Tunnel Joe Holmes - UI Podcast #069

Useless Information Podcast

Airwave Media Podcast Network

History, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2014

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Joseph Ellsworth Holmes was a career criminal serving a twenty-year sentence for being the "dinner-time burglar." His great escape in 1951 elevated him to celebrity status overnight. Also, learn about the origin of Pepsodent toothpaste, a man who waited 36 years to be reunited with his wife, a dying Navy officer's wish fulfilled after eighteen years, and a pastor who earned his medical degree after 45 years of part-time study. Retrosponsor: Pepsodent Toothpaste Images, links, and transcripts for this podcast can be found at https://uselessinformation.org/tunnel-joe-holmes/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.
0:06.4	Hello, this is Matt and McKinley from History Dispatches.
0:12.2	We are the father-son duo bringing you the weird, the wild, the wacky, and the craziest tales from across time.
0:17.7	From the ice bowl to the Great Heathen Army.
0:20.4	And the head of Oliver Cromwell.
0:22.1	The same head they kept on a pike for three years?
0:24.6	Yep.
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0:40.2	to the This Day in History podcast.
0:43.0	Every day there's a new episode for you to listen and learn about what happened that day
0:46.7	way back when.
0:47.8	So listen and subscribe to This Day in History wherever you get your podcasts.
0:53.7	That's This Day in History wherever you get your podcasts. That's This Day in History, wherever you get your podcasts.
1:01.4	Useless information.
1:09.6	Hi, I'm Steve Silman, you're listening to another classic episode of the
1:13.2	Useless Information podcast.
1:16.1	This story tunnel, Joe Holmes, was released back on January 4th of 2014, and it was the first
1:22.2	episode of the seventh year of this podcast.
1:26.2	Now, what I remember about the stories, I was working on a different story at the time,
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