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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff,

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Speaker 1: which is a podcast about cool people who did cool stuff.

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Speaker 1: I'm your host, Margaret Kiljoy. I'm a science fiction author,

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Speaker 1: a feminist and an activist. And every week I'll be

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Speaker 1: telling a new story of rebellion, revolution and you know,

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Speaker 1: cool stuff like that to comedians, writers, journalists, and whoever

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Speaker 1: else I can convince to listen. For this mini episode,

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Speaker 1: I want to tell you about a nine prison break

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Speaker 1: from Punta Caritas prison in Montevideo, the capital Duguay. A

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Speaker 1: bunch of anarchist bank robbers had just been arrested. They

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Speaker 1: had been over in Argentina robbing the rich to raise

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Speaker 1: money for revolution. When it got too hot, so they

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Speaker 1: went to Uruguay. They made a big score, they got

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Speaker 1: caught and they went to prison. Their friends, though, and

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Speaker 1: they had a lot of friends. Their friends were like,

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Speaker 1: we should get them out. So to raise money for

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Speaker 1: the prison break, they you know, robbed more capitalists and

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Speaker 1: a nice upstanding Italian couple with their young daughter went

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Speaker 1: and purchased a plot of land next to the prison.

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Speaker 1: The cops ran a back ground check it all came

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Speaker 1: back fine. They built and ran a successful pole depot

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Speaker 1: for a year and a half. They were kind to

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Speaker 1: their neighbors, they gave good deals to their customers, and

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Speaker 1: they were generally well loved. Then all of a sudden

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Speaker 1: they left, So did nine prisoners. You see you. Over

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Speaker 1: that year and a half, in addition to running the

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Speaker 1: coal business, they were digging a tunnel, a fifty meter

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Speaker 1: tunnel tall enough to stand in, with lights and ventilation,

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Speaker 1: which ran right up to the prison yard. Three cars

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Speaker 1: were waiting for their newly free friends, and off they went.

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Speaker 1: Not a shot fired, perfect jail brick. Which is cool.

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Speaker 1: Breaking your friends out of prison is cool. It's cool

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Speaker 1: people you know doing cool stuff. Listen to cool people

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Speaker 1: who did cool stuff every Monday and Wednesday, starting May two,

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