Introducing: Live Wire: The Loud Life and Shocking Murder of Alan Berg

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
From iHeart podcast, Before social media, before the Internet, before
cable news, there was Alan Berg.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
You dig what I do?

Speaker 3 (00:09):
You have a Nate.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Unfortunately, you have no sense of humor. That's why you
can't ever enjoy this show, and that's why you're a loser.

Speaker 4 (00:15):
He was the first and the original shock jock.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
You're as dumb as the rest. I can't take anyway.

Speaker 5 (00:20):
I can I take a that scratchy, irreverent kind of
way of talking to people on telling him that you're
an idiot, im and hang up on you.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
Why do you listen if I bring you Greek?

Speaker 4 (00:30):
I don't down, I don't, oh, darling, I.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
Don't think you missed a minute of my show in
the last seven years I've been in the business.

Speaker 6 (00:36):
Berg's on here, got to cigarette and he goes folks,
takes the dragon.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
I says, I were coming back for our final segment
of the show. After I check out the bullet holes
in the door.

Speaker 7 (00:46):
And it makes me so angry that he got himself
killed because he had a big mouth.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
His voice changed media. His death shocked the nation. This
is Live Wire, the loud life and shocking murder of Alan.

Speaker 4 (00:59):
Berg koa morning talk show host Allenberg reportedly was shot
and killed tonight in downtown Denver, but.

Speaker 3 (01:05):
As we said, there's very little known here as to
what happened. Allen apparently just arriving home in his car,
stepping out of his automobile and was gone down.

Speaker 8 (01:14):
And he pointed to the Denver phone book and said, well,
there are probably two million suspects. This guy aggravated everybody.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
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