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99. The Skywalks (Hyatt Regency disaster) (Patreon)

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2023-08-02 17:03:23
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More than one hundred people are killed when two overhead walkways collapse in the lobby of a Kansas City hotel.

Prelude: The failure of a much-needed pedestrian bridge at Florida International University.

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Original music for Swindled is written and performed by Trevor Howard (Deformr).

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Sophia Stahl

BABE WAKE UP NEW SWINDLED DROP

sucriC drawkcaB

This is going to be brutal. I went down a rabbit hole on this topic one night and all bad news

Kayleigh Barber

Ah I remember suggesting this forever ago! Yay!

Atoc

I remember sending you something on this on Twitter a while back, glad you got around to it :)

Memo

LET'S GOOOOO

Nicole Price

Wow, absolute chills. Great job.

Gigi

Two tragic stories and then two "strengthen that member"s at the end to take me out

Chelsea Halladay

1. Not buying Hallmark products any longer. 2. Never visiting KC after this and the poor boy on the water slide. Excellent, devastating, episode, ACC!

Kingfisher

I wish my cats got hyped like I do for new Swindled eps...

Cas Thibeau

I live in south Florida and I remember this awful incident 💔

Shelby Halley

Whew. This episode was hard to listen to.

Christian Plummer

Great episode, got me feels. Great story telling

Michelle Hebert

Who knew a seemingly innocuous greeting card company could be so greedy, murderous, and evil? Great job ACC -- I listened to another podcast on this story, but you did it much better with more eloquence; better story-telling; and your trademark understated but barely constrained outrage. 👍

Michelle Hebert
>>114349497

Add it to the list: J&J, P&G, Bumblebee, on and on. Greed and blithe disregard for human life seem to be a uniquely American corporation phenomenon. By the time ACC's done, there won't be any companies we don't want to boycott.

Michelle Hebert

Hallmark chipped in $25,000 for a memorial. Damned nice of them. Regular philanthropists they are. 🙄😡🤬

Cameron Lee
>>114349497

I promise you, there's plenty more here in KC besides our horrible capitalist overlords that constantly lead us to tragedy.

Cameron Lee

My father in law and his parents were at the Hyatt the night of the tragedy. Luckily they were safe and able to get away but to this day it haunts my grand mother in law (she's the only one of the 3 still around) and she's petrified of buildings taller than a couple stories.

Hannah Chism

This story has haunted me since I heard it on MFM. Of course there was more to the story that made it even worse 🥴 excellent, horrific, concerning episode ACC 🫠

Swunkie

No way of swindling people is a "bridge" too far

Sally Lettieri

This was tough to get through just listening, I can't imagine how hard it would be to read about, research and then write and narrate. ACC you did an incredible job - thank you

Michael Brodie

Hallmark missed a profitable line of cards - the front featuring a bridge or atrium skywalks with the words: "We won't keep you in suspense"...then the receiver opens the card to reveal the words..."Our sympathies for your family's crushing blow..."

Michelle Hebert

There's a good video of this event with pictures of how the hotel looked before the tragedy (for those of us like me who have a hard time visualizing what the "skybridges" must have looked like) on YouTube. It's called "Fast-Tracked Failure: The Hyatt Regency Walkway Collapse."

Andrea Johnson
>>114572189

I just discovered that YouTube channel like a month ago and it's so good! I've learned so much about how ships work.

Kathleen A Jordan

I was about 5 years old when this happened. We lived in a ramshackle old house about five minutes from the Hyatt when we heard the news on the radio. My dad pretty much dropped everything and went down to see if he could help, but the first responders told him it was way too dangerous. Growing up, Hallmark was a big presence in the city in so many ways, and they did a lot of good, but it makes you wonder how many other terrible things were paid off and swept under the rug. Thanks for the ep, it was excellent. Going to check out that book you talked about asap.

Brendan Woodford-Robinson

The Skywalk episode description of the catastrophe was so well written that I felt like I was in that hotel watching as the skywalks came down, and the carnage that followed. Probably the best episode yet! (The are all good though ) It was so intense that my primal reaction was to laugh, which was the opposite of what I should have been doing lol. Maybe it was my brain coping in the face of adversity i.e. to cope with such horror. Whoever wrote that episode deserves an award, as what my minds eye saw was truely spectacular!

Stephen D Deaver

I've listened to this twice and I have to say that the setup / payoff of establishing the Hyatt wanting their "Jesus Christ factor" followed ten minutes later with the 911 dispatcher saying "Oh Jesus" when she's told of the disaster is fantastic writing and editing. Subtle but devastating.

kristen bartlett
>>114349497

Kansas City as a city is no more responsible for this than any other city in any other of these podcasts. I’m not Kansas City’s lawyer. Just common sense.

Chelsea Halladay
>>114349497

I live in Michigan. Maybe i was a little harsh on KC. But it is crime ridden. They can't even celebrate a superbowl without people getting shot.