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Speaker 1: Either, folks, it is Friday, June twentieth, and week six

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Speaker 1: is in the books. We have learned that next week

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Speaker 1: should be the final week of testimony in the Ditty trial.

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Speaker 1: Welcome down to this bonus episode of Amy and TJ roolps.

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Speaker 1: I say, a bonus episode. This is not one we

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Speaker 1: were planning to do. But there were some remarkable developments

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Speaker 1: that happened essentially after the testimony ended, and I'm talking

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Speaker 1: and next week should be the final week of testimony

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Speaker 1: in the Ditty trial.

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Speaker 2: Yes, so we learned that the prosecution is most likely

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Speaker 2: going to rest on Monday, but most notably, the defense

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Speaker 2: basically hinted that its case is going to be quicker

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Speaker 2: than we thought. We at first thought it might be

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Speaker 2: a couple of weeks.

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Speaker 1: Yep was the original Yep.

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Speaker 2: Then we heard maybe two to five days.

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Speaker 1: That's what they've been saying this week, And now.

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Speaker 2: We're hearing that it might just be a day a

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Speaker 2: this case might get this case.

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Speaker 3: Like that, that's it.

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Speaker 2: They're going to start deliberating in less than a week.

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Speaker 1: Okay, And what wowed me? Okay, the schedule wows me

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Speaker 1: just to think, Wow, we've gone through all this and

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Speaker 2: Do you think that is posturing in any way too

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Speaker 1: Oh, we're going to go back to then Okay.

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Speaker 2: Then you go ahead and make a dramatic shift after

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Speaker 1: But you're going back to the beginning and thinking saying

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Speaker 1: Legendary legal names, familiar legendary legal names. Yes, you are correct. Okay,

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Speaker 1: Do you posture in this way? Do attorneys ever roll

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Speaker 1: But they keep adjusting. We don't have an official witness

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Speaker 2: I'm curious their strategy in creating those expectations. They're so

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Speaker 2: But but once you set those expectations like two days max,

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Speaker 1: And how long are jury instructions? Don't can't they take

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Speaker 3: That's June thirtieth, Dane thirtieth.

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Speaker 1: They start off full week of deliberations. You better believe

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Speaker 1: Correct now clockwise? Do you think it works better for

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Speaker 2: No, he did not want to testify against his former boss.

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Speaker 2: And even when he was arrested caught with cocaine in

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Speaker 2: He did not say this isn't mine, this is my boss's. Now,

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Speaker 2: so he said he didn't do any of that for

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Speaker 3: When he was testifying.

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Speaker 2: You know, this isn't something he chose to do, wanted

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Speaker 3: He had no reason to want.

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Speaker 1: asked directly how he felt about Sean Diddy Combs today,

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Speaker 1: Brendan Paul do you feel about Sean Diddy Combs today?

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Speaker 2: So this was interesting by the folks who were there

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Speaker 2: And everything he testified to beforehand he was it just look,

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Speaker 3: It off of that answer.

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Speaker 2: And to me, that was that moment where he said

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Speaker 1: That's we should all take that out of this. We

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Speaker 1: This is right. And I'm always reminded because we've talked

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Speaker 1: So when you label somebody as something other than a

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Speaker 1: see it. But he was a kid. Imagine being twenty

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Speaker 1: it just it humanizes so much of the testimony makes

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Speaker 1: I think this kid and a lot of yes, he's

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Speaker 2: Twenty six, twenty six December, he'll be twenty.

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Speaker 1: Second, he's still a kid.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And so we just.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. He was humanized in a way for me,

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Speaker 1: and I think that final answer was humanized him greatly.

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Speaker 2: Look, I think we are watching this trial, a lot

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Speaker 2: of us are continually shocked and surprised at how some

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Speaker 3: Who are the victims, who are complicit?

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Speaker 2: Who are the evildoers?

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Speaker 1: It's hard to know the willing participants, right, There's a

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Speaker 3: It is.

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Speaker 2: It is an eye opening experience. But I do hope

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Speaker 2: and I think we both hope as we continue to

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Speaker 2: just gives people a little bit of space and a

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Speaker 3: Abused.

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Speaker 2: It's there are so many questions, and we're going to

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Speaker 2: continue to have these conversations about different industries, and you

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Speaker 2: know this has been all kind of blown open over

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Speaker 2: the last several years and all you.

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Speaker 1: Just said, Brendan Paul summed it up today. Final answer.

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Speaker 2: It's complicated, it really is.

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Speaker 1: It is. So another day, six six weeks of testimony

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Speaker 1: confidently right will be the final week of testimony.

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Speaker 2: I think by all accounts yes, in.

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Speaker 1: The Diddy trial, and this jury could be deliberating by

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Speaker 1: and giving you those updates. Again, thank you. We appreciate

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Speaker 1: you going along on this journey with us. We have

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Speaker 1: learned a lot as we report a lot about this case.

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Speaker 1: But folks, thank you as always continue to follow us

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Speaker 1: because obviously it's a it's a Friday. We didn't plan

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Speaker 2: Yes, but we're always here and we're always checking in,

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Speaker 2: So thank you for checking in with us, and have

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Speaker 2: a great weekend.

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Speaker 1: Chech