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

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00:02:00.240 BLM activists are taking photos of themselves urinating on a slain teenager's grave,

00:02:06.300 Austin Metcalfe's grave, except they aren't. That's the only problem. They aren't actually. 0.99

00:02:14.360 The activists are actually posting images generated by AI. So they kind of are. They're

00:02:22.480 they're doing the thing that makes it seem like they're urinating. They're not really urinating

00:02:27.760 on the grave, but they are at least performing an action that is meant to be as offensive as

00:02:33.500 urinating on the grave. They're obviously AI. You can even see one of the photos shows a woman

00:02:38.180 urinating through her fly. I don't think many women do that, especially after the trans phenomenon of 1.00

00:02:43.180 the last five years, that's kind of over. And so the pictures that the BLM activists are posting

00:02:48.880 are not real. And furthermore, there's not much reason to believe that most, if any of the BLM

00:02:56.060 activists are real. There's no reason to believe these are real people. It's all just social media

00:03:01.540 accounts. There was a real murder. That definitely happened. And there are real racial tensions

00:03:08.880 around the murder. That's definitely true. And our real geopolitical adversaries are exploiting 0.98

00:03:15.300 the murder and the racial tensions as they always have. Russian state TV can't get enough of the

00:03:20.480 Metcalf murder. They're running it on RT all the time. But the specific phenomenon that all of the

00:03:28.740 right wing engagement accounts are up in arms over right now is not actually happening. And this is

00:03:36.100 way bigger than the Austin Metcalf murder. This is happening with respect to almost every issue.

00:03:42.160 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.

00:03:52.260 Is anything that we are seeing actually real?

00:03:56.980 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:03:57.820 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:04:12.160 Welcome back to the show. I will not close out this week of shows without getting into

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00:06:42.360 you know, the war in Iran and global energy markets and potential World War III, I want to

00:06:48.660 get to this, this Austin Metcalf issue, because we've talked about the Austin Metcalf murder in

00:06:54.820 itself. We've talked about the sentencing of, of Carmelo Anthony. We've talked about some of

00:06:58.720 the responses to that, but this is another kind of thing you are seeing image after image going 0.98

00:07:05.640 around on social media of black people, including black women, unzipping their flies and urinating 0.97

00:07:14.200 on Austin Metcalfe's grave. And to people who have a little bit of discernment, who are maybe 0.97

00:07:19.260 under the age of 152, who know how social media work, they know this isn't real. The images aren't

00:07:26.540 real. One, because women don't have flies like that. But two, because it's so easy to generate 1.00

00:07:33.520 very photorealistic images on AI. But you could say, well, what is real is the underlying racial

00:07:38.760 tension. We know that, according to Pew Research, black people have a 72% racial solidarity and

00:07:45.480 racial identity in America compared to just 15% of white people. We do know that racial tensions

00:07:50.280 have existed in America for many decades and even centuries. So we do know that there are

00:07:56.460 elected officials, Jasmine Crockett, racializing, not just racializing the murder of Austin Metcalf, 0.60

00:08:02.500 but racializing the response, saying, well, actually, the real victims here are black people

00:08:07.480 or black women or what have you. We know that these images are AI, but we could go further

00:08:14.160 than that and say, are these people even real? All these random people that are posting, BLM 0.70

00:08:18.380 activist, down from the streets, community organizer, are any of these people real or

00:08:22.760 are they fake people? Who's behind it? We know that our geopolitical adversaries exploit these

00:08:29.460 kinds of weaknesses. The Soviet Union did that throughout the 1960s and 70s. The Soviet Union

00:08:34.900 is backing a ton of the civil rights groups. And it's not because the Soviet Union had a great

00:08:39.420 conscience on civil rights. The reason that the Soviet Union did that is because it exacerbated 0.75

00:08:43.640 a tension in the US. It's not that the Soviet Union in the Cold War invented racial tension

00:08:49.260 in the US. The tension already existed. What smart propagandists do, what smart adversaries do,

00:08:55.100 is they exploit tensions that already exist. So that's why the Soviet Union was funding.

00:08:59.220 That's why the communists were funding a lot of the civil rights activity.

00:09:01.620 That is also why RT today is airing all of these pictures and constantly talking about the Metcalf 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.

00:09:19.200 So how do we deal with all of this?

00:09:21.220 we know that there's a real thing that happened and we know that there are real circumstances

00:09:26.460 around it but we know that we also know or anyone with discernment knows that so much of the the

00:09:31.900 media around it is just fake how do we know what's real i go back i've talked about baudrillard who

00:09:37.460 had this theory of hyperreality here's some other thinkers who speak about this guy deborre this is

00:09:42.420 a french marxist he said in societies where modern conditions of production prevail all of life

00:09:48.340 presents itself as an immerse accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived

00:09:54.520 has moved away into representation. Now, look, I don't defer to the Marxists very often,

00:10:01.460 and the Marxists have horrible prescriptions and solutions for society, but sometimes they do

00:10:07.160 describe real phenomena. Even reading Karl Marx, he does recognize some problems. He gets a few

00:10:12.460 things right even. And I think that's what's going on here. In societies where modern conditions of

00:10:18.940 production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles.

00:10:23.100 Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.

00:10:26.140 I think you're seeing that with politics. I've been talking about this with regard to the podcast

00:10:30.120 wars for eight or nine months now. It's one of the reasons I don't want to focus too much on it

00:10:34.300 is I think the whole thing is kind of an op. But there's this strange condition that we're living

00:10:41.000 in now where politics doesn't seem to be connected to the actual political order, where we're just

00:10:46.340 talking about weird kind of conspiracy theories about personalities who don't even make laws,

00:10:51.920 but who were just kind of in the media and where political commentary ends up at Chud the Builder

00:10:57.020 or Hassan Piker. Either it's just some guy screaming the N-word at black people and accusing 0.81

00:11:02.060 them of chimping out, or it's Hassan Piker talking about how we need to murder people and go partner 1.00

00:11:08.720 up with the communist regime of Cuba or something like that. But nothing is really grounded into

00:11:14.420 actual policy or even really ideology. It's just all, it's like three levels of abstraction removed.

00:11:25.620 I think of this quote by Albert Borgman, who says, hyperreality is described as surpassing

00:11:30.440 ordinary reality in supernatural brilliance, limitless variety, and unreal availability.

00:11:35.440 it's surpassing ordinary reality in its supernatural brilliance limitless variety

00:11:42.020 and unreal availability this is exactly what's going on here it was not enough that there were

00:11:48.620 protesters outside the courthouse when Carmelo Anthony was sentenced it was it's not enough

00:11:53.320 that there were half a dozen or a dozen people out there saying we want Carmelo to be exonerated

00:11:58.880 that's crazy but it's not crazy enough for our modern hyper real super algorithmically perfected

00:12:07.860 dopamine drowning culture you need something more you need jasmine crockett you need a member of

00:12:14.560 congress going out there and saying that the real victims in the austin metcalf murder are black

00:12:18.440 people you need you need a member of congress going out there and saying yeah well look carmelo

00:12:24.820 Anthony only stabbed him once. I mean, he only stabbed him once. It's not like he stabbed him

00:12:29.380 five or six times that. Oh, boy, that really juices it up. Now we're getting into a real

00:12:34.240 brilliant spectacle. But you know what? Even that's not enough. You need to go further.

00:12:39.900 You need black people urinating on the grave of Austin Metcalf. Oh, yeah, that's the good stuff, 1.00

00:12:45.620 baby. Give me that. Hold on. Where's my rubber band? I got to just give me a belt. I got to just

00:12:50.100 take that straight into my veins. Yeah. No, but you know what? That's not even enough.

00:12:54.780 I need black women. Oh, wait for this. I need black women unzipping their flies. 1.00

00:13:02.740 Maybe they're transsexuals. I don't know, but I need them urinating. Oh, that's, 1.00

00:13:07.720 now we've reached the hardest core, most concentrated degree of spectacle. That's what

00:13:15.480 we need. It's not that it's totally divorced from what's really going on. There are racial tensions.

00:13:24.440 Black people take their racial identity very, very seriously. White people, much less so. 0.97

00:13:31.000 There's a lot of crime. The police look the other way. The political order generally looks the other 0.97

00:13:35.660 way when it's black crime versus white crime. There's a two-tiered system of justice. All that's 0.82

00:13:39.220 true. All that's true. But they just gin it all the way up. In the society where modern

00:13:46.820 conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of

00:13:50.360 spectacles. This is why it's not enough. This is why all the podcasters had to turn on Trump.

00:13:57.720 Look, I don't mean to cast too many aspersions. Some of them at least think they have moral

00:14:03.920 reasoning for it. They say, I'm turning on him because I didn't like the tariffs or the lack

00:14:08.080 of tariffs or the strikes on Iran or this or that or the other thing. They can convince themselves

00:14:14.780 that Trump totally flipped his positions. He didn't. He's been remarkably consistent for

00:14:19.240 his entire life. They can convince themselves of that. But the real reason I think the podcasters

00:14:23.800 flipped on Trump is because it helps their numbers. Your ratings don't do as well when you say,

00:14:30.580 hey, things are actually going pretty well, but here are some ways that they could be corrected.

00:14:35.060 Your ratings don't do as well, especially in independent media, when you're on the side of

00:14:38.260 the people in power. So you have to put yourself in opposition. If Biden's in power, you need to

00:14:42.440 be on the side of Trump. But then the second that Trump gets into power, especially if Republicans

00:14:46.260 have unified government, you have to put yourself in opposition, even if it means flipping on a few

00:14:49.900 issues. You have to do it. It's not enough. We need an immense accumulation of spectacles.

00:14:58.260 It cannot be the case that a left winger dating a tranny furry killed Charlie Kirk. 0.99

00:15:03.280 It can't be the case. We can't believe that, even though that's what all of the evidence shows. 1.00

00:15:08.940 Even though these are the exact kind of people who have been threatening to and trying to

00:15:13.720 kill right-wingers for years and years and years, we've all seen it happen.

00:15:18.400 It can't be the case because that's too mundane. That's too expected. 0.82

00:15:22.420 It has to be something greater. And there is a market impetus for it to be something

00:15:27.300 wilder, especially as the media economy advance into the realm of total independence,

00:15:37.180 taking away the need for networks and linear displays. Now it's all new media on demand,

00:15:44.820 independent. I sound like half a Marxist here, but this is happening. And it's crucial,

00:15:51.700 it seems to me in the political diagnosis to maintain the via media there are going to be

00:15:57.520 some people who say there's really no racial strife in america and black people don't really

00:16:01.760 want to defend carmelo anthony that's not true plenty of them do we've seen that is real that's 0.98

00:16:05.660 actually happening and then there are going to be people who say black women are urinating on the

00:16:10.680 grave of austin mecca that's not happening either the reality is much more tense it's much more full

00:16:16.140 of anxiety it's a little blurrier it's a little more ambiguous to me that's more interesting

00:16:20.840 because it references the nuance and the complexity of politics.

00:16:25.580 But under prevailing conditions, both in the media and in politics,

00:16:30.040 out of human nature and out of economics, that's not acceptable.

00:16:35.820 Okay, enough about the Marxists.

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00:16:39.760 I've just gotten off the phone with a senior administration official.

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00:17:54.560 Policygenius.com slash Knowles. Okay, here is what has been publicly reported over the last 24 hours,

00:18:01.400 and then I'll get to what I just heard from a senior admin official. President Trump says,

00:18:06.540 we've just made a great settlement of the war with Iran. The strait will officially open as

00:18:11.940 soon as we sign, which could be very, very soon, maybe over the weekend in Europe. Trump has also

00:18:18.540 suggested that the vice president could sign on behalf of the United States. When asked if

00:18:23.400 Khomeini, this new supreme leader of Iran, who has the same last name as the old supreme leader

00:18:29.660 of Iran, has approved the deal, Trump said, I understand the answer is yes. It's not a firm yes,

00:18:37.560 it's not yes, definitely the supreme leader has signed on, but he says, I understand the answer

00:18:41.060 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.

00:18:49.800 He is so off the grid because they don't want the U.S. or Israel to strike him.

00:18:54.280 So he's so off the grid that it's hard to even know if you're hearing from him regardless.

00:18:59.400 The reporting goes on.

00:19:00.360 It's a very strong memorandum of understanding that is a little conceptual.

00:19:03.560 So it's not a deal deal.

00:19:04.620 It's not a final deal.

00:19:05.380 It's a memorandum of understanding that could do things like reopen the Strait of Hormuz,

00:19:09.700 that could start the demining of the Strait of Hormuz, that could start the U.S. on freezing

00:19:13.740 sanctions. It's a memorandum of understanding that will then create a 60- or 90-day negotiating

00:19:20.900 period after which you might get a deal, you might not get a deal. The big thing is there

00:19:26.300 will be no nuclear weapons in Iran. That means not developed and not purchased. That's what Trump

00:19:32.360 said on another campaign event by phone. Okay, that's the reporting about Trump's position.

00:19:37.740 What's the reporting about Iran's position? Iran says, quote, we have not reached a final

00:19:44.060 conclusion on this matter. This is a very important issue that is currently being

00:19:48.440 reviewed by the relevant decision-making authorities. Okay, that's it. So Trump is

00:19:52.800 saying, here's what we're going to get. Here's how it goes. We're very close to a deal. Everyone's

00:19:56.400 basically approved it. Iran says, we haven't made a final decision. So they're not saying

00:20:00.600 that there hasn't been a preliminary decision. They're not totally contradicting the U.S.

00:20:04.040 reporting, but they're saying we haven't made a final decision. Okay, now there's a third party

00:20:08.000 here. Don't forget, when the U.S. hit Iran, the U.S. did it with Israel. And sometimes the U.S. 0.77

00:20:14.900 and Israeli interests are totally aligned, and sometimes they diverge. And it seems, as I've

00:20:19.440 been saying for weeks now, it seems that the U.S. and Israeli interests are beginning to diverge a

00:20:24.600 little bit here. So is Israel going to gum up the works on the whole deal, as they sometimes do with 0.80

00:20:29.440 strikes on Qatar or strikes on southern Lebanon? Here's what Israel says. Although Israel is not a

00:20:35.420 party to the memorandum of understanding, the prime minister expressed his appreciation for

00:20:40.560 President Trump's commitment that the final agreement reached the conclusion of the negotiations

00:20:44.260 will include the removal of enriched material, the dismantling of enrichment infrastructure,

00:20:48.760 limitations on missile production, and the cessation of Iran's support for its terrorist

00:20:53.160 proxies in the region. Anything else? Is there anything else you want in there? So notice what

00:20:58.260 Israel's saying. They're saying, no, no. We're not signing on to this. We are not party to this.

00:21:04.420 We reserve our right to keep striking Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. We reserve our right to keep 1.00

00:21:09.120 shooting missiles at Iran. But we also don't want to further alienate the United States, 0.94

00:21:14.440 which has seen massive collapse in the support for Israel. And we don't want to alienate President

00:21:20.060 Trump, who's the best friend Israel's ever had. He's so great, we even named a town after him.

00:21:24.080 So what we're going to say is we're not signing on to this deal.

00:21:27.580 We don't want a deal. 0.91

00:21:28.820 Israel doesn't want a deal here.

00:21:30.240 They view this, I think, as their last shot to really take out this regime, which they

00:21:35.600 view as an existential threat, justifiably so.

00:21:39.600 If I were the PM of Israel, I'd be pushing for the same thing. 0.99

00:21:43.420 But it is in the United States' interest to get a peace deal.

00:21:47.600 But Israel remains an ally of the United States, so they don't want to totally knock the United

00:21:51.320 States here.

00:21:51.800 So they say, OK, look, whatever.

00:21:52.920 We like the president. We respect the president. We're not signing on to this memorandum of

00:21:56.340 understanding, but we appreciate that Trump is going to remove their Iran's enriched material 0.94

00:22:02.380 and dismantle their enrichment infrastructure so they can't rebuild it and limit their ballistic 0.56

00:22:06.660 missile production and make Iran stop supporting terrorists in the region, whether you're talking

00:22:13.040 about Hezbollah or Hamas. So that's the Reuters reporting. Now, what's the Michael reporting?

00:22:18.120 because I just got off the phone with Afor referred to senior admin official.

00:22:24.220 The reporting seems substantially true, at least according to what I'm hearing from the White House.

00:22:32.200 And the state of Israel might be happy about some things and might not be happy about some

00:22:38.800 things. That's, I guess, where some of the sticking point is. But from what I'm hearing,

00:22:42.320 what does america get america will get out of this deal the nuclear dust this is what they're

00:22:52.040 saying they say they need the the highly enriched nuclear material to be destroyed and taken out of

00:22:57.780 iran this has been a big sticking point with the iranian regime the iranian regime says absolutely

00:23:04.080 not we're not doing that the united states state says that's our red line too according to my

00:23:09.940 source in the White House, this deal gets us the nuclear dust.

00:23:15.660 It obviously will reopen the Strait of Hormuz, which is the most urgent

00:23:18.820 practical consideration. There has been some debate over whether or not, or some conflicting

00:23:24.700 reporting over whether or not Iran will still control the Strait of Hormuz, whether Iran will

00:23:29.880 be able to charge tolls on the Strait of Hormuz. It's a little unclear exactly how that will go,

00:23:35.400 other than what I'm hearing is the deal includes free, open, safe access through the Strait of

00:23:41.000 Hormuz. It would take a little while, of course, because you have to demine it. And some of the

00:23:45.460 ships are going to be a little more risk averse, obviously. So they might take a few weeks. But

00:23:50.740 the idea would be the minute this MOU goes into effect, the Strait of Hormuz is open for business.

00:23:57.540 Still a little bit unclear. Is Iran going to charge tolls? That's a little bit unclear.

00:24:02.180 In any case, the U.S. will also get inspections. 0.50

00:24:05.660 So if Iran does try to rebuild its nuclear program, the U.S. can insist upon inspections and slow things down.

00:24:14.760 And from what I'm hearing, the Americans will also insist upon and get that Iran can no longer fund the terror networks. 0.57

00:24:24.680 That's something that the state of Israel was asking for, that the United States obviously wants too.

00:24:28.420 But it's much more important to the state of Israel.

00:24:30.380 That was something that Iran never wanted to deal with, didn't, insisted upon Israeli strikes on

00:24:37.380 Lebanon being part of any ceasefire deal between the United States and Iran. This has been a big

00:24:41.380 issue, obviously. Iran gets a lot of its power by funding these terror proxies. What I'm hearing is

00:24:45.900 Iran will have to see support for the terror organizations. Now, you might say, okay, 0.61

00:24:51.000 they could say they'll do that, but how are we going to enforce that? It would seem to be the

00:24:55.880 case that sanctions relief is contingent upon Iran not supporting the terrorist networks.

00:25:02.420 Devil's in the details, of course. What does Iran get? Iran gets sanctions relief. Iran gets the

00:25:07.240 unfreezing of assets. But crucially, none of that is going to happen until they sign on to the deal, 0.55

00:25:12.300 end their blockade, and reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Let's see. What is the likelihood that

00:25:17.640 any of this is going to happen? My source in the White House says 75%. It's not 100%,

00:25:23.820 but it's not 5% either. 75%. 75% is good odds. I like that, but I ain't betting the farm on 75%.

00:25:32.840 25% chance this doesn't happen might drag on a little bit longer. 0.99

00:25:39.180 Now, if all of this goes well, this could be a fundamental reshaping of the Middle East.

00:25:44.620 Not quite as much as if you actually clobbered the Mullah's regime in Iran, but it could be a

00:25:49.440 pretty big deal. Another crucial point, because I think a lot of the war hawks, the people who

00:25:55.660 are really just pushing for us to keep bombing Iran forever and trying to overthrow the regime

00:26:00.280 and install Madisonian democracy or so, whatever they want us to do. Their argument is, well, 0.55

00:26:04.680 this is crazy. We're giving Iran a bunch of money for nothing. What I am told by the White House 0.84

00:26:08.580 is that no money will be exchanged upon the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding.

00:26:13.700 So it's not just Iran getting money for promises that it may or may not keep.

00:26:17.520 Okay.

00:26:19.760 Who is bought in here?

00:26:22.340 Well, from what I'm hearing, they're dealing with both the political leadership in Iran

00:26:25.620 and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, which is important because the political leadership

00:26:28.900 in Iran could agree to a bunch of stuff.

00:26:30.540 It seems like they have in the past, but the IRGC is the one actually controlling the Strait

00:26:34.420 of Hormuz, so they can just veto whatever the political leadership says.

00:26:37.760 and then crucial for the markets as we approach this friday lunchtime and as we look ahead

00:26:49.820 lots of movement in the stock markets now the blockade would be lifted the straight would be

00:26:54.220 open we'll see if that happens i'm just relaying to you what i'm hearing from people who are in

00:26:59.900 the know you're hearing it i guess basically before anyone else and you can determine whether 0.85

00:27:05.620 or not it's actually going to happen, whether or not we can trust the Iranians, whether or not our 0.88

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00:29:14.580 this is so, ah, the hyper real world and the lies of the media. Here's a story,

00:29:21.060 drove me up a wall. It's from the New York Times. This restaurant stopped charging for food and

00:29:25.320 profits are up. At Postmodern Times Cafe in Minneapolis, a tax protest has turned into

00:29:31.240 a social experiment and a critique of the hospitality industry. You look at a picture

00:29:35.760 of this guy, he's got some kind of mullet, but it's not even like a good mullet. It's just like

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00:29:51.180 either. And what did this guy do? He's got an organic, vegan, vegetarian, free trade,

00:29:56.800 postmodern cafe, and he doesn't charge for food and profits are up. Wow, man. It's like,

00:30:05.260 what if we just rethought the whole economy, man? Could someone please, oh, here it is.

00:30:11.460 Just pull up my bong here. Yeah, man. What if we stop running our restaurants for profit

00:30:19.280 and we just operate on hopes and dreams and love, man. Well, hold on. The New York Times says

00:30:26.800 profits are up, even though they're not charging for food. How did that work? Well, because the

00:30:32.100 restaurant seems to have two kinds of customers now. Bums and people who mau-mau the flat catchers 1.00

00:30:41.760 and racial and sexual grievance hoaxters 1.00

00:30:46.120 and guilty white liberals. 0.99

00:30:48.940 And so the way it works is 0.57

00:30:50.120 the former category don't pay anything

00:30:52.560 and the guilty white liberals

00:30:54.140 just voluntarily pay for everything. 0.97

00:30:58.240 But so does that mean that the guilty white liberals 0.97

00:31:00.200 are paying for so much 0.89

00:31:01.880 that they're actually bringing in more money

00:31:04.340 to the restaurant than previously

00:31:06.680 the restaurant was making

00:31:07.840 when they discharged bills?

00:31:09.160 No, no.

00:31:10.920 The reason profits are up is because this little weird trick that the business owner figured out,

00:31:16.220 namely, he's not paying his taxes. By not charging for food and just accepting donations,

00:31:22.780 he doesn't have to pay any taxes. Well, I mean, he should pay taxes. I don't think he's actually

00:31:26.600 a nonprofit. But regardless, he's just not paying his taxes. One weird trick to increase your

00:31:32.320 profits. Don't pay your taxes. Steal. Steal from the government and from the people. That's what

00:31:38.180 they're doing. Beautifully ironic. Very, very silly. So much of leftism is this.

00:31:46.440 Just there's solutions. There's solutions to social problems. It's just like, don't pay taxes.

00:31:51.500 Stop arresting criminals. Don't have a border. You say, well, that's not fixing anything. That's

00:31:56.340 only making the problems worse. Yeah, yeah. But just imagine another world, man. Okay. No,

00:32:02.960 No, thank you.

00:32:03.800 Okay, speaking of cheating people out of their just desserts,

00:32:08.060 Senator Eric Schmidt, I'm not letting this week close

00:32:10.200 before I get this play from the congressional baseball game.

00:32:14.240 Every year, the Republicans and the Democrats play each other.

00:32:16.300 I went one year, like 15 years ago, and it's kind of fun.

00:32:19.380 Most of the congressmen are not that good,

00:32:21.020 but some of them are weirdly much better than you would expect.

00:32:23.880 And here we have Senator Eric Schmidt from Missouri

00:32:25.760 making a better play than probably most of the major league that night.

00:32:30.520 Really a prime June night.

00:32:32.860 That one struck to left field

00:32:36.400 and what a dive!

00:32:37.260 Crazy, crazy

00:32:38.820 Unbelievable

00:32:40.980 Amazing catch down the left field line

00:32:44.280 The Redbirds would be proud of a play like that

00:32:48.380 Look at that, he's bleeding from the face

00:32:50.100 Bleeding from the nose, what's he do though?

00:32:53.920 Wipes it on his pants, rubs a little dirt in it

00:32:56.400 Smiling, going right back on the field

00:32:58.160 Lays it all out

00:32:59.400 and bandage him up a little bit.

00:33:01.240 Senator Eric Schmidt,

00:33:02.860 I don't know if you guys have seen him on TV or anything,

00:33:06.160 if the Missouri people have seen him in person.

00:33:08.280 He's like a Nephilim.

00:33:09.740 He's like eight foot, 14 inches tall. 0.58

00:33:12.260 He's just huge.

00:33:13.640 And he just lays it all out.

00:33:15.540 So the Republicans won.

00:33:16.660 I think the final score was 11 to two.

00:33:18.740 This is the sixth consecutive year

00:33:20.520 that the Republicans have won the congressional baseball game.

00:33:24.440 And it does raise a question.

00:33:26.560 why is it that Republicans are more athletic than Democrats? Why is it that conservatives

00:33:31.220 are more athletic than liberals? I can contemplate this question because I am not one of the athletic

00:33:36.900 conservatives. So it's not, I'm not just like huffing and puffing myself up here. Like I

00:33:41.040 fully recognize I'm a little, I'm a little more built for the ukulele than I am for the football

00:33:46.220 field. But nevertheless, the conservatives simply are more athletic. And it's because

00:33:51.740 they're more likely to be men, you know, and they're, if they are men, they're more likely

00:33:56.220 to be like tougher men. And they're more, they're more balanced people. Conservatives are just

00:34:03.160 balanced people. For the libs, it's just one thing obsesses them. It's either race and that's 0.63

00:34:08.900 their whole raison d'etre is to, is to take vengeance upon some race or it's sex. You know, 0.98

00:34:15.120 they're just like lustful satyrs who just all they care. Like that guy Wiener. Isn't his name

00:34:22.740 Wiener out in California? Of course it is. He's the guy who's most famous for changing the law

00:34:29.940 so that adult men who rape little boys have less of a punishment. Just a Scott Wiener. That's his

00:34:38.220 name. That's him. Obviously, all this guy thinks about all day long is creepy sex stuff. They're

00:34:42.780 just obsessed with it. Whereas for conservatives, or even the left broadly, I think it's just always

00:34:49.100 thinking about political power. That can at least be an obsession. Think about LBJ. Whereas for the

00:34:53.840 right, we're more balanced, which is to our eternal benefit, I think. And it makes us happier

00:35:00.240 and more content on earth. That's why we're more likely conservative. But it is a little bit to our

00:35:04.420 political detriment that we're not quite as obsessive. We play a little baseball. We have

00:35:11.060 a little family. We go have a little barbecue in the backyard. We do a little legislating. We make

00:35:15.880 a little money in the private sector. We're very balanced people. Sometimes that allows the

00:35:20.440 obsessives to get one over on us. Okay. Speaking of beautiful Republican displays, this is such

00:35:27.940 a stupid story. You know the reflecting pool in DC on the National Mall? It's a reflecting pool 1.00

00:35:33.760 where when you're standing at the Lincoln Memorial, you look down and you've got the

00:35:36.680 Washington Monument, and it's that obelisk, and it reflects in the pool. It's very nice.

00:35:41.800 When you're at the Washington, you look, and it's reflecting the Lincoln. It's very nice.

00:35:46.140 And it had gotten kind of dark and ugly, and you needed to call the pool guy. If anyone's

00:35:50.940 ever owned a pool at home, sometimes you got to call the pool guy. And the Democrats had totally

00:35:56.780 let it go, and it was ugly, and there was algae growing in it. It was gross. Anyway, now Trump

00:36:01.820 just calls the pool guy, comes in. It wasn't all that expensive for a major public monument.

00:36:06.680 And they repaint it.

00:36:07.580 They fix it up a little bit.

00:36:08.340 Now it's beautiful and it's reflecting.

00:36:09.880 And even the left is admitting they like it. 0.98

00:36:14.120 I thought it was a stupid idea to paint the reflecting pool. 0.98

00:36:19.680 But yeah. 0.97

00:36:24.660 It looks good.

00:36:28.980 It actually looks really good.

00:36:32.380 Like, it makes the reflection look extraordinarily prominent in a way that it did not look good for.

00:36:40.540 And I hate that.

00:36:45.780 Yeah, it looks good. 1.00

00:36:46.920 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. 1.00

00:36:54.600 They think that is the demographic they most own.

00:36:56.420 And she goes, you know, look, I came in prejudiced.

00:36:58.760 I hated the idea that Trump was fixing up the reflecting pool.

00:37:01.280 Why?

00:37:01.700 I don't know.

00:37:01.960 because she like believes whatever she hears in MSNBC.

00:37:04.960 But then she looks at it with her own eyes

00:37:06.460 and she says, you know what?

00:37:07.500 I got to admit, I got to be honest here.

00:37:08.960 I like it.

00:37:09.400 It looks good.

00:37:10.000 They did a good job.

00:37:10.740 I hate to admit that I like it.

00:37:11.960 You saw this also over at Union Station in DC

00:37:14.520 where there's a statue of Columbus.

00:37:17.620 It's like, I didn't even realize it was a fountain exactly

00:37:19.800 because it hadn't been, had water in it

00:37:21.860 for basically my entire lifetime.

00:37:23.680 And then I look and it was just ugly.

00:37:25.420 It had graffiti on it under Joe Biden.

00:37:27.180 And it was just a sign of decay

00:37:29.980 over by the train station in DC, which was so decayed. And then look at it under Trump. Do

00:37:34.720 we have the pictures? You look at it under Trump. It's just so much more beautiful.

00:37:39.160 It's so much more beautiful. Show me under Biden.

00:37:43.300 Yeah. Hamas is coming. Free Gaza. You know, like all this kind of, even this you say,

00:37:52.040 is this AI? Is this, well, if it is AI or not, we do not. I mean, I've seen it so many times.

00:37:57.620 it's just covered in dirt, gross, ugly, graffiti at times. And now under Trump, 0.78

00:38:04.640 it's really nice and beautiful. Why does that matter? Is this just frivolous? I think a lot

00:38:09.320 of people on the right, they'll say, oh, you're so good at cleaning up monuments in DC. How about

00:38:12.860 you deport people? You're so good at cleaning up monuments. How about you get better trade deals

00:38:16.620 or whatever? Both of which Trump has done. But regardless, this is the importance of visual

00:38:22.240 improvements. Okay. Columbus Circle, the reflecting pool, the ballroom, the ballroom,

00:38:29.780 which is actually about more than a ballroom because there were actually military installations

00:38:33.220 underneath it at the White House for 80 years now. Regardless, it's a tangible sign of things

00:38:38.920 getting better. And the reason this matters is one, it's just good in itself. And when you have

00:38:44.720 a beautiful place, people are inclined to behave in a more dignified way and you're going to have

00:38:48.300 a better polity. But even beyond that, when you have tangible, visible signs of things getting

00:38:54.620 better, then the Democrats' opposition to everything Trump does looks absurd. It calls

00:39:01.760 into question their judgment. This functions exactly in the same way as the transing the 1.00

00:39:05.400 kids issue did in 2024. It's not that there were so many kids who were being transed.

00:39:11.820 It's not that there were so many guys trying to go into girls' bathrooms. It's that if the 0.59

00:39:15.880 Democrats seriously believed that men should go into women's bathrooms, if Democrats seriously 0.99

00:39:21.660 believed that we should chop off the genitals of little kids, it called into question their 0.99

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00:40:41.560 My favorite comment yesterday.

00:40:42.940 I didn't pick it.

00:40:43.580 This was the producers.

00:40:44.680 This is from the Drummer's Workshop.

00:40:45.780 Norm's Music says, if I had a son, he would look like Carmelo, Gavin Newsom.

00:40:50.520 Basically.

00:40:51.560 Basically.

00:40:53.340 That's just the, Newsom wants to be the new Obama.

00:40:57.340 That's it.

00:40:58.020 Okay, finally, finally, we arrive at my favorite time of the week.

00:41:00.760 Our mailbag is sponsored by PureTalk at puretalk.com today.

00:41:03.820 Take it away.

00:41:05.780 Hey, Michael. I have a question regarding the potential for a civil suit after Austin Metcalfe's

00:41:12.140 murder. The giant pile of money that was raised by black activists for Carmelo Anthony and his 0.76

00:41:20.200 family. Does Austin Metcalfe's family have a legitimate case to sue in civil court for that

00:41:26.880 money? Would love to know if it's possible or what you think. Sincerely, Speechless,

00:41:31.360 controlling words, controlling minds. Here we go. Yeah, certainly the Metcalfs have a case.

00:41:39.080 There's the criminal case, and then there's the civil suit. And the civil suit has a lower

00:41:43.860 barrier. So it's harder to win the criminal case than it is to win the civil suit. Most famously

00:41:48.500 or infamously, you probably saw this play out with OJ, where OJ got off the hook in the criminal

00:41:52.700 trial, even though he obviously killed his wife and her friend. But then he lost the civil suit.

00:41:57.340 So he still owed money to the families of the victims.

00:42:01.600 Here, yeah, the Metcalfs and the state won in the criminal case.

00:42:08.480 Carmelo Anthony obviously stabbed poor Austin Metcalf to death.

00:42:12.120 So the Metcalfs could sue.

00:42:15.060 The problem is they'd have to sue Carmelo Anthony himself, and he doesn't have any money.

00:42:19.260 The Anthony family raised a ton of money, ostensibly for Carmelo Anthony's legal defense,

00:42:25.080 from people who support a murderer strictly on the basis of race. But then the Anthony family

00:42:30.180 squandered all the money. They seem to have used it just for themselves to buy a nicer house,

00:42:34.340 move into a nicer community, to the point now that Carmelo Anthony is saying he doesn't have

00:42:38.140 money for a lawyer to appeal. But that also might be strategic in the sense that if Carmelo Anthony

00:42:44.000 had money, then the Metcalfs could come take it in the civil suit. But if the money all just goes

00:42:50.680 to Carmelo Anthony's family,

00:42:52.280 it's much harder for them to take it.

00:42:53.980 They could try to argue

00:42:54.860 that Carmelo Anthony's family was negligent

00:42:57.820 or they gave him the weapon

00:42:59.800 or they allowed him to have the weapon or something,

00:43:01.560 but that's going to be much, much harder to prove.

00:43:03.180 So in practice, probably the Metcalfs

00:43:05.140 are not going to get any money.

00:43:06.900 And the only people who are going to make money

00:43:08.220 on the murder of Austin Metcalf

00:43:09.620 is going to be the family of his murderer.

00:43:11.420 Next question.

00:43:13.320 Hey, Michael, this is EJ Colmo.

00:43:16.180 I had two questions for you.

00:43:18.160 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,

00:43:28.020 I thought of putting one together myself, but I'm not really sure where to get started and could use some advice,

00:43:35.180 since I'm new to the organizational game, so to speak.

00:43:39.720 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.

00:44:05.380 I could just use some better advice on things to do because I'm running out of ideas.

00:44:10.920 Yeah, okay. I'm sorry to hear your struggles, E.J. Colmell. I think your struggles are pretty

00:44:16.680 typical for people today, especially younger people. And you're right. You said 27 is so young,

00:44:22.160 but it does get harder. It gets harder to socialize. It's really easy to meet people

00:44:27.240 in high school or in college because you're around so many people of your same age group.

00:44:31.380 The second you graduate and you enter into the workplace, your social circle shrinks

00:44:36.600 dramatically. So it's hard. It's hard. Every year that goes by, it's harder.

00:44:41.300 Your instinct is to control the situation more. So your instinct is, I want to start an organization

00:44:47.140 so that I can socialize more rather than join an organization. I think that's a bad idea.

00:44:52.540 I think you should join an organization. And you say, well, the group at my church,

00:44:56.540 it isn't vibrant enough, or there aren't enough people, or isn't enough of a social life. Okay.

00:45:01.380 I would look elsewhere then.

00:45:02.880 I would, you could,

00:45:03.560 you obviously have a political interest.

00:45:05.580 I would join all the local Republican

00:45:07.200 and conservative groups.

00:45:08.920 All the little meetups that go on,

00:45:10.580 which you can find,

00:45:11.580 I think even still online,

00:45:13.460 you can find them through the local party.

00:45:15.480 I would go there.

00:45:16.960 I would go,

00:45:19.760 I would ask some of your family

00:45:22.760 or friends of family

00:45:25.040 or family of friends or whatever,

00:45:26.540 you know, just like anyone

00:45:27.280 in your social circle

00:45:28.180 for leads on how to increase your social life

00:45:32.320 because that's something that is bothering you

00:45:35.160 and it's bothering basically everybody in your generation 1.00

00:45:37.880 because the Zoomers are socializing much less 0.92

00:45:40.320 than any generation basically ever. 0.99

00:45:43.860 Now on the dating side,

00:45:45.640 you say, how am I going to meet a nice girl to date?

00:45:47.720 You need to get on the apps

00:45:48.700 is what you need to do, actually.

00:45:50.240 This is not always my advice to everyone

00:45:52.060 and I haven't seen you in a while

00:45:54.200 so I want more specifics on where you're living,

00:45:57.640 exactly your circumstances, but people date on the apps. I don't want to date on the apps. I'm

00:46:01.920 thrilled that I didn't have to get on the dating apps. I just missed it. I got the last chopper

00:46:05.460 at Anam, but that's where people date now. And if you're able to date, if because of the

00:46:12.200 circumstances of your life, you're able to date, I don't know, you married your high school

00:46:16.360 sweetheart or something, or you meet a girl at work and you don't run afoul of HR, or you,

00:46:22.260 I don't know, meet a girl at church. Look, if that works, great, but it's not working for you.

00:46:25.960 so you need to go to where people are dating. I can strongly recommend Catholic Match. Catholic

00:46:30.160 Match is really great. Not only because they're a sponsor, but it's a great app and website.

00:46:35.460 But that's where you got to go. You got to go where the people are.

00:46:38.340 I think your instinct is to control more. And I would say, actually, your answer when it comes

00:46:42.680 to socializing is less control. Liberal modernity tells us we need to control everything. We need

00:46:47.620 to be totally autonomous. We need to be self-creating and self-directing. But actually,

00:46:51.660 man is a social creature. So, when we interact in society, we recognize we have mutual obligations

00:46:56.960 and responsibilities. And so, yeah, that involves giving up control. That's what you should do.

00:47:02.840 Okay, next question.

00:47:04.500 Mac, I was wondering, since you like to quote Uncle Aristotle a lot, that we are

00:47:09.200 allomorphic beings whose body and soul are inseparable and intertwined, do you think

00:47:14.180 you would improve in virtue if you started working out a little more? I call you angel

00:47:19.100 because you look like strings of angel hair pasta in a smoking jacket.

00:47:23.020 Sometimes the cigars you smoke are bigger than your arms.

00:47:26.180 Anyway, I'll see you when you get home. Bye.

00:47:31.540 What's crazy is I actually was, I didn't name him,

00:47:34.240 but I was just referring to Aristotle on Man is a Social Creature.

00:47:37.880 Wow, I'm really floored by how basically great that SLI impression was.

00:47:45.620 Or was it just her?

00:47:47.220 Girl, I told you, don't call me at work.

00:47:49.560 I'm working.

00:47:50.680 Stop embarrassing me in front of my friends.

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The Michael Knowles Show - June 12, 2026

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

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