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Hey everyone, this is Leon from Prologue Projects.
On this subscriber-only episode of 5-4,
Peter, Rhiannon, and Michael are talking about three legal fights from pop culture, including one that centers around one of the year's biggest songs.
Rapper Drake turning his feud with Kendrick Lamar into a legal fight.
In a court petition, his lawyers are accusing Universal Music Group of using tactics like bots to artificially inflate K-Dot's diss track, Not Like Us, on radio and Spotify.
The hosts also discuss an influencer lawsuit in which one woman accused another of copying her style and likeness.
They also talk about the recent TikTok case, which could result in the app being banned in the U.S.
That case is likely to go to the Supreme Court.
This is 5-4, a podcast about how much the Supreme Court sucks.
Welcome to 5-4, where we dissect and analyze the Supreme Court cases that have handed our civil liberties over to the authorities like a McDonald's employee handing over the CEO killer.
I'm Peter.
I'm here with Rhiannon.
Wow.
Hello, but wow.
And Michael.
Was it an employee or was it a patriot?
I thought it was some old dude who was sitting there eating.
Either way.
I'm blaming McDonald's either way.
Or the nasty people of Altoona who are not comrades.
Look, I'm from Pennsylvania.
Anyone who knows anything about Altoona knows it's not a safe place for cool people, if you know what I mean.
Teeming with snitches, apparently.
First of all, I want to take a little bit of credit here because a couple of you were popping off in the group text about how this guy was never going to be found.
I'm rolling my eyes.
I'm rolling my eyes.
Michael and Josie W.
Rice, especially, acting like this was never going to happen.
And I was like, this guy's going to get got.
They've got every fancy detective on earth.
They've got fucking Matlock out here.
They've got the knives out guy.
They're after him.
All right.
Now, what I didn't account for was that, of course, what would result in this man getting caught was not police work per se, but our nation's snitch-like conscience, our nation's snitch-like aura.
Our nation's snitch class.
Yeah.
I will say, it's funny that they were like, he fled New York.
He could be anywhere by now.
And, you know, we were all like, if he's smart, he's in Fiji.
You know what I mean?
Altoona, bro?
Yeah.
Altoona.
Why?
He didn't toss the gun.
He had five days to get rid of the gun.
And it was apparently a ghost gun, a printed gun, untraceable, just thrown in the river.
Never come back to you, ever.
I mean, Rhea, as a public defender, this has to bring up memory where you're just like, come on, man.
No, 1,000%.
But also, you know, when you're projecting, when the masses, when the people online are projecting their political values onto this story, right?
You want so much more out of this individual in terms of the planning and execution here.
You see a video where, you know, he shoots this man and basically almost broad daylight in the middle of Manhattan.
You think, this man is like hitman level.
This must be a professional.
Look at him.
He clears a jam very smoothly.
Right?
Like all of this stuff.
And then he's in fucking Altoona and he's got the gun on him.
I mean,
yeah, it's true.
Everyone is projecting both their political ideology and also their deep desire that this be the ultimate badass.
This guy is just the coolest, smartest guy ever.
No, he's not.
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