Horrific Terror Attack in Australia Leaves 15 Dead

The Rich Zeoli Show

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🗓️ 16 December 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 1: 3:05pm- On Sunday, at Bondi Beach in Australia, two gunmen opened fire—targeting the Jewish community during a Hanukkah celebration and leaving 15 people dead. The suspects have been identified as a 50-year-old man and his 24-year-old son. 3:10pm- Australian Hero Identified: Ahmed al Ahmed—a fruit shop owner and father of two—wrestled a rifle away from one of the Bondi Beach terrorists, saving countless lives. He was shot several times in the arm, and a GoFundMe has been created to help him with his recovery. During a press conference on Sunday, President Donald Trump praised Ahmed: “We hope he is ok. He is a hero; 100% he is a hero.” 3:15pm- A manhunt continues for the person responsible for a deadly shooting at Brown University. Two students were killed and 9 others were wounded. Sophomore Ella Cook has been identified as one of the victims. During a service at her church, a priest from her parish described her as a “tremendous bright light.” She served as vice president of Brown University’s Republican club. 3:30pm- From the Oval Office, President Trump participated in a medal presentation ceremony for those who have worked to secure the U.S. southern border.

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0:00.0	The Rich Zioly Show on Talk Radio 1210, WPHD.
0:05.3	Man, can you believe my kids had a snow, a delayed opening today?
0:10.0	A delayed opening.
0:11.3	It snowed yesterday.
0:12.5	It's unbelievable.
0:13.3	We live in a crazy, crazy world.
0:14.7	That's all I can tell you.
0:16.1	A delayed opening for two hours, and it snowed yesterday.
0:18.9	Welcome to the show.
0:19.7	Glad you're here, 855, 839 3, 9, 12, 10 on X at Rich Zoli. Well, it's a very depressing day between a shooting in
0:28.5	Australia and the Brown University shooting, the Rob Reiner being killed. It's depressing as
0:34.8	hell and it's Monday and it's cold out but at least we have snow at least we
0:39.3	have beautiful beautiful snow and that's really good and the FBI thwarted said that correctly
0:44.9	thwarted a terror attack on new year's eve and the president put out a tweet about rob
0:50.8	Reiner that is now getting more attention than rob Reiner's death because what the president said was just totally inappropriate and there's just no other way to put it than that.
1:01.0	And so now people are fighting over his tweet because that's the day and age in which we live right now.
1:06.1	So we'll get to all of that as the show unfolds today.
1:09.7	And I'll tell you one thing, rob bryner thing it's it's
1:12.4	it's so sad um i his son apparently i mean is the charge with killing him and his mother
1:21.4	the worst nightmare you could ever imagine i mean just horrible this kid battled mental illness
1:26.8	and drug addiction and everything
1:28.7	else, awful. The Sydney terror attack, which was also terrible, obviously, and they let it fester there
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