The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1250
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Summary
The Lotus Eaters discuss the death of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk, who was shot and killed at a rally in Utah on Wednesday evening. We discuss the events leading up to the shooting, and the impact it had on the conservative movement and the world at large.
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Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters for Thursday
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the 11th of September 2025. I'm joined by Bo and Dan, and today we're going to be discussing
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the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Now, I think it's probably worth giving a bit of preamble
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here. Charlie Kirk was a titan of conservative activism in the United States. He had such
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a large reach, in fact, that when I went to bed last night, my wife was like, did you hear about
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Charlie Kirk? And I was like, how do you know who Charlie Kirk is? She's like, oh, I used to watch
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his debates all the time. I had no idea that my wife was a Charlie Kirk fan, because she just never
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brought it up. And this is the sort of thing I'm talking about. It's like, he had a reach that was
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much further than people realized, because he appealed to the actual normal debates normal people
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were really having in the real world about transgenderism, about whatever issue of the day
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was. And so the kind of hyper online political types that, you know, the sort of environment we
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operate in, he reached well beyond this and had enormous influence on political commentary and
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politics generally, conservative politics generally, especially, but also on left-wing politics,
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actually. He was a regular figure of hate for the left. And honestly, I really would feel bad for
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the way that they would frankly go at him. It was horrible. It was absolutely horrible, especially as
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if you've ever watched any of Charlie Kirk's debates or any of his commentaries, he isn't, he wasn't,
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sorry, I have to say, a raging firebrand. I think that's why they hated him. It's easier to deal
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with somebody who's coming at you strong, because they can just brush it off, and they can just,
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they can shout their retorts, and they can shout their slurs. Charlie didn't give them the opportunity
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to do that. He was so reasonable and so measured, and he genuinely tried to have conversations. And it
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simply exposed the fact that these people are incapable of articulating their worldview.
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He was a complete gentleman about these things. One of the most disturbing aspects of this is that
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he was the dialogue guy. Yes. The entire shtick was being a debate bro. Right. I'm here for the
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democratic process to engage in the public discourse, in the marketplace of ideas, so we can talk out our
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differences and maybe find common ground. That was his entire point. And what it says is, of course,
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we don't want dialogue. We're not interested in dialogue. Well, I think we'll come back to that
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in a bit, because I think what might be worth doing is just saying, you know, Dan and myself are both
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fathers. Charlie was 31 years old. He had two young children and a wife. So just, it could be any of us.
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And his young children were there. And his young children were there, which is just awful. But
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anyway, let's, let's begin by going through the actual details of what happened. As much as we
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know them. All right. Yeah. So the whole podcast today is going to be about, about Charlie. Yes.
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Different, different aspects of what happened and his life and everything. So to begin with,
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just the events of yesterday. So here's an image of him not long before throwing out MAGA hats.
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And it was in, it was in Utah, Utah Valley University. And it was called the American Comeback
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Tour. So we obviously had a number of, you would, I mean, can I assume we had a number of events
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lined up and, and yet, so as I understand, shortly after it began, shortly after, very shortly after
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it began, I believe, sort of a single shot rang out. So Charlie was taking questions from people
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lined up to a microphone, right? It was a fairly standard format that he does. You know, whoever
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wants to come up and ask him a question and challenge him, challenges him. And then he answers the question
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and then they have a back and forth over it. Classic Charlie Kirk format. Nothing.
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One thing to say, we're not going to show any of the clips. There's one long range,
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low resolution clip and one terribly distressing close up clip. And we're not going to show either
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Just a warning to people, if you're thinking of looking it up and my view is that I wanted
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to see it because I wanted to face it. I want to, I want to see evil for what it is, but
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it is horrific. So if you, if you haven't seen it, um, just take a measure of whether
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Yeah. I mean, we are going to talk, we're not going to show it, but we are going to talk
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about it, um, a bit anyway. Um, I would just say, um, that I act personally, I actively
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try and avoid anything like that, but I did seek this one out and watch it just because
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I know we've got to talk about it and it's sort of, it's actually important. It's not just
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a random murder. Um, so, but it is terrible, terrible, terribly graphic, uh, really, really
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distressing, horrible, horrible. Um, so, okay. Um, yeah, a single shot rang out and, um, seems
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like it was, must've been a rifle, right? If it was, if it was over any sort of range,
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it would have had to have been a long, um, people, people running away. And, um, I mean,
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at first, uh, when it first happened, well, I'll talk about my experience. I was recording
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with Nate for the little channel I've got within the state of politics yesterday evening.
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I came in about eight o'clock to record with him and I hadn't seen it. I hadn't been on
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Twitter for a few hours. He just said, Charlie shot, uh, Charlie Kirk has been shot. And it
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was the first I'd heard of it. And we, no one knew if he was, had survived or not. Um,
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and there was the, the grainy long range clip where you could see he'd been hit. But beyond
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that, you just didn't know. Um, and so we did a recording and, um, in that we're still
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saying, we hope he's all right and stuff, but it emerged. People saying he's been taken
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to hospital. There's lots of blood, but he's been taken to hospital and he's stable. That
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Yeah. I was following it adamantly on my phone, obviously, because, uh, someone met, I can't
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know, but it was messaging me with a Charlie Kirk's been shot. I was like, what? And this
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was almost immediately after the news had broken. So I was looking and couldn't really
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say anything. And then I started seeing it popping up. And so for about an hour, I guess,
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I can't remember how long it was now. I was just glued to my phone, just refreshing, hoping
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because there were like, Oh, people immediately look at that wound, which you could see very
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quite clearly in the, in the videos. He's, he's not going to make it. But then you had reports
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from people who were with him in the hospital saying, no, he's, he's in critical condition,
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but he's, it would have been a miracle if he had survived that.
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And then, yeah, it was, uh, Tim Pool that I saw that, uh, tweeted, um, he's gone. And
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I was like, okay, well, the worst has happened then, hasn't it?
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Well, I saw the Trump tweet, or maybe it was a truth social saying, confirming that he's
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gone. Um, so yeah. Um, let's talk about the actual thing. Um, just because this segment
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is supposed to be about just the facts. Um, to begin with, it looks like on the closer
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footage, it looks like it's just shot in the left-hand side of the neck, but on closer
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slow-mo, it does look like it's actually shot from the right-hand side and it bounces off
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his upper chest and then clips him in the neck or hits him in the neck.
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So I was speaking to Tim Pool about this and he believes that Charlie was wearing something
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they call rifle armor, which is hexagonal, uh, ceramic plates, uh, that are able to deflect
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rifle bullets. Rifle bullets being powerful and, um, not usually the sort of thing that
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a Kevlar vest or whatever could stop. And that's why it appears to sort of deflect off
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his chest and then into his neck. Um, but I mean, when I, when I saw it, it's so distressing,
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but when I saw it, I'm no doctor, but immediately that's, I see that's an unsurvivable thing.
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Uh, the amount of blood, that injury, uh, just the sheer loss of blood, the loss of blood
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pressure, getting no oxygen to the brain. If there were paramedics one foot away from
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him, I don't think he would have survived that. Terrible, terrible.
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I don't think, I don't think you could have survived that if you got shot in the operating
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Right. Yeah. Well, yeah. Can't replace like that artery or the jugular or whatever.
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So the only small, tiny, tiny mercy is that it would have been quick. I imagine he would
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have lost consciousness either immediately or almost immediately. Um, so I mean, it's
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not much of a saving grace, but there is, there is that at least, um, at the very least.
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Although what it must have been like for his, um, young family and children.
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Well, that's the thing to be murdered in cold blood in broad daylight in front of your
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wife and children. Yeah. Just absolutely despicable.
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One, one and three, I think they are. Yeah. We were saying just before, I hope they don't
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remember it, obviously. I hope they're not old enough to hold a memory of it. Um, absolutely.
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Um, and he was taken to, uh, he was rushed to, uh, a waiting SUV, but of course it was
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There was, there was no ambulance there, which is a strange thing, isn't it?
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Yeah. I mean, you wouldn't necessarily, I mean, there wouldn't normally be, would there?
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There's not an ambulance when you go and speak at university or something, is there?
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Like, I'm not sure that I think that if there's a sufficiently large gathering, I think like
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Well, maybe there will be going forward, going forward. People like Charlie Kirk might want
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to think about, or having a persplex style screen.
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Like Trump was like, like, like the president or the Pope or something.
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Well, if, if, if, if we carry on doing the dialogue thing, yeah.
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Yeah. Uh, so to begin with, it broke immediately. I mean, while I was still recording with Nate,
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it broke that, that this chap, uh, was the shooter or was responsible. Um, and it, it subsequently
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And then, then he was, I, I saw the, uh, the, I think it was the governor or was it the
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chief police who was saying that he was, he had been arrested, but for obstructing justice.
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His behavior is very strange. It's almost like he was causing some sort of distraction
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or something. I mean, he, he was shouting, you know, shouting, shoot me. I mean, he was.
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I think he had, I think he had a gun as well, but it turned out just to be a pellet gun.
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I think that might've been the next one. I'm not sure.
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Um, okay. Cause, because someone else was arrested and then released, right?
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Oh, okay. Um, uh, you see a guy, one of the cops here with, uh, holding a gun at one point,
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but anyway, um, it, it's not a fire. We don't know much about this guy. We know, we know that
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he's a, an older man in his seventies. He's of Jewish background. He's a registered Democrat,
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Yeah. Um, but why, yeah, yeah. Was he involved in a conspiracy? I mean, just more than one person
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by definition is a conspiracy. Who knows? We don't know. We don't know. It only happened
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yesterday. Um, but yeah, so Kash Patel at one point said, we've got the person, but then
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So I think he's referring to a different guy that we don't have a photo of.
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Yeah. There was a report that a 25 year old was also arrested.
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When I first saw the, um, the, the, the older chap, um, my immediate reaction, because we've
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done stuff about assassins before, and I've, I've been interested in political assassinations
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throughout history. My immediate reaction was probably not. It's hardly ever an old guy.
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That said the second, the second Trump attempted shooter was an older guy.
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There have been assassins in their forties and fifties or even sixties, but it's super rare.
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Yeah. Um, so it's not impossible, but it's, it's, it's unlikely. Um, okay. So there's
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some, uh, uh, some evidence have emerged of people saying that, uh, there's a guy on the
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Just a quick thing there. Yeah. I thought I was right. Uh, the Steve Scalise shooting at
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the, the mass shooting, the baseball game was a 66 year old man. Right. Right. Yeah.
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So it does happen. The radicalized boomer is a thing. Yeah. No. And throughout history.
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Yeah. Occasionally it'll be a middle-aged person. Actually the guy, the guy, the guy
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is always someone extremely young in their twenties or even younger. Sometimes lots of
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assassins that are like 18, 19. The guy who ran to be assaulted Rand Paul. He was an
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older guy. And, and more than that, he was actually his neighbor as well. He, he, but
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he was just watching mainstream media one day. Watching MSNBC. Yes.
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So this is footage of people claiming we, again, we don't know. Yeah. Bit of speculation
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here that this person on, on the roof there was the shooter. Assuming there isn't even
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a person on the roof. It's hard to say what that is. I think it is because I'm sure it
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is. There's another footage of him running away. Yeah. I've got that. I've got, I've got
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that. Um, in fact, it might be the next thing. Yeah. So here's a clip. Um, is it? Oh, okay.
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Oh, okay. Let's just watch the clip. See that it's quite quick, but this person running
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off there, uh, again, we don't know if that is the shooter, but that's what sort of being
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heavily speculated at this point. I mean, if I was a betting man, which I am, I would
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definitely put my money on that being the shooter. Yeah. Um, so again, just to keep,
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just to the facts, um, um, it would have been a kind of a, uh, well, people discuss
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whether it's a long range shot or not. They're saying it's about 200 yards, not
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meters yards. Now, if it's a rifle, about 600 feet, uh, in that ballpark. Yeah. So, I
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mean, I would consider that a fairly long range shot and I've been to shooting ranges.
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They're usually about 50 feet. Okay. So when we talk about these sorts of things, it's
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like talking about tanks. Yeah. Everyone out there has got their own opinion and, and,
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and, and I've been shooting ranges where that would be considered mid range. Uh, well, I
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would say this 200 yards isn't that far. No. So for example, just to put it into perspective,
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like the sort of world records level stuff is like over four miles, like 7,700 yards. Yeah.
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Plus. Okay. But that's the extreme. You're not even expected to make those. That's extreme.
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Yeah. That's like world record stuff. Okay. But, um, a very, very good shooter, amateur
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shooter can hit something with sort of 308 at like a mile. That's not great. That's, that's
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doable for a very good amateur to hit something. If you know what you're doing, that is very
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achievable. So, right. So 200 yards in the skip, it's not a close range. I'm not saying
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that, but it's not that far. That looks like more than 200 yards. Well, that's what, that's
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what is all over the thing at the moment is 200 yards. Uh, the thing that I would say about
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it is that if you, if that, if the shooter was on the roof there, it is elevated. Yeah.
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And now that does make the shot a lot more difficult because, um, Stefan Molyneux saw,
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I think he did, I saw someone retweeting him and I couldn't find it. So maybe it wasn't,
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so apologies to Stefan if I've got this wrong, but he came out, I think, and said, that's
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a professional shot. I would say not necessarily. It's a difficult shot. It's not the easiest
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of shots, but you don't have to be a military grade sniper to make that shot is what I'm,
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I would say. In the comments, people may disagree with me on that. I don't know what the difficulty
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factor on elevated shots is. Well, cause bullet drop. Oh yeah. I appreciate that. I just,
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you'd have to literally like cosign, work out the angles and stuff. Um, so it's not, it's
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not straightforward if you're elevated, either up or down. Um, so whoever did it is obviously
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not an amateur. Yeah. So to get one shot, direct hit, uh, which should have been through
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the chest, which obviously would have been fatal immediately. And it's not, it's not
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just the shot as well. It's the, um, immediate cool headed, get up and move. Yeah. That as
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well. Yeah. Yeah. They're not panicking. They have a plan to get out. And evidently, um, they
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did. Um, so all I would say is that it could be anyone from a reasonably good amateur all the
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up to who knows, you know, a professional sniper, but it doesn't necessarily have to
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be some sort of professional, but okay. So there you go. The other thing I will, I will
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draw some attention to that's just fact, um, is, is this, this clip that, that gentleman
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there. Yeah. See, I'm being sarcastic calling him a gentleman. There are a lot of these.
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Everyone else, uh, ducking down, but he's turning round to that roof and, uh, not just cheering.
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Obviously that's despicable. Yeah. Um, but like turn around to the roof of that, like
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that, that, that guy needs to be questioned. He's, he, he does seem to be signaling. I
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mean, he's looking up at the roof cause that's where Charlie was and it hit him on the right
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side. So he's looking directly along the path. The bullet has traveled. So. And not
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scared about taking a round himself clearly. Yeah, exactly. I mean like everyone else is
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like, okay, there may be more shots coming. Yeah. Make myself as low and small as possible.
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Right. All right. Right. This guy is clearly not worried about more shots coming. Why not?
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He needs to be questioned. Yeah, absolutely. Um, so, okay. That's most of the facts other
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than to say, uh, that at this moment of recording about 20 past one, Greenwich Mean Time on September
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11th, 2025, the shooter is at large. Um, which is obviously incredible and worrying. Yeah.
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That to me more than anything. I mean, more than the shot because you know, there are plenty
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of amateurs who go to gun ranges who, who get good at shots and okay, the elevation may
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have been a factor in a complication of it. Yeah, but they can work that out via chat.
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Yeah. But there are plenty of good, um, amateur shooters. But for me, the thing that stands
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out is the getaway. Yeah. Hmm. Very smooth. Appears to be. I mean, we'll see in the coming
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hours or days whether he is apprehended. Um, we'll see. Obviously we hope he is, but it's
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a bit late now, isn't it? Yeah. I mean, it's, it's, I think Charlie and his family assume
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that he's fled the country, right? So who knows? Who knows? But okay. Those are the facts
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that we have at the moment. Okay. Well, um, there have been loads of super chats that have
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come in, uh, which obviously we appreciate. And I just want to say, um, it's really weird
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this because Charlie Kirk was the one American commentator. I basically didn't know. Uh, I
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I've done it personally. Personally. Yeah. Yeah. I I've done loads of, um, turning point USA
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events. I think I did like three back in like 2017, 2018, 29. Just kept missing him somehow.
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Yeah. Yeah. And it was just literally just thing. And they've got this America fest.
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Uh, coming up in December. And so I'm probably going to go to that. And I was thinking, brilliant.
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I'll finally get to meet Charlie Kirk there. And so this is actually a really weird thing.
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So I've got loads of friends who are friends of his and be like, Oh yeah, you've got to meet
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Charlie. You'll love him. I'm like, well, I would have loved to actually, you know? And
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so just all my American friends, you know, you are who are devastated by this. I'm sorry,
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man. I'm sorry. Um, but, um, sorry, I'll, I'll get to some of these. Sorry. This is
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a really intense thing. Are we going to do them as we go or come to the end? Yeah, we'll,
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we'll, we'll, we'll do them at the end actually. That's a good point. All right. Let's, let's
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go on to the next bit. So, um, because of the lack of, uh, suspect, the internet is rife
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with theories about why this has happened. And we're going to talk about them. And I
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want to be very, very clear that I do not endorse any of these theories. I don't know
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what has happened here. And I think that anyone who says that they do know is someone who is
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claiming a level of knowledge that they don't actually have. And also I think it can be quite
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irresponsible. Now, when this first happened, I was tweeting enraged like everyone else
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because I'm only human as everyone else is. But after sleeping on it and waking up this morning,
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I've realized that actually we don't know who's behind this. We don't know why this has been done.
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And we don't know what this is an expression of. And it could well be that it's not something that
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comes from within the United States. Uh, it could be something external that is using this political
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assassination, which is clearly what this is as a way of further riling up division in the United
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States. And I don't want to be accused of doing that myself because I actually think that might be
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a very bad thing. Um, so just to be very, very clear, I'm not saying this is the left. I may have
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tweeted that. I should probably go back and delete those tweets. Um, but on reflection,
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after calming down, I actually do agree with those more level heads who said, well, we don't know who
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this, this was. And that's a good point. Cause I mean, I was tweeting when it was the boomer who
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was arrested. It was like, right, he's a boomer Democrats. Okay. Then there we go. We've, we've got
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our shooter and we know why he did it. Uh, but if it's not him, then that actually does change the
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fact. Um, so anyway, the, uh, governor of Utah, uh, said just flat out, this is a political
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assassination. Uh, and there seems to me that there's no doubt about that. It's hard to imagine
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that there could be a person who would want to shoot Charlie Kirk for reasons that were non-political.
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There are no reasons. No, he was an expert. Exactly. I mean, for like, if, if you were going to speak
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about him as a man outside of politics, he seems to have been a completely, uh, cut and dried upstanding
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father and husband. There's, there's no way that Charlie Kirk owes somebody money, slept
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with somebody's wife. There's no doubt. He is a good, well, he was a good, a decent man
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and he was reasonable. Um, he was killed because somebody somewhere was making some sort of political
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point. Yes. It is obviously going to be somehow political. So I, I concur with, uh, governor
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Cox there. There's kind of only two reasons. One, they just a straight up political enemy
00:22:39.840
of, uh, Charlie Kirk hated his views on whatever abortion or whatever, you know, or just his
00:22:47.640
right-leaning views, his Republican mega views, or the other possibility is, as you say, something
00:22:52.700
almost entirely outside of America and it's an, an, an calculated agent provocateur, 3d chess type
00:22:59.520
play somewhere, somehow. They're the only two real, you know, it's one of those two things,
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surely. I would assume so. I would assume so. But until we have some information on who the
00:23:12.460
shooter was, it's really hard to say. So the, excuse me, like I said, what I'm going to do is
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just document the theories that are currently going around at the time without co-signing
00:23:23.080
or endorsing any of them. So the first one was, um, the trans theory. So this was posted
00:23:29.240
on Twitter, uh, the day before, uh, Charlie went to Utah Valley University. Uh, as you
00:23:36.620
can see, Omar here says, Charlie Kirk is coming to my college tomorrow. I really hope someone
00:23:40.660
evaporates him. Literally, let's just say something big will happen tomorrow. And apparently the
00:23:45.180
person who runs this account is this person. Um, and this, this is exactly what was in my
00:23:51.960
head at the early stages. Yeah. This, this wouldn't be the first sort of trantifer, as
00:23:59.180
Andy Noe calls them, terror, uh, or school shooting or attempted assassination or anything
00:24:04.500
like that. So this seems like a plausible potential, uh, suspect, but you have to ask yourself, well,
00:24:14.560
is it likely that they were just trying to cause a scene on the internet? Because a lot of people,
00:24:20.000
cause if they can make it seem like there's a terror threat that's being called in, then
00:24:24.760
the event would be canceled. Charlie wouldn't go to his university and then life would continue
00:24:29.240
as normal, right? So calling him fake threats is something that the left does all the time.
00:24:33.980
I've been at events where they've called him fake bomb threats and things like that. Nothing
00:24:37.720
happened obviously. And, uh, does this person look like they have a plan? I'm not sure they
00:24:42.960
look like they have a plan. Um, I'm not sure that they're going to be able to escape all authorities
00:24:48.360
and flee the scene and never be caught. Well, I mean, maybe, maybe, maybe when she was still
00:24:53.980
a boy, uh, his dad took him hunting. Maybe, I don't know. I mean, one thing I'll say is I
00:25:00.940
would be, I tend to agree with you, but you never know. You don't know what people look
00:25:06.320
like, uh, doesn't betray what they're actually capable of. Completely true. It can, it can,
00:25:13.100
but not always, but not always. But you are completely right. So this is one theory is
00:25:17.460
that is a radical transgender person and that has plausibility because of course, Charlie
00:25:22.740
Kirk being a Christian man has a very biblical view on what a man and a woman is as a traditional
00:25:28.140
conservative view on whether men and women. Well, the trans are notching up a number of
00:25:32.260
shootings lately. They are. And they, they particularly hate Charlie Kirk because he is persuasive and
00:25:37.540
it was, sorry, I have to use past tense. Uh, he was persuasive and influential in arguing
00:25:42.940
against their ideology. And so they nurtured a particular hatred for him in his community,
00:25:47.220
in their community. And they still do. And we'll go through some of that in a minute, I'm sure.
00:25:51.620
Um, so that's, that's one potential, uh, theory that is currently doing the rounds on the internet.
00:25:57.180
Uh, the other one was the boomer radical, which, uh, was, um, dismissed by the authorities.
00:26:06.300
Um, but still I see people saying it. So, I mean, it's worth just pointing out that this
00:26:10.940
guy was released. So there's no reason to think that it was him. Uh, as the New York
00:26:15.680
Times has confirmed, it's not the guy, although he did do something really weird, which was
00:26:20.100
yelling, shoot me when he was in police custody. I think we'll watch it.
00:26:41.220
It's like he's going out of his way to cause a distraction.
00:26:46.720
Sure. So the real shooter can make his escape, you mean?
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And like I said, I haven't got any explanations for any of this.
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So the next one was the mystery sniper on the roof theory,
00:27:12.860
You can see him at the top there, as you showed earlier.
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And then, like you saw him running on the roof,
01:11:34.900
to hear um it's terrible i can't tell that it's
01:11:45.240
they will know like the antifa cell in seattle or
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wherever and the funders like they'll know which
01:11:54.120
judges are uh like soros for which da's are sort of
01:11:58.900
soros funded and they'll sort of know those it's the
01:12:01.700
political will to actually make them terrorist or take
01:12:04.840
them out take them down declare them as a terrorist
01:12:07.960
organization and anyone connecting giving uh aid and
01:12:11.960
sucker to is arrested that's what there has to be this is a
01:12:15.520
terrorist organization and the thing is we've been saying this
01:12:17.400
for years even like i remember back in like 2016 2017
01:12:19.740
when they first started doing all this it's like okay this is terrorism
01:12:23.140
and then they shot um what was his name harold danielson or something like
01:12:28.160
in california there's just a shooting of a trump supporter
01:12:31.180
by an antifa guy so look this is just terrorism
01:12:33.320
this is just straight up terrorism at this point
01:12:35.440
they need to be outlawed yeah and i think what's going to happen here
01:12:39.440
is that there is going to be a sorting mechanism the left is going to split
01:12:42.460
between the spiteful mutants who are cheering on
01:12:45.380
the death to the more decent but misguided leftists like chenk
01:12:49.900
who who just they're just wrong but they're fine they're decent people
01:12:53.380
and the right i think is going to lose a lot of moderates and gain a lot of
01:13:00.020
you know saying yeah i'm actually if trump was a dictator i'd be fine with that
01:13:03.600
i don't i don't agree with this line of thought though i don't but a lot of
01:13:06.900
people are thinking it i know i know i just want to say no trump's already the
01:13:11.060
president he already has plenty of executive power
01:13:13.340
he can deal with this problem let's get to some comments
01:13:15.900
one quick thing i'll say is this is obviously a spectrum
01:13:19.160
right from being uh some sort of liberal who would never ever use the powers of
01:13:24.680
the state at all a complete laissez-faire in every
01:13:27.280
respect then you've got a full-blown military dictator
01:13:31.180
like a sulla style dictator right now we we've just lived ever since uh well
01:13:36.900
ever since the war world or two certainly in the last two or three
01:13:40.040
decades we've been right down the the end of the the non-authoritarian
01:13:46.100
yeah so so to not trump someone like trump a little bit of iron needs to only
01:13:51.220
needs to notch it up a bit yes he needs to notch it up a bit to start
01:13:54.680
tackling it there's a whole spectrum it's not just
01:13:57.980
right bill clinton or um tito right there's a whole there's a whole
01:14:03.540
so so so just just just before we go to comments samson do you want to go full
01:14:07.820
screen on this for a moment um charlie james kirk born 14th of october
01:14:13.140
1993 in the chicago suburbs of arlington heights
01:14:16.860
charlie was shot and killed at the age of 31 while speaking at the campus of utah
01:14:25.300
so there are obviously an awful lot of comments uh expressing deep sympathy and
01:14:34.920
gratitude for charlie uh which i'm just gonna summarize by saying thank you and
01:14:38.840
we share them obviously um it would take far too long to read each individual one
01:14:43.640
out um the shadow band says the last two days we've seen the unedited video of
01:14:47.980
iri irinya irinya i can't pronounce it on the train and then now charlie
01:14:53.160
watching people die must have some effect on our brains no matter how many video
01:14:56.240
games we've played well this this honestly i think we have
01:14:59.640
to understand that we are moving into a new world
01:15:01.640
right i genuinely feel this is a kind of liminal moment that we are passing
01:15:05.560
through here and that will be different men on the
01:15:08.100
other side of it uh for good or for ill frankly whether we like it or not
01:15:15.820
and so you just have to control your own response to the events uh obviously and
01:15:21.160
i shouldn't have to say this but i'm going to uh don't do anything stupid
01:15:25.040
don't do anything that plays into any kind of frame that there's been set up for
01:15:31.600
virtuous do not do something stupid um is it possible to save these comments
01:15:37.300
and make a separate video later um maybe maybe or or i assume the producers yeah
01:15:45.240
um but uh but i will go through some we've got some yeah some people have um spent a lot of
01:15:51.420
money i know that's why i'm going to go through some okay i don't want to just uh make uh people
01:15:56.300
think that there's nothing to uh anything things uh robert says uh long time gold tier listener
01:16:01.580
first time listening live keep up the great work well thank you very much and thank you for
01:16:05.740
joining us uh this honestly is a really rough like 24 hours actually i got a bugger all sleep
01:16:14.240
last night like most people and it's just very stressful um zx says it's a time of mourning
01:16:21.740
conservatives need to find their peace with the hatred targeted against them for just speaking out
01:16:25.480
and resolve to keep bringing the truth to maintain maintain clear-eyed honesty in the face of evil
01:16:29.900
yeah i think that's a really great comment i really support that um we just have to be committed to
01:16:35.220
what is genuinely true this this is why i was not in favor of any of the conspiracy theories or just
01:16:40.760
assuming that it was a leftist off the bat like we don't know you know we didn't know what it is and
01:16:46.720
we still don't know uh there is evidence that indicates which and we can make a bunch of
01:16:52.760
assumptions but until we have uh concrete proof i really don't want to come down hard on one side
01:16:58.540
or the other i just feel like i'd be just making things worse and i don't want to make things worse
01:17:05.080
uh vinnie says as a vet an avid gun collector 200 yards isn't that far at all for a scoped bolt
01:17:12.220
action rifle an elevation has less than an effect on drops as you're shooting downwards according to
01:17:16.380
crowder and a source they found the rifle not but not the shooter yeah we we covered it so someone
01:17:21.100
else quickly say over 200 yards his personal rifle has zero bullet drop really that's what someone
01:17:26.540
just said no no i believe um yeah i don't think it's that tough of a shot anyway yeah freeman die
01:17:34.900
free says i'm a very hard right and cap in the u.s beneath the surface you can't comprehend the silent
01:17:39.260
rage over this unless you live over here the american right is on the verge to snap if they do it doesn't
01:17:44.160
stop well i mean i just i'm always very clear to stress that i believe there are democratic solutions
01:17:51.400
we should follow them um i don't think we should willingly radicalize and i realize it's not
01:17:58.640
necessarily going to be the most popular thing to say on the internet at the moment but it is truly
01:18:03.280
what i think and it's because of ferris's comment an actual civil war is one of the worst things you
01:18:07.780
can live through every civil war is worse than any other kind of conquest i mean you'll you'll know
01:18:14.000
this like because the a foreign conquest when the when the enemy stops fighting generally you just get
01:18:19.520
the new order imposed but a civil war has to extirpate any signs of loyalty or allegiance to
01:18:26.680
the defeated party and have to truly root them out and it's like way worse to go through a civil war
01:18:33.440
like the english civil war unbelievable the american civil war unbelievable the french revolution
01:18:37.840
unbelievable these things are so much worse than normal conflicts in normal times so anyway um luke says
01:18:45.460
uh for all the evils of the lefties laughing at this at least the boss of tyt said something about
01:18:50.640
this is a surrender of the intellectual debate if you have to kill but also could be a fear of
01:18:55.420
justification of retaliation from the right yeah i mean like jenk at least he looks upset by this
01:19:01.600
you know he looks like oh god something truly terrible is happening here so you know okay he was
01:19:08.260
like yeah but i might get shot okay fine that's not brilliant but it's it's more human than most of
01:19:13.740
the things i've seen about this norm says the democratic party in the shill media establishment
01:19:18.780
needs to answer for the rhetoric they have spewed that led to this every single one of them
01:19:22.540
congressman to intern needs to be sat down and forced to watch the footage that made and made to
01:19:26.640
understand the complicity the problem is they might be proud of that right they might be proud of it
01:19:31.920
um the the there is there is a like you said about a quarter of the left that is just so
01:19:38.140
ideologically captured that they wouldn't see this as a bad thing spiteful mutants yeah really
01:19:43.720
really really horrible people and i don't know what can be done about them frankly uh js says
01:19:50.460
charlie carl and a few others inspired me to convince my wife to have kids and i'm the father
01:19:54.780
of a beautiful girl so in some way charlie gave me the greatest gift rest in peace if anyone deserved
01:19:59.180
heaven it was charlie it's very kind um well done for dedicating the podcast charlie gents may you
01:20:04.100
rest in peace well i mean what else are we going to do but there's nothing nothing else to talk
01:20:07.620
about today i'm afraid um plague lord says may those who shared his faith and values pray for
01:20:13.540
his family and those who loved him may the rest of us cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war i don't
01:20:18.620
blame anyone if this is moderated do you must then i will do what i must well just to be clear don't do
01:20:24.220
anything stupid right there's just no no point letting a hot head run away with you and doing
01:20:30.160
something terrible and tragic in your own regard that you'll come to regret and that other people
01:20:35.040
will come to regret there's there's no point allowing this to happen we have to make sure
01:20:40.000
that we maintain not just the moral high ground but our own level heads for our own souls this is
01:20:46.540
important this is where you really have to have the sort of difficult conversations with yourself and
01:20:51.240
the people that you love so it's not the time for hot headed action at all um zerg says don't fed post
01:20:58.600
but we should catalogue every high profile person who made fun of this and hold them accountable
01:21:02.480
their own hate speech to the law well i mean i agree that's the thing like make like i've seen a lot
01:21:07.460
of people saying well a lot of people need to be fired for this it's like yeah maybe actually you
01:21:12.340
know if the people cheering tmz uh or anything to go by yeah i think a bunch of people probably do need
01:21:18.500
to lose their jobs and it speaks more to the toxic culture of these environments uh if you're fox news
01:21:24.300
and you own that are you sure you want to allow that to continue no you want to be the kind of uh
01:21:29.920
company that employs those kind of people i certainly wouldn't um freeman again says the
01:21:36.540
american right isn't going to go small mustache they're going to bring back the crusade
01:21:39.460
well maybe and like i said just don't do anything silly just let the dust settle and sleep on it
01:21:46.840
um toshi says a deep loss for so many people aside from the tragedy for his family this will
01:21:53.160
intimidate young students trying to find a voice in this unhinged world a true educator
01:21:57.380
yeah i mean it's like god only knows what this does to the sort of culture on campuses of actually
01:22:03.640
talking to people which i mean i've done it plenty of times i was attacked in bloody university of
01:22:08.420
london uh you know it's really quite stressful but it's every instance has got to be considered
01:22:15.240
completely unacceptable it's going to drive a wedge between the human beings and spiteful mutants
01:22:19.640
because the human beings are going to see some of their um some of their peers celebrating and
01:22:25.940
cheering and they're going to know that that's unacceptable yeah um dan said he still hasn't
01:22:35.580
reached the anger stage but at this point every american has brits need to understand that civil
01:22:39.260
conflict in the u.s will quickly boil over to other countries the entire west is at risk well yeah
01:22:43.960
why do you think we're covering this and calling for peace um it like again civil wars are worse than
01:22:50.320
normal wars you you don't know what you're asking for if you're asking for it um the proletariat says
01:22:55.840
there is also the thing not that i'm calling for civil war but when you're left with no choice
01:23:01.300
it's like uh if you've ever had uh been attacked by a wild animal or a cat a domestic cat has gone
01:23:08.720
feral and you can't control it it's gone berserk you're not voting your way out of that one oh
01:23:13.100
right sometimes often civil wars are that again they talk about the forces of reaction you're simply
01:23:20.600
reacting to someone that's trying to annihilate you it's like a self-defense thing actually it's just
01:23:26.620
self-defense am i just gonna allow myself well i'm not i'm not i'm not casting blame no no i'm just
01:23:32.860
saying don't do anything stupid for your own sake no i know i know um the proletariat says i did
01:23:38.480
four years in the marines firing lines are 200 300 and 500 yards the first time i shot a rifle
01:23:43.740
uh quoll i did it entirely with iron sights uh the hardest part of the shot is big buck fever where
01:23:50.560
you get a big adrenaline dump and you're shaking like a leaf um hugo says i still can't wrap my
01:23:55.960
head around the fact that we're in a time where you can watch the end of someone's life in 4k quality
01:24:00.140
it's so raw and terrifying but also important for those to see the level of evil that we're up
01:24:04.340
against yeah this this is the point i was making is that look we we actually have a duty not
01:24:08.360
to turn away from this right you have to watch and you have to understand the world that you were
01:24:13.540
in and the game that you were playing right the the fictions i mean think think about when we
01:24:18.920
started like you know back in like 2013 or something right like when i started in 2013 and
01:24:24.060
i started this in 2020 but the world was so much softer right the world just seemed so much i was a
01:24:29.500
libertarian back then right i was a liberal you know like the world was so much softer and so much
01:24:33.880
safer and so much less angry than it is now you can feel the pressure rising
01:24:42.480
and so yeah it's it's unfortunately the nature of the reality that you have to look this thing in
01:24:50.020
the face because otherwise it's going to destroy you and you're going to live in denial and you're
01:24:55.280
going to be unprepared for what's coming chris says if you know the distance you're going to be
01:24:59.740
shooting at you can sight your scope to that distance so then you don't need to worry about
01:25:03.540
bullet drop and using mill dots at that distance oh that's good um good to know but i don't really
01:25:09.460
know much about shooting frankly uh riss says i was absolutely horrified when i heard of charlie's
01:25:14.120
murder i agreed and disagreed with him on several topics however for someone to decide he deserved
01:25:18.760
to die for those opinions is barbaric uh wishes family well and hope justice comes harshly to his
01:25:23.680
killer well that's the thing like i don't know whether utah has the death penalty it does oh wonderful
01:25:29.120
well that's at least some good news there then there is some reporting that trump assigned an
01:25:33.980
orgy that um this person will be put to death yeah i don't know if he's got the authority to do that
01:25:38.760
well you can they can make it federal charges so yeah right okay okay well binary says from that
01:25:46.820
kind of uh carotid carotid yeah carotid damage unconsciousness is almost instant under seven
01:25:53.340
seconds typically normally uh see the ukrainian girl a few days ago also um at least he didn't
01:25:59.100
suffer yeah i mean actually that that's worth mentioning as well coming right on the back of
01:26:03.600
the ukrainian death yeah i know this is intense and in in both cases they destroyed what was best
01:26:11.800
you know that girl was innocent and beautiful completely this man um was noble and just and
01:26:18.220
in both cases they destroyed the best is genuinely heart-wrenching that there is nothing sacred that
01:26:25.740
they won't destroy well and i think that's why they why they picked these targets because they
01:26:32.100
they because they are spiteful mutants justin says the old guy was probably yelling shoot me so
01:26:37.620
that he could a become a martyr for the left and b it would take longer for the police to realize it
01:26:41.600
wasn't him maybe arizona desert rat says there's tons of small airports throughout the southwest
01:26:47.940
as long as the airstrip is long enough that plane could land that's the that's the point i was
01:26:52.200
trying to make it's who knows right who knows uh the old guy claiming he shot charlie the two other
01:26:58.480
with pellet guns this has certainly been some sort of conspiracy to make it difficult to finger the
01:27:02.700
real shooter well again i'm not saying that i know anything about this but these are conclusions
01:27:08.340
that people are drawing and not unreasonably so from the evidence that is being presented so
01:27:14.000
it's terrible charlie says i see the eu parliament want a conservative and a concert i see that in
01:27:21.580
the eu parliament a conservative mep relinquished the remainder of his time to hold a minute silence
01:27:26.060
for charlie kirk naturally while some did respect the silence the usual suspects didn't with those
01:27:30.920
talking refusing stand or just booing okay there we go uh chance says uh when he was pronounced dead
01:27:38.100
i immediately left work and went home to hug my wife and daughter this hit so close to home i didn't
01:27:42.180
understand why but now i think it's simply because charlie was a normal guy just like you and me
01:27:46.280
and like yeah that's the thing as well charlie is just not very remarkable right in like in his
01:27:51.240
like life or behavior or person he's remarkable in his nobility and his work ethic but morally
01:27:58.260
he's not a radical in any way no but he's also not someone you couldn't see yourself meeting yeah in
01:28:04.600
real life yeah i met loads of loads of people like charlie actually you know thankfully um i think
01:28:09.380
is he was one of those people where um you know no one asked him to stand up and be counted he just
01:28:16.380
did it yeah that civic responsibility within him yeah he obviously just felt in and of himself that
01:28:24.040
this was the correct thing to do to make a stand albeit rhetorically um uh yeah a fair a noble thing to
01:28:33.720
have done anyway unfortunately we are out of time at that point so thank you everyone for joining us
01:28:41.060
thank you for your generous donations um we will keep covering this story as it develops obviously
01:28:47.180
uh god willing they catch the killer very very soon and there are people in the chat saying that
01:28:54.680
they have him oh really i but i don't know that yet okay well i'll have to check that i i we will
01:28:59.980
definitely cover that tomorrow so thank you for joining us folks and we'll see you tomorrow