Britney Goes Forth
Added 2024-05-31 19:02:00 +0000 UTCHere it is: the fourth and final chapter of our Britney Spears saga, guided by the wonderful Eve Lindley. And Britney Spears is free to fly, fly away.
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I work as an advocate for people with developmental disabilities and severe and persistent mental health issues that pose threats to the health and safety of themselves and others. A lot of these folks are under court-ordered adult guardianships or conservatorships. What baffles me about Britney’s conservatorship is that a judge and a court-appointed special advocate should have been monitoring her situation to ensure that she was not being exploited. Not to get all litigious, but I feel like she would have real cause to investigate the judge that oversaw her case. I smell something fishy there.
Lindsey Schilling
2025-02-03 16:32:23 +0000 UTCGreat mini-series! I think a lot of millennials are at a point in their lives where they can replace, or get for the 1st time, the treasures from their childhood. Unlearning the expectations of others is another huge undertaking.
Mary Lappin
2024-09-02 08:01:19 +0000 UTCI can't remember which episode in this series mentions it, but I saw the Make America Great Again Britney, Lindsay & Paris T-shirt in the wild today and I had to tell someone!!
Heather Woodford
2024-07-28 00:00:37 +0000 UTCDying at Glinda the Good Witch catching a stray
Anjali
2024-07-15 20:58:31 +0000 UTCAgain, thank you for doing this. It's a huge deal, and it makes such a difference to hear y'all say actually conservatorships might be bad, even with the best of intentions. Anyway, thank you for this.
Katie O'Donnell
2024-07-09 22:18:09 +0000 UTCRe 'Phones Are Good, Actually': Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU to Taylor Lorenz for joining the dots between the social-media moral panic and widespread COVID minimisation/disinformation. People who don't (yet) have a disability need to hear that the current return to 'normal' life is unsustainable, and that mass repeat reinfections will inevitably result in almost everyone developing Long COVID. Let's not forget that the first thing cops do when they arrest masked pro-Palestinian protesters is confiscate those masks. They want protesters sick so they can't resist anymore.
Mileta Rien
2024-07-04 06:11:08 +0000 UTCI really wish I knew why the end theme of YWA makes me so melancholy. It's every time.
John McDonald
2024-06-29 18:12:46 +0000 UTCBritney choosing not to dance with her hair feels like the embodiment of "never the less she persisted"
Maya D
2024-06-26 19:31:10 +0000 UTCSarah I am begging you to please recreate a self made Britney twirl vid stat
Cleo Roback
2024-06-26 19:06:10 +0000 UTCI have loved this series. Love Britney, she owes us nothing
Nathalie Ballard
2024-06-24 20:14:34 +0000 UTCNever thought I'd tear up at an attorney's comments, but her lawyer being the only single human giving her credit and recognizing her strength... It broke my heart.
Sofía Rauschert
2024-06-23 19:03:39 +0000 UTCEpisode suggestion: Madam C. J. Walker
Marie Diemand
2024-06-21 23:11:06 +0000 UTCWhat tour? The WORLD TOUR😂😭😎
Gringa
2024-06-21 04:11:36 +0000 UTCListening to this and then seeing Justin Timberlake arrested for a DWI 👌🏻
Gretchen Sprinkle
2024-06-18 23:45:27 +0000 UTCI’m half way through this final episode, and my feelings on Britney have evolved - in a matter of days - from a kind of uneasy admiration / bewilderment, to… something much more like love, and a lot of anger on her behalf. Every time you rescue the story of a witch-hunted woman, some of the world’s more benevolent magic clicks back into place x
Alice
2024-06-18 18:14:46 +0000 UTCDear Lovely Sarah, Would love to hear the Sarah Marshall treatment of the current attack on no fault divorce and the so-called "war on men".
Penelope Hays
2024-06-17 21:44:18 +0000 UTCListening to Immigration right now and my God, Sarah, this is radicalizing stuff. Alejandra is an astounding guest and I would be glad to listen to her on any topic at any time. God bless you both for world-dreaming us towards something better.
Elizabeth Gunn
2024-06-13 18:10:40 +0000 UTCI think there is a large and generally unspoken presence of the evangelical church in Britney's conservatorship. Evangelicals believe that women belong to their fathers unless they are married, and then they belong to their husbands.
Ali
2024-06-12 17:49:12 +0000 UTCOmg as I was reading your comment Eve said it! Timing was perfect!
SuchaHotMetz
2024-06-12 17:42:00 +0000 UTCEve Lindley can be my conservator at any time--I feel like that would have my life work a lot better.
MHW
2024-06-10 17:43:17 +0000 UTCCould celebrity be analogous? A way to control rich women?
Leah Anderson
2024-06-09 14:56:25 +0000 UTCI just visited a 13th century monastery in Portugal where people gave their daughters in religious/political sacrifice (and handily avoided paying their dowry)
Leah Anderson
2024-06-09 14:55:01 +0000 UTCAll of this is making just appreciate and love Doja cat more.
Leandra J
2024-06-06 21:33:44 +0000 UTCWhen you started talking about her mental hospital stay and her friend in there with the cigarettes, i started tearing up. You never forget those girls you meet in there. 💕
Kiki
2024-06-06 03:52:32 +0000 UTCThanks for bringing this up, we just fixed it!
You're Wrong About
2024-06-05 20:10:13 +0000 UTCThanks! We just uploaded new audio. Not negative at all!
You're Wrong About
2024-06-05 20:09:45 +0000 UTCAGREED! It is ON SIGHT for her entire family and all of those lawyers. I hope she has some legal recompense at some point because it is insane to me that this was allowed to happen without any consequences for these monsters.
Jennifer B
2024-06-05 17:35:33 +0000 UTCI really hope that Britney has a good therapist and some real friends! That amount of isolation and for so long is heartbreaking and I can’t even imagine the impact on her. I agree with Sarah and Eve that I just want to feed Brit some cheeseburgers and take her to go see any movie she wants!
Jennifer B
2024-06-05 17:34:36 +0000 UTCEve's "surprise" killed me
Eleanor
2024-06-05 16:46:48 +0000 UTCSomething is weird w my audio on this episode only. Very quiet.
Aisling O'Hara Hall
2024-06-04 03:44:54 +0000 UTCThank you Eve and Sarah! What a wonderful, lovely series. We are all so grateful for your thoughtful insights and beautiful storytelling
Adriana Rydng
2024-06-04 02:05:30 +0000 UTCI went to the circus tour! Britney was incredible, the circus performers were incredible, and the pussycat dolls opened for her! I was 14 and definitely felt like it was her ‘comeback’ after everything that happened in 2008.
Erin Johnson
2024-06-03 20:52:37 +0000 UTCCongratulations 👏🏼🎉
Lizz
2024-06-03 18:23:46 +0000 UTCLove this!!! Any way you could re-mixdown the audio with the loudness higher and the music quieter? I'm unable to listen to it for long because I have to have the sound turned up so high and then ready to turn it back down. Looking at the comments, I'm not the only one with this issue, so I hope you'll be able to correct it! (honestly if you send me the session file from your DAW I could fix it for you if time is an issue! <3)
Anne Baird
2024-06-03 13:33:49 +0000 UTCI have absolutely loved this series. I love Eve and Sarah and Britney 💗 This series also made me super sad though, its both the story of a unique experience that many of us can't relate to as we are not pop stars with the world watching, but also the story of an experience that so many women and afab people can relate to. Being perceived every day by men who shape you with their own desires and selfish needs, having your power diminished in a million ways every day by the patriarchy and also just living through girlhood and only in your later life having the information and frameworks to understand the ways in which you have been impacted and your opportunities for taking some power back. I think for Britney it was a slow realisation through growing up and having access to ideas, having a supportive fan base who rallied for her! For me it was people like Sarah and Eve and listening to conversations that helped me understand my life experiences in context. Its a long journey to empowerment but I am so greatful for all the women/femmes in this world and the love and support we can share with each other 💕
sarah clark
2024-06-03 07:45:38 +0000 UTCI had this issue, and I’m glad it’s not just me! I had to max it out to hear, and during the opening, I could barely hear Sarah over the music, which was at a normal volume.
Abigail Gautreau
2024-06-02 22:29:06 +0000 UTCWhen I listened to the first half, it was fine. When I came back just now, it's really quiet!
Christina Manero
2024-06-02 19:43:20 +0000 UTCYes same!
Rosey
2024-06-02 19:05:02 +0000 UTCWHHHHOOOOOOOOOO IIIISSSSSSS IIIIIIITTTTTTT?!?!?
Hope Maze
2024-06-02 15:51:41 +0000 UTCI don’t understand why multiple heads didn’t roll over this. The attorneys involved should have been sanctioned if not disbarred. This adult woman was being forced to work for someone else’s benefit (God knows not her own). There’s a word for that. On a more positive note re late-bloomers and next acts, I’m marrying for the first (and, hopefully, last) time at the end of this summer at the age of 57. I plan to live and learn for as long as I’m breathing and spend as much time as I can listening to brilliant and insightful people younger than me. Which is why I’m here. Hopefully, after taking some time to heal, Britney can hit her stride in the coming years, whatever that looks like for her.
Dorothy B
2024-06-02 15:21:03 +0000 UTC1:27:00 I've been on lithium and been in several psych inpatient stays, weekly blood testing is fairly routine in my experience. Psych meds can do a number on you even at routine dosages, and lithium in particular needs to be monitored to make sure it isn't accumulating in the blood over time Though in outpatient, I was having my lithium checked monthly, or 2 weeks after a dose change. Inpatient dose changes were definitely more aggressive. I'm not on lithium anymore, now another mood stabilizer, but I still get my blood checked every 3 months or so to check tabs on my liver and kidneys. Also, y'know, non-Rx drug testing...
Kayn Lawson
2024-06-02 12:54:31 +0000 UTCLoved the episode (as alwaaaays)! I read the book, but Eve did a great job of contextualising everything and giving a lot of extra information (looooove the Britney legends/theories) and I dieeed when they were discussing Beyoncé and Britney (cause Im a huuuuuuuuuuuuge fan of both!). And I think it is very interesting that Beyoncé was able to get a year off as at that time HER FATHER was also her manager (and I think she fired him after the year off)!
AlettaSchuurman
2024-06-02 07:46:15 +0000 UTCYeah, it's kinda quiet.
Rena Yvonne
2024-06-02 03:55:05 +0000 UTCIs Eve's audio glitchy for anyone else? Or just me?
Mary Frances Striby Chang
2024-06-02 00:54:33 +0000 UTCglad to know it's not just me!
Heidi
2024-06-01 21:35:58 +0000 UTCIt would do numbers on tik tok
Ella Oprandy
2024-06-01 20:18:59 +0000 UTCThank you!!! I needed this today lol ✨
Abby LaMarre
2024-06-01 17:57:42 +0000 UTCSomeone needs to sample Eve saying "Let's get straight to fucking" in a song
Fred Maxon
2024-06-01 17:37:06 +0000 UTCYes! I had to turn the volume almost all the way up in my car to hear them speak at a normal volume, then my text alert sound was so loud it almost blew my eardrums out. I hope this won't be a reccuring problem.
Paul
2024-06-01 09:53:15 +0000 UTCI knew the conservatorship was abusive, but it was so much worse than I realized. How terrible to have family steal your autonomy that way.
Laura Belin
2024-06-01 06:25:40 +0000 UTCAnyone else have to turn the volume WAY up to hear them speak? I haven't had that problem before
Paul
2024-06-01 04:50:07 +0000 UTCI feel overwhelmed at at having new maintenance phase, you are good, and you’re wrong about bonus episodes on the same day 😍
Leann
2024-06-01 02:34:51 +0000 UTCI could listen to y'all talking about Brittney Spears together for a VERY long time without even getting slightly sick of it.
Heidi Webster
2024-06-01 02:29:41 +0000 UTCThe way Eve talks....I could just fall the fuck in love with her
Leanna Bonafini
2024-06-01 01:48:51 +0000 UTCEve Lindley is a national treasure. More please!
Jacquelyn Fradette
2024-06-01 01:26:05 +0000 UTCYeah the dialogue is super quiet and then the music was loud like a jump scare 😱
Lauren
2024-06-01 00:22:12 +0000 UTCThe intro music was much louder than the dialogue, so guessing something is off. But with headphones it was 👍
Chrass
2024-05-31 23:29:19 +0000 UTCNot to be a negative nancy but is this episode super quiet for anyone else? Trying to play it out of my phone while I clean and I feel like I can barely hear it :( Genuinely wondering if it's just me.
Annabel Loftin
2024-05-31 23:23:54 +0000 UTCI am at a time in my life where I needed to hear a trusted source remind me it ain't over and I can still change. So thank you for being there with good words right on time. You helped a sad heart today. ❤️
Stacy Magerkurth
2024-05-31 22:40:10 +0000 UTCI think they’re used to monitor liver function
Ariel
2024-05-31 22:27:21 +0000 UTCLike if they agree to a blood test?
Abi Kleinsmith
2024-05-31 21:57:35 +0000 UTCThis series has been so fantastic. I suspect the blood tests were to find out who was malleable/sycophantic enough to not alert her to her rights.
Cheryl Rosbak
2024-05-31 21:31:11 +0000 UTCI’ll never forget when my mom saw Britney in vegas, it must have been in 2013 or 2014, i was around 15 and i remember my mom saying “she totally sucked. she had no energy and the performance was lifeless, she was awful” and i remember having such an intense reaction of sorrow hearing my mom be so cruel to britney bc she felt like she didn’t get her money’s worth of britney the product. even before knowing anything abt the conservatorship i still felt in my bones that something was wrong and hearing my mom talk abt britney that way just broke my heart 😭
Kristen Werner
2024-05-31 21:30:12 +0000 UTCMy mom and I had a whole convo on how Jamie Spears was shown how you love women, and what a sad way to continue the cycle
Abi Kleinsmith
2024-05-31 20:59:20 +0000 UTCI immediately looked up “Passenger” when it was mentioned. That definitely does not sound like real Britney 😳
Jen Leedom
2024-05-31 20:40:24 +0000 UTCso extremely Pittsburgh that Sarah’s first point of comparison for the popstar industrial complex was US Steel 😂
Phoebe
2024-05-31 20:23:34 +0000 UTCI’ve been waiting with baited breasts!!!! ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
Viva
2024-05-31 19:52:46 +0000 UTCCame here to say that!!! 💜
Lita R
2024-05-31 19:47:03 +0000 UTCcan't wait! I didn't know hardly anything about Britney before this series. now I feel like a Britney expert 😎
DanLu
2024-05-31 19:19:20 +0000 UTCRight as I’m putting my pup’s harness on for a nice long hike. Thank you for your service 🙏
Chelsea
2024-05-31 19:15:08 +0000 UTCGreat Blackadder reference 👌
laurence m
2024-05-31 19:11:36 +0000 UTCJust in time for an hour-long drive. Woo hoo!
Paula Kiger
2024-05-31 19:11:36 +0000 UTCYay!!!
Emory Murphy
2024-05-31 19:11:19 +0000 UTC
