How Charlie Kirk Shaped Conservative Politics
The NPR Politics Podcast
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4.5 • 24.9K Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | A good internet domain name can be worth millions. |
| 0:03.8 | Think apple.com or zoom.com. |
| 0:06.9 | So what is up with the guy who owns milk.com? |
| 0:10.3 | I happened to like chocolate milk, you know, and so he started calling me Milkboy. |
| 0:15.3 | Like, hey, milk boy, how's it going? |
| 0:16.6 | Milk boy. |
| 0:17.1 | Yeah, milk boy. |
| 0:17.8 | On the latest Planet Money podcast, the strange economics of million-dollar domain name. |
| 0:24.6 | Hi there. |
| 0:25.6 | Whoa. |
| 0:25.9 | This is Andrew, an audiobook narrator in Los Angeles, California. |
| 0:29.5 | Yes. |
| 0:30.0 | This podcast was recorded at. |
| 0:32.0 | 109 p.m. Eastern Time on Thursday, September 11th, 2025. |
| 0:36.7 | Things may have changed by the time you hear this, but I'll still be sweating inside my closet |
| 0:41.3 | that I converted into a sound booth looking forward to the cooler months to come. |
| 0:45.9 | Here's the show. |
| 0:50.2 | Oh my God, what an amazing voice. |
| 0:52.3 | Yeah, I would say if you weren't an audiobook narrator, you should be. Oh, my God. What an amazing voice. Yeah, I would say if you weren't an audio book narrator, you should be. Oh, my God. It's an amazing job. Yeah. It seems like people from radio would be interested in that position. A second act, right? Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Ashley Lopez. I cover politics. I'm Elena Moore. I also cover politics. And I'm Domenico Montanaro, senior political editor and correspondent. |
| 1:12.7 | And today on the show, we're talking about conservative activist Charlie Kirk, who was fatally shot yesterday during an event at Utah Valley University. |
| 1:20.3 | His death has become a political flashpoint in the last 24 hours. And we want to talk about what that means. |
| 1:26.8 | Elena, let's start with you. I want you to talk a little bit about who Charlie Kirk was. |
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