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Speaker 2: Quick heads up. This episode of The Quickie contains discussion

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Speaker 2: of sexual assault. Take care when listening. Hey, I'm Taylor Strado.

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Speaker 2: This is Mumma Mer's twice daily news podcast, The Quickie.

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Speaker 2: As Shawn Didy Combs faces a federal trial in New York,

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Speaker 2: his son is now dealing with confronting allegations.

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Speaker 3: Of his own.

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Speaker 2: Plus why are grown adults suddenly so obsessed with toothy

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Speaker 2: little monsters called La booboos? Before we get there, here's

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Speaker 2: Claire Murphy with the latest from The Quickie newsroom for Wednesday,

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Speaker 2: May twenty one.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Taylor. After a decade long partnership, the Coalition is

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Speaker 1: no more, with National's leader David little Brown yesterday announcing

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Speaker 1: the National split with the Liberals.

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Speaker 4: We're making a principal position about not what we're prepared

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Speaker 4: to give up on, but to build on what we

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Speaker 1: The split came after the Liberals refused to agree to

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Speaker 1: the National's demand to keep their nuclear power policy, to

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Speaker 1: create a twenty billion dollar Regional Future Fund, break up

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Speaker 1: the monopoly held by the major supermarkets, and create a

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Speaker 1: minimum standard for regional mobile and internet access. National Senator

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Speaker 1: Bridget mackenzie said in yesterday's press conference alongside Little Proud

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Speaker 1: that a reasonable request was put to a trusted partner

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Speaker 1: and it was refused. However, there were reports that there

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Speaker 1: that press conference, that members of the Shadow Cabinet could

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Speaker 1: be allowed to cross the floor to vote against the

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Speaker 1: Liberals if required. While the Nationals seem to be very

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Speaker 1: clear on what policy they stand for, many experts see

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Speaker 1: this partnership break as the opportunity for the Liberals to

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Speaker 1: again discover who they really are, Susan Lee saying every

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Speaker 1: the reason for their loss of inner city voters, while

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Speaker 1: former Nationals leader Barnaby Joyce says regional voters have vastly

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Speaker 1: after initially planning to include Nationals MPs in the mix.

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Speaker 1: Those Nationals MPs who step away from shadow Cabinet will

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Speaker 1: lose their twenty to twenty five percent loading on their

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Speaker 1: the future unless they re sign the coalition agreement. This

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Speaker 1: isn't the first time the partnership between the Liberals and

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Speaker 1: the Nationals has been called off. They didn't sign an

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Speaker 1: agreement after the campaign for Queensland premiers so Jobiaki Pitersen

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Speaker 1: have at times been stronger for it. There are calls

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Speaker 1: This would mean it would stop competition in some federal

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Speaker 1: Lee has said that the door to be partners again

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Speaker 1: Sean Diddy Combs, a's former assistant, has taken to the

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Speaker 1: in this instance. Weinstein has been charged with raping Man

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Speaker 1: on another occasion in twenty thirteen in New York, and

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Speaker 1: Singer Chris Brown will again apply for bail after a

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Speaker 1: courting the UK reminded him in custody over a serious

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Speaker 1: at a hotel in Manchester last week after returning to

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Speaker 1: England ahead of his planned world tour set to start

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Speaker 1: in the Netherlands next month. A judge had previously refused

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Speaker 3: Thanks Clerk. Next. More news from Ditty's trial we already know.

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Speaker 2: The first week of Ditty's trial wrapped up with key

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Speaker 2: testimony from his former partner, Cassie Venturer, when she took

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Speaker 2: the stand. As a reminder, Combs is facing charges of

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Speaker 2: to all of these charges. During the first week of

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Speaker 2: his trial, we've heard harrowing testimony from Cassi Venturer as

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Speaker 2: COM's legal team began their cross examination, attempting to discredit

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Speaker 2: her testimony and paint the relationship as consensual. The defense

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Speaker 2: frea coughs that we have heard so much about were

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Speaker 2: part of a mutually agreed lifestyle rather than forced encounters.

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Speaker 2: As the trial continues, another alleged victim has come forward.

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Speaker 2: A woman identified as Jane Doe has followed a lawsuit

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Speaker 2: claiming Combs assaulted her in July two thousand and one.

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Speaker 2: But that's not the only legal battle the Combs family

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Speaker 2: is currently facing. Ditty's eldest son, Christian King Colmes, is

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Speaker 2: now demanding a jury trial after he was being accused

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Speaker 2: sec Here's the new details and updates you need to know.

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Speaker 3: Grace o'marchi, a former yacht.

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Speaker 2: Stewardess, claims she was working on a yacht leased by

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Speaker 2: the Combs family in December twenty twenty two when she

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Speaker 2: was allegedly assaulted by Christian.

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Speaker 3: The lawsuit alleges what.

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Speaker 2: Was sold as a wholesome family excursion quickly turned into

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Speaker 2: a hedonistic environment. O'marchi claims Christian became a aggressive, forcing

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Speaker 2: her to drink tequila she suspected was spiked, before allegedly

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Speaker 2: The reason we know this is happening and involves both

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Speaker 2: Diddy and his twenty seven year old son is because

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Speaker 2: they were named in a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles

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Speaker 2: both Diddy and Christian aren't looking to settle their lawsuit

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Speaker 2: anytime soon. According to a document dated May eight, they're

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Speaker 2: both demanding a jury trial for all the claims being

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Speaker 2: Aaron Dyer, previously told CNN they believe the lawsuit is

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Speaker 2: based on manufactured lies and irrelevant facts, and that they

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Speaker 2: plan to get the claim thrown now for now, though

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Speaker 2: Dinny's New York trial continues. If you or someone you

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Speaker 2: know needs to speak to an expert, one eight hundred

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Speaker 2: RESPECT is the National Domestic Family and Sexual Violence and

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Speaker 2: Counseling Service. You can contact them on one eight hundred

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Speaker 2: seven three seven seven three to two. If you've known

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Speaker 2: a strange little creatures dangling from designer handbags lately, we're

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Speaker 2: not alone.

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Speaker 3: These peculiar plush.

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Speaker 2: Monsters are called La boo boos, and they've become the

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Speaker 5: Okay, we just got La booboos at Chadston and we're

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Speaker 5: gonna open it and so what we have?

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Speaker 3: So these are all the characters.

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Speaker 5: I'm just I know I'm going to get the green.

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Speaker 3: You have to say which one you're want?

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Speaker 5: Oh, well, I want the pinks to.

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Speaker 6: Yok Because maybe you believe that these little booboo perse

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Speaker 6: pals are incredibly hard to find, So would you believe

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Speaker 6: my luck when I went into Popmark and they happen

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Speaker 6: to have them for sale right there on the counter.

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Speaker 6: So I had to buy one because they're all over

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Speaker 6: my few page long awaited La Booboo and seeing I

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Speaker 6: am so so so excited.

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Speaker 3: I finally got my labooon outfit.

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Speaker 2: It's taken like more than a month for it to come,

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Speaker 2: but I can't wait to dress my La booboo. Designed

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Speaker 2: by Hong Kong artists Cassing Lung, these bewildering trinkets sport

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Speaker 2: dentist into a meltdown. They've been spotted on everyone from

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Speaker 2: Rihanna to do a Leaper, and the difficulty in obtaining

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Speaker 2: them only adds to their status. But laboobos are the

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Speaker 2: only collectibles causing a stir sunny angels. Those unashamably new

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Speaker 2: dolls with cherubic features have captured the hearts of everyone

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Speaker 2: from Bellahadid to Victoria Beckham and gen Z. The World's over.

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Speaker 2: But what's with this collecting phenomenon? Mumma mes Chelsea Hoy

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Speaker 2: what actually is a la boo boo?

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Speaker 5: I feel like there's a few things. They are kind

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Speaker 5: like there's a lot of scarcity around the booth. So

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Speaker 5: basically they're sold by the store called PopMart, and they

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Speaker 3: Is very hard.

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Speaker 5: So I feel like that adds to the mystique of them,

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Speaker 5: we're all kind of obsessed with trinkets and collectibles as

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Speaker 2: I've seen videos online of people like queuing up through

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Speaker 3: Like a restock day.

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Speaker 2: Is there that element of the exclusivity part of it?

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Speaker 2: Is that why they're so popular because not everybody can

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think that's part of it. And I think

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Speaker 5: People actually buy like multiple boxes and get overlaps just

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Speaker 3: I feel like as well.

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Speaker 2: The other element of this is that when you buy one,

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Speaker 5: I feel like there's a real sense of community around

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Speaker 3: Isn't like the first example of this.

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Speaker 2: We've talked about Sunny Angels, where another big collectable that

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Speaker 3: Even the supermarket.

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Speaker 5: I want to say, right now, we're living through a

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Speaker 5: People are just looking for yeah, little joys and the

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Speaker 2: Okay, Finally, Chelsea, I consider you my Laboo expert, because

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Speaker 2: I've got no concept when it comes to this stuff.

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Speaker 2: Is this a passing trend or are these little monster

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Speaker 5: As a Labooboo owner myself, I would love to see

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Speaker 5: But I do think there are so many kind of

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Speaker 5: They're really really cute, and they're made by a Taiwanese designer.

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Speaker 5: It's not really trend based, so I feel like that's

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Speaker 2: Thanks for taking some time to feed your mind with

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Speaker 2: us today. The quickie is produced by me Taylor Strano,

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Speaker 2: and Claire Murphy, with audio production by Tom Lyon.