Introducing "American Hostage: THE MAN WITH THE GUN"
Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2022
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Follow American Hostage on Amazon Music, to hear all 8 episodes right now: wondery.fm/WD_AmericanHostage
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, where it goes? I got another podcast recommendation for you that I think you're really going to like. |
| 0:05.0 | I found myself, you know, down with my grain over the weekend, so I was looking for new things to listen to. |
| 0:10.0 | And I came across American hostage. It's another true crime podcast. And I'm going to be bingeing this all the way through. I just know it. |
| 0:20.0 | It's set in Indianapolis in 1977. And American hostage, it's a suspenseful true story actually. And it stars John Hamm. You might remember him from Mad Men. |
| 0:30.0 | He plays the character of Fred Heckman, a beloved local radio reporter who's forced into the middle of a life or death crisis when a hostage taker Tony Keritzis demands to be interviewed live on Fred Heckman's radio news program. |
| 0:45.0 | And through Heckman's radio show Keritzis gradually becomes a media sensation and an unexpected national hero. |
| 0:53.0 | This is a nail-biter 63 hour police standoff that took place. Well, I'm going to play you just a short preview of American hostage. |
| 1:04.0 | And while you're listening, go ahead and check the show notes so you can follow American hostage wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:10.0 | Or you can do what I'm going to do and binge the entire season right now on Amazon Music or Wondery Plus. |
| 1:17.0 | Here's that sample of American hostage. |
| 1:23.0 | The 7th second delay for live television was introduced in 1975 by NBC so that Richard Pryor could host Saturday Night Live without the network getting fined for all of his obscenities. |
| 1:34.0 | The delay would also be useful if a man were to be shot point blank in the head live on national television. |
| 2:05.0 | Any nap list 911 what's your emergency? Yes, this the police. |
| 2:11.0 | This is 911 dispatch. Is there any tenant Collins there? |
| 2:16.0 | No sir, he's not on this. Well, who you got there? Who you got there ranked high enough to take this call? |
| 2:22.0 | I can help you sir if you can tell me what you call. Yes, you stand up. Do you think I will do it? You stupid son of a bitch. |
| 2:29.0 | Alright, alright, I'm going to tell you now and you're going to listen good and I don't repeat myself so you listen up now. |
| 2:36.0 | You understand? Yes, I'm listening. |
| 2:38.0 | Alright, I've done a thing, a real serious thing, the kind of thing you aren't used to hearing about I bet. |
| 2:43.0 | I've taken a prisoner and I've got him here a wired shotgun valve strap to the back of his head. |
| 2:48.0 | And there's ain't no crank call. You understand me? Yes, sir. Yes, sir. I understand. |
| 2:53.0 | But you say you've got something wired up a shotgun. I've got a real deal. 12 gauge shotgun wired up to the back of his head and anything happens to me it goes off. |
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