Ep. 1993 - Images Of BLM Activists Urinating On Austin Metcalf’s Grave Go Viral

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I don't think many women do that, especially after the trans phenomenon of the last five years. That's kind of over. And so the pictures that the BLM activists are posting are not real. And furthermore, there's not much reason to believe that most, if any, of the BLM activists are real. There's no reason to believe these are real people. This is all, it's all just social media accounts. There was a real murder. That definitely happened. And there are real racial tensions around the murder. That's definitely true. And our real geopolitical adversaries are exploiting the murder and the racial tensions, as they always have. Russian state TV can't get enough of the Metcalfe murder. They're running it on RT all the time. But the specific phenomenon that all of the right wing engagement accounts are up in arms over right now is not actually happening. And this is way bigger than the Austin Metcalfe murder. This is happening with respect to almost every issue. So before we all lose our minds, before we all lose our political order, we probably need to ask a basic question about politics in the big two six. Is anything that we are seeing actually real? I'm Michael Knowles, this is the Michael Knowles Show. Welcome back to the show. I will not close out this week of shows without getting into Senator Eric Schmidt's unbelievable play at the congressional baseball game. Unbelievable by the standards of many MLB teams, much less United States senators, and why Republicans always win the baseball game. We'll get to that also. I just got off the phone seconds ago with a senior administration official with the absolute latest on the Iran nuclear deal, the deal that could reopen straight-of-war moves, restore confidence to our markets, restore 20% of global energy moving around the world, which could then bring down gas prices, which could then help Republicans do better in the midterms, which could then bring peace to the Middle East. 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Okay, before we get to these minor issues like, you know, the war in Iran and global energy markets and potential World War III, I want to get to this Austin Metcalfe issue, because we've talked about the Austin Metcalfe murder in itself. We've talked about the sentencing of Carmelo Anthony. We've talked about some of the responses to that, but this is another kind of thing. You are seeing image after image going around on social media of black people, including black women, unzipping their flies and urinating on Austin Metcalfe's grave. And to people who have a little bit of discernment who are maybe under the age of 152, who know how social media work, they know this isn't real. The images aren't real. One, because women don't, they don't have flies like that, but two, because it's so easy to generate very photorealistic images on AI. But you could say, well, what Israel is the underlying racial tension? We know that, according to Pew Research, black people have a 72% racial solidarity and racial identity in America compared to just 15% of white people. We do know that racial tensions have existed in America for many decades and even centuries. So we do know that there are elected officials, Jasmine Crockett, racializing, not just racializing the murder of Austin Metcalfe, but racializing the response, saying, well, actually the real victims here are black people, or black women, or what have you. We know that these images are AI, but we could go further than that and say, are these people even real? All these random people that are posting, BLM activists, down from the streets, community organizer, are any of these people real or are they fake people? Who's behind it? We know that our geopolitical adversaries exploit these kinds of weaknesses. The Soviet Union did that throughout the 1960s and 70s. The Soviet Union is backing a ton of the civil rights groups. And it's not because the Soviet Union had a great conscience on civil rights. The reason that the Soviet Union did that is because it exacerbated attention in the U.S. It's not that the Soviet Union in the Cold War invented racial tension in the U.S. The tension already existed. What smart propagandists do, what smart adversaries do, is they exploit tensions that already exist. So that's why the Soviet Union was funding. That's why the communists were funding a lot of the civil rights activity. That is also why RT today is airing all of these pictures and constantly talking about the Metcalfe murder and constantly promoting anybody who can sow division within the United States and especially irritate the right-wingers who are the dominant political force right now. So how do we deal with all of this? We know that there's a real thing that happened and we know that there are real circumstances around it. But we also know, or anyone with discernment knows, that so much of the media around it is just fake. How do we know what's real? I've talked about Baudrillard, who had this theory of hyper-reality. Here are some other thinkers who speak about this. Guy Debord, a French Marxist, he said, in societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immerse accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into representation. Now look, I don't defer to the Marxists very often, and the Marxists have horrible prescriptions and solutions for society. But sometimes they do describe real phenomena. Even reading Karl Marx, he does recognize some problems. He gets a few things right even, and I think that's what's going on here. In modern, in societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation. I think you're seeing that with politics. I've been talking about this with regard to the podcast wars for eight or nine months now. It's one of the reasons I don't want to focus too much on it, is I think the whole thing is kind of an op. But there's this strange condition that we're living in now where politics doesn't seem to be connected to the actual political order. Where we're just talking about weird kind of conspiracy theories, about personalities who don't even make laws, but who are just kind of in the media. Where political commentary ends up at Chud the Builder or Hassan Piker. Either it's just some guy screaming the n-word at black people and accusing them of chimping out, or it's Hassan Piker talking about how we need to murder people and go partner up with the communist regime of Cuba or something like that. But nothing is really grounded into actual policy or even really ideology. It's just all, it's like three levels of abstraction removed. I think of this quote by Albert Borgman. He says, hyper-reality is described as surpassing ordinary reality in supernatural brilliance, limitless variety, and unreal availability. It's surpassing ordinary reality in its supernatural brilliance, limitless variety, and unreal availability. This is exactly what's going on here. It was not enough that there were protesters outside the courthouse when Carmelo Anthony was sentenced. It was, it's not enough that there were half a dozen or a dozen people out there saying, we want Carmelo to be exonerated. That's crazy, but it's not crazy enough for our modern, hyper-real, super algorithmically perfected dopamine drowning culture. You need something more. You need Jasmine Crockett. You need a member of Congress going out there and saying that the real victims in the Austin Metcalfe murder are black people. You need, you need a member of Congress going out there and saying, yeah, well, look, Carmelo Anthony only stabbed him once. I mean, he only stabbed him once. It's not like he stabbed him five or six times. That, oh boy, that really juices it up. Now we're getting into a real brilliant spectacle, but you know what? Even that's not enough. You need to go further. You need black people urinating on the grave of Austin Metcalfe. Oh yeah, that's the good stuff, baby. Give me that. Hold on. Where's my rubber band? I gotta just, give me a belt. I gotta just take that straight into my veins. Yeah. No, but you know what? That's not even enough. I need black women. Oh, wait for this. I need black women unzipping their flies. Maybe they're transsexuals. I don't know, but I need them urinating. Oh, that's, now we've reached the hardest core, most concentrated degree of spectacle. That's what we need. It's not that it's totally divorced from what's really going on. There are racial tensions, black people take their racial identity very, very seriously, white people much less so. There's a lot of crime. The police look the other way. The political order generally looks the other way when it's black crime versus white crime. There's a two-tiered system of justice. All that's true. All that's true, but they just gin it all the way up. In the society where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. This is why it's not enough. This is why all the podcasters had to turn on Trump. Look, I don't mean to cast too many aspersions. Some of them at least think they have moral reasoning for it. They say, I'm turning on him because I didn't like the tariffs or the lack of tariffs or the strikes on Iran or this or that or the other thing. They can convince themselves that Trump totally flipped his positions. He didn't. He's been remarkably consistent for his entire life. They can convince themselves that. But the real reason I think the podcasters flipped on Trump is because it helps their numbers. Your ratings don't do as well when you say, hey, things are actually going pretty well, but here are some ways that they could be corrected. Your ratings don't do as well, especially in independent media when you're on the side of the people in power. So you have to put yourself in opposition. If Biden's in power, you need to be on the side of Trump. But then the second the Trump gets into power, especially if Republicans have unified government, you have to put yourself in opposition, even if it means flipping on a few issues. You have to do it. It's not enough. We need an immense accumulation of spectacles. It cannot be the case that a left winger dating a tranny furry killed Charlie Kirk. It can't be the case. We can't believe that, even though that's what all of the evidence shows. Even though these are the exact kind of people who have been threatening to and trying to kill right-wingers for years and years and years, we've all seen it happen. It can't be the case because that's too mundane. That's too expected. It has to be something greater. And there is a market impetus for it to be something wilder, especially as the media economy advance into the realm of total independence, taking away the need for networks and linear displays. Now, it's all new media on demand, independent. I sound like half a Marxist here, but this is happening. And it's crucial, it seems to me in the political diagnosis, to maintain the via media. There are going to be some people who say there's really no racial strife in America and black people don't really want to defend Carmelo Anthony. That's not true. Plenty of them do. We've seen that is real. That's actually happening. And then there are going to be people who say black women are urinating on the grave of Auster Mecca. That's not happening either. The reality is much more tense. It's much more full of anxiety. It's a little blurrier. It's a little more ambiguous. To me, that's more interesting because it references the nuance and the complexity of politics. But under prevailing conditions, both in the media and in politics, in out of human nature and out of economics, that's not acceptable. Okay. Enough about the Marxists. Is there a peace deal in Iran? I've just gotten off the phone with a senior administration official. We'll get to what I heard. First, they'll go to policygenius.com slash Knowles June marks the first days of summer. And my schedule's already packed. There's a lot going on, especially with the kids. We're going to go on a little family vacation at some point, I hope. Got a lot of work still. You know what I don't have time for? It's sifting through a maze of confusing insurance websites trying to determine whether I am actually getting a good deal. 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Got a policygenius.com slash noals to compare life insurance quotes from top companies. See how much you could save. Policygenius.com slash noals. Okay, here is what has been publicly reported over the last 24 hours. And then I'll get to what I just heard from a senior admin official. President Trump says, we've just made a great settlement of the war with Iran. The Strait will officially open as soon as we sign, which could be very, very soon, maybe over the weekend in Europe. Trump has also suggested that the Vice President could sign on behalf of the United States. When asked if Kamene, this new Supreme Leader of Iran, who has the same last name as the old Supreme Leader of Iran, has approved the deal, Trump said, I understand the answer is yes. It's not a firm yes. It's not yes. Definitely, the Supreme Leader has signed on, but he says, I understand the answer is yes. In part, this is because I've heard in other discussions with senior admin officials that they're basically using carrier pigeons to reach the Supreme Leader. He is so off the grid because they don't want the US or Israel to strike him. So he's so off the grid that it's hard to even know if you're hearing from him, regardless. The reporting goes on. It's a very strong memorandum of understanding that is a little conceptual. So it's not a deal deal. It's not a final deal. It's a memorandum of understanding that could do things like reopen the Strait of Hormuz, that could start the demining of the Strait of Hormuz, that could start the US on freezing sanctions. It's a memorandum of understanding that will then create a 60 or 90 day negotiating period after which you might get a deal. You might not get a deal. The big thing is there will be no nuclear weapons in Iran. That means not developed and not purchased. That's what Trump said on another campaign event by phone. Okay, that's the reporting about Trump's position. What's the reporting about Iran's position? Iran says, quote, we have not reached a final conclusion on this matter. This is a very important issue that is currently being reviewed by the relevant decision-making authorities. Okay, that's it. So Trump is saying, here's what we're going to get. Here's that goes. We're very close to a deal. Everyone's basically approved it. Iran says we haven't made a final decision. So they're not saying that there hasn't been a preliminary decision. They're not totally contradicting the US reporting, but they're saying we haven't made a final decision. Okay, now there's a third party here. Don't forget when the US hit Iran, the US did it with Israel. And sometimes the US and Israeli interests are totally aligned, and sometimes they diverge. And it seems, as I've been saying for weeks now, it seems that the US and Israeli interests are beginning to diverge a little bit here. So is Israel going to gum up the works on the whole deal, as they sometimes do with strikes on Qatar or strikes on southern Lebanon? Here's what Israel says. Although Israel is not a party to the memorandum of understanding, the Prime Minister expressed his appreciation for President Trump's commitment that the final agreement reached the conclusion of the negotiations. We'll include the removal of enriched material, the dismantling of enrichment infrastructure limitations on missile production, and the cessation of Iran's support for its terrorist proxies in the region. Anything else? Is there anything else you want in there? So notice what Israel's saying. You're saying, no, no. We're not signing on to this. We are not party to this. We reserve our right to keep striking Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. We reserve our right to keep shooting missiles at Iran. But we also don't want to further alienate the United States, which has seen massive collapse in the support for Israel. And we don't want to alienate President Trump, who's the best friend Israel's ever had. He's so great, we even named a town after him. So what we're going to say is we're not signing on to this deal. We don't want a deal. Israel doesn't want a deal here. They view this, I think, as their last shot to really take out this regime, which they view as an existential threat with justifiably so. If I were the PM of Israel, I'd be pushing for the same thing. But it is in the United States' interest to get a peace deal. But Israel remains an ally of the United States, so they don't want to totally knock the United States here. So they say, okay, look, whatever, we like the president, we respect the president. We're not signing on to this memorandum of understanding. But we appreciate that Trump is going to remove their Iran's enriched material and dismantle their enrichment infrastructure so they can't rebuild it and limit their ballistic missile production and make Iran stop supporting terrorists in the region, whether you're talking about Hezbollah or Hamas. So that's the Reuters reporting. Now, what's the Michael reporting? Because I just got off the phone with F4 referred to senior admin official. The reporting seems substantially true, at least according to what I'm hearing from the White House. And the state of Israel might be happy about some things and might not be happy about some things. That's, I guess, where some of the sticking point is. But from what I'm hearing, what does America get? America will get out of this deal the nuclear dust. This is what they're saying. They say they need the highly enriched nuclear material to be destroyed and taken out of Iran. This has been a big sticking point with the Iranian regime. The Iranian regime says, absolutely not. We're not doing that. The United States says that's our red line too. According to my source in the White House, this deal gets us the nuclear dust. It obviously will reopen the Strait of Hormuz, which is the most urgent practical consideration. There has been some debate over whether or not, or some conflicting reporting over whether or not Iran will still control the Strait of Hormuz, whether Iran will be able to charge tolls on the Strait of Hormuz. It's a little unclear exactly how that will go other than what I'm hearing is the deal includes free, open, safe access through the Strait of Hormuz. It would take a little while, of course, because you have to demine it. And some of the ships are going to be a little more risk-averse, obviously. So they might take a few weeks. But the idea would be the minute this MOU goes into effect, the Strait of Hormuz is open for business. Still a little bit unclear. Is Iran going to charge tolls? Or that's a little bit unclear in any case. The U.S. will also get inspections. So if Iran does try to rebuild its nuclear program, the U.S. can can insist upon inspections and slow things down. And from what I'm hearing, the Americans will also insist upon and get that Iran can no longer fund the terror network. So that's something that the State of Israel was asking for, that the United States obviously wants to. But it's much more important to the State of Israel. That was something that Iran never wanted to deal with, didn't insist upon. Israeli strikes on Lebanon being part of any ceasefire deal between the United States and Iran. This has been a big issue, obviously. Iran gets a lot of its power by funding these terror proxies. What I'm hearing is Iran will have to see support for the terror organizations. Now, you might say, okay, they could say they'll do that, but how are they actually going to, how are we going to enforce that? It would seem to be the case that sanctions relief is contingent upon Iran not supporting the terrorist networks. Devil's in the details, of course. What does Iran get? Iran gets sanctions relief. Iran gets the unfreezing of assets. But crucially, none of that is going to happen until they sign onto the deal and their blockade and reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Let's see. Well, what is the likelihood that any of this is going to happen? My source in the White House says 75%. It's not 100%, but it's not 5% either. 75%. 75% is good odds. I like that, but I ain't betting the farm on 75%. 25% chance this doesn't happen might drag on a little bit longer. Now, if all of this goes well, this could be a fundamental reshaping of the Middle East. Not quite as much as if you actually clobbered the Mullahs regime in Iran, but it could be a pretty big deal. Another crucial point, because I think a lot of the war hawks, the people who are really just pushing for us to keep bombing Iran forever and trying to overthrow the regime and install Madisonian democracy or so, whatever they want us to do, their argument is, well, this is crazy. We're giving Iran a bunch of money for nothing. What I am told by the White House is that no money will be exchanged upon the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding. So it's not just Iran getting money for promises that it may or may not keep. Okay. Who is bought in here? Well, from what I'm hearing, they're dealing with both the political leadership in Iran and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, which is important because the political leadership in Iran could agree to a bunch of stuff. It seems like they have in the past, but the IRGC is the one actually controlling the Strait of Hormuz, so they can just veto whatever the political leadership says. 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Speaking of good deals, this is so freaking... This is so... The hyper real world and the lies of the media. Here's a story. Drove me up a wall. It's from the New York Times. This restaurant stopped charging for food and profits are up at Postmodern Times Cafe in Minneapolis. A tax protest has turned into a social experiment and a critique of the hospitality industry. You look at a picture of this guy. He's got some kind of mullet, but it's not even like a good mullet. It's just like long hair. He has a septum piercing. So right off the bat, you know, this guy is very likely talking to demons. You know, I've never seen the septum piercing work well. Certainly not on a man, but on a woman either. And what did this guy do? He's got an organic vegan vegetarian free trade postmodern cafe and he doesn't charge for food and profits are up. Wow, man. It's like, what if we just rethought the whole economy, man? Because anyone... Can someone please... Oh, here it is. Just pull up my bong here. Yeah, man. What if we stop running our restaurants for profit? And we just operate on hopes and dreams and love, man. Well, hold on. The New York Times says profits are up, even though they're not charging for food. How did that work? Well, because the restaurant seems to have two kinds of customers now. Bums and people who mount out the flat catchers and, you know, racial and sexual grievance hoaxers and guilty white liberals. And so the way it works is the former category don't pay anything and the guilty white liberals just voluntarily pay for everything. But so does that mean that the guilty white liberals are paying for so much that they're actually bringing in more money to the restaurant than previously the restaurant was making when they discharged bills? No, no. The reason profits are up is because this little weird trick that the business owner figured out, namely he's not paying his taxes by not charging for food and just accepting donations. He doesn't have to pay any taxes. Well, I mean, he should pay taxes. I don't think he's actually a nonprofit, but regardless, he's just not paying his taxes. One weird trick to increase your profits, don't pay your taxes. Steal. Steal from the government and from the people. That's what they're doing. Beautifully ironic, very, very silly. So much of leftism is this. Just there's solutions. There's solutions to social problems. It's just like, don't pay taxes. Stop arresting criminals. Don't have a border. They say, well, that's not fixing anything. That's only making the problems worse. Yeah, yeah, but just imagine another world, man. Okay. No, no, thank you. Okay. Speaking of cheating people out of their just desserts, Senator Eric Schmidt, I'm not letting this week close before I get this, this play from the congressional baseball game. Every year, the Republicans and the Democrats play each other. I went one year, like 15 years ago, and it's, it's kind of fun that most of the congressmen are not that good, but some of them are weirdly much better than you would expect. And here we have Senator Eric Schmidt from Missouri making a better play than probably most of the major league that night. Really a prime June night. That one's straight. That one struck to left field. Crazy, crazy. Unbelievable. Amazing catch down the left field line. The redbirds would be proud of a play leading from the face. Wow. And he roughed himself up. From the nose. What's he do though? Wipes and on his pants, rubs a little dirt in it, smiling, going right back on the field, lays it all out. Senator Eric Schmidt, I don't know if you guys have seen him on TV or anything, if the Missouri people have seen him in person. He's like a nephilim. He's like eight foot, 14 inches tall. He's just huge. He just lays it all out. So the Republicans one, I think the final score was 11 to two. This is the sixth consecutive year that the Republicans have won the congressional baseball game. And it does raise a question. Why is it that Republicans are more athletic than Democrats? Why is it that conservatives are more athletic than liberals? I can contemplate this question because I am not one of the athletic conservatives. So it's not, I'm not just like huffing myself up here. Like I fully recognize I'm a little more built for the ukulele than I am for the football field. But nevertheless, the conservatives simply are more athletic. And it's because they're more likely to be men. And if they're men, they're more likely to be like tougher men. And they're more balanced people. Conservatives are just balanced people. For the Libs, it's just one thing, it's either race and that's their whole raison d'etre is to take vengeance upon some race or it's sex. They're just like lustful saders who just all they care like that guy Weiner. Isn't his name Weiner out in California? Of course it is. He's the guy who's most famous for changing the law so that adult men who rape little boys have less of a punishment. Just a Scott Weiner. That's his name. That's him. Obviously, all this guy thinks about all day long is creepy sex stuff. They're just obsessed with it. Whereas, for conservatives or even the left broadly, I think it's always think about political power. That can at least be an obsession. Think about LBJ. Whereas for the right, we're more balanced, which is to our eternal benefit, I think, and it makes us happier and more content on earth. That's why we're more likely conservative. But it is a little bit to our political detriment that we're not quite as obsessive. We play a little baseball. We have a little family. We go have a little barbecue in the backyard. We do a little legislate and we make a little money in the private sector. We're very balanced people sometimes that allows the obsessives to get one over on us. Okay. Speaking of beautiful Republican displays, this is such a stupid story. You know the reflecting pool in DC on the National Mall? It's a reflecting pool where when you're standing at the Lincoln Memorial, you look down and you've got the Washington monument and it's that obelisk and it reflects in the pool. It's very nice. When you're at the Washington, you look and it's reflecting the Lincoln. It's very nice. And it had gotten kind of dark and ugly and it just needed, you needed to call the pool guy. If anyone's ever owned a pool at home, sometimes you got to call the pool guy. And the Democrats had totally let it go and it was ugly and there was algae growing in it. It was gross. Anyway, now Trump just calls the pool guy, comes in. It wasn't all that expensive for a major public monument and they repaint it. They fix it up a little bit. Now it's beautiful and it's reflecting and even the left is admitting they like it. I thought it was a stupid idea to paint the reflecting pool. It looks good. It actually looks really good. Like it makes the reflection look extraordinarily prominent in a way that it did not look good. And I hate that. Yeah, it looks good. So here you have this Democrat woman, especially, it's especially helpful because she's from a demographic that the Democrats think they just own, which is black women. They think that is the demographic they most own. And she goes, you know, look, I came in prejudiced. I hated the idea that Trump was fixing up the reflecting pool. Why? I don't know because she believes whatever she hears in MSNBC. But then she looks at it with her own eyes and she says, you know what? I got to admit, I got to be honest here. I like it. Looks good. They did a good job. I hate to admit that I like it. You saw this also over at Union Station in DC where there's a statue of Columbus. It's like, I didn't even realize it was a fountain exactly because it hadn't had water in it for basically my entire lifetime. And then I look and it was just ugly. It had graffiti on it under Joe Biden and it was just a sign of decay over by the train station in DC, which was so decayed. And then look at it under Trump. Do we have the pictures? You look at it under Trump. It's just so much more beautiful. It's so much more beautiful. Show me under Biden. Yeah. Hamas is coming free Gaza. You know, like all this kind of, even this you say, is this AI? Well, if it is AI or not, we do not. I mean, I've seen it so many times. It just covered in dirt, gross, ugly, graffiti at times. And now under Trump, it's really nice and beautiful. Why does that matter? Is this just frivolous? I think a lot of people on the right, they'll say, oh, you're so good at cleaning up monuments in DC. How about you deport people? You're so good at cleaning up monuments. How about you get better trade deals or whatever? Both of which Trump has done. But regardless, this is the importance of visual improvements. Okay. Columbus Circle, the reflecting pool, the ballroom, the ballroom, which is actually about more than a ballroom because there are actually military installations underneath it at the White House for 80 years now. Regardless, it's a tangible sign of things getting better. And the reason this matters is one, it's just good in itself. And when you have a beautiful place, people are inclined to behave in a more dignified way and you're going to have a better polity. But even beyond that, when you have tangible, visible signs of things getting better, then the Democrats' opposition to everything Trump does looks absurd. It calls into question their judgment. This functions exactly in the same way as the transing the kids' issue did in 2024. It's not that there were so many kids who were being transed. It's not that there were so many guys trying to go into girls' bathrooms. It's that if the Democrats seriously believed that men should go into women's bathrooms, if Democrats seriously believed that we should chop off the genitals of little kids, it called into question their judgment about everything else too. It's the same thing here. If they're seriously arguing that the reflecting pool doesn't look better, that Union Station doesn't look better, then their judgment is just wrong about everything else. And people know it. Even people who are inclined to hate Trump. Okay. My favorite comment yesterday, I didn't pick it. This was the producers. This is from the Drummer's Workshop. Norma's Music says, if I had a son, he would look like Carmelo, Gavin Newsom. Basically, basically, that's just the Newsom wants to be the new Obama. That's it. Okay. Finally, finally, we arrive at my favorite time of the week. Our mailbag is sponsored by PureTalk and PureTalk.com today. Take it away. Hey, Michael, I have a question regarding the civil suit after Austin Metcalfe's murder. The giant pile of money that was raised by black activists for Carmelo Anthony and his family, does Austin Metcalfe's family have a legitimate case to sue in civil court for that money? Would love to know if it's possible or what you think. Sincerely, speechless, controlling words, controlling minds. Here we go. Yeah, certainly the Metcalfes have a case. There's the criminal case and then there's the civil suit. The civil suit has a lower barrier. It's harder to win the criminal case than it is to win the civil suit. Most famously, or infamously, you probably saw this play out with O.J., where O.J. got off the hook in the criminal trial, even though he obviously killed his wife and her friend. But then he lost the civil suit. He still owed money to the families of the victims. Here, yeah, they want, you know, the Metcalfes and the state won in the criminal case. Carmelo Anthony obviously stabbed poor Austin Metcalfe to death. So the Metcalfes could sue. The problem is they'd have to sue Carmelo Anthony himself and he doesn't have any money. The Anthony family raised a ton of money ostensibly for Carmelo Anthony's legal defense from people who support a murderer strictly on the basis of race. But then the Anthony family squandered all the money. They seem to have used it just for themselves to buy a nicer house, move into a nicer community, to the point now that Carmelo Anthony is saying he doesn't have money for a lawyer to appeal. But that also might be strategic in the sense that if Carmelo Anthony had money, then the Metcalfes could come take it in the civil suit. But if the money all just goes to Carmelo Anthony's family, it's much harder for them to take it. They could try to argue that the Carmelo Anthony's family was negligent or they gave him the weapon or they allowed him to have the weapon or something. But that's going to be much, much harder to prove. So in practice, probably the Metcalfes are not going to get any money. And the only people who are going to make money on the murder of Austin Metcalfe is going to be the family of his murderer. Next question. Hey, Michael, this is E.J. Colmel. I had two questions for you. First, because I've been getting kind of tired of my local area not having much in the way of actual social events or groups, I thought of putting one together myself, but I'm not really sure where to get started and could use some advice since I'm new to the organizational game, so to speak. The second question is if you had any advice to help me try and find someone to meet and date and marry, because at 27 and single, it's getting really kind of hard just dealing with the fact of never having been on a date and it's not really working with church or dating apps. I could just use some better advice on things to do because I'm running out of ideas. Yeah, okay. I'm sorry to hear your struggles, E.J. Colmel. I think your struggles are pretty typical for people today, especially younger people. And you're right. You said 27 is so young, but it does get harder. It gets harder to socialize. It's really easy to meet people in high school or in college because you're around so many people of your same age group. The second you graduate and you enter into the workplace, your social circle shrinks dramatically. So it's hard. It's hard. Every year that goes by, it's harder. Your instinct is to control the situation more. So your instinct is I want to start an organization so that I can socialize more, rather than join an organization. I think that's a bad idea. I think you should join an organization. And you say, well, the group at my church, it isn't vibrant enough or there aren't enough people or there isn't enough of a social life. Okay. I would look elsewhere then. You obviously have a political interest. I would join all the local Republican and conservative groups. All the little meetups that go on, which you can find, I think even still online, you can find them through the local party. I would go there. I would ask some of your family or friends of family or family of friends or whatever, just like anyone in your social circle, for leads on how to increase your social life. Because that's something that is bothering you. And it's bothering basically everybody in your generation because the Zoomers are socializing much less than any civilization, sorry, any generation basically ever. Now on the dating side, you say, how am I going to meet a nice girl to date? You need to get on the apps is what you need to do. Actually, this is not always my advice to everyone. And I would want a little, I haven't seen you in a while. So I want more specifics on where you're living, exactly your circumstances, but people date on the apps. I don't want to date on the apps. I'm thrilled that I didn't have to get on the dating apps. I just missed it. I got the last chopper at a nom, but that's where people date now. And if you're able to date, if because of the circumstances of your life, you're able to date, you know, you don't know, you married your high school sweetheart or something, or you meet a girl at work and you don't run a foul of HR or you, I don't know, meet a girl at church or it look, if that works, great, but it's not working for you. So you need to go to where people are dating. I can strongly recommend Catholic match. Catholic match is really great. Not only because they're a sponsor, but it's a great great app and website. But that's where you got to go. You got to go where the people are. I think your instinct is to control more. And I would say actually your answer when it comes to socializing is less control. Liberal modernity tells us we need to control everything. We need to be totally autonomous. We need to be self-creating and self-directing, but actually man is a social creature. So when we interact in society, we recognize we have mutual obligations and responsibilities. And so yeah, that involves giving up control. That's what you should do. Okay, next question. Mack, I was wondering, since you like to quote Uncle Aristotle a lot, that we are allomorphic beings whose body and soul are inseparable and intertwined, do you think you would improve in virtue if you started working out a little more? I tell you, Angel, because you look like strings of angel hair pasta in a smoking jacket. Sometimes the cigars you smoke are bigger than your arms. Anyway, I'll see you when you get home. Bye. What's crazy is I actually was, I didn't name him, but I was just referring to Aristotle on man as a social creature. Wow. I'm really floored by how basically great that SLI impression was. Or was it just her? Girl, I told you not, don't call me at work. I'm working. 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