Luigi Mangione - Part Two: On Pain of Death | #432
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🗓️ 15 January 2026
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
When Luigi Mangione was charged as the UnitedHealthcare shooter – it changed everything. The public knew this was a political act, but Luigi was not the crackpot vigilante many had pictured. He had no clear personal link to UnitedHealthcare (or CEO Brian Thompson) – and he had everything to lose. To many, he became a certified, revolutionary, anti-capitalist heartthrob.
But there’s also a lot more to Mangione than the selfless martyr with chiselled abs. In our concluding part, we take a deeper look at Mangione’s life: his privileged upbringing, world travels, and the innermost thoughts shared in his notebook – which reveal how a charming, idealistic tech bro with the world at his feet, turned his thoughts to murder.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Suruti. I'm Hannah. And welcome to Red Handed. As we covered last week, there are two things that made this case completely unlike anything we've covered before. |
| 0:22.5 | First, there were the words on the cartridge casings, deny, defend, depose. |
| 0:29.3 | That's when it really looked like Brian Thompson had been targeted as a symbol of monopolistic corporate greed. |
| 0:38.0 | The second moment that really set this case apart |
| 0:41.2 | was when the identity of the masked vigilante was revealed to the world. |
| 0:46.2 | We've covered the astounding public response to him, |
| 0:49.6 | memes upon memes upon murals upon musicals, |
| 0:52.2 | and how his identity and message were adapted to fit |
| 0:55.7 | just about any narrative going. |
| 0:58.7 | But who is the real, Luigi Manjoni? |
| 1:02.8 | How exactly did he go from promising well-off Techgrad to vigilante killer? |
| 1:08.7 | Let's look at the uncomfortable truth behind the portrait of a selfless revolutionary |
| 1:14.6 | with chisel dabs. |
| 1:17.9 | Somebody's threading his eyebrows in prison. |
| 1:20.3 | 100%. |
| 1:20.9 | I just, I've never seen anything like it. |
| 1:23.7 | I'm just like, I haven't had my eyebrows done since my wedding. |
| 1:26.8 | Mm-hmm. |
| 1:27.2 | And I've also had to stop using like any things on them because I was like getting some reactions. |
| 1:33.1 | And this is it. |
| 1:34.1 | This is the most. |
| 1:34.6 | Yes, but you are an irritatingly hairless person. |
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