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Stuff You Should Know

The NY Subway Vigilante

Stuff You Should Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.582.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2026

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Today we dive into the unremorseful life of NYC Subway vigilante Bernhard Goetz.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast.

0:02.5

Guaranteed Human.

0:05.5

Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of IHeart Radio.

0:15.1

Hey, and welcome to the podcast.

0:17.0

I'm Josh, and there's Chuck and Jerry's here too.

0:19.9

We're pretty sure.

0:21.3

And this is Stuff you should know.

0:23.8

That's right.

0:26.1

80s history, New York City History Edition.

0:28.9

Yeah?

0:29.7

Oh, it's definitely, I mean, not just like New York City history.

0:33.1

This is one of the pivotal moments in the history of New York.

0:37.3

Yeah, that's right, because everyone,

0:39.1

we are talking about somebody who, as far as pop culture goes, was on the cover of Time magazine,

0:45.9

somebody who has been in pop songs by Billy Joel, of course, Lou Reed, none other than

0:52.8

the Beastie Boys,

0:56.7

has been a trivial pursuit answer,

0:58.4

has been a question on Jeopardy,

1:02.0

has been mentioned in an episode of Seinfeld even.

1:03.7

And of course,

1:04.8

who are we talking about, Josh?

1:05.4

Wow.

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