Luigi Mangione Wrote Me a Letter From Prison…

0:00So recently, I get a letter from Luigi Mangioni. My assistant comes to me and say, you got a letter from Luigi Mangioni. I said, which Luigi Mangioni? He says, D Luigi Mangioni. I said, D Luigi Mangioni from the Metropolitan Detention Center. Yes. In Brooklyn, yes. The same place that a lot of these guys, Nicholas Maduros at right now, by the way, Jolaine Maxwell, Archielli Diddy, some of these guys, yes. The guy that got accused of killing Brian Thompson, the CEO of United Health, yes. What's he writing me a letter for? I don't know. Okay. So what do I do? I open it up and I read through it. And by the way, to tell you how well it was written would be an understatement. This was written as if a kid went to Harvard or Yale. Good writer, sense of humor, sarcasm, witty, even a riddle in there, he even cut a piece out like go figure it out for yourself. Clips, go watch these clips of these philosophers. You can tell. You can tell he's very intellectual,

1:00deep meaning in the way he's writing his stuff, right? And even in there, he talks about, because one day I'm doing a podcast, my phone blows up with a couple hundred messages, Pat. A viral article is going around right now of Luigi Mangioni who turned 27 years old, writing 27 things he's grateful for. And number seven is you. It's a number seven. I don't have a connection with him. Yeah, go read it. Number seven, I'm grateful for Patrick Bedavits book your next five moves, really? Yes. And he's passing it around in the prison he's at right now. Interesting. How that book made it there? Who knows, but it's there. And in here, he says, Pat, out of all the 27 things I wrote that I was grateful for, the one that I got the most hate mail was, number seven, your next five moves. A lot of girls who are Gen Z were not happy about that. He says you have a Gen Z female problem. He says that in the letter. Anyways, he said a lot of other things. So I sat on it and I said, what do I tell this guy?

2:01Do I write back, you know, what level of hope does a person have at 27 years old that is accused of killing the CEO of a company UnitedHealth Care? We all know the UnitedHealth Care was known for it. Lois percentage of paying insurance to their clients or to pay us that they're giving. So it's not like they had a good reputation, but to go and allegedly kill that CEO, what do you tell a guy like that in the letter? What do you tell him? So I sat there and I thought about it. I remember being in military and how much letters meant to us. Till today, my teacher from my high school, Health and Guidance teacher, that I met her when I was 14 years old. I'm 47, 33 years old. You know, till today we write letters to each other. Every three months I get a letter from it. She's got chickens, she's got this, she's got that. But it took me back to when I was in the military, how valuable a response was. So I wrote a letter back to him and I sent it yesterday with six books to him. So I think those other six books, he's got time to read.

3:02So I sent him the other six books to go through as well. The guy's got a sense of humor, even though he knows what he's done and I have so many questions that I wrote on the letter to him. But maybe think about something else. How does it supply to you and I, okay? You and I directly and indirectly. I was a kid back in the days that, you know, I listened to a lot of Tupac. I listened to a lot of hit him up. I probably listened to hit him up. I don't know, 500 times. That was my workout song. I listened to easy, real mother, you know what, G's. I listened to Arbiel Pasi. I listened to Rapin Forte and, you know, Bone Thugs and Harmony and DMX and all these guys. I hung out with guys that will, you know, troubled kids and, you know, I was part of a basketball league that was with blood and grip and black diamonds and 18th Street and Tunaville and all these guys, TVR. I was in that community trying to figure myself out of 14 years old. Parents got a divorce. Life was a little bit interesting. And I went into the military and so I thought about myself.

4:06Luckily, when I was in those moments of being impressionable and vulnerable, the right people were my ear. And so it got me to go back and think about a guy interviewed who was an FBI criminal profiler. This guy would talk to you right after a person killed their wife. He was the first person that interviewed the husband that's accused of killing his wife, vice versa. Wife accused of killing the husband. He's interviewing the wife to see what happened. What got you to the point of killing your wife? What was it? Was it cheating? Did he hit you? Did he remind you that she do this? What gets you to point of killing? And we all read, or see these movies or the stories we go through, right? What got you there? And I said, Jim, what makes somebody do this? This is about 22 years of doing this. You know, it comes down to three things. I said, what is it? He said, genetics loads the gun. Genetics, mom and dad, loads the gun. He says, your personality aims the gun. But he said life experiences pose the trigger.

5:07So life experiences, this guy had back issues. He had certain health problems. Grandpa was a very successful businessman, made a lot of money. He had the trajectory of, he was a valedict, this is not a regular kid. He was a valedictorian. Could have been a net positive to society, working, building a business, creating jobs, maybe getting involved in politics, doing something positive for the world. He had that brain to do it. He had the genetics to do it. But those life experiences, the 90 days that he went on his own and mother couldn't find him. And eventually, around November of 2024, I believe, mom reported that I think my son is missing. And in December 4th is the day he's accused of killing Brian Thompson. We've all seen the videos and a day they caught him. So what happened during those 90 days? You know, one of the movies I hate the most. When I tell you, I don't hate a lot of movies. I hate this movie. You know what's the movie I hate the most? Joker with Joaquin Phoenix. Absolutely hate the movie Joker.

6:10You know why? At 43 minutes, I don't know what the timeline was. I'm sitting on my wife. We went with about 20 of us. And the story is the guy ends up killing the capitalist, the wealthy guy. And he's a hero. Look at this guy. Wow. You know, take out these rich, I'm up, up, up, up, up. And I said, what kind of a freaking movie is this? How many kids is gonna watch this? And they're gonna be like, you know what? I want to be a hero. Let me go take out somebody in power. That could have been, well, that could have been him. Lujeman, you couldn't watch Joker. While he's away with somebody else and somebody's in his ear. You know what? Look what they're doing. And what happened with you when insurance said, this is not fair and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And all of a sudden you're like, I am right. And the system is wrong. And when you get to that point, that's a very dangerous place to be because you're almost given yourself permission to justify doing something crazy like this. But I still don't get a, how does this apply to me? Do you have kids? Do you have a son? Do you have a daughter? Do you have an nephew? Do you have a cousin? Are you 17 years old watching this? You're impressionable. When you're at the lowest in life and we will be,

7:12many times we will be. I got four kids, many times we will be. When you're at the lowest, dude, you better guard who you listen to and what you watch and what you read. I don't care if you're 14. I don't care if you're 44. I don't care if you're 64. This is our entire life. This thing's not easy. This thing's tough. But we are also the luckiest people in our life to witness what we have today. And as tough as life is, it isn't as tough as it was 200 years ago, or 800 years ago, or 1200 years ago. It's a lot easier today than it was back in the days. Lifestyle is a lot better today. AC wasn't around 140, 150 years ago. You're probably in an AC place right now watching this video. Probably have access to food. You probably get access to the greatest computer in the world. You probably are watching this on it. We are so lucky. Think about the perspective. But, and when I was writing the letter, I'm like, you know, this could have been a friend of mine.

8:13I lost a friend when I was younger until today I think about him all the time. This is someone's friend. This is someone's son. This is someone's cousin. This is someone's grandson. Someone got to him at 25, 26 years old. That made him believe this is the right thing to do. What was a third one? Experiences does what? Pose the trigger. I don't know. So, you know, what I would take from the message if I'm you is, I promise you, this item made you think about you, or it made me think about somebody else. Whatever you could do, make a list of two or three different people right now, and just send them an audio message and lift them up. Just send a message and say, hey, I just want to let you know, I believe in you. It's all going to be fine. Share scripture with them, encouraging message, or something that could lift them up. You would be amazed how many times

9:13we just need a message like, wait, where did this come? Don't even tell them what inspired you want to send this to them. Just tell them, tell her you would be amazed how much of an impact you can have on three people today, that's it. So, imagine if a million of us do this, we positively impact the three million people today. What does that do? A lot. Sometimes that's all we need. But some tells me he's going to be watching this from prison, you know why? Because he watches a podcast with others from prison. Because he talked about the other crew, people that are on there. Again, you can tell the guys got a sense of humor, and I know he watches a content, because somehow some way they have access to the stuff that we talk about here. Having said that, my body's hot right now, just thinking about this message that I shared with you, because this was a heavy message. This is a little bit more than just motivational let's go out and do something big with our lives, right? Now, this is heavy, a lot of people are dealing with the wrong people being in their ears, and we want to make sure we prevent them from becoming a story that we read about in the paper.

10:15If you got value out of this message, especially the 51% of you, that consume our content, but are not subscribers to it, take a moment if you can and subscribe to the channel. And if you've never seen my interview with Kobe Bryant, one of the most mentally tough people you can study, non-stop, you can watch this interview and over and over again, never gets old. Click here to watch the interview with Kobe Bryant. Take care everybody, God bless, bye-bye.