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LOST COLONY OF ROANOKE: WHO IS TO BLAME?

The Alarmist

The Alarmist

Comedy, History, Society & Culture

4.42K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Was QUEEN ELIZABETH to blame for the Lost Colony of Roanoke?


This week, The Alarmist (Rebecca Delgado Smith) decides who is to blame for the lost colony of Roanoke. She is joined by Comedian Dan Klein, Fact Checker Smith and Producer Lund. They theorize about what might have led to the settlers mysterious disappearance and ponder if this mystery is a mystery after all. 

On the board this week: Sir Walter Raleigh, Misplaced Envy, The Spanish, Racist Poetic License,Bad JuJu and LIES! 

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0:00.0

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0:15.0

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0:20.0

Check the Uber app. An Eio's Original.

0:25.0

I was born with a special gift.

0:29.0

The ability to mentally transform any situation

0:32.0

into the worst case scenario in my own brain.

0:40.1

My therapist calls my gift catastrophizing.

0:43.8

And that's why I'm uniquely qualified to scrutinize and analyze history's greatest

0:49.0

disasters and find out who's to blame.

0:55.0

They say history repeats itself.

0:58.0

Not on my watch.

0:59.0

My name is Rebecca Delgado Smith,

1:02.0

and I am the Alarmist.

1:07.0

Hey everyone, thanks for tuning into the Al alarmist, a comedy podcast where we talk

1:14.2

about history's greatest tragedies and figure out who's to blame. Let's get

1:19.1

started talking about the lost colony of Roanoke. Here's what you need to know.

1:26.0

In 1584, Sir Walter Raleigh dispatched an exploration crew from England

1:32.0

to the eastern coast of North America.

1:35.0

The two ship fleet disembarked on the present day outer banks of North Carolina

1:41.0

and surveyed their surroundings for six weeks.

1:44.0

Their purpose was to map the land for future groups to eventually settle there.

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