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Too Much to Lose (Lil Durk Trial and Diddy's Birthday) · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 2: So behind the scenes of The Grind today, how am
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  Speaker 2: I feeling? Today I'm feeling a bit more rested. I
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  Speaker 2: think this week has been a bit of a struggle.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody around me right now is sick. And I don't
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  Speaker 2: know what it is about it and or why. I'm
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  Speaker 2: just going to chalk it up to the fact that
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  Speaker 2: the season has been changing for like the last month.
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  Speaker 2: And in October, we're getting 75 degree days. But at
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  Speaker 2: on other days. But yeah, everybody around me is sick.
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  Speaker 2: So I had a little snuffle snuffle. I've been doing
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  Speaker 2: these last two weeks, all this ripping and running from
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  Speaker 2: the live show we did in Philly to the election
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  Speaker 2: night coverage that we did to back at the Breakfast
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  Speaker 2: Club and back here on the podcast. So this is
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  Speaker 2: with Lauren La Rosa. Feeling not all the way up
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  Speaker 2: to par. But yesterday, I got some rest. I went home.
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  Speaker 1: I went to sleep pretty early. I felt really....
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  Speaker 2: Irresponsible this morning when i woke up because i got
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  Speaker 2: so much sleep i'll explain because i went to bed
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  Speaker 2: way earlier than i typically do i wasn't fully like
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  Speaker 2: i hadn't like got through my notes or anything like
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  Speaker 2: that um for the run of show for the breakfast
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  Speaker 2: club so i felt a bit irresponsible but lord did
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  Speaker 2: i feel good still do i am looking forward to
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  Speaker 2: going back to bed already like i just am i've
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  Speaker 2: literally just been scheduling these days in these moments and
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  Speaker 2: these times where i can rest in between things because
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  Speaker 2: it is important and ain't nobody gonna tell me no
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  Speaker 2: different so that is that's where i'm at with it
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  Speaker 2: right now um we uh today are coming off of
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  Speaker 2: a i mean a lot of things happening over the
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  Speaker 2: weekend the election coverage is still you know a big
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  Speaker 2: conversation as well too so let's go into the latest
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  Speaker 2: there's a.
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  Speaker 1: Lot to talk about.
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  Speaker 2: Now, as we were, you know, voting and doing all
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  Speaker 2: the things we needed to get on out there and
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  Speaker 2: do if we voted blue in this year's election, there's
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  Speaker 2: a lot of other things that are still happening in
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  Speaker 2: the celebrity world as well, too. I know yesterday's episode,
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  Speaker 2: we talked a bit about the worlds combining. Today, I'm
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  Speaker 2: taking you guys back on over to the celebrity side
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  Speaker 2: of things, because while all of this was happening, music artists,
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  Speaker 2: rap star, Lil Durk, speaking of voting, and judges and
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  Speaker 2: AGs and local.
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  Speaker 1: You know, people who are making decisions.
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  Speaker 2: He is up against a lot of his a lot
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  Speaker 2: of local law enforcement prosecutors, attorney generals, all the things
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  Speaker 2: over in L.A.
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  Speaker 1: Still.
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  Speaker 2: Now, we know that little Dirk was acquitted in the
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  Speaker 2: murder for hire trial that had to do with another
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  Speaker 2: music artist in the attempted killing of that artist.
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  Speaker 1: But he was acquitted. He was found not guilty on
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  Speaker 1: those charges.
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  Speaker 2: However, he, Dirk, is still behind bars awaiting trial for
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  Speaker 2: a separate recall case in L.A. Now, there was a
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  Speaker 2: bail package that was put together by his attorneys, which
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  Speaker 2: included the likes of Jay-Z, J. Cole, Roc Nation, Mike Rubin,
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  Speaker 2: who formerly was heading up the Sixers and does everything
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  Speaker 2: with the Fanatics and Fanatics Fest that is his company
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  Speaker 2: in reform.
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  Speaker 1: They all wrote letters for Dirk.
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  Speaker 2: And in those letters, they talked about Dirk and his
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  Speaker 2: character and who he is as a person and all
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  Speaker 2: these things. But a judge has not decided anything yet
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  Speaker 2: on whether or not he will be released on bail. Now,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people thought that this week was going
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  Speaker 2: to be the week that we found that out. So
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  Speaker 2: you got election results happening and people are like, yes,
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  Speaker 2: so excited to hear and see where things have left
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  Speaker 2: off with that.
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  Speaker 1: But then on the other side of.
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  Speaker 2: Things, you have people who have been awaiting to see
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  Speaker 2: whether or not this release, at least until his next
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  Speaker 2: trial will be happening. And as of right now, nothing
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  Speaker 2: has happened. And it's still being reviewed currently. But one
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  Speaker 2: of the conversations that have come out of the fact
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  Speaker 2: that a judge is still reviewing Dirk's submission for release
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  Speaker 2: on bail is a conversation about whether or not contraband
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  Speaker 2: and prison rules have been violated. So yesterday, prosecutors pushed
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  Speaker 2: back on Dirk's bail package that he put together. And
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  Speaker 2: Dirk's team is basically saying we'll put dang near everything
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  Speaker 2: on the line, everything from music royalties to touring and
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  Speaker 2: merch money to, you know, homes. He'll report to whoever
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  Speaker 2: he needs to report to. We just want to show
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  Speaker 2: that he's not a flight risk because in the beginning
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  Speaker 2: of all of this, they deemed him a flight risk
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  Speaker 2: and a.
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  Speaker 1: Danger as well. So he's fighting against all of that.
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  Speaker 2: Prosecutors are saying that Dirk used his celebrity or is
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  Speaker 2: using his celebrity to try and sway the people in
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  Speaker 2: the court who are supposed to be making these decisions. Now,
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  Speaker 2: at the same time, they're also saying that he violated
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  Speaker 2: prison rules, phone calls that were made that weren't supposed
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  Speaker 2: to be made and contraband. We have been reporting about
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  Speaker 2: and I've been reporting about these searches of Dirk's sale
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  Speaker 2: that had been happened, um, right. Reportedly his, his team
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  Speaker 2: is like his T his team is saying that his
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  Speaker 2: sale keeps getting rated. It's been rated three or four times.
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  Speaker 2: Each time that has happened, Dirk has asked why and
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  Speaker 2: requested to speak to a supervisor. And then he was
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  Speaker 2: thrown in the shoe or the hole or solitary confinement.
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  Speaker 2: Dirk side of things, including his, his family, uh, are
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  Speaker 2: saying that this is just a way for them to
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  Speaker 2: target and mistreat him as he is behind bars. Let's
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  Speaker 2: take a listen to Dirk's dad outside of the prison
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  Speaker 2: before the bail hearing that took place talking about this.
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  Speaker 3: Your son obviously put in solitary confinement. He's waiting for
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  Speaker 3: his trial. From what we heard, there was no reason
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  Speaker 3: to do it. What's what's the how's the family feel
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  Speaker 3: about the situation that he's in?
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  Speaker 4: You know, you know, Really harassment, moving up to this
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  Speaker 4: bar and hearing right now, that's all it is.
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  Speaker 3: Is it weighing on him? I know that could be
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  Speaker 3: really difficult, you know, just being alone like that.
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  Speaker 4: No, he's strong. He's focused right now. He knows what
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  Speaker 4: comes along with this. You know, at the winning, that's
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  Speaker 4: five not guilty birds. He knows what's coming along with it.
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  Speaker 4: So he's strong.
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  Speaker 3: He's focused.
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  Speaker 4: He's just looking for this day right here. And we
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  Speaker 4: pray that this day come out to be on our
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  Speaker 4: side today.
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  Speaker 3: This is a bond hearing.
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  Speaker 4: This could be a really big day.
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  Speaker 3: Hopefully we pray for your family and all that. But
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  Speaker 3: as far as talking to him, have you had a
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  Speaker 3: chance to speak to him or has he been in solitary?
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  Speaker 3: He's unable to communicate?
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 3: What's the deal?
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  Speaker 4: He ain't able to communicate while he's in solitary. But
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  Speaker 4: he's grounded in faith, brother. So, you know, he's strong.
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  Speaker 4: He built for this. His father's been through it. So
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  Speaker 4: just keep him in your prayers and make du'a for
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  Speaker 4: the dirt and inshallah he's returning to his family and
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  Speaker 4: do what he needs to do. All right, I'm done
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  Speaker 4: with that. Thank you. Any message to the fans?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Keep us in prayer.
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  Speaker 1: He was speaking to TMZ outside of the... courtroom in LA.
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  Speaker 2: Now, inside of the courtroom, prosecutors say not only were
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  Speaker 2: there phone calls that were made that weren't supposed to
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  Speaker 2: be made on Dirk's account, but also there was contraband,
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  Speaker 2: like an Apple Watch, for example, that was found to
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  Speaker 2: have been allegedly put in one of his body cavities.
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  Speaker 1: People were pointing to the buttocks.
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  Speaker 2: But it was supposed to have been put into a
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  Speaker 2: body cavity to hide once he, his different things had
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  Speaker 2: begun to be searched. Now, I spoke to Dirk's attorney
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  Speaker 2: on this and I asked them you know how y'all
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  Speaker 2: fighting back against this is it true is it not
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  Speaker 2: true what can I say when this is brought up
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  Speaker 2: I was told that his attorneys are not even taking
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  Speaker 2: that allegation serious it's an antiquated allegation that's a year
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  Speaker 2: old and they want people to focus on the fact
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  Speaker 2: that they did three times that they did a search
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  Speaker 2: three times in four days and when Dirk asked to
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  Speaker 2: speak to a supervisor he was thrown in the hole
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  Speaker 2: So I don't know whether or not an Apple Watch
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  Speaker 2: was put in Dirk's behind or not. But what I
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  Speaker 2: do know is that we don't have an answer on
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  Speaker 2: his bail hearing whatsoever. Now, I can't even kind of
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  Speaker 2: predict in this case at all, because I think this
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  Speaker 2: is one of those things where, I mean, he's been
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  Speaker 2: acquitted on a whole other trial on very serious allegations.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the mother of the.
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  Speaker 2: Person that was killed in that trial wrote a letter
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  Speaker 2: for dirk to be dismissed i think that there's a
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  Speaker 2: lot of things at play here and there's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of things on the table to be considered and it's
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  Speaker 2: a pretty good package that was put together his release
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  Speaker 2: does not mean it's all over though it just means
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  Speaker 2: that he is able to be home on restrictions until
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  Speaker 2: he goes back into court for a regal trial that
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  Speaker 2: he is awaiting If I'm Dirk, I just, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: if he does walk away from the second Rico, if
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  Speaker 2: I'm Dirk, you ain't got to ever worry about me
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  Speaker 2: even like running a red light.
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  Speaker 1: Speed and nothing.
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't want any more trouble with the law whatsoever, period.
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  Speaker 2: This has been an ongoing trial for some years now.
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  Speaker 2: He was locked up in October of 2024. It is
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  Speaker 2: now November of 2026. He was arrested by U.S. Marshals
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  Speaker 2: on the original murder for higher charges. That were tied
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  Speaker 2: to a fatal August 2022 shooting in L.A. And then
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  Speaker 2: he was acquitted of those charges on September 11th, 2026
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  Speaker 2: by a federal judge. He was acquitted of all five
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  Speaker 2: counts in the murder for hire trial. But even though
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  Speaker 2: he was acquitted, as I mentioned, he's remaining still locked
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  Speaker 2: up in L.A.
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  Speaker 1: Awaiting a RICO case. That is a lot of time.
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  Speaker 2: Away from your family, away from your children, away from,
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  Speaker 2: you know, figuring out ways to provide for them. And
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  Speaker 2: then while you're in there, there's all these battles and
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  Speaker 2: all these issues and different things that you are fighting,
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  Speaker 2: whether or not he's bringing it on himself. is to
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  Speaker 2: be determined by a judge. We don't know the result
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  Speaker 2: of the searches. Well, that's not true. We were told
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  Speaker 2: by his team that there was nothing found in these searches,
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  Speaker 2: but we don't know. We don't know all of what
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  Speaker 2: motivated the searches. We know some of the things that
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  Speaker 2: prosecutors are pointing to, but there's a lot of things
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  Speaker 2: to fill in here.
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  Speaker 1: But man, I don't know about y'all, but for me,
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  Speaker 1: I'm always wondering why artists.
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  Speaker 2: And people who build these big careers for themselves go
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  Speaker 2: anywhere near trouble. Like, you've worked so hard to get
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  Speaker 2: to where you are, to be able to put your
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  Speaker 2: people on, to be able to, you know, take care
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  Speaker 2: of your people, all these things. And this is the
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  Speaker 2: conversation that we end up having. And again, acquitted of
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  Speaker 2: some of the most serious charges that you can think of,
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  Speaker 2: a murder for hire trial. But there's another RICO that
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  Speaker 2: he is up against, which is also very serious charges.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see what happens. We'll keep you guys posted.
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  Speaker 2: His attorney actually, from what I'm understanding, they do believe
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  Speaker 2: that a decision will be made within the next week
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  Speaker 2: or so.
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  Speaker 1: So I'll be back here when that's decided.
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  Speaker 2: Now, in other news, so Diddy just celebrated his 57th
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  Speaker 2: birthday behind bars, speaking of trouble being hard to get
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  Speaker 2: into and hard to get out of. Diddy was found
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  Speaker 2: guilty some time ago. on prosecution, prosecution, on prostitution charges.
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  Speaker 2: He has been serving his 50 months behind bars. He
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  Speaker 2: was at a prison in New Jersey called Fort Dix,
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  Speaker 2: but recently was moved to a prison in Pennsylvania. And
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  Speaker 2: similar to little Dirk, there has been a lot of
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  Speaker 2: conversations about what is and is not happening behind bars,
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  Speaker 2: whether he is following prison rules and or not. Diddy
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  Speaker 2: was also recently in the shoe of, And in that
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  Speaker 2: time in the shoe, you know, there are so many
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  Speaker 2: different things that are reported. NBC News did this whole
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  Speaker 2: exclusive report where they talked to four inmates or prior
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  Speaker 2: inmates who had said that they were actually locked up
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  Speaker 2: with Diddy. And they said, you know, he has chefs
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  Speaker 2: and people cooking his food. well chefs he has chefs
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  Speaker 2: and people doing his laundry um people giving him massages
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  Speaker 2: he is living a life uh while behind bars which
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  Speaker 2: is you know behind bars is behind bars at the
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  Speaker 2: end of the day I don't know how much of
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  Speaker 2: a life that is but if there is one to
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  Speaker 2: be had they say that Diddy is there and doing
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  Speaker 2: it now on top of all of this there was
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  Speaker 2: also allegations that he was you know that there was
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  Speaker 2: contraband being brought into the jail that there was a
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  Speaker 2: cell phone uh that Diddy had and was able to
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  Speaker 2: use and receive pictures and be on Instagram and There
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  Speaker 2: was a video of Diddy with an electronic device in
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  Speaker 2: his hand, which does look like a cell phone. But again,
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  Speaker 2: we don't even know, you know, how that investigation took place.
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  Speaker 2: Or what that investigation concluded, because there was an investigation
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  Speaker 2: that took place to figure out what did or did
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  Speaker 2: not happen. There was also reports that alcohol was being
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  Speaker 2: brought into the prison and he was able to drink
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  Speaker 2: like Hennessy, like premium alcohol, drugs as well. Again, everything
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  Speaker 2: investigated and only thing that I've seen come out of
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  Speaker 2: it so far is him being moved to another low
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  Speaker 2: security federal prison. Now, I'm told that this federal prison
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  Speaker 2: and I've told you guys on other episodes of the
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  Speaker 2: latest with Lauren La Rosa that, you know, with Diddy,
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  Speaker 2: it's like it's a low security federal prison. So there
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  Speaker 2: is a lot of I wouldn't say freedom because, you know,
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  Speaker 2: that is no pun intended, but.
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  Speaker 1: He's far from free.
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  Speaker 2: But there are a lot of things that are allotted
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  Speaker 2: to people that are in these low-security federal prisons that
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  Speaker 2: don't happen in other places. But the reason that I
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  Speaker 2: was told by his team, from what they can understand,
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  Speaker 2: that he was moved wasn't because he was found to
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  Speaker 2: have had any of the contraband.
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  Speaker 1: And again— This is what I'm being told by his team.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing officially on record from the Bureau of Prisons because
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  Speaker 2: they won't comment on certain things. But they're saying that
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  Speaker 2: he was moved to a smaller prison because it's just
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  Speaker 2: easier to keep tabs on what he is and isn't
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  Speaker 2: doing there and how he's interacting or being surveilled by
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  Speaker 2: prison guards and other people in the prison. Because there
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  Speaker 2: was video of him that was sold to NBC News
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  Speaker 2: with the electronic device.
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  Speaker 1: That does give cell phone. It does look like a
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  Speaker 1: cell phone in his hand.
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  Speaker 2: So, and, and before that we were, you know, there,
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  Speaker 2: there was these stories that were breaking of, um, Diddy
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  Speaker 2: walking the yard and just, you know, having his rec time.
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  Speaker 2: And a lot of it, a lot of the questions like, yo,
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  Speaker 2: how are we, I mean, I know it's low security,
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  Speaker 2: but like, how is there no security to the point
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  Speaker 2: where like, we're getting photos and videos of him while
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  Speaker 2: in bars, while behind bars.
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  Speaker 1: Um, but he celebrated his 57th birthday.
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  Speaker 2: And, you know, ironically enough, um, Diddy, known for the party,
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  Speaker 2: known for the celebration, is sitting somewhere. I know he
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  Speaker 2: doesn't want to be while doing it, but his kids
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  Speaker 2: are online wishing him happy birthday, sending their love. His
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  Speaker 2: youngest daughter, Baby Love, there was a video posted of
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  Speaker 2: her that I'm assuming was sent to him somehow, but
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  Speaker 2: it was posted in support of him on his birthday.
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  Speaker 1: She is adorable. Let's take a listen.
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  Speaker 5: I want to wish you a happy birthday. When are
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  Speaker 5: you going to come visit me?
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  Speaker 1: I need you so much.
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  Speaker 5: Get my attitude for my dad. What are you doing there?
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  Speaker 5: How are you telling daddy? What did you eat today?
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  Speaker 5: Can I sing you a song? Happy birthday to daddy.
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  Speaker 5: Happy birthday to daddy. Happy birthday to daddy. Happy birthday
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  Speaker 5: to daddy. Happy birthday. Happy birthday. Happy birthday to daddy.
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  Speaker 2: Child, what you doing in there? I'm like, where did
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  Speaker 2: they tell her her dad is at? Like, I know
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  Speaker 2: back in the day, parents used to like when when
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  Speaker 2: you're when your parent or like somebody in your family
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  Speaker 2: would get locked up, they would tell you like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: they went away to school.
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  Speaker 1: They went away to school was, like, the always the thing.
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  Speaker 2: But she doesn't say that. She doesn't say he went
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  Speaker 2: away to school. I don't know what they done told
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  Speaker 2: baby love about where her dad is currently. But when
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  Speaker 2: I heard that question, I'm like, what? And, you know,
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  Speaker 2: she is a baby. Babies are off limits. But the
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  Speaker 2: Internet is responding to this video. They're like, who's going
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  Speaker 2: to tell her? Not what is he doing in there, okay?
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  Speaker 2: Because there's only a few things and a few options
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  Speaker 2: that could be happening. But it's just sad, though, because
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  Speaker 2: you think about Little Dirk, right? You think about Diddy.
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  Speaker 2: Little Dirk has accumulated approximately 19.9 million album units.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Sold. Dang.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: His overall RIAA certified units stand at 5.25 million units
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  Speaker 2: across his catalog.
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  Speaker 5: Sold.
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  Speaker 4: Sold.
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  Speaker 2: Placing him among the top selling hip hop artists. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: his global sales are over 7.24 million sales traditionally, um,
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  Speaker 2: and equivalent albums globally per, uh, this is coming from
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: bestselling albums.org. So some of his biggest albums, just cause
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: y'all waited, um, 7-2-2-0, The Voice of the Heroes with
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: Lil Baby, The Voice, that was a really big project
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: and almost healed. And it's crazy because you think about Diddy,
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  Speaker 2: who we know is like music business mogul icon. I
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: don't even got to get into the numbers. I don't
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  Speaker 2: think I have to. I think it's overstated. And you
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: just think about where they are right now. And like
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: I started off this like episode with talking about how
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: on one end of the world, you got people celebrating
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: things that like really, really, really, really, really matter. the
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: election night and us being able to get, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Democrats in these seats to hopefully be able to make
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: the decisions and change some things for us as the
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: days go by and as they are certified and all the.
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  Speaker 1: Things happen, right?
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  Speaker 2: And then at the same time, you have headlines about
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  Speaker 2: these major business mogul Black voices in the community who
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  Speaker 2: are currently dealing with, in Diddy's case, his own decision-making.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I would say in Dirk's case, too, his
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: own decision making, like Dirk has not been found guilty
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  Speaker 2: of anything. But when I say his own decision making,
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying that, like, you know, there was a there
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  Speaker 2: there was a lead up of events that even placed
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: Dirk in conversation or around things that even got us
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  Speaker 2: to this point where we are sadly having to have
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: the conversation about whether he will be released on bail
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  Speaker 2: or not. And the fact that he's still fighting for
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: his life, like he's still fighting to not go to jail.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he's facing some time behind bars if found
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  Speaker 2: guilty on that. additional Rico that he's being held for
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: and it's like you know opportunity and the ability to
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: we talked about this on another episode of the latest
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: with Lorna Rosa the ability to pull yourself up by
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: the bootstrap in America and really create a life for
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: yourself and the people that you love hasn't historically been
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: the easiest thing for marginalized people for black people and
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: we have you know some people that people would look
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: at as icons and heroes and And these are the
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: conversations that we're having about them. Trouble is just, I
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: feel like I sound like Charlamagne. Trouble is really hard
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  Speaker 2: to get into, really easy to get into and really
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: hard to get out of. And I think as we're
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: looking across the world right now and as things are changing,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I just think that we got.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: To take a lot of our freedoms and our abilities
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  Speaker 2: to do things that really, really matter very seriously. Little
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  Speaker 2: Dirk was actively trying to change his life before he
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: was locked up. like there was a lot of community
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  Speaker 2: work that was happening there was a lot of like
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  Speaker 2: it was visual that he was trying to change we
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: thought that Diddy was trying to change his life uh
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  Speaker 2: right before he was also locked up as well too
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  Speaker 2: he had changed his name to Love and You know,
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  Speaker 2: some of the artists was getting some of the owning
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: of the catalogs back. And historically, you know, people have
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: always talked about the business and or lack thereof good
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: business that Diddy allegedly had, you know, done with this artist.
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  Speaker 2: And and then we find out, you know, other things,
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: the other side of it when it when it comes
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: to him. And I'm not trying to group them together.
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: I think they're two very different situations because. You know,
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: one was found guilty of some things, one we saw
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: on video doing things and putting his hands on, you know,
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: women like in Dirk is there's a lot still in question.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: They are very separate situations. But I think my point is,
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: is that we really got to think about how we
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: are spending our time and who we are surrounding ourselves
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: with and what we are putting our focus and our
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: energy into, because we don't get a lot of second
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: chances here in America. Like people are feeling so hopeful
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: right now and it, you know, go blue. And like,
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: we have so, so many amazing legendary black first and
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: black people in these seats now, you know, shout out
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: to governor Keisha Lynn's bottoms and just so many other
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: people who made history on election night. And yet some
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: of us are out here just still, I feel like
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: just not valuing our time, our space and our energy
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: because we, I don't understand how you go from, you know,
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: the biggest voices in black culture and inspiration to the
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: stories that we talked about today. Knowing that the world
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: is not built for you to have the second, third,
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: fourth and fifth chances, no matter who's in our offices.
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: It's just not. I don't know, but I'll keep you
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: guys posted, though. I'll keep you guys updated as things develop.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: Don't know what he did to celebrate his birthday. I
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: don't even know if that is important at this point.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: Y'all get where I'm going with this. responsibility is the,
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  Speaker 2: is the word is the takeaway from here and understanding
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: the responsibility that we all have in this big, big
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  Speaker 2: old world of ours.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Lauren LaRosa.
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  Speaker 2: This has been another episode of the latest with Lauren LaRosa.
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  Speaker 2: I tell you guys every single episode y'all could be
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: anywhere with any old body talking about all of the things,
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  Speaker 2: but you guys choose to be right here with me,
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: my low riders.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate you guys. And I'll catch you in my
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: next episode.