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Going West: True Crime

The Unabomber / Part 1 // 494

Going West: True Crime

Dark West Productions

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

4.610.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Starting in 1978, a Montana man murdered three people and injured 23 others during a nationwide bombing campaign. Hiding behind a comfortable upbringing, mathematician degrees from prestigious universities, and his perspective of doing right by the environment, Ted Kaczynski violently opposed modern technology and industrial society. And through a 35,000-word manifesto and multiple horrific attacks -many of which were on innocent civilians- he plead his case. This is the story of the Unabomber.

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0:00.0

What is going on true crime fans? I'm your host, T. And I'm your host Daphne. And you're listening to Going West. Hello, everybody. Hope

0:22.5

you're doing well today. Here we are the Unabomber. This is a case that Heath and I have been

0:28.8

wanting to cover for a while. It's kind of like a different type of case. You guys know that we

0:33.4

typically try to stray from major cases, but sometimes we can't help ourselves. So this week,

0:38.9

we will be doing for both our Tuesday and our Friday episodes. This is going to be a two-part

0:43.6

series on the Unabomber. And we know a lot of you guys love two different cases every week,

0:49.3

but we can't deny how fascinating and just disturbing this whole story is as a whole. So

0:54.4

buckle up because we're going to dive deep. You know, I actually really didn't get into this

0:59.3

case until that Netflix show Manhunt. Do you remember that show? Yeah, yeah, I remember that one.

1:04.8

It was so well done. And I've just been interested in it ever since. It's just one of those

1:09.5

stories where we really get to dive into, like, human nature and the psyche of somebody who would do these types of things.

1:17.3

Because that's really what this is about.

1:19.4

It's about who Ted Kaczynski is and how he got to be this way and why he wanted to do such intense things to society.

1:28.8

Is it also slightly because your dad looks like the Unabomber?

1:32.7

That's good.

1:34.1

No, my dad is like Unabomber Sheet.

1:37.2

That's his thing.

1:39.2

Without the evil.

1:40.5

Yeah, without the evil.

1:41.4

He loves aspects of the Unabomber and Ted's mind, because that's what's so interesting

1:48.2

about it, is there are things about him where you're like, okay, like, I kind of get that,

1:52.4

but it's like, okay, but that's horrible.

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