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News, Daily News, News Commentary, Politics

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

As the Charlie Kirk murder demonstrated, law enforcement, the government, and media all need more internet fluency. But their reactions in the wake of the murder don’t seem to be moving towards a better understanding. Guest: Ryan Broderick, reporter on online culture, author of the newsletter Garbage Day. Want more What Next TBD? Subscribe to Slate Plus to access ad-free listening to the whole What Next family and all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to get access wherever you listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Abby's just woken up. It's 731 and she's forgotten to ring the doctor. There's no point
0:05.5	ringing now. She needs to get to work, but she's not worried. She's got an HSBC Premier bank account
0:10.5	with access to digital GP appointments plus two second opinions a year should she need them.
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1:05.0	The day after Charlie Kirk was killed, I was reading Ryan Broderick's newsletter Garbage Day,
1:10.3	which is about life online.
1:12.2	And there was something he wrote that I haven't been able to get out of my head since.
1:16.4	He described the killing as the logical end point of 21st century America.
1:22.4	If you break it down into what happened, he is an influencer who was shot and killed at a school
1:29.9	surrounded by a sea of smartphones. And if I had to summarize what life is like in 21st century
1:38.5	America, I can't really think of a darker, more accurate portrait.
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