Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.

Welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters for Thursday, the 11th of September 2025.

I'm joined by Bo and Dan, and today we're going to be discussing the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

Now, I think it's probably worth giving a bit of preamble here.

Charlie Kirk was a titan of conservative activism in the United States.

He had such a large reach, in fact, that when I went to bed last night, my wife was like,

did you hear about Charlie Kirk?

And I was like, how do you know who Charlie Kirk is?

She said, I used to watch his debates all the time.

I had no idea that my wife was a Charlie Kirk fan because she just never brought it up.

And this is the sort of thing I'm talking about.

It's like he had a reach that was much further than people realized because he appealed to the actual normal debates,

normal people were really having

in the real world about transgenderism, about whatever, whatever issue of the day was.

And so the kind of hyper online political types, you know, the sort of environment we are operating, he reached well beyond

this and had enormous influence on political commentary in politics generally, conservative

politics generally, especially, but also on left-wing politics, actually.

He was a regular figure of hate for

the left. And honestly, I really would feel bad for the way that they would frankly go at him.

It was horrible. It was absolutely horrible, especially as if you've ever watched any of

Charlie Kirk's debates or any of his commentaries,

he isn't, he wasn't, sorry, I have to say, a raging firebrand.

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