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Stuff You Should Know

The Hyatt Regency Skywalk Disaster

Stuff You Should Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.679.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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In 1981 America suffered the worst accidental structural collapse in its history. Listen in today to the tragic story of the fast-tracked building disaster that stills haunts Kansas City.

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0:00.0

Hey, this is Annie, and Samantha, and we are the host of Stuff Mom Never Told You, a podcast

0:05.0

about intersectional feminism and all the ways it impacts all of us. And now, we're coming

0:10.1

out with a book that takes an even deeper look at some of the topics important to us.

0:14.4

We dig into people leading movements like civil rights and the Jane Collective,

0:18.4

and we discuss why fictional characters like Princess Leia and tropes like the final girl are

0:23.0

powerful and so much more. Order your copy today of Stuff Mom Never Told You with a

0:28.4

feminist past, present, and future, where books are sold, or get yours at stuffyoushouldreadbooks.com.

0:34.4

We're supposed to learn from our own mistakes that other people's errors can be instructive too,

0:39.6

from efforts to control the weather that went disastrously awry, to the untimely death of the

0:45.2

Segway Boss. History is a treasure trove, mishaps and meltdowns that can teach us all.

0:50.9

I'm Tim Halford, host of cautionary tales, the podcast that mines the greatest fiascoes of the

0:57.0

past for their most valuable lessons. Listen to cautionary tales on the iHeartRadio app,

1:03.4

Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

1:09.2

Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of iHeartRadio.

1:18.9

Hey and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh and there's Chuck and it's just the two of us

1:24.4

and we're going to do just fine. I have a good feeling because this is Stuff You Should Know.

1:29.6

We've been at it for decades now. Not decades, well, in different decades.

1:36.2

Right, that's how people get you. Yeah, they say stuff like that.

1:40.8

That's right. Big COA for this one, it is about a very gruesome tragedy that we're going to

1:48.4

detail and we're going to talk about a little bit of the gruesome stuff but not get to, you know,

1:55.6

detailed because it was a terrible tragedy but we just want to alert listeners, especially our

2:01.2

younger listeners that some of this stuff is pretty terrible that is the events of the

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