Why is the world swooning over an alleged killer?
The News Agents
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4.2 • 4.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Luigi Mangione is a 26 year old Ivy League graduate and an alleged cold blooded murderer. He’s also the top trending name worldwide with a Gen Z fanbase swooning over his abs. What does the shooting of a healthcare executive in New York, and the public response to it, tell us about American society and meme culture?
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.0 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.7 | Brian Thompson was a father to two. He was a husband and he was a friend to many. |
| 0:20.2 | And yes, he was the CEO of a health insurance company. |
| 0:24.6 | In America, we do not kill people in cold blood to resolve policy differences or express a viewpoint. |
| 0:36.6 | In a civil society, we are all less safe when ideologues engage |
| 0:45.3 | in vigilante justice. In some dark corners, this killer is being hailed as a hero. |
| 0:54.0 | Hear me on this. |
| 0:55.2 | He is no hero. |
| 0:57.7 | That is Josh Shapiro. |
| 0:59.2 | He is the governor of Pennsylvania. |
| 1:02.2 | And it is the state in which a 26-year-old Ivy League graduate Luigi Mangione has just been charged with a murder of a senior United Health |
| 1:14.4 | executive who he gunned down in the middle of the day in New York. On the face of it, it seems like an |
| 1:21.3 | open and shut case of first-degree murder. It was planned, premeditated and carried out. And yet, in the United States, |
| 1:30.9 | the suspect Luigi Mangione is attracting strange levels of support for what he's done. What does it |
| 1:38.6 | tell us about modern day America? Welcome to the news agents. |
| 1:48.0 | The news agents. It's John. It's Emily. It's Lewis. |
| 1:49.0 | Well, we're back with more breaking news out of Midtown where a man has been shot on 54th Street |
| 1:55.0 | at 6th Avenue right outside the Hilton Hotel. |
| 1:58.0 | New York cops tonight looking for that gunman who was wearing a |
| 2:02.0 | ski mask when he shot the business executive in front of the Hilton Hotel. This was shortly |
| 2:06.5 | before seven this morning. The victim, 50-year-old Brian Thompson. He was the CEO of United |
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