E102: [TEASER] Fireside Chat – Luigi Mangione
Working Class History
Working Class History
5.0 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
The date this episode aired, March 19, Luigi Mangione was scheduled to have his first court hearing on federal death penalty charges, accused of assassinating healthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
So we sat down for a Fireside Chat about the case, about the US healthcare system, about Mangione and his past, about media and public reactions to the killing, and about historical parallels and differences with past assassinations.
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| 1:11.6 | Our fireside chat for you this month is something a little bit different. |
| 1:15.6 | Matt and I got on a call to have a chat about my experiences organizing at work in the public sector a few months ago. |
| 1:22.6 | But earlier the day that we spoke, New York and federal authorities in the US arranged a ridiculous |
| 1:28.7 | perp walk for Luigi Mangione, who'd been arrested in connection with the assassination of a |
| 1:33.6 | healthcare CEO. |
| 1:34.9 | And basically that was all we wanted to talk about, so we accidentally ended up with a bunch |
| 1:39.0 | of tape about Luigi. |
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