REWIND - THE RADIUM GIRLS: WHO IS TO BLAME?
The Alarmist
The Alarmist
4.4 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Who’s to blame for the demise of the Radium Girls?
On this week's REWIND, The Alarmist (Rebecca Delgado Smith) speaks with author and journalist Jane Borden about the Radium Girls and the untimely death of numerous dial painters of the 1920’s. They’re joined by Fact Checker Chris Smith and Producer Clayton Early. Is this another classic case of greed, sexism, or good old fashioned Capitalism? Tune in to see who or what ends up in the Alarmist Jail!
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| 0:07.6 | Jake Paul? |
| 0:08.6 | Yes, who did like a bunch of wild, just like kind of inappropriate, maybe sometimes illegal stuff and people would watch it. |
| 0:14.5 | Like, it feels like that. |
| 0:16.0 | And the reason why I can see someone like Johnson when doing this is that it's what's getting you followers. |
| 0:24.7 | We should just put followers on the board. |
| 0:26.6 | Put followers up on the board. |
| 0:29.5 | What are we, what are you watching? |
| 0:31.4 | We need better taste. |
| 0:33.3 | I know. |
| 0:33.6 | What do we watch? |
| 0:34.9 | We need to fix, improve our taste. Why do we want to see? First of all. Why do we want to see that? Like, why do people want to see that? I don't want to see that. They want to see. They want to see. They want to see. Yeah. I think that's what it is. They want to see them how they react. God, our brains are just melted. Go to patreon.com slash the alarmist and subscribe today. |
| 0:58.0 | Hey, Alarmy, we're taking a quick break here at The Alarmist, but we'll be back soon. |
| 1:02.2 | In the meantime, enjoy this classic episode from our vault. |
| 1:07.1 | I was born with a special gift. |
| 1:09.9 | The ability to mentally transform any situation into the worst-case scenario in my own brain. |
| 1:20.6 | My therapist calls my gift catastrophizing. |
| 1:24.6 | And that's why I'm uniquely qualified to scrutinize and analyze history's greatest disasters and find out who's to blame. |
| 1:36.3 | They say history repeats itself. Not on my watch. My name is Rebecca Delgado Smith and I am the alarmist. |
| 1:51.5 | Hey, everyone. |
| 1:52.6 | Thanks for tuning into The Alarmist, a comedy podcast where we talk about history's greatest tragedies and figure out who's to blame. |
| 1:59.6 | Today we're discussing the Radium girls. Here's what you need |
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