Charlie Kirk Murder, Assassination Culture in America, Jimmy Kimmel Suspended, Ellison Media Empire

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 uh 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, 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, there's a lot to process here as a community, a country, a society, and uh 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 Shmath, how are you processing the last 8 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 co 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.