Welcome to the global phenomenon, Surviving the Survivor, where we bring you the best guests in all of true crime.

Here's your host, Emmy Award winning journalist Joel Waldman.

What's up, SCS Nation, and welcome to another episode of Surviving the Survivor.

It is the podcast that brings you the very best guests in all of true crime.

It is not a tagline.

It is our reality.

We have been crazy busy this week.

So it's Thursday evening and I'm a bit loopy.

And we've had some heavy conversations over the last couple of days.

Of course, Susan Smith had her parole hearing. She was denied parole

30 years after drowning her two young children, but after listening to some of that witness

testimony during the parole hearing, I think everyone needed to decompress a little bit.

You'll be happy to know my Fisher Price equipment is acting up again.

So I'm using my phone for my notes.

So if I'm looking down, that's why.

Hopefully at some point, I don't know how Wi-Fi works.

It will connect and everything in the world will be okay.

Today we are back on Sean Diddy Combs and you guys are in for a treat

because we've got an amazing best guest panel for you starting off with the type

of guy that I love retired NYPD from my neck of the woods I grew up in Jersey

Tom is from the upper part of Manhattan,

where I once taught little kids. After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001,

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