Happy Friday Slatesters, it's Mary, and it's time for another episode of the show, a super secret special episode just for Slate Plus members.

That is you. So come on in. The idea here is that I pull one of my colleagues into a studio, basically say, tell me all the things you know this week.

And they tell me about someone or something that is

dominating the news and hasn't gone down the what next feed yet. This week, my victim, for lack

of a better word, is Nandira Goff. Nadira, what's up? Hi. Thanks for having me. You cover

all things culture for Slate. And fortunately, unfortunately, that means you've

been sent to cover the Sean Diddy Combs trial in Manhattan. How are you doing? Oh, you know,

great. It's nothing, nothing about this is hard at all. Yeah.

It's still going on.

Are we in week three now?

Week four?

Where are we?

I believe that we're in week four, if time serves me correctly. It's also kind of hard to count because there was a full week of jury selection before the actual trial started.

And so my count always gets a little bit off.

But I believe we're in week four.

Okay.

We usually give ourselves like 15 minutes to go through it here.

So we'll do that.

And I guess my first question is, as someone who's been in the courthouse a bunch, Nadira,

can you just tell me what the vibe is in there? Everyone's sitting through this grueling

testimony and images, videos. What is it like in there? Gosh, you know, this is my first time

covering any sort of trial. And so I didn't really know what to expect going in. And the one thing, or there are many things that turned out to be different than I thought they would be. But one of the biggest is the vast difference between watching the court proceedings from the actual courtroom, if you're lucky enough to make it in and watching the court proceedings from the overflow rooms with all of the other unfortunate souls who were not lucky enough to make it into the courtroom.

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