All I'm gonna be is a joke

All I'm gonna be is a joke All I'm gonna be is a joke Hello, everybody, it's Monday, September 22nd, and Chopo is back at it.

So beginning this week, we'd like to begin now with a time of healing, a time of whatever.

And joining us to discuss the ongoing ramifications of the Charlie Kirk assassination and

its political and cultural ramifications is our old pal journalist Will Summer, now with the bulwark.

Will, welcome back.

Hey, thanks for having me.

You'd think I was in the third chair in the hotel room the way this bull work.

We're going to be explaining that at the office.

That went over way better here than at a certain event that I opened for this weekend in Arizona.

They did not like that over there.

Well, I'd like to begin today's show. Yes, in Arizona, in yesterday, there was the, you know, tens of thousands of people, maybe, you know,

tens of thousands of people filled the football stadium outside of Phoenix to take part in a public

memorial service for Charlie Kirk.

And, you know, I'd like to begin with, yes, our comments made by our president. And will,

ever since the Charlie Kirk assassination, people have been trying to come up with like,

what's a pithy phrase to describe the American years of lead

I've heard years of lard years of lead paint years of bread but I think I think President

Trump really nailed it when he said a time of healing a time of whatever so I'm going to refer to

what's coming as the years of whatever but just just to begin with the memorial service, like,

Will, from your perspective, like, how does, how does the MAGA movement see both this

assassination of Charlie Kirk and this now, like, this period of public mourning and, like,

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