The Mad Bomber - George P. Metesky

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

Tim Scott

Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4 • 619 Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2016

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

George Metesky, better known as the Mad Bomber, terrorized New York City for 16 years in the 1940s and 1950s with explosives that he planted in theaters, terminals, libraries, and offices. Bombs were left in phone booths, storage lockers, and restrooms in public buildings, including Grand Central Terminal, Pennsylvania Station, Radio City Music Hall, the New York Public Library, the Port Authority Bus Terminal and the RCA Building, and in the New York City Subway.

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome once again to History Deweaves. I am Tim and welcome to our podcast today.
0:10.0	The topic of our podcast today is the Mad Bomber, George Metesky, who terrorized New York City back in the 1950s over a period of 16 years
0:21.6	by planting bombs around the city.
0:25.6	And we'll talk about all his dasturly deeds.
0:30.0	But first let me introduce my colleague,
0:33.4	the most dangerous man in podcasting today,
0:37.1	the very honorable Colonel Charles Bolrigar, Hawk Waters, the third, affectionately known as a southern gentleman.
0:43.9	How are you today, Colonel?
0:45.3	Well, it'll tell me I'm fine today, but you know, I'm doing this podcast on the protest.
0:49.2	Why is that? Why are you protesting?
0:51.0	Well, you know, we have a, we took a poll.
0:54.8	Yes, we did. Clearly, we have a, we took a poll. Yes.
0:55.5	And Rudebaker clearly won.
0:57.6	Okay.
0:57.9	He was heads in shoulders and pauls above the other people.
1:02.2	Yeah.
1:02.6	Well, let's explain a little bit for most of our listeners.
1:05.6	We have two Facebook pages, right?
1:08.0	We have the History Dweeb's Facebook page in which we post a lot of
1:12.5	this day in history type of things and interesting stories, which is
1:16.7	cool. And then we have another
1:18.7	podcast, we have another Facebook page
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