99. The Skywalks (Hyatt Regency disaster)
Added 2023-08-02 17:03:23 +0000 UTCMore 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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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.
Chelsea Halladay
2024-10-14 23:00:13 +0000 UTCTry living in California
kristen bartlett
2024-10-14 22:58:45 +0000 UTCKansas 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.
kristen bartlett
2024-10-14 22:57:50 +0000 UTCI'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.
Stephen D Deaver
2024-04-25 22:22:36 +0000 UTCThe 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!
Brendan Woodford-Robinson
2023-08-12 00:06:47 +0000 UTCI 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.
Kathleen A Jordan
2023-08-08 12:29:38 +0000 UTCWell there’s your problem: a podcast about engineering disasters https://youtu.be/Hw2t0MOGnVc And https://youtu.be/W8-ImMaRVNM
Thomas Cain
2023-08-07 22:37:31 +0000 UTCI just discovered that YouTube channel like a month ago and it's so good! I've learned so much about how ships work.
Andrea Johnson
2023-08-05 21:59:25 +0000 UTCThere'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."
Michelle Hebert
2023-08-05 18:19:47 +0000 UTCHallmark 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..."
Michael Brodie
2023-08-05 15:16:12 +0000 UTCThis 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
Sally Lettieri
2023-08-05 00:49:38 +0000 UTCNo way of swindling people is a "bridge" too far
Swunkie
2023-08-04 19:40:24 +0000 UTCThis 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 🫠
Hannah Chism
2023-08-04 19:11:02 +0000 UTCMy 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.
Cameron Lee
2023-08-03 19:04:25 +0000 UTCI promise you, there's plenty more here in KC besides our horrible capitalist overlords that constantly lead us to tragedy.
Cameron Lee
2023-08-03 19:02:52 +0000 UTCHallmark chipped in $25,000 for a memorial. Damned nice of them. Regular philanthropists they are. 🙄😡🤬
Michelle Hebert
2023-08-03 17:37:38 +0000 UTCAdd 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
2023-08-03 16:52:17 +0000 UTCWho 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
2023-08-03 16:44:38 +0000 UTCGreat episode, got me feels. Great story telling
Christian Plummer
2023-08-03 16:17:38 +0000 UTCWhew. This episode was hard to listen to.
Shelby Halley
2023-08-03 15:06:27 +0000 UTCI live in south Florida and I remember this awful incident 💔
Cas Thibeau
2023-08-02 21:11:45 +0000 UTCI wish my cats got hyped like I do for new Swindled eps...
Kingfisher
2023-08-02 20:26:54 +0000 UTC1. Not buying Hallmark products any longer. 2. Never visiting KC after this and the poor boy on the water slide. Excellent, devastating, episode, ACC!
Chelsea Halladay
2023-08-02 19:51:41 +0000 UTCTwo tragic stories and then two "strengthen that member"s at the end to take me out
Gigi
2023-08-02 19:41:24 +0000 UTCWow, absolute chills. Great job.
Nicole Price
2023-08-02 19:37:25 +0000 UTCLET'S GOOOOO
Memo
2023-08-02 17:35:16 +0000 UTCI remember sending you something on this on Twitter a while back, glad you got around to it :)
Atoc
2023-08-02 17:24:27 +0000 UTCAh I remember suggesting this forever ago! Yay!
Kayleigh Barber
2023-08-02 17:21:41 +0000 UTCThis is going to be brutal. I went down a rabbit hole on this topic one night and all bad news
sucriC drawkcaB
2023-08-02 17:15:50 +0000 UTCBABE WAKE UP NEW SWINDLED DROP
Sophia Stahl
2023-08-02 17:04:55 +0000 UTC
