Okay, everybody, there's no easy way to start today's show. Eight days ago, Charlie Kirk was

savagely murdered while doing what Americans love to do, debate. And when someone is senselessly

killed like this, especially at a young age and at the hands of another human, try to make sense

of it. It's only natural. And it's hard to imagine anything worse than a young father of two, just 31 years

old and entering the best and most productive years of his life being killed by a 22-year-old

who's barely out of adolescence. Our hearts go out to the Kirk family, his friends, his fans,

and every American who understands that no one should be killed for expressing their beliefs.

That's the core of the

great American experiment. So let's keep that experiment alive today and the memory of Charlie

Kirk by continuing the great debate. Besties is a lot to process here as a community, a country,

a society, and I just want to check everybody's temperature at the top of the program.

We're obviously not going to do a cold open here because that would be inappropriate.

But Chumap, how are you processing the last eight days?

I actually wrote down something as well, which I normally don't do.

I just like to kind of react,

but let me just read that and then maybe we can just talk from there. So to me, what Tyler Robinson illustrates is the emergence of a lost generation that was shaped by COVID.

I see years of isolation, a reliance on screens,

and an immersion in online subcultures that have created a vacuum where some young men are drifting in without any grounding. No institutions,

no friends, no communities, no family. And out of that void, I think what comes out can at best only

be called ideological incoherence. Somebody used the word salad bar extremism. These individuals

are not clearly aligned with any one ideology completely, but they seem to be assembling

fragments of memes, of conspiracies, of cultural signals, into an unstable identity. And in

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