NATIONAL LAMPOON'S CHRISTMAS VACATION: WHO IS TO BLAME?
The Alarmist
The Alarmist
4.4 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2023
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Who’s to blame for the National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation?
This week, The Alarmist (Rebecca Delgado Smith) welcomes podcaster Bridger Winegar to discuss the Griswold family's disastrous holiday gathering gone wrong in National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. Tensions tend to run high around the holidays, but did Clark’s unrealistic expectations make things worse? Could a lack of boundaries have something to do with it? And why are children up on the Alarmist Board?! Fact Checker Chris Smith and Producer Clayton Early join this festive conversation. Happy Holidays Alarmy!
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| 0:24.4 | Now on to our episode. |
| 0:26.1 | I was born with a special gift. |
| 0:29.4 | The ability to mentally transform any situation into the worst case scenario in my own |
| 0:39.0 | brain. |
| 0:40.8 | My therapist calls my gift catastrophizing and that's why I'm uniquely qualified |
| 0:46.7 | to scrutinize and analyze history's greatest disasters and find out who's to blame. |
| 0:56.1 | They say history repeats itself. |
| 0:58.5 | Not on my watch. |
| 1:00.0 | My name is Rebecca Delgado Smith, and I am The Alarmist. |
| 1:05.6 | Hey everyone, thanks to tuning into the alarmist, a comedy podcast where we talk about |
| 1:16.1 | history's greatest tragedies and figure out who's to blame. Today we're discussing |
| 1:21.6 | National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. |
| 1:24.0 | Here's what you need to know. |
| 1:26.0 | Clark Griswold lives in the suburbs of Chicago with his wife Ellen and two kids Audrey and Rusty. |
| 1:34.2 | And all he wants this holiday season |
| 1:36.9 | is a perfect Christmas and a big bonus from his boss, Mr. Shirley. |
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