#425: Pia Varma: the Strange Nexus Behind the Charlie Kirk Killing
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Patrick Coffin
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2025
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
In this explosive conversation, Patrick sits down with Pia Varma, writer and commentator behind Laissez-Faire Lounge (Substack + social media).
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Pia breaks down the increasingly bizarre official story surrounding the Charlie Kirk killing, showing how the narrative keeps shifting—and why so many unanswered questions remain.
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We explore the hidden nexus of influence involving Utah universities, LDS leadership, intelligence agencies like the CIA and FBI, and their entanglement with Washington power centers.
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Why Utah? Why now? Pia unpacks the threads that connect academia, religion, and state power into a web few dare to discuss.
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The Charlie Kirk event is not just about one man—it has become a lens through which media narratives are manufactured, controlled, and enforced.
Patrick and Pia stress that truth-seekers of all faiths—or no faith—must band together to expose deception and resist the manipulation of elites.
Pia shares how her Laissez-Faire Lounge project encourages critical thinking, intellectual honesty, and fearless dialogue.
Follow Pia Varma on Substack (Laissez-Faire Lounge), Twitter/X @PiaVarma, and Instagram @laissezfairelounge
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Patrick Coffin Show. You know, this show is all about grand narratives, spotting false |
| 0:05.4 | narratives. Who's lying to us? Who can you trust? Before I introduce my guest, the Doyenne Maven inventor and |
| 0:13.0 | chief journalist at Lesley Fair Lounge. I want to talk about My Pillow briefly. If you're like me, |
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| 0:55.1 | Patrick at the coupon checkout gets you the discount. So mypillot.com, my name, P-A-T-R-I-C-K, |
| 1:01.1 | you are welcome. Most of us have been following as closely as we can the of Charlie Kirk, |
| 1:08.5 | but very few journalists are doing some of the dot connection and backstory research into the context of Utah and the players involved and kind of the macro angle. |
| 1:19.9 | So I'd like to open the aperture on one little story, you see all kinds of subplots and connections that are hiding in plain sight. |
| 1:27.4 | My guest today is Pia Varma. She runs Lassifera lounge. You can see her stuff on subplots and connections that are hiding in plain sight. My guest today is Pia Varma. She runs Lassafair Lounge. You can see her stuff on Substack and Instagram, Twitter. She's a forced to be reckoned with, and she's going to be a really big name because her stuff is very high quality. Great to have you on, Pia. Thanks for your time. Thank you very much for having me and sorry yeah it's i'm in |
| 1:45.0 | the UK so it's night time so the lighting is not great but um oh it's cool interlighting yeah |
| 1:50.9 | you're a hundred thousand candles we can see you okay okay i always like to hit the rewind button |
| 1:56.8 | and ask you oh i also want to mention harper'serry, the folk band that you are the singer of. |
| 2:01.9 | I hope you guys just continue to write stuff because your music is very, it evokes the 70s |
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