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. That's only natural. And it's hard to imagine anything worse than a young father of two.

just thirty one years old and entering the best and most productive years of his life, being killed by a twenty two year old who's barely out of adolescence. Our hearts go out to the Kirk family, his friends, his 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 has a lot to process here as a community, a country, a society. And 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 or because that would be inappropriate. But Shamat, how are you processing the last eight days?

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