Hey listeners, this is Mike Morford, the host of The Murder of My Family.

I just started listening to this new True Crime Podcast, American Hostage, and honestly,

I'm so happy I can binge it all at once because every episode leaves you hanging.

Setting in the Annapolis in 1977, American Hostage is a suspenseful, true story starring

John Hamm as Fred Heckman, a beloved local radio reporter who is forced into the middle

of a life or death crisis when a hostage taker, Tony Carritzis, demands to be interviewed

live on his popular radio and news program.

Through Heckman's radio show, Carritzis gradually becomes a media sensation and an unexpected

national hero during a now-biting 63-hour police standoff.

I'm about to play for your preview of American Hostage.

While you're listening, follow American Hostage wherever you get your podcast, or you

can visit the entire season right now on Amazon Music, or Wondering Plus.

Enjoy the preview, and we'll see you back here soon.

The 7-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.

Yes, this the police, is your tenant Collins there, well who you got there, who you got

there ranked high enough to take this call, all right I'm gonna tell you now and you're

gonna listen good and I don't repeat myself so you listen up now you understand, all right

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

about I bet.

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