Hello, Fallign listeners. We've all just started listening to a new True Crime podcast,

American Hostage, and it is full of twists, turns, and cliffhangers. I'm incredibly

glad that it's all out now on Amazon Music so I can binge it all at once because I don't

think I could wait to finish this story. Every episode leaves you breathless, wondering

which way things will go next. Set in Indianapolis in 1977, American Hostage is a suspenseful

true story starring John Hamm as Fred Heckman, a beloved local radio reporter who's forced

into the middle of a life or death crisis. When a hostage taker, Tony Caritas, demands

to be interviewed live on his popular radio news program. Through Heckman's radio show,

Caritas gradually becomes a media sensation and an unexpected national hero during a nail

biting 63 hour police standoff. Now, I'm going to play you a preview of American Hostage.

While you're listening, follow American Hostage wherever you get your podcasts. Or you

can binge the entire season right now on Amazon Music or Wondery Plus.

The seven-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.

The delay would also be useful if a man were to be shot point blank in the head live

on national television.

This is not one one dispatcher.

Is your tenant Collins there?

No sir, he's not on this one.

Who you got there? Who you got there? Ranked high enough to take this call.

I don't repeat myself so you listen up now. You understand?

I've done a thing, a real serious thing, the kind of thing you aren't used to hearing about.

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