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0:00.0	This podcast was recorded the day after the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
0:06.7	Since it was recorded, it has been massively overtaken by the news.
0:12.7	But, as I often say, people don't come to this show for the latest news.
0:18.7	This episode is not about the news event as such.
0:22.7	It's about the background to the news event.
0:26.1	I can barely get my arms around the enormity of this.
0:31.3	Charlie is such a dear man, and he's such an important cultural figure.
0:39.1	He is one of the bravest people, I know.
0:43.2	He's been so unfairly demonized by his detractors.
0:47.3	At every turn, he's been villainized by people who disagree with him politically.
0:59.0	And that messaging can sink in.
1:05.6	I'm not blaming anyone. I don't know exactly who did it. And I know the motivations are, but I know that a lot of hate has been stirred up for Charlie that is grossly disproportionate to the messaging he's
1:13.9	bringing to this world.
1:35.8	And welcome to, if it weren't for us, you'd all be speaking German, our podcast.
1:37.7	Daniel.
1:38.5	Yes.
1:45.6	So, this is kind of an emergency gathering, I suppose, to record.
1:48.6	A luminary figure of American politics has been killed.
1:50.7	And we get to talk about it. Yeah.
1:51.5	I'm told a sort of MLK level figure.
1:55.7	Oh, believe me.
1:57.1	You haven't heard the audio yet.
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