2013 DHAKA FACTORY COLLAPSE: WHO IS TO BLAME?
The Alarmist
The Alarmist
4.4 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2021
⏱️ 57 minutes
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IS FAST FASHION TO BLAME FOR THE 2013 DHAKA FACTORY COLLAPSE?
On this week's episode, The Alarmist (Rebecca Delgado Smith) decides who is to blame for the Dhaka Factory Collapse. She is joined by Special Guest, Nadya Agrawal (Writer, Host of The Cardamom Pod, and Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Kajal Magazine, a leading South Asian-centered art and opinion magazine), Fact Check Chris Smith and Producer Amanda Lund.
On the board this week: Sohel Rana, The Fashion Industry, Social Media and Sarah Jessica Parker????
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| 0:00.0 | Imagine you in a nice comfy seat with your hands behind your head taking in the views instead of taking on the road maybe even taking a nap. That's the bliss of getting where you need to go |
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| 0:35.0 | I was born with a special gift. |
| 0:39.0 | The ability to mentally transform any situation |
| 0:42.0 | into the worst case scenario in my own brain. |
| 0:50.2 | My therapist calls my gift catastrophizing. |
| 0:53.8 | And that's why I'm uniquely qualified to scrutinize and analyze history's greatest disasters. |
| 1:00.3 | And find out who's to blame. |
| 1:05.0 | They say history repeats itself. |
| 1:08.0 | Not on my watch. |
| 1:09.0 | My name is Rebecca Delgado Smith, |
| 1:12.0 | and I am the Alarmist. |
| 1:15.0 | Hey everyone, thanks for tuning into the alarmist, a comedy podcast where we talk about |
| 1:25.6 | history's greatest tragedies and figure out who's to blame. Today we'll be |
| 1:30.4 | discussing the DACA 2013 Garment Factory Collapse. |
| 1:35.8 | Now, fashion, I mean, it's like we gotta have the latest trends. |
| 1:39.9 | As a kid in the midst of my teenage angst, I really truly believed that a pair of pedal pushers and a crop top would fix my life. |
| 1:48.0 | Then, the next month, it was the sheer button down top that Alicia Silverstone wears in the movie Clueless. |
| 1:55.0 | I mean, the cycle just continues even to this day. |
| 1:59.0 | Quarantine is hard. If only I had a cute pair of jogger pants to get me through the lockdown. |
| 2:05.0 | I mean, 10 minutes later, I'm finalizing my online purchase at J crew and that's it. |
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