Murder on Songbird Road - Introducing: Live Wire: The Loud Life and Shocking Murder of Alan Berg

Episode Date: July 9, 2025

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.   Listen to Live Wire: The Loud Life and Shocking Murder of Alan Berg on the iHeartRadio App or wherever you get your podcasts!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

from I Heart Podcast. Before social media, before the internet, before cable news, there was Alan Berg. You dig what I do. You have a need. 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. He was the first and the original shock chock. You're as dumb as the rest. That's I can't take it anymore. I can't take it. That scratchy reverent kind of way, talking to people and telling them that you're an idiot and I'm gonna hang up on you.

But why do you listen if I bring you grief? I don't, darling, I don't. Oh darling, I don't think you missed a minute of my show in the last seven years I've been in the business. Berg's on here, got the cigarette going, and he goes, folks, and he takes a drag and says. All right, we're coming back for our final segment of the show after I check out the bullet holes in the door.

And it makes me so angry that he got himself killed because he had a big mouth. His voice changed media, his death shocked the nation. This is Live Wire, the loud life and shocking murder of Alan Berg. KOA morning talk show host Alan Berg reportedly was shot and killed tonight in downtown Denver. But 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.

And he pointed to the Denver phone book and said, well, there are probably two million suspects. This guy aggravated everybody. Premiering June 17th, listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.