Hi, Murder On Songbird Road listeners! We're excited to share with you a sneak peek at iHeartPodcasts' latest release, Live Wire: The Loud Life and Shocking Murder of Alan Berg.
Live Wire: The Loud Life and Shocking Murder of Alan Berg: Alan Berg was starting over as a divorcee, disbarred lawyer, and recovering alcoholic when he found his true calling on the radio. His brash and bold on-air persona made him one of the true renegades in a “shock jock” revolution that took over broadcast media in the 1980s. Despite the numerous enemies the brash Berg made through his radio show, the world was stunned when he was assassinated outside his Denver home. The case would languish for months before uncovering the shocking truth about the white-supremacist militia that marked Alan Berg for death.
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Episode Transcript
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? You have a Nate. 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 3 (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 4 (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 3 (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 5 (00:36):
Berg's on here, got to cigaret 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 6 (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 Berg.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Koa morning talk show host Allenberg reportedly was shot and
killed tonight in downtown Denver, but.
Speaker 7 (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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