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Stuff You Missed in History Class

SYMHC Classics: Prison Breaks

Stuff You Missed in History Class

iHeartPodcasts

History, Society & Culture

4.223.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

This 2022 episode covers six highly ingenious and low-violence prison breaks from history. 

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast.

0:04.5

Adventure should never come with a pause button.

0:07.1

Remember Movie Pass?

0:08.4

All the movies you wanted for just nine bucks?

0:11.1

I'm Bridget Todd, host of There Are No Girls on the Internet.

0:13.9

And this season, I'm digging into the tech stories we weren't told.

0:17.4

Starting with Stacey Spikes, the black founder of movie pass who got pushed out of the company

0:21.6

he built.

0:22.8

Everybody's trying to knock you down and it's not going to work and no one's going to like it.

0:27.3

And then boom, it's everywhere.

0:29.3

And that was that moment.

0:30.6

Listen to there are no girls on the internet on the IHartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast.

0:37.1

Happy Saturday.

0:38.9

A prison break was part of our episode on William J. Sharkey earlier this week.

0:44.0

And we talked about some more prison breaks in our Friday behind the scenes.

0:47.3

So today's classic episode is a set of six prison breaks, including one that we just mentioned in that discussion.

0:54.9

And this originally came out on May 11, 2022. Enjoy.

1:01.2

Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class, a production of I-Heart Radio.

1:16.0

Hello and welcome to the podcast. I'm Tracy V. Wilson, and I'm Holly Fry.

1:25.9

A few years ago, I was in Philadelphia and went to the Eastern State Penitentiary, which was a prison for about 150 years, and now it's a historic site.

1:29.2

And one of the things I learned about while I was there was a dramatic escape from the prison in 1945, and I immediately put that into my little

1:36.3

notes app on my phone where I jot things down when I'm on vacation. It was one of those things,

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