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It is Friday, October 3rd.

This is the day.

We find out just how long Sean Diddy Combs will spend in prison.

Welcome to this episode of Amy and T.J.

As of this recording, robes, we are just

hours away hearing this morning, October 3rd. We've been talking about that date for months.

We have, because it is the day, of course, that Diddy learns his fate and so much of the world,

and certainly we have, but I know many of you listening, have been following

this story, this trial like never before. And so this is the culmination. This is the ending.

This is the finale. We find out how long he spends behind bars. And for the first time,

the day before now, he's going to be sentenced. We hear from him for the first time you all he wrote a

long um i certainly would argue it's impassioned uh in some parts of it even convincing to a certain

degree a letter to the judge pleading for mercy on this day, pleading for mercy, we are going to share.

I was trying to just pull excerpts, but so much of it was compelling.

And it's compelling, Rose, because we have not heard from this man in a year other than a few things he uttered in the courtroom.

And we have never heard an apology at all until this letter. And so we're

going to read some of it for you and we're going to discuss our thoughts on it as we go along.

But we'll begin with how he began. I hope this letter finds you well and in good health and

spirit. I don't know why that jumped out. Just immediately, I was it a pleasant note.

And then you realize just how the ugliness of everything,

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