On this week's episode of THOTalk, we discuss the recent murder of a young man named Austin Metcalf and the possible connection between him and Carmelo Anthony. We also discuss the possibility that the murder may be linked to a larger conspiracy.
00:01:40.960And it's very obvious what happened in this situation.
00:01:43.420I actually don't even want to speak out of turn here.
00:01:45.260Blake, I want you to give me the most pro-Carmelo argument, like strong man the Carmelo case.
00:01:54.180Because the audience has to understand that there is a widespread movement now amongst the black community and the left to support Carmelo from GoFundMes to selling t-shirts.
00:02:30.680So, first of all, this all happened, I think it started about two weeks ago.
00:02:34.540And there was a tragic murder that took place in Texas and in Dallas.
00:02:43.440And the situation was, initially it was young man, Austin Metcalf, stabbed to death, stabbed in the heart in an altercation with Carmelo Anthony.
00:02:52.660And the original report was that it was over, like, a seating dispute.
00:02:57.820What came out once we got the police report and so on was that it sounds like there was a track meet.
00:03:05.700And Carmelo was, the description was that he was under the other team's tent.
00:03:10.220So, they have, you know, these different tents, different booth areas for different competing teams.
00:03:13.580And he was under the one for another team.
00:04:36.740We've seen that be an issue in the past.
00:04:39.300But it raised many hundreds of thousands of dollars.
00:04:42.580And I think what really caught people's attention was the lines that were being used on that GoFundMe and on Twitter.
00:04:50.380Where it's, like, variations of that Carmelo was engaged in self-defense.
00:04:55.600Basically because he was, he was grabbed.
00:04:58.380And, but also these takes where it's almost like, like, Austin was disrespecting him.
00:05:04.920Like, he, he was standing his ground because it wasn't right that anyone should tell him to go somewhere else.
00:05:10.440Or, you know, that if he shoved him, that was somehow justifying a lethal response.
00:05:16.180This has continued to gain steam because in the past week, a judge drastically lowered the bail requirement for Carmelo to get out of jail.
00:08:10.060And another thing that wasn't in that clip, but she says, she said, you know, regardless of how you feel about what happened with our son, she says, you know, his parents and his siblings are not responsible for that.
00:08:32.320She said that they have a daughter who's a teenager who has been afraid to sleep.
00:08:36.640I believe it was afraid to sleep in their own home because of that, and that's why it's been discussed that they were finding new housing arrangements.
00:08:44.360And that's where she says she complained in there about the lies.
00:08:46.860There have been these claims on X and elsewhere that the family immediately used the GoFundMe to buy a mansion or to, I think, buy a Cadillac Escalade and various things like that.
00:08:58.560And they said, those are lies, and as far as I know from what I've looked in, those are not true.
00:09:03.480They may be renting a new place, but that is what they've said they're going to do.
00:09:07.440And there's no evidence that they, you know, bought a brand new car with money or anything.
00:09:12.520But that has been the latest development.
00:09:15.060But you still see these very disturbing comments on the GoFundMe or on the Gifts and Go, whichever they used, where they're saying, like, let's see.
00:15:07.180You guys are making it all about race.
00:15:08.820So he's attacking you while doing the exact same thing he's accusing you of doing.
00:15:15.260And I just, you know, he attacks Trump.
00:15:18.920He attacks all, you know, the all of society, you know, says, you know, basically makes allusions to systemic racism.
00:15:26.000You know, filming these videos as if it's some kind of documentary.
00:15:30.440And what what he's really doing with the press conference today.
00:15:36.460And it's just my draw hit the floor when I saw that they were doing this.
00:15:39.500It's a classic example of Darvo and Darvo.
00:15:44.320And I had a tweet out on this earlier today.
00:15:46.480It's called Darvo and it's a narcissistic tactic.
00:15:52.140But you see it happen a lot with certain types of politics typically found on the far left or in grievance politics where it goes through deny attack and then reverse victim and offender.
00:16:05.920This is also, by the way, that they threw the father of Austin Metcalf out of the room because, of course, you cannot play the victim card when an actual victim is present.
00:16:20.200And so not only did they, you know, kind of ironically demand that the father of Austin Metcalf move from his seat.
00:16:30.600But when he refused to move from his seat, well, they called the police on the father of the boy who was stabbed to death and bled out in his twin brother's arms the track meet.
00:16:44.700Yeah, I, I, I, I, you, you raised the, the, the, the crux of the point here.
00:16:52.580Oh, and those clips were just deleted from my, my chat.
00:16:56.300The point is here, uh, this family member, this mom actually seemed earnest in her remarks.
00:18:37.120And so I say to people, actions speak louder than words.
00:18:41.160Okay, what he has failed into is the political operatives that want to make this thing a political thing of hate, yet bigotry, and yet racism.
00:18:58.340We have conservative operatives that have been posting nonstop about this case.
00:20:56.940Yeah, I'm a little more sympathetic to them just in that.
00:21:00.760Like, I'm generally, you know, in the war between nature and nurture over the last 20 years, like, nature has kind of been kicking the butt of nurture.
00:23:07.780And I remember we were also, you know, we had the discussion here when they when they prosecuted the parents because that son, like, got a gun and then committed a shooting with it.
00:23:18.340But that was definitely like in that case, it was definitely inept, grossly negligent parenting by the parents involved that they had a son who there were clear red flags that he was dangerous.
00:23:28.520And yet they allowed him to, you know, obtain a weapon.
00:23:32.420And I think we all basically agreed it's still not good to normalize, like, prosecuting parents for what their kids do.
00:23:40.940Or at least we said if they were going to do it, it should be done equally.
00:23:43.540But it was there was also a racial angle to that one, too, I think we thought.
00:23:46.300But so my my general disposition, this will get me called, you know, probably a cuck by the comments or something.
00:23:53.480But I'm not going to get really angry at the family other than, yeah, they they hired this like local activist parasite who you Google his name and you get the 2016 article where he goes to jail for breaking probation.
00:24:06.160And it's his like eighth time in jail because he previously beat a child and done all this bad stuff.
00:24:12.200I suspect they don't know about all of that.
00:24:15.420They probably but like you should these people ooze their disgusting individuals.
00:25:00.680So just to give you a smattering of this guy's rap sheet, 2009, arrested, convicted in 2011, charged with causing serious bodily injury to a child, a two year old, first degree felony.
00:25:13.640He pleaded guilty in 2011, received 10 years of deferred adjudication probation, 2011, 2013, probation violations, violated probation terms from the 2011 child injury case multiple times, including stealing a car, check forgery and involvement in domestic disturbance, leading to a police chase in Carrollton.
00:25:36.4802015, cited by Arlington police for offensive physical contact against a family member.
00:25:41.9202016, sentenced to two years in prison in August 2016 for multiple probation violations and the 2011 child injury case.
00:25:50.5402017, arrested in Denton County and on and on and on.
00:25:55.960So this guy is a real swindler, a real con artist.
00:25:59.500And somehow he's locked arms with this with this family.
00:26:04.440And and so, like, while I'm tempted to be sympathetic to this mom who said they put God first.
00:26:11.180OK, you're speaking my love language, lady.
00:31:11.780I'm surprised at the way this is developed, because I feel like the simplest way this should resolve itself is like the Supreme Court said you have to facilitate his return.
00:31:19.500So what Trump should do is come out and say like, OK, like publicly, hey, El Salvador, are you willing to send this guy to us?
00:31:26.180And Bukele should come out and say no, because he's an El Salvadoran citizen.
00:31:29.960And we suspect he's a member of a criminal gang that we imprison every member of.
00:31:46.640And they could send they could send the formal request.
00:31:48.860They could have, you know, Marco Rubio's secretary like write up a little email and send it to them.
00:31:53.800And then Bukele can come out and say, yeah, we don't you know, El Salvador does not extradite its citizens who we suspect have committed crimes so that they can avoid punishment.
00:32:03.400And then you can say we'll investigate him for the whole MS-13 thing because there's reason to believe that.
00:32:32.180So he's basically like, you know, because and I noticed that Bukele actually retweeted Cernovich, who said there was a pernicious lie going around.
00:32:40.840And apparently liberals were actually believing it, that he was actually dead.
00:32:44.980So I think Naive Bukele is basically being like, OK, proof of life picture.
00:33:47.000And I, you know, I hadn't personally heard this.
00:33:50.140I'm not, you know, I wouldn't consider myself an MS-13 expert.
00:33:52.940But they were actually saying that it was known within the gang locally, at least within, I guess it was the Western section of the MS-13, that the wearing of different sports teams and sports logos was to denote various symbols within the gang.
00:34:10.080So it was like the, it wasn't that he was wearing the Chicago Bulls hat because he was a fan, but that because he was a bull and he had been given this, like, you know, this, you know, permission to wear the Bulls hat for some reason.
00:34:22.960So I don't, I don't know if he was wearing it because he was a fan per se, but again, this would, this came out with the attorney general's office put out yesterday that not only was he a member of MS-13 and arrested with other high ranking members of MS-13, but he had a rank in MS-13.
00:34:40.960He had a gang name in MS-13 and he was well known to other people in MS-13.
00:34:49.120So, yeah, you've got this situation where, you know, the senator goes down there and he doesn't actually represent this guy.
00:34:59.120You're not a citizen of the United States.
00:35:01.280You've never had legal permission to be in this country.
00:35:03.400You are not a constituent of Chris Van Hollen, but I'm just going to go to show you, look, the Democrats get optics, man.
00:35:10.760The Republicans would never do political theater like this.
00:35:13.380Republicans don't, you know, we couldn't even get anyone to go to Fort Knox when all that was going on and where's the gold and people were asking questions about that.
00:37:11.880But these, uh, these, you know, uh, people have done studies on political movements and they're saying that Turning Point is the, the, the most successful modern example of building a political movement and all this kind of thing.
00:37:35.040A friend of mine actually just gave this to me.
00:37:37.280So the president, you have to confirm ambassadors to countries and a lot of other things, but you can have the president send special envoys.
00:37:47.540Special envoys can be appointed without Senate confirmation.
00:37:51.120So president Trump, he could appoint anyone as his special envoy to El Salvador for this case and say, you have to go to Bukele and make the case on behalf of the U S government for sending him back.
00:38:04.320And you could either, you could send a Trump supporter or you could send, you could send a Democrat.
00:38:09.540You could send anyone, send, send someone you actively want to humiliate, send them to El Salvador and say, say, make the case.
00:38:17.560And they can go and they, and they can make the cell.
00:38:20.920You put it on, do it in private, put it on live TV.
00:53:18.440And it's like, it's kind of funny because it's like, for those of us who sort of grew up on the internet or, you know, got introduced to it, whatever.
00:53:26.620Um, that we, we kind of have this general disassociation with the, like knowing what something's real and something's not, or, you know, meme culture, you know, you know, it's not real, but for a certain types of people, you know, they're just so used to like, I see it, therefore I believe it.
00:53:47.780And there isn't, there's never that extra step of like, oh, I don't think that's real.
00:53:52.520And unfortunately the way the algorithms work now, yes, my action figure is a hundred percent real, by the way, made not in America, but also not in China.
00:54:02.460They are 100% made in El Salvador, actually at the prison itself by the prisoners.
00:54:10.120It is in fact, their, uh, their punishment to have to make Jack Posobiec action figures for, for a certain subset.
00:54:17.840And, and of course we're going to be working on, on Charlie Kirk.
00:54:20.840Funny enough, um, the, a lot of the older women really want the Blake Neff action figure.
00:54:40.120The Charlie Kirk with the arms out is pretty good.
00:54:42.860Charlie's impressive because the way the arms are angled, I kind of think that one's probably got more of those points of movement.
00:54:48.580Like it's one of those advanced action figures where you can bend the wrists and the elbows and you can like, you got a full ball and socket joint in the shoulders.
00:54:56.260Like you could get some real action poses with Charlie as he saves America.
00:55:00.100Whereas Jack and I, it's probably just like, you can like move the arm up like this to like wave to people or something.