October 3, 2025 • 20 mins
Hosts Ramses Ja and Q Ward react to the sentencing of Sean Diddy Combs.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Podcasting from the Civic Ciphers Studios. Welcome to the QR Code,
where we share perspective, seek understanding, and shape outcomes. The
man you are about to hear from is a man
that has remained exceptionally measured throughout the entire Didty trial.
He is the Q in the QR code. He goes
by the name of q Ward.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
So the voice you just heard just made that seem
like we were in the courtroom, like first hand covering
this trial, and I was so composed.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Like.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
The world is on fire outside. What was I supposed
to be doing during the Didty trial? But he is
the R in the QR code. He goes by the
name ramses Jah.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Yes, indeed, and we got some breaking news coverage for
you here I will share the latest from NBC. The
US District Court Judge Aaron Subramanian sentenced Shaun Combs to
fifty months behind bars. Prosecutors had sought an eleven year,
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three month prison term for his Man Act conviction, while
the defense was aiming for a fourteen month sentence, which
would have amounted to time served. Combs fifty five, was
taken into custody September of last year, so he'll have
more than a year of credit toward his incarceration. The
judge also find Combs five hundred thousand dollars and ordered
five years of supervised release once Combs leaves prison. Judge
(01:29):
Aaron Subramanian said he had considered several factors in determining
Combs's sentence, including that he is a self made artist
who is inspired and lifted up communities worldwide. He cited
Combs's work and family history, including the murder of Combs's father,
and he said that work Combs had done behind bars
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was impressive. Quote the court hopes you will continue to
do that unquote, the judge said. The judge added that
he had to consider all of Combs's history.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Quote.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
You abuse the power and control with women you profess
to love. You abuse them physically, emotionally, and psychologically, the
judge said. During his remarks, Combs said he does not
take his conviction lightly and said he wants the judge
to quote make an example of what a person can
do with a second chance. Quote I take full accountability
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and responsibility. The prosecution wants you to make an example
of me. I want you to make an example of
what a person can do if they get another chance,
and if you give me another chance, I will not
let you down. Unquote, Comb said, so.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
You know.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Fifty months, you know, not including or that's that's including
the time served. So this is a little over a
year or three and a half years, maybe three years
and some change before he'll be back on the streets.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
What do you think, Q So.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
About three years and two months. There's a month sentence
in twelve that has already gone and okay, that works
my mouth of law. The I don't know, man, we're
in a time where rich, powerful men aren't held accountable
for anything anymore. But he's a rich, powerful black man,
and everybody else can pretend that had nothing to do
(03:20):
with it. But we've watched rich, powerful white men be
convicted of far more, and the accountability, the accountability equals nothing,
no time served in this case. I was expecting time
served to be the sentence, so shocked that he got
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a little more than that. Listening to the judges reasoning
was interesting though that he considered, you know, good works
that he did behind bars, which I'm wondering, how much
are you able to do behind bars that would influence
in what sounded like a positive way the way that
you were sentenced. And then the judge also said that
(04:03):
he can that he considered, like, if you're going to
consider the good work quote unquote that he does that
he did behind bars, then you know, you and I
were having conversations about him being kind of on trial
for things that he wasn't on trial for, right, like
evidence brought in that had nothing to do with the charges,
but that painted him in a certain light. If you're
(04:24):
going to consider the good work that he did, I'm
guessing you had to consider those videos and things that
we saw as well. So it's you know, it's it's
hard to say, man, like, you know, maybe there is
some sincere self accountability here. Maybe he's actually sorry, Maybe
he plans to be reformed and wants to do some
(04:45):
good things. I guess time will only tell. You know,
we have a lot of data that shows, you know,
when harsh crimes are met with lenient punishment, it doesn't
typically lead to a person changing their stripes. But you know,
hopefully everybody's wrong this time. You know, hopefully this is
(05:05):
a case where somebody gets a second chance and they
do the right thing. You know, who knows?
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Yeah, I uh, I think that this is probably regardless
of what side you're on in terms of, you know,
(05:39):
what this child child should have resulted in. Everybody gets
something from this and something, as we say on this show,
often far too often something is not nothing. So the
victims that really wanted a ability perhaps on some level
(06:05):
they knew that they were up against powerful opposition, and
they knew perhaps that it was likely that did he
would walk away with zero consequences for the year's worth
of abuse that he subjected these people to. And for
(06:30):
him to have been arrested, convicted, guilty for at least something,
and having to continue to remain incarcerated for over three
more years.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Is some consequences.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Or initially I remember people were thinking, or people were saying,
at least, oh, he could face up to life in prison,
that sort of thing. You know, three years is it's
that's not nothing. That's something, you know, especially for a
person who is accustomed to his customary freedoms, that's that
(07:13):
will slow you down. Three years, it's not one years,
not three months, it's not you know, that's that's enough
to slow you down. I would imagine, Okay, And then.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
For Diddy and the people that were supporters of didty.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
The people that were in the comments saying, you know,
these were all consenting adults. The people that were saying
that this is the unfair crucifixion of a black man.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
You know, for those people, it's not life in prison.
It's he's not going to be gone away for some
crazy period of time to where he will no longer
be able to enjoy his role as a father. He
(07:58):
can still finish raising his children after three years, and
on and on. Right, So again, nobody gets everything, but
everybody gets.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Something, right. I think.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Now I don't know because you know you mentioned some data,
que uh and that's not data that I've looked at.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
I've i've.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
I'm operating as though it's accurate. And you know, because
I know that neither of us dealing it expounds data.
People know what you mean. So you mentioned that, uh,
lighter sentences don't or lighter sentences have a tendency to
result in perhaps like recidivision or something like that.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Effectually, that's what you were communicator. I wasn't citing any data.
I just know when you do something harsh, like if
my child does something really bad, okay, just in general consequence,
they tend to do something really bad again, So it's not, okay,
understood a data driven statement. That was just watching life happen.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Right, Okay, So so okay, I appreciate you staring.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
As with light punishment tend to breed serious things happening again.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Okay, Okay, I will.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
I appreciate you saying that, because again I wouldn't have known,
but I still want to operate as though that's true.
I think that for me, and I don't. I'm I
can't say that I'm the same as Diddy. I've never
been in the room as Diddy. I don't know nothing
about him other than what people tell me or what
(09:29):
I read. But for me, I've always been the sort
of person that has been seriously moved by other people's
account of myself. You know, I've moved through life doing
(09:56):
my best not to cause intentional harm to people. I
don't know that it's I don't know that it's possible
to move through life without causing harm to people. I
certainly have caused harm to a great deal of people
throughout my life. And when I'm made aware of that,
(10:18):
when people say, hey, look the thing that you did
that you thought was harmless, it resulted in this. It's
the most sort of it's the heaviest sort of realization
that I can have, because it's really easy to make
(10:39):
a decision when it's based on your intentions. It's a
lot harder to reflect on the consequences of your decisions
when you have not considered the ripple effect of them
and how they affect other people's lives. And so for
me personally, those deep introspective conversations where a person has
shared their experience on the other side has certainly caused
(11:02):
me to be deeply introspective and to do my best
to grow, alter my behavior and become a better version
of myself. Now again, I'm speaking for me, I'm not
speaking for Ditty or any other person. But the thing
that you mentioned, Q, what could he have done in
prison with his free time, Well, that was he was
(11:29):
teaching people in prison about entrepreneurship. I just remember reading
about it. I don't have any other details here, but
I do remember that this was something that at least
some journalists along the way decided was worth making a
big deal out of and you know, sharing with the
public that Hey did. He's teaching classes on entrepreneurship and
while he's in prison. Prior to that, you know, uh,
(11:55):
you know, Diddy was I don't know how much of
a corner he was round, but I do know that
prior to that video coming out, which the video, to
be fair, was from an earlier stage in their life.
It didn't get released until later, but and so my
timeline might be a little messed up. But I do
know that there was a point when Diddy dropped the
(12:16):
name Diddy, you know, he does that pretty frequently, and
he adopted the name Love and he was doing his best,
I suppose, to try to put positivity out into the world.
And this was before any charges had been filed or
anything like that. So, you know, it's little things like
that that give me a little bit of hope. I
suppose that maybe he was on a path at the
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time when all of this came together to where he
might be at the point that I think that I'm at,
where hearing some other person's accounting of your behavior might resonate,
and he might actually use these three years to shed
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some of the old characteristics and personality traits and behaviors
that he now knows have hurt people, many.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
People over a long period of time.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
And you know, if his mentorship program or whatever this
is that he's doing in prison, is any indication you know,
perhaps he's using this moment to also try to put
more positivity into the universe, perhaps to offset or to
bring his balance to zero in terms of his overall
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impact on you know, the the experiential universe in total.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
And so.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
You know, who's to say. I know that we're not
going to hear too much about him for another few
years until you know, he's getting ready to come out.
And I know that when he comes out, people are
going to party and all this stuff's going to be in.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
The rear view.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
But I hope that while again everyone that is going
to walk away from this won't walk away with everything
that they wanted, perhaps everybody can walk away with at
least something. I know this isn't fun for anybody, and
nor was the abuse that you know, he was subjecting
people too fun. But the worst version of this story
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is when people get nothing, and I don't know that
that's what we're seeing here.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
So my thoughts, yeah, I'm on the same page as
you as it feels like everyone got something from this
and no one gets to walk away feeling like you know,
no justice was served or like as you put it,
they got nothing.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
But your benefit of the doubt game is strong. That
he's like you in a way, that someone made him
know that he caused harm and he went into full
like I just want to hug you sometimes, man, like
I've never seen anything like it, Like the idea that
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the first time he learned or heard that he'd harm
someone was now so now that he's been made to
where he's, hey, you got it, you know, you know,
take that, take that, Take that.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
I can't stop and won't stop, I guess.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
I uh.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Yeah, man, I hope so, I hope so. I you know,
I can't even really give you much more on that one.
That's your benefit of the game. Your benefit of the
doubt game is strong, bro, I God bless you.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Yeah, I mean I hope I'm right.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
I again, I don't know Diddy, and I'm not trying
to put that on him, but that's the only lens,
or not the only lies, but that's the main lens
through which I see the world.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
I mean, you know that better than anybody breathing.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
And so, as an optimist, I'm hoping that this was
a significant enough moment in his life to where he
is clearheaded and sober and receptive and would respond in
a way that I would imagine any person who is
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reasonable would respond. And the only way I can identify
or articulate a reasonable person is based on the assumption
that I'm a reasonable person and what I would do.
I realize again, the barrier to people recognizing the severity
of the moment is very different for different people. Some
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people it takes just a casual conversation, like me, because
I don't want to hurt anybody, I never do.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
For some people, it might take.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Full trial, after several years of perhaps yes men whispering
in his ears, like hey man, you probably need to
back off the throat a little bit, or you know, maybe.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
A couple of close brushes with the law here and there.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
But you know, again, your money and your fame can
get you out of tight situations. But this moment feels
like maybe it might just be that for him, and
I hope that it is because we can't. I can't
sentence him to extra time, you know, I can't give
the victims any you know, this is decided, and so
(17:33):
I hope that when he gets out, he will have
used the time, and when he gets out, he won't
be going after the victims. And you know, when he
gets out the victims will feel I doubt they'll ever
feel that this was fair. But I don't know what
that five hundred thousand dollars is going to in terms
of finds. Maybe that it doesn't feel like it's any
(17:56):
form of restitution, but who knows, man, But I just
I hope everybody is at least okay.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
I think in criminal cases, those types of finds go
towards the prosecution, which I think in this case is
the state, So that's probably where that fine will be paid.
And there's no need to pile on. He was sentenced,
he is going to prison. But just like I don't
want to pile on, I also don't want to make
too lightly too much in the way of benevolence, right
(18:29):
like I don't. We cannot see it through the lens
where this punishment will change him forever and either direction.
So again, I never want our voice to sound like
the apologist for someone. Just I hope that the best
outcomes for everyone to come up this. You sign you
assigned a lot of your point of view to him.
(18:49):
Again with a great amount of benefit of the doubt
being extended because neither of us know him well enough
I think to do that. I also think there's enough
evidence to show that you and him don't really have
this same response to having caused harm to people, because
unfortunately we have seen what his harm looks like.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Yeah, it's different.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Nothing about that looked like I'm sorry. So again, if
I keep seeming to step in front of that, no.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
I need it.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
I need you to do a push against you. I'm
just trying to you know, I appreciate it. Let's be
sober minded here. No, you're right, because you're You're absolutely right.
I have a tendency to and our listeners know this.
I have a tendency.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
To see the world maybe a little bit better than
it actually is, and I hope that it ends up
being that, and lately I've been very disappointed that it isn't.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
But I don't. I don't.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
I think that just it's speaking more broadly. If I
don't hope or better tomorrow, it's harder to enjoy waking
up tomorrow, you know what I mean. So it's the
hope that's like, Okay, well, let's get out there and
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let's let's get back to work.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Un let's you know whatever. So fingers crossed.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Like you said, fingers cross everybody grows from the experience,
everybody heals, and you know that's really all we can say.
So we'll leave it right there with that in mind.
That's going to do for us here on the QR Code.
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Podcasting from the Civic Ciphers Studios. Welcome to the QR Code,
where we share perspective, seek understanding, and shape outcomes. The
man you are about to hear from is a man
that has remained exceptionally measured throughout the entire Didty trial.
He is the Q in the QR code. He goes
by the name of q Ward.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
So the voice you just heard just made that seem
like we were in the courtroom, like first hand covering
this trial, and I was so composed.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Like.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
The world is on fire outside. What was I supposed
to be doing during the Didty trial? But he is
the R in the QR code. He goes by the
name ramses Jah.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Yes, indeed, and we got some breaking news coverage for
you here I will share the latest from NBC. The
US District Court Judge Aaron Subramanian sentenced Shaun Combs to
fifty months behind bars. Prosecutors had sought an eleven year,
(01:04):
three month prison term for his Man Act conviction, while
the defense was aiming for a fourteen month sentence, which
would have amounted to time served. Combs fifty five, was
taken into custody September of last year, so he'll have
more than a year of credit toward his incarceration. The
judge also find Combs five hundred thousand dollars and ordered
five years of supervised release once Combs leaves prison. Judge
(01:29):
Aaron Subramanian said he had considered several factors in determining
Combs's sentence, including that he is a self made artist
who is inspired and lifted up communities worldwide. He cited
Combs's work and family history, including the murder of Combs's father,
and he said that work Combs had done behind bars
(01:50):
was impressive. Quote the court hopes you will continue to
do that unquote, the judge said. The judge added that
he had to consider all of Combs's history.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Quote.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
You abuse the power and control with women you profess
to love. You abuse them physically, emotionally, and psychologically, the
judge said. During his remarks, Combs said he does not
take his conviction lightly and said he wants the judge
to quote make an example of what a person can
do with a second chance. Quote I take full accountability
(02:21):
and responsibility. The prosecution wants you to make an example
of me. I want you to make an example of
what a person can do if they get another chance,
and if you give me another chance, I will not
let you down. Unquote, Comb said, so.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
You know.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Fifty months, you know, not including or that's that's including
the time served. So this is a little over a
year or three and a half years, maybe three years
and some change before he'll be back on the streets.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
What do you think, Q So.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
About three years and two months. There's a month sentence
in twelve that has already gone and okay, that works
my mouth of law. The I don't know, man, we're
in a time where rich, powerful men aren't held accountable
for anything anymore. But he's a rich, powerful black man,
and everybody else can pretend that had nothing to do
(03:20):
with it. But we've watched rich, powerful white men be
convicted of far more, and the accountability, the accountability equals nothing,
no time served in this case. I was expecting time
served to be the sentence, so shocked that he got
(03:43):
a little more than that. Listening to the judges reasoning
was interesting though that he considered, you know, good works
that he did behind bars, which I'm wondering, how much
are you able to do behind bars that would influence
in what sounded like a positive way the way that
you were sentenced. And then the judge also said that
(04:03):
he can that he considered, like, if you're going to
consider the good work quote unquote that he does that
he did behind bars, then you know, you and I
were having conversations about him being kind of on trial
for things that he wasn't on trial for, right, like
evidence brought in that had nothing to do with the charges,
but that painted him in a certain light. If you're
(04:24):
going to consider the good work that he did, I'm
guessing you had to consider those videos and things that
we saw as well. So it's you know, it's it's
hard to say, man, like, you know, maybe there is
some sincere self accountability here. Maybe he's actually sorry, Maybe
he plans to be reformed and wants to do some
(04:45):
good things. I guess time will only tell. You know,
we have a lot of data that shows, you know,
when harsh crimes are met with lenient punishment, it doesn't
typically lead to a person changing their stripes. But you know,
hopefully everybody's wrong this time. You know, hopefully this is
(05:05):
a case where somebody gets a second chance and they
do the right thing. You know, who knows?
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Yeah, I uh, I think that this is probably regardless
of what side you're on in terms of, you know,
(05:39):
what this child child should have resulted in. Everybody gets
something from this and something, as we say on this show,
often far too often something is not nothing. So the
victims that really wanted a ability perhaps on some level
(06:05):
they knew that they were up against powerful opposition, and
they knew perhaps that it was likely that did he
would walk away with zero consequences for the year's worth
of abuse that he subjected these people to. And for
(06:30):
him to have been arrested, convicted, guilty for at least something,
and having to continue to remain incarcerated for over three
more years.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Is some consequences.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Or initially I remember people were thinking, or people were saying,
at least, oh, he could face up to life in prison,
that sort of thing. You know, three years is it's
that's not nothing. That's something, you know, especially for a
person who is accustomed to his customary freedoms, that's that
(07:13):
will slow you down. Three years, it's not one years,
not three months, it's not you know, that's that's enough
to slow you down. I would imagine, Okay, And then.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
For Diddy and the people that were supporters of didty.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
The people that were in the comments saying, you know,
these were all consenting adults. The people that were saying
that this is the unfair crucifixion of a black man.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
You know, for those people, it's not life in prison.
It's he's not going to be gone away for some
crazy period of time to where he will no longer
be able to enjoy his role as a father. He
(07:58):
can still finish raising his children after three years, and
on and on. Right, So again, nobody gets everything, but
everybody gets.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Something, right. I think.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Now I don't know because you know you mentioned some data,
que uh and that's not data that I've looked at.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
I've i've.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
I'm operating as though it's accurate. And you know, because
I know that neither of us dealing it expounds data.
People know what you mean. So you mentioned that, uh,
lighter sentences don't or lighter sentences have a tendency to
result in perhaps like recidivision or something like that.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Effectually, that's what you were communicator. I wasn't citing any data.
I just know when you do something harsh, like if
my child does something really bad, okay, just in general consequence,
they tend to do something really bad again, So it's not, okay,
understood a data driven statement. That was just watching life happen.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Right, Okay, So so okay, I appreciate you staring.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
As with light punishment tend to breed serious things happening again.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Okay, Okay, I will.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
I appreciate you saying that, because again I wouldn't have known,
but I still want to operate as though that's true.
I think that for me, and I don't. I'm I
can't say that I'm the same as Diddy. I've never
been in the room as Diddy. I don't know nothing
about him other than what people tell me or what
(09:29):
I read. But for me, I've always been the sort
of person that has been seriously moved by other people's
account of myself. You know, I've moved through life doing
(09:56):
my best not to cause intentional harm to people. I
don't know that it's I don't know that it's possible
to move through life without causing harm to people. I
certainly have caused harm to a great deal of people
throughout my life. And when I'm made aware of that,
(10:18):
when people say, hey, look the thing that you did
that you thought was harmless, it resulted in this. It's
the most sort of it's the heaviest sort of realization
that I can have, because it's really easy to make
(10:39):
a decision when it's based on your intentions. It's a
lot harder to reflect on the consequences of your decisions
when you have not considered the ripple effect of them
and how they affect other people's lives. And so for
me personally, those deep introspective conversations where a person has
shared their experience on the other side has certainly caused
(11:02):
me to be deeply introspective and to do my best
to grow, alter my behavior and become a better version
of myself. Now again, I'm speaking for me, I'm not
speaking for Ditty or any other person. But the thing
that you mentioned, Q, what could he have done in
prison with his free time, Well, that was he was
(11:29):
teaching people in prison about entrepreneurship. I just remember reading
about it. I don't have any other details here, but
I do remember that this was something that at least
some journalists along the way decided was worth making a
big deal out of and you know, sharing with the
public that Hey did. He's teaching classes on entrepreneurship and
while he's in prison. Prior to that, you know, uh,
(11:55):
you know, Diddy was I don't know how much of
a corner he was round, but I do know that
prior to that video coming out, which the video, to
be fair, was from an earlier stage in their life.
It didn't get released until later, but and so my
timeline might be a little messed up. But I do
know that there was a point when Diddy dropped the
(12:16):
name Diddy, you know, he does that pretty frequently, and
he adopted the name Love and he was doing his best,
I suppose, to try to put positivity out into the world.
And this was before any charges had been filed or
anything like that. So, you know, it's little things like
that that give me a little bit of hope. I
suppose that maybe he was on a path at the
(12:40):
time when all of this came together to where he
might be at the point that I think that I'm at,
where hearing some other person's accounting of your behavior might resonate,
and he might actually use these three years to shed
(13:02):
some of the old characteristics and personality traits and behaviors
that he now knows have hurt people, many.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
People over a long period of time.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
And you know, if his mentorship program or whatever this
is that he's doing in prison, is any indication you know,
perhaps he's using this moment to also try to put
more positivity into the universe, perhaps to offset or to
bring his balance to zero in terms of his overall
(13:40):
impact on you know, the the experiential universe in total.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
And so.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
You know, who's to say. I know that we're not
going to hear too much about him for another few
years until you know, he's getting ready to come out.
And I know that when he comes out, people are
going to party and all this stuff's going to be in.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
The rear view.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
But I hope that while again everyone that is going
to walk away from this won't walk away with everything
that they wanted, perhaps everybody can walk away with at
least something. I know this isn't fun for anybody, and
nor was the abuse that you know, he was subjecting
people too fun. But the worst version of this story
(14:30):
is when people get nothing, and I don't know that
that's what we're seeing here.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
So my thoughts, yeah, I'm on the same page as
you as it feels like everyone got something from this
and no one gets to walk away feeling like you know,
no justice was served or like as you put it,
they got nothing.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
But your benefit of the doubt game is strong. That
he's like you in a way, that someone made him
know that he caused harm and he went into full
like I just want to hug you sometimes, man, like
I've never seen anything like it, Like the idea that
(15:13):
the first time he learned or heard that he'd harm
someone was now so now that he's been made to
where he's, hey, you got it, you know, you know,
take that, take that, Take that.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
I can't stop and won't stop, I guess.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
I uh.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Yeah, man, I hope so, I hope so. I you know,
I can't even really give you much more on that one.
That's your benefit of the game. Your benefit of the
doubt game is strong, bro, I God bless you.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Yeah, I mean I hope I'm right.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
I again, I don't know Diddy, and I'm not trying
to put that on him, but that's the only lens,
or not the only lies, but that's the main lens
through which I see the world.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
I mean, you know that better than anybody breathing.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
And so, as an optimist, I'm hoping that this was
a significant enough moment in his life to where he
is clearheaded and sober and receptive and would respond in
a way that I would imagine any person who is
(16:28):
reasonable would respond. And the only way I can identify
or articulate a reasonable person is based on the assumption
that I'm a reasonable person and what I would do.
I realize again, the barrier to people recognizing the severity
of the moment is very different for different people. Some
(16:50):
people it takes just a casual conversation, like me, because
I don't want to hurt anybody, I never do.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
For some people, it might take.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Full trial, after several years of perhaps yes men whispering
in his ears, like hey man, you probably need to
back off the throat a little bit, or you know, maybe.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
A couple of close brushes with the law here and there.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
But you know, again, your money and your fame can
get you out of tight situations. But this moment feels
like maybe it might just be that for him, and
I hope that it is because we can't. I can't
sentence him to extra time, you know, I can't give
the victims any you know, this is decided, and so
(17:33):
I hope that when he gets out, he will have
used the time, and when he gets out, he won't
be going after the victims. And you know, when he
gets out the victims will feel I doubt they'll ever
feel that this was fair. But I don't know what
that five hundred thousand dollars is going to in terms
of finds. Maybe that it doesn't feel like it's any
(17:56):
form of restitution, but who knows, man, But I just
I hope everybody is at least okay.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
I think in criminal cases, those types of finds go
towards the prosecution, which I think in this case is
the state, So that's probably where that fine will be paid.
And there's no need to pile on. He was sentenced,
he is going to prison. But just like I don't
want to pile on, I also don't want to make
too lightly too much in the way of benevolence, right
(18:29):
like I don't. We cannot see it through the lens
where this punishment will change him forever and either direction.
So again, I never want our voice to sound like
the apologist for someone. Just I hope that the best
outcomes for everyone to come up this. You sign you
assigned a lot of your point of view to him.
(18:49):
Again with a great amount of benefit of the doubt
being extended because neither of us know him well enough
I think to do that. I also think there's enough
evidence to show that you and him don't really have
this same response to having caused harm to people, because
unfortunately we have seen what his harm looks like.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Yeah, it's different.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Nothing about that looked like I'm sorry. So again, if
I keep seeming to step in front of that, no.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
I need it.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
I need you to do a push against you. I'm
just trying to you know, I appreciate it. Let's be
sober minded here. No, you're right, because you're You're absolutely right.
I have a tendency to and our listeners know this.
I have a tendency.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
To see the world maybe a little bit better than
it actually is, and I hope that it ends up
being that, and lately I've been very disappointed that it isn't.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
But I don't. I don't.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
I think that just it's speaking more broadly. If I
don't hope or better tomorrow, it's harder to enjoy waking
up tomorrow, you know what I mean. So it's the
hope that's like, Okay, well, let's get out there and
(20:09):
let's let's get back to work.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Un let's you know whatever. So fingers crossed.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Like you said, fingers cross everybody grows from the experience,
everybody heals, and you know that's really all we can say.
So we'll leave it right there with that in mind.
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