BARD - Afroman on Trial, Free Speech on the Line
Reasonable Doubt
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4.3 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Mark and Gary break down the bizarre and surprisingly consequential trial involving Afroman, police officers and a viral home raid turned into music videos. From courtroom comedy to serious questions about defamation and artistic expression, the case becomes a masterclass in how juries interpret satire. The episode also explores the fallout from the sudden cancellation of The Bachelorette and what it could mean for a wave of lawsuits across the entertainment industry.
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| 0:31.5 | This is beyond a reasonable doubt with your hosts, Mark Garrigas and Gary Smith. |
| 0:41.1 | Well, they're in an era where we are at war, where we are, where the markets may be imploding, where this week, none other than Jerome Powell |
| 0:58.9 | announced that there, for the first time in U.S. history, there's been no private job creation. |
| 1:06.0 | In all of, with all of that going on in the world, there are some people who think that the following trial has |
| 1:14.0 | restored sandwiched the world. Gary, take it away. All right. So first, I think we need to set |
| 1:20.4 | the stage and we need to establish who the players are here. And that brings us to a man from my childhood who had a very, very popular song in the year 2000. |
| 1:34.8 | I went back and looked it up. |
| 1:36.6 | And he testified about that song. |
| 1:38.8 | Hits you had was, but then I got high. |
| 1:41.9 | Because I got high. |
| 1:43.0 | Because I got high. |
| 1:45.5 | Okay. So I thought high. Because I got high. Okay. |
| 1:46.1 | So I thought that clip was pretty funny, him correcting him from and then I got high to because I got high. |
| 1:51.7 | And for those of you who do not remember that from the year 2000, he also did a takeoff on that song that involved my client, my ex-client. |
| 2:03.8 | I did not know that. |
| 2:06.3 | You have not heard that song? |
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