The mass shooting in Australia.
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.7 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
On Sunday, two gunmen opened fireon a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, killing 15 people and injuring dozens of others in the country’s deadliest mass shooting since 1996. According to authorities, the shooters were a father and son, and the father was shot and killed by the police while the son sustained “critical injuries.” Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called the shooting “an act of evil, antisemitism, terrorism”; investigators have said they are still working to understand the shooters’ motives.
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| 0:00.0 | from executive producer isaac saul this is tangle good morning good afternoon and good, and welcome to the Tangul Podcast, |
| 0:23.4 | a place we get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of my take. |
| 0:28.6 | I'm your host, Isaac Saul. I am perpetually sick now. |
| 0:33.5 | Apparently having a 10-month-old son in daycare is just, it's like having this adorable little plague-ridden, beautiful, joyful human being |
| 0:44.7 | running around the house. |
| 0:47.0 | I can't explain it. |
| 0:49.0 | I don't think I've breathed through my nose in like six months. |
| 1:00.9 | Yeah, I was laid up this weekend, sick as a dog. I'm back in the arena trying to fight through it today. So I probably sound like crap. I apologize for that. |
| 1:08.6 | Just you're not John, our podcast editor, |
| 1:11.2 | who's going to have to spend three hours |
| 1:12.5 | cutting out all my coughs |
| 1:14.0 | and joking on my own words |
| 1:16.5 | because I can barely speak from the episode. |
| 1:19.0 | So be grateful that you don't have to edit me. |
| 1:20.8 | You only have to listen to me. |
| 1:22.5 | But I'm here. |
| 1:23.8 | It's Monday, December 15th, |
| 1:25.9 | and we have a much more serious topic today to cover than my |
| 1:31.0 | illness. We're going to be jumping into the horrific, terrifying mass shooting in Australia, |
| 1:37.7 | which, I mean, yeah, hard to wrap your head around at this point, especially given that it came on the same weekend that we got reports of a separate mass shooting at Brown University here in the United States. |
| 1:51.5 | I'm going to break down that Australia story, share some views from the left and the right, and some views from abroad, and then my take. |
| 1:58.1 | Before we jump into it, though, I do want to give you a quick heads up on two things. |
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