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Serious Inquiries Only

SIO355: Afroman vs Police and Clarence Thomas vs Ethics

Serious Inquiries Only

Thomas Smith

News, News Commentary, Politics

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Two stories today! First a more upbeat delightful one. The musician Afroman had his home raided by police for reasons no one seems to know for sure. He and his wife took footage, and he used that footage in music videos and on merch. The police want... a cut? Or something.
And Matt also gives us a breakdown of the Clarence Thomas situation. Look we all already know there's not a damn thing we can immediately do about it, but that doesn't mean we should give up and not be angry. It truly is an astonishing breach of ethics.

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0:00.0

Hello, and welcome to Sears Inquires Only. This is episode 356. I'm Thomas Smith, and I'm joined once again by Matt Cameron.

0:23.8

Matt, I promise, someday I will bother another lawyer. I promise. I'm going to. But for now...

0:29.8

I appreciate your willingness to be just constantly bothered by me. How are you doing? I'm having fun. Nothing, nothing, nothing about this at all.

0:36.8

Well, and I think this one is actually quite a bit of fun, because we've been worrying to talk about the story.

0:42.8

A lot of people have posted about it, shared it. Afro man, someone who was, whose house was essentially broken into by the police, I guess you could say.

0:52.8

People might have seen this story. He shared the footage. I think he even maybe used it in music videos, and I also think, furthermore, he might have used the police faces on merch. It's a great story, but it's also an interesting legal question.

1:07.8

So I'm so excited to talk about it. Why don't we just dive right in, and then, oh, by the way, everybody, we're also going to talk about the epitome of ethics that sits on our Supreme Court. I guess that could refer to too many of them.

1:20.8

The one who accidentally, like, whoops, billion dollar jet, right, sorry, I forgot. Oopsy Daisy, I tripped into a billionaire funding a bunch of stuff for me. That one. But we'll get to that in a minute. Let's talk about this really.

1:34.8

Well, I say delightful, but maybe you're going to tell me this is going to be a shitty ending, but it seems delightful.

1:39.8

I think it's going to end just fine.

1:41.8

I'm pretty happy about it. And so I only remembered Aferman for that. It was a novelty song about 23 years ago, because I got high, right? Just lift off a bunch of stuff he can't do.

1:51.8

Oh, yeah. That's about all I can think of for him. He probably had a couple other hits, but he's living pretty well. If you look at these videos, it looks like he's got a pretty nice house.

2:01.8

Because I got high money. Yeah. And like, I feel like that's kind of an anomaly. I feel like most of those folks who have a one hit wonder, like their manager fucking steals all the money, you know, they signed a bad deal or something.

2:12.8

Like there's a lot of people for whom that didn't work out. Yeah. No, he hit it just the very time. I don't know. I mean, maybe he does a lot of touring and makes a lot of money that way.

2:19.8

His merch looks like his merch is pretty popular. He tells a lot of a weed-related merch makes sense. Okay, there you go. That makes me.

2:26.8

So, you know, and you can understand how the police might believe that somebody who's most famous song was because I got high and sings a lot about, you know, drugs genre, might have drugs in his house. That might be something you can conclude.

2:38.8

Oh, and after all, if a black man is getting high and is on home, you need to bust down the door and just go blazing of course, can't leave that be. Yeah.

2:45.8

So, that was really exactly sure what happened here with the search warrant, but there was a search warrant issued against his house.

2:52.8

And it's a very unusual search warrant because for no reason that I can understand or that he can understand, they are looking for narcotics and paraphernalia, which he actually said in the song, you know, fair enough.

3:03.8

But there weren't any. But you're still talking about the song 23 years ago, right? What's the statute of limitations? Oh, okay.

3:12.8

There's a new song. And the reason this is so awesome is he wrote at least two different songs about this raid and use the video from it. So, I mean, I have to appreciate.

3:22.8

I'm going to be totally straight up. One of them is really lazy. It's just under the boardwalk with different words, but.

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