Joe Rogan reacts to Charlie Kirk's death as he is told live on air

US podcaster Joe Rogan was filming nan latest section of his show pinch character Charlie Sheen erstwhile news collapsed that blimpish activistic Charlie Kirk had been changeable dead.

The pair's shocked guidance was caught unrecorded connected camera arsenic they were told of nan shooting by a producer.

"This has conscionable happened. We conscionable sewage connection that Charlie Kirk sewage shot," nan podcast big said, looking stunned and clutching astatine his head.

"That's f---ing awful," Sheen, 60, said successful nan video.

"Murdered for having a different sentiment from personification else. A different ideology from personification else."

Rogan responded by saying they didn't cognize who had killed nan 31-year-old Turning Point USA creator and Donald Trump ally, aliases what their information was.

The podcaster ne'er interviewed Kirk connected his show, but said he had met him erstwhile astatine a weapon range.

"He's not a convulsive guy," Rogan said. 

"He was talking to group connected assemblage campuses."

He added that Kirk "wasn't moreover peculiarly rude. He tried to beryllium beautiful reasonable pinch people."

Rogan lamented that nan US was a state wherever group were profoundly astatine likelihood pinch each other.

"People are truthful divided successful this country… and there's truthful galore group that emotion it and they profit disconnected that division."

"One of 2 things is going to happen,  group are going to realise really f---ing insane this is…. aliases it's going to get a batch worse."

Kirk, a joined father-of-two, was killed connected Wednesday day section clip arsenic he was speaking connected shape to a crowd astatine Utah Valley University campus.

The killer, who fired nan fatal changeable from atop a adjacent building, is still connected nan run.

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