Daisy Phelps, our resident Swifty and pop culture expert, and Andrew Neff, who always has a contrarian take, join host Charlie Kirk on this week's episode of The Pop Culture Power Hour. They discuss Jay-Z, Diddy, and LeBron James, as well as the Duke lacrosse scandal, Joe Burrow's cheating accusation, and more.
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00:02:58.000I don't feel as obligated to give her credit, but I will say, I actually had the same instinct.
00:03:05.000I feel like the blowback on Taylor Swift in 2020 was, I would say, pretty harsh from half the country, and therefore she wanted to find a way to sort of thread the needle, do what she felt like she'd check the box and move on.
00:03:25.000If anywhere, we're starting on the other pop culture icon, female singer, more with the Beyonce side, because some massive, massive, I wouldn't say revelations, but allegations have come out that Involving Jay-Z. Now, so we all know about what's going on with Puff Daddy.
00:04:53.000My only knowledge of Snoop Dogg is when he, like, came back for his, like, second or third career with Martha Stewart and now does all those, like, random collabs with her.
00:05:31.000Now, which is interesting because there's a lawyer named Tony Busby who's been on this show when he was defending Ken Paxton from impeachment in Texas.
00:05:42.000He is now representing many of these accusers and he sent a letter that I believe we have a copy of, 135. Actually, he sent a letter making these allegations and then Jay-Z replied back with this.
00:06:05.000To write this letter, you almost think someone, like, has to be innocent because it's gonna...
00:06:10.000Like, this is even worse if it comes out that this stuff is true and he wrote this entire letter.
00:06:15.000One weird thing I did find about this letter is that he writes that he is just a young man from the Bronx or from...
00:06:22.000From Brooklyn, from the project out of Brooklyn.
00:06:24.000Jay-Z's like almost 60. So I don't know why he's referring to himself as a young man.
00:06:29.000But basically, Diddy was already in this lawsuit from Busby with a 13-year-old girl who said she was raped in 2000 at an after party, a VMA after party.
00:06:42.000And there was a male celebrity and an unnamed female celebrity there.
00:06:46.000And then they named the male celebrity as Jay-Z, which Jay-Z and Beyonce...
00:08:27.000Well, so keep in mind, it is a lower burden of proof.
00:08:31.000And a lot of these cases, they are old and hearsay.
00:08:34.000And this will just be me controversial.
00:08:36.000These sorts of sordid cases, they do get a lot of their mileage out of just how incredibly scandalous it is.
00:08:43.000And let's be honest, a lot of the time, people are looking for a payout.
00:08:47.000They're looking for Yeah, like a settlement.
00:08:50.000Yeah, they're looking for a settlement.
00:08:51.000And that doesn't necessarily mean it didn't happen, but I think there are certainly plenty of cases where they play up minor behavior to make it seem much more severe, or they invent stuff out of whole cloth.
00:09:04.000And I'm just going to be controversial and say I think people have learned the script at this point where if you come forward at the right time, because he's already someone who's vulnerable because the Diddy thing is happening, there's a bit of a feeding frenzy, so...
00:09:45.000There's a lot that goes into the beyonds.
00:09:46.000I mean, Diddy's stuff is very provable.
00:09:49.000Everyone knows he's a horrible person, so I think it does play into the whole Me Too thing.
00:09:54.000There's an element of a girl can say this, and a Jay-Z who has a net worth of $2.5 billion or something like that could be like, okay, I'll give you a million dollars.
00:10:03.000That's without even other possibilities.
00:10:09.000It didn't even end up getting filed, but they were privately accused by someone, and it seemed like there were all these signs, oh, this could be real, this person is a respected member of the community.
00:10:21.000And it just turned out the person had mental problems, and they were just targeting a famous person.
00:10:30.000I think we had that guy on the show, but we've seen this ruin people's lives.
00:10:34.000Jay-Z wouldn't have as big of an impact as it would have on a C-list celebrity.
00:10:42.000I feel like there's equal opportunity.
00:10:44.000The most interesting aspect of this that we haven't hit on yet is it's caused people to finally ask, wait, how did Jay-Z actually meet Beyonce?
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00:12:35.000When Diddy got arrested, it started this whole firestorm on the internet, TikTok, X, Instagram, that basically people on the internet are believing that Jay-Z and Beyonce have killed people.
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00:15:47.000But it got resurfaced because after all these Beyonce conspiracy theories started happening, everyone was like, wait, maybe Kanye West was trying to protect Taylor Swift.
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00:19:21.000So all of this kind of overlaps with the Jay-Z Diddy scandal that's going on.
00:19:29.000The fact that Jay-Z just got looped into this, and is there going to be something with LeBron?
00:19:34.000Now, this is all internet rumor, obviously unsubstantiated.
00:19:37.000We have no reason to believe this is true, but I will say there is this one clip that is circulating.
00:19:44.000Remember, the freak offs are the big story with Diddy and all of the mishaps that happened there, the criminality, allegations of rape.
00:19:52.000Let's go ahead and play cut 124. This is a, a, from a sort of like a, I guess it was an Instagram stream, Daisy, maybe you know, um, where, you know, LeBron joined Diddy and he's got, Diddy's got his friends or maybe even his son behind him and they're, they're talking about Diddy's parties, 124. Hey, everybody know, ain't no party like a Diddy party, so.
00:20:40.000I think LeBron, the thing about LeBron, like, super villainous stuff with LeBron is LeBron is sort of, like, when he's annoying, it's almost in this, like, childish way, if that makes any sense.
00:20:53.000One thing that never got investigated, at the peak of the...
00:22:11.000I think if we do end up getting, like, lists of names from these Diddy parties as people talk about it, I think there's probably a lot of people that were just...
00:22:19.000Happened to be invited, happened to be there.
00:22:21.000And I think they were more likely they were like secondary parties happening like downstairs, outside, who knows where, where the real shady stuff went down.
00:22:31.000And they were probably like, are you good?
00:22:37.000How many people would just get invited to a billionaire rapper's party and they're like, yeah, he's a billionaire rapper, I'm going to go.
00:22:42.000And then they go and they're like, that was kind of weird.
00:22:45.000I'm sure that there are a lot of people that are probably really scared right now because they might be in photographs or someone might mention them that they were at a ditty party and they're just like normal people that were there.
00:22:55.000I think that a lot of times people can get really riled up about the power ring of Hollywood.
00:23:02.000I do think there are normal people in Hollywood still.
00:23:06.000But there also might be something crazy happening.
00:24:23.000The downside here is some organized burglars, you know, they knew Joe Burrow was going to be on Monday Night Football, so they went and they burgled his house...
00:24:33.000on you know while he was at the stadium and it turns out the house was not empty and i had never heard of the person who was there but daisy had heard of the person who was there so daisy how about you explain what they found there so olivia ponton she is a she's a sports illustrated model and influencer tiktoker and she's the one
00:24:55.000So the story goes that she got to Joe Burrow's house and she called her mom and told her mom that someone robbed his house and that there was a broken window and a bunch of stuff was taken and her mom called the police and said, "My daughter Olivia Ponton is at Joe Burrow's house.
00:25:13.000She didn't want to call it in." Olivia ends up calling the police and the police ask her why she's there and she says that she is an employee of Joe Burrow's.
00:25:20.000Which makes no sense because she's extremely famous.
00:25:28.000She lives in LA. Joe Burrow lives in Cleveland.
00:25:32.000Also, at what point when you're playing Monday Night Football, would your employee just be at your house unless they're your housekeeper or something?
00:25:39.000The police said she was able to give a detailed description of everything that was missing in the house.
00:25:45.000Where this gets even more interesting is that Joe Burrow has had a longtime girlfriend who's a normal girl he met.
00:27:17.000I'm just going to come out and say it.
00:27:19.000It's probably going to be more common now because we have let organized burglary rings into the United States under Joe Biden's illustrious border policies.
00:27:45.000Yeah, there are just professional rings at this.
00:27:48.000And that's a much bigger problem in Latin America.
00:27:50.000In Latin America, rich people will have family members kidnapped for ransom.
00:27:55.000Kidnapping people for ransom is a TV show plot here.
00:27:59.000But it happens in other countries quite often.
00:28:01.000Well, I mean, it is a very interesting thing that these are some of the most famous people in the world, and their schedules are just, like, fully on blast.
00:28:32.000I don't know if Olivia Ponton is moonlighting as a housekeeper.
00:28:36.000But maybe we need to pay for people to have Instagram housekeepers because that's how they were able to catch it and know what was going on.
00:28:43.000So this would be like a security issue.
00:28:54.000I think the conclusion as of right now is that if you're an NFL player, watch out for your house and also don't cheat on your girlfriends or your wives.
00:29:03.000Then you won't have these kinds of problems.
00:29:04.000But if he hadn't been cheating, no one would have caught the burglary at the time.
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00:30:31.000Allfamilypharma.com, promo code KIRK. All right, so I was a little, you know, unsure of where we were going to go with this last and final segment, but there are two things Stories that actually kind of work together.
00:31:23.000And I betrayed the trust of a lot of other people who believed in me and made up a story that wasn't true because I wanted validation from people and not from God.
00:32:32.000It's such a perfect microcosm of so many of the forces we would see in the coming years, that people assumed these guys were guilty because, basically, they looked a certain way.
00:32:43.000They were just like, everyone knows that these white frat bros just Are raping people constantly.
00:32:49.000And that was somehow considered a valid argument.
00:32:52.000Blake, this also had legislative and bureaucratic agencies got involved and they started changing the way universities had to deal with these sexual assault allegations nationwide.
00:33:08.000Yeah, so, I mean, we're going to have to get rid of this with the new Trump administration because the Obama administration came up with these rules where they said to adhere to Title IX, you actually have to have kangaroo courts, like your threshold for considering someone guilty of or responsible for sexual assault.
00:33:26.000It has to just be preponderance of the evidence, which is you have to evaluate as 50% likely or more.
00:33:33.000And they would say, yeah, you actually have to have hearings that don't follow, you know, you don't have to confront your accusers.
00:33:40.000You don't even necessarily get to know who your accusers are.
00:33:44.000And they would say, you have to do this, or you violate Title IX. And Trump got rid of that in his first term.
00:33:49.000And then Biden, there were so many things going bad with Biden that didn't get a lot of attention, but he brought that back and made it worse.
00:33:56.000And we need to throw that out immediately and try to give that teeth, because...
00:34:02.000It's almost forgotten now, but a lot of the 2010s, you have these shrill claims.
00:34:34.000Oh, I was just going to say, it also, like, we've created this problem for ourselves where now women are actually raped or, like, when anyone is sexually assaulted.
00:34:43.000It immediately makes you be like, wait, are you telling the truth?
00:34:47.000Because we wanted to do this whole believe women, believe women, but then we've seen multiple cases where women are not telling the truth.
00:34:52.000So it makes it harder to believe people that are actually telling the truth, and it's sad.
00:34:58.000Well, everything that the left does, and they sort of They sort of put out into the universe as their source of compassion, that they're the nice people and that conservatives are bad, ultimately has this boomerang effect, this backfire effect.
00:35:13.000Me Too had this backfire effect, where now we just sort of assume that many I don't know if this was a pop culture topic
00:35:44.000or not, but it certainly, I think, was worth covering.
00:35:47.000Thanks so much for listening, everybody.