Hey, welcome to the Friday edition of The Nerve.

And here in the States, we are going into our first holiday weekend together.

It's a milestone.

I'm Maureen Callahan, your host, and I am here to serve you.

To serve all of you troublemakers, a fresh batch of scandal, sin, celebrity gossip,

plus audience emails and what we call real talk about fake people. We also have a great segment

about what we are now told. I think this is the perfect segment going into a big holiday weekend

to kick off the summer.

So we are now being told that the perils of drinking alcohol are so grave that even a single

drop will kill you.

Now these are warnings I have been skeptical of since they were leveled towards us. And you you know, it may, it may be the Irish and me,

okay? But we are going to have a smart, nuanced, challenging conversation about this with two

experts who I am so excited to have on the show, and I know you guys are going to love. But first,

we are wrapping up week two of the Diddy Trial here in Manhattan,

and the past few days have seen bombshell after bombshell.

So we have got an incredible, incredible expert to break all of this down.

Kayla Brantley is a correspondent for the Daily Mail,

where I call them twice a week. She's been in the courtroom since the beginning. And she is also

the host of the male's incredible podcast, The Trials of Diddy. We are so happy to have her. Welcome.

Kayla, thanks for coming to the nerve. Hey, Maureen. Thanks for having me.

So give me your post-traumatic stress disorder level on a scale of one to ten now that you've been in there two weeks.

Yeah, you know, I'd say we're maybe at a six. I think I'm able to keep it together a little bit. But it's just been crazy. Like

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