Noel King

All right.

So Ben Shapiro is on one side.

As you said, he is unlikely to ever turn his back on Israel.

On the other side are people who are going hard at Israel and have been since approximately, I don't know, October 8th, maybe 2023.

Who are they?

Who are the players here?

is that Charlie was under immense pressure and he was facing financial threats over his shifting stance on Israel.

OK, so in that camp of people, you have critics of Israel that run the gamut from Candace Owens, who seems kind of nutty to Megyn Kelly, who often, I don't know, seems pretty straight.

What do they all have in common?

Is it just their criticism of Israel?

So Charlie Kirk is killed, and then these alliances form and they fracture and they reform and they refracture.

What events of the last, say, eight months do we place in the, okay, this is a post-Charlie Kirk's assassination moment?

Okay, you're going to call him stuffy, but there is something else that I've been thinking about a lot, which is Ben Shapiro, when he started out, he was so young.

He has such a baby face.

And it was like this young man that appealed to people who were much older because he was super well-spoken and he was pugnacious.

And now, and we talked about this in the first half of the show, he just sort of seems old.

He seems like he doesn't really know what he should be doing on TikTok.

He seems like he doesn't really know who in the culture is relevant anymore.

You could make the same argument about Tucker Carlson, even though he's surviving.

But he openly seems scared of Nick Fuentes.