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🗓️ 4 August 2022
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When the Unabomber was arrested in 1996, the world got it’s first glimpse of the serial bomber who had terrorized the nation for 18 years and murdered three people. Bearded and disheveled, he was the perfect depiction of a mad bomber. But what actually happened during those 18 years? What drove Ted Kaczynski to his dystopian vision of people overrun by technology and why does it feel so familiar? And why did it take nearly two decades to catch him? Based on new original reporting, host Eric Benson tells the story of a nation reckoning with an increasingly deadly bombing campaign, and a family coming to grips with just what was happening inside a tiny cabin in the Montana woods.
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0:00.0 | Hey there, I wanted to jump into the feed and tell you about a new original podcast |
0:03.9 | produced by our friends over at Pineapple Street. It's called Project Unibomb, |
0:07.9 | and it's about the math genius Ted Kaczynski. You know that name. |
0:11.1 | A guy who dropped out of society to live in a cabin in Montana only to go on a 17-year-long |
0:15.5 | bombing campaign that killed three and harmed many more. Maybe you think you know this story, |
0:20.6 | but this show is filled with original reporting and voices from the story that have never |
0:24.3 | been heard before. It also features extensive interviews with Ted's brother David, |
0:28.5 | who betrayed his brother and turned him into the FBI, ending a long mystery that haunted the |
0:33.1 | agency. And it's hosted by Eric Benson, a good friend of ours here at Campside. He worked on |
0:38.0 | suspects along with many other shows. I'm going to play the trailer here, so take a listen. |
0:43.2 | The entire series is available now and there's a link in the show notes. Listen and follow |
0:47.4 | on Apple podcasts. You might know the story of Ted Kaczynski. Harvard trained math genius, |
0:54.1 | drops out of society, builds a cabin, then goes on a bombing rampage that lasts 17 years. |
1:00.5 | The most elusive terrorist bomber in US history. They call him the Unibomb. A series of |
1:05.6 | letter bomb attacks at universities. Re have been killed and 23 injured. |
1:10.1 | Email bombs to scientists. Place them in the parking lots of computer stores. |
1:14.5 | Killed an advertising executive and a logging industry lobbyist. We don't know what his |
1:19.4 | motivation is. We don't know what his demands are. Eventually he made his demands clear. |
1:25.6 | He had written a 35,000 word manifesto. And he would continue his terrorism campaign, |
1:31.4 | unless the biggest newspapers in the country agreed to publish it. |
1:34.4 | I mean blackmail is minor compared to what the Unibomb was saying. Unibomb was going to kill people. |
1:40.0 | So the newspapers published it. And millions of people read the Unibombers' litany of grievances |
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