Limor Mojdehi Azad (1:46)

Oh, man. So Karen Reid is actually going through her second trial, right? Right now for the same thing, the same allegations. It's really. I saw a New York Times article. It called it, you know, the new trial, same old arguments. So she has been. It's alleged that she killed her boyfriend. How did she kill her boyfriend? A Boston cop. Okay. It's been a. O' Keefe. O' Keefe, that's right. That's his name. We don't.

Ben (2:13)

I did not watch this. My wife watched it without me. She exclusively watches good TV without me. And then I get stuck watching just utter garbage, with the exception of Reba and the Sopranos.

Josh (2:24)

And. And he loves Glee. Karen Reed. Let's get into it. Give us the. The play by play.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (2:29)

Yeah. So Karen Reed right now is in the midst of a second trial, okay. For the same allegations she's been accused of murdering her boyfriend. Her boyfriend of several years. Two years they were dating. She's 44. A 44 year old woman who's facing life in prison at this point. Okay, so this is what happened. Allegedly. What we do know, the guy is dead. O' Keefe was killed. We don't know how. But on her, what she's accused of. Let me start there. What she's accused of is they had some sort of spat one night. They went to a bar. They both got drunk. She admits she was drunk, possibly drunk driving. She admits to all of that. They went to 34 Fairview. Okay? He wanted to go hang out with his friends.

Josh (3:16)

Such a nice address, such a nice dress.

Ben (3:19)

Rich.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (3:20)

Yeah, you know, what a nice house.

Josh (3:22)

Yeah. You never hear 34 Fairview, Baltimore.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (3:25)

There we go. There we go. There we go. So snowy, snowy night, huge snowstorm. They go to 34 Fairview. She's like, dude, like, the lights are off. What's going on? There's no party. Why are we here? Like, I don't want to be here. Let's go somewhere else. He's like, no, my friends are inside. So she's like, go inside, make sure people are there. Like, it doesn't feel like we're welcome here. This is weird. He goes inside. She says that's the last time she ever saw him. She gets pissed that she's been waiting outside for five minutes. She drives off again. Snowstorm. She's possibly drunk driving away. Now, the next morning, news breaks that he was murdered. His friends now were dealing with a Boston cop, so all his friends are law enforcement. Okay?

Josh (4:09)

Terry, Mickey, Robbie.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (4:12)

Boston, Boston. Like, this is not good. Okay?

Josh (4:15)

He's a state trooper over on, you know, on the Sagamore Highway. I don't even know where that is. You know, we'll meet at Duncan, we'll get a coffee and we'll go, you.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (4:24)

Know, Josh, someone is dead.

Josh (4:26)

I'm so sorry.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (4:27)

Okay, so listen, on their side, what they say is she backed into him and left him for dead. We didn't even know he was outside. Okay? She alleges you guys fucking killed him, put him outside, and now you're all framing me. And why? What would be the motive again? Boston cop, law enforcement. And also he's. His grandfather was a cop. We have all, all of that at play. And you also have someone who Was inside the house, who at around 2.27am, hours before he was found, did a Google search that says, how long to die in the cold or in the snow?

Josh (5:07)

Yeah.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (5:08)

How long does it take? So if 2:27am is hours before he dies, why are you searching that? You don't even know if he's dead. So the argument on her side, her defenses, you guys planned this. He was murdered inside the house. The injuries are not consistent with vehicular manslaughter. Right. She didn't do it with her vehicle. And it's, you know, to her credit, the images of the injuries that you do see, they look like scratches. They look like there's really no bruise. I would imagine if you're hit with a car, there would be some sort of bruise. Right. But she does have a tail light in the back of the car that's crushed. Right. They said. They say they found a piece of his hair close to the tail light, which also. Yes. On the bumper. So. Which also doesn't make sense in a way, because this huge snowstorm. But one piece of hair was still stuck on the car when they traveled from that house to wherever they took it to do the investigation. It doesn't make sense. But the first trial, that I believe, it ended about a year ago. At this point, hung jury, no one could convince all 12 jurors of the same thing. So we had a mistrial. Now, they were very quick to let everyone know, oh, we're going to try her again. So sometimes you get lucky. And the prosecution, they figure out that, listen, we're never gonna win this. Let's just, we're done. We're not gonna try it again. But they've decided to try her again. Now, the difference between the two cases now is that in between all of this, Karen Reid did that documentary that Ben didn't watch or maybe watched and didn't pay attention to.

Ben (6:48)

Didn't see. Didn't see it. Didn't see it. I watched juror number two with her.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (6:54)

Okay.

Ben (6:54)

Which sounds kind of similar to this story. I'm not gonna lie. But, no, I did not see Karen. That said, you gave such a wonderful synopsis. If we can get that synopsis for.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (7:05)

The rest of these.

Ben (7:07)

I feel like I watched it. I don't need to watch it. Okay. I don't need to watch it. That said, she's innocent.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (7:13)

She's innocent. So here's what's very, very interesting. So between these two trials, she recorded this documentary you don't have. Defendants usually take the stand, and she's not going to take the stand. But what do you have this documentary full of what you could call her testimony? And she even says at the beginning of the documentary, this is my testimony. She.

Ben (7:37)

Is it admissible?

Limor Mojdehi Azad (7:38)

It's admissible.

Ben (7:40)

Okay.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (7:40)

It's admissible.

Ben (7:41)

You got.

Josh (7:42)

Yo, stop doing these documentaries. They got Robert Durst like this.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (7:46)

Oh, that's.

Josh (7:48)

Yo, you're screwing yourselves.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (7:51)

You really are. But fame is a drug.

Ben (7:53)

Let's take a step back, then, so quickly, because the cops thing. All right? Why? What are the cops? What, they accidentally killed their friend or they killed the friend? What do they have against the girl? Do we know? Is there some beef going on between, like, the cop friends and the girl that, like, happened before this night?

Limor Mojdehi Azad (8:10)

Great question. As far as I know from watching the documentary, they all loved Karen. All of them loved her.

Josh (8:17)

She seems like a fun time.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (8:18)

She seems like a bit of a smoke show. My. You know what my husband Richard said? He said she looks like Diane Lane. And he's right. She does look like Diana. She's. She's. She's. She's gorgeous. Okay, fine, Whatever. So I think that also plays into it. This is very much a trial by media to an extent. I don't know how clean this jury is after such a spectacle of the first trial, but I do know that, and I'm biased when I say this. It's very obvious. Cops are cops. They have egos. They're not going to let one of their brothers just, you know, he's dead. They were there. You're going to look at us. We didn't do it. We protect people and we protect our own. So part of the argument is maybe what they're saying is she left him in the snow. Right? She hit him, left him in the snow. That's how he died. She's saying they must have gotten to either an argument inside and then put him out there, or they got in an argument inside and then he stayed outside. Right, Right. And he just froze in the snow or whatever happened. That's the. They're not pointing to anyone else. That's the issue. There's no one else. They're pointing to. Karen Reed for the defense is obviously pointing to the cops, which is a big, you know, that's a big obstacle, I would imagine, in a place like Boston. But she has all these fans outside of the courtroom every single day, even for the second trial, to listen to the same shit.

Josh (9:41)

And why would they.

Ben (9:42)

But why would these cops lie? Like, maybe this is just like a window into the way That I feel about cops in general. Like, I think there are some bad apples. But I think cops are very truthful. I think the reason that they sign up to be cops is to protect the integrity of the law. It's very confusing to me. Is it possible that he slipped, fell?

Josh (10:02)

But Ben, can. I was in the snow on that for one second. Going with your line of thinking, though. No one was on duty. Right. Everyone's drunk partying. Right. So, yes, hopefully that morality is embedded in them. But they technically weren't in uniform, they weren't on was what could have been drunk, dumb people in that moment.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (10:22)

Right, right. And let me correct you here, but.

Ben (10:25)

You love her, and then you're framing her. Very strange.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (10:29)

Well, they love her as the girlfriend of the friend that they probably love more. They want justice for his family. I mean, listen, if you watch the trial, you see his family in the courtroom every day, which really pisses me off that they're doing a retrial because this family has to sit there and listen to all of this. And what's even more tragic is that o' Keefe was the. So backtrack. His sister passed away from some ailment. I don't remember. And I don't want to get it wrong. She had two children. Her husband died two months after she passed away. O' Keefe took on the role of the parent for these two kids, and now he's gone. So if there's ever a scenario where people want justice, it's something like this. This is what it looks like. And I have to disagree with you, Ben, that I don't agree that cops are the ones who protect the integrity of the law. They rarely know the law. I'm sorry. They really just know what they need to do. They don't know the elements of certain. They just don't know. I have so many clients who call the cops when there are domestic violence incidents in their homes. And the cops say, you need to get a restraining order. We can't do anything. They just won't do anything. It's just. Are they in the mood to arrest someone? They kind of think that domestic violence incidents are just very petty. They're just, you know, low bar for them or low brow, whatever. Whatever it is. And they. I don't think that they are the ones who are protecting.

Josh (12:07)

Is that the prosecutors? Are they the true justice warriors, the DA's, the people who, you know, pursue the charges?

Limor Mojdehi Azad (12:16)

I think so. And I think that the defense attorneys also are because. Right. We're on. We're on different sides. And we. We interpret. That's the funny thing about the law. The law can be interpreted in a number of ways. Right? So you have the prosecution saying, this was second degree murder. This was vehicular manslaughter. She also left the scene of the crime while intoxicated. And then you have the defense saying, listen, if the burden of proof is beyond a reasonable doubt, there are holes in what you're saying. You can't put someone in prison for life if there is even one hole in your argument. The biggest hole that the defense is playing is someone else could have done this.

Ben (13:00)

So you have any priors?

Limor Mojdehi Azad (13:01)

I don't think so.

Ben (13:03)

Was she clean? She was clean.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (13:05)

Yeah. Here's another problem. Here's another problem. At the beginning of the documentary, remember, it's for entertainment purposes. Right? The beginning. I swear to you, it's in the first 10 minutes. Ask Claudia and then have her FaceTime me because I'm obsessed with her. Within the first 10 minutes of this documentary, she's saying, oh. Oh, my God. When I heard that this is. That he was dead, I thought, oh, my God. I was kind of drunk. Did I reverse and hit him? Was there some sort of sound that I didn't hear? And I left him there, and his head hit the curb, and the this and the that and the that. She started to question her own memory of what happened also and felt a lot.

Ben (13:46)

Did you see juror. Did you guys see juror number two?

Limor Mojdehi Azad (13:49)

I actually didn't.

Ben (13:50)

This is the exact plot.

Josh (13:52)

Are you confusing it? No.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (13:54)

You actually watch the character.

Ben (13:57)

No, no, no. This. No, this is juror number two. The plot of this fucking. It's the same thing. There's a guy, he's out at a bar. He goes, it's a rainy night. It's not snowy. They're over. Like, he thinks that he sees a deer. He actually hits a woman. She falls over the banister.

Josh (14:16)

What does that say about the woman?

Ben (14:17)

Yikes.

Josh (14:18)

She.

Ben (14:19)

She got into a fight. She's walking along. She looks like a mo.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (14:28)

You're a good guy, not a great guy.

Ben (14:32)

She's walking alone, and he doesn't realize that he killed her. He actually thinks he hit a deer. And then through all of this, he finds out that he hit this woman. This is the same thing. Olivia, did you see juror number two?

Limor Mojdehi Azad (14:45)

I did not see juror number two.

Ben (14:47)

I'm so.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (14:47)

Fuck. This is a big.

Ben (14:49)

This was a huge show. This is a huge show. I saw a huge, huge show. None of you guys saw this huge show.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (14:55)

I guess it's not huge.

Josh (14:56)

I've never even seen the office.

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Josh (17:42)

What do you think? Is there a slight reflection too? Is she able to have now been fighting this the second time? Because she has the means to, to. I mean she's paying for this gigantic badass defense counsel. Right. Like if she had a public defender, there's a good chance that she wouldn't be here right now. Right.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (18:00)

That's a really, really good point. And not to name drop, but I've worked with Alan Jackson before. He is the lead defense attorney. He is so kick ass, everyone wishes they could afford him. I think that at this point he might not even be getting paid, to be honest with you. Yeah, I mean this is, yeah, that pro bono life. Listen, I think he's doing it because really believes in this case and the injustice that's occurring. And listen, not for nothing, it's pretty.

Ben (18:29)

Good publicity, let's be honest.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (18:31)

Publicity. As far as I knew Alan Jackson, he was just a hotshot in LA that we would call. Right. If you have a restraining order, you need to defend all of that or prosecute.

Josh (18:41)

Is it like a Garrigo Sir Robert Shapiro type?

Limor Mojdehi Azad (18:44)

Okay, got it. Yes, exactly. And he's, you know, if your client's rich, you call Alan Jackson and to figure it out. Yeah.

Josh (18:51)

Do they become badasses because of just their ability or is it their relationship with the people? Like if you are a badass LA attorney.

Ben (19:00)

Good question.

Josh (19:01)

The district attorneys with the judges that they just have a shorthand.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (19:05)

It's a very good question. It's absolutely the people you know, 100% the people you know. And I'm not saying that they can do something underhanded or secretly or anything like that, but if you don't have access to an Alan Jackson, even if you have the money, you have the funds, you have the access in that way, but you don't know that he exists, you're just going to get whoever you know. You call the state bar and they give you a criminal Defense attorney.

Ben (19:33)

I think he was more asking. Unless, Josh, I misunderstood you. Is, is it, is it more about who Alan Jackson knows that he becomes the guy, or is it based on who he's worked with in the past? Is that right, Josh? Or is it different kind of both.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (19:47)

Yeah. Yeah. So Alan even knowing. So she initially had hired attorney Yanetti or Yanelli, I forget. And he had her call. I believe, again, I forget. A Harvard, some professor at Harvard who knew Alan Jackson and was like, you need to call Alan Jackson. Why Alan knows this professor? I don't know. It was the Kevin Spacey connection because he. Alan Jackson also represented Kevin Spacey. Right. And got. Got him off. Not got him off, but got him off. And so, you know, everyone knows him and he knows everyone. So you kind of, you know, Nettie brings him onto the case because we have Alan Jackson power. Let's do it.

Josh (20:29)

Yeah, let's go. Lest anyone think I don't want to sound that I'm being critical of public defenders because many of them are doing God's work.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (20:36)

Absolutely.

Josh (20:36)

They just have a limited bandwidth because they're, you know, they're government employees.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (20:41)

Yes, yes. Again, if you watch the documentary, you would see the war room. Okay. This is where, if you have a months long or weeks long trial at a courthouse, you have your room where that's your office, that's your conference room. That's everything. Right? Alan Jackson lives in L. A. Yeah. But he's in Massachusetts doing this trial. You need that. What Alan Jackson and his team can do is not what the public defenders can do. Okay. They're sitting there till 3am timing the closing argument to make sure it's under one hour so they get every single word in the prosecution and he didn't. Alan Jackson did an excellent job the first time around with that closing argument. What happened with the prosecution, other, you know, the state, they went over the time, the judge cut the prosecutor off and said, you're done. No more closing argument. And he said, I have one last sentence. And he gave his last sentence, but there was no mic drop. You need a mic drop, Karen. Re trial, all eyes on you. You need a mic drop. So for this second, for the retrial, that attorney, I believe, is now second chair, and there is a new prosecutor who's doing all the work.

Josh (21:52)

He's like, I won that sentence.

Ben (21:54)

I.

Josh (21:58)

So was the mic drop of like the O.J. trial. If the glove don't fit, you must acquit.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (22:03)

Right.

Josh (22:03)

Because I know it's exactly 25 years later.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (22:06)

Exactly. That One hole. You just need one hole. Because beyond a reasonable doubt means this is sealed with a kiss. This person did it. We know they did it. We have no questions about it. Beyond a reasonable doubt means you cannot point to anyone else. And I think, even though I'll say this, there are also voicemails from Karen to O' Keefe that same night after she allegedly leaves the 34 Fairview, where she says, I fucking hate you. You've ruined my life. You're the worst person ever. Whatever. Now, you can think she killed him and then did this, or you can think she thinks he's still in the house, ignoring her. And she's like, fuck you, I left. Fuck you. I hate you.

Ben (22:52)

Based on juror number two.

Josh (22:55)

Let'S bring it back to juror numerals.

Ben (22:59)

I am 100 sure that she accidentally hit him with her car backing up. Left. Has no idea that she hit him. He went unconscious into the snow, froze to death. And this is just. This is an accident. This is an accident.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (23:17)

What. What about the Google search? Why is anyone searching how long to die in the cold?

Josh (23:22)

And Ben, because.

Ben (23:23)

Because guys are dumb and weird.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (23:25)

We go, it was a woman.

Josh (23:27)

McCabe. McCabe.

Ben (23:29)

Right. Yeah, but Ben.

Josh (23:30)

But remember, it's a house full of. And it's not the city, right? It's a beautiful, quiet suburban street. You hear a bang at midnight.

Ben (23:40)

I don't think it's.

Josh (23:40)

You don't.

Ben (23:41)

I don't think it's a bang. I don't think it's a bang. You said that it's in the snow.

Josh (23:44)

But it hit his body, right? Like, you don't come outside like. And your boy was sexy. Like, I'm on my way. You saw lights in the drive. You heard that car. You're not like, what happened? You don't check.

Ben (23:56)

That's an interesting thought as well. I am thinking, though, like in basketball, you have a non contact injury. All of a sudden, the guy tore his Achilles and it didn't look like he even got touched. Maybe he just got hit in the wrong spot. All of a sudden, he's on the ground. He's buried under the snow. They can't find him. They can't find him.

Josh (24:11)

It's. Why. So I'd love to know.

Ben (24:14)

This is very troubling. This is very troubling.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (24:17)

If it's troubling, then you cannot say she's guilty. Of course, any seed of doubt. You can't be 100% sure.

Ben (24:24)

Let me. Let me clarify in my. And when I said that she hit him and left him for not. I was not saying that she was guilty. This was a complete accident. This was a complete accident. This is a mistrial. Rip it up.

Josh (24:41)

If this is a mistrial again, can it be. What's the word? Like they did it with. After the rush shooting with Baldwin.

Ben (24:48)

With Alec Baldwin.

Josh (24:49)

Right. The judge said this cannot be retried again.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (24:52)

Right.

Josh (24:52)

Can they do that with it in this case?

Limor Mojdehi Azad (24:54)

Yes, they can do that. It depends on what is the reason for the mistrial. So we had a mistrial initially. First case because of the hung jury. So Alec Baldwin. It was really the prosecution playing dirty. Not handing over evidence, not giving them discovery. It's like, what are you guys. What are you guys doing? Right?

Ben (25:14)

You really have to change that name. Hung jury. It's just strange. I'm now over here thinking that the jury's got huge.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (25:23)

Oh my God.

Josh (25:25)

This is a mother.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (25:26)

This is a. Oh my God.

Ben (25:28)

That jury is hung.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (25:30)

Oh my God. Oh my God.

Ben (25:35)

Juror number two, the hung jury. It's a porno.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (25:39)

It's a porno. Okay. Yes. And you didn't watch it. You let your wife watch it. I hear the hung jury.

Ben (25:47)

The hung jury.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (25:48)

That's funny. Oh my God.

Josh (25:50)

What goes into. In preparing someone like Karen Reed? Like her outfits are giving Olivia, am I right? Like how much thought gets put into how she's gonna look? What's she gonna present when she's on trial?

Limor Mojdehi Azad (26:03)

A lot.

Josh (26:04)

Really.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (26:04)

A lot. You always want your clients to just look polished. That doesn't mean if we're going to court for a simple hearing that you're wearing a full on four piece suit. But business casual. Right? And Karen Reed, I mean, we're at the point where we have seen these legal circuses play out. People are picking at everything, right? So she was even arrested the second time. And she's like, can I go change? I'm literally not wearing underwear under these pants. I'm wearing little slippers. And the cops, when they walk away from her, they're like, she cares about what she looks like. And she's, she's like, I'm going to be on Channel 4 news looking like this. Because she knows. And listen, it's true. Women, okay, get the wrath of this. So for her again, what she says on the documentary, she's like, I got all these suits. There's only really four nice suits for women now. I have all these dresses and this is what I'm going to wear. And not for nothing, you know, it's also the mentality of I don't know if you guys grew up like this, but we're going to the doctor. Dress up a little bit. It's a doctor. It's a professional. Right. You're going into a courtroom, people are watching you, how you blink, how you flinch, if you flinch. Right. So there's a lot of thought that goes into what she's wearing, what her attorneys are wearing. Okay. And I think one of the reasons they switched the prosecutor is because this new one is a lot more polished than the other one, unfortunately. And it's just, you know, when you see certain people, you're judging them. And when you have a months long or week, weeks long trial, the jurors are getting bored. They're going to look at her the whole time and just, you know, sometimes you look at someone, you're like, they could have done this. I know they did this. You're not even listening to the evidence. You're just looking at them, judging them. Maybe your dad had an ex girlfriend who looked just like her and she was this big. And you're like, I know the type. I know the type. Right? So you even tell, you know, sometimes you tell your clients what expressions to make or not make.

Josh (28:02)

And is the jury isolated? No. No, they're going home at the end of the day.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (28:06)

Yes, they're going home.

Josh (28:07)

Okay, so.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (28:08)

Because I believe so.

Josh (28:09)

That can add an extra layer where you're like, I want to go back to work in my life and I've been here and I'm over it. Like, whatever. Let's just to the. Which shouldn't be.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (28:18)

But people can get that way 100%. We saw it in the Amber Heard versus Johnny Depp trial. I believe at a certain point we were getting close to Memorial Weekend and the judge was like, let's look at our calendars. No one wants to be here on this day or that day. I have a conference the other day, right? Yeah.

Ben (28:34)

What a judge are we.

Josh (28:36)

He's like, I'm going to Ultra.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (28:38)

She.

Ben (28:38)

She jealous.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (28:40)

She.

Ben (28:44)

Are we really supposed to believe that none of these jurors have heard of this or seen the documentary, though? Isn' that supposed to be a precursor that they go into this completely blind?

Limor Mojdehi Azad (28:52)

Yes. And guess what? That circus they see outside. Right. We love Karen. Free Karen. That leaves an impression, too.

Ben (29:00)

So you're also researching this is. This is baloney. Like, this doesn't. It doesn't make any sense. That's why I had asked in the beginning, is the documentary admissible? Because it's a Netflix documentary and you just happen to be scrolling. It's not like they're not allowed to watch tv. They're on Netflix or whatever streamer it was on. It's promoted. It pops to the top. They see it, they click on it, Right?

Limor Mojdehi Azad (29:21)

Yeah.

Ben (29:21)

Like, I don't understand how you try this again if everybody already has seen the documentary.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (29:26)

Yeah.

Ben (29:26)

Except for me, who saw the adjacent documentary. Juror number two.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (29:31)

Yeah, yeah, I agree.

Josh (29:33)

It is amazing. Like, I remember my boy Jaime. Shout out, Jaime in heaven.

Ben (29:38)

Okay, shout out.

Josh (29:39)

But I remember Jaime got picked up for. I don't know what it was. Drugs, something. Something minor. But like, he was in the San Fernando jail, which is like the sticks of the San Fernando Valley. You don't want to get put in jail there. And he was sitting like, they were like, you're going to sit now. And our boy Eric, shout out, my boy Eric, who's a criminal defense attorney. We're like, eric, we know you get paid the big bucks. Jaime needs you. This is going to be PB baby.

Ben (30:05)

This is your good deed.

Josh (30:08)

And I'll never forget, like, it went from Jaime, like sitting in a cell to Eric walking into the courtroom looking at the DA going, can I talk to you? And Jaime was out within, like, I mean, it, like, couldn't have been a quicker deal and maybe that would have happened for him, but it wouldn't have been that day.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (30:26)

Yeah.

Josh (30:27)

Like, it would have been days, weeks perhaps. It was all the difference.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (30:30)

Yeah. That's an example of what you guys were speaking about before. Just knowing the right people. So if you're in the prisons and the law enforcement offices, in and out the courthouse, in and out. You know the players, Right. So in every field of the law, if you know the players, it's going to make a difference. Even if you know just a clerk, you see them all the time. You're checking in all the time. If you tell that clerk, listen, I'm going to be an hour late, they'll just make a note of it. If they don't know you, they're going to be like, no, it starts at 8:30. You have to be here at 8:30. Get away from me. I have other people in line. Right. So it does. It does make a difference.

Josh (31:07)

And to your point too, about what you dress like. I remember I went to traffic court once, okay. Represented myself.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (31:18)

A pro per. Oof.

Josh (31:20)

And I wore just a button up shirt to show respect to the court.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (31:23)

There we go.

Josh (31:24)

Nothing crazy. But this is traffic court, dog. So people are there like in Timbs and like hoodies and whatnot. I will never forget this. That I'm there and a guy is fighting a red light camera ticket. And he goes, judge, I swear to God, that wasn't me. And the judge looks at the photo, looks at the guy and goes, you're wearing the same sweater.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (31:47)

No. I was like, damn, Maybe it was his only good outfit.

Josh (31:55)

It's coincidence. You know what I mean?

Ben (31:58)

Terrible. Those stupid cameras are terrible. They get me all the time.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (32:03)

Oh, that's. That sucks.

Josh (32:04)

But wearing the button up and saying like, I was like, your honor.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (32:08)

Exactly right.

Josh (32:09)

And she, I just saw her, like, demeanor change and go like, okay, what do you have to say? And then she was like, you still got to pay the fine.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (32:15)

I was like, you have to show deference to the court. You have to, right? You have to.

Ben (32:21)

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Josh (35:50)

Let'S transition to the Diddy case because what we've heard is that and with federal cases, they don't allow cameras. Wait, Right.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (35:57)

Wait, wait.

Ben (35:58)

Let's just side. Did she do it? Did she not? Well, Josh, do you think she did it or no?

Josh (36:02)

I'm going to say no because as attorneys like us know, Esquire is that it's isn't. Isn't the saying it's better that nine guilty men go free than one innocent man goes away? Yeah. So I'm going to say no. I think there's a shadow of a doubt. I see a shadow.

Ben (36:18)

Okay.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (36:18)

Same, same there. This is not A beyond the. They're not meeting their burden of proof.

Ben (36:23)

I believe that she should be freed. I don't know if she did it or not, but there is not enough evidence to tell me that this woman should go to prison.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (36:30)

Wow. You should be a juror, and you should be appointed the four person. That was brilliant.

Ben (36:35)

Great.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (36:35)

Perfect.

Ben (36:36)

I'm in perfect, and I haven't seen it. I'm the perfect juror.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (36:39)

You're the perfect.

Josh (36:41)

Ben would be the greatest foreman for a jury because, you know, first and foremost, he'd be like, listen, before we go in deliberation, can we have a spread?

Ben (36:50)

Okay, we talking.

Josh (36:53)

You have peanuts here. Can we get some cold cuts?

Ben (36:58)

We're near that Jury would be well fed. We're gonna have a way in. Day one and a weighing. She's innocent. And the jury gained 50 pounds. Oh, my.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (37:13)

Let me say this, since we're on this topic. And now I can say it, even though I'm gonna embarrass my husband. You mentioned Ben, the Peter Luger sauce.

Josh (37:20)

Yeah.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (37:20)

Is that correct?

Ben (37:21)

Yes. Fantastic.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (37:23)

So. So I'm sephardic, he's Ashkenazi. You guys have a thing with horseradish. We don't have that thing with horseradish. So once he heard about this sauce, he ordered it. He said he's like an A1 sauce fanboy. Okay.

Ben (37:36)

And does he agree this is the number one steak sauce?

Limor Mojdehi Azad (37:38)

I even agree this is the number one steak sauce. I put it on chicken nuggets the other day.

Ben (37:44)

This is the number one steak sauce. It's not even a question. This is the number one steak sauce.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (37:48)

I had never even heard of it. It.

Josh (37:49)

It's good stuff.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (37:50)

It is so good.

Ben (37:53)

It's excellent.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (37:53)

Good job.

Ben (37:54)

Excellent.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (37:55)

Good job.

Ben (37:55)

So I'd bring. I'd bring some Luger sauce into the jury room.

Josh (37:59)

Yeah, I know. The state has no money. My father's a caterer.

Ben (38:05)

I'll do it pro bono.

Josh (38:07)

He's gonna bring a case of vodka sauce. He's got half of it at my house already.

Ben (38:12)

Pro bono catering. That's funny. That's so good.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (38:15)

They need catering. Okay, go support your.

Ben (38:17)

Okay, so she didn't do it. Now we can move on to Diddy.

Josh (38:21)

Someone who did do it.

Ben (38:22)

No, clearly, for sure.

Josh (38:27)

What we're hearing a lot from the reports from the courtroom is that he's all gray. He's wearing kind of, like, cardigans, like, almost aging himself a bit. What do you think about that?

Limor Mojdehi Azad (38:38)

I think it's kind of smart. You kind of make him look A little helpless or a little, you know, it's an old dude. He's not doing this to this young little, you know, she's not a minor, but to this little girl. He didn't do any of these things. He just has some fetishes, whatever. There was also, you know, an issue with. Cassie is pregnant. So the defense argued to the judge, we don't want her walking into the courtroom and taking a seat. We want her sitting down when the jury comes out. We don't need them to see her eight months pregnant. And the judge was like, no, she's walking in, she's gonna be pregnant, and they're going to see that she's pregnant and testifying. So that was a big issue for them, too.

Ben (39:16)

So it's interesting that you. It's interesting that you said that him looking older could play to his advantage. To me, if I look at what Diddy looked like and look at Diddy now, that is a man whose secrets are eating away at his insides. That is a man that is so fucking stressed and so guilty that he is literally going to pass away from the stress. So seeing him like that tells me everything that I need to know. Because if he, if he want, if he was innocent, which he's obviously not, I think he. He's like, oh, like, like confident. Walking in like, I didn't do this. And he's, he is, he is guilty.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (39:51)

It's very, very, very interesting. What about the perspective of. He's a rapper. They look a certain way. He has bad boy entertainment and he comes in this crippled old man.

Ben (40:04)

It's interesting. It's interesting.

Josh (40:06)

The problem is, is that we know, like last year when he. It initially came out and he wasn't in jail yet, but he had been charged and his mansion had been raided, he was like, riding bikes in Miami and whatnot. Like, I just, if I'm the juror, I go, yeah, you haven't had this decline in nine months. And regardless, what does that have to do with what you've done over the last two decades?

Limor Mojdehi Azad (40:28)

That would be a great juror. Right?

Josh (40:30)

Yeah.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (40:30)

But you would also hope they didn't see any of that footage. Right.

Josh (40:34)

Because God got it.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (40:35)

Yeah. So, you know, another thing that bothers me as far as looks and optics is his children. Again, they're not minors, but his children are in the courtroom room for what? These are disgusting allegations.

Ben (40:49)

The.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (40:49)

You know, I've even refrained somewhat from posting on Tick Tock about this case, even though I told my audience I will go day to day because the allegations are disgusting and there's evidence to corroborate these allegations. I don't want my children. Whether I'm innocent or guilty, whatever it is, I wouldn't want my kids to hear any of this.

Josh (41:08)

Right?

Limor Mojdehi Azad (41:08)

None of it. None of it. But he has his kids in the courtroom and they're dressed to the nines too. And all of that for what?

Ben (41:16)

It's the same thing that you said about his looks. It's like if he has a united front, so he thinks. And his kids are there and they look good and they're hearing this, they're there to support dad because he didn't do anything. Like, that's obviously what the thought is. Even though they're probably. They have to be getting paid. Like there probably was some conversation like, if you don't show up for me, I'm not giving you any of my money.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (41:36)

Your allowance is cut off.

Ben (41:37)

Your inheritance. Like, he's still. He still has an unbelievable amount of money. No matter what happens in this case, he has an unbelievable amount of money that would go to them. Right? So that would be a lot. That would be logical to me. Do we need to explain to the audience what's going on? Or we're saying that they're aware of Diddy and if they're not, they have their head in. Their head in the sand.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (41:55)

Let's see if I could do it. You got it.

Josh (41:57)

You're crushing it.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (41:58)

No problem.

Ben (42:00)

Sexual. I can do it. Sexual assault, trafficking. Mouths, Tootsie.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (42:09)

Shut up. So now we have Diddy. He's being accused of sex trafficking, RICO charges, and transportation to engage in pro. In prostitution. So sex trafficking is engaging in sex by being coerced. You're being forced to have sex. Okay. The racketeering charge, RICO charge is a racketeer, influence and corruption organization. So. So what the. What the feds are alleging is that he used some sort of enterprise to do all of these things. Think of the mafia or mob, right?

Josh (42:43)

It was created for the mob, this kind of charge, Right?

Limor Mojdehi Azad (42:46)

Exactly right. That's exactly right. So we have one side where it's like, well, this is. It seems like a one man show. You can't have a one man rico. I guess you can. It's not ideal. If you're prosecuted, if you're the prosecution, it's not ideal. But what they're alleging is, is Bad Boy Entertainment. Every other company that has to do with Diddy was somehow involved in this. There had to be someone that was organizing, getting these sex slaves, sex workers. You Know, however they categorize each individual. Someone getting the hotel rooms, knowing what's going on. Someone buying the baby oil. Okay. Someone cleaning up the hotel room. Someone paying the charge. It's a whole enterprise and people know what's going on. And it's just, you know, organized crime. Okay. And then the transportation for the prostitution is just bringing in people to have sex with X, Y and Z just across state lines.

Josh (43:41)

What is the defense's strategy with this?

Limor Mojdehi Azad (43:44)

So you mentioned Mark Garagos. I believe his daughter is on the defense team. What they are saying or what they've said so far in their opening statement and some of their cross examination is, is you guys will hate Diddy. He's not a great guy. He's not even a good guy. Okay. He has committed. Okay, I just smelled your mic. He has committed domestic violence, possibly. He has engaged in freak offs. They're not illegal. He has kinks. Not illegal. Treats his lovers like. Not illegal. He likes baby oil. Not illegal. Their defenses, he may have done some disgusting shit, but it doesn't rise to the level of sex trafficking, RICO and transporting people for prostitution. He's not. He's not guilty of these things, even though he's horrible. If you charged him properly for domestic violence, this, that and the other, maybe, but not this. You're not winning on these charges, are they?

Ben (44:42)

Right?

Limor Mojdehi Azad (44:43)

I don't think so.

Ben (44:44)

Because it is like, as you say that, like, wouldn't you just rather like him go away for the things that he for sure did versus this enormous, like maybe he did this huge organized crime situation, but wouldn't you just rather him be like a known scumbag?

Limor Mojdehi Azad (45:05)

That's a good point. Here's the problem. We don't.

Ben (45:07)

Are you able to retry? Sorry? Are you able to retry him? Let's say that this doesn't go the way that he wants to. Are you able to retry him for these lesser crimes?

Limor Mojdehi Azad (45:16)

So the criminal charges, a lot of them, the statute of limitations has expired. Okay. And we know that Cassie settled her suit for $20 million.

Ben (45:27)

Yeah.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (45:27)

Right. And she has said on the stand, I would give $20 million back to undo all those freak offs. Right. So we're at a point where this is the evidence they have, this is what they can get him for. It's kind of like OJ Going to prison for stealing back his. His what? Memorabilia or whatever. Whatever happened in that one case. Right. It's like you didn't get him for the murder. Everyone thinks he's a murderer. Put him to jail. For something. Put him to jail for something. So part of the defense's defense is also, yes, you've overcharged him. You've overcharged him. You guys just want to put a bad guy in prison because he's a bad guy without actually meeting the burden of proof here.

Ben (46:05)

Sure.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (46:05)

So that, you know, it's a, it's a, a good defense. It's not a great defense. Just the things we are hearing, the testimony we're hearing is just so disgusting and repulsive. And like you said, 1% will get him there. They want, you know, they show text messages from Cassie saying, when's the next freak off? Oh, I'm ready. Oh, that was so good that night. Listen, we're talking about over a decade of this type of, of these types of actions, Right. I don't care if you. There's three text messages in 10 years where she said, let's go do it. I don't care. We're talking about marathon sex parties, okay? No one wants to engage in those day after day, day after day, day after day, getting UT eyes, which is what she testified to, being on her period. They are saying, okay, there's testimony that says we had to put down linens when I was on my period and we did these freak offs and they were drenched in blood and bodily fluids. Diddy would get these outrageous hotel bills because every single hotel room we stayed at was trashed at the end of every visit. Every stay.

Ben (47:17)

And when are the rest of the people that are clearly involved in this gonna come? Like, when are they gonna be held accountable to? Like, I specifically remember, I don't know how much time you spent in Miami, but if you spent any time in Miami between. I'm sure it happened way before I was there. 2010 to 2020, if you went to live or you like hung out, you heard about Diddy having parties on Star Island. Like, that was. And that reached like a 21 year old Jew on a Pesach program. Like every. Like, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not even exaggerating. Like, you knew Diddy was having a party on Star Island. You could, you could see the party, like from mainland because his house was so fucking big. And so this idea of eating cholet.

Josh (48:07)

Wow.

Ben (48:08)

This idea that he's alone. And like, Josh and I spoke about this on a recent episode. Like, Will Smith recently posted, like, get my name out of there. I had nothing to do with this. I'm not trying to say that he did. It's just if you were friends with Diddy, you probably did. Like, I don't like. Right. Like, this is very Epsteiny, is it not?

Limor Mojdehi Azad (48:26)

It's very Epsteiny. But remember, this isn't. This wasn't the purpose of. Of his parties. The parties were just to show, I'm Diddy, I have a lot of money. Everyone, you know who was relevant at the time would be at these parties. Are you talking about the white parties or just. He's just having parties all the time.

Ben (48:43)

All the. All the time.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (48:44)

All the parties, yeah. So this could happen in an isolated room where the people who are in the know know that it's occurring and he's having these parties upstairs, or he's having these parties to figure out who's down, and then the next day they engage in this. You know, especially during that time period, Ben, I think everyone wanted to go to a Diddy party. If I was invited, I would have gone.

Ben (49:08)

Yeah.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (49:09)

I would have never thought this was Diddy. I would have never thought that. Right. I would have. I would have. I would have taken pictures. They'd be framed.

Ben (49:15)

Totally. No, because you were. You were excited to go and meet Diddy.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (49:19)

Yeah.

Ben (49:19)

Yeah.

Josh (49:19)

No good. No good.

Ben (49:21)

No good.

Josh (49:22)

I didn't love Puffy. I don't like dating. I'm pretty sure he had something to do with both the two greatest rappers to ever live not being here anymore. I'm just saying. Allegedly. I have no idea. Allegedly. Who needs him?

Ben (49:36)

I don't need him. Not me.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (49:40)

We don't need them. We don't need them.

Ben (49:42)

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Josh (53:37)

Last question before I would e nuts switching over to, you know, Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni. Another super public trial that's been going on. Case that's in the works recently. The big thing we hear is that Taylor Swift is going to be subpoenaed.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (53:52)

Yes.

Josh (53:52)

What does that look like? Does she have to appear?

Limor Mojdehi Azad (53:56)

Yes. So here's the thing. They have subpoenaed certain records related to Taylor Swift. Swift. Okay. They want to see phone records, it seems they want to see email records. Now what her team has done is filed a motion to quash. Which means get rid of this subpoena. She has nothing to do with this case. These things don't exist. They're irrelevant. Get rid of it. Why do we even know that what these texts might show? Because a discovery request, a subpoena for certain records words doesn't tell you exactly what they're looking for. They just say, I want all your text messages, all your emails. Now why the public even knows what those emails and texts may say is because Baldoni's team filed a letter to the judge saying we know they filed a motion to quash. These are very relevant. They are going to show that Taylor Swift and Blake Lively were engaging in these conversations where. Where Blake was asking Taylor, delete our text messages. Delete them. Delete them. Right. Get rid of evidence. Now then we have Blake side who then says asks the judge to strike that letter from the public record. Because we would have never seen that letter. Why? Why do we need to know what actually exists? Again, it's a trial by media. We're not even in the litigation that starts March 2027 6. This is all pre lit all of this, right.

Ben (55:23)

Disaster.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (55:24)

What a disaster. And so they asked the judge to strike that letter from the record. The judge agreed. Stop making this a spectacle. Right. But if these things are true or if they're not, let us see those text messages. Let their side see the text messages. Taylor Swift might be a very relevant player in all of this. She was allegedly at the house when Blake Lively was asking to change that rooftop scene. Right. Ryan Reynolds and Taylor Swift come out and they're like, she's so brilliant. You should do what she's saying, blah, blah, blah. She might be a very relevant player. Her records might be very relevant. And, you know, the media is going crazy over it. But I think Baldoni looked a little bit better in people's eyes before this whole Taylor Swift thing, just because he really. This was a big loss for him. Right? The court striking this and saying, listen, do not play with my court record. I don't want letters in here. I don't want you to try to play this through the media. Get rid of it. Stop doing this. And again, Blake Lively, one of her allegations is that Baldoni engaged in a huge smear campaign against her.

Josh (56:31)

Right?

Limor Mojdehi Azad (56:31)

Right. So, dude, you hired a lawyer who is loving this publicity. And he's literally like, that is. Is someone who would engage in a smear campaign. So if you're hanging out with that guy. What. What are you guys thinking?

Ben (56:45)

Yeah. How do you put a number on these suits? Like, how does some. Somebody says he's suing for $400 million. How the fuck do you come up with that?

Limor Mojdehi Azad (56:52)

It's a great question. So actually, a part of that is the suit against the New York Times for actually, for libel. So they printed. They printed information that they found from a civil rights complaint that started this whole thing. Blake Lively, she filed a complaint with the civil rights department about all of, you know, sexual harassment, astroturfing, which is the smear campaign. And he put an amount of $140 million on that suit. Where he came up with that number, I don't know Justin Baldoni. And you're telling me you have damages in the amount of $140 million?

Josh (57:26)

Because it's potential, what he would have made.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (57:28)

Exactly. It's potential. It's what he would have made, what he has lost. Now, remember, remember, you know, WME dropped him, right, okay. After this New York Times article came out. So that's a big, big issue. OK? He 100% lost money. 140 million.

Ben (57:45)

But how much money did Blake Lively lose from this smear campaign? Because I remember. I think we all remember. Literally overnight, Blake Lively went from a media darling to. You could not find an article pointing out something positive about her. It happened completely overnight. It was clearly a calculated attack, a coordinated attack. Like, it's just so. It's confusing. So he sues for this. She then countersues for that. Who ends up paying that? He doesn't have $400 million. Is it not worth everybody's time just to settle? You said this doesn't start until March 26th. It's now your entire life. Like, you're. How much does your life cost for five years? Like, it's crazy to me.

Josh (58:29)

And what about the Gossip Girl reunion?

Ben (58:31)

Is that not happening? Agreed. Chiefs.

Josh (58:35)

Crawford, he wouldn't mind.

Ben (58:37)

And what? And what? And what a darling that guy is. My God. My God.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (58:42)

But wasn't he in a relationship with an octopus on that one show?

Josh (58:46)

Let's keep the boys alive.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (58:47)

The boys. Anyway, he's fine. He's making a lot of money. But. Yeah. Yes. So 140 with that New York Times suit. 200 something with the other suit. All of that. So listen, sometimes you're like, Ah, it's 40 million. I may have lost. Let's make it 140 million. Okay. And then they figure out the numbers later. You could also change the number, whatever, so you.

Ben (59:09)

So you can put on any number you want. It's like these, like, fakta headlines of these podcast deals. This person got for sure got. Got a $500 million deal where it only works if you earn it out and you never hit it, and they end up with nothing. Nothing. Listen, like, it's like a.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (59:24)

Those for sure.

Ben (59:26)

So these are all just like.

Josh (59:27)

Unless you're just meeting.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (59:28)

Unless you got one. Your $25 million contract, that's coming through the pipeline very soon. That's not.

Ben (59:33)

Go 25. What are you nuts? We need Josh. We can make up the number. We.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (59:39)

You know. Right. You're right. And you're having a baby. You're having a $250 million contract made in uranium. Listen, the numbers are supposed to be backed by proof. I had this project, that project. All my projects are about $20 million, averaging right now. Once it ends with us comes out, I'm even more popular. Most likely, I'll be making $30 million a film. Right? But when you have these cases where there are just multiple cases going on again, like the Amber Heard and Johnny Depp trial that we saw, you could be saying 140. You could be saying 160. You both win. It's really 20 million from one side to the other. Right? Just cancels each other out. And Baldoni, it's very interesting. He's being backed by a billionaire. His partner for Wayfarer Studios is a billionaire who is footing the whole bill. It's his. It's his future also on the line. So he's footing the whole bill. I really would hope that these people would settle, but I think there's so much damage done already.

Ben (60:39)

Like, so much hate.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (60:41)

So much hate. And Ben, you really, you know, you would be a dream client, right? You're sensible, you're thinking. You guys stress for over two years. You want to be this stress for over two years. You both look bad, right? What are you doing?

Ben (60:53)

How do you even work? Like you can't work, right?

Limor Mojdehi Azad (60:56)

Well, I mean, Blake Lively, I've never seen her out and about more.

Ben (61:01)

This woman, well, she now has to work to repair her image.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (61:06)

Okay, but. Very true.

Ben (61:07)

But how does Baldoni work? How do you, how do you do anything? Like, what do you do?

Limor Mojdehi Azad (61:13)

He was very behind the scenes, like a behind the scenes kind of guy before all of this. So for him, I mean, he still has projects. He has a Scarlett Johansson project coming out, but he's very much, you know, really in the background now. He's not trying to show face anywhere. It's a very serious case. Sexual harassment is part of it, right? Smear campaign. That's a very big offense also. And you know, some argue. Was it really a smear campaign when people are just playing videos of you being a bitch?

Ben (61:40)

I, I, I, I personally, I'm not saying that he did it. I don't know who did it. There was 100% a coordinated attack against Blake Lively.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (61:48)

I agree with you.

Ben (61:48)

I don't know. I don't know who did it, what the reason was. Just because you have these videos doesn't mean they all come out at the exact same time over one weekend. Like all of a sudden she went from like untouchable to the polar opposite. So that is a smearcat.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (62:02)

But there's a virality component too, that you guys both know. One person gets a 24 million view video and then it does go that whole weekend, everyone posting about Blake.

Ben (62:12)

That's true. Maybe it's the TikTok effect. Maybe all of a sudden we're seeing like for the first time, what happens when you have a really high profile legal case and you have a viral platform like TikTok where people are just manipulating and sharing and view hunting and that's interesting. I don't know, you guys seem pretty.

Josh (62:32)

Set in your opinions about this. I don't have an opinion about it as much. Sorry. I'm just going to get to a quick ad read. Really quick. This episode is brought to you by Mint Movie here at Mint Mobile.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (62:42)

Wait.

Josh (62:42)

Ryan Reynolds founded wireless company. No, I'm kidding.

Ben (62:45)

I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I'm kidding.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (62:50)

You really got me. Holy sh. That was great. Lemur. Lamore.

Josh (62:56)

Lamore. Lamore.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (62:57)

Lemur. He had a problem with just my last name. And you're Jewish. No, you're not.

Josh (63:03)

I know. I'm bad. Lemur.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (63:06)

Lemur. Lemur.

Ben (63:08)

Is this Madagascar?

Limor Mojdehi Azad (63:10)

Oh, my God. I don't care if Claudia knows my name. It's okay.

Josh (63:15)

Can you shout out? First of all, you are now our political consultant. You're 100% our legal attache, our commentator. We love you. Come back, please. You've been.

Ben (63:26)

You will be back.

Josh (63:26)

Fabulous. Anything you want to plug? Anything you want to shout out to the people.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (63:31)

Listen, I've been so nervous because I'm such a big fan. Okay. I even told Josh yesterday, I'm like three Jews. I'm so excited. I'm so excited. So, number one, thank you both for having me. Me. So much fun. Yes, I do want to plug my TikTok, my Instagram, my YouTube. I'm @LawyerLamour on the platforms that matter. I have a podcast, Love and Order. It's been featured everywhere. No. No multi million dollar contracts yet.

Josh (63:57)

But now you're here.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (63:58)

One day you can make it up here. There we go. I. I rejected a $5 million contract because I'm waiting for the $25 million contract.

Ben (64:06)

Exactly. Lie, lie, lie.

Josh (64:08)

Us too.

Ben (64:09)

Us too.

Josh (64:09)

I think so.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (64:12)

Thank you so much for having me. This was awesome. Thank you.

Josh (64:15)

So, as a fan, you know.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (64:17)

Yep.

Josh (64:17)

I hope you have. If you don't have one, we'll show you.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (64:19)

I know it's coming.

Josh (64:20)

Okay. Our what do you nuts. Moment of the week are our gripes with people, places and things both big and small. Everything sticking in your craw. We'll start. Give you a moment to think about it. I'll start with mine. I don't know if you can see because I have been scrubbing my fingers. I'm not sure if you can see. They're a little red.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (64:36)

Yeah, gross. Why aren't you wearing a band aid?

Josh (64:39)

Because it's not blood. It's hot Cheetos powder. What are you nuts?

Ben (64:44)

I want to be.

Josh (64:46)

Listen. Shout out. The Frito Lay company organization. Shout out. We love We Stan.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (64:51)

We love We Stan.

Josh (64:52)

Yes, We Stan.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (64:53)

They.

Josh (64:54)

I don't.

Ben (64:54)

I.

Josh (64:55)

This is like a scarlet letter.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (64:57)

That is so embarrassing.

Josh (64:58)

It is. Walking around.

Ben (64:59)

It is.

Josh (65:00)

I want to have enjoyed a delicious hot Cheeto while I'm driving, listening to, I don't know, Barbra Streisand. Whatever I do, it's not your business, guys. But I don't want this all out here. Can we have a hot Cheetos dust removing gel? A solve Something. What are you, nuts?

Limor Mojdehi Azad (65:16)

Yeah.

Ben (65:16)

Yes. I think it's called washing your hands. What are you nuts?

Limor Mojdehi Azad (65:20)

I did.

Josh (65:21)

It's stained. This is a guy who's never had hot Cheetos. With your privilege.

Ben (65:26)

Oh, God. I've had hot Cheetos. Please. You know, you remember my. You remember my story about in camp where we shoved those 13 cheese balls.

Josh (65:33)

Up that kid's ass?

Ben (65:33)

Like, I bet Cheetos.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (65:35)

No, no.

Josh (65:36)

I know. I'm so sorry.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (65:37)

Oh, my God.

Josh (65:38)

You're upset at me more.

Ben (65:39)

You're another Lee Moore. He's happy. He's great. He loved it.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (65:44)

Are they still up there?

Ben (65:47)

Who knows if they ever really got up there. Okay, this is a fool.

Josh (65:53)

Limitations on cheese.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (65:55)

Up.

Josh (65:55)

Your touch.

Ben (65:55)

A cheese ball. A cheese ball really just evaporates. You can't push a whole cheese ball. They break.

Josh (66:01)

I know.

Ben (66:04)

They break.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (66:05)

I'm. Bye.

Ben (66:05)

Bye, baby.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (66:06)

Baby's not here. She's in the lobby.

Ben (66:08)

My, what are you, nuts? Moment of the week is that I have overdosed on yet another supplement I'm having. I'm having an issue on my eastern journey. I was told by somebody that oil of oregano was fantastic for general health. It was really great for when you get a cold. I thought, you know, I get sinus infections all the time. I'll just take it regularly to prevent them from coming. You can't do this, Josh. You can't do it. I overdosed on oil of oregano. I don't exactly know exactly what happened to me. I wasn't feeling good. I was lethargic. I looked it up. This is. What are you nut. Nobody overdoses on oil of oregano like this is immediately.

Josh (66:42)

You overdosed on magnesium a month ago.

Ben (66:45)

I know, Josh. There is such thing as too much of a good thing.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (66:49)

Gian.

Josh (66:49)

Sit yourselves out, would you? What are you doing?

Ben (66:55)

There is such thing as too much of a good thing. I need to go to, like, I don't know, whatever the Anonymous is for homeopathic remedies. This is no good.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (67:06)

You need to go to a doctor.

Ben (67:07)

No, I don't.

Josh (67:09)

You need to go to Equinox.

Ben (67:13)

The west is evil. The west is evil.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (67:16)

They will answer your questions about supplements.

Ben (67:19)

No, they won't. I'm just gonna. I'm just gonna. I'm just gonna call Gary Brca.

Josh (67:24)

It's all good. Get me started on Gary Brca.

Ben (67:30)

Lamar, do you have yours?

Limor Mojdehi Azad (67:31)

Yes, yes, yes. So mine is just a general overarching. What are you, nuts? To any couples, okay. Who don't have a prenup? This is not a plug to come to me, but what are you doing in this day and age where we are all young professionals getting married in our 30s? Unless you're an orthodox Jew like Ben and Claudia. What are you doing when you have these amazing companies that you're building and then you get married without a prenup? Grow up, be an adult. Put your big adult panties on and get your prenups. What are you, nuts?

Ben (68:03)

Get those big panties.

Josh (68:06)

Panties it up.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (68:07)

Panties it up.

Josh (68:08)

Wow. Prenup. We messed up, Ben.

Ben (68:12)

Totally.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (68:13)

Oh, fuck.

Josh (68:14)

I'll tell you. Well, we'll save it for the next five.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (68:19)

All right?

Josh (68:20)

Take us home, Ben.

Ben (68:21)

Well, folks, this was five stars. Otherwise, what are you, nuts? Listen to us wherever you get your podcasts, watch us on YouTube, share our content clips, Instagram and TikTok Mondays and Thursdays. Lemore, thank you so much. We will see you next time.

Limor Mojdehi Azad (68:42)

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