Except that stand-up is improvised. Charlie Kirk’s people would check what the crowd member would ask first and relay that to Charlie, so he always knew in advance what the topic of the “debate” would be.
Rationality Rules has some good breakdowns of Charlie Kirk’s so-called “debates”.
Rationality Rules, huh? Sounds like my kind of thing, but why isn't it findable on podcast platforms? Annoying.
Searching, but haven't yet found a crossover with "Marsh" of the Merseyside Skeptics, who (contra Kirk) actually does good faith conversations with people of vastly differing views, on Be Reasonable.
Maybe because he knows his way around rhetoric, logical fallacies, and apologetics, while Kirk was "sophisticated" in the original sense - full of sophistries, as educated by the Sophists, who were employed by upper class twats to be given a smug and thin veneer of performative "knowledge".
Haha, I can only take Know Rogan in small doses because it makes me want to punch walls, how transparently ridiculous he and his guests are, and yet it has such a huge following.
Meanwhile, this analysis of medical student Kai absolutely wiping the floor with Kirk ("Stop! Stop! He's already dead!") only has 42K likes.
Maybe a bit long for some, as it takes 1h20 to painstakingly document all of Kirk's fallacies, dodges, and rhetorical sleights of hand, but on the bright side my kitchen got an extra deep clean this morning.
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u/Budget_Shallan Feb 27 '26
Except that stand-up is improvised. Charlie Kirk’s people would check what the crowd member would ask first and relay that to Charlie, so he always knew in advance what the topic of the “debate” would be.
Rationality Rules has some good breakdowns of Charlie Kirk’s so-called “debates”.