Hello, hello everybody. Welcome back to another episode of Fluently Forward. Today we are doing a deep dive on Cassie, Cassie Ventura, but everybody mostly just calls her.

Cassie, her name is, of course, coming up now because of the Diddy trial that is going on. But I wanted to do a deep dive on her that doesn't focus on all of the ditty dirt and trauma, basically.

I felt the same way when we did an episode with Sophia Franklin, shout out, obsessed with her,

all about Amber Heard and Elon Musk's relationship.

I just find it a little bit, you know, there's so much to these celebrities.

I don't think they, and yes, I'm putting words in their mouth.

But there's so much to Cassie,

and I think if I had to be a betting woman, she's probably like, I don't love all of these deep dives

on like the most traumatic parts of my life. So there are going to be a few ditty references in here.

We're going to do blind items at the end. But anything that's like super traumatic is removed.

It's just going to be more celebrity

gossip adjacent. Of course, over on Patreon, there is a ton of ditty content that we've done there.

I do want to shout out an episode from April 4th, 2004, called L.A. Gossip Roundup. And this was

when I was in L.A. last year. And I had just done the Juicy Scoop podcast, but it was, what's that quote in 30 Rock?

It was deemed too controversial for the public.

So it was put on her Patreon.

But anyway, my manager and I were talking in the Uber back and we were talking a lot about the Diddy case, you know, on that episode, etc.

And our Uber driver was making like a lot of noise up front.

And it turns out that he is an actor in L.A. He worked on a show with like Damon Wayne's Jr.

Who plays coach and New Girl. And he was like showing us photos while he was driving, dangerous

driving. But anyway, he knew a girl from high school who was in a relationship with

Diddy, and he basically just unloaded all of this Diddy stuff on the Uber ride with us, as I was

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