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The First Degree

DEEP DIVE: RULES FOR THEE, NOT FOR ME

The First Degree

Alexis Linkletter and Jac Vanek

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

4.510K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

It’s been a terrible, horrible, no good very bad week, and we’re here to talk through all of the BS: Diddy being found not guilty of his most serious crimes (literally…HOW???), Bryan Kohberger pleads guilty to escape the death penalty, and we absolutely shit on the tacky and hypocritical mess that was Jeff Bezos & Lauren Sanchez’s wedding (and what’s realllyyy happening behind the scenes).

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the deep dive where the difference between a conspiracy and the truth is six months. It's Jack. I'm here with Lex. Welcome. Welcome, welcome. Welcome, everyone. It's a grim day in so injustice it's not a great day uh at all we're recording this uh wednesday july 2nd so a day before it comes out and we've got some breaking news not great breaking news pretty disappointing and uh but not surprising breaking news we want to

0:40.3

just jump well before we jump into it i got to just give the shoutouts join our patreon if you want

0:45.7

more first degree content we will be launching our apple subscription coming soon um and then join

0:51.7

our feet or join our book club if you want to read with us because we are starting a brand new book

0:56.3

for July, Stephen King's Misery.

0:58.9

Yeah.

0:59.5

All those things.

1:00.8

All those things.

1:01.8

Let's jump into the breaking news, which of course is the Diddy Verdict.

1:06.7

Yeah, I mean, we literally woke up today to the verdict because we're in California there on the East Coast. So that was exciting news to wake up to. And what's funny is that Jack and I have been sort of like, what if he just gets away with all this? No, no. We've been having these sort of like pauses to discuss what might happen and we're like that you know it couldn't be so

1:30.6

egregious like because he wasn't even charged with the worst of what he's probably done right no this was

1:36.2

literally the tip of the the tiniest tiniest tip of the iceberg and throughout the whole trial

1:41.0

we've been talking back and forth where it's like this is like the tiniest fraction of all of the shit that he has done why are they focusing on this one small

1:48.6

thing um you know we're we've had a lot of names that have been left out we've had a lot of circumstances

1:55.0

that have been left out like we really are kind of watering it down to this one kind of moment in time because we thought that they

2:03.3

had really good evidence and there is no way that he'd be able to get away with it yes well we were wrong

2:09.8

we were wrong and there's a lot going on with it right so he was found guilty on two counts but

2:17.4

they were the least serious.

2:19.1

And those counts included transportation to engage in prostitution, involving Cassie and an anonymous

2:26.8

victim, Jane, but he was acquitted of the most serious charges, including racketeering

2:32.6

and conspiracy in both sex trafficking counts,

2:38.8

which means he's facing a max of 10 years, not a minimum, a max of 10 years. So it's not good,

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