Speaker 1: When I was a kid, and apparently this was just
Speaker 1: not my parents. Maybe it's our generation, maybe it's our color.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's good. I don't know, maybe it's sorry s s.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I remember other kids used to
Speaker 1: talk about a thing called allowance and their parents. They
Speaker 1: would say how much do you get for your allowance?
Speaker 1: And they say you know, and they say, oh, I
Speaker 1: get tim bucks. I get twenty bucks and you know, oh,
Speaker 1: they mow the lawn and they give me twenty dollars.
Speaker 1: I remember coming home and being like, how come I
Speaker 1: don't have an allowance? Some of y'all already know what
Speaker 1: my mama said to me. She said, I allow you
Speaker 1: to stay in my house. We'll get all allowance. The
Speaker 1: hell you're talking about nothing that you have is yours?
Speaker 1: I say, well, what about like day? My friends would
Speaker 1: be like, oh, you know, when I do my chores
Speaker 1: and I complete my chores and stuff that, you know,
Speaker 1: they give me five bucks for you know, like I said,
Speaker 1: doing the dishes. More law. It's like my daddy was like,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna pay you for stuff you're supposed to do.
Speaker 1: You live here, You lost it. You got chores because
Speaker 1: you live here. You clean the bathroom because you use
Speaker 1: the bathroom. You clean your room because you live in it.
Speaker 1: And I remember being like, but dad, it's my room.
Speaker 1: Why Well, of course I'm not saying this out loud,
Speaker 1: but I'll be like, I don't understand why you're so
Speaker 1: worried about my room, to which case they remind you
Speaker 1: after a while that like, oh, so we just called
Speaker 1: it your room. It's attached to my house. The bill.
Speaker 1: The bill don't say your name on it. So your
Speaker 1: room ain't yours. It's that's my room that I let
Speaker 1: you live in. This ain't your house, son, We allow
Speaker 1: you to live in it. They look at you like
Speaker 1: like okay, you okay, So you're mad about something. You
Speaker 1: don't even buy your own drawls. I remember once I
Speaker 1: tried to leave I gotta try to get bigger my mom,
Speaker 1: and she was like, all right, leave everything I bought.
Speaker 1: I was like, dang, all I bought was my bag
Speaker 1: of Frido's. You ain't even buy your own draws. You're
Speaker 1: gonna call your friend on the phone on a cell
Speaker 1: phone that your mama bought for you using the Verizon
Speaker 1: wireless playing that they pay for, or oh my bad,
Speaker 1: you're gonna hit them via Instagram, or you're gonna do
Speaker 1: that on the Internet that your mama paid for then,
Speaker 1: and that ain't free. You are some you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. I put my daughter on blast too. Sometimes
Speaker 1: she'd be looking at her phone. She'd be like, I'll
Speaker 1: be I'm on Netflix. I'm like, nigging, Netflix ain't free.
Speaker 1: She had a NERB one day to be like Internet
Speaker 1: to my right, and I was like, nigging, you're right.
Speaker 1: We pay for the internet. You know that ain't free.
Speaker 1: And if it's your right, then let me show you
Speaker 1: right down the street to Spectrum and you could set
Speaker 1: up your rights there. I'm like, you you using my
Speaker 1: log in to Netflix? What is you talking about? None
Speaker 1: of this is really yours. Allowance you pay for the
Speaker 1: food in this fridge wator, it's not yours. You just
Speaker 1: have the illusion that is yours. And at any moment
Speaker 1: I can decide that the room you calling me yours
Speaker 1: is gonna be my office. You're talking about you want
Speaker 1: some now this now. I've tried to change this in
Speaker 1: my life at my house. But like you know, you
Speaker 1: slam the door, we just take the door off. The hinges.
Speaker 1: You don't get no privacy. Now maybe that's a black
Speaker 1: family thing or like, I don't know, but we don't
Speaker 1: our kids. Your kids, you have no expectation of privacy.
Speaker 1: And like you did not not in the house. You
Speaker 1: don't pay for tim I'm knocking. My parents ain't knock
Speaker 1: like my house. That's my door. I dare you to
Speaker 1: lock it. You're only locking it because you're doing something
Speaker 1: you ain't supposed to be doing. That's what they said.
Speaker 1: Now I said, I'll be trying to I'll try to
Speaker 1: change that in my life. I'm giving. I'm a girl dad,
Speaker 1: and I think it's important that my children feel like
Speaker 1: they have some sort of privacy. But I need you
Speaker 1: to know I don't knock. And again, I gotta she
Speaker 1: a teenage daughter now, so I'm like, you know I
Speaker 1: might see something I won't see. So I give her
Speaker 1: that that right and I told her, and it's something
Speaker 1: that's very difficult for me, but I told her, like,
Speaker 1: unless you give me a reason too, I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: search your stuff because I want to trust you again
Speaker 1: unless you give me a reason too. And I'm not
Speaker 1: a cop, like, I don't want to live like that.
Speaker 1: I don't want to live as a cop that was
Speaker 1: not the pie I had. But I'm trying, Like I said,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to change the point I'm trying to make
Speaker 1: is like, don't ever actually think that your stuff? It's
Speaker 1: your stuff. I'd like to introduce you to something called
Speaker 1: emminent domain hood politics, y'all. Yes, So this is a
Speaker 1: shorter episode because it's more of a like the more
Speaker 1: or you know type situation. I'm just trying to give
Speaker 1: you know, free game. I'm just putting you on game.
Speaker 1: This is something you should know exists. Let's think about
Speaker 1: it for a second. All right, y'all. This is another
Speaker 1: free game, one that I'm probably dropping in because it's
Speaker 1: kind of timeless and I might possibly be on tour
Speaker 1: right now when this one drops. Uh check the website
Speaker 1: profit pop dot com check me out on tour anyway. So,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of laws on the books that you
Speaker 1: just you don't realize they're there until it happens to
Speaker 1: you and you're like, wait, can y'all do that? There's
Speaker 1: a lot of laws on the books that we do
Speaker 1: know are absolutely unjust things that you may have thought
Speaker 1: were illegal, but they actually are very legal or has
Speaker 1: never really been fleshed out, for example, lynching being a
Speaker 1: federal crime, like that was this year and and and
Speaker 1: you're like, well it doesn't isn't that covered over under
Speaker 1: murder will Lynching is a very specific type of right
Speaker 1: because that's a it's a racially charged hate crime. Like
Speaker 1: we don't act like you don't know that, but yeah,
Speaker 1: that was just till this year. June tenth being a
Speaker 1: national holiday. I know, it seems kind of petty to
Speaker 1: be talking about June tenth as a holiday, especially when
Speaker 1: it became a holiday during the George Floyd uprising, where
Speaker 1: it was like thanks. I guess the point is they
Speaker 1: had been working on it for a while. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of things on the books that just like you
Speaker 1: just you just don't don't think about. There are a
Speaker 1: lot of funny laws too that it's like some some
Speaker 1: some states it's like illegal to spit out gum on
Speaker 1: a street. You know, there's some like stuff like that.
Speaker 1: Like it always catches me every time in like when
Speaker 1: I'm touring how certain states have laws about buying like
Speaker 1: you could buy beer and wine at a grocery store
Speaker 1: but not liquor. And I just don't understand why you
Speaker 1: make that distinction. Like that, doesn't you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: Like a gas station and they stopped selling it at
Speaker 1: a certain time. Like those those are strange, Like well,
Speaker 1: I don't understand why it's like that, And it catches
Speaker 1: me every time because I'm a Californian and I can
Speaker 1: walk into a seven eleven and get whatever I need,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, A CVS, a grocery store,
Speaker 1: and a lot of my friends when they traveled through
Speaker 1: through our city, they're like, damn, you can buy a
Speaker 1: liquor at the grocery store. I'm like, yeah, why not,
Speaker 1: Like you know, you know what I'm saying. So it's
Speaker 1: just there's there are these strange laws that just kind
Speaker 1: of sit there that either are outdated or were for
Speaker 1: a particular reason out of particular of the time. But
Speaker 1: then there's other things that are just like a little
Speaker 1: bit jolting and egregious. And I think one of those
Speaker 1: laws that you may have heard in the background but
Speaker 1: didn't know this is what it is. And one of
Speaker 1: them laws is imminent domain. Now, before I get into
Speaker 1: remember the movie up how they were building this thing
Speaker 1: around that old man's house and he wouldn't sell his
Speaker 1: house you remember that, Like that was that was acute acute,
Speaker 1: uh you know film that was not about imminent domain
Speaker 1: because imminent domain doesn't apply to private industries. Like if
Speaker 1: you want to build a mall. You know, if a
Speaker 1: city is rapidly gentrifying and you want to build a mall,
Speaker 1: you can't use the law of imminent domain to get
Speaker 1: this person's house. Like if you refuse to buy, you
Speaker 1: refused to buy, you cannot be compelled to give up
Speaker 1: your private property two another private company. You can, however,
Speaker 1: and be forced to give up your property to the government.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you know this. They gotta pay you,
Speaker 1: but they can put you out. You could be like, well,
Speaker 1: I don't want your money, and they're like, well you
Speaker 1: gotta take the money or not take the money. You
Speaker 1: don't gass check, you don't want to, but you gotta go.
Speaker 1: It's called him in the domain. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you maybe you knew this, maybe didn't, but like basically
Speaker 1: that's the same as your mama telling you that this
Speaker 1: house your room ain't really your room, your house ain't
Speaker 1: really your house, your land ain't really your land. That's
Speaker 1: not really yours. We can take you whenever we need
Speaker 1: it so. Legal definition of eminent domain. Eminent domain refers
Speaker 1: to the power of the government to take private property
Speaker 1: and convert it into public use right. The Fifth Amendment
Speaker 1: provides that the government may only exercise this power if
Speaker 1: they provide just compensation to the property owners. Now, let
Speaker 1: me pause for a second. You hear me say the
Speaker 1: Fifth Amendment. Did you did you think that the Fifth
Speaker 1: Amendment was only about not incriminating yourself? You plead the
Speaker 1: fifth Oh man, you gotta you gotta read to the bottom.
Speaker 1: You want me to read to the bottom of the
Speaker 1: Fifth Amendment. Look here. The Fifth Amendment of the U.
Speaker 1: S Constitution provides, quote, no person shall be held to
Speaker 1: answer for a capital or otherwise infamous crime, unless on
Speaker 1: a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in
Speaker 1: cases in the land or naval forces, or in the
Speaker 1: militia when in actual service, in time of war or
Speaker 1: public danger. Nor shall any person be subject, for the
Speaker 1: same offense to be twice put into jeopardy of life
Speaker 1: or limb. Nor shall be compelled in any criminal case
Speaker 1: to witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty,
Speaker 1: or property. Follow me without due process of law. Nor
Speaker 1: shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation. Y'ah,
Speaker 1: y'all hear what happened there. They can take it as
Speaker 1: long as they pay. And it's weird to tie them
Speaker 1: all together, right, but you gotta follow what's happening. So
Speaker 1: if you think of it like this, it's like the
Speaker 1: the Amendment has basically five movements. It's like, listen, it's
Speaker 1: five rights actually being articulated in the Fifth Amendment. It's
Speaker 1: the right to indictment by grand jury before any criminal
Speaker 1: charges or felonist crimes, meaning like you have to have
Speaker 1: an indictment by a grand jury before we can bring
Speaker 1: any things. Right too, it's a prohibition on double jeopardy,
Speaker 1: meaning you can't be tried for the same crime twice. Right. Three,
Speaker 1: it's a right against forced self incrimination. Yeah, you understand that.
Speaker 1: That's the one we all understand. And then for a
Speaker 1: guarantee that criminal defendants will have a fair trial. Right,
Speaker 1: that's what the Fifth Amendment is about. So it's all
Speaker 1: about trials, right, And then a guarantee that the government
Speaker 1: cannot seize private property without making do compensation at the
Speaker 1: market value of the property. It's so weird. Like, why
Speaker 1: is that part of it there? Well, let me tell
Speaker 1: you why. Well, it's because of a thing called civil forfiture.
Speaker 1: Now this is a hold off from the War on drugs. Right.
Speaker 1: First of all, civil forfiture, I don't know if you notice,
Speaker 1: is really the biggest money maker for most of our
Speaker 1: police programs. Right when a crime boss whatever somebody is
Speaker 1: indicted for a crime. This nineteen eight four federal law
Speaker 1: guaranteed that a lot of the money police ce east
Speaker 1: would end up going right back into their agency. Now
Speaker 1: the practice has been turned into a massive slush fund
Speaker 1: for local cops. Right, So, like there's this weird thing
Speaker 1: about it. But essentially basically is if you capture a
Speaker 1: drug cartel person, you could take their assets. It's called
Speaker 1: civil forfeiture. I mean, you don't have we don't am
Speaker 1: We can just do whatever we want with it. And
Speaker 1: what they have been doing is like buying armored armored
Speaker 1: trucks and you know what I'm saying, whatever coke, you got, whatever,
Speaker 1: your house, all that, like they could take it because
Speaker 1: they're like, oh, well you got it illegally, so you
Speaker 1: know you got no rights over that. The civil forfeiture,
Speaker 1: Well that's different than eminent domain. Imminent domain is saying, okay, look,
Speaker 1: what if you're not a criminal, and what if we
Speaker 1: just want your property? It has to do specifically with property,
Speaker 1: because we can take your assets, but as far as
Speaker 1: your property, oh, we gotta pay you for that. And
Speaker 1: even if you're nodded a criminal, even if you've got
Speaker 1: nothing to do with it. That's the part where it
Speaker 1: gets really twisted. If the government decides they want to
Speaker 1: build a park in your neighborhood on your house, all
Speaker 1: they got to do is look up the fair market.
Speaker 1: But they can ask. You don't really have to ask,
Speaker 1: just like your mama can knock, but you don't really
Speaker 1: have to knock. They could say, hey, we want to
Speaker 1: build a park here. Would you be willing to sell
Speaker 1: your house? You're like, well nah, well okay, well here's
Speaker 1: the money for your house. You gotta go. I just start.
Speaker 1: I wasn't selling it. Now you don't understand according to
Speaker 1: the Fifth Amendment, I can. I can prove to you
Speaker 1: here is the fair market amount of your of your house,
Speaker 1: and we are using this for the public good, which
Speaker 1: is a civil forfeiture because that's generally just photo police.
Speaker 1: This is government. Do you see what's happening here? Civil forfeiture, police,
Speaker 1: imminent domain. Government. But the government has to say, well,
Speaker 1: we're using this for the public good. Now you have
Speaker 1: to ask yourself what is the just compensation requirements? Not
Speaker 1: check this out? So co versus United States, this is
Speaker 1: peep this the Supreme Court held that the government may
Speaker 1: seize property through the use of imminent domain as long
Speaker 1: as it appropriates just compensation for the owner of the property.
Speaker 1: And then in Loretto versus uh Templatre Manhattan, right, this
Speaker 1: is the Supreme Court clarify that when the government engages
Speaker 1: in a taking and implements a permanent physical occupation of
Speaker 1: a property, it must provide the property owner with just compensation,
Speaker 1: even if the area is small and the government does
Speaker 1: not greatly affect the owner's economics interests. So you have
Speaker 1: to ask yourself for what's the public use requirement? Right
Speaker 1: to Supreme Court in two thousand five held that general
Speaker 1: benefits which a community would enjoy from the furthering economic
Speaker 1: development is sufficiently qualified as public use. So you could
Speaker 1: buy out by a plot of land, invest everything you
Speaker 1: can in it. Just like look when you as a
Speaker 1: kid using your room, you could put all the posters
Speaker 1: you want, you could sound your closet. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. You'd be like Daddy cannot paint my room.
Speaker 1: You paint your room whatever color you won't you understand
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, lock your door, put a little thing.
Speaker 1: But listen, I need you to understand something that ain't
Speaker 1: your room, but you just told me it was. I
Speaker 1: just paid for all this stuff. Listen, it's not your room.
Speaker 1: This is like this. I need you all to know
Speaker 1: this is legal. Now again I can again, I can't stress.
Speaker 1: Is enough. A mall can't come take your house, but
Speaker 1: the city of can as long as they pay you.
Speaker 1: And if you don't want the money, then I guess,
Speaker 1: don't cast the check. But that's that's theirs. Now. I
Speaker 1: know a lot of y'all aren't homeowners, and I hope
Speaker 1: a lot of y'all are not, you know, crying bosses
Speaker 1: to where you might get your your little stash taken
Speaker 1: and the government in the in the police by some
Speaker 1: new cars. Uh. But it's just one of those things
Speaker 1: to where it's like my encouragement to you is like, hey,
Speaker 1: you gotta like yo read the amendments, like don't guess
Speaker 1: like read them. So when you're like, y'all can't do that,
Speaker 1: they like, uh, yes we can. So just like your
Speaker 1: mama and your daddy told you, listen, you just allowed
Speaker 1: to stay here. And hopefully your mama and daddy ain't
Speaker 1: as shady as our government to be like, hey, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna need that, I'm gonna need that room. Hopefully that's
Speaker 1: not your parents but your government. Hey, running the house
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