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0:09 Speaker 2: shinty five point three. The Adams County Sheriff kick down

0:30 Speaker 2: my door.

0:31 Speaker 1: Then I heard the glass spray.

0:37 Speaker 2: They found no kidnapping victims, just some limon poundcay, mama's

0:45 Speaker 2: living pound.

0:46 Speaker 1: Okay. It takes so nice.

0:53 Speaker 2: It made the sheriff one of the down his gun

0:57 Speaker 2: and cut him a slide.

1:00 Speaker 1: What limit poud Okay?

1:03 Speaker 2: He wound to put down his blow lemon pound okay.

1:08 Speaker 2: Trending on tick tie limon pound okay. He's a family guy.

1:14 Speaker 2: Limon pound okay, and munchies because he got hot limon

1:19 Speaker 2: pound okay.

1:20 Speaker 1: Okay.

1:22 Speaker 2: He's an Adams Downy sheriff. He's hungry and he's big ass,

1:27 Speaker 2: and he was sniffing for weed. Then he smelled another smell.

1:36 Speaker 2: What was that? Mama's limit and pound?

1:40 Speaker 1: Okay. It takes so.

1:47 Speaker 2: It made the sheriff want to put down his gun.

1:50 Speaker 1: He cut him us.

1:53 Speaker 2: What limit poud Okay, he wound to put down.

1:58 Speaker 1: His flow limit okay.

2:01 Speaker 2: Trending no tick time limit pound okay.

2:05 Speaker 1: He's a family guy.

2:07 Speaker 2: Limit pound okay, munchies because he got high limit poud okay, Okay,

2:16 Speaker 2: he sees my cake and my porn. Old man call

2:19 Speaker 2: boom boom. Something happened to his camera on the way

2:27 Speaker 2: to the evidence room.

2:31 Speaker 1: Mama's nimmy pound. Okay, it's so nice.

2:40 Speaker 2: Make the sheriff want to put down his gun and

2:44 Speaker 2: cut him a slide A living pound okay. He want

2:51 Speaker 2: to put down his clo. Limit pound okay, trending no

2:55 Speaker 2: tick tie limit pound okay. He's a family leg.

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3:03 Speaker 2: He got limit pound okay, okay, limit pound okay, he

3:11 Speaker 2: won up put down this blow limit pound okay. Trending

3:15 Speaker 2: noughtic time limit pound okay. He's a family legad living pound.

3:22 Speaker 2: Okay you munchies because he god limit poud okay okay.

4:00 Speaker 3: Welcome everybody, here we go. It is that time again.

4:03 Speaker 3: Matt Connorton Unleashed and we are live from the studios

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4:24 Speaker 3: Today is Saturday, March twenty one, twenty twenty six, and

4:29 Speaker 3: I'm not alone.

4:37 Speaker 5: Jenny shows Good Morning Sunshine.

4:43 Speaker 4: Jenny is here at the news table.

4:44 Speaker 5: I am present on accounted board.

4:46 Speaker 3: So we have an exciting show for you today. Coming

4:49 Speaker 3: up in the second hour, Ricky Mapleton is going to

4:51 Speaker 3: be joining us. Kind of a last minute addition to

4:53 Speaker 3: today's show. We had a couple of guests with illnesses

4:56 Speaker 3: and such, but Ricky Mapleton will be here in the

4:58 Speaker 3: second hour, and in the third hour we have Andrew

5:02 Speaker 3: Deaver from the UK. He's going to be joining us

5:06 Speaker 3: via WhatsApp and really looking forward to that. Very very

5:11 Speaker 3: talented musician Andrew dev I think I said Diver, I

5:14 Speaker 3: apologize Andrew Devi from the UK.

5:16 Speaker 4: He's going to be talking about his new single.

5:19 Speaker 3: And in the first hour, in a couple of minutes,

5:21 Speaker 3: we are going to be talking about Afroman. That's why

5:23 Speaker 3: I played a little bit of Lemon pound Cake. Afroman,

5:26 Speaker 3: of course, who has transcended music and become an icon,

5:32 Speaker 3: a First Amendment icon in America. And it's pretty cool.

5:35 Speaker 3: It's a it's a fun story but also an important story.

5:38 Speaker 3: And if you haven't been keeping up, we will talk

5:41 Speaker 3: all about Afroman and of course the origin of the

5:44 Speaker 3: song Lemon pound Cake. If you're not familiar with the

5:46 Speaker 3: story at all, you're going to really enjoy this. I

5:48 Speaker 3: think we're going to talk about that in a few minutes.

5:50 Speaker 3: And even if you are familiar with the story, it's

5:52 Speaker 3: it's a day to celebrate Afroman's triumph because it is

5:56 Speaker 3: a triumph for all of us and the First Amendment,

5:59 Speaker 3: in my opinion and hopefully in yours, it.

6:02 Speaker 5: Would have shut down the music industry, that's for sure

6:05 Speaker 5: in a lot of ways.

6:06 Speaker 3: Well, we do have so, Jenny, you wanted to talk

6:09 Speaker 3: a little bit about Mosaic Art Collective before we get

6:12 Speaker 3: in all of that.

6:13 Speaker 5: Yeah, Actually, the Mosaic Art Collective has a lot of

6:17 Speaker 5: great things coming up, and I really hope that you

6:18 Speaker 5: will check them out. They're actually open today from eleven

6:21 Speaker 5: am to two pm if you want to go check

6:24 Speaker 5: out a really great show, The Women's excuse me, the

6:28 Speaker 5: Woman Wise Show exhibit is upright now talking about equality, equality,

6:34 Speaker 5: then equality Now what does that look like? What does

6:37 Speaker 5: it look like that all these years women are still

6:43 Speaker 5: trying to secure their independent rights. Back in nineteen seventy four,

6:48 Speaker 5: there was a newspaper published called Women Whys, and that's

6:51 Speaker 5: why this show is named that. Also on display at

6:55 Speaker 5: the museum is the many many copies of the Women

7:00 Speaker 5: Original magazine dating back into the nineteen seventies until the

7:04 Speaker 5: late nineties. And it's really interesting to read their articles,

7:08 Speaker 5: to see their work and to see what they were

7:10 Speaker 5: doing then that what it looks like to us now.

7:13 Speaker 5: So definitely check out the exhibit. It's running until the

7:16 Speaker 5: thirtieth of March. The gallery is located at sixty six

7:19 Speaker 5: Anover Street, Sweet two oh one here in the Queen City,

7:23 Speaker 5: and their website is the mosaic Arcollective dot com. Also

7:27 Speaker 5: right now, there are two open calls going on. One

7:32 Speaker 5: is for the next exhibit called Clear to Me, and

7:35 Speaker 5: this is a meditation on light and shadow and how

7:40 Speaker 5: they can interplay with one another, how things can be

7:42 Speaker 5: hidden and not hidden the up excuse me. The call

7:48 Speaker 5: has been extended until the twenty seventh of this month,

7:52 Speaker 5: so you still get time to put in your piece,

7:55 Speaker 5: and it's not expensive to do to put in a piece. However,

8:00 Speaker 5: I don't let that be a barrier. If you have

8:02 Speaker 5: a financial barrier, please do contact the gallery and they

8:05 Speaker 5: can help you out with more information on that. And

8:08 Speaker 5: they are also now accepting entries into the juried show

8:11 Speaker 5: Shaping Ourselves, which will occur in May. And this is

8:16 Speaker 5: about how you're defining yourself. What defines you, your values,

8:21 Speaker 5: your hopes, your dreams, your experiences past present, What do

8:24 Speaker 5: you honor in yourself? What is it that you can

8:27 Speaker 5: bring out in your art? And they really want you

8:29 Speaker 5: to be bold with it, Go big, go how whatever

8:34 Speaker 5: it is that draws you in. Don't be afraid to

8:37 Speaker 5: experiment with the topics. I've actually been doing that a

8:40 Speaker 5: lot lately, Matt. You've been able to watch me doing

8:42 Speaker 5: that at home, where in the past a lot of

8:44 Speaker 5: times I would just, you know, do something and then

8:46 Speaker 5: wait for a show to come up that would meet

8:49 Speaker 5: that painting. For this, uh, for the last few shows,

8:54 Speaker 5: I've been trying to wait till the show is announced,

8:58 Speaker 5: read what it's about, play with those ideas, and see

9:01 Speaker 5: what comes out on the canvas, whether that's an acrylic paints,

9:04 Speaker 5: whether that's in mediums, whether that's in macroma, however that looks.

9:08 Speaker 5: And I hope you will do the same thing. I

9:11 Speaker 5: would love to see your work hanging in the gallery.

9:14 Speaker 5: So definitely go to mosaic our Collective dot com. Check

9:16 Speaker 5: out everything that's going on right now. The Woman Why

9:19 Speaker 5: show that's on exhibit right now, the Clear to Me

9:22 Speaker 5: show coming up, and the Shaping Ourselves both open calls

9:25 Speaker 5: right now that you can submit your work to highly

9:28 Speaker 5: encourage you to. It's really an amazing experience to have

9:31 Speaker 5: your wall excuse me, to have your work hang on

9:33 Speaker 5: the wall of a gallery. It's humbling, it's amazing, and

9:38 Speaker 5: it makes me strive to create more. Every time I

9:43 Speaker 5: get a single piece entered into a show that's accepted,

9:46 Speaker 5: it really does a lot to boost my creativity and

9:51 Speaker 5: to reassure me that I'm a decent artist, or at

9:53 Speaker 5: least I hope to be.

9:55 Speaker 6: So.

9:56 Speaker 5: As I said, check out the mosaic our Collective dot com,

9:59 Speaker 5: go to the show, go to the museum. It's a

10:01 Speaker 5: wonderful place to spend an afternoon.

10:04 Speaker 3: Well, very good, very good. So we should talk about

10:08 Speaker 3: because this just concluded. Was it yesterday or the day before?

10:11 Speaker 3: The lawsuit against Afroman by the police who raided his

10:16 Speaker 3: home looking for apparently on a very bad tip by

10:21 Speaker 3: an unreliable informant. And this is dragged on for several years. Now,

10:25 Speaker 3: this originally happened in what twenty twenty two, Yes, and.

10:28 Speaker 5: The actual rate occurred in twenty twenty two.

10:31 Speaker 3: Now, if you're not familiar, or if some of you

10:34 Speaker 3: might be somewhat familiar with Afroman, you might sort of

10:38 Speaker 3: remember him. You know, there will be varying degrees amongst

10:41 Speaker 3: our listeners in terms of how they recall Afroman or

10:45 Speaker 3: if they recall Afroman. Afroman, of course, had a huge

10:48 Speaker 3: hit in what the early two thousands, right when I

10:51 Speaker 3: Got high?

10:52 Speaker 4: Or no, because I got high?

10:53 Speaker 5: How I got high?

10:54 Speaker 3: Yause I got high because I got high? Now, funny

10:56 Speaker 3: thing about that song. I never liked the song. I

10:58 Speaker 3: always thought it was annoying. But I remember defending the

11:02 Speaker 3: song though, because I would have conversations. You know, some

11:04 Speaker 3: people would say, well, you know, I don't like that

11:07 Speaker 3: song because it glorifies drug use or whatever makes a

11:10 Speaker 3: big joke out of it.

11:11 Speaker 4: But the fact is, if you listen to the.

11:12 Speaker 3: Song all the way through, which was always difficult for

11:15 Speaker 3: me because I never liked it, but of course it

11:17 Speaker 3: was ubiquitous, you can escape that it was fun. Yeah,

11:19 Speaker 3: well most people did. But if you listen to it

11:22 Speaker 3: all the way through. It really doesn't glorify getting high

11:26 Speaker 3: because by the time you get to the end of

11:28 Speaker 3: the song, by the time you get to the end

11:29 Speaker 3: of the last verse, his life is in ruins because

11:32 Speaker 3: he got high. So, if anything, so I always told people,

11:35 Speaker 3: I was like, well, you know, I don't like the song.

11:37 Speaker 3: I think it's annoying, but it is a cautionary tale

11:40 Speaker 3: if you listen to it all the way to the end.

11:41 Speaker 5: And it was back in two thousand and one that

11:43 Speaker 5: it was actually released.

11:45 Speaker 4: Two thousand and one.

11:45 Speaker 5: Okay, yeah, apparently police found it in twenty twenty two.

11:51 Speaker 3: Yeah, I just, I just but yeah, so you know,

11:56 Speaker 3: the police raided his home.

11:58 Speaker 4: I have the NPR article here, which I think is

12:01 Speaker 4: your say.

12:02 Speaker 5: They never explained they were looking for weed. They were

12:06 Speaker 5: looking they believed he was a dealer. Well, and kidnapping,

12:09 Speaker 5: now that one is interesting because they keep saying the

12:12 Speaker 5: word kidnapping, but I'm not sure it means what they

12:15 Speaker 5: think it means.

12:16 Speaker 3: Well, because the informant told them that he had, like people,

12:19 Speaker 3: somebody in a dungeon or something in his home. He

12:21 Speaker 3: had kidnapped somebody. This very unreliable informant who apparently just

12:25 Speaker 3: made this up.

12:25 Speaker 5: But the police were doing a very thorough search looking

12:28 Speaker 5: for that kidnapping victim in the pockets of all of

12:31 Speaker 5: Afroman's suits.

12:32 Speaker 4: Yes, yes, which he thinks about.

12:35 Speaker 5: So why do we know all of this? Well, because,

12:37 Speaker 5: alike a lot of people, Afroman has cameras to keep

12:41 Speaker 5: an eye on his home, and he got an alert

12:43 Speaker 5: that there was damage at his home. And then there

12:46 Speaker 5: it is on video. He's watching the police batter his

12:50 Speaker 5: door down, start trashing the house, searching for these drugs

12:55 Speaker 5: that he's dealing and the human captives in his suits,

13:00 Speaker 5: and there were none, and they were so diligently looking that,

13:04 Speaker 5: as the song indicates, one of the officers stopped in

13:08 Speaker 5: the kitchen, opened up the cake, cut himself a slice.

13:13 Speaker 5: You ate it?

13:14 Speaker 4: Yeah?

13:14 Speaker 3: It now, in fairness to the officer, does look good,

13:17 Speaker 3: the lemon pound cake. It does look good in the

13:19 Speaker 3: video makes you something.

13:21 Speaker 5: You want it to be there when you get home.

13:22 Speaker 4: I'd be tempted, you know. And I don't even really.

13:25 Speaker 5: His mama's cake, but you know I made that for him.

13:28 Speaker 3: I would certainly stop and think about it. But it

13:31 Speaker 3: is so I mean, it's it's one of those cliches.

13:33 Speaker 3: It's almost too good to be true. When you see

13:35 Speaker 3: the video and you see this big fat got the cop,

13:38 Speaker 3: you know, looking at the cake like holding a rifle,

13:44 Speaker 3: holding a gun. But he stops to look at the

13:46 Speaker 3: but the cake is so distracting to him. It's like

13:48 Speaker 3: the rio down and it's so it's perfect.

13:52 Speaker 5: It's when mass lid comes off the cake.

13:54 Speaker 4: Oh good lord, it's so perfect.

13:56 Speaker 5: He finds himself a knife and slices itself a piece.

13:59 Speaker 4: Of They also seized his cash, you know, while they

14:02 Speaker 4: were there, they took his money.

14:03 Speaker 5: They found five thousand dollars in a suit pocket he

14:06 Speaker 5: had forgotten he had left in there from a show.

14:08 Speaker 4: Yeah, it was the end of the gig.

14:10 Speaker 5: Pay yes, and jeez, I'd like to be rich enough

14:14 Speaker 5: to forget that I had five grand on the pocket.

14:17 Speaker 5: But apparently the cops found that really great, so when

14:20 Speaker 5: they took it into custody, and and of course when

14:24 Speaker 5: the case ended, when there were zero charges pressed against him,

14:28 Speaker 5: because they found absolutely nothing.

14:31 Speaker 3: Right after after breaking his gate and breaking his door,

14:36 Speaker 3: they broke the.

14:36 Speaker 5: Gate to get into the driveway. Then they broke the

14:39 Speaker 5: door down. Yep, they trashed everything.

14:41 Speaker 4: Oh yeah, he ate up his cake.

14:44 Speaker 3: Yep, they found nothing, and they took his money and

14:49 Speaker 3: when he when he got it back, it was short

14:50 Speaker 3: four hundred dollars.

14:51 Speaker 5: Yes, exactly four hundred dollars, not three hundred and ninety

14:54 Speaker 5: eight dollars, not three hundred and fifty six dollars like

14:58 Speaker 5: you would expect if there was a miscow, because that's

15:00 Speaker 5: what they claimed. It was a miscount of exactly four

15:04 Speaker 5: hundred dollars missing from the five K.

15:08 Speaker 3: So I guess they did a little a little bit

15:10 Speaker 3: of that civil asset forfeiture apparently, I guess we've.

15:13 Speaker 5: Talked about that before. But the thing about this case, though,

15:16 Speaker 5: I mean, we joke about it, but it's horrible what

15:19 Speaker 5: he went through, what his family went through. You know,

15:23 Speaker 5: the security that you feel in your home is ruined

15:25 Speaker 5: when somebody breaks your door down, and the destruction of

15:28 Speaker 5: things all for for literally nothing, nothing, He had nothing.

15:32 Speaker 5: They found zero weed. Listen to me, I said, they

15:35 Speaker 5: found zero weed and no human beings or tiny humans

15:41 Speaker 5: hiding in the closet in his jacket pockets. But the

15:45 Speaker 5: more important issue about this that that we want to

15:48 Speaker 5: well is if this case had gone the wrong way,

15:52 Speaker 5: it would have taken a lot out of the music

15:55 Speaker 5: industry and the video industry.

15:57 Speaker 3: Well, we have to explain why the why the police

15:59 Speaker 3: were suing him. So they were suing him because he

16:01 Speaker 3: did it.

16:01 Speaker 5: Got that part.

16:02 Speaker 3: He made a series of funny songs and videos because

16:05 Speaker 3: he had all this footage.

16:07 Speaker 5: Yeah, he used from footage from his house.

16:08 Speaker 3: From from his own home, from his own surveillance from

16:11 Speaker 3: camera to make to make fun of the cops.

16:13 Speaker 1: Yep.

16:14 Speaker 5: He made as you heard when we started the Lemon

16:16 Speaker 5: pound Cake song.

16:17 Speaker 4: Yeah, and they so they sued him over.

16:19 Speaker 5: It, and they sued him for for violating their privacy

16:25 Speaker 5: and defamation and defamation yep, we're embarrassing them.

16:29 Speaker 3: Or definition of character as a certain idiot likes to say.

16:34 Speaker 4: But yes, defamation of there.

16:35 Speaker 5: There were actual tears on the sand. And the interesting

16:41 Speaker 5: thing about this is, I don't know.

16:43 Speaker 3: Do you have that clip actually of Afroman on the

16:47 Speaker 3: not that clip specifically.

16:49 Speaker 5: Okay, So the interesting thing about all of this is

16:53 Speaker 5: Afroman was extremely intelligent with every word he said. Yes,

16:59 Speaker 5: and when he was cross examined by this because they

17:02 Speaker 5: tried to sue him for millions of dollars, they wanted

17:05 Speaker 5: millions of dollars because he made these videos songs. No,

17:10 Speaker 5: each person had a different amount.

17:12 Speaker 4: I thought it was four million or that was the total.

17:15 Speaker 5: I think it was more than that because I think

17:17 Speaker 5: I thought there was one that was looking for fifteen

17:19 Speaker 5: or something or one or I might be wrong. But

17:22 Speaker 5: each each one of the suing parties, which were each

17:26 Speaker 5: of the cops and one of them's wife, I think,

17:31 Speaker 5: but I'm not positive on the wife part. That that

17:35 Speaker 5: when the when, the when the lawyer would try and

17:37 Speaker 5: catch him up on the stand and be like, well,

17:39 Speaker 5: you're seeing how upset these people are after what you've

17:43 Speaker 5: done to them, And he's like, oh, I didn't do anything,

17:47 Speaker 5: after a man kept saying I did nothing. They did

17:51 Speaker 5: all of this to themselves. We wouldn't be here today

17:55 Speaker 5: if they hadn't broken down my door, trash to my gate,

18:01 Speaker 5: crashed my home, eight from my kitchen to stole money

18:06 Speaker 5: out of my house. We wouldn't be here. If they

18:11 Speaker 5: hadn't put themselves on my camera, we wouldn't be here.

18:15 Speaker 4: Okay, I found the clip here.

18:17 Speaker 5: The flip is better than the way I'm pronounced saying it.

18:19 Speaker 1: Here we go said I got freedom of speech.

18:22 Speaker 2: After they run around my house with guns and kicked

18:24 Speaker 2: down my door. I got the right to kick a

18:26 Speaker 2: can in my backyard. Use my freedom of speech, turn

18:30 Speaker 2: my bad times into a good time.

18:32 Speaker 1: Yes, I do. And I think I'm a sport for dealing.

18:35 Speaker 2: So because I don't go to their house, kick down

18:38 Speaker 2: their doors, flip them off on their surveillance cameras, then

18:42 Speaker 2: try to play the victim and sue them.

18:44 Speaker 6: I got the part you were at Lisa Phillips's deposition, correct, Yes, sir,

18:49 Speaker 6: in your lawyer's office, Yes, sir, same office where you

18:52 Speaker 6: film part of that video last Friday.

18:54 Speaker 1: Yes, sir.

18:57 Speaker 6: And you saw how upset she was when she was

19:00 Speaker 6: answering your lawyer's questions about how this had affected her right, yes, yes.

19:06 Speaker 6: And you saw your attorney say should we do we

19:09 Speaker 6: need to take a break? Yes, And you saw her

19:12 Speaker 6: say no, let's get let's go on and get this

19:14 Speaker 6: over with. Yes, sir, you saw all that. Yes, you

19:18 Speaker 6: knew she was upset, just like she.

19:20 Speaker 1: Knew I was upset.

19:21 Speaker 2: And when she was standing in front of my kids

19:23 Speaker 2: with a AR fifteen with her hand around the trigger,

19:25 Speaker 2: ready to shoot me, just like she knew I was upset.

19:27 Speaker 2: When she cut my cameras. But I'm not a person

19:30 Speaker 2: she is, So I'm sorry for being a victim. Let's

19:32 Speaker 2: talk about the predators.

19:33 Speaker 1: Okay.

19:34 Speaker 6: So you saw all that, You saw how upset she was.

19:37 Speaker 6: You heard the testimony about her children, You heard the

19:40 Speaker 6: testimony at the depositions about Randy Newland's daughter who came

19:45 Speaker 6: home upset. You heard all that, but you're still posting

19:48 Speaker 6: stuff about it.

19:49 Speaker 2: Yeah, because I understand it was Randy's fault and all

19:51 Speaker 2: of their thought for coming to my house in the

19:53 Speaker 2: first place. So if they hadn't came to my house,

19:56 Speaker 2: their children wouldn't be saying nothing. None of this would

19:58 Speaker 2: be going home if they they did their research and

20:02 Speaker 2: did things right. So all of this is their fault,

20:06 Speaker 2: and now they want to sue me for their mistake.

20:15 Speaker 6: Is there anything that could change your mind about what

20:19 Speaker 6: you're doing to these deputies?

20:21 Speaker 2: Is there anything that can change my mind about the

20:23 Speaker 2: fact that they shouldn't have been at my house in

20:25 Speaker 2: the first place.

20:26 Speaker 1: Is there anything that can.

20:27 Speaker 2: Change my mind about how my money shouldn't have been

20:29 Speaker 2: touched in the first place.

20:31 Speaker 6: No, that's all the questions I have, Thank you.

20:37 Speaker 5: That's that lay write down, doesn't he Oh?

20:39 Speaker 3: Yeah, he's very smart, very articulate. He knew exactly how

20:44 Speaker 3: to handle that. Very impressive.

20:46 Speaker 5: I forgot about the part where they had flipped off

20:48 Speaker 5: the camera before they disconnected the camera.

20:51 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, they flip off the camera, they disconnect the camera.

20:53 Speaker 3: They're making faces about it like they think it's all

20:56 Speaker 3: like they treat it like it's all a big joke. Yeah,

20:59 Speaker 3: that's the thing too. They're having they're having fun during

21:02 Speaker 3: their little.

21:02 Speaker 5: Raid, and they're expecting that they're going to walk into

21:06 Speaker 5: this black man home who's a rapper and saying about

21:10 Speaker 5: pot and find all kinds of drugs, right, you know,

21:13 Speaker 5: he must be a drug dealer. And I still don't

21:16 Speaker 5: understand the kidnapping thing. I don't think anybody will because

21:19 Speaker 5: they never really expounded upon it.

21:21 Speaker 4: You know, they really didn't.

21:23 Speaker 5: They didn't go anywhere with it because they didn't have

21:25 Speaker 5: any evidence.

21:25 Speaker 4: They literally walked.

21:26 Speaker 5: Out of that house with nothing. Bumpus. They found nothing

21:30 Speaker 5: to implicate him in anything whatsoever. Right, And there wasn't

21:34 Speaker 5: an I'm sorry, no, there wasn't. I'll let us help

21:37 Speaker 5: you fix the.

21:38 Speaker 3: Gate and that that's something right, And that's that's why

21:41 Speaker 3: he made that song. Will you help me fix my gate? Yeah,

21:44 Speaker 3: or will you help me fix my doors? Actually the

21:46 Speaker 3: title and something people should probably who might not realize too,

21:51 Speaker 3: is that that's actually pretty typical from what I understand.

21:54 Speaker 3: If the police show up, you know, there's this stories

21:56 Speaker 3: you don't even have to look that hard where you know,

21:58 Speaker 3: maybe the police get a bad tip, or maybe they

22:00 Speaker 3: show up.

22:01 Speaker 4: They accidentally show up at the wrong house.

22:03 Speaker 5: That's happened many times.

22:04 Speaker 3: And you know what if that happens and they show

22:07 Speaker 3: up and they wreck your home and it turns out, oops,

22:10 Speaker 3: we made a mistake, we got the address wrong. You

22:12 Speaker 3: know what they do for you then? Nothing? Yeah, that's

22:16 Speaker 3: just like a standard thing in American law enforcement. If

22:18 Speaker 3: the cops make a mistake and wreck your world, what

22:22 Speaker 3: will they do to make it right?

22:24 Speaker 4: Nothing? They don't care.

22:25 Speaker 5: Was it last year or the year before? We saw

22:28 Speaker 5: the story with the elderly lady like one hundred years

22:30 Speaker 5: old with her walker and she's like pushing her walker

22:33 Speaker 5: into the cops, going get out, get out of my house,

22:36 Speaker 5: get out. Yeah, she was the wrong addressed person and

22:39 Speaker 5: she died. She had a heart attack and died within

22:41 Speaker 5: like the day of that issue.

22:42 Speaker 4: And they don't care, and look, I'm not somebody who.

22:46 Speaker 5: Is and they don't care because of immunities.

22:48 Speaker 3: Yeah, do qualified immunity and all that. And look, I'm

22:50 Speaker 3: not anybody who knows me knows I'm not somebody who's

22:53 Speaker 3: reflexively anti law enforcement. I think they're you know, I

22:56 Speaker 3: always say, celebrate the heroes, but condemn the villains. Profession

23:00 Speaker 3: you've got good ones and bad ones. You've got Look,

23:03 Speaker 3: you've got people, You've got people in law enforcement out

23:06 Speaker 3: there every day putting themselves in jeopardy, you know, doing

23:10 Speaker 3: doing great work, important work. And I love the heroes,

23:14 Speaker 3: but I hate the villains. And the cops who did

23:16 Speaker 3: this to Afroman clearly are villains. Yeah, they wreck his home,

23:21 Speaker 3: they don't do anything to make it right, and then

23:23 Speaker 3: they sue him for doing something that we talk about

23:26 Speaker 3: all the time on the show. When you take bad

23:30 Speaker 3: things that happen to you, traumatic events, and this seems

23:33 Speaker 3: like something that would be pretty traumatic for.

23:35 Speaker 4: Anyone to go through.

23:35 Speaker 3: When you take bad things, negative things and you create

23:39 Speaker 3: art out of it, Yep, taking something bad and then

23:41 Speaker 3: creating something positive from that, that's the best therapy that

23:45 Speaker 3: there is right to actually create art that not only

23:48 Speaker 3: helps you process what's happened to you, but can help

23:50 Speaker 3: others too, who can then relate to the art that

23:52 Speaker 3: you've created and enjoy that art. And that is exactly

23:55 Speaker 3: what Afroman did. He took something horrible that happened to

23:59 Speaker 3: him to his family and to his home.

24:01 Speaker 5: At his own home, in his own home, on his

24:03 Speaker 5: own cameras.

24:04 Speaker 4: And created art.

24:06 Speaker 3: Yes, and and the you know these these poor police

24:09 Speaker 3: who you know, they're so big and tough when they're

24:11 Speaker 3: they're doing their their little raid, but then they're they

24:14 Speaker 3: get their feelings hurt. All their feelings are so hurt

24:17 Speaker 3: when people laugh and make fun of them.

24:19 Speaker 5: Nobody would have been laughing and making fun of They've

24:20 Speaker 5: done their jobs correctly. Yeah, yeah, right, So he's right

24:23 Speaker 5: about that. And in the the bigger issue being that

24:27 Speaker 5: if artists, if he had lost and artists would be

24:31 Speaker 5: judged on talking about the moments in their life that

24:35 Speaker 5: have been traumatic. M you are shutting down music entirely

24:39 Speaker 5: right now. At the mosaic Ar Collective, I am a

24:41 Speaker 5: piece hanging called the Cell and that comes out of

24:45 Speaker 5: a dark space.

24:47 Speaker 1: Yea.

24:47 Speaker 5: And that is a piece of art that other people

24:50 Speaker 5: relate to and they talk to me about their stories

24:53 Speaker 5: and how they've related to that piece, because that's what

24:56 Speaker 5: art is. It's a relationship with the artist. And you

25:00 Speaker 5: listen to music, whether it's something funny that makes you

25:03 Speaker 5: laugh or it's something serious about a death, something you

25:08 Speaker 5: connect into. So he's expressing trauma that occurred in a

25:13 Speaker 5: fun way in a way that we can relate to, and.

25:17 Speaker 4: Being file about it, being funny about it.

25:19 Speaker 5: Yeah, he's not saying go out and do harm to people.

25:23 Speaker 5: He's not being violent in language at all. He is

25:26 Speaker 5: literally taking something bad and making it funny and sharing

25:29 Speaker 5: it with us and sharing that in a way that

25:32 Speaker 5: you can laugh at it with.

25:34 Speaker 4: Him, and it's and it's the truth.

25:37 Speaker 5: Nothing he said was false.

25:38 Speaker 3: Right, And nothing in these videos that he makes is false.

25:41 Speaker 3: It's all from his security footage from his own home.

25:44 Speaker 5: And that would be the If you're going to go

25:45 Speaker 5: after somebody for saying something about you, it's got to

25:49 Speaker 5: be untrue. If it's true, what are you doing it? Doesn't?

25:54 Speaker 4: You know?

25:55 Speaker 5: Truth is truth?

25:56 Speaker 4: You know?

25:57 Speaker 5: If he if he was making songs calling them every

26:00 Speaker 5: thing under the sun that was not real, then maybe

26:04 Speaker 5: they then they got a leg to stand on. Then

26:05 Speaker 5: that's deformation the character. If I say you're a thief. Oh, Matt,

26:11 Speaker 5: I'm defaming your character. Now. If you got arrested for

26:15 Speaker 5: thievery and I said, and you got convicted of it,

26:19 Speaker 5: I said, Oh, he got convicted of thiever. You're a thief.

26:22 Speaker 5: You can't sue me for deformation because it's true. Right,

26:25 Speaker 5: Nothing he said wasn't true. And that's something he actually

26:28 Speaker 5: said on the stand. It was a three day trial.

26:31 Speaker 5: I watched not all of it, but I watched a

26:33 Speaker 5: decent portion of it. But I will say the thing

26:36 Speaker 5: that I was most impressed by was every single time

26:40 Speaker 5: they tried to catch Afromon up to try and make

26:43 Speaker 5: him the bad guy doing something to them, he answered

26:49 Speaker 5: as clearly as concisely as we heard.

26:51 Speaker 4: In what you play, very very smart guy.

26:53 Speaker 5: And he kept saying that in it because it's truth.

26:55 Speaker 5: He kept saying it and sticking to his truth. Every

26:58 Speaker 5: single time I did do anything to anyone, right, they

27:02 Speaker 5: did it to themselves.

27:03 Speaker 4: Right.

27:04 Speaker 5: They put themselves in my home. Right, they chose to

27:09 Speaker 5: not go through my home the way they're supposed to

27:11 Speaker 5: go through my home. Yeah, you're not supposed to raid

27:13 Speaker 5: the kitchen. I don't think that's part of your job. Sorry.

27:18 Speaker 5: If you're hunger, you get a snack, bring it with you. Yeah,

27:20 Speaker 5: that's not how it's supposed to work.

27:22 Speaker 4: I mean, the pound cake does look good.

27:23 Speaker 5: It did look good. I do like lemon pound cake.

27:27 Speaker 3: We should I want to look at the actually, well

27:30 Speaker 3: let's look at the NPR article. I do want to

27:32 Speaker 3: go through this. One's pretty thorough. I just I want

27:34 Speaker 3: to go through this and just make sure we didn't

27:36 Speaker 3: miss any important details because this all did just just conclude. Oh,

27:40 Speaker 3: by the way, too, Shout out to my friend Mark

27:41 Speaker 3: Castick if he's listening or if he hears this later.

27:45 Speaker 3: He did update his profile picture. He's got a picture

27:48 Speaker 3: of him with Afroman, because I think he had interviewed

27:51 Speaker 3: him at some point and he just updated his profile

27:54 Speaker 3: picture on Facebook. But that's pretty cool Mark. So NPR

27:58 Speaker 3: dot org. This is from This is from NPR dot

28:01 Speaker 3: org from two days ago. Afroman prevails in cops music

28:05 Speaker 3: video defamation suit after a brief but viral trial. So

28:10 Speaker 3: it says here Afroman was just trying to turn lemons

28:12 Speaker 3: into lemon pound cake when he started making music videos

28:16 Speaker 3: and social media posts mocking law enforcement officers who conducted

28:20 Speaker 3: a heavy handed raid on his Ohio home. Home Surveillance

28:24 Speaker 3: video of the August twenty twenty two raids shows half

28:27 Speaker 3: a dozen gun wielding law enforcement officers from the Adams

28:32 Speaker 3: County Sheriff's Office, deputies kicking down his door, combing through

28:36 Speaker 3: a CD collection, going through his suit pockets, flipping through

28:40 Speaker 3: a wad of cash, and in one case, briefly getting

28:43 Speaker 3: distracted by a cake dish on the kitchen counter. The

28:48 Speaker 3: search on suspicion of drug trafficking and kidnapping didn't yield

28:52 Speaker 3: any evidence or charges against the rapper, whose legal name

28:55 Speaker 3: is Joseph Foreman.

28:57 Speaker 4: But he saw officers broke as ohbody says.

29:00 Speaker 3: Officers broke his gate and security surveillance wiring, took four

29:04 Speaker 3: hundred dollars in cash and frightened his family. He wasn't

29:07 Speaker 3: home at the time, but his wife and kids, then

29:10 Speaker 3: ten and twelve, were present.

29:12 Speaker 5: Oh my god, yeah, they were whole.

29:14 Speaker 4: Yeah. Can you imagine ten and twelve year old kids?

29:17 Speaker 5: Well, like he said, and you imagine how upset my

29:21 Speaker 5: kids were when you were pointing guns in their faces.

29:23 Speaker 4: Yep, yep.

29:24 Speaker 5: Because he was trying to make him feel guilty because

29:28 Speaker 5: one of the cops got so upset that they might

29:31 Speaker 5: have had to take a break during their deposition.

29:34 Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, these cops are sociopaths.

29:37 Speaker 5: He didn't care how upset I was when he poot

29:39 Speaker 5: guns them or filled in the face.

29:41 Speaker 4: Right, And they don't care. They absolutely do not.

29:44 Speaker 5: Care because what they do is allowable. It's this immunity

29:47 Speaker 5: of I can get away with anything I want to

29:48 Speaker 5: get away with and it doesn't matter.

29:50 Speaker 4: Right. Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely.

29:51 Speaker 5: They And it shouldn't be that way. They should be accountable.

29:54 Speaker 5: They should have to fix damage that they create, of course, yeah,

29:57 Speaker 5: especially when it's wrong.

29:59 Speaker 1: Yea.

29:59 Speaker 5: And I like to know how they got the search

30:01 Speaker 5: warn't what was the evidence?

30:04 Speaker 3: Well yeah, he addresses that in one of the songs.

30:06 Speaker 3: He names the judge who signed the warrant.

30:09 Speaker 5: No, no, but what was the evidence that they gave

30:11 Speaker 5: this judge for the surf.

30:13 Speaker 4: The informant that just made this stuff up and told them.

30:16 Speaker 5: That's all it was.

30:17 Speaker 4: That's all it was. That's all it took. Yees all

30:20 Speaker 4: it took.

30:20 Speaker 5: Yeah, Well that is how it takes sometimes just somebody

30:23 Speaker 5: saying something wrong.

30:26 Speaker 3: It says lying, it says your Afroman told NPR in

30:29 Speaker 3: twenty twenty three. Quote, I asked myself, as a powerless

30:32 Speaker 3: black man in America, what can I do to the

30:35 Speaker 3: cops that kicked my door in, tried to kill me

30:38 Speaker 3: in front of my kids, stole my money, and disconnected

30:41 Speaker 3: my cameras? And the only thing I could come up

30:43 Speaker 3: with was make a funny rap song about them, use

30:46 Speaker 3: the money to pay for the damages they did, and

30:48 Speaker 3: move on.

30:49 Speaker 4: Unquote.

30:50 Speaker 3: The rapper, best known for early hits like Because I

30:55 Speaker 3: Got High and Crazy Rap I Don't Even Remember that one,

30:58 Speaker 3: made waves again with the twenty twenty three release of

31:01 Speaker 3: Lemon Pound Cake. It's fourteen songs have titles like the

31:05 Speaker 3: police Raid, why you disconnecting My video camera? And will

31:09 Speaker 3: you help Me Repair My door? Featuring home surveillance footage

31:12 Speaker 3: in the music videos. He also posted memes and sold

31:16 Speaker 3: merchandise satirizing the incident and people involved. Common themes range

31:20 Speaker 3: from poking fun at the deputy's appearances, comparing them to

31:24 Speaker 3: family guys Peter Griffin and Quasimodo from the Hunchback of

31:28 Speaker 3: Notre Dame, two more serious allegations of extra amrital affairs,

31:33 Speaker 3: and a word I'm not going to say that starts

31:35 Speaker 3: with a p amongst department members. Afroman called the approach

31:40 Speaker 3: quote the smartest, most peaceful solution, unquote, but the sheriff's

31:44 Speaker 3: deputies disagreed. The seven law enforcement officers sued him in

31:48 Speaker 3: twenty twenty three for defamation and invasion of privacy, saying

31:53 Speaker 3: his unauthorized use of their likenesses hurt their reputations and

31:58 Speaker 3: made it harder to do their jobs.

32:01 Speaker 4: They saw it.

32:01 Speaker 3: The contents removal and three point nine million dollars in.

32:05 Speaker 4: Damages, so about four million.

32:08 Speaker 3: Yeah, that didn't stop Afroman from releasing increasingly personal songs

32:14 Speaker 3: about the deputies deputies involved, including one ahead of his

32:18 Speaker 3: trial this week called the batter Ram Hymn of the

32:21 Speaker 3: Police Whistleblower, which I am going to play and edited

32:24 Speaker 3: version at the end of the segment. But that contains

32:29 Speaker 3: uh lyric well. And by the way, you have to

32:31 Speaker 3: see the video. He's marching solemnly in an American flagsuit,

32:35 Speaker 3: the same one he wore at the trial. If you

32:36 Speaker 3: haven't seen it, you got to see the suit he's wearing.

32:38 Speaker 3: But he also wears it in the video, and it's

32:39 Speaker 3: got lyrics like they' vandalized my property, my money came

32:42 Speaker 3: up short. They disconnect my cameras because they are a

32:46 Speaker 3: poor sport. They're the predators and the victims, and they're

32:50 Speaker 3: suing me in court. My proof's on the internet. The

32:54 Speaker 3: three day trial focused on heavy topics like policing and

32:57 Speaker 3: free speech, though there was no short stage of viral

33:01 Speaker 3: sitcom esque exchanges. On Wednesday, after less than a day

33:05 Speaker 3: of deliberations, the jury sided squarely.

33:09 Speaker 4: With the rapper. Thank goodness.

33:12 Speaker 3: Um Afroman told reporters outside the court, dressed in his

33:16 Speaker 3: American flag pattern suit tye and aviators topped with a

33:21 Speaker 3: white fur coat, he said, quote, I didn't win. America won.

33:26 Speaker 3: America still has freedom of speech. It's still for the people,

33:30 Speaker 3: by the people.

33:31 Speaker 4: Unquote.

33:32 Speaker 3: The deputy's lawyer, Robert Klingler. I guess they so this

33:36 Speaker 3: was a joint suit.

33:37 Speaker 4: They all had.

33:37 Speaker 3: One lawyer told NPR that they brought the case in

33:40 Speaker 3: hopes of putting false accusations behind them. He said they

33:44 Speaker 3: would quote review the verdict and consider any appropriate next

33:48 Speaker 3: steps unquote, thus implying they're going to try to appeal it.

33:52 Speaker 3: Both sides clearly felt wronged by the other, but the

33:54 Speaker 3: primary question before the jury was whether Afroman's response to

33:58 Speaker 3: the raid counted as protect did free speech? He and

34:02 Speaker 3: the lawyer argued it did. He and his lawyer argued

34:05 Speaker 3: it did. The rapper said, from the stand quote, I

34:08 Speaker 3: got the right. We actually I'm not gonna read that

34:10 Speaker 3: because just because we already played the clip. But he

34:13 Speaker 3: also said some of this, uh, none of this would

34:16 Speaker 3: have happened if they hadn't raided his house, so uh. Klingler,

34:23 Speaker 3: the lawyer for the deputies, framed it to the jury

34:26 Speaker 3: this way. Quote a search warrant executes, I'm sorry, a

34:30 Speaker 3: search warrant execution that you think was unfair doesn't justify

34:35 Speaker 3: telling intentional lies designed to hurt people.

34:37 Speaker 4: Unquote.

34:38 Speaker 3: He said, a verdict in their favor would quote make

34:41 Speaker 3: up in some way for what they've been through.

34:44 Speaker 4: Unquote.

34:45 Speaker 3: These like these they been through, these terribly unsympathetic people

34:49 Speaker 3: that you can't possibly feel sorry for, you psychotic.

34:54 Speaker 5: So what did it do to them when they pointed

34:55 Speaker 5: the guns at the children?

34:56 Speaker 4: Yeah, no kidding, huh. Yeah, we're supposed to.

34:58 Speaker 5: Never mind the children, never mind their dad.

35:00 Speaker 4: None of that. We're supposed to forget that.

35:02 Speaker 5: Let's remember, there's no lie. He didn't say anything right, untrue, Right,

35:08 Speaker 5: he literally spoke what you see on camera.

35:11 Speaker 3: Okay, Now this next part's funny. This this involves Sean Cooley,

35:15 Speaker 3: the pound cake guy. Okay, So Sean Cooley, the now

35:19 Speaker 3: retired deputy who has caught on camera at checking out

35:22 Speaker 3: the cake, said he's received hundreds of poundcakes at work

35:27 Speaker 3: from different people and was even recognized by cops while

35:31 Speaker 3: working cases and other jurisdictions in addition to his own

35:35 Speaker 3: community members. See if he were smart, if he were

35:39 Speaker 3: he's an older guy. He doesn't get it. If you

35:40 Speaker 3: were smart, he would actually just lean into that. Ye

35:43 Speaker 3: have fun with it.

35:43 Speaker 5: But he's like take him to a local nursing home

35:45 Speaker 5: and deliver them in chair. Yeah, like sure everybody eats them.

35:48 Speaker 5: He probably threw them away.

35:49 Speaker 4: But he's just a dumb, fat cop from Ohio. He

35:52 Speaker 4: doesn't know any better. Yeah, he probably did. He probably

35:54 Speaker 4: was so it probably did just throw them away. Do

35:57 Speaker 4: you mean you expected me to do my job?

35:59 Speaker 5: I was in kitten, I was policing the.

36:02 Speaker 4: Food, Coolly said. Quote.

36:05 Speaker 3: I had one guy come out of a bedroom after me,

36:07 Speaker 3: call me a thief and want to know why I

36:10 Speaker 3: stole Afroman's money. It just went from being a nice,

36:13 Speaker 3: quiet community, a job you felt safe, and to a

36:16 Speaker 3: place where you had to look over your shoulder every

36:19 Speaker 3: second unquote.

36:20 Speaker 4: People in the community were praerently doing yeah, no kidding.

36:24 Speaker 3: Another Brian Newland, said he was forced to quit his

36:28 Speaker 3: dream job with the Sheriff's office due to Afroman's claims

36:32 Speaker 3: of him being a and it starts with a p

36:34 Speaker 3: I'm not gonna say it, which he denies. Deputy Lisa

36:37 Speaker 3: Phillips cried on the stand.

36:39 Speaker 5: Apparently his brother was convicted or something like that, and

36:43 Speaker 5: there's something about that as to how he gets Oh yeah,

36:46 Speaker 5: there's more to that use of that word.

36:52 Speaker 3: Also, Lisa Phillips cried on the stand Afroman's mean songs.

36:57 Speaker 3: When asked if he saw that, Afroman acknowledged that Phillips

36:59 Speaker 3: was upset the online trolling. Quote just like I was

37:03 Speaker 3: upset when she was standing in front of my kids

37:05 Speaker 3: with an AR fifteen in her hand around the trigger.

37:08 Speaker 3: But I'm not a person, so I'm sorry for being

37:11 Speaker 3: a victim. Let's talk about the predators.

37:13 Speaker 5: That that was just mic dropping gold right there. Oh yeah,

37:17 Speaker 5: you know, yeah, let's talk about liver mind the victim.

37:20 Speaker 5: We'll talk about the predators that that that was a

37:23 Speaker 5: great line.

37:24 Speaker 4: He's right.

37:25 Speaker 5: The kids was like ten in eight years old, ten

37:26 Speaker 5: and twelve, ten and twelve, yep. And how much therapy

37:29 Speaker 5: are they going to be in forever? And how much

37:31 Speaker 5: trauma are they going to care for the rest of

37:32 Speaker 5: their lives over that? Yeah, no kidding, Dad gets to

37:35 Speaker 5: make enough money to put him in college.

37:38 Speaker 4: It says.

37:38 Speaker 3: In addition to traumatizing his family and damaging his property,

37:41 Speaker 3: Afroman maintained that the deputies stole money from him. They

37:45 Speaker 3: seized thousands of dollars in cash from his home, which

37:48 Speaker 3: Afroman said was payment for a gig, but returned at

37:52 Speaker 3: four hundred dollars short. The Sheriff's office has explained the

37:55 Speaker 3: discrepancy by saying deputies originally miscounted the money, which Newland

38:00 Speaker 3: took responsibility for on the stand. Oh, they miscounted exactly

38:03 Speaker 3: four hundred Yes, yes, round ye number.

38:06 Speaker 5: Yes, he just counted it wrong.

38:08 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

38:09 Speaker 3: The defense only called okay, this part's fun too. The

38:13 Speaker 3: defense only called one witness, Ronda Groomes, a teacher and

38:19 Speaker 3: the ex wife of sheriff's deputy Cooley.

38:23 Speaker 1: Yep.

38:23 Speaker 3: She was asked whether she and her students were familiar

38:26 Speaker 3: with the Cardi B song wapp wap, which if you

38:30 Speaker 3: don't know what it stands for, you'll have to google it.

38:32 Speaker 4: We can't say it here clearly, which.

38:34 Speaker 3: Stirred controversy with its overtly to put it mildly sexual

38:38 Speaker 3: lyrics in twenty twenty, and testified that none of them

38:41 Speaker 3: took the words literally. Afroman's lawyer, David Osborne Junior, pointed

38:45 Speaker 3: to other explicit rap songs to argue that artists tend

38:48 Speaker 3: to exaggerate for the sake of entertainment. At one point,

38:51 Speaker 3: he argued that no one listens to Lil Wayne's song

38:56 Speaker 3: p Monster, I'll just say it that way and says

38:59 Speaker 3: there's a monster in that song, oh okay.

39:01 Speaker 4: In other words, nobody listens that and takes it literally.

39:04 Speaker 3: He said that's what Afroman was doing in his songs,

39:07 Speaker 3: and that many of the terms that deputies found offensive

39:10 Speaker 3: were not facts but matters of opinion, like one that

39:13 Speaker 3: calls Sergeant Randy Waters a son of a bee, which

39:16 Speaker 3: Osborne said there was no definitive way to prove or disprove.

39:22 Speaker 4: She's been dead for years.

39:24 Speaker 3: Walters replied, matter of fact, lee, prompting a chuckle and

39:27 Speaker 3: condolences from the defense lawyer regarding his mother, So no

39:30 Speaker 3: way to prove or disprove that she was a bee

39:32 Speaker 3: at LISTA. Walters said something mildly clever for you know

39:36 Speaker 3: this dumb hillbilly quote unquote Sheriff in his closing statements,

39:42 Speaker 3: Osborne appointed to a rap as pointed to rap as

39:46 Speaker 3: an established form of social commentary, saying police and public

39:49 Speaker 3: officials are called names online all the time, whether whether

39:53 Speaker 3: or not they like it, and he rephrased the plaintiff's

39:56 Speaker 3: question about what a liable verdict would mean. Osborne said, quote,

40:00 Speaker 3: what does this message send if we find that music

40:03 Speaker 3: and social commentary, while maybe not the most tasteful thing

40:06 Speaker 3: in the world, is silenced because a public official was

40:09 Speaker 3: hurt by it. Some of the most fever dream like

40:14 Speaker 3: moments of the trial took off in social media. Eclips

40:18 Speaker 3: Afroman defiant in his American flag suit, deputies soberly discussing

40:22 Speaker 3: lemon pound cake, the defense lawyers garbling of Cardi B's name.

40:28 Speaker 3: Most of the commenters remarked that by bringing the case

40:32 Speaker 3: to court, the deputies brought it to the public's attention.

40:36 Speaker 3: Several highlighted the irony of an invasion of privacy case

40:39 Speaker 3: going viral online, calling it an example of the Streisand effect,

40:44 Speaker 3: named after Barbara Streisand's two thousand and three lawsuit to

40:46 Speaker 3: remove a photo of her home from the web that

40:49 Speaker 3: only brought more eyes to it. The Lemon pound Cake

40:52 Speaker 3: music video has three point eight million views on YouTube

40:55 Speaker 3: as of Thursday, and the top comments were all about

40:58 Speaker 3: the trial. One commenter wrote, shout out to the cops

41:03 Speaker 3: for making sure I saw this absolute bop yep. Afroman,

41:09 Speaker 3: who said on the stand that he did an estimated

41:12 Speaker 3: two hundred and fifty shows last year, acknowledged that the

41:15 Speaker 3: attention had boosted his follower account, which is almost six

41:18 Speaker 3: hundred thousand on Instagram alone. All the publicity from the

41:21 Speaker 3: officer's lawsuit on me is running up my numbers, unquote.

41:25 Speaker 3: So there you go. So and that's kind of the

41:28 Speaker 3: you know, if there's a happy ending to this.

41:30 Speaker 4: Not only not only did Afroman win in court, and

41:35 Speaker 4: this is an important you know, it's funny and silly

41:37 Speaker 4: and goofy as it might seem in some ways, it's

41:39 Speaker 4: actually a very important victory for the first Amendment for

41:43 Speaker 4: spot art, for.

41:44 Speaker 5: Art art entirely because that could easily translate into picture art.

41:47 Speaker 5: It doesn't you know, you know, I do a I

41:50 Speaker 5: do a political picture art, and it does a caricature

41:55 Speaker 5: of somebody in a negative light.

41:57 Speaker 4: Yeah.

41:57 Speaker 3: But also this, the other part of the happy ending

42:01 Speaker 3: is this has helped Afroman's career tremendously.

42:04 Speaker 5: Oh my gosh, Yeah, I bet he's getting even more well.

42:06 Speaker 3: Yeah, because without they blew him up, Without all of this, yeah,

42:10 Speaker 3: I mean, he's you know, he's relevant in twenty twenty

42:13 Speaker 3: six because of this.

42:14 Speaker 5: If they do another trial, if they go after him again,

42:16 Speaker 5: they're just going to keep it that much more in

42:18 Speaker 5: the light. You'll get that much more views, I don't think,

42:20 Speaker 5: and he probably gets to raise his rate for what

42:23 Speaker 5: he gets paid for a performance.

42:25 Speaker 3: I don't think they're gonna go through with trying to

42:27 Speaker 3: appeal it. He's stupid, a waste of money. But but yeah,

42:31 Speaker 3: I mean.

42:31 Speaker 5: Stupid is a stupid does isn't that way?

42:33 Speaker 3: Because without all of this, if none of this had happened,

42:36 Speaker 3: he would just be you know the guy.

42:38 Speaker 4: Oh yeah, Afroman? I remember him. He had that song

42:40 Speaker 4: because I got high, right, you know what I mean?

42:41 Speaker 5: But that's not the thing anymore.

42:43 Speaker 4: Right now, it's not about that anymore.

42:45 Speaker 5: It's about Lemon pound Cake.

42:46 Speaker 3: And now he's a free speech First Amendment icon because

42:50 Speaker 3: of all this.

42:51 Speaker 4: So he stood in the good for him.

42:53 Speaker 5: Yeah, he stood in the line of fire and defended

42:55 Speaker 5: the ability of an artist to be able to can

42:57 Speaker 5: produce the music they want to produce, be it good,

43:00 Speaker 5: bat are indifferent. You don't have to like it, but

43:02 Speaker 5: they have the right to say it. That's basic free speech.

43:04 Speaker 4: Yep, yep, absolutely one.

43:08 Speaker 5: So this is an important win. The joke's aside, one

43:12 Speaker 5: hundred percent. This is a very important win for the

43:15 Speaker 5: music industry and for the artistry in and of itself. Yeah,

43:20 Speaker 5: especially these days when people do like to pick apart

43:22 Speaker 5: things and try and go after people. Yeah, it's really

43:26 Speaker 5: important to reinforce that the First Amendment applies to art,

43:30 Speaker 5: it applies to all of us.

43:33 Speaker 4: I think I'm gonna play.

43:36 Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, we were gonna do do another one of them.

43:38 Speaker 3: I think I'm gonna play this track batter ram batter

43:41 Speaker 3: ram him because that's what they used to break down

43:43 Speaker 3: his door, him of the police whistleblower. I think gonna

43:48 Speaker 3: play this now. I did make a radio edit of

43:51 Speaker 3: this last night when I came in right before Paul's show.

43:54 Speaker 3: Afromann songs for the most part, the songs that he's

43:57 Speaker 3: been releasing are completely clean, but in other words, there's

44:01 Speaker 3: no swearest. But there was one word in this song

44:04 Speaker 3: I was uncomfortable with. So and it starts with a P.

44:07 Speaker 3: It came up a couple times in that article. I

44:08 Speaker 3: won't say it on the air for a couple of

44:11 Speaker 3: different reasons, but so I did take that word out.

44:15 Speaker 3: There's also another word in it there he actually self censors.

44:17 Speaker 3: But you can figure out what he's going for. But

44:19 Speaker 3: I think we should play this to end the segment

44:22 Speaker 3: or discussion about Afroman Unless you had anything to add,

44:25 Speaker 3: we can.

44:25 Speaker 4: We'll play this out of him. Yeah, yeah, proud of him.

44:28 Speaker 5: Absolutely, way to stand up for everybody.

44:30 Speaker 4: Yeah, well done, sir.

44:31 Speaker 3: I know it's funny, Like I said, I didn't like

44:33 Speaker 3: that song back in two thousand and one, and I

44:35 Speaker 3: couldn't wait for it to go away, and I really

44:37 Speaker 3: had no interest in the guy. And you know, here

44:39 Speaker 3: we are twenty five years later, and I'm while like,

44:42 Speaker 3: like while celebrating his victory in court.

44:45 Speaker 5: And having favorite songs. Now you and I both love

44:48 Speaker 5: pound cake.

44:49 Speaker 3: I'm twenty five years later, I'm now a fan of Afroman.

44:52 Speaker 3: It's funny, so thank you PD for doing that.

44:55 Speaker 5: Let's re choose to do it again. I'm sure he

44:57 Speaker 5: will take a few more million listeners.

45:00 Speaker 3: That's right, that's right, all right, here it is. This

45:02 Speaker 3: is batter ram him of the police whistled lower the

45:05 Speaker 3: radio edit by afromn.

45:15 Speaker 2: Mine eyes seen the corruption of the Adam County cops.

45:19 Speaker 2: Still in money, still in cake. When they make they

45:23 Speaker 2: traffic stops, first they screw you, then they sue you,

45:26 Speaker 2: play a game, then dismiss your claims.

45:29 Speaker 1: The proofs on the inner.

45:34 Speaker 2: Afro Man will bring it to ya. Afro Man is

45:40 Speaker 2: gonna dude, yeah, ahfro Man is gonna screw ya. My

45:48 Speaker 2: proofs on the inner. Mine eyes have seen informs get

45:54 Speaker 2: busted with fella niece, tell the cops I'm a kidnapper,

45:59 Speaker 2: and I said a lot of keys raid my house

46:02 Speaker 2: and then get pissed because the dungeon don't exist my

46:06 Speaker 2: proof Sunday inured. Afro Man, We'll bring it to ya.

46:16 Speaker 2: A bro man is gonna dude, yeah, afro Man, He's

46:22 Speaker 2: gonna screw ya.

46:24 Speaker 1: My proofs on the innern.

46:29 Speaker 2: My gate don't operate, and my door is on the floor.

46:34 Speaker 2: My camera's disconnected least so bills is up downtown. They

46:40 Speaker 2: take my mama's limb in pound cake, my proof Sunday innerned.

46:48 Speaker 1: Adfro Man, We'll bring it.

46:50 Speaker 2: To yeah, afro Man is gonna do yeah, adfro Man,

46:58 Speaker 2: He's gonna screw yah my proof Sunday Innerne. They vandalize

47:07 Speaker 2: my property. My money came up short. They disconnect my

47:12 Speaker 2: cameras because they are a poor sport. They're the predators

47:16 Speaker 2: and the victims, and they're suing me in court. My

47:20 Speaker 2: proof Sunday Innerne. Ah bro Man, We'll bring it to ya.

47:29 Speaker 2: Ahfro Man is gonna do Yeah. Ahfro Man is gonna

47:36 Speaker 2: screw ya my proof Sunday Innerne. Brian Newlyn is a flag,

47:45 Speaker 2: William is a bio. If I'm telling folks the truth,

47:49 Speaker 2: how come I have to go to trial Newland's guest kids.

47:53 Speaker 1: That's true.

47:54 Speaker 2: Now he's stealing my money to my proof Sunday Inner.

48:02 Speaker 1: Ah bro Man, We'll bring it to ya.

48:06 Speaker 2: A bro Man is gonna do Yeah. Ah bro Man

48:12 Speaker 2: is gonna screw ya my proofs on the Inn. Tasha

48:20 Speaker 2: Champlain is a confidential informant. Roy Gabbert is the just

48:26 Speaker 2: that science fictitious war. This whole situation is totally their funk.

48:33 Speaker 2: Don't rate me, don't get videoed and call ah bro Man.

48:40 Speaker 2: We'll bring it to ya. Ah bro Man is gonna

48:45 Speaker 2: do yah. Ah bro Man.

48:49 Speaker 1: Is gonna screw ya my proofs son. The iner.

48:56 Speaker 2: Prosecutor David Kelly turned the jail when they fell. Coward

49:02 Speaker 2: ran to Arizona so he wouldn't catch the hell. Kimmy

49:06 Speaker 2: tried to dodgers, Rogers, tried to retire and dip like

49:11 Speaker 2: a rat, leaving a sin kingship. Ahfro Man, We'll bring

49:18 Speaker 2: it to yer. Afro Man is gonna do yeah. Ahfro

49:26 Speaker 2: Man is gonna screwed My proof Sunday inurned. All you

49:34 Speaker 2: crooky cops in the world that's doing wrong, you better stop,

49:39 Speaker 2: you crookie cop before I.

49:41 Speaker 1: Put you in a song.

49:43 Speaker 2: Make your family and your friends laugh out loud and

49:46 Speaker 2: sing along My proof Sunday Inurned. Ahfro Man, We'll bring

49:54 Speaker 2: it to yea afro Man is gonna do yeah, Ah

50:02 Speaker 2: bro Man, He's gone a screw yah my proofs on

50:07 Speaker 2: me in and will you help me repair my gay?

50:52 Speaker 2: Will you help me repair my door? Did you find

50:58 Speaker 2: what youse now looking for? Will you help me reaper.

51:07 Speaker 1: My game?

51:08 Speaker 2: End? Would you like a slice of living pound cake?

51:19 Speaker 2: You can take as much as you want to take.

51:24 Speaker 2: Them must speed a big mistake. Would you like to

51:31 Speaker 2: have a slice sum lemon pound cake? The warrant said.

51:42 Speaker 2: Narcotics said kidnapping? The warrant said, narcotics and kidnapping? Are

51:52 Speaker 2: you king? I make my money wrapping. Why does the

51:58 Speaker 2: warrant say narcotic? Well, I no darcotics, But why kidnapping?

52:05 Speaker 2: Let me ask you something absolutely any kidnapping victims inside

52:10 Speaker 2: my suit pockets? Are there any kidnapping victims inside my

52:16 Speaker 2: soup pockets?

52:19 Speaker 1: You cooked? Cops need to stop it.

52:23 Speaker 2: There are no kidnapping victims in my soup pockets.

52:33 Speaker 1: Let me ask you another question.

52:35 Speaker 2: Is there a thousand pounds of weed in my soup pockets?

52:41 Speaker 2: Is there a thousand pounds of weed in my soup pockets?

52:46 Speaker 2: You cook it, Cops need to stop it. There's not

52:52 Speaker 2: a million pounds of weed in my soup pockets.

53:00 Speaker 1: Let me ask you something else.

53:03 Speaker 2: Any kidnapping victims inside my CD any kidnapping victims inside

53:10 Speaker 2: my CDs? The Adams County Sheriff Department, you can get these.

53:18 Speaker 2: There are no kidnapping victims in.

53:22 Speaker 1: My in my CDs?

53:30 Speaker 2: How many pounds of weed are inside my CDs? How

53:36 Speaker 2: many pounds of weed are inside my CDs?

53:41 Speaker 1: Adams County Sheriff, you can get these.

53:46 Speaker 2: How many pounds of weed did you find in my CD?

53:58 Speaker 2: Why are you still in my money? Why are you

54:04 Speaker 2: stealing my money? You represent the law, and it's funny

54:12 Speaker 2: you're steal in my legal work. Hard every day they

54:18 Speaker 2: taxes money. The sheriff disconnecting my cameras. The sheriff disconnecting

54:32 Speaker 2: my cameras. The sheriff should be locked up in slammers.

54:40 Speaker 2: The Adams County Sheriff Department.

54:43 Speaker 1: Disconnected my camera.

54:52 Speaker 2: Did you have to traumatize my kids? Did you have

54:58 Speaker 2: to traumatize as my keys? Did you have to trumpatize

55:05 Speaker 2: my keys? Did you have to trumpatize my keys?

55:19 Speaker 7: Will you pay me for doing wrong? Will you pay

55:25 Speaker 7: me for doing me wrong? Will you pay me for

55:32 Speaker 7: doing me wrong?

55:35 Speaker 2: Oh?

55:35 Speaker 1: Will I have think it pays? From this song?

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