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He forgot to pay his attorney because he got high. It's one more thing. Armstrong and Getty. One more thing. He may be Afro man, but he's an American man. I give you rapper Afroman.
Afroman
I didn't win. America won. America still has freedom of speech. It's still for the people, by the people.
Armstrong
Really interesting lawsuit just wrapped up. So the Because I Got High rapper, real name Joseph Foreman.
Jack
Afroman.
Armstrong
Afroman.
Jack
So did he have any other hits other than that? And I barely remember that. Does he a big deal or not a big deal?
Armstrong
I think it was a one.
Kathy
Because I Got High was huge. He had another one called Crazy Rap I believe but it was didn't even touch. Because I Got High because I had
Jack
Got High was very big. And was that back in the day where you make a lot of money off? I haven't a hit song might be. Barely.
Armstrong
Yeah. Well, not only that, but one interesting thing about like rap and hip hop and the old school stuff is there's like immediately a market for it. It's not like rock bands that are cool, then they're uncool for a real long time and then they're cool again. You can do like old school R and B pretty quickly from what I've observed. Not like I'm an expert in it or anything but. So anyway, Afro Afroman, who is essentially a one hit novelty wonder got raided by the cops in Ohio. Let me get to the facts. Adams County, Ohio. According to the complaint, four deputies, two sergeants and a detective were acting on a search warrant when they raided Mr. Foreman's residence in Winchester, Ohio, on August of 22nd. The warrant cited kidnapping and drug trafficking as reasons for the search. According to one of the lawyers, no charges resulted from the raid. Mr. Man was not at home during the 2022 police raid, but a security camera system and his wife, using her cell phone, recorded, quote, the faces and bodies of the officers while they were on the property, according to the lawsuit. Haven't gotten to the lawsuit part yet, but here it is. Mr. Foreman Afroman used the footage that his wife in the security camera took of the cops in his house in music videos in promotional materials for his tourism on merch, including T shirts that depicted the faces of some of the officers, according to the lawsuit.
Jack
But. So I'm just thinking about this before you go further. So it's my video equipment in my house and you are in my house?
Armstrong
Yes.
Jack
Okay.
Armstrong
You have a warrant. In one of the music videos entitled will you help me repair my door, surveillance footage shows the officers swinging open a gate, kicking down a door, and roaming her, armed, around a living room, in a kitchen.
Jack
They kicked down his door.
Armstrong
The other lemon pound cake, which will be referenced in the audio we're about to play, shows one of the officers, gun in hand, pausing briefly in Mr. Foreman's kitchen by a cake inside a glass cloche. C L O C H E. Isn't
Kathy
that the big dome thing you put.
Armstrong
It's gotta be.
Jack
Apparently. I've never heard.
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How have I gotten to this age and not heard the word cloak?
Kathy
And you're so fancy, I figured you'd.
Jack
Yeah, you seem like this. So. You have a bidet. You seem like the sort of person that would have a cloak.
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Yeah, I know Several words.
Jack
See you sitting on the bidet with your cloak in hand, having a sandwich
Kathy
on a plate, where you remove the clothes.
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That's exactly. That's unsanitary. I'm way too fancy to do that. You monsters.
Jack
Having a sandwich on a plate, where you remove the cloak and have your sandwich exactly.
Armstrong
Whilst getting serviced from below. No, no.
Kathy
Oh, Jack, I thought that's where you were going. Never mind. Continue.
Armstrong
This is where he was going. All right, so the. The song is Lemon pound cake shows one of the officers, gun in hand, pausing briefly by the cake. Right. And the line in the song is it made the sheriff want to put down his gun and cut him a slice. Then in a social media post a month after the raid, Mr. Foreman, wearing one of their promotional T shirts, thanked one of the officers for helping him get 5.4 million views on Tick tock. Congratulations again, you're famous for all the WR reasons. So anyway, the cops sued Afroman over all of this, accused him of causing them mental distress by using footage from the raid on his home in a pair of music videos. They said in a complaint that Mr. Foreman's use of their images in the music videos and to promote his brand had caused them to suffer, quote, humiliation, ridicule, mental distress, embarrassment and loss of reputation.
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Armstrong
Here is some audio from the actual trial. Start with 15.
Attorney
Can you tell me what fact about you that receding hairline or dip refers to, please? I'm sorry, what private fact of yours does that refer to? I mean, there's a picture of me and see here talking about see, I wouldn't trust him with methamphetamine crack ass alone in my house. So I find that pretty insulting. So that's the that statement is what you're suing? Well, no, I told you this is one of many. Well, and that's why we're trying to keep trying to make it singular. I'm telling you, it's. It's not singular, it's plural.
Armstrong
Okay.
Attorney
And so one of them is dip. One is receding hairline yeah. And the other is meth heads. Yes.
Jack
This is going to try. If I ever end up on a jury, I want a trial like this.
Armstrong
This is that attorney going in. I'm not sure if it's the same officer or a different one. Doesn't really matter.
Attorney
Sean, you were called Officer pound cake
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Attorney
You received hundreds of pound cakes at work. Okay, and the context of that name comes from a music video that Mr. Foreman created, correct?
Armstrong
I don't know where he got it
Attorney
at, but you'd have to ask him that question. Well, now I'm gonna play what's marked Defense exhibit D. I'd like you to watch this.
Podcast Host
Okay.
Afroman
The Adams county sheriff kicked down my door Then I heard the grass br. They found no kidnapping victims just a. It made the sheriff want to put down his gun. He want to put down his ring on TikTok living pound day He's a
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Afroman
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Armstrong
Did you hear the officer testify that he received hundreds of pound cakes at work sent by various people? If I'm a juror, I'm clapping. I'm cracking up. I'm sorry. I was cracking up.
Jack
Well, if I'm the sheriff, I'm cracking up. I think it's just hilarious. I don't sue the guy and say my life has been ruined. Did you guys see whatever.
Kathy
Did you see the video of this?
Armstrong
No, I haven't.
Kathy
Okay, so when he just said he's a family guy, it's because the dude looks just like Peter Griffin, and he. He doesn't just stop, does it? Just stop and look at the pound cake. He, like, stutter, stops, and then hones in on it.
Jack
Like, wait a second. What is that?
Kathy
His attention keeps getting broken from whatever he's aiming his firearm at by the pound cake.
Jack
He actually has his gun out, and he keeps getting distracted by the cake.
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Jack
Fantastic.
Armstrong
Yeah, I've got to watch this video. We'll post it in Armstrong yeti dot com. Okay, so before we wrap up, because I've got to get to the verdict, here is an attorney grilling Mr. Afroman himself.
Attorney
Searching your house gave you the right to do everything.
Afroman
Under the circumstance that I got. Freedom of speech. After they run around my house with guns and kick down my door, I got the right to kick a can in my backyard, use my freedom of speech, Turn my bad times into a good time. Yes, I do. And I think I'm a sport for doing so, because I don't go to their house, kick down their doors, flip Them off on their surveillance cameras, then try to play the victim and sue them.
Armstrong
Wow. He won. Jury delivered its verdict. After the three day trial that raised questions of policing, free speeching, free speech protections and artistic freedom, they said, no, no, you can't sue him. You lose. He won because he was funny.
Afroman
Yeah.
Jack
I wonder.
Armstrong
Didn't hurt. Wow.
Kathy
The ultimate trolling trial.
Jack
That is, that is quite the trolling. First of all, you just, you got to know how to handle these situations. If as a cop you leaned into it, it had gone away, people have thought you're a good sport. And then that's it, right. The whole my life has been ruined because people think I'm a fat guy who eats cake is not gonna work.
Armstrong
Ruined, I say.
Jack
But from the other side of it though. So if the cops come into my house and it's a mistake for whatever reason, they got a bad tip or something like that, I get to use the video with their faces however I want.
Armstrong
Well, if you have a, if they have a warrant. I'm just thinking this through. I mean, obviously I'm not an attorney. Oh, there's the video. Yep. He really is like, whoa, that's a good looking cake.
Kathy
Stops him dead in his tracks.
Jack
You got your gun out though. So you're, you're at the. I might have to take a life or have my life taken stage. Look at that cake. Is that chocolate?
Kathy
He has his pistol, his firearm pistol in his hand and he is like, oh, wait a minute.
Armstrong
Just a serious double take. Oh, there's a close up of it.
Kathy
He broke his neck. I'm gonna remove that cloche.
Armstrong
Let me sneak my hand under the clothes briefly here and grab me a little size.
Jack
That is funny.
Armstrong
Wow. I am intrigued by the legalities here. It was a civil suit, so he broke no laws. So it was an entirely. This was out of line and hurt my feelings and made me suffer. So therefore.
Jack
Yeah,
Armstrong
yeah. So there are no laws involved per se. Really.
Jack
One of them flipped off his camera.
Armstrong
I'm sounds like I'll have to take Mr. Foreman's word for it. He's wearing a pot leaf decorated suit of multi colors in the video Jack and sunglasses though he is indoors.
Jack
Odd though he is not being blinded by the sun.
Armstrong
Oh my God. The cop really features in the video.
Afroman
Yeah.
Armstrong
Oh my golly. Yes, he does look like Peter Griffin. Oh, there's a caption over him. What's that? Why does he eyes the pound cake? Oh my.
Jack
Oh, that's fantastic. That's very entertaining. And people started sending the cop Pound cakes. Oh, that's the problem.
Armstrong
Hundreds of them. People sent me hundreds of pound cakes at work.
Jack
Every day you show up to work, there's 10 more. Oh, you gotta be kidding. 10 more pound cakes?
Armstrong
Give them to the poor. Sir, the poor around here are getting fatter than you. We've got to stop giving them pound cakes.
Jack
He's a family guy, that is.
Armstrong
Oh boy. All right. Are we all now craving a slice of cake? Of course I am. Yeah, always.
Jack
Well, I guess that's it.
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Episode: He May Be Afroman...But He's An American Man!
Date: March 19, 2026
Host: Armstrong & Getty (plus Kathy)
Podcast Network: iHeartPodcasts
This episode centers on the unusual court case involving rapper Afroman (Joseph Foreman), who famously integrated police raid footage from his own home into music videos and merchandise, leading to a lawsuit from the officers involved. Armstrong, Getty, and Kathy break down the case with their signature irreverent style, exploring issues of free speech, public ridicule, police overreach, and artistic freedom—all sparked by a viral cake moment.
Afroman on the verdict:
“I didn’t win. America won. America still has freedom of speech.” — Afroman [03:25]
Armstrong recapping the viral scene:
“In the song ‘Lemon Pound Cake’, the sheriff wants to put down his gun and cut him a slice.” [07:07]
Description of officer’s dilemma:
“He actually has his gun out, and he keeps getting distracted by the cake.” — Jack [15:02]
Afroman’s courtroom retort:
“I got the right to kick a can in my backyard, use my freedom of speech, turn my bad times into a good time.” — Afroman [15:23]
On public reaction:
“He won because he was funny.” — Armstrong [15:49]
Jury commentary:
“The ultimate trolling trial.” — Kathy [16:11]
Armstrong on viral fallout:
“People sent me hundreds of pound cakes at work.” — [18:49]
The episode is playful, irreverent, and sardonic, balancing real legal analysis with running gags about cake, viral fame, and the absurdities of public life in the era of social media.
Armstrong & Getty use Afroman’s bizarre legal battle as a lens on free speech, the power of viral media, and the unintended consequences for public officials who become unwitting internet celebrities. With plenty of laughs, food jokes, and sharp asides, they celebrate Afroman’s creative trolling and the legal affirmation of artistic freedom—all sparked by an officer’s fateful encounter with a lemon pound cake.