Son of Sam - David Berkowitz

History Dweebs - A look at True Crime, Murders, Serial Killers and the Darkside of History

Tim Scott

Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4 • 619 Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2016

⏱️ 83 minutes

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A serial killer who murdered six people in New York City in 1976–77, David Berkowitz’s crimes plunged the city into a panic and unleashed one of the largest manhunts in New York history. Known as Son of Sam, Berkowitz was arrested on August 10, 1977, 11 days after his last murder, and was sentenced to 365 years in prison.

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome once again to History Dweaves. I'm Tim, and the topic of our podcast today is
0:11.0	Son of Sam, David Berkowitz, who was a serial killer and killed a bunch of people in New York
0:18.8	City back in the mid-1970s. And're going to talk about his all of his dasterly needs but before we do let me introduce our panel I'm joined as always by the very distinguished
0:31.6	the Queen of Amine the Empress of the Immers Distinguished
0:36.6	Yeah distinguished distinguished.
0:40.4	Distinguish you from nice people, right?
0:43.0	There's a distinction now, yes.
0:45.5	The Empress of Evil, Satan's dirty little secret, Brandy.
0:50.8	How are you today, Brandy?
0:51.9	I'm all right. Timmy, how are you?
0:53.9	I'm fine and Andy. I am so glad. I'm both fine and dandy. You are dandy. Sometimes I'm fine. Sometimes I'm dandy. Today I'm fine and dandy. It's a fan or day. Yeah, it's... You should wear an ascot. Sometimes I'm neither fine nor dandy. I know.
1:11.1	Those days are dark days for all of us.
1:13.1	There are dark days.
1:11.5	You become quite the prick sometimes, Timmy. I haven't introduced you yet. He's out of sorts today. Hold on. Hold on. Just a minute now. He's out of sorts today. Can we clarify something? when you wanted me to agree with that the devil was a bad person, it was okay for me to chime in.
1:29.1	But then when I had my own opinions
1:31.3	with my, I'm not just like some dumb
1:33.4	pretty girl over here to me.
1:35.6	You can't just tell me when you. I've never
1:37.3	thought of you as pretty.
1:39.6	I'm also joined by
1:41.5	the... But he does think of you as a girl.
1:44.3	I'm also joined by the... But he does think of you as a girl. I'm also joined by the very articulate,
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