers
- 10:57would use like the company card to pay
- 10:59for something for me and go,
- 11:00"Mama see that."
- 11:01- Mama see that.
- 11:02- I'm a mom.
- 11:03- I'm a mom of a dog.
- 11:05I have a daughter.
- 11:07I have a real human child.
- 11:08- I also love that.
- 11:11Cute.
- 11:12That's my dream day.
- 11:13- Oh my God.
- 11:15- I can't stop reposting those memes
- 11:17'cause it's so dumb.
- 11:18There's no way in the context of this show
- 11:22that he would have known what her dream,
- 11:25like he doesn't know what date he's going on.
- 11:27That he just gets thrown into a situation.
- 11:30So the producers were like,
- 11:31all right, you're taking this bitch to a beach
- 11:35and then they come back and she's like,
- 11:36you sat in the beach?
- 11:37Cute.
- 11:38He knows that's my dream date.
- 11:40- He had no control over it.
- 11:43- That's my dream date.
- 11:44And he knows that.
- 11:45- Yeah, she knows that.
- 11:46- She was crashing out pretty hard.
- 11:47- Oh, she's, oh my God.
- 11:49It is a hood of her, okay, and a love island.
- 11:52She's so beautiful and insane.
- 11:55- She's gonna tone back the eyelash extensions.
- 11:58- The eyelashes are a little intense,
- 12:00but besides that.
- 12:02- Yeah, I know what you're crashing out.
- 12:04- I know enough.
- 12:05I know enough.
- 12:06I see the big moments.
- 12:07I'm also like, there's no fucking way.
- 12:09I also can't do that with big brother.
- 12:12- Oh my God.
- 12:13- Just mom and I used to watch that.
- 12:15But now they have the live streaming cameras.
- 12:18- That's true, they didn't have it back when we did that.
- 12:21- You can watch those all day
- 12:22and then the show's very different.
- 12:24If you don't watch the live stream or anything like that.
- 12:27- You're like missing actual information.
- 12:30- Yeah, that's insane.
- 12:31- But speaking of crash outs,
- 12:34I think we need to talk about the crash out
- 12:36of this summer season.
- 12:39- I agree.
- 12:40So after the break,
- 12:42we are gonna talk about what on earth is going down
- 12:45with Justin Bieber.
- 12:47(dramatic music)
- 12:50- See, Shanna, you're not getting it.
- 12:54It's not clocking to you.
- 12:55It's not clocking to you that I'm just standing on business.
- 12:59Okay, I'm here to talk about what is happening
- 13:03with Justin Bieber.
- 13:05- Dan.
- 13:05(laughing)
- 13:08- That's like his quote.
- 13:09- That was pretty pretty.
- 13:10- That was awful.
- 13:11- Going super viral.
- 13:12- Yeah.
- 13:12- And wonderful.
- 13:13- Yeah, well.
- 13:14- Okay, now you can go.
- 13:15- Pop culture and celebrities go together
- 13:17like two things that go together really well.
- 13:21Peanut butter and jelly, a Trump and fascism.
- 13:25You know, things like that.
- 13:27It's hard to talk about music and movies and such
- 13:29without talking about the people who create that content.
- 13:33And some of those content creators achieve a level of fame
- 13:37that can be really rewarding or really problematic.
- 13:41So when Justin Bieber posted a candid message
- 13:43to Instagram earlier, don't you think
- 13:46if I could have fixed myself I would have?
- 13:48It felt a little less like a pop star venting
- 13:51and more like a breaking point for him.
- 13:54We felt what Bieber was saying.
- 13:55You know, he's exhausted and yet it was also
- 13:59depressingly predictable because his unraveling
- 14:03has been playing out for years.
- 14:05It's just that the public, the press and the fans
- 14:08are only now beginning to admit
- 14:10what we've always known, always seen.
- 14:13And that is that he was never going to escape
- 14:15the curse of childhood fame.
- 14:17So let's take a look at what's going on
- 14:20with Justin Bieber.
- 14:22- So we've talked about Justin Bieber, his life.
- 14:25I mean, he has been such a mega pop star
- 14:29with in the zeitgeist.
- 14:32I feel like I was like one or two years too old
- 14:36to be like a Bieber.
- 14:37- A Bieber.
- 14:38- Yeah, a Bieber and then be like,
- 14:41oh my god, I want to kiss that little boy.
- 14:43- Oh god.
- 14:45- Someone's going to clip that
- 14:46and that's just going to be his sound.
- 14:48- Yeah, I want to kiss that little boy.
- 14:50I don't want to kiss that little boy.
- 14:51I was two years too old.
- 14:53- No, I wasn't a believer either.
- 14:55It was never my kind of music.
- 14:58- And he has definitely had a very hard life.
- 15:02We talked about those different phases
- 15:05and things that have happened to him.
- 15:08Most recently, I think if we zoom out
- 15:10from what's been going on in the last couple of weeks,
- 15:13he has perpetually been in this.
- 15:17I'm touring, I'm canceling my tour
- 15:20because of health reasons.
- 15:21He's done that a few times.
- 15:23He just sold his masters kind of two or three years ago.
- 15:28His entire catalog.
- 15:31And so he just had a baby with Haley Bieber
- 15:34and people were like, okay, this could be
- 15:36like a really good next step for him.
- 15:38He's taking a step back from music.
- 15:40He said, hey, I'm not going to tour.
- 15:42I'm not going to really do music right now.
- 15:45And I'm just going to focus on my family.
- 15:46And people are like, okay, great.
- 15:49And they had a happy, healthy baby.
- 15:52Things were looking great.
- 15:53And then about a month or so, maybe two months ago,
- 15:57Haley Bieber gets kind of first of many amazing opportunities,
- 16:02which is ultimately a bog cover.
- 16:05- Oh my God, this is gorgeous cover.
- 16:07So mean.
- 16:09And didn't he, he tweeted something along the line,
- 16:12or not tweeted.
- 16:13- No way, I posted a cover with a Instagram.
- 16:16- Yeah.
- 16:17- My own long.
- 16:18- It said, I was really mean to Haley once.
- 16:20And I told her that she would never get on the cover of Vogue.
- 16:24Who says that to your wife who's a model?
- 16:27Like that is her professional career.
- 16:29And probably something that she's absolutely working towards.
- 16:34So definitely like a hint that things were kind of rocky
- 16:38in their marriage for sure.
- 16:40- Yeah, so we post this Vogue thing.
- 16:43And it's like, okay, yeah, I told Haley
- 16:46she would never get a cover like way to prove me wrong.
- 16:49And people are notoriously like hate Haley Bieber, right?
- 16:54- Yeah.
- 16:55- We've always been on the right side of this,
- 16:57where we always say like what Haley Bieber is just a girl
- 17:01who married a pop star that everyone loves.
- 17:04- I do think that she stalked him a little heart,
- 17:07but you know what, also she made her dreams come true.
- 17:09- Yes. - Yes, there you go.
- 17:11- If I could just stalk a celebrity
- 17:13that I wanted to marry and then end up marrying him.
- 17:16- Yeah.
- 17:17- Just do it.
- 17:17- You definitely did like follow around some band,
- 17:21maybe just like not at the scale that you wanted it to be.
- 17:24- Yeah.
- 17:25- You didn't dream high enough.
- 17:27- I didn't dream high enough to marry somebody from AFI.
- 17:30I just went to their shows a lot.
- 17:33- Yeah, exactly.
- 17:34- Yeah.
- 17:35- I've slid in the Rahul Koli's DMs a lot,
- 17:38but I don't think it's gonna work.
- 17:40- Yeah, it's gonna happen.
- 17:41- So it never bought into this Haley hate train,
- 17:44but that Haley hate train has been the way since
- 17:46before they even got married, right?
- 17:48It's been in like a solid 10 years.
- 17:50- Yeah, I think it's a lot of salinators or salinators.
- 17:54- Salinators. - Salinators.
- 17:56- How do you pronounce their salinators?
- 17:59- Salinators. - I like salinators.
- 18:00I'm gonna go with that instead.
- 18:01- That sounds like senators.
- 18:02I hate that.
- 18:03- Or like salamanders.
- 18:05- No.
- 18:06- Like a salamander. - Salamander.
- 18:07- A salamander who is a senator.
- 18:09Like he's got like a little tie on.
- 18:10- Okay, well now you're just going Q and on.
- 18:12'Cause that's like a lizard person.
- 18:14(laughing)
- 18:16So all of the salinators I definitely think.
- 18:19- I was seeing a Gomez's fans are lizard people
- 18:23who want to go to the government.
- 18:25- There's a little salamanders,
- 18:26a tiny tie is on who listened to salinators go mad.
- 18:30- Salinators. - Salinators.
- 18:31(laughing)
- 18:33- I vote for it. - I'm voting for it.
- 18:35I'm down.
- 18:36- I'm down. - Okay.
- 18:37- Okay, she's ready.
- 18:38- I think that they definitely kind of added on
- 18:41and piled onto the Haley Hate because they were,
- 18:44you know, Salinators is Haley.
- 18:46We can't possibly imagine that a couple broke up
- 18:49and then they both moved on.
- 18:51We have to always, you know, Salin is always
- 18:54gonna be mad and hate Haley Bieber.
- 18:56When they both kind of back and forth
- 18:59had a little nitpicks and like little bitching moments
- 19:02at each other, but like for the most part,
- 19:04these women have like publicly stated
- 19:07that they want everyone to stop bothering the other one.
- 19:10They've been photographed together,
- 19:11comments it on each other's stuff,
- 19:13liked each other's stuff.
- 19:14Anyway, I wanna go back a little bit in Justin's career.
- 19:18He first became famous in 2009.
- 19:21So yeah, I was in college, definitely kind of like past
- 19:24my Justin Bieber window, but he,
- 19:29what like viral singing on YouTube, I believe.
- 19:32- Yep.
- 19:33- Just had the cutest sweetest little voice.
- 19:35He had a music video and song Baby Come Out.
- 19:38He became a global teen idol discovered by Usher.
- 19:42Super famous at the time.
- 19:44So he kind of grew up, you know, being this cute see-all
- 19:47remember is Justin Bieber, Erica,
- 19:49little shaggy thing, cute, talented.
- 19:53Definitely overly sexualized by the media.
- 19:57There's so many clips of him like a young kid
- 20:01and just people asking him if he has a girlfriend,
- 20:04like older female celebrities trying to kiss him
- 20:07on the mouth, like talking to him about things
- 20:09that he doesn't need to be talking about as a child.
- 20:12You know, say, you know, once we get to the,
- 20:14the diddy of it all later in the episode,
- 20:17he definitely went to some ditty parties
- 20:19and was like offered alcohol and I'm sure drugs
- 20:21at a young age.
- 20:22So thanks for all of that adults.
- 20:25Thanks for protecting the kids.
- 20:27Great job.
- 20:29So 2011 to 2014, a series of incidents kind of began
- 20:33to tarnish his image.
- 20:35As you said, racial slurs in some leaked videos,
- 20:38he had legal issues including a dy,
- 20:41he, egg,
- 20:42- He did the neighbors house.
- 20:43- He was about to see that.
- 20:44- He had a good house.
- 20:46- Ah, stupid.
- 20:47And then he made some controversial comments
- 20:49during a visit to the Anne Frank house.
- 20:52So definitely no excuses for that
- 20:54or for using racial slurs.
- 20:56I think that a,
- 20:57egging a neighbor's house can probably be chalked up to
- 21:00just being a shitty teenager.
- 21:02- Yeah.
- 21:03And the order, the order that that happened in
- 21:05was a little, a little different.
- 21:07He started egging the house and people freaked out on him
- 21:10and then every single thing after that
- 21:12did become like this, this giant deal.
- 21:16And I think one of the,
- 21:17the earliest things in Justin Bieber's career
- 21:20is like he never had privacy after a baby.
- 21:25And it's always really bothered him.
- 21:27Like we've seen him through so many different faces
- 21:31in his life, which is sad.
- 21:33Like to have that happen to you is a,
- 21:37is a, like as a trauma you can never know.
- 21:40Like to just never be alone.
- 21:43- Yeah, it's just growing up in front of the camera.
- 21:46Literally, yeah, never being alone,
- 21:47having adults dictate your every move
- 21:50and stalk you and make you grow faster than you need to.
- 21:55Like I, it's, I can't imagine, but it was like for him.
- 21:58I remember he like peed off of a neighbor's balcony
- 22:01or peed off his balcony or into a bucket
- 22:03and everyone was like, oh my god.
- 22:05Hey, took this.
- 22:07I don't know.
- 22:08- Yes.
- 22:09And over time, like things did start to get much more extreme.
- 22:13Like they started silly and they started goofy.
- 22:16But then over time they moved in to more severe.
- 22:19- Yeah.
- 22:20- This kind of was continuously escalating
- 22:22until he entered this church era.
- 22:27- Oh god.
- 22:28- He stood kind of in.
- 22:28I feel like he's moving out of it now
- 22:30with everything that's been going on.
- 22:32But he joined a very famous celebrity church
- 22:35called Hillsong.
- 22:37He started hanging out with Carl, the pastor.
- 22:41Chris Pratt goes there too, right?
- 22:42Chris Pratt, Haley Bieber, Kendall Jenner.
- 22:44- It is a famously.
- 22:45- All of those people.
- 22:46Like anti LGBTQ church.
- 22:50They believe in conversion therapy.
- 22:53It's not a cool place.
- 22:56- It's very mega churchy, very good.
- 22:59- Yeah.
- 23:00- But ultimately, you know, to give them some credit here,
- 23:05they did help him really kind of get off
- 23:09of this terrible trajectory.
- 23:11- Yeah.
- 23:12- Yeah.
- 23:12- It's not going to be the experience
- 23:13of everyone going to that church.
- 23:15Often times it's not the experience of everyone.
- 23:18There's a really good documentary about Hillsong
- 23:21on FX that you should check out if you remember it.
- 23:23- Sure. - It's a rest day.
- 23:24But it really goes into the history of the church,
- 23:27kind of the background.
- 23:28And there's, it's of course a heavy chop-air
- 23:31because it's about high control.
- 23:33But he goes to this church and ultimately,
- 23:35this is kind of where Selena goes as well
- 23:39when him and Selena are dating.
- 23:41He is within that church as well.
- 23:43See, I'm not anti-churched by any means.
- 23:46If you can go to a church and you can get something out of it
- 23:48and become a better person, get your life, you know,
- 23:52grab yourself up off the ground and like,
- 23:54you know, put yourself back together
- 23:55and you can credit a church community
- 23:57that was there for you.
- 23:58Amazing, you know, good for you.
- 24:01So he, yeah, went with Selena Gomez
- 24:03and we've talked about his relationship with Selena
- 24:06a lot on the show.
- 24:08And you introduced me to that video
- 24:09of the two of them like scoring drugs in an alleyway together.
- 24:14Yep.
- 24:14On Skid Row, right?
- 24:16Yes.
- 24:17Which is so crazy.
- 24:19So the two of them started this church life together.
- 24:22But Selena also was, you know, child star,
- 24:25Disney channel darling, who had to grow up in front of the cameras.
- 24:29You know, we see it a million times over
- 24:31with child stars and child celebrities who try to grow up.
- 24:34And yeah, they both, you know, kind of turn to drugs.
- 24:37I think Selena Gomez's situation with drugs is so interesting
- 24:42because it's never been like something
- 24:44that she's publicly commented on.
- 24:46It's always something that's like allegedly, you know what I mean?
- 24:49Even though it's pretty obvious.
- 24:52But it wasn't, you know, like, Lindsay Lohan's crash out
- 24:56where she was getting DUIs and photographed.
- 24:58And it was very clear that she's using drugs.
- 25:00They're like Amanda Bines, you know?
- 25:03Yeah.
- 25:04For Selena, it's just kind of like, we all kind of go, hmm, we know.
- 25:08We know, girl.
- 25:09It's okay.
- 25:10Totally.
- 25:11We were exhausted.
- 25:13We pulled out the old exhaustion every half.
- 25:16Yeah, I went to rehab because I was eapies.
- 25:21And we've seen kind of that, that is a through line of kind of,
- 25:26hey, is there, you know, some sort of substance?
- 25:30Is it mental health?
- 25:31Like, can we see this kind of a lot with child stars?
- 25:34We've talked about it a bit more as well.
- 25:36But, you know, kind of once he joins a whole song,
- 25:40him and Haley get married, he has these kind of like,
- 25:43intermittent phases, but really nothing like we've started to see today.
- 25:49Yeah, not at all.
- 25:50He revealed that he had Lyme disease in 2020,
- 25:53which kind of explained some health issues
- 25:55that he was experiencing.
- 25:57He, it went public and talked about his struggles with mental health,
- 26:02with fame, with some drug use, his adderol dependency.
- 26:06So he's really trying to, you know, be open about it with the public
- 26:09and like kind of work through it.
- 26:11Like you said, he married Haley with a civil ceremony at a large one in 2019.
- 26:17He was also diagnosed with Ramsey Hunt syndrome,
- 26:20which led to facial paralysis in the cancellation of an entire tour in 2020.
- 26:25Yeah.
- 26:26I remember that video. It was crazy.
- 26:27I was like, oh yeah.
- 26:28Yeah. That shit's like scary.
- 26:31Like you think you have like several palsy or like Bell's palsy or something
- 26:35and just drew your face.
- 26:37Have your face just stops working?
- 26:39No.
- 26:40Yeah. No.
- 26:40If anybody listening has gone through that,
- 26:42like that sounds horrifying and,
- 26:44Ugh.
- 26:45Bless you.
- 26:46So he welcomed his son Jack Blues with Haley in August 2024,
- 26:54describing him as their miracle baby.
- 26:57And young, we all, we thought that that was going to kind of be a,
- 27:01he's a grown up now.
- 27:03He's covered in tattoos.
- 27:04He's got a supermodel wife who he's shown in public kind of publicly
- 27:09distating, but you know what?
- 27:11That's, yeah. And so we talked a little bit about the Vogue cover.
- 27:18So the Vogue cover was the early whisperings of all of the women
- 27:22who were previously hating on her going,
- 27:25wait, maybe Haley shouldn't be with Justin,
- 27:30not because he belongs with Selena, but because he's treating her badly.
- 27:36So this is kind of like the early murmurs.
- 27:39And then Haley announces that she sold road beauty for $1 billion, right?
- 27:45I think so. Yeah.
- 27:46Yeah. So she sold road for $1 billion to Elf cosmetics,
- 27:51or to Elf, the brand.
- 27:53It's kind of like a big umbrella.
- 27:57I love Elf.
- 27:58My favorite eyeliner.
- 27:59So this starts on the internet.
- 28:03A bunch of people saying Haley Bieber should leave Justin Bieber.
- 28:07Yes.
- 28:07And it ultimately starts, I mean, Justin is chronically online.
- 28:12There's some of the most iconic Twitter beefs and like Instagram
- 28:15beefs with Justin Bieber because he's just chronically online.
- 28:18He's a youngster. He's online.
- 28:20He wants to post.
- 28:21He wants to take Instagram pics.
- 28:23He wants to have cryptic captions.
- 28:25We stan it.
- 28:27Yes. And so cryptic posts start popping up from Justin Bieber.
- 28:32And ultimately he posts shortly after everyone is saying
- 28:36girl leave him dump him.
- 28:39He posts an Instagram story.
- 28:41And then I think he also puts it on his grid where he's tired
- 28:45of transactional relationships.
- 28:47Yes.
- 28:48And people telling him there's more work to do.
- 28:51If I have to do something to be loved, that's not love.
- 28:54And express frustration over expectations placed on him.
- 28:58And this triggered the women of the internet
- 29:01because we have all dated a man who has acted this way.
- 29:05Literally.
- 29:07And I think this is a very important point that we want to make.
- 29:10Like pop culture and celebrities and their situations
- 29:14and how they make you feel are almost always a mirror.
- 29:17So like again, we don't know these people,
- 29:20but they are very interesting to consider in the macro of like how
- 29:25how is everyone kind of responding to this?
- 29:28But it heated up from there.
- 29:31He posted like a million of these things very weird.
- 29:35And it was always just like one piece of his face.
- 29:38Like it'd be like a nostril and eyebrow.
- 29:41Yeah.
- 29:42Very like zoomed in photos, talking about forgiveness and flaws
- 29:47and just exhaustion over trying to meet people's standards.
- 29:51Yeah.
- 29:52He got into a paparazzi confrontation in June, 2025.
- 29:57Having a tense exchange with paparazzi outside of his so-how house.
- 30:01Oh, I'm sorry.
- 30:01Outside of so-how house.
- 30:02Not is so-how house in Malibu.
- 30:06Accused the photographers at provoking him
- 30:08and worried that the footage would be taken out of context,
- 30:11saying it's not registering to you that I'm standing on business.
- 30:15Is it, which is what you were saying in the beginning.
- 30:17And you're provoking me.
- 30:19You're going to take the video out of context like you always do.
- 30:22It escalated further with him using exploatives
- 30:25and questioning the motives of paparazzi.
- 30:27I mean, paparazzi can fuck all the way off anyway.
- 30:30Like I can't even imagine.
- 30:32I'm a girl who loves to have my picture taken to.
- 30:35Listen.
- 30:35I love a camera.
- 30:37But to be just stalked and followed like that.
- 30:39Legal.
- 30:40Just, yes, it's legal.
- 30:42And people die over this.
- 30:45Like being chased by the paparazzi.
- 30:47I can't even imagine how frustrating that would be.
- 30:50So there's a lot of celebrities who
- 30:52have videos of rough interactions with paparazzi
- 30:56and are always like, oh my god, are they going through it?
- 30:58No, I'd have a rough interaction too.
- 31:01Yeah, I do think that Justin Bieber got Britney Spears level
- 31:05paparazzi like harassment and being followed.
- 31:08And then also because he is a reactive person,
- 31:11like they wouldn't antagonize him.
- 31:13So they have taken videos out of context.
- 31:15It's a little bit about it when he was like a young kid
- 31:18and everyone was like, he pissed in a bucket.
- 31:20Like people always kind of taken.
- 31:22He's easy to stoke into a fight.
- 31:26And so they do it a lot.
- 31:27And then, you know, whenever you're going through something
- 31:31that your anger isn't always easily controlled
- 31:34or just mood in general and then someone's falling
- 31:37in around with a camera.
- 31:37And then you're being caught on camera.
- 31:39I'm sure that I've had, you know,
- 31:40crash out moments we all have where you're like,
- 31:42thank god no one caught that on video.
- 31:44Not in good news.
- 31:47Not my finest hour.
- 31:49I'm going to think about that.
- 31:50Yeah, like your like caught on video is just you thinking about it
- 31:54for the like days and days and days.
- 31:56Yeah, when you're laying in bed,
- 31:57just like that was so embarrassing.
- 31:58Yeah, right.
- 32:00It's the video of our minds.
- 32:01Yeah, it stays for that forever.
- 32:04Yeah.
- 32:06And so this has been turned into a meme.
- 32:09And the meme is really funny or like a re-hearing like video
- 32:12gets standing on business.
- 32:14But yeah, you don't get it.
- 32:16I'm standing on business.
- 32:18And now he's kind of like tongue and cheek playing with it.
- 32:22Yeah.
- 32:23But ultimately, I mean, when it before like all the
- 32:27a lot of this stuff started happening, like,
- 32:29or I guess like shortly after the vote cover, like,
- 32:31Hailey was seen out like not wearing her ring as well.
- 32:35And so there there are kind of these these things.
- 32:38Right after this, Justin Bieber changed his like,
- 32:41right after the I'm standing on business,
- 32:43changed his Instagram name from Justin Bieber to Lil Bieber.
- 32:48Oh, god.
- 32:49And pictures of Jack,
- 32:51Hailey as well as he keeps posting like these weird
- 32:56prototypes of his brand Skylar.
- 32:59Isn't that a character from fairly odd parents?
- 33:02Maybe.
- 33:03But Rick Stassler, something.
- 33:04He printed weird stuff.
- 33:06Like, I don't know what what he's doing over there.
- 33:09And we're thinking maybe this little
- 33:11Bieber might be a rapper era incoming.
- 33:14I will say that Justin Bieber has been a a a heavy user of
- 33:19an accent and lingo that is not fitting of black and
- 33:24color. A black accent.
- 33:26He's given he gives Justin Timber like black sense a lot.
- 33:31So she's she's she's she's oh, I forgot about that.
- 33:37Yeah. If you're not black, don't use black sense.
- 33:40Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I I want Justin Bieber to take
- 33:50like a true 10 year break. I think that it would be good for him.
- 33:57Absolutely. Get away from the spotlight.
- 33:59His be a dad.
- 34:01His wife is now about to be a billionaire.
- 34:04I mean, they don't give you a billion dollars.
- 34:05Just here you go.
- 34:06But you know, there is no reason like you sold your back catalog.
- 34:11If Hailey stays with you, which you probably will because
- 34:14super Christian, you guys have enough money to
- 34:19live within the current celebrity lifestyle that you do.
- 34:23Not have you have to try to be famous and just like go super in cognito.
- 34:29I totally agree. You can go underground.
- 34:32You can pull an Olsen twins.
- 34:33Yes. That's what I want for him.
- 34:36So much exactly. Exactly.
- 34:38Marricade and Ashley Olsen.
- 34:40Yes. We know they're still ultra famous and so fucking rich.
- 34:44And they'll come out of the woodworks every once in a while.
- 34:48They'll show up somewhere.
- 34:49But for the most part, those girls are off grid and just living.
- 34:52They're just designing the row.
- 34:54They're making so much money off their
- 34:57seven dollar t-shirt.
- 34:58Let them live.
- 35:00And they were child celebrities and they went,
- 35:03you know what?
- 35:04We're just going to go into the sunset with our money for a little while.
- 35:09Yeah, they made so much money.
- 35:10Let's take a quick break and then I do want to talk about
- 35:13an unfortunate connection to P. Diddy.
- 35:17[Music]
- 35:22So an old clip of P. Diddy and Justin Bieber
- 35:27resurfaced online in the wake of all the Diddy allegations
- 35:30whereby the two discuss spending a quote "crazy 48 hours" together.
- 35:35To the camera Diddy says quote, "He's having 48 hours with Diddy."
- 35:40Where we hangin' out and we're doing what we're doing,
- 35:44we can't really disclose.
- 35:47But it's definitely a 15 year old's dream.
- 35:50I have been given custody of him.
- 35:53He signed a usher when he did his first album.
- 35:56I don't really have legal guardianship of him.
- 35:59But for the next 48 hours, he's with me and we're going to go buck full crazy.
- 36:05A 15 year old's dream hanging out with Diddy sounds like
- 36:11everybody just cringed when I said that.
- 36:15Yeah.
- 36:16Justin Bieber was discovered by usher, like I said.
- 36:21But then he definitely usher and P. Diddy had some crossover if I'm not mistaken, right?
- 36:27Yes.
- 36:28Fill me in here, Livy.
- 36:29Yeah.
- 36:30So what Justin went to is what P. Diddy himself, now I guess a brother love is his new stage name,
- 36:38going as a new stage name.
- 36:41He's in shale. No, he did this in like 2022 when he knew things were about to come out about him.
- 36:48So he renamed himself again.
- 36:50But okay, so he called this Puffs Flavor Camp,
- 36:55which was whenever usher was becoming famous, usher like lived with P. Diddy for at least
- 37:01a summer, maybe almost a year.
- 37:03And every single night they were doing what he, they've been talking about at the P. Diddy trial.
- 37:08They're having orgies, they were doing freak off, they were doing this stuff with the baby oil,
- 37:12it was weird.
- 37:13Usher has done a interview with Howard Stern talking about Flavor Camp and how he was like 15,
- 37:22he would go hide himself in the studio and just like barricade himself in there because like he'd
- 37:27be 15 and like all these women were trying to like bring him out into a win as a 15 year old as well.
- 37:33Yeah.
- 37:33Usher like lived with him and like there's some weird clips about
- 37:38like P. Diddy talking about waking up in bed with usher in the morning and eating like cereal and
- 37:44bed together and even Kevin Hart like diddies all drunk or whatever and Kevin Hart is like looking
- 37:51at P. Diddy like did you say that like live recorded like that's that was weird dude and usher just
- 37:58like laughs it off.
- 37:58So but then usher takes Justin Bieber to P. Diddy and after that clip every single time like
- 38:07Justin Bieber is around P. Diddy like the vibes are off it's weird he feels odd around him
- 38:13and yeah it's scary.
- 38:15Yeah it is strange.
- 38:17Other resurfaced clips show Diddy handing Justin a bottle on his birthday
- 38:22which he kneels down to drink as a woman explains you know happy birthday Justin when he's
- 38:28definitely not old enough to be drinking.
- 38:30There is an old episode of Keeping Up the Kardashians where Chloe talks about going to parties
- 38:36with Diddy and Justin Bieber and she says and I quote I got on a plane at 5.30 a.m.
- 38:42Well this party I think half the people there were but naked.
- 38:46Yeah there were a bunch of friends and they were there naked and partying including
- 38:51Diddy, Quincy and Justin Bieber.
- 38:55What's Quincy is his son?
- 38:57Oh dude like and Justin Bieber is in 2014 still definitely a minor.
- 39:05I don't know how old Quincy was in 2014 either but Quincy is technically like his stepson so
- 39:12it's like one degree separated but still kind of broke.
- 39:15Yeah yeah.
- 39:16It ain't yes to all.
- 39:19So Justin Bieber's team has come out in the recent years and said you know Justin does not claim
- 39:26to be a victim of P. Diddy.
- 39:28Yeah but they definitely stand with people who were and you know belief survivors things like
- 39:33that but Justin himself hasn't said anything like yes this is what went down but just there's a lot
- 39:39of evidence there that things that were very inappropriate between a grown man and a 15 year old
- 39:45were going down.
- 39:45Yeah it's interesting because when you think about a child star like you always say like these
- 39:52like crazy things happen to them and it is wild to know like exactly how depraved like someone
- 40:01who was your mentor and teaching you how to live in Hollywood would be doing those things.
- 40:06Exactly.
- 40:07The point that you can prove them in like a court of law like they're being put into
- 40:11public records and things like that so it is it is kind of crazy you know that's a great point
- 40:15with the Diddy stuff I've thought about it but you know that is kind of going concurrently and
- 40:21whenever Diddy first got formally charged people were very curious like what is Justin going to
- 40:27do he made a statement saying you know he doesn't seem self as a victim and he'd like to like people
- 40:31to respect his privacy.
- 40:33Yeah but you know that is a kind of a layer on on top of what they need or what's going on for him.
- 40:40Exactly another trauma layer another just layer of it's not good you know and you know good on him
- 40:47for saying like let's focus on people who actually were victims or like are ready to express that
- 40:53yeah or exactly because who knows but who are ready to come out and express that and not all survivors
- 40:59come out and are like you know talking you know comfortable speaking publicly about things like that.
- 41:06I don't know I guess to sum up our our Justin Bieberness of it all I like you said I hope he kind of
- 41:13fades from the spotlight and takes a much needed break in him and Hayley just can kind of I don't
- 41:20know be parents for a while.
- 41:22A little sugar baby Bieber.
- 41:24A little baby.
- 41:26A little Bieber sugar baby.
- 41:28And be nice to Hayley.
- 41:30Yeah hold the door for your wife man.
- 41:32He does skate forward away from her.
- 41:35Yeah maybe he don't worry about a gray hoodie with the you know like the bottle.
- 41:44All the thing.
- 41:49Yeah but no it's like the butthole like pulled like Kenny from South Park.
- 41:53Yeah which is just a little face hole.
- 41:55It's giving Kenny.
- 41:56Yeah it's giving Kenny.
- 41:57If your wife is dressed up nice dress up nice with her.
- 42:00If it's a launch of your wife's brand.
- 42:02Yes.
- 42:03A normal shirt.
- 42:04Yeah.
- 42:05Support your wife's career and endeavors.
- 42:08If she don't say things about father's day being stupid or mother's day being stupid on
- 42:14Instagram on mother's day.
- 42:17Okay but what do you think if Justin does not follow our advice and releases this rap
- 42:25album like what are you giving?
- 42:28Oh god.
- 42:29What are you giving this mixtape one out of ten?
- 42:33Oh a negative 12.
- 42:35Okay you think it's going to be that bad?
- 42:37Oh no it's going to be awful.
- 42:40It's going to be awful.
- 42:41Do you have hope for this?
- 42:42Do you have hope for Justin Bieber's rap girl?
- 42:45A negative maybe like a two but I don't know.
- 42:47I feel like it's going to give vanilla ice.
- 42:50Oh.
- 42:51Markey Mark.
- 42:52I don't know.
- 42:53Absolutely one hit wonder.
- 42:55A little white boy trying to rap who grew up in Canada and I in it.
- 43:02I can't.
- 43:03I'm begging for Skrillex and Bieber to like reunite make me another where are you now?
- 43:10Oh I love that song.
- 43:13That would heal me.
- 43:15Those I'm totally I forgot the name of like their little duo.
- 43:19Jacky.
- 43:20Yes I loved Jacky.
- 43:22That's the only time that I was like I'm going to put a Bieber song in my playlist.
- 43:26Too late now to say sorry.
- 43:28Jacky was Diplo and Skrillex which they did make a lot of Justin Bieber songs which they
- 43:36were great.
- 43:37They were great.
- 43:38They were great.
- 43:39I love that era of Justin Bieber.
- 43:40Listen to that.
- 43:41It was by the pool.
- 43:42Yeah.
- 43:43I.
- 43:44Yeah.
- 43:45I also think I mean it sucks the way that the music industry is now where you really won't
- 43:50make any money unless you tour.
- 43:52Yeah.
- 43:53I just think that like you know not not in the cards for him right now.
- 43:57Mentally physically this boy does not I keep calling him a boy he's a grown man.
- 44:02Yeah.
- 44:03He does not need to be like he is a grown-ass man.
- 44:06Yeah and like it's I mean I couldn't tour I travel like 12 times a year for work and it's
- 44:12not going to be home in my every day.
- 44:14You know sleeping my bed.
- 44:15Yeah.
- 44:16And I'm a sleepy girl so yeah I do think that making music like just doesn't make sense
- 44:22right now but you can come back and make a crazy crazy like come back.
- 44:29Just a good dance pop album.
- 44:30It was five years.
- 44:32Five years.
- 44:33Yeah.
- 44:34Go make people miss you.
- 44:36Not be hyper critical and overlay critical of you like it is a playbook in in Hollywood
- 44:43as old as time.
- 44:44Yes.
- 44:45But yeah we wish we wish him well.
- 44:48We wish you well.
- 44:49We remember that celebrities and pop cultures ultimately am here.
- 44:54So if you were violently upset at Justin Bieber for being mean to his wife maybe we take a
- 45:01look at our husband.
- 45:02Hey that's deep that's deep.
- 45:05I think that's what I should be mean to their wife.
- 45:09No one should be mean to their spouse but no I agree.
- 45:12I wish him well.
- 45:13Let's all remember that celebrities are people too.
- 45:15Until they are publicly racist or rapists or yeah then we can then they can eat shit.
- 45:26That's a that's a good stuff.
- 45:28I think that's a good closer right there.
- 45:29Yeah.
- 45:30I think that is it for the pop culture Juggie podcast this week.
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