• by Ray Schultz , October 20, 2022

Podcast platform PodcastOne has partnered with XG Productions to produce a podcast series called Talk to Me, on the hostage negotiation team, created by the New York Police Department in the early 1970s. 

The hostage team, reportedly the first of its type, was created after tragedies like the Attica prison riot, the massacre of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972 and the Brooklyn bank robbery that inspired the film “Dog Day Afternoon.”

The first episode of Talk to Me, telling the story of the Attica prison riots, debuted on Wednesday.

The podcasts were written and narrated by South Bronx detective and bestselling author Edward Conlon, and feature accounts from hostage team founders Frank Bolz and Harvey Schlossberg.

“This is an exciting and important story to tell, especially given the frequency with which hostage situations occur and how nonviolent tactics can be used to de-escalate those situations ….and it all began at the NYPD,” Conlon says.   

XG Productions specializes in producing authentic crime stories for multiple platforms.