Introducing: Cement City

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🗓️ 18 September 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Two journalists stumble into a dying town with a Smog Museum and a mayor named Piglet… and not a whole lot else. They have one burning question: What’s it like to live here, in a town left for dead? They buy a house and stay – for three years. They get caught up in an election cycle and a web of scandals. It’s democracy in action on the smallest scale. It’s Our Town for our time. And it’s all real. Cement City is an Audacy original in partnership with Cement City Productions. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi listeners we're excited to share a preview of a new podcast series we think you'll enjoy titled
0:05.5	cement city cement city tells the true story of a little broken downtown at a precipice
0:12.0	denora penn Pennsylvania population 4,650.
0:17.0	The town has no schools, no banks, no grocery stores, no gas stations.
0:22.0	It has a smog museum and a mayor named Piglet.
0:26.2	Narrator and writer Jean Marie and her friend with the microphone, Aaron, arrive in town
0:31.2	at a pivotal moment.
0:32.8	Donora has hit bottom.
0:34.8	But there's hope for the first time since the steel mill left 50 years ago.
0:39.8	Something might be moving into town instead of leaving it.
0:43.4	And there's an unlikely cast of flawed heroes and rainy day optimists who are determined to make
0:50.1	it happen and save their town. Cement City and Odyssey Original Podcast in partnership with
0:56.4	Cement City is available now on the Odyssey app or wherever you
1:00.8	listen to your podcast.
1:04.0	Did you know that there is actually a band, a local Pittsburgh band called
1:09.5	Denora?
1:10.6	They were driving down the highway and they seen the sign for DeNora and they said
1:14.2	hmm that sounds like a really cool name. What's that? I love that band. I think I
1:20.4	like you. I'm sure I'm sure I do. I don't remember the other words to it.
1:27.0	A few years ago I pulled off the highway into a dying town I've never heard of.
1:33.0	It was just one of those exit signs
1:35.0	I'd always whiz pass on my way to someplace else.
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