UI #25 - Escape in a Homemade Submarine

Useless Information Podcast

Airwave Media Podcast Network

History, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2009

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

The fascinating true story of three Milwaukee men that started bombing Milwaukee Sears stores in an effort to obtain $100,000 and escape in their homemade submarine. Also learn what first the 1925 movie "The Lost World" accomplished, the parrot that committed suicide, death by seasickness, and a very unusual fishing catch. Retrosponsor: Brylcreem. 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.
0:05.0	This episode is brought to you by Pepsi Max.
0:09.0	Christmas is great, but there's loads of ways to make it better.
0:13.0	Like sneaking some chili into the gravy for some extra oint,
0:17.0	or building a playlist that will even get your none up on the table.
0:21.0	Or just cracking open an ice-cold Pepsi Max. the new Samsung Galaxy
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0:27.0	The new Samsung Galaxy Z-Flip 5 and Chromebook are better together.
0:38.0	Take hands-free selfies which automatically sync to your Chromebook, ready to edit,
0:42.0	and access recent chrom tabs across both
0:44.7	devices.
0:45.7	The new Galaxy Z Flip5 and Chromebook, better together.
0:49.5	Available on Sky Mobile.
0:51.3	Bluetooth and Internet connection required. You must be signed
0:54.0	into the same Google account on both your phone and Chromebook. useless information.
1:09.2	Hi, I'm Steve Silverman and you'll sing to a classic episode of the Useless Information Podcast.
1:12.2	What I have you coming up next is one of those true crime stories that make you wonder, you know, just what were they thinking?
1:19.0	Anyway, this episode was released on September 2nd of 2009, which would have been at the very
1:24.1	tail end of my summer break from teaching.
1:27.8	And what I recall about writing this is I was at a table on my back porch using the
1:31.6	Google newspaper archive to do all the research.
1:35.0	But the problem was I didn't have an easy way to print the articles out of the time,
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