News Brief: Alleged Kirk Shooter
I Don't Speak German
IDSG
3.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
What do we know about Tyler Robinson? What don't we know? What are people saying? Why are they saying what they're saying? And again, who was Charlie Kirk really?
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Episode Links:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/us/charlie-kirk-bullet-casings-engravings.html
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/charlie-kirk-assassination-maga/
https://www.garbageday.email/p/charlie-kirk-was-killed-by-a-meme
https://web.archive.org/web/20250911142246/https://stonetoss.com/comic/turning-point/ (NOTE: Stone Toss comic, link to Internet Archive)
https://www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/who-was-charlie-kirk-anyway
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/who-tyler-robinson-charlie-kirk-suspect-814fd21f
https://boingboing.net/2025/09/12/1350-word-feature-about-the-appeal-of-charlie-kirks-beliefs-doesnt-specify-them-or-quote-him.html (NOTE: A good read)
https://web.archive.org/web/20240112121724/https://www.wired.com/story/charlie-kirk-tpusa-mlk-civil-rights-act/ (NOTE: Another good read)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/magazine/charlie-kirk-american-right.html
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/not-all-victims-should-be-martyrs/
https://www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk/charlie-kirk-and-tpusa-are-fueled-far-right-extremism
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| 0:00.0 | Again, I'm not saying he definitely wasn't a Groyper. |
| 0:02.5 | I'm saying we don't know yet. We don't have that data yet. And the fact that he's not using Goryper memes, he's not using, you know, if there were Gorgiper meetings, I would know them. This was, this guy was deliberately doing this for an ideological motive within this far right internet space. I would see it and instantly know exactly where it came from. |
| 0:21.0 | And I don't know this. |
| 0:22.1 | This is an internet culture that I do not partake of, |
| 0:25.3 | that does not seem to be highly Nazi inflected. |
| 0:28.8 | So, again, from what we know right now, |
| 0:30.6 | I don't think this is a gwerp. And welcome back to another edition of German, German, oh German, you are a language that some people speak, but not me, not yet. |
| 0:58.0 | Not yet. |
| 0:59.1 | So, also known apparently as the Charlie Kirk Death Hour. |
| 1:04.5 | At the moment, anyway. |
| 1:06.0 | Breaking updates. |
| 1:07.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:07.7 | No, no, absolutely. |
| 1:09.7 | This is something we wanted to make clear. This is not becoming the Charlie Kirk Death Hour. We are both officially very sick of talking about this guy. Yes. And we are not a news podcast in the sense that we are not, as we often stress, the place to come for hot off the press's news. But this does seem to be, the way the story |
| 1:29.5 | is unfolding does seem to be interesting. Yeah. Well, and we recorded the, we recorded the last |
| 1:35.1 | one before we had any idea about anything about who the perpetrator was or anything like that. |
| 1:39.7 | Yeah. So what we realized is like literally between the time that we recorded that and the time |
| 1:44.0 | was released, suddenly there were a whole lot more details released. |
| 1:47.0 | So they caught somebody by which, you know, they're taking a victory lap, but what actually seems to have happened is that his family turned him in after they realized or, you know, again, this person hasn't been given a trial, you know, hasn't been convicted of anything. |
| 2:02.3 | Everybody just assuming that he's the shooter at this point. I mean, you know, again, I'm not |
| 2:06.9 | commenting on the likelihood of that. It's not my area at all. But this young man has been arrested. |
| 2:14.4 | Tyler Robinson. Tyler Robinson, if we're naming him, yeah. |
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