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Here's a preview of guest alarmist where I step aside and let a guest walk us through a personal tragedy and together we figure out who's to blame.

And how is your dance career today?

Oh, I don't dance.

I continue to dance.

I love combo.

Okay, good.

You don't do

do combos.

No, you eat combos.

Yeah, yeah, no combos. No 5, 6, 7, 8, just cheddar and treads.

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Each week we decide who's to blame for historical tragedy.

And each week you tell us if we got it right.

My name is Rebecca Delgado Smith,

and this is the aftermath.

Hey everyone, thanks to tuning into this episode of the aftermath. Today we're speaking

with guest expert Dr. James Goodman. Dr Goodman is a distinguished professor

of history at Rutgers University. He is a Pulitzer Prize finalist and the author of Blackout.

Let's hear what he has to say about the New York City Blackout of 1977.

Hi Jim, thank you so much for joining us today.

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