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Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Electronic Arts Inc

Andrew Wilson Pushes Back on Conspiracy Theories About Charlie Kirk's Assassination

📅 Aug 05, 2026 JRE Clips 15 MIN 176744 VIEWS 80 SEGMENTS · 3 SPEAKERS
Taken from JRE #2535 w/Andrew Wilson YouTube:    • Joe Rogan Experience #2535 - Andrew Wilson   JRE on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4rOoJ6E...

What Andrew Wilson said

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Andrew Wilson, CEO of Electronic Arts, joined Joe Rogan to discuss conspiracy theories surrounding Charlie Kirk's assassination. Wilson pushed back on the theory that a microphone explosion killed Kirk, noting the absence of smoke or burn marks, unlike Israeli pager explosions which showed visible smoke. He also questioned claims that video footage clearly showed Tyler Robinson on the roof, saying it was not clear, though he acknowledged possible recoil. Wilson discussed the type of bullet used, identifying it as 150 grain Core-Lokt soft tips, which expand inside the body causing massive trauma, and argued that a .30-06 round could plausibly cause the observed wound, citing US Army studies on cavitation and energy dissipation. He criticized those promoting conspiracy theories for not wanting their worldviews examined, and mentioned a man who claimed 'I killed him' in the crowd, later found with child pornography, as a known agitator.

Key takeaways

  1. Wilson dismissed the microphone explosion theory, citing no smoke or burn marks, unlike Israeli pager explosions.
  2. Wilson identified the bullet as 150 grain Core-Lokt soft tips, which expand on impact, making a .30-06 wound plausible.
  3. Wilson said video footage of the shooter is not clear, contradicting claims it showed Tyler Robinson.

Numbers and commitments

FigureWhat it refers toTypeAt
150 grain Weight of Core-Lokt bullet used in the shooting metric 7:26
.30-06 Caliber of bullet discussed as possible cause of wound other 6:55

Chapters

  1. 0:00Conspiracy theories about Kirk's death
  2. 3:57Microphone explosion theory debunked
  3. 4:16Israeli pager explosions comparison
  4. 7:26Bullet type and wound analysis
  5. 8:23Video clarity and shooter identification
  6. 10:19Crowd agitator and child porn
  7. 11:16Criticism of conspiracy promoters
  8. 13:53US Army studies on .30-06 wounds

Questions asked in this interview

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  1. 3:34So, where's it going to go?
  2. 3:58You know what got me though?
  3. 4:08It's worse. There's no smoke, right?
  4. 4:27Is there a dude like where it's on his hip?
  5. 5:02The mic's on the wrong side of where the wound is, right?
  6. 8:25It does seem like the guy on the roof gets in a prone position and it looks like something that might be a rifle, right?
  7. 10:09And that guy, wasn't he at the Boston bombing as well?
  8. 11:57If the bullet split up here, it would create all sorts of fragments down in the chest, right?
  9. 13:30The FMJ especially, because that's what the army is using—FMJ ball ammunition. It's cheap to produce, right?
Joe Rogan 0:00 ↗
The Joe Rogan Experience.
Unknown 0:02 ↗
Right now, you have progressives who are funded by Act Blue, right? And I've proven this. We traced all their money. It's progressives funded by Act Blue who are pushing the same narrative that like Candace Owens and others are pushing on the idea of Charlie Kirk's death and the conspiracy around that. So, they're absolutely being paid to push this. Well, their stated mission, this particular progressive group, their stated mission was to take down TPUSA. I'll tell you a story. This is the tale of all tales.
Joe Rogan 0:35 ↗
Okay.
Unknown 0:36 ↗
So, Charlie Kirk has this huge outreach program that's happening through TPUSA on these college campuses. He's got viral clip after viral clip after viral clip. They are going wild. He's going campus to campus. He's doing his thing. He's being dogged by a progressive organization. This progressive organization shows up at almost all of these TPUSA events with the stated mission of trying to create a counter movement to what TPUSA is doing. Now, the woman who heads this particular organization received millions of dollars from Act Blue and other progressive organizations for this stated mission. That same woman right this second works with other OPX accounts to push the messaging that Charlie Kirk was assassinated by his own TPUSA insiders in order to push that narrative forward because the stated goal still from that organization is to destroy TPUSA.
Joe Rogan 1:33 ↗
So they've, how do we know that they've done this? Is there emails that have been found?
Unknown 1:38 ↗
Well, the stated goal of this particular person is to take down TPUSA. She's very open about that. And then the way that you know that they are talking to these other accounts is because they do it publicly.
Joe Rogan 1:52 ↗
Those public accounts will talk to this account, right?
Unknown 1:56 ↗
Very openly. They reaffirm each other's post. They say, 'Wow, that's real interesting.' This kind of thing. All affirming that same conspiracy that TPUSA was the ones who actually set up and murdered Charlie Kirk, and it's millions of dollars in Act Blue funding going towards this. No joke. Anybody can look it up right now. The organization's called Unfuck America.
Joe Rogan 2:23 ↗
So, how do they think that his organization did this? That they convinced Tyler Robinson to do it or that they think someone else?
Unknown 2:32 ↗
I don't think that the progressive organization does believe that TPUSA did this. I think that what they want to do is—
Joe Rogan 2:39 ↗
Oh, no. I understand that. But I mean, what are they trying to say?
Unknown 2:42 ↗
Oh, well, here's what the theory is. So, Ian Carroll within 24 hours after Kirk's death blames Israel. Within 24 hours, he says Israel killed Kirk. That tweet went mega viral. What the conspiracy is on that side is that Israel along with Erica Kirk and TPUSA insiders got together with elements of the US government to murder Charlie Kirk because he was going to leave the quote pro-Israel cause.
Joe Rogan 3:14 ↗
That's what the theory is?
Unknown 3:15 ↗
Right. And that he was either murdered—some of them say with a microphone exploding, some of them say there was a second shooter and Robinson's a patsy. It all depends on which theorist you're talking to, but they all work together in the same unison from a single camp, which is interesting.
Joe Rogan 3:34 ↗
Well, a lot of people had takes on the shooting, and the microphone one was the weirdest one to me. It's weird because there's no—like, yeah, the shirt is moving, but also a bullet is going like how many feet per second whizzing through the air? Like, do you understand? Yeah. So, where's it going to go?
Andrew Wilson 3:57 ↗
People don't understand that.
Joe Rogan 3:58 ↗
You know what got me though? So, I went back and looked because they say that it's the same explosive which was used inside the Israeli pagers. Now, that was very real. Israel sent these pages all—
Unknown 4:08 ↗
That would be an explosion. That's my take. My point is like there's no indication that there's an ignition there. It's worse. There's no smoke, right?
Andrew Wilson 4:16 ↗
There's no—now all the Israeli—if you pull up, if you pulled up right now one of these Israeli pagers going off, because there's tons of videos of them.
Joe Rogan 4:22 ↗
Oh, really? Let's watch. Let me see some Israeli smoke off.
Andrew Wilson 4:26 ↗
There's smoke.
Joe Rogan 4:27 ↗
Is there a dude like where it's on his hip?
Andrew Wilson 4:29 ↗
Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yep. There's one where it's on his hip and gets him and you can see the cloud of smoke coming off because of the specific type of ignition from—
Joe Rogan 4:37 ↗
Right. Is it possible that this pager thing is different than whatever they think this microphone thing is? This microphone thing has some sort of a different kind of propellant. But then again, you'd have to like—okay, let's imagine what kind of propellant exists, right? Compressed air. There's not enough room in that microphone to get enough compressed air to blow a hole in your neck and kill you instantly.
Unknown 5:00 ↗
Well, they claim that it's—
Joe Rogan 5:01 ↗
Unless it's something else.
Unknown 5:02 ↗
It's this, what is it, PN explosive. This is the particular type that had to be used for the size of the microphone. But you have another problem. The mic's on the wrong side of where the wound is, right?
Andrew Wilson 5:13 ↗
The other thing is there's no burn marks. There's no smoke. There's nothing. There's like, there's nothing to confirm this theory at all.
Unknown 5:18 ↗
You'd have to guess where that mic is because he's moving around too. You have to guess where that mic is pointing. You could take someone out. So, I found two videos, one that goes—I'll show you, this happens again here.
Andrew Wilson 5:29 ↗
Watch the smoke right here.
Unknown 5:32 ↗
See all that smoke? Let me see that again.
Andrew Wilson 5:36 ↗
Watch all—dude was just chilling and boom.
Unknown 5:38 ↗
It blew up in his bag though.
Joe Rogan 5:40 ↗
Yeah. So, a lot of them like they didn't die. They go to the hospital and they're just like, you know, hurt.
Unknown 5:45 ↗
Probably because they had it in their bag or something.
Andrew Wilson 5:47 ↗
I found a couple—one other video here.
Joe Rogan 5:48 ↗
Well, these guys are going to be carrying around like armored satchels.
Andrew Wilson 5:52 ↗
Well, yeah. You could—like a couple of them were on bikes and stuff when it happened.
Joe Rogan 5:57 ↗
Like that guy got messed up.
Andrew Wilson 5:59 ↗
Yeah, he got messed up real bad. There's some, or they give you the illusion they did by blurring out his head.

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Wilson, A. (2026, August 5). Andrew Wilson Pushes Back on Conspiracy Theories About Charlie Kirk's Assassination [Interview transcript]. JRE Clips. CEOInterviews.AI. https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/1161265/

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@misc{wilson2026_1161265,
  author       = {Andrew Wilson},
  title        = {Andrew Wilson Pushes Back on Conspiracy Theories About Charlie Kirk's Assassination},
  howpublished = {Interview transcript, JRE Clips. CEOInterviews.AI},
  year         = {2026},
  month        = {aug},
  url          = {https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/1161265/},
  note         = {Speaker-attributed transcript with timestamps}
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