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I was born with a special gift.

The ability to mentally transform any situation

into the worst case scenario in my own brain.

My therapist calls my gift catastrophizing.

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

disasters and find out who's to blame.

They say history repeats itself.

Not on my watch.

My name is Rebecca Delgado Smith,

and I am The Alarmist.

Hey everyone, thanks for tuning into The Alarmist, a comedy podcast where we talk about

history's greatest tragedies and figure out who's to blame. Today we're going to be talking

about the Aster Place Riot.

Now, this is an episode where our knowledge

of the Irish potato famine is actually

gonna come into play.

So as we go on in the show and we do more and more episodes, we're going to see a lot of overlap and that is something that a nerd like me gets very excited about.

Let's get started.

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