Episode 358: The Electric Chair

Last Podcast On The Left

The Last Podcast Network

True Crime, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.6 • 53.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2019

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

We continue our series on executions with an in-depth look at the origins and history of America's electric chair, from its beginning as a pawn in the great Battle of the Currents near the turn of the century to the absolutely awful ways that some executions have gone awry.

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0:00.0	There's no place to escape to.
0:03.0	This is the last talk on the left.
0:06.0	What the hell is this?
0:09.0	That's when the cannonball some started.
0:12.0	What was that?
0:17.0	You know, I'm not really sure what happens in the electric chair.
0:20.0	I'm not sure what those people go through.
0:22.0	But it's anything like the pure energy that I experience when I drink.
0:26.0	Spring Hill Jack coffee.
0:31.0	The energy that runs from the tips of my toes up to the top of my dying hair.
0:36.0	Makes me ready to seize the day.
0:39.0	If this is how a murderer of a family feels or a man who has gone on some sort of like car jacking,
0:46.0	a shot of a bunch of police, and now he's in a super max prison awaiting his time with the
0:51.0	shackles.
0:56.0	Now have me a glass of spring Hill Jack coffee.
0:59.0	I don't want to bust your bubble there buddy, but that is decaffeinated coffee.
1:03.0	You gotta be fucking kidding me.
1:07.0	That's a Saturday Night Live callback reference to 1993.
1:11.0	Hey, what's up everyone?
1:12.0	Welcome to the last podcast on the left.
1:15.0	I am Ben Kissel.
1:16.0	I'm staring at the beautiful face of Marcus Parks.
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