The Fourth of July Delivers the End of Diddy’s Trial and Trump’s Big “Beautiful” Bill | Higher Learning | The Ringer

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🗓️ 4 July 2025

⏱️ 130 minutes

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Let’s “celebrate” the Fourth with a two-topic episode: the Diddy trial and Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.” For today’s episode we bring in Yodit Tewolde to talk about the results from the Diddy trial, and Stephen Neukam to talk about how the country will be affected by Trump’s new bill. 00:00 - Welcome! 00:24 - Reaction to the Diddy Trial Results 37:08 - Celeb Reactions 39:30 - Yodit Tewolde Joins Us! 1:40:42- Stephen Neukam Joins Us! 1:56:46 - Breakdown of the Bill 2:05:00 - It’s OK to Admit That You’re Wrong 00:00- Thanks for Watching! Hosts: Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay Guests: Stephen Neukam and Yodit Tewolde Producers: Donnie Beacham and Ashleigh Smith Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Yo, yo, yo, thought warriors.
0:03.5	What is up?
0:04.1	Howellian is on is I've been Lacey Jr.
0:06.5	And it's me, Rachel and Lindsay.
0:08.3	Interesting show today, Rachel.
0:11.5	It's a lot going on.
0:13.3	A lot of stuff happening.
0:16.2	A lot of stuff happening.
0:19.2	There are only two topics in the show today.
0:23.3	One is one Sean Diddy Cones, who was convicted on two or five counts.
0:31.7	But if you're being honest about it, it seems like he's skating.
0:36.9	I mean, I think he would say that.
0:39.9	He fell to his knees crying when the verdict was read.
0:43.7	This was, these were the lowest charges.
0:46.6	He was not guilty on the highest charges.
0:50.0	A win for Diddy.
0:50.8	The one's the most caught sequences.
0:52.7	A win for Dee.
0:53.6	So let's just get into it right now.
0:57.0	So Didi was facing five counts.
1:00.3	Or five different, help me out legally.
1:03.6	Five counts.
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