Episode 215: The Unabomber Part 1

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True Crime, Society & Culture, Comedy

4.4 • 933 Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

In 1978 Ted Kaczynski began what would become a series of bombings around the United States over the next two decades. Kaczynski, who was then an unknown serial bomber, wanted to rid the country of modern technology which he believed was destroying human minds and society. By 1996, the Unabomber had killed three and injured twenty nine others with his carefully crafted homemade bombs. The investigation into the Unabomber was the most expensive investigation in the history of the FBI with an estimated to cost around 50 million dollars.

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Steph.
0:01.0	I'm Alex.
0:02.0	And this is not today.
0:03.0	And we're live.
0:04.0	Hello.
0:05.0	How are you? Great. How are you? I am fantastic. And we're live.
0:21.3	Hello.
0:22.1	How are you?
0:23.1	Great. How are you?
0:24.5	I am fantastic.
0:30.2	We just started off the morning right, went to the gym, feeling good, and we have a hell of a story.
0:31.7	We really do.
0:32.0	Yeah.
0:35.3	I did not realize how big of a story this was going to be.
0:38.2	But I know now that this is a two-part episode.
0:46.5	So buckle up, folks, because this one is, say it with me, crazy. Crazy. Yeah. Well, I did warn you that it was a big story. And you go, I do big stories all the time. Yeah. I really, I didn't
0:52.9	believe Alex for how big he said it was going to be. And I was like, oh, I talk about big stories all the time. Yeah, I really, I didn't believe Alex for how big he said it was going to be.
0:55.7	And I was like, oh, I talk about big stories all the time. I, you know, whatever. And then I'm
0:59.2	researching it and I'm, you know, 36 pages of notes later. And I'm like, oh, there's no way we can
1:05.0	fit this in one episode. That's fine. So we're going to do two. And part one is going to be a lot of backstory and we're going
1:11.1	to get into some of the bombings. And then part two is going to be the unabomber getting caught
1:15.4	and what happens in the aftermath, which is also unbelievable. Part two is maybe even crazier. So
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