Short Suck #25 - Prison Breaks!

Timesuck with Dan Cummins

Dan Cummins

True Crime, Society & Culture, Religion, Conspiracies, History, Biographies, Education, Adult Humor, Comedy, Dark Humor, Conspiracy, Cults

4.7 • 21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

A look at how we humans have chosen to incarcerate those who break the rules and how certain rule breakers have busted out of incarceration over the years. Life rafts, helicopters, sexing up prison employees and more!

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0:00.0	Welcome to another edition of Time Sucks Short Sucks. I'm Dan Cummins, and today we will be diving into the exciting world of prison escapes.
0:08.6	What's more exciting or fascinating than a good prison escape story? Not much. Perhaps we should all root for convicted criminals to remain behind bars, but when they defy the odds and free themselves from a life of incarceration,
0:22.4	doesn't a part of us usually think something along the lines of, holy shit, you did it? Go, buddy, go.
0:28.2	Maybe we see a bit of ourselves. And those who pull off a death-defy and escape,
0:32.4	maybe we like to think that even if the state put us away for life, maybe, just maybe,
0:36.8	we could bust out and live free again.
0:38.9	No one's going to stop me. I'm a golden god. Most of the time, a true crime tale ends with the perpetrator behind bars,
0:45.5	serving out to full term of a very lengthy sentence, while the victims and the victim's families can remain safe in the outside world,
0:51.7	knowing that the person who tormented them is locked up for the foreseeable
0:54.9	future. But every once in a while, a few unexpected chapters are written for those tales.
1:00.9	And those chapters rivet us, don't they? From the many supervillains of DC and Marvel,
1:06.4	who just seem to keep getting out of their high-tech jail cells, to the fictional mastermind,
1:10.7	Hannibal Lecter,
1:11.7	to real-life suck alum Ted Bundy, prison breaks, fascinate, and terrifies. Though many of us probably
1:18.0	would like to think that modern technology has made prison breaks impossible, well, you'd be wrong.
1:22.6	Humans are still humans. Meat sex, still be meat sex. And any system designed by us is bound to be imperfect,
1:29.2	and inevitably, a few of us will manage to slip to the cracks and run free. Words and ideas can
1:36.6	change the world. I hated her, but I wanted to love my mother. I have a dream. I'll plead not
1:41.2	guilty right now. Your only chance is to leave with us.
1:47.5	It should come is no surprise. Their prison breaks are well, probably about as old as prisons themselves.
1:53.5	And how long have prisons been around depends on how you define prison. The earliest written
1:58.6	records of places where people have been held captive for breaking
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