DEATH OF DISCO: WHO IS TO BLAME
The Alarmist
The Alarmist
4.4 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2021
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
ARE RACISM AND HOMOPHOBIA TO BLAME FOR THE DEATH OF DISCO?
This week The Alarmist (Rebecca Delgado Smith) decides who is to blame for the Death of Disco and the notorious Disco Demolition Night! She is joined by Fact Checker Chris Smith and Producer Amanda Lund. Guest Expert Dr. Nadine Hubbs (professor of women and gender studies and music at University of Michigan as well as director of the Lesbian-Gay-Queer Research Initiative) stops in to talk about why I Will Survive is the Disco anthem. On the board this week: Steve Dahl, Publicity Stunts and Man's Frail Ego.
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| 0:00.0 | And Ereio's Original. |
| 0:04.0 | I was born with a special gift. |
| 0:06.0 | The ability to mentally transform any situation |
| 0:10.0 | into the worst case scenario. |
| 0:12.0 | In my... into the worst case scenario in my own brain. |
| 0:17.7 | My therapist calls my gift catastrophizing. |
| 0:21.5 | And that's why I'm uniquely qualified to scrutinize and analyze history's greatest |
| 0:26.7 | disasters and find out who's to blame. They say history repeats itself. Not on my watch. My name is Rebecca |
| 0:38.3 | Delgado Smith and I am the Alarmist. Hey everyone, |
| 0:45.0 | everyone, |
| 0:49.0 | thanks for tuning into this episode of The Alarmist, |
| 0:52.0 | a comedy podcast where we talk about history's greatest |
| 0:54.7 | tragedies and figure out who's to blame. Today we'll be discussing the death of disco, also |
| 1:01.2 | known as disco demolition night. |
| 1:04.1 | Here's what you need to know. |
| 1:07.6 | The late 1960s to early 70s |
| 1:10.5 | were a time of turmoil in United States history. |
| 1:14.0 | The Civil Rights Movement had suffered a massive setback |
| 1:18.0 | with the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. |
| 1:21.0 | The Stonewall riots highlighted the need for social and legal reform for |
| 1:26.0 | LGBTQ people. Vietnam War protests were commonplace and the country was |
| 1:32.2 | entering an economic slump for the first time after a decade of significant financial growth. |
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