Charlie Kirk Assassin's BIZARRE Text Confession Broken Down
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Tony Brueski
4.2 • 612 Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
After diagnosing the problem of self-radicalization, the conversation turns to a crucial question: What can we do to stop it? In this segment, FBI expert Robin Dreeke and the Hidden Killers hosts debate actionable solutions to pull society back from the brink. They discuss the need to incentivize, not mandate, civil discourse in our schools and online communities. Todd Michaels makes a passionate case for local community involvement, arguing that changing the world starts with making a difference in the lives of young people in your own town.
The discussion also explores the critical role of parents in modeling curiosity and establishing healthy boundaries. Robin Dreeke delves into the complex psychology of shame, explaining that while you never want to shame someone, a society that loses its capacity for shame also loses its moral and ethical boundaries, creating space for violence. The segment then provides a raw, unfiltered look into the killer’s mind as the hosts read his bizarre and chilling text exchange with his roommate, a conversation that serves as both a confession and a window into his detached reality. This is a powerful and necessary conversation about finding hope and tangible solutions in the wake of an unthinkable tragedy.
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| 0:00.0 | A Better Help ad. |
| 0:02.3 | Lewis Capaldi partnered with Better Help to get word out about how important therapy can be. |
| 0:07.6 | I struggle most weeks to get up, get myself up and ready and go to therapy or whatever. |
| 0:13.0 | Even like to open the laptop to talk to, my therapist sometimes could be really difficult. |
| 0:17.4 | But I do it because I realise how important it is for me to continue to feel |
| 0:21.3 | good. Because I felt the best I've felt in a long time through therapy. |
| 0:25.6 | Learn more about online therapy at betterhelp.com. |
| 0:29.5 | A better help ad. |
| 0:31.5 | Lewis Capaldi partnered with BetterHelp to get word out about how important therapy can be. |
| 0:36.8 | I struggle most weeks to get up, get myself up and ready and go to therapy or whatever. |
| 0:42.2 | Even like to open the laptop to talk to, my therapist sometimes could be really difficult. |
| 0:46.6 | But I do it because I realise how important it is for me to continue to feel good. |
| 0:51.0 | I felt the best I've felt in a long time through therapy. |
| 0:54.9 | Learn more about online therapy at betterhelp.com. |
| 0:58.5 | This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Bruske, Stacey Cole and Todd Michaels. |
| 1:07.0 | So the methodology that self-radicalized is prevalent. It is there. And when you look at the crowd supporting Luigi Manjone, you can definitely see there's more potential out there for this. And I'm going to be very honest in this. Because of the depth of field I've given this in the last week, I don't have as much objectivity to, I think. |
| 1:28.3 | I think we're fine because I've been so immersed in nothing but this. It makes it look |
| 1:33.9 | scary because I'm surrounded in a bubble of this right now. So I don't know how far out that |
| 1:38.0 | bubble goes. Sure. But so here's, I'll go back because I, as you all know, I am definitely |
| 1:43.4 | glass half full guy. The shot that was heard around the world, which is this one, has brought so much attention, not just to another shooting, but to the root cause of the shooting. And that's why we're talking about it. We're not the only ones hopefully going to be talking about this. It's we need to do something. |
| 2:01.1 | And just I'm so sick of people. |
| 2:02.6 | Oh, it's mental health issue. No, it's okay. Yes, mental health issues. But no one's ever doing anything. They're just labeling. It's a gun issue. Okay. But all these things that we've done before, it's a bad science experiment. Because nothing we've done has worked. And so you really got to think hard of what is the dire root cause of this? |
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