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I personally don't even own an iron, so why am I permanently press?

Really? That's shocking to me.

Is it? I'm a wrinkle. Rinkle monster. I don't see wrinkles.

We do somewhere. I don't see wrinkles. What do you do? You spray bottle,

like, and then shake it? Not even that, Karen? Me? No. Yeah. Uh-uh. Sometimes I'll, if I'm going to a wedding,

I'll, like, hang the garment in the shower, in the bathroom while I'm taking a steamy shower but that's the extent of it I don't know I just some people are not iron people and you can see them from a mile away as

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I was born with a special gift.

The ability to mentally transform any situation into the worst case scenario in my own brain.

My therapist calls my gift catastrophizing. And that's why I'm uniquely qualified

to scrutinize and analyze history's greatest disasters and find out who's to blame.

They say history repeats itself. Not on my watch.

My name is Rebecca Delgado-Smith and I am the alarmist.

Hey, everyone.

Thanks for tuning into The Alarmist, a comedy podcast where we talk about history's

greatest tragedies and figure out who's to blame. Today we're discussing the 1896 Anglo-Zanzibar War.

Here's what you need to know. The Anglo-Zanzibar War of August 27, 1896, is widely believed to be the shortest war in recorded history,

lasting between 38 and 45 minutes.

Yet its brevity obscures a far deeper and more complex history, rooted in imperial competition,

economic ambition, and the transformation of East Africa during the 19th century.

Zanzibar, an island located just off the coast of present-day Tanzania, had long occupied a position

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