Behind the Scenes Minis: The Grisly Shipwreck

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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History, Society & Culture

4.2 • 23.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Holly talks about the many survivor accounts of the Medusa shipwreck, which were questioned regarding bias and intent. There's also a follow-up on what happened to Géricault's son.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:04.0	What I told people, I was making a podcast about Benghazi.
0:08.5	Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why?
0:15.1	Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.
0:18.5	From prologue projects and Pushkin Industries, this is Fiasco, Benghazi.
0:23.6	What difference at this point does it make?
0:26.6	Listen to Fiasco, Benghazi, in the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:33.6	Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class, a production of IHeart Radio.
0:46.1	Hello and Happy Friday. I'm Holly Fry.
0:49.2	And I'm Tracy V. Wilson.
0:51.2	We talked about shipwrecks, which are often people's favorite stories, although I don't know how much they'd love this one.
0:59.0	It's a particularly gruesome one.
1:01.3	It's grisly. It's rough. And I mean, I cut for time a lot of grisly things.
1:07.1	Yeah. And then we talked about, you know, the aftermath of that shipwreck and Teodor Jericho,
1:13.5	whose work I am in love with anyway, and got to talk about him and his own little
1:17.4	grisly fascination with this whole thing.
1:20.2	Yeah.
1:21.0	Which is a little bit yucky.
1:22.4	Well, I mean, I understand, like, becoming kind of morbidly fixated on something like this.
1:31.3	Yeah.
1:32.1	Like, I'm sort of thinking about how, when the submersible imploded...
1:37.4	Yeah, everybody wanted all the details.
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