This is part 3, the 2021 mini stories episodes where I interview the staff about

their favorite little stories from the built world that don't quite fill out an entire episode for whatever

reason but our great 99BI stories nonetheless. We have music games with Sean Real,

lost statues with Joe Rosenberg, and overactive heaters with Delaney Hall.

Stay with us. Hey Dee, what do you have for us today?

So today I want to talk with you about old radiators, and have you ever lived with an old radiator? I have where we met like I don't know 15 years ago in in Chicago when we worked together at the station there.

I lived in at least one apartment that had a radiator which was yeah

is a confounding device. Yeah I mean they are notorious for being loud you know like

clanking a lot and also just for being too hot.

Yeah, blisteringly hot.

Right, right. So I don't know if you've ever wondered why that is, but I recently I recently learned that there

is a reason for it and it's actually related not to this current pandemic we're all

living through but to the flu pandemic to this

the current pandemic we're all living through but to the flu pandemic of 1918 and 1919.

Well I've heard a little bit about this but I don't know the full story so I'm excited that you're bringing this to us.

Yeah, yeah, so I, first of all, I learned about this history in an article in

Bloomberg City Lab.

It was reported by Patrick Sisson.

And it was kind of through that article that I found Dan Hollihan. So he grew up in

the heating industry. His dad worked for this plumbing and heating wholesaler in

Manhattan and now his family runs a website called plumbing and heating wholesaler in Manhattan.

And now his family runs a website called

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