DIE HARD (1988 FILM): WHO IS TO BLAME?
The Alarmist
The Alarmist
4.4 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Who’s to blame for the criminal mayhem in the 1988 film Die Hard?
This week, The Alarmist (Rebecca Delgado Smith) is coming to you LIVE from the Elysian Theater in Los Angeles with special guests Mary Grill, Dan Klein and Cass Buggé to discuss the 1988 Christmas classic Die Hard. She’s joined by Fact Checker Chris Smith and Producer Clayton Early. Don’t miss this extra special LIVE episode with audience participation and plenty of spontaneous Die Hard cheer. Up on the board: Cocaine Courage, Carpeted Bathrooms and Terrorists with a Flair!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Alarmy, check out Alarmist on Patreon for ad-free episodes and bonus content. |
| 0:07.6 | Now, Clayton, you're saying you wouldn't do this, but it's not because of any kind of... |
| 0:12.0 | Not because of the price, because just hearing what we just... |
| 0:15.0 | You can afford it. You can get... |
| 0:17.0 | It's not a problem. It's just, it just sounds like so invasive to so many other animals. |
| 0:26.4 | And the end result just being like, you'll just know that this dog shares some DNA, |
| 0:32.2 | but it's basically just any old dog. |
| 0:35.9 | It's just, you could just tell yourself when you get a new dog, my dog is in this dog. |
| 0:40.6 | Right. |
| 0:41.0 | The soul of my dog. |
| 0:42.3 | And that's free or whatever the, you know, shelter fee is, maybe $170. |
| 0:48.1 | I don't know. |
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| 1:06.6 | Now let's get started. I was born with a special gift, the ability to mentally transform any situation into the worst case scenario in my own brain. |
| 1:14.9 | My therapist calls my gift catastrophizing. |
| 1:18.8 | And that's why I'm uniquely qualified to scrutinize and analyze history's greatest disasters |
| 1:24.7 | and find out who's to blame. |
| 1:30.3 | They say history repeats itself. |
| 1:32.9 | Not on my watch. |
| 1:34.4 | My name is Rebecca Delgado-Smith, and I am the alarmist. |
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