DEATH OF SOCRATES: WHO IS TO BLAME?
The Alarmist
The Alarmist
4.4 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2026
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Who’s to blame for the Death of Socrates?
This week, The Alarmist (Rebecca Delgado Smith) decides who’s to blame for the death of perhaps the most famous philosopher of all time, Socrates. With Athens in post-war political turmoil and a people with a strong deference to the will of the Gods, is it any wonder his “Gadfly Style” of questioning authority rubbed some Athenians the wrong way? Did The Oracle at Delphi proclaiming there was no wiser man than Socrates contribute to his eventual conviction? Or perhaps this was simply the will of the Gods! Fact Checker Faryn Einhorn and Producer Clayton Early join the conversation.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Alarmy, check out Alarmist on Patreon for ad-free episodes and bonus content. |
| 0:07.8 | Overhyping, eating. |
| 0:10.1 | A thing that we literally just need to survive, one of our basic needs, right? |
| 0:14.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:14.8 | And listen, I say this as someone who loves going to good restaurants and loves a good meal. |
| 0:20.7 | And I love every kind of cuisine. |
| 0:21.8 | Like I want to try all the things. |
| 0:23.6 | Yes. |
| 0:23.8 | But what I don't like, like I would not feel comfortable like knowing I'm going to a restaurant where the chef was like physically abusing the staff. |
| 0:32.8 | No. |
| 0:33.1 | Because they want like, I'm not going to sit there and be like, this flower is placed weirdly on my plate. |
| 0:39.1 | This is ridiculous. You know, like, what? |
| 0:42.3 | Also, it's not worth it. It's not worth the abuse. Like, I would, I couldn't, I couldn't, literally couldn't stomach it. |
| 0:50.7 | If I knew that my plate, what it cost for my plate to come out of that kitchen. |
| 0:56.7 | The tears that your plate was built upon. |
| 1:00.3 | Go to patreon.com slash the alarmist and subscribe today. |
| 1:05.1 | I was born with a special gift. |
| 1:08.3 | The ability to mentally transform any situation into the worst case scenario |
| 1:13.8 | in my own brain. My therapist calls my gift catastrophizing. And that's why I'm uniquely qualified |
| 1:25.0 | to scrutinize and analyze history's greatest disasters and find out who's to blame. |
| 1:34.6 | They say history repeats itself. |
| 1:37.1 | Not on my watch. |
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